(A/N): And here it is! Yet another update! Third one in a row (I'm on a roll!). But, the everyday updates stop after this one due to the ending of the weekend… Especially with my Mondays always being super busy (Two classes that are each an hour and 20 minutes long in a row and then a three hour lab and then an hour/hour and a half meeting. Yep, Mondays are crazy.) Anyways, thank you to Milkamoo97 (Yes, she is very accident-prone and for a good reason) and oOo KitKat oOo (I was wondering where you went. Yes, that stalker guy is creepy, but you won't be seeing him for a while… As for Stephanie leaving, she kind of disappeared from the series, so I gave it a reason. The boys did crack the code, but not all of it! They still don't know why those song lyrics were there) for your reviews! I don't own Big Time Rush nor do I own the episode Big Time Sparks which is used in this chapter. Oh, and a tiny warning. Remember that this is rated T. This means that there are times when teenage issues will be talked about and this chapter has it. And now, enjoy!

Chapter 45: Unlucky Strikes

James, Logan, Kendall, Carlos, Katie and Mrs. Knight came running into the emergency room, fear evident on their faces. They found Camille and Jo pacing in the waiting room. The group made their way over to them.

"Why aren't you in there with her?" Kendall asked. "Katrina's hurt and you're just waiting out here?"

"They wouldn't let us stay!" Jo replied. "The doctors told us that only family was allowed back there."

"I'm going to find out what's going on," Mrs. Knight informed the group before she headed for the receptionist desk.

"I think this is the fourth time that Katrina's been to the hospital in two months," Katie reminded them. "She's more accident-prone than Carlos."

"Maybe we should get her a helmet," Carlos suggested.

"She'd be too stubborn to wear it," Camille pointed out. "And then she'd say that she's fine."

"And then she'd get hurt again," Logan added. The others nodded.

Mrs. Knight came back to the group, "Kendall, Katie, we're going in. Come on."

"Wait, what about me?" James spoke up. The other's looked at him. "What? I'm her boyfriend! I need to be at her side." When they continued to stare, he went on, "Okay, what about the rest of us?"

"Sorry, only family members," Mrs. Knight responded. Kendall and Katie shrugged before they followed their mom further into the hospital.

Kendall, Katie and Mrs. Knight walked into Katrina's hospital room to find her lying unconscious on a hospital bed. Kendall rushed over to her side, immediately expecting the worst. He sighed in relief when he saw that she was breathing.

"Good, she's alive," Kendall relaxed.

"Of course she's alive," a voice assured them. The group looked over to find a doctor standing in the doorway. "She just lost some blood is all." He walked further into the room and checked on the monitors that were hooked up to Katrina before he addressed them again. "The piece of glass did do some damage to her side though. She lost enough blood that we had to give her a transfusion and we had to give her some sutures to close the wound. Other than that, she's completely fine. Right now, she's just sleeping. Just give me a chance to unhook her from the machines and then you can wake her up while I talk with your mother." The doctor unhooked Katrina from the machines and moved them to the side before he led Mrs. Knight out into the hallway.

"How should we wake her up then?" Katie asked. "I'm guessing it probably wouldn't be a good idea to use this air horn." She pulled an air horn out of nowhere and held it up as an example.

"No, we should wake her up gently," Kendall answered, "Otherwise, she might fall off the bed and break something else."

"Good idea," Katie agreed, dropping the air horn. "This girl is as fragile as glass."

Kendall ignored that comment as he shook Katrina gently, "Hey, Katrina. Wake up."

Katrina's eyes fluttered open, drowsily as she slurred, "Evan? When did you get back?"

"Katrina, I'm not Evan," Kendall corrected her, "I'm Kendall, remember?"

"Right, Kendall," Katrina realized, her smile faltering a bit, "Of course. It's ridiculous that you'd be Evan anyways. He's gone and he's never coming back." Katie glared at Kendall who gave his little sister a guilty smile.

"I heard that someone needs some cheering up," came a voice from the doorway. The three relatives looked over to find James standing there with a bouquet of stargazer lilies. He smiled at Katrina as he made his way to her bedside and held out the flowers for her. Katrina blushed, but smiled as she took them right as Logan and Carlos appeared in the doorway.

"Sorry," Carlos started. "We tried to stop him."

"But he can really run when he doesn't want to be caught," Logan added. Both he and Carlos seemed out of breath.

