Guardians of the Galaxy 1. New Member

It was like any other normal day in Xandar. People walking the streets in harmony, children playing, friends getting together, and a giant tree man drinking from the city's fountain again.

Lianna giggled and said "Ok Groot, I think you had enough water." She put her hands on Groot's shoulders and directed him away from the fountain. She sat Groot back down on a bench and gave him a bottle of water. "If you need water or anything just ask me, ok?" Lianna said. Groot nodded, and proceeded to figure out how to open up the plastic contraption. Lianna giggled again and helped Groot out.

"I am Groot," he said.

"And that was a thank you?" she asked. Groot nodded his head and she smiled at him.

"WHAT!" Lianna knew only one person that was able to yell louder than Groot; Rocket. She went over to the trading booth that Rocket was at to see what's going on, and she hoped it wasn't another fight.

"Look here buddy," Rocket was standing on the counter with his arms crossed, "I gave you a Marconian mineral that's worth about twenty to twenty-five units, and you give me ten!"

"Sorry bud," the trade merchant said, "The mineral has a huge dent in the side, which their fore lowers the price,"

Rocket squeezed his fists. He whipped out his plasma gun and pointed it to the merchants head. Rocket growled at him and was about to pull the trigger when he felt someone put their hands on him. He whipped his head around and saw it was Lianna, standing there and looking at him like he was in trouble.

"Let me handle this," Lianna said. Rocket obeyed her and lowered the gun down. The merchant was still shaken, but relieved.

"Heres the deal buddy," she stated, putting her elbows on the counter, "That mineral costs precisely twenty-five units and you have given him ten units. Why is that?" her voice was straight and definite, making the merchant feel uneasy.

"B-Because there is a large indentation on the side of the mineral," he stammered.

"Then how about this," Lianna reached into her satchel and pulled out a small test tube of red liquid. "This is Langarian blood. Has the ability to change your body or body part size and or length for six to twelve hours until it wears off. If I give you this will you give us the fifteen other units were are missing?"

The merchant just gazed upon the short valve with great interest. "Deal!" he said and went to grabbed it.

Lianna dodged his swipe and wagged her finger. "Not until we get the money for it,"

The merchant quickly gave them the coins and grabbed the alien blood. He wondered over the test tube of its mystical property.

"And that's how you bargain," Lianna said, smiling her smug smile to Rocket. He smirked back, knowing she always knew how to bargain up a better deal.

"But before you go," the merchant said, "Whose Langarian blood is this?"

"Oh, mine of course," she said.

"Your not a Langarian! You're a Terran!"

"My father was Terran, and mother Langarian,"

"Then show me your half Langarian missy," Rocket knew that man should've not called her that.

"I think we need to go Lianna," Rocket tugged on her brown, leather jacket.

"Calm down rat boy we still have some business to do," the merchant said.

"Rat boy!" Rocket yelled. "Oh you done it now jackass! Show'em Lianna!"

Lianna nodded with a smirk. She stepped back and stretched her stomach to reach the top of the merchant's tent and she ripped off his sign. She shrunk back to her normal form and dropped the sign on his counter.

"Good luck gettin' up there," Lianna said. The merchant was just flabbergasted. Rocket grabbed the rest of the units and jumped down from the counter.

"Shall we be headin' back my fair lady," Rocket joked.

"Yes, indeed we should," Lianna said. They both laughed as they headed back to the gang.

"Hey, where were you two," Peter asked. "We're just about to leave when we only found Groot here."

"Oh we were just bargaining a bit Quill, calm those man boobs of yours," Lianna said. Rocket broke out laughing.

"That's not funny," Peter glared at Lianna, who was smiling at him. Peter continued to stared at her to make his point, but ended up smiling as well.

"Ok ok, I admit that _was_ pretty funny," he said. "But next time tell one of us that your saving Rocket's sorry ass from getting scammed again."

"Hey! I can't help it that I end up doin' some damage on somethin', I'm not gentle!" Rocket said.

"Ok, calm down bud, he was joking," Lianna said rubbing Rocket's head.

"Actually I wasn't," Peter said. Rocket growled at him and went to grab his gun. Lianna squatted down and grabbed his shoulder.

"Hey, I'll handle him Rocket, ok?" she said calmly. Rocket nodded his head and she smiled and let go of his shoulder. Lianna stood up straight and crossed her arms as she walked closer to Peter.

"Remember that joke about your man boobs, I wasn't joking either," she said. "They were so stiff it looked like you hiding tea cups in your shirt."

Peter just stared her in the eye, but looked away, knowing he might get beat up if he said something else.

He cleared his throat and said "Shall we leave now?"

Lianna looked at Rocket. He nodded in agreement and Lianna said "We can go now. I think we done enough bargaining today." She smiled at Rocket and he smiled back. They both headed to the Milano and walked up the ramp.

"You coming or what?" Rocket yelled to Peter.

"Yeah, I'm comin'" Peter said. He jogged up the ramp and it enclosed itself back into the ship. The thrusters kicked on and the ship began to lift off the ground.

"So where should we go now that we collected the award money?" Peter said, sitting in the pilot's seat and pressing some control buttons.

"I still think it is proper to celebrate of our new member," Drax said.

"Yeah Lianna, you deserve it," Rocket said. "You _were_ the one who caught the guy, so why not!"

"Oh I guess so if you want to so badly," Lianna said. "I don't really care as long as we all have a good time,"

"Perhaps Knowhere for the celebration?" Gamora insisted.

