A.N: okay. I hope you all liked the last chapter. I made it really long, mostly for Meggie because she kept going on saying. " the next chapter better be long enough that I can't read it in one sitting!" and she got her wish. Okay...here we go...

Disclaimer: if Sailor Moon was mine...that's a nice dream, but sadly it is too good to be true.

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The Missing Sailor

Chapter 32

While Emma had her glimpse of the future.

The Hanzo family were all sitting in the living room Christmas night. Beth was just so torn about her daughter she couldn't do anything, and Hotaka locked himself in the den. Ichiro was taking care of the girls, Meggie and Kasadi were locked in Emma's room, with Rini and Sam.

Sam was a different story. He was like an empty shell. He was so mad at himself for letting Emma sneak out of the hospital. Rini was hugging one of Emma's many squishy pillows. Meggie was sitting in the bean bag chair and Kasadi was sprawled on the floor, spread eagle style.

" I hate this." Rini mumbled. " Emma's in that hospital by herself. In the coma unit no less. And we can't even go see her cause of the stupid visiting hours."

" Like we have any say in it." Meggie said.

" and look at Sam." Kasadi said. " it's like he's not even alive." The three girls looked over to the boy. He was leaning against the wall, head bent back, looking at the ceiling. He looked like a doll, but...he was secretly wondering why there were posters of Richard Cox and Kappei Yamaguchi on her ceiling. But other than that, he was going out of his mind.

" Yeah." Meggie said. " earlier I threw Emma's alarm clock at his head to make sure he was still conscious, he didn't even flinch." Rini sighed.

" I'm going crazy here!" Rini said. Then there was a knock on the door. Meggie and Kasadi knew it was passed midnight. So they tipped over to make it look like they were sleeping. Rini noticed and laid on Emma's bed. Pulling Sam down with her. Beth came in and saw the teenagers all 'sleeping' soundly. Beth smiled and closed the door again. When they were sure Beth had gone back downstairs, Meggie sat up again.

" hey meg?" Kasadi asked.

" yes?"

" how did you manage to get your parents to let you come here anyway?"

" I complained that Amanda got to go to Spain for a foreign exchange program." Meggie said. " and I said that I would go crazy if I didn't go see Emma."

" since when did the 'I'm going crazy' bit work?"

" When I got better at improvs" Meggie cracked a grin. " let's just say I almost went far enough for them to send me to the phsyc ward."

" You and Emma have been through a lot." Rini said. Meggie looked over to the pink haired girl.

" You can say that. We've been friends for almost 9 years." Meggie said.

" I've known Emma since well...we were born 3 weeks apart." Kasadi said " Emma being older."

" I've known Emma longer than Sam only by a few hours." Rini replied. " We have been through a lot too. This would be her second trip to the hospital in..." Rini counted on her fingers. " 3 months."

" What happened?" Meggie and Kasadi asked.

" Sakura decided it would be cool to be jealous and got Emma worked up and sent her into an asthma attack" Sam said. Meggie and Kasadi nearly jumped out of their skins.

" Holy shit man. You shouldn't scare people like that!" Kasadi said. Sam didn't really care.

" This is the second time. She's been in the hospital twice since we started going out. Who knows how many more times it will happen."

" Sam, it was just a freak accident." Kasadi said. " She was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time."

" I honestly wish I could believe that." He said before walking out of the room.

"Gimme a kickball and about ten minutes, I'll get that stick outta his ass." Meggie said.

" Sam gets frustrated when it comes to her. You have no idea." Rini said. " Josh got the stupid idea to tell him every little health problem she has, from the allergies to the ADD."

" That idiot cousin of mine." Kasadi moaned.

" Emma has a lot of health issues. She has so many allergies, the asthma, ADD, she wasn't even breathing when she was born. She gets massive migraines, and sometimes those migraines give her black outs." Meggie said. " and of course, she isn't the most tolerant person. We're not sure whether that is health related or not. but she gets extremely frustrated about everything."

" Wow." Rini said. " I didn't know about the migraines or about her not breathing at birth."

" Josh was protective of her back in the states. And, to get people to back off, he would tell them everything." Meggie told her.

" Let me take a wild guess." Rini said. " it just made things worse."

" Bingo!" Meggie and Kasadi said. Rini smiled.

" Hey. I can hear you guys." Josh said standing at the door. " and besides. Those kids backed off."

" Are you kidding me. All they did was torment her on how weak she was!" Meggie yelled.

" Meggie, she is weak. Look at the circumstances. She is laying in a hospital bed, because she got mauled by god knows what."

" You have no idea how strong she is! She has been through hell and back since she moved here. You don't even know how much she's fought!" Sam yelled in the doorway. He reappeared while this was all happening. Josh looked at him.

" What do you mean?" Josh asked. " What has she fought?" Sam noticed that he said too much and decided to change the subject.

" Rini. We're going home." Sam said. He turned and went back to the first floor. Rini sighed and grabbed her coat and gifts.

" See you guys." Rini waved before following Sam.

" Meggie..." Josh pestered.

" Believe me. I don't know any more than you do. And neither does Kasadi."

" Whatever. Mom said time for bed. If you want to take the guest bedroom... Too bad. Ichiro and the girls are staying the night." Josh said. Then he turned and went for his bedroom.

" Tomorrow is going to be just great." Kasadi said sarcastically.

" Oh really? I had no idea." Meggie retorted. Her tone laced with sarcasm.

" Girls. Go to bed please." Beth called up. Meggie hit the lights and took the bean bag chair and Kasadi curled up at the foot of the bed. They fell asleep wondering what was going on with Emma back at the hospital.

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A.N. I know, I know. Short chapter. Well who cares...next one should be longer, if not, it will be funnier.

Meggie: YOU CALL THAT A LONG CHAPTER! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!

Emma: I updated didn't I?

Meggie: okay, that's it! (-pulls out baseball bat-) I'm gonna enjoy this!