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This next chapter is a bit of background for Hilary, it's a bit slow but bear with me I have a plan for this story and it should get a little more exciting.

I do not own Beyblade If I did this would be how the fourth season played out!

Bring Him Down!

It had been a week since Hilary had found Kai on the roof of the warehouse, a week filled with intense battling and training, Hilary sighed she had noticed that the guys were looking tired even Kai seemed to be wilting, the heat of summer getting them down. She walked into the house and pulled open the fridge door, taking out a pitcher of lemonade she poured five glasses of it and carried them outside. Tyson was the first to see her.

"You win Daichi!" he yelled as Dragoon returned to his hand and he ran to grab a glass. The others looked up and recalled their blades and walked over.

"Thought you all looked hot and tired" She explained, and watched as Kai picked up a glass and drained it, some of them were looking more hot than others! Kai placed his empty glass on the tray and gave her a slight nod of thanks, she waited till they had all finished and then went back into the house with the tray and empty glasses Kenny went with her.

"Thanks for the drink Hilary" she grinned at her friend

"My pleasure"

"Hey Hilary?"

"Yeah?"

"You know that music project we got yesterday…" Kenny trailed off

"You can't do it?"

"Well… not as well as you probably can" Hilary sighed then a thought struck her,

"I'll do your music if you do my Science,"

"That science was so easy" Kenny looked at her in disbelief

"So was the music…" Hilary matched his look mockingly

"Good point, I'll do your science tomorrow, I won't make it A standard though"

"Please your music will barely get a C grade, our teachers will suspect something if it's any other way" Hilary's cell phone rang shrilly in her pocket, caller ID said home, inwardly Hilary sighed she didn't really want another lecture from her mother and future stepfather. She sighed hit answer and raised her phone to her ear

"Hello?…." Kenny was watching her, she made a face he grinned. On the other end of the phone a male voice spoke sadly

"Hilary?"

"Hey Jim" great her mothers fiancé "What's up?"

"There's been an accident"

"What do you mean?" Hilary felt cold, she was whispering now and feeling incredibly dizzy

"Its your mother," at the other end of the phone she heard him sob

"No…"

"She hit a tree…, in her car…, She didn't make it, she's dead" Hilary dropped the phone and it went crashing to the floor miraculously undamaged.

"Hilary?" Kenny looked at her in shock, Hilary was pale and trembling as she fell to her hands and knees beside her phone.

"Hilary? Hilary?" the voice from the phone attracted Kenny's attention he picked it ip

"Hello?" he listened carefully "Oh my God….I understand sir… no I'll get her home I'm sorry." hanging up the phone he knelt beside Hilary. "Oh Hil's I don't know what to say I'm so sorry" Hilary looked at him she saw the concern in his face,

"Why it's not your fault?" she gave a forced laugh.

"Hilary don't joke!" She looked at him he seemed shocked

"Well what do I do Kenny?" she felt lost scared "I have no one, nothing"

"You have your Dad…" Kenny heard a contemptuous laugh come from the scared girl.

"He's not my dad he and my mum were engaged that's all" she pushed herself up and stood trying to breath normally, Kenny was confused sure Hilary had never mentioned family but she must have someone, he stood next to her helping her to walk over to the table and lean on it, her breathing was getting worse, things were beginning to get blurry now. She needed to sit down right now, she looked around why were there no chairs in this bloody kitchen?

"Well grandparents? Aunts and uncles? You must have someone" He stared at her as she shook her head. "You have me and the guys" he said it shyly.

"Chief? Kenny? Where are you" Hilary heard Max's voice from outside and suddenly the kitchen door opened.

"Hey what's going on in here" Tyson stood at the door with Ray and Max they stared at the two people. Suddenly Hilary felt dizzy her breathing was rasping and before she knew what was happening the world went dark.

Kai stared intently at the girl in the large hospital bed, she looked so small so fragile, he smirked slightly Hilary would probably kill him if she ever knew he had thought that. It had been about fifteen minutes since he had heard Ray and Tyson shouting his name from the kitchen, he had run towards the sound and been shocked to see Hilary lying unconscious and bleeding on the floor. She had a large cut on her temple where she had smashed her head on the table as she fell, the cut had required nine stitches. He still didn't know why it had happened, Kenny had sat quietly between Ray and Max while they questioned him.

"What happened Kenny?"