"I am Groot," Groot said.

"Oh don't worry, that stupid collector guy isn't after us," Rocket said, seating himself. "I heard he's interested in wine tastin' now, and somethin' else too." Lianna giggled to the reminder of what this collector guy also did as she shrank down to sit on Rocket's shoulder. Rocket chuckled too and looked at Lianna,who was smiling and swinging her legs rhythmically to the tempo of "Hooked on a Feeling."

"To Knowhere it is!" Peter said, and turned up the music. The Milano lifted higher off the ground and began to fly to sky.

"Peter, why's that blinking?" Gamora asked. Peter looked at the dash and saw that the 'half empty gas tank' light was blinking.

"The tank's only half full?" Peter was confused. "How's that?"

Rocket let out a nervous chuckle and said "I didn't exactly fill it up the whole way when we stopped last time,"

"Then what were you doing beside filling up the tank?" Drax said. everyone's attention was on Rocket. He pulled at his collar, making sure he didn't knock down Lianna too.

"Because I was kinda too busy staring at some girl," Rocket was glad that no one can see him deeply blushing underneath his fur, but they might be able to tell since his ears were down.

"Well then I guess the trip's gonna be a little long since we'll have to stop on the way there," Peter said.

Rocket gave an embarrassed chuckle. Lianna just smiled and scratched Rocket's neck. He hummed in enjoyment from the sensation.

"Just a little higher," he said to Lianna. She went further up his neck, his humming increasing volume and pitch. "A little to the left," she went to right, and Rocket's leg began moving.

"Oooh yeaaah," Rocket said. Lianna giggled and continued to scratch at Rocket's 'sweet spot'.

"Might as well stop now at a nearby planet to fuel up," Peter said.

"Then lets stop at that one Peter," Gamora pointed out to the red and green planet on the left.

"Then onward we'll go," Peter steered the ship to the planet and increased speed. Rocket was still enjoying himself with Lianna's lovely scratching on his neck.

* * *

Peter landed the Milano beside the fuel tank at the gas station. He turned his attention to Rocket then.

"Rocket," Peter said, "You will be filling the tank with the help of Lianna since you messed up last time,"

Lianna jumped off Rocket's shoulder and grew back to her normal size. "Sure thing Quill," she said.

"It's not my fault the girl was so damn pretty," Rocket blushingly murmured as he slid out of his seat. The both of them walked down the ship and to the dock where the ramp opened up.

"I'll go pay the clerk for the gas and you put it in the tank," Lianna said walking down the ramp.

"Sounds like a plan to me," he said. Lianna pulled out some money from her pockets and ran to the store. Rocket leaned against the ship as she went to pay.

"Since you messed up, phfft," Rocket mocked Peter. He couldn't believe Peter didn't trust him now with just filling up a ship with gas. He started grumbling curses under his breath when he heard the store door open.

"You can put it in Rocket! I just need to grabbed somethin'," Lianna yelled from the door before pulling herself back in.

"Ok," Rocket yelled back. He went over to the gas stand and reached for the pumps, but soon learned he can't reach.

"Goddamn it!" he cursed loudly. "How come I always fuckin' end up too short for so many god damn stuff!" He kicked the side of the stand, but didn't think twice that it was made out of metal.

"SON OF VA BITCH!" Rocket hopped around on his one foot until he stopped to look at it. _WHY DID I KICK THAT THING!_ He thought in his head. _So stupid of me, so fuckin' STUPID!_

"Is everything ok Rocket?" Lianna asked walking out the store.

"No I-" Rocket couldn't help but to stare at her as she walked over to him. _Oh. My. God._ Rocket felt like his heart detonated. _The way the light hits off her red hair and... and how it causes a glowing effect all around her body. It's like she sent from heaven and came to save me._ Rocket continued to stare at Lianna as she came closer to him.

"Hello? Are you ok?" Lianna squatted down to eyesight level to Rocket, wondering what he was staring at. "Rocket?" she snapped her fingers a couple of times and he finally snapped out of it.

"S-Sorry, I kinda spaced out there," Rocket blushed and rubbed his neck.

"It's ok, but what happened? You've been holding your foot for a while now," Rocket looked down and saw he was still doing it.

"O-Oh, I accidentally hit it off the gas stand," he kinda lied.

"Well is it ok? From what I heard from inside you sounded like you were in a lot of pain," Lianna took his foot in her hand and examined it. Rocket couldn't help but to blush more.

"Yeah, found out the painful way that the things made of steel," He tried to keep calm with her holding his foot and rubbing it. He winced when she rubbed his toes.

"Oh sorry!" Lianna quickly retreated her hand from his foot.

"No no, it's fine. Just means you found the spot," Rocket gripped on to her shoulder so he didn't lose balance.

"Here, just lemme," she picked him up and cradled him in her arms. "You can relax while I just take over for you," Lianna picked up the pump and inserted it into the ship.

Rocket just felt like a baby. He quickly looked around for anyone and was relieved to see no one in sight. Lianna giggled and started rocking him, humming a sweet little melody too. But what embarrassed Rocket the most was when she lifted his hurt foot to her face and gave it a little kiss. Rocket took her hair and hid with it, trying to hide his love-flustred face.

"D-Did I go too far?" Lianna asked. "It's some weird, natural instinct I learned Langarians have, I-I'm sorry," she quickly stopped the rocking and humming. Rocket poked his head out from under her hair.

