[Scene: Late Friday afternoon at the Hen Tie hospital. Zoi has decided to pay Minako a visit before meeting the others at the Crown to go see the movie they had planned for that week.]

[Zoi materializes in a rarely used corridor and then goes to the information desk to find out where Minako's room is. He smirks as he walks past the glass foyer and sees the automobiles outside, blasting their horns and circling like sharks, trying to find parking.]

[Who needs a car? Certainly not him.]

[He stops by a gift shop because he sees a vase of miniature sunflowers, yellow roses, and orange daisies, and it reminds him of Minako.]

[He brings the floral arrangement up to Minako's room. Minako is sitting up in her hospital bed hooked to an IV. Rei is sitting by her bedside. Together, they are looking at a Hollywood variety magazine and making catty comments. They look up as he peeks his head in.]

Zoi: Hi, Minako. Are you up for a visit?

[Her eyes light up when she sees the flowers]

Minako: You know it, kiddo! Are those for me?

Zoi: Absolutely. I couldn't resist.

[Zoi puts the flowers on the bedside table]

Minako: Awwww…[to Rei] Look, skank, Zoi brought me flowers. Not just some trashy magazines from the waiting room. You need to step up your game, girl.

Rei: [sitting back and filing her nails] Why on Earth would I want to do that?

[Zoi is relieved to see Minako is back to her old self and isn't harboring any murderous intent]

Zoi: So, what did the doctors say was wrong with you?

Minako: [scoffs] They literally have no clue.

Rei: [filing her nails] They said it's a virus.

Minako: Which is doctorspeak for "Hell if I know!"…They wanted to kick my ass out of this bed days ago, except this IV is the only thing keeping my fever down…[sighs]… It's a pity Dr. Metalia moved to DC after all her little chickadees flew off to college… She would know exactly what is going on, and how to take care of me.

[Zoi has little doubt of that, and is sincerely grateful Metalia isn't there to "take care" of his friend.]

Minako: [becomes uncharacteristically somber] I hear I flipped out and trashed the nurse's office pretty good.

Zoi: Yeah you did.

Minako: Oh…[sulks]…I guess that means I've burned any rickety little rope bridges I might have had going with Kunzite O'Sama, didn't I?

[Normally, Zoi would feel threatened that such a beautiful girl cares so much about what his boyfriend thinks of her, but Kunzite has made it clear he'll never like her that way, so he can't help but feel a tinge of pity.]

Zoi: Don't worry. He knows you had a really high fever.

Minako: [shakes her head sadly] I don't know what got into me. I don't remember any of it. The last thing I remember is seeing him standing there, and…Well… I was positively convinced he had tricked me into letting him murder everyone I had ever loved. And now he was coming to kill me too…

[Minako shakes her head again and smiles]

Minako: Pretty wild stuff, huh? He's not hurt, is he?

Zoi: No.

Minako: Thank goodness for that-

[Minako looks out of the corner of her eye and sees Rei rummaging through her makeup bag and is checking out a wand of her imported mascara.]

Minako: Hey, hey, hey! Paws off my makeup, skank! That's just nasty.

[Minako grabs the bag and the mascara away from Rei and flips open a compact to touch up her lashes]

Minako: It's not like you need it anyway. You always look like you woke up singing a merry tune while the woodland creatures helped you dress, whereas my looks have been so ravaged by disease, I could play the Cryptkeeper without CGI.

[She pulls out a pressed powder compact to matten up her t-zone, then get out an eyebrow pencil.]

[As she turns her back to Zoi to fill in her brows, she catches sight of his reflection. Zoi's reflection is shadowy and distorted. Except for his eyes, which look like two glowing pools of fire.]

[Minako screams and nearly drops the compact.]

Rei: You don't look THAT bad.

[Minako turns around and Zoi looks normal.]

Zoi: [alarmed] What's wrong?

[She peeks in the mirror again. Zoi's reflection is still distorted. She looks at Rei and Rei looks normal. She tilts it back to Zoi, who is still distorted. She's convinced there is something very wrong with her brain, but she's equally certain that if she tells anyone about the vivid hallucinations she's been having since her attack on the nurse's office, they will determine she is a danger to herself and others and move her to the psychiatric ward.]

Minako: It's nothing. Muscle spasm in my back…I think I slept on it wrong…[she snaps the compact shut and lets out a lighthearted laugh]…anyway you two sluts better get going soon or you're going to be late for your movie.

Rei: [Looks at her watch] She's right. We better get moving.

[Zoi and Rei walk out together]

Rei: [To Zoi] You've got a ride waiting downstairs for you, right?

Zoi: Uh, yeah, why?

Rei: I had to get my grandfather to drop me off. Would you mind giving me a lift to the Crown Center?