"James," Kendall turned to his friend, "You're not supposed to be here."

"I had to check up on my girlfriend," James insisted.

"Wow, I'm impressed," Katrina noted.

"Does this mean we're official?"

"Not yet."

"What if I sang you a song?" James suggested.

"Relax!" Katrina told him, "It's not like I'm dying or anything."

"No offense Katrina," Katie spoke up, "But you have the worst luck."

Katrina waved it off, "I don't believe in luck."

Before anyone could respond to that, Mrs. Knight came into the room. She didn't seem to be surprised to see James, Carlos and Logan in the room.

"We can go whenever you're ready, Katrina," Mrs. Knight told her. "We just have to come back in a week to get your stitches taken out."

"Of course," Katrina seemed upset at the thought of coming back to the hospital. "But by then, I'll probably be hurt again anyways, so it's probably a good idea." She got off the bed, but had to grab hold of James to keep her steady. "Okay, we can go now."

"Are you sure you can walk?" Mrs. Knight looked her niece over, concerned.

"I'll be fine," Katrina assured her. "And if not, then James can carry me."

"I think you're taking advantage of me here," James mentioned.

"Don't pretend you don't like it," Katrina responded. James considered this before he shrugged and nodded, agreeing.

"Can you two stop being so coupleish?" Carlos asked. "It gets really annoying."

"I'm guessing Stephanie told you then," Katrina replied.

"Stephanie told me what?" Carlos looked confused.

"I'll tell you in the van," Katrina let him know as the group began to leave the room.

The next day, Carlos, Kendall, Logan, James, Katrina, Camille and Jo were in the lobby, saying their goodbyes to Stephanie. Carlos was the last one to step forward and give Stephanie a hug.

"You're going to do great," Carlos told her.

"I'm not going to forget you guys," Stephanie assured the group. "I hope that we can keep in touch."

"Of course we will," Jo replied.

"And I hope that you remember me and Jo for when you make a huge movie and put us in your cast," Camille added.

"And Big Time Rush can be on the soundtrack," Kendall went on.

"And me as the leading man," James continued, "Alongside Katrina as my leading lady." The others rolled their eyes, but Stephanie laughed.

"I'll keep that in mind," Stephanie mentioned before turning to Katrina, "And I hope you make it into that school in New York. Maybe we could live together then." The guys looked at Katrina in shock.

"If I get in, I'll tell you," Katrina didn't notice the guys staring at her.

"Stephanie!" Mr. King called out from the entrance to the Palm Woods, "We have to go now if we want to make our flight!"

"I'll be right there!" Stephanie responded. She smiled at her group of friends. "I gotta go. Bye." They waved to her as she grabbed her last suitcase and headed for the door.

As soon as Stephanie was out of sight, the boys glared at Katrina, "School in New York?"

"We're just gonna go," Camille bailed out of the scene.

"Yeah, auditions and stuff," Jo added, running after Camille.

"Thanks so much for the back-up!" Katrina called after them before turning to face the questioning guys. "Look, it's not what you think."

"You're leaving for New York?" They assumed.

"No!" Katrina explained, "There's a modeling school in New York that I've always wanted to go to. I've never applied though. I never thought I was good enough. Plus, I'm fine here."

"A modeling school?" Logan commented, "If anyone could get in, it would be you."

"Thanks," Katrina seemed surprised. "But, again, I'm happy here. LA's my home. I'm not planning on leaving any time soon."

"Good," James put his arm around Katrina's shoulder. "Cause I don't want us to fall apart because of a long distance relationship." For once, Katrina didn't move his arm.

"You don't have to worry about that," Katrina told him. "Since we're still not official."

"Darn it!" James exclaimed.

"Let's go to the pool," Carlos suggested, "Maybe the Jennifers are there!" Carlos left the group, heading towards the pool.

"He bounces back fast," Katrina noted. The boys nodded their heads in agreement before the group followed Carlos to the pool.

Kendall, Logan, Carlos, James and Katrina were lying on pool chairs beside the pool. Each of them had a different magazine in their hands. Kendall had Hockey Action Magazine, Logan was reading a magazine called Future Doctor, Carlos was entranced with his Helmet magazine, James was looking through articles in Pop Tiger and Katrina had her legs bent to hold up the CosmoTeen magazine she was glancing through.

Suddenly, James put the magazine down, "Hey, do you guys wanna know Dak Zevon's secret to perfect toast?"