"Um... n-no Lianna, you didn't so much!" Rocket was trying to find the words he wanted to say. "I mean, I-I...," Rocket sighed. "What I'm tryin' to say is it's ok Lianna," Lianna looked at him surprised. "I could use a little caring now and then, but just make sure you don't do it a lot in front of the guys, they'll think I'm goin' soft,"

Lianna smiled and said "I promise." Just then the tank got full. Lianna put the pump back and closed the gas lid on the ship. "Come on, we better get back inside,"

"Yeah, good idea," Rocket said, and she started up the ramp.

"What was takin' you guys so long?" Peter asked.

"Oh we were-" Lianna looked at Rocket, who was blushing and his ears were down. "Um, we just had some difficulties with the cashier, and Rocket's foot got stomped on by the dude. Tought him a lesson for hurtin' him,"

"You sure it wasn't just a mistake?" Drax asked.

"No it wasn't a mistake!" Rocket lied. "The son of a bitch literally crushed my foot!"

"Well is your foot ok?" Gamora asked.

"His foot was throbbing afterwards, but it'll be better by the time we get to Knowhere," Lianna said sitting down in Rocket's seat.

"Well I'm just glad that you guys are back on the ship with the tank full, right?" Peter asked.

"Yup," Lianna said.

"Well then Knowhere we go!" Peter turned the Milano on and flew to the sky.

Rocket started to yawn and his eyes dropping a little.

"You tired Rocket?" Lianna asked him.

"Yeah, I guess," Rocket yawned again.

"Well here," Lianna adjusted Rocket's position and tilted the seat back a little. "You can just sleep on me until we're there,"

"U-Uh," he was blushing wildly. _Fuck! Ain't this a sticky situation!_ he thought. _There's only two ways for me to sleep! Do I curl up like a fucking cat on her lap, or do I man up and lay on her boobs! AAAAASDFGHJKL!_

"Well? Are you going to sleep or what?" Lianna caught Rocket's attention.

"U-Um, yeah. I'm going to," Rocket gently laid himself down on her, feeling like a fever was running. But as soon as he put his head down, she quietly started humming a familiar lullaby Rocket heard before. The vibrations from her chest soothing his mind and making him sleepy. He forgot about why he was scared to laid down on her in the first place.

Gamora tapped Peter's shoulder and pointed back to Lianna. The both of them were surprised and happy to see Rocket actually sleeping. Rocket hardly slept; He would stay up and build stuff without sleeping a bit, but now he's actually dozing off; Dozing off on the girl who seems to never to leave his side.


	2. Bar Fight

"We're here," Peter announced.

"I think they fell asleep," Drax said.

"They did," Gamora said. She walked over to Lianna, who was holding Rocket like a teddy bear, and nudged her shoulder.

"Lianna, we're here Lianna," she calmly spoke. Lianna's eye flutter open and looked around the room. She finally noticed Gamora, and Rocket snuggled against her chest. Lianna smiled and yawned, holding on to him as she got up. He moaned and moved slightly, but didn't wake up. She giggled and stroked his head.

"Rocket," Lianna said quietly. "Wake up buddy,"

Rocket's ears twitched to life as he opened his eye. He yawned and stretched in her arms, but curled back up. Both the girls couldn't help but to giggle a little. Groot smiled at his small friend, happy to see him finally sleeping. Peter couldn't help but to admire Gamora's giggle.

"Come on Rocket," Lianna sat Rocket upright on her lap, "Time to get up sleepy head," He yawned again, and stretched some more.

"Are we there yet?" Rocket said sleepily.

"We've already been here for five minutes Rocket," Peter said.

"We have?" Rocket rubbed his eyes open and laid against Lianna. "Then we better get goin', but man did that nap feel good," The women giggled again at Rocket.

"Come on bud," Lianna got up and hoisted Rocket on to her shoulders, forming her hair to wrap around his torso to keep him up there.

"That's a nice technique you use Lianna," Gamora said.

"Thanks," she said, walking through the kitchenette to the dock. "I learned it myself when I went to my mother's planet. I worked a little as a nurse, helping my mom with the newborns and children. The people in the hospital said she was a very nice and caring woman, and that I was just like her. But soon I got tired living on Langara,"

"And that's when you left to explore the galaxy?"

"No, not yet. Langara has a very strict leaving policy. Since Langarian blood has such mystical properties, the president agreed on a trade market with other planets. We trade our blood donations for resources we need. But leaving is very hard to do; You must have at least donated a gallon of your blood over the time period you spend in the B.D.D.,"

"B.D.D.?"

"Blood Donation Dome,"

"Ok, so, you need at least a gallon of blood donated before you can leave?"

"You also have to pay a thousand unit fee too to leave,"

"That's a lot to pay for, but then how did you leave?"

"My mother sacrificed her leaving savings for me to go, and I found out that was why she left me on Earth with my father, so I didn't have to face my blood being draw at such an early age,"

"How early do they do it?"

"They start when your two, and I found out the hard way when I was asked to do it," Lianna looked down at the metal floor, painfully remembering how it went.

Peter came up behind Lianna and put his hand on her shoulder. "Well you can just forget about all that stuff and just enjoy yourself tonight,"

"You were listening?" Gamora asked confused.

"Yes, yes I was," Peter looked at Gamora with a smile, until a laughter broke the silence.

"Your kidding me, right?" Rocket laughed. "You, paying attention to someone tellin' their life! In a million years!" He busted out laughing again, and Lianna couldn't help but to agree and laughed too. Peter glared at the two, knowing he could listen to someone tell about their life.

