none of which so dangerous as virtue

While the others had been in discussion, Motoko had slipped off to get Tieria's wheelchair and returned as their chat had turned to his glasses. Wheeling it up near him, she rested on the handles to keep it steady.

"Ready when you are."

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Nena made a face. "What's wrong with you that you need a wheelchair? You can't still be hurt."

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A wheelchair?! Wheelchairs meant injuries and injuries meant fights and with all that had been going on in her life (exams, training, sneaking out from home, the usual), she hadn't heard of his recent exploits. This demanded an explanation. "Tieria-san, tell me right now why you're in a wheelchair!" she shouted, finger waving in his face.

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Haruhi gave Minako a look, "Because he was injured, dummy. Why else are people in wheelchairs unless they really into hurt/comfort." She turned back to Tieria and gave him a pout. "Put those glasses back on!" They add to the girl next door factor!"

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Cuddy found herself just staring at other women. She pondered for a moment, before said, in her medical opinion.

"In order for Tieria to get better, he has to walk. We can keep the wheelchair on standby, but it's best if he walks. If he doesn't want contacts and if he doesn't want to keep the glasses on, that's his wish. Crowding over him won't help the situation and neither will yelling."

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"With all of us here, he should be fine walking, right? We can help him if he has trouble." Then Karen gave Haruhi a look. "Hurt comfort?"

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Tieria fell silent, clearly uncomfortable with the direction the conversation was starting to go in. After all, he could stumble for a few meters, but it took all the energy and willpower he could muster. There was no way he'd be able to stand for that length of time, never mind walk.

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Upon the mention of getting him to walk, Motoko had started chewing on her thumb with narrowed eyes. He wouldn't be able to walk around all day, she hadn't even been able to find the exact means of fixing that problem in particular. It was something that had gnawed away at her to the day. Before speaking, her eyes flickered over to Tieria.

"All of you calm down," she said. "And with all due respect, Doctor Cuddy, he'd need crutches or something similar in order to walk on his own as he can barely stand for extended periods of time. I may not be a doctor, but I have been here for a while."

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"You didn't answer me," Nena said, crossing her arms. She was fairly sure that any normal injury wouldn't have put him out of commission for nearly this long. "What's wrong with you?"

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She pouted in Haruhi's direction. "Well, I know that! ...Maybe not the hurt/comfort part. Why would--never mind." Minako mimicked Nena's stance. "Tell!"

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"Yes,hurt/comfort! It's a suprisingly popular fetish, especially in shoujo manga. And you guys are making way too big of deal out of this! If he falls over we'll just prop him back up or drag him around!"

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"He'll be able to use Rachel's stroller for support. However, why the doctors have him confined to this wheelchair is beyond me." Cuddy said, though her tone suggested that someone had overstepped their boundaries.

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"I'm not sure fetishes are necessarily what we're going for." Karen sighed. "Tieria-san, what happened?"

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He'd had enough. He had known this was stupid idea, right from the start.

The problem was, he had no idea what to say; how to explain what had gone wrong. Although he trusted these girls with his life (how had that happened, anyway?), Tieria still wasn't happy about letting them know the facts that would inevitably let them come to the conclusion that he wasn't exactly human.

Desperately wanting to leave the room right at this moment, he struggled to his feet and tried to make his way to the door.

He didn't even make a few steps before his knees buckled and he dropped to the floor helplessly.

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"Tieria!"

She darted over and picked him up, carrying him over to his wheelchair. Once there, she sat him down on the floor.

"Alright, you've made your point. Let's get you in the wheelchair."

Motoko took his useless arm and held it over her shoulder so he could use his good arm to help pull himself into the wheelchair.

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Nena watched, arms still crossed; something dawned on her face as she saw which arm was useless, and as Tieria sat down she unfolded her arms and put her hands on her hips.

"You didn't!" she said, incredulous. His injuries matched with the damage to his gundam almost perfectly; that couldn't be a coincidence. "Geez, are you really that stupid? He's coming with me for a second," she informed the rest of the room, darting over and seizing the handles of the wheelchair before Motoko had the chance. "We'll just be a minute!" she called over her shoulder, pushing him out of the room and kicking the door shut.

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It had all happened so fast that Minako barely had a chance to react. She sat on the bed with enough force to bounce a few inches and land with a thump. Obviously, it was a secret that Tieria and Nena wanted to keep. Probably at any cost if they weren't coughing up information on his injuries. She would ask Artemis to look into it later.

For the moment, she rested her head in her hands. You caught more flies with honey vinegar than with vinegar alone.

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"Hey! Get back here!" Haruhi aimed a kick at the door Nena had just dragged Tieria behind. Even if she wasn't showing it, she was pretty disturbed to see Tieria so...weak. He'd always seemed so strong when he was bossing everyone around. But still, it was pretty weird that Nena was doing it, and she started banging on the door. "You have no idea what you're implying, idiot!"

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Cuddy, on the other hand was not disturbed at all. She started to look around the house, picking up her baby to start playing with while the others were bickering between them.

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Karen had started towards Tieria, but Nena-san had been faster. Now she could only stand helplessly and wait for them to come back.

Her fists clenched and unclenched repeatedly. Karen hated doing anything "helplessly."

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It had seemed normal enough to start with, like any two people having a private conversation away from the others. The sound of Tieria's low voice and Nena's girlish giggles could be heard through the door, but not what was being said.

But after a few long minutes and eventually, a lot of very peculiar noises (had that been a yelp?), there was only silence in the next room.

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...Motoko really didn't like some of the noises coming from the other room. Concern winning out, she walked over to knock on the door as calmly as she could, her other hand moving automatically to her side. What the hell was she doing to him in there? The way she had darted over and carted him off was strange.

"Tieria, are you alright in there?"

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After a few more seconds of silence Nena opened the door, a smug grin on her face. "We're back!" she announced.

It had been a matter of connecting to Veda and severing the connection that was paralyzing him from the other side; there had been a few tricky moments but she managed in the end, with the result that she cheerfully re-entered the room like the cat who ate the canary, Tieria following behind her, walking normally on his own two feet.

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She still had no clear idea what was going on, but she knew that Tieria was better again and that was all that mattered. Minako bounded over and gave the both of them quick hugs, a grin stretched from ear to ear on her face.

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