Carlos, Logan, Kendall and Katrina looked over at him to answer, "No." Before going back to their magazines.

"It's all in this month's Pop Tiger," James went on as if they had said yes.

Carlos put his magazine down and pulled the Pop Tiger magazine out of James's hands, "What I want to know is, we've been in LA for six months. When are we gonna meet some totally cool and hot celebrity like Jordin Sparks?" Katrina cleared her throat. It was at that moment that Carlos realized what he said. He tried to fix it, "Except you Katrina. But you don't really count now that you're Kendall's cousin." Katrina still looked insulted.

Suddenly, Jordin Sparks came up to the group, "Excuse me." The boys and Katrina looked up at her. "I'm looking for Mr. Bitters." The boys quickly gathered close to her in shock while Katrina just raised her eyebrows. James held up his Pop Tiger magazine to compare Jordin in real life with the Jordin on the cover.

"That's you!" James pointed out right as the other three started stammering their responses. Jordin looked on, confused.

"You get used to that," Katrina mentioned, gaining Jordin's attention. "Hi, I'm Katrina. Mr. Bitters is in the lobby, behind the front desk."

"Oh, well, thanks Katrina," Jordin smiled at the model before she headed for the lobby. The boys stared at her as she left.

Katrina looked over at them, "Uh, guys? Are you okay? You look starstruck." When none of them moved, Katrina groaned. She got to her feet, rolled up her magazine and hit each of the boys on their heads to snap them out of their daze.

"Ow!" Logan spoke up, "Was that really necessary?"

Before Katrina could say anything though, the boys all made a realization, "Jordin Sparks is in the lobby!" All of them got up quickly and ran for the lobby, accidently knocking Katrina down so she landed on her butt. Katrina groaned again before she picked herself up and followed the boys into the lobby. She got there just in time to watch them knock over Mr. Bitters.

Jordin turned to stare at the boys calling out her name. She looked like a deer in headlights. Katrina rolled her eyes before she went over to stand next to the boys.

"We just wanted to say," Kendall started the first coherent thing that any of them said in a while. "Welcome to the Palm Woods."

"We're Big Time Rush," Carlos added.

"We're recording at Rocque Records," James continued, sounding like he was bragging.

"Um, what are you doing here?" Logan finished.

"Recording," Jordin answered, "At Rocque Records."

The boys began to cough in their surprise while Katrina noted, "Wow. What are the chances of that?"

"Yeah, crazy," Jordin commented. "Listen, I gotta go." Katrina waved goodbye as Jordin headed for the elevators. She turned to look at the guys again.

"Why do you keep on doing this?" Katrina asked, "She's just a person."

"She's a mega celebrity!" Logan pointed out.

"And what am I?" Katrina seemed even more insulted, "Steamed broccoli?" The boys looked at her confused. "I'm a celebrity too!"

"Yeah," Carlos responded, "But we met you when we didn't know that."

Katrina glared at them for a second before she gave in, "I guess you're right." She sighed. "So what are you going to do now?"

"We're going to go to Rocque Records," James decided, "We'll see you later Katrina." The boys headed for the door.

"You do realize that if you go anywhere close to Jordin Sparks when she's recording with Gustavo, he'll probably kill you!" Katrina called out to them.

They turned around and came back to her, Kendall mentioning, "And that's why you're coming with us."

"Wait, what?" Katrina seemed confused for a second before James picked her up and started carrying her towards the exit. "This is so not cool!" Kendall, Carlos and Logan laughed before they followed the couple outside.

"Why do you even need me here anyways?" Katrina asked. She was hiding in the studio with the guys, waiting for Jordin Sparks to show up.

"Because," Kendall told her, "When we get caught, Gustavo's going to give us less of a hard time if you're there too."

"But, I'll be in trouble too!" Katrina reminded him.

"Exactly," Logan mentioned. "That means less trouble for us."

"That's horrible reasoning," Katrina replied.

"No it's not," Carlos and James insisted. Katrina rolled her eyes.

"Shh!" Kendall hushed them, "I think I hear something." The boys peeked out of the room to watch see Jordin talking to Gustavo. They went into the recording studio. Kendall turned back to the group. "Time to move." The boys left the room, but Katrina didn't follow. She stood there for a second, shaking her head, before James came back in, grabbed her arm, and pulled her out into the hallway.

"And how are we supposed to get in without Gustavo stopping us?" Katrina pointed out.