"But we all can't live a million years," Drax said.

"It was just a figure of speech Drax, thought you would get it by now," Rocket said.

"I am Groot," Groot said.

"Yeah I know his people take it seriously Groot we've been with this guy for over half a year now," he said, fiddling around with a strand of Lianna's red hair. The ramp went down and everyone got out of the ship. Lianna took Rocket off her shoulders and on to the ground.

"Hey why dont' we go to that bar over there," Rocket pointed to the bar with the neon lights. "I heard they have pretty good drinks and a great gamblin' game. What d'ya say Lianna?"

"Sounds like fun, let's go!" Lianna said. The two then rushed off to the bar.

"Well they're having fun already," Gamora said.

"And it's time for us to too," Peter put his arm around Gamora's shoulder, but she push his hand off and walked to the bar. "So much for trying," he said, and walked along with Drax and Groot into the crowded bar.

* * *

Everyone was just having a blast. Drax and Peter were gambling over who's animal would make it to the finish line without being eaten, Rocket and Lianna were having some drinks and telling each other jokes, and Gamora and Groot were out on the balcony looking at the scenery of Knowhere.

"And then I said to the guy 'If you can't laid by anyone then why not your mother! I mean how do you think you got here in the first place!'" Rocket laughed. Lianna laughed and tried to sip from her drink without spilling it.

"Oh my god you really said that!" she giggled.

"Yup, and you should've seen his face when I said it!" Rocket pounded his fist off the counter and laughed like a maniac. Lianna's laughs slowly faded into giggles when she remembered some important matters.

She cleared her throat and said "So Rocket, how've you been over the years?"

"Oh just fine, Groots been wantin' to tell you somethin' but he knows you would be able to understand him," Rocket said a little drunkenly. "Now if you'd excuse me I'll be tryin' to get some extra money off Peter by beating him in his bets," Rocket slowly slid off the bar stool with his drink and walked over to Peter.

Lianna smiled and drank from her glass. She looked up at the clock and realized something.

"Shit," Lianna quickly jumped out of her seat and went outside. She looked around and saw an alley. She checked to see if anyone of her friends were watching. She didn't see Groot or Gamora, but she saw Rocket with the other too, smiling and laughing away. Lianna smiled, glad to se him in a good mood. She ran down the ally and to the dead-end.

"You made it," a mysterious voice said. Lianna turned around and saw a tall, skinny man with four arms, wearing a big drench coat, fedora, and a scarf around his neck.

"Did you bring what you promised," the tall man asked. Lianna reached into her satchel and pulled out a bottle. "Aaah, Langarian blood," the man got closer to her, her heart beating twice as fast.

"A-And where's my promise," Lianna stuttered. The man reached into his coat and pulled a small, long box with one arm and a small bag with another.

"Your units, and 'gift'," the man slyly said. Lianna timidly reached out and snatched them from his hands. She slid the box and money into her satchel.

"T-Thank you, but I think I need to be going no-"

"Why in a hurry Lianna?" The man got closer to her. "I thought we could talk a little, or maybe, I don't know, do some pleasuring," Lianna could see the wild, green grin on his face. Her brain started yelling "GET OUT OF THERE!" when the man quickly pinned her arms and legs against the wall. Lianna struggled under his hands trying to slip out of the man's grip.

"Calm down my darling this will only take a few seconds," he chuckled darkly and moved his face closer. He plants small kisses on jaw line to her neck. She could feel her body warming up already. He moved the fabric on her shoulder down, making her burn now.

"Why don't you scream for me," he whispered into her ear. And just then, he sank his sharp teeth into her shoulder. She wanted to hold it in but she couldn't.

"AAH!" she screamed. He removed his teeth from her shoulder, blood dripping from each tooth and slowly sliding down from her wound. Lianna gritted her teeth as pain traveled all around her shoulder.

"Ah~, music to my ears," the man slid his tongue across his teeth, licking up the tasty Langarian blood.

"And now on to 'bigger' matters," he chuckled. He softly murmured something under his breath.

"I know you'll love this Lianna," the man moved his hips closer to her. Lianna knew she couldn't escape this horror, and saw she was in deeper trouble when she looked down. She could see his bugle pressing against the fabric of the drench coat.

But suddenly a black figure taller than the man appeared behind him. The man noticed the shadow and looked around.

"U-Uh," he stuttered in fear. The black figure reach for the man and flung him out of the alley with extreme strength. Lianna looked at the man and then the black figure. The figure's legs shrank down only slightly. Lianna backed off the wall and saw who it was now.

"Groot?" she timidly said.

"I am Groot," Groot said. Lianna smiled and rushed to hug him, but the pain started surging again on her shoulder. She winced and released Groot. He gazed at her wound thoughtfully.

"I am Groot?" he asked.

"U-Um... what?" Lianna still didn't know what he was saying.

Groot held out his hand and a leaf appeared. He plucked the leaf off and handed it to her.

"What do you want me to do with this?" she asked. Groot motioned to his mouth. "Huh?" she still didn't know what he meant. Groot then grew another leaf. He pointed to the one in her hand, and eat the leaf he had.

"Oh ok," Lianna put the leaf in her mouth and chewed it. She didn't really like the taste, but she thought it might help her understand him. She finished and she felt her body tingle a little.

"Can you hear me?" a voice said. Lianna looked around and didn't see anyone.

The voice chuckled. "Lianna, it's me! Groot!" Lianna gasped and smiled at him.

