Nigel closed the door and smiled at Wally, who clapped his hands up and down as if dusting them off.
Nigel laughed at him, then sighed. They walked away from the door, Nigel sat on the couch while Wally simply stood in front of it.
"Just when I was starting to think that he was a nice guy." Nigel said.
"Na, I hated the kid from the minute Numbuh 3 brought him in." Wally replied with a huff.
"Wait?" Nigel acted shocked. "You didn't like Kuki's first boyfriend? That's shocking!"
Wally laughed at Nigel's unfunny joke and then began to slowly walk out into the corridor.
"Numbuh 4!?" Nigel called, Wally stuck his head behind the doorway to see what Nigel wanted.
"Don't get to clingy with her, she's probably really freaked out after what Numbuh 30c did to her."
"What? I wasn't!" Wally shrugged. "I'm just looking out for her!"
Nigel made a 'hmm' noise and clicked the remote to turn on the TV. Wally sighed and walked over to Hoagie's room where he knocked the door.
"Come in!" Hoagie's voice came from behind the door.
Wally walked in and looked around to see Hoagie lying on his stomach upon his bed in his night trousers, reading a yipper comic.
"Where's Kuki?" He asked.
"Don't know, I think she went to watch TV or something." Hoagie shrugged.
Wally suddenly felt worried about her, 'she was left alone?' Hoagie was such a dummy at times. He forgot all about Wally telling him to keep Kuki with him.
He closed Hoagie's door and power walked to Kuki's room. He knocked on the wall next to her curtain.
"Numbuh 3? Are you in there?" He asked.
Not getting any answer, he pushed back the curtain and peeked inside. When he saw, he smiled gently.
Kuki was lay on her bed snuggled up to her remaining rainbow monkey and was out cold. Wally walked in and sat next to her on the bed, reaching out carefully and pushing her bangs out of her face, he sighed, she'd obviously been crying, he could tell by her red eyes and tear stains down her cheek.
She started to shiver, he didn't have the heart to wake her up by putting her under the covers so he walked over to her wardrobe, where a blanket sat on top of it.
He reached up and after a few minutes of jumping and reaching with all of his might, he managed to pull it off. Wally covered Kuki with the blanket and sat in content watching her sleep peacefully.
Then, just to ruin the moment, his cell phone rang.
He jumped and quickly answered it, charging out of the room so not to disturb Kuki.
"Hello?" He whispered as he stepped out from behind her curtain.
"Beatles?! Is that you? Why the hell are you so quiet?!" Smithy bellowed down the phone, he was obviously not in a good mood.
"Sorry." Wally sighed, knowing that he was in for a long lecture about something.
"Beatles! What the hell are you doing threatening a kid at his workplace?! You know how bad your rep could get for that?!"
"Sorry, Smithy, I just…Got a little mad about something."
"Well any violence you have, save it for the ring! Nobody supports a thug who goes around looking for trouble!"
"I had a pretty good reason." Wally replied, stating his opinion even though he knew that it wouldn't be heard.
"Well! You're doing a full day's worth of training to teach you a lesson! Be at the club at 7:30 sharp tomorrow morning! And you're working without a lunch break until 10 in the afternoon!"
"What!?!" Wally bellowed.
"No buts! Or I'll increase it!" Smithy yelled back, hanging up the phone.
Wally growled in frustration and stormed into his room. He'd decided he'd better get a decent nights sleep before his 'day's work of training'.
He panted with all of his might for any oxygen which he could take in.
Wally looked at the clock, only two hours to go before he was free.
"Can I please have a break? I feel like I'm gonna faint!" Wally gasped.
"Fine! Five minutes!" Smithy grunted.
Wally drunk down a full bottle of water and picked up his cell to text Ben. As the backlight of the phone came on, the words '4 missed calls' came on screen.
Wally read it and pressed view. They were all from Kuki.
He suddenly had a really bad gut feeling that something was wrong.
Quickly he turned around and began to pick up all of his equipment and store it into his locker.
"Come on Beatles! Get on the weights now!" Smithy told him.
"Sorry, Smithy, something's came up, I've got to go!" Wally informed him.
"What?" Smithy asked in a half sarcastic tone. "You haven't finished training yet! I told you that we're training until 10!"
"I'll make the time up, I promise! Somebody needs me right now!" Wally said, opening the door.
"Beatles! You walk out of this club right now and you can forget about your contract! I think you should get your priorities right."
Wally glared at him for a second in the doorway.
"I am!" He said and walked out of the door.
He ran down to Kuki's house as fast as he could, hoping that she'd be there.
As he got to the corner of her street, he saw the reflection in a house opposite of flashing blue lights.
As he turned the corner, he saw an ambulance outside Kuki's house.
"No!" He whispered to himself and continued to run forward.
Two paramedics were pulling a stretcher from out of the house. Wally ran up to it and gazed down at the figure on it, his frown suddenly turned into a slight grin of relief as he realized that it wasn't Kuki on the stretcher.
He began to laugh. Kurt glared back up at him, his head seemed to be pouring with blood and he looked as if he had only just gained consciousness.
He turned and looked at the house and frowned again. Was Kuki alright. He walked quickly towards the door.
"Kuki!" He yelled as she ran out of the house and into his arms. He kissed her head as he squeezed her tightly, he was so glad that she wasn't badly hurt.
"Are you alright?" He asked, panting from all of the adrenalin built inside him right now.
"I am now!" She smiled up at him. He smiled and hugged her tight again.
"What happened?" He whispered.
"Mom and dad have gone to pick Mushi up from summer camp. The doorbell rang and I answered it thinking that it was them." She told him, her voice was quiet and wavery.
"But it was Kurt, he barged in and started yelling at me and hitting me! I…I just couldn't take it! I grabbed my mom's vase and hit him with it! I didn't mean to hurt him! I just…I just wanted him to stop!"
She began to cry. Wally held her close and shushed her calmly.
"It's alright! He'll be fine. It'll just teach him a lesson or two." He chuckled.
"No! He doesn't give up that easily!' Kuki replied, becoming stressed and worked up again.
Wally put his finger on her lips and shushed her again.
"Well he'd better not try it! Not while I'm here to protect ya!" He told her. "Come on! Let's get you out of here!"