"We crawl in," Logan explained.

"But I can't crawl," Katrina reminded him, "I have a broken arm, remember?"

"That's why you go in first to distract him," Kendall revealed.

"Wait, what?" Katrina seemed confused again until the boys opened the door to the studio and pushed Katrina in. She stumbled through, but for once, didn't fall. "Those pinheads," Katrina mumbled before she looked up and noticed that Gustavo, the recording guy and Jordin, who was in the booth, were staring at her.

"Katrina," Gustavo was faking his calmness, "Where are the boys?"

"Why would I know that?" Katrina faked her innocence.

"Because you're always around them," Gustavo pointed out. Katrina continued to look clueless. "Fine, if you don't know where the guys are, then why are you here?"

Katrina went wide-eyed for a second, but then came up with an idea, "Because you're my producer and I want to watch you in action."

"What is the real reason you're here?" Gustavo asked.

"I'm a fan of Jordin Sparks," Katrina tried again, "And I wanted to hear her new song being recorded." Gustavo scanned Katrina as though testing out Katrina's words.

"Fine," Gustavo gave in, "You can sit down here. Just don't touch anything." Katrina nodded before she sat down in the seat Gustavo was pointing at.

"Can I sing now?" Jordin asked from the recording booth.

Gustavo pressed a button to talk to Jordin in the booth, "Yes. Start whenever you're ready."

Jordin cleared her throat before she started to sing.

Now I'm about to give you my heart
So remember this one thing
I never been in love before
Yeah, you gotta go easy on me

Suddenly, Katrina, Gustavo and the recording guy jumped in shock because James, Logan, Carlos and Kendall had decided to pop up and cheer for Jordin, clapping. Out of the three of them, Katrina was the only one that actually fell out of her seat. She growled to herself as she glared up at the guys. They didn't notice as they continued to compliment Jordin's song.

"Really?" Jordin seemed surprised by the compliments, "Cause I-I'm not sure I'm feeling it yet."

The guys completely changed their perspective on the song, agreeing with Jordin that it wasn't ready yet, still not noticing Katrina on the floor. She got up as best as she could and continued to glare at the excited boys.

Gustavo stood up to stop the boys, "Jordin! Jordin, don't worry about the song, okay? Just take a little more time with it and give me some time to fill in the chorus and add some layers. The song is gonna be a big hit. It's gonna be great!"

Suddenly, he turned to look at the guys. "Dogs! I got a big present for you in my office!" The boys cheered while Katrina looked confused. "Take the cat with you and go get it!" Katrina's eyes went wide as she looked over at the guys. She didn't have a chance to get away. They grabbed her, dragged her out into the hallway and then into Gustavo's office.

That's when the group saw Freight Train. They screamed as he pulled all five of them into a pressurized hug. Gustavo came into the room soon after and shut the door after him.

"Why am I not surprised by this?" Katrina asked figuratively, her voice much higher than it usually was.

"Freight Train's squeezing us!" Kendall pointed out, his voice higher too, but not as high as Katrina's had been.

"This is our big present?" James exclaimed while sounding like he had taken some helium.

"Yes," Gustavo answered, "Because I want you nowhere near Jordin Sparks." Freight Train let them go and they took in deep breaths.

"What?" Carlos asked, "Why?"

"Because you're bad luck," Gustavo spoke like it was obvious. "And destroy everything you touch."

"What?" Logan laughed as he started to lean against Gustavo's desk, "That is so not true." Suddenly, one of the desk legs broke and everything began to slide off of it, making a whole bunch of crashing sounds. Katrina winced at this. Logan looked back at Gustavo, "Sorry."

Gustavo seemed to have decided not to say anything about it because he went on like nothing had happened, "Jordin and her team have picked me to produce her new song over every producer in this town. Cause word on the street is Gustavo Rocque is back!" He did a victory punch in the air. "Now, Jordin is staying at the Palm Woods which means if she is by the pool, I want BAD LUCK RUSH and their sidekick, HURRICANE KATRINA TO BE IN THE LOBBY!" The boys and Katrina leaned away from Gustavo as they winced at his anger. Gustavo glared at the group of teens before he left the room.

"Hurricane Katrina," Katrina mentioned, "Really? Like I haven't heard THAT one before."

"You are a disaster waiting to happen," Carlos pointed out. Katrina pushed him over before she stomped out of the office.