"I... I can hear you!" she giggled in excitement. "Now I can finally understand you! This is so amazing!"

"Ha ha ok, calm down Lianna," Groot grabbed hold of her better shoulder.

"But wait, how is this happening though?" she asked.

"When you ate the leaf, it dissolved and spreaded through your body, letting you hear my voice in a different frequency,"

"Will I still be able to hear the others?"

"Yes, no interruption between your normal hearing," Lianna smiled again at him. "Now could I ask you the question I said earlier?"

"Yeah, what was it,"

"Are you ok? I heard you scream from inside the bar and came to find you,"

"I-I'm kinda ok, other than that man bit into my shoulder," Lianna rubbed her shoulder and winced again from the pain. Groot got close it and inspected it.

"This should help it," Groot grew a big leaf the put it against the wound. "Your gonna have to take the top of your suit off for me to do this," Lianna nodded and pulled down on the zipper. A white tank top was underneath and she tied the top part around her waist. Then Groot took the leaf off his and wrap the stem under her arm a couple of times.

"Thanks Groot," Lianna hugged Groot again.

"Glad to help," Groot said, patting her head. "I think we better get back to the others," he said. She nodded and they walked out of the alley, stepping over the unconscious man.

"Groot! Where wer-" Gamora saw Lianna with Groot holding on to her shoulder. "What happened!" Gamora rushed over to her and inspected under the leaf. She was silent when she saw the bite. "Who did this," she solemnly said.

Just then a glass shattering sound came from the bar and they heard Peter and Rocket.

"Oh no not again," Gamora rushed inside. Worry quickly washed over Lianna's face and she ran in too. She could see everyone circling in on the both of them.

"You take back what you said bastard!" Rocket yelled. Lianna pushed through the crowd and into the clearing where Rocket was holding his giant plasma canon gun, pointing it to Peter.

"No! You're a filthy, cheating, rat!" Peter yelled back. He was being held back by Drax and Gamora.

"Why you little!" Rocket was about to shoot when Lianna quickly snatched the gun out of his hand.

"What the fuck are you doing Rocket!" Lianna yelled.

"Look, I don't need your help. I can take care of this bag of shit all by myself!" Rocket said facing her. She was able to tell he had too many drinks.

"No Rocket you need to fuckin' calm down," she yelled.

"Fuckin' bitch I DON'T NEED YOU!" The room went silent.

"What," Lianna couldn't him.

"You heard me! I was completely fine until I saw you again," Lianna dropped the gun. Her body stiff with sadness and anger. "I don't need you and I don't want you!" Lianna backed up with disagreement.

"You couldn't last a day without having me leave again!" she yelled back.

But strangly, the crowd started looking at Lianna. The others looked at what they were staring at, and shocked to what they were seeing.

Lianna's irises were flickering from blue, to purple.

"I fuckin' left my father without him knowing to fuckin' save your ass, you little bastard!" Her irises went completely purple.

"I didn't need my ass saved, I could've saved my own ass!" Rocket yelled. Lianna growled and her irises started flickering red. Her body slowly growing.

"You wouldn't know what I went through while you just hid away in my cell, you were a coward!" Lianna's growls grew deeper. Her nails grew long.

"And when you first left me alone in the city, oh, that was _soooo_ nice of you to do!" The redness in her irises started to spread all around her eyes.

"You were just dead weight on my shoulders when you stalled away on the ship. You couldn't even care for yourself! All you did was baby me like I was a helpless creature, you even still did it when we met again!" Lianna was slowly stalking backwards, heading towards the balcony.

"I always thought you would grow up after you left me, but all I see is the same stupid child I was before," Lianna leaned against the metal fencing and covered her face with her hands.

"And remember that one night, just before we both went to sleep after another shitty day, when I said I loved you for caring for me?" Lianna's body stopped fidgeting and twitching. She peaked between her hands, showing a complete red eye. Everyone gasp to the sight of it.

"Y-Y-Yeah...?" the word slipped timidly out of her mouth.

"I NEVER LOVED YOU!" Rocket yelled at the top of his lungs.

Everyone was silent, waiting for Lianna's answer. But she was frozen stiff, not a single muscle moved.

But suddenly, a horrifying cry came from her, and she fell over the balcony.

Everyone loudly gasped. Gamora and Groot ran over to the balcony, Gamora almost screaming her name. Drax rushed over to look for her too. Peter silently walked over to Rocket.

"Look what you've done Rocket... look what you've done!" Peter yelled. "You just sent her over the side of a balcony because of your drunken, bitching ass!" Peter punched Rocket square in the face, knocking him over.

"Peter!" Gamora yelled. She rushed over and held him back. Rocket moaned and sat up.

"What...happen?" Rocket said. Peter was about to answer his question when the sounds of destruction and terror filled the air. Rocket rushed over to the balcony to see what it was.

There was a gigantic, grey-skinned, woman with red hair and complete red eyes terrorizing Knowhere. But when the giant turned her head. Rocket almost lost it.

"Lianna?"

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	3. Memories

"What happened!?" Rocket yelled.

"You don't fucking remember?" Peter said.

"Remember? Why would I need t-," realization quickly fell upon him. "Oh on, oh no! Please don't tell me I got angry drunk and she got in the way of the fight," shame fell upon Peter and Gamora's faces and they looked away.

"Oh god," Rocket leaned against the balcony railing, guilt and grief clouding his head. "What did I say, what did I say that made her snap and break?"

"I am Groot_(You yelled I never loved you at her)_," Groot said.

