"So, how did you get to pull the trigger without killing Mr. Edgeworth?" Shi Long asked as he cautiously examined the gun.
Liuxang smiled smugly. "I'm a genius at weapon forgery, there is a switch in the gun as you see, the switch is pressed down that means you can shoot with it, if the switch is up, that means it doesn't shoot."
"Why are you giving this to me?" Shi Long glanced warily at Liuxang, it seemed the cross-dressing doctor enjoyed people's discomfort.
"Why indeed?" Liuxang asked to himself in a half-amused tone. He set up a tea pot with tea leaves to boil. As Shi Long was well enough to stand up he walked toward Liuxang, he inched his face against Liuxang to look for any signs of betrayal. Nothing, his eyes were as mysterious as his sister's, the agent thought. An image of Qilin haunted him and he stepped back when his heart skipped a beat.
Liuxang looked at him and sighed sadly. He put tea cups on a coffee table and gestured Shi Long to seat in front of him. "Shi Long, we need to talk."
Shi Long shifted to one side uneasily. He looked at Liuxang whose eyes were serious, not the same cruel mischief he once had. He muttered some unintelligible words and scratched his head, and he slowly sat on the chair. "I hope this isn't a joke, Liuxang."
"Damn," Qilin said as she got off the taxi. Her green eyes glinted with angry annoyance as she balled up her fist. She pounded the wall next to her. "I didn't get them," she said angrily.
She bit her lip and chewed it until some skin broke and her lip bled. She would have some explaining to do, but she will accomplish what she set up to do. A stubborn one track was needed to see a goal through, she thought to herself. She sat down and looked at the wall, she stared at it. And she smiled.
"Liuxang, you aren't as conniving as I thought you would," Qilin said with a cunning smile. She will get them from Liuxang, and bring them here. She would save them from Liuxang.
"First of all, I want to apologize," Liuxang said as he put elbows on the table and put his hands together that balled together, his face leaned on them covering his mouth, probably to hide Liuxang's facial expressions, thought Shi Long. His head was tilted at such an angle that the light that shined on his eyeglasses which made it impossible for Shi Long to see them. "I wanted to know how much Qilin still meant to you after all these years, along with those two."
"So, you hurt us?" Shi Long asked sarcastically. For some reason, he saw Liuxang flinch.
"I-I know, I am very inappropriate, I am sorry," Liuxang said as he apologetically bowed.
Shi Long gazed warily at the doctor. "What's with this 180 degrees change?" he asked. Something went wrong in Liuxang's plans, his gut told him. What other reasons would he have? Liuxang was probably the smuggler, that's why he was being so strange.
"You don't trust me, do you?" Liuxang asked.
"No, I don't. In fact, I think you're a lying sonova..."
"Don't. You. Dare. Call. My. Mother. That!" Liuxang shouted. He gritted his teeth and gnashed them. Various images popped into his head and it wasn't what he wanted to see. The room covered in dark red blood, the crimson stains on the curtains, and ... and... "Shut up! You don't know who you're talking about if you call my mother that!"
The outburst of a child, Shi Long knew it was either make or break, so he pushed him. Maybe it was for all the things Liuxang did to them, for petty revenge, or maybe it was to gain information from Liuxang and Shi Long pressed him. "A mother who teaches someone to hurt other people through using their past? Or what about your father?" Shi Long asked venomously.
Liuxang stopped dead, he froze and for a long time, remained motionless. His eyes still couldn't be seen and it made Shi Long afraid. Liuxang broke his own trance and he combed his hair as if feeling for something. His gaze at Shi Long still made him feel like he was the bad person, not Liuxang. He just left quietly, making no sound.
Liuxang quickly walked as he left the ward, he will have to talk to someone, that's right, talk to someone so that he would feel better. Two people he knew who could give them their support. He didn't notice Fiona following him, he was too preoccupied with his thoughts. Finally, Fiona caught up with hi and grabbed his shoulder.
"Hey, what's wrong?" she asked worriedly.
Liuxang looked at her, and it shocked her. Rage was in his eyes and something ... deeper. As if in a trance, she let go of his shoulder but still continued to stare at the deep green eyes. Liuxang glanced at Fiona and turned to the exit.
"I'll be visiting some people I know," Liuxang stated flatly.
"Wait! Liuxang, we have to –"
The door closed gently.
"It seems Fiona, you have to check up on them instead," Hua Tuo remarked sympathetically.
"You mean those two hunks and that blue head?" Fiona asked, already knowing the answer.
"Yes."
"Well, I suppose I'm in Hunka-Hunka Land, worth all the trouble I put up with."
"Fiona, the nurse's oath?"
"We're not even officially a clinic!" Fiona sulked as she argued.
"Point taken."
"You annoyed Liuxang?" Franziska asked, her hand was on her chest, signifying apprehensiveness.
"I did," Shi Long replied.
"What did you intend to get by annoying that ... that ... person?"
"Information, that has been withdrawn."
"Why would he be so sensitive about his parents?" Franziska asked.
"Zhengfa traditions, insulting parents is the most offensive here."
"You idiot! Now how will we get out of here?"
"Langzi said: There are more than one ways to escape a trap."
"So in Langzi terms, you've ..."
"An idea."
Fiona sighed as she looked at the sleeping faces of Shi Long and Miles. How dreamy, she thought as she fantasized about the two of them. Her good looks always made boys fight to the death for her, and Liuxang, as much as she said he was her boyfriend, it wasn't really true but it was to make boys stop bothering her.
"As for you, you blue-haired lady, you look weird," she said as she looked at Franziska. Was it her imagination or did the girl's eyebrow just move.
"I mean, lookit you, you look like a bratty princess, a brat!" Franziska wanted to strangle her with her trusty whip.
"And this whip? Are you into kinky stuff?" Franziska was appalled by that thought.
"You look prim and proper but you know what your shoes are called?"
Fiona whispered it into Franziska's ear. In Franziska's horror, she sat up and stared at Fiona in disbelief and shock.
Fiona smiled smugly. "Darlin', let's face it, the theatre's not for you."
Franziska could only contain her temper as Fiona walked near a fire alarm.
"You hotties better get up before I trigger the fire alarm," Fiona said, gesturing to the fire alarm. All she needed to do was punch it and Liuxang would be coming hell-for-leather.
Miles and Shi Long got up, they were caught, the only thing they needed to do was surrender gracefully.
"Take me with you," Fiona said seriously.
