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Tamaki woke up with a crowd of nurses hovering over him, "What happened?" he asked.

"You collapsed from exhaustion and hunger, you were out for a few hours. When was the last time you ate or slept?"

Hunger hadn't even been on his mind the last few days, if he had been hungry, he hadn't noticed it. He could honestly say that he hadn't slept in at least a week and a half. The nurses clucked over him like mother hens and told him he was staying in bed and eating food. Tamaki didn't like the idea but one nurse was an old one who wouldn't let him in after visitor hours and she gave him a 'no funny-business' look that made him freeze inside.

After the nurses left him alone, Tamaki spotted Itami sitting in a chair with his phone, "They called me." he told her.

"I know, we still searching for them, the call didn't turn anything up because the phone was turned off after the call so we'll just have to hope we'll find them."

"I want to help look."

Itami stood up, "No, you're staying here and getting better, I'm going to check on the others before going to help. If we find anything you'll be the first I call." She handed him his phone back and left.

Haruhi hadn't moved in hours, she was too weak to move. She knew Hunni was keeping track of the time, but she didn't want to know. She had no desire to know when she was going to die. Why hadn't they found them yet? She was slowly losing hope that they would ever be found.

Hunni checked his watch again; he estimated about seventeen hours until they would die of dehydration. All his hope of being rescued was gone now; if anyone knew where they were then they would have been found already. He rolled over to face Haruhi, "Haru-chan, if we-"

"No," she cut him off, "they'll find us. We can't lose hope now." The words felt bitter in her mouth as she said them.

"But Haruhi, if they knew where we were, they would have found us already."

"You've never called me Haruhi before." she said. 'My god, he must really think we're going to die.'

"Takashi." The voice was soft and familiar, his mothers voice, "Takashi, are you awake?"

He opened his eyes and saw his mother bending over him. She put a hand on his head, "How are you feeling honey?" she asked.

"Fine." he lied.

"You can't be fine, you got shot." She said accusingly, "you always were always a terrible liar."

His father appeared by her side, "So how are you really feeling?"

"Bad."

Satoshi was the next to appear in his eyesight, "The doc said you can come home tomorrow bro."

Mori shook his head, "not until they find Haruhi and Mitsukuni."

"Do you also want to wait for Kaoru-san and Hikaru-san to get better?" Satoshi asked. Mori gave them such a bewildered look that they realized no one had told him about the explosion. They explained everything that had happened while he had been sleeping. Fear twisted in his stomach as he realized what a terrible situation each member of the Host Club was in. How was it possible that bad things were still happening to them after the killer was dead? What if he wasn't dead? Tamaki had said that he was, but was there any possibility that he wasn't?

His mother's hand returned to his forehead, "Are you going to be okay?"

He knew he couldn't lie to his mother, "I don't know."

It seemed to be dark, but he could see just fine. Voices buzzed around in his head, but he couldn't quite hear them, as if they were talking in another room. He wanted to know what they were saying but try as he might, he just couldn't hear them.

The dark was lonely now that his brother was gone from it. After the light had gone so had his brother. He wanted the light to come back, anything other than this lonely darkness.

'I'll be stuck here forever.' He thought.

Tamaki was getting more irritated by the minute. The nurses wouldn't let him leave his bed even to go see his friends. The doctor was telling him to get some rest, but still couldn't sleep. He knew he wouldn't be able to sleep until Itami had called to say they had found Haruhi and Hunni-senpai. As he lay in the hospital he reflected on the last almost two weeks. Out of all the people in Tokyo, this psychopath had chosen them. To think, if he hadn't found Renge's Moe Moe Ouran Journal, then he might have never found out about them and they would be safe. Fate seemed to be working against them.

A nurse tapped on his door before walking in, "Souh-san, the doctor says, that if you want to see your friends than you can."

He almost jumped out of bed, but he refrained because of the IV still stuck in his arm, "Can you take this out?"

"No, you'll just have to take it with you." she transferred the pouch to a stand with wheels and told him he could go

When he got to the doors of ICU, the nurses there wouldn't let him in, "You're not a doctor or family so you can't go in."

'Somehow,' he thought, 'I think I've learned to hate nurses.'

Itami sat silently at the desk the Kyoto Police Department had let her have; she was waiting for the teams to call in. Every person available was checking every abandoned building in Kyoto, every building in the nearby area of the now burned mansion, every place Katsutoshi could have been.

'There has to be something I'm forgetting.' she thought, tapping her fingers furiously on the desk. 'If he got them away from the building so fast, he must have had a car or something, public transportation is out of the question.' But she knew that the killer hadn't owned a car, so that put her back to square one. "Takeda, can you get me a list of people who rented a car in the last three days?"

"Yes Itami-san."

When he came back with the papers, the killers name was nowhere to be found on any of the lists. They checked all to make sure he wasn't usuing an alias, but that turned up negative as well.

"We'll check stolen cars next, from two days ago."

Only three cars had been reported stolen two days ago, two were on the other side of town for the mansion, but the other was just two doors down.

"That must be it." Itami said.

Takeda shook his head, "No, they already found it at a warehouse down by the bay a few hours after it was reported stolen."

"A warehouse by the bay? Are any of the teams near there?"

"No, I don't think so."

"Lets go."

Hunni glanced at his watch for seemingly the hundredth time, fourteen hours left.

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