Rocket's face filled with horror and sadness. He placed his hands on his face, and quietly shed a few tears. _I yelled I never loved you? What have I done! I should've NEVER had those shots!_ Rocket immediately jumped up and ran out of the bar. The others quickly ran after him.

"What are you doing!" Drax yelled.

"The only choice I can do," Rocket rushed up the ramp and to his room.

Gamora's face filled with utter shock and said "Rocket, you don't mean-"

"No! Of course I'm not gonna killed her you twit!" Rocket was rushing to load the large gun he made. "I have to tranquillize her, and she'll fall asleep returning to her normal form," he grabbed a dart and loaded it in the barrel. "But I only have one shot to do it, so I need you guys to distract her while I make the shot,"

The others nodded. They started down the ramp again when Rocket called for Drax.

"I need you with me," he said, "I need to stand on something high and sturdy so you'll do the job,"

"I will not be your step stool little beast," Drax sternly said. A loud crash shook the ship. "Fine," he muttered. Rocket quickly climbed up his back and they ran outside.

"Go to the top of that building, it'll give me a good shot of her leg," Rocket said, clinging to the wild man he regretted asking for help.

Drax stopped in front of the building and said "How will I get up there?"

"Uh, I don't know grow a pair of wings!"

"But-"

"Metaphor, it was a metaphor!" Rocket sighed and looked around. "Your gonna hafta walk up there from what I see,"

"Or I could climb!" Drax said, and started to cling on to the wall. Rocket hung on to the gun and Drax with a tighter grip.

"Hurry up Rocket!" Gamora yelled. She was going around Lianna's giant feet and trying to tie them together, but they kept breaking.

"Hey Lianna!" Peter yelled at her. She looked down at him with an angry look.

"Have you ever saw this!" Peter began to prance around like a little kid.

"What the hell?" Lianna said, her voice sounding deep and demonic.

"Peter what the hell are you doing?" Gamora said, trying to tie Lianna's feet again.

"I'm dancing!" he said. Gamora had no idea what the hell he was dancing for, but it seemed to distract Lianna very much.

"Just keep doin' that Peter!" Rocket yelled to him.

Drax finally made it to the top of the building and putted Rocket on the ground.

"Ok, I only have one dart like I said earlier, so I CAN'T miss this," Rocket rested the gun on top of the buildings roof border. He synchronized the target on to her leg and readier to pull the trigger, but something was holding him back.

Rocket looked at Lianna in her monstrous form. All he saw was his original friend, beautiful blue eyes, long, silky, red hair, her pretty smile. _I can't_, Rocket thought. _I can't shot her, not even with a tranquilizer!_

"Oh give me it!" Drax snatched the gun out of his hands and steadied it on her leg.

"What're you doing!" Rocket exclaimed, tugging on Drax's pant.

"Shooting her myself," The word 'shooting' put horror into his mind. _HE'S GONNA SHOOT HER!_ Rocket began to wildly reach for the gun. He heard the gun click. _HE'S ABOUT TO SHOOT!_

"LIANNA! RUN!" Rocket yelled to her. She turned around to look at him when Drax pulled on the trigger, quickly releasing the dart.

"Ow," Lianna plainly said. The dart hit her on the front of her right thigh. The injection quickly surged through her body. Her eye's began to stutter close. She began to yawn and sway slightly.

"Drax you idiot!" Rocket yelled. He ran to the edge and jumped building to building. He looked up at Lianna, her body was slowly shrinking. But he jumped too short for the building in front of him and fell into a dumpster.

"Ah yuck!" he said, wiping off the trash on himself. He jumped out of the dumpster and quickly ran to Lianna. Her swaying started to move her feet, but he saw her feet tied together.

"Who tied her feet together!" Rocket yelled. Peter pointed to Gamora.

"What else was I supposed to do! Peter was prancing around like an idiot!" Gamora said.

"Well it distracted her so you're welcome!" Peter said.

"No you idiots! By tying her feet together she'll-!" The ground shook like a giant earthquake. Rocket ran towards Gamora and Peter and cling to Gamora's leg. The whole city was screaming in fear. Rocket looked up and saw Lianna falling down. _These stupid idiots, she's gonna hurt herself!_

A loud boom surrounded the place. A dust cloud form and covered the area in front of them. When the air cleared, there was Groot, holding up Lianna's back.

"I am Groot_(I caught her)_," Groot said.

Rocket rushed over to her sleepy form, her body still shrinking.

"Did it work?" Drax asked, joining the others as they surround Lianna.

"You fuckin' shot her!" Rocket yelled at him.

"I thought that was the plan? Gamora said.

"No! The plan wasn't to kill her you idiots!" A few tears rolling down Rocket's cheeks.

"But, you loaded a tranquilizer, right?" Peter said. Rocket held in his tears, and laid his head down on Lianna. Gamora took the dart that was in Lianna's thigh and read the label.

"Rocket your overreacting, it's a tranquilizer," Gamora said, showing him the label. Rocket lifted his head and looked at it. He took it into his hands, and realized how much he cared for her if he panic over her being shot by a tranquilizer, or it was because Drax did it.

Suddenly a giant, white ship was coming into Knowhere. Rocket looked at the ship and fear flooded his body.

"Everybody! On the ship! Now!" Rocket ordered. "Groot, pick up Lianna! Hurry!" He ran over to the ship and lowered the ramp.

"Why in a hurry Rocket?" Peter asked.

"You see that ship," Rocket pointed out in the sky, "Those are our enemies, so lets move!" Everyone obeyed Rocket and he closed up the ramp.

"Peter, start this thing up and go!" he said. Groot laid Lianna down on the table in the kitchenette. Rocket went over to make sure she wasn't injured. He was shock and mad when he found the bite mark on her shoulder. _Who ever did this to her I will KILL THEM!_ Rocket thought.

The Milano lifted off and headed toward the exit. Rocket looked at the white ship and he saw he was right. _'Xandarian Science Control', just as I thought_.

"Rocket where do we go?" Gamora asked.

"Yeah like Xandar? Langara? Somewhere where there's booze?" Peter said. Gamora shot a glare at him. "Ok, check 'Somewhere where there's booze' off the list,"

"Deep space," Rocket said. "They probably saw us takin' Lianna on the ship, so we need to just float around in space until we think of somethin'," Peter nodded and flew far out into the black depths of space.

Lianna's body twitched to life and she moaned. Rocket rushed over to her.

"Are you ok Lianna?" Rocket asked. Lianna slowly nodded and closed her eyes.

"Groot, take Lianna to my room," Rocket said, "I need to check on some things on her health," Groot nodded and carefully pick her up.

"Keep the ship steady and stable Peter," he said. Peter nodded and Rocket went after Groot.

Groot carefully laid her down on Rocket's bed and covered her up. Rocket went over to his desk and grabbed a wristband device.

"I am Groot?_(What's that for?)_," Groot asked.

"It's to tell her heartbeat with no hassle of needles, IV's, and heart monitors," Rocket strapped on the wristband to her arm. "Pretty smart and neat huh?"

"I am Groot_(Indeed it is Rocket)_," Groot said. Rocket smiled at him and turned on the device. He was relieved her heartbeat was at a steady pace. Rocket went back over to the desk and grabbed another invention of his.

"I am Groot?_(Now what does that one do?)_," he asked.

"It's a memory scanner," Rocket said, putting two metal circles on Lianna's forehead. "I'll be able to see what all happened when I was drunk," He turned on the devices and a holographic screen appeared in front of him.

"I am Groot_(I don't know if you want to do that Rocket. You might see something a bit too personal of her's)_," Groot said worriedly.

"Don't worry, it'll show me a warning sign when I'm about to run into something like that," Rocket was scrolling through her memories already.

"I am Groot_(Well I'm not being here when you do. If you need me, I'll be with the others)_," he said, standing in Rocket's doorway.

"Yeah, ok," Groot slightly frowned and walked off.

Rocket rapidly scrolled through the memory slots of all the days of her life. It was probably half an hour later when he finally found the current memories. He found one that showed her ready to punch someone, then realized it was only happened four days ago.

He was happy to see her again when they met.

~~Flashback~~

Everyone was just outside the Marconian bar, where a criminal was inside. The guys thought they could get some extra units by taking him in.

"On the count of three," Peter said. "One... two... three-!"

Just then the criminal flew out of the bar door. He was covered in bruises and had a black and blue eye. He scrambled up to his feet and ran for it. But a long arm quickly reached out and grabbed him, dragging him back into the bar.

The man was whimpering at first, but the dragging picked up pace and he started screaming. Everyone was terrified. Rocket quickly climbed up Groot and hung on to the side of his face, sadly remembering the lab.

As soon as the screaming man got pulled into the bar, the sound of wood breaking filled the air; Now and then a metal ping joining in.

Peter carefully pushed open the door, allowing everyone to see.

There was a women, surprisingly taller than Peter, who was beating up the man. She had long, red hair and blue eyes. She wore a suit that had the combination of Gamora and Rocket's; It was black and purple with two holsters on the side. The sleeves reached her elbows and the pant legs reached her ankles from inside the boots.

She took another shot at the man's face, some blood covering her fingerless gloves. She stood the man up and brushed the wood off him, but striked him with a thundering punch soon after.

She stretched her arm over to him and dragged the half unconscious man back over, using her other arm to pick up a skinny man who was hiding behind the bar counter.

"Say sorry to Mr. Wilkins?" she said to the man. He just growled at the skinny man. She kick him in the gut, him moaning out an apology.

"Good," she said to him. "Cause your going in for money," She grabbed a scarf that was on the ground and tied the criminal's hands together.

"And you say sorry for bein' so damn skinny!" she to Mr. Wilkins, his face filled with shock. "I'm kiddin', I'm kiddin'," Mr. Wilkins calmed down, giving a meek smile.

"Here, take this," she stretched over to her brown satchel and pulled out a green pill. "This should fix you up," She smiled, and gave him the pill.

"T-Thank you ma'am," he stuttered out, "But was it reasonable to beat him up?"

"Well of course! He's a wanted man," She lifted the criminal into the air and pointed to him.

"Well then I'll be on my way now," and Wilkins went out the back door. The woman hoisted the criminal on to her back when she heard someone. She wiped her gun to the man behind her, who was Peter.

"Fuck! I got witnesses!" She quickly shoved the gun back and ran for the back door.

"Wait!" a voice called out. The woman listened and stopped. _That voice sounds familiar_, she thought.

"Don't leave," and suddenly it hit her. She dropped the man, making him groan, and she turned around.

"R-Rocket?" she asked.

"Lianna!" Rocket's face quickly shined with joy.

"Rocket! It is you!" Lianna ran toward him and lunged at him, hugging him tightly as she laid on the floor.

"I am Groot!" Groot said happily.