"Did she say she felt sick?"

A nurse appeared at their side, "I need to get in touch with her parents, do you have a number other than her home?." Finally Kenny spoke.

"Her mothers fiancé is available at her home number"

"We need someone a little closer to her than that, her mother?" Tyson was about to speak when Kenny stopped him saying

"Her mother was in an accident about two hours ago, she died." Kai and the others looked at Kenny in disbelief.

"WHAT?" Tyson shouted the word "Why didn't you say so?"

"I wasn't sure if she would want me to tell you, that's why she fainted"

"Is there no one else?" the nurse looked at Kenny but it was Tyson who spoke

"No, no one,"

"Well" the nurse looked through her notes "It says on her chart that she has a brother who was bought in, in her childhood, is he contactable?"

"She had a brother," Again it was Tyson who volunteered the information, this was news to Kai he raised his eyebrows "He and her father died in a boating accident about seven years ago. It was a big accident that was in the news" The nurse nodded she remembered well it had been a horrific tragedy no bodies were ever found she looked at Tyson understandingly.

"Over twenty believed dead, I remember" she looked at the boys around her and smiled

"she's lucky she has so many friends here" and with that she walked out. Kenny, Ray, Max, Daichi, and Kai looked at Tyson.

"How come we didn't know about the accident?" Max looked hurt that Hilary had kept such a secret Seeing their faces he decided to explain,

"Look, Hilary never talks about it but she had a brother Jordan, I remember him well, he was a blader one of the best I ever saw as a kid, he and my brother would have these intense battles for ages, it drove me crazy that I was never allowed to watch but they got pretty dangerous. He was her hero and about eight years older than her, strangely though that didn't seem to bother them they were almost always together. The two of them were so close that they seemed to both know what the other was thinking"

Tyson looked at the bed where Hilary lay he felt like he was betraying her. In truth he often forget how much Hilary had been through and this made him very blasé about her feelings.

"When she was nine her family planned a boat trip visiting some of the smaller Islands around Japan, her family and a few friends all went. I remember how excited she was the whole week before" Tyson smiled remembering the happy child bouncing around boasting "fortunately for her, she developed some sort of flu bug. Her mother decided that she was to ill to go with them and they both stayed behind. Not long after that we heard that there had been a huge storm and that the boat had disappeared, Hilary and her mum lost everyone that day, she wasn't the same after that, she decided that she hated beyblading, she would never even watch a battle. She only ever thought about her grades, school was not for fun it was about hard work. She was a straight A student before she met us guys and started to loosen up, she also quit all her school activities, the choir,"

"Choir" Ray looked at Tyson in disbelief "she sings?"

"Not anymore she was actually pretty good but it was just something else that reminded her of Jordan." Tyson paused they were all staring at the bed, "Look guys, she tried to forget what happened she never mentioned it again, she won't even have a picture of Jordan and her father on show."

Kai looked closely at the still figure on the bed, he had never understood her before now he was even more confused, she had been through so much how had she managed to stay so positive about life?

"When I saw her on the floor" Ray bent his head "I thought we had lost her"

"I know" Max looked at his friend "so did I!"

"Well it takes more that that to get rid of me, so don't start crying!" The voice was weak and tired but it was Hilary.

"Hilary!" Daichi bounced over to her bed the others followed more decorously.

"Enjoy story time?" Hilary sounded harsh, they gulped realising she had heard every word Tyson had said.

"Hils, I'm sorry…" Tyson trailed off guiltily

"Don't be" Hilary smiled weakly as Tyson looked at her sorrowfully "I didn't particularly want to tell anyone, you saved me a job"

"Hils?" Ray took his friends hand in his and squeezed it gently "you know we'll all help you, don't you?" Hilary returned the squeeze but didn't look any happier. Kai stood near the bed, he watched her smile to reassure them but he noticed that it was only a brief smile that disappeared quickly. Tears were squeezing out from the corners of her eyes and slid down her cheeks.

"My locket!" Hilary sat up clutching her throat "where is it?"

"Here" Kenny returned the small silver and lapis lazuli heart to her, she clutched it gratefully and lay down sighing seemingly comforted by the presence of it.

Ok I know that wasn't brilliant but I needed to get that done or else the rest of the story might not make any sense. I might be putting up chapter 2 either tonight or tomorrow depending on how much homework I get done.

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