"Well, SOMEONE'S having their time of the month," Kendall joked.

"I HEARD THAT!" Katrina yelled from the hallway.

"Is she a werewolf?" Carlos asked, suddenly looking scared as he jumped to his feet. James, Logan and Kendall facepalmed.

"Didn't you pay attention to health class in middle school?" Logan replied. When Carlos shook his head, Logan went on, "She's a girl." Carlos still looked confused. "Girls have a special time of the month." A blank look was still on Carlos's face.

"Dude," James tried, "She's PMSing."

"Oh," Carlos smiled, finally getting it. Then, his smile went away as he thought more about it, "OOOHHH."

"Good luck, James," Kendall commented, "You're gonna need it." James suddenly looked like he would rather take on a werewolf Katrina than the hormonal one.

Carlos, Logan, James, Kendall and Katrina were standing in doorway to the pool from the lobby. Katrina still seemed pissed, but she had waited for the guys to catch up. Apparently, hanging out with them was better than being alone.

"Bad Luck Rush?" James started. "He's wrong."

"He's wrong about me too!" Katrina insisted.

"Yeah," Logan agreed, "We're more like Good Luck Charms."

"In fact," James continued, "The best luck Jordin could have is spending her entire day with me." He had pulled out his comb and mirror to check his hair. Carlos, Kendall, Logan and Katrina glared at him.

"That's strike two," Katrina noted.

"I mean us," James assured the group.

"That's still strike two," Katrina wasn't budging. Logan, Kendall and Carlos shook their heads at James's ignorance.

"Darn it!" James stomped his foot. In his anger, he accidently dropped his mirror, breaking it.

The group stared down at it as Carlos screamed in shock. As James bent down to pick it up, Carlos pointed out, "You broke a mirror. That's seven years bad luck."

"That's ridiculous," James told him.

"Yeah," Katrina agreed. "I've broken several mirrors and I'm-" She suddenly stopped talking as her eyes went wide in realization. Her huge streak of accident-proneness had started after she had broken her room of mirror in her old house. "Oh no."

Suddenly, someone called out from the pool, "HEADS UP!" as a football headed their way. Kendall, Carlos and Logan ducked out of the way, but the football ended up bouncing off of James's head and then Katrina's before it fell to the ground. Katrina and James looked at each other. Right then, they both got sprayed by a long line of suntan lotion. They looked over at the person holding the bottle.

"Sorry," she told them. Then, a huge group of kids came running through the lobby, knocking down both James and Katrina so that they could get to the pool. As soon as they passed, James and Katrina got back to their feet, holding onto each other for support. Carlos, Logan and Kendall watched them with concern. James held up his mirror and he and Katrina stared down at the broken remnants as though it was their death sentence. They yelped before they both ran off, James dropping the mirror.

"Where do we go?" Katrina clung to James, "Where CAN we go?"

"We have to get rid of our bad luck!" James exclaimed as he led her towards the elevator.

Katrina stopped him from going any further, "Do you really want to take a chance on the elevator?"

James looked at her, then the elevator, then back at her, "What are some good luck charms?"

"Uh," Katrina stammered, "Rabbit's feet."

"Do you have any rabbits at Penny's Pet Care?"

"We are NOT chopping feet off of rabbits!"

"Fine, what else?"

"Lucky pennies, horseshoes, four-leaf clovers."

"To the park!" James decided. He began to drag Katrina toward the exit when they ran into Tyler.

"Hide me!" Tyler insisted. "My mom wants me to do a commercial for a kid's cereal!" He was decked out in a leprechaun costume.

"You know," Katrina remembered, "Leprechauns are lucky too." She and James shared smirks while Tyler looked on, confused.

(A/N): Well, NOW we know why Katrina's so accident-prone! She's unlucky! And now James is too! No wonder they became a couple… But that might not last long anyways. James has received strike two! One more and he's outta there! Will they make it or will Katrina kick him to the curb? Poor Carlos… Stephanie had to leave making him the only single guy in Big Time Rush. How is he going to take it once all his friends have date nights and he's left alone in the apartment? And what is up with this modeling school in New York that Katrina has always wanted to go to? Is she lying about being happy with not going to it? And what about Evan? Are the guys ever going to find him? Is Katrina ever going to find out about that? And what disasters await Bad Luck Rush and their sidekick Hurricane Katrina? Find out next time! Until then, review and happy reading!