"Groot!" she got up holding Rocket as she went to hug Groot too. "Aw man, I can't believe it!" Lianna was giggling with joy.

"Rocket, who's this?" Gamora asked.

"Oh, um," Rocket stopped hugging Lianna's neck and turned around, "Guys, this is Lianna Argo. My old friend," Rocket smiled at Lianna, her returning one back joyfully.

~~Flashforward~~

Rocket smiled when he remembered that.

He just scrolled past the three other days and came upon the memories of today. He tapped on it and it showed twenty-four slots(one for each hour). He scanned through the slots and came upon a mysterious slot right before the bar fight.

"Where was she before the fight?" Rocket questioned. He clicked on it and it played.

It showed her walking down an alley to a dead-end. Then the mysterious man appeared behind her.

As the memory continued to play, questions were popping into his head. _Why is she with that man? Why is she so scared of him. Why did she give him the Langarian blood? What's in that box he gave him?_ And as the memory continued on to play, Rocket's face filled with horror, anger, and blush.

The memory ended with Groot tying a leaf to Lianna's shoulder. Rocket looked over to Lianna, and the bite in her shoulder.

"I'll get back at him Lianna, I'll make him pay," Rocket whispered to her. He removed the memory scanners from her forehead and back to his desk. He covered her up with the comforter and tucked her in. He quickly looked all around the room incase someone was in here, and no one was.

So Rocket did the one thing he's been dying to do; he leaned over the bed, and gently laid a kiss on her forehead.

He smiled and said "Sweet dreams my love,"

**I know what your all thinking right now: HE FINALLY SHOWS HIS FEELS FOR HER!**

**I'd like to apologize for the late update. I got a little busy with stuff and crap. BUT! I will be trying to update the story in a 1-2 day radius! But when school come around, it will take a while.**

**Also, I would like to thank again all the people following, faving, and reviewing the story!**

**Will not let you down! - xXFangirl311Xx**


	4. Visiting

It was morning now. Rocket said the injection should be wearing off soon. Everyone thought Rocket was a little off focus after coming out the room last night; He kept staring at random things now and then, and he couldn't stop remembering the kiss he laid on her head. Everyone was out in the kitchenette discussing where to hide until they heard a door sliding open.

It was Lianna, wearing a big, light blue shirt and long, baggy, blue pants, rubbing her eyes open.

"Lianna! You're awake!" Rocket jumped out of his seat and ran over to Lianna to hug her leg.

"Well good morning," she giggled. Everyone was surprised by Rocket's action and sudden mood change. Lianna rubbed Rocket's head and he smiled at her. He let go of her leg and followed her over to the table, where he sat right beside her.

"So what are we discussin' now?" Lianna said a little tiredly.

"On somewhere to hide," Peter pointed on the screen.

"Why?" she asked. She knew she missed a lot after passing out.

"They found us Lianna," Rocket said, looking like he clutched her shirt when he said that. Her faced filled with shock and slight horror, but soon settled into a determined look.

"Then there's only one place they will not look at for us," Lianna got up and zoomed through the selections of planets.

"And what's that?" Drax asked.

"Earth," Lianna tapped on the Earth icon and it zoomed in for a full view. "Earth is the only planet with living species that haven't invented the spaceship yet,"

"But they have," Peter said.

"Not one that can be bought, easily usable, and can travel far through space to visit other planets," she pointed out. "Anyone who didn't come from earth wouldn't last a day without having anything high-tech or voice command, also with the unknown species of animals that could be possibly dangerous to them," Rocket just loved it when she started talking about science or technical stuff.

"Sounds like a pretty good plan to me," Gamora agreed.

"I also agree," Drax said.

"I am Groot!_(Me too!)_," Groot said.

"Besides, we could have Rocket be a bodyguard," Lianna said ruffling the fur on Rocket's head.

"Uh, what?" Peter chuckled a little, not believing her idea of Rocket being a 'bodyguard'.

"I'll show you," Lianna grabbed a can of whip cream from the fridge and went over to Rocket. "Just pull down the top of suit," she said to him. He blushed from her command, but did it. He pulled down in the zipper and took off shoulder straps, pushing them down. Lianna then put a finger on her lips, telling him to open his mouth, making him blush even more. She lined whip cream around the front of his teeth and closed his mouth.

"Whala! Raccoon with rabies!" Lianna gestured her hands like she was presenting something, or someone. Peter snickered at Rocket at how ridiculous he looked. Rocket growled at him and jumped on to the table.

"AH! RABIES!" Peter screamed, jumping back. Everyone laughed and giggled at him sounding like a girl. "Ok that's NOT funny!" Peter said. Rocket chuckled and licked the whip cream off. Lianna couldn't help but to laugh too.

And that was it. Rocket made Lianna laugh. Not like all the other times he did, but made her laugh a genuine laugh. He laid his head in his hands and watched Lianna as her laughs faded into giggles.

"Ok, he can be it," Peter said, regretting it. "But you have a flaw in your plan,"

"A flaw?" Lianna questioned. Rocket's fur spiked up when he heard that. _Since when did she ever have a flaw! She's flaw-less! Heh heh, you see what I did there. Flaw-less. Heh, she's both ways._

"You ok Rocket?" Peter asked. Rocket looked over and ran his hand over head, smoothing out his fur.

"Yeah I'm fine, just caught a chill," Rocket tried to hide the anger in his voice.

"Well you can pull your suit back now," Lianna patted Rocket's back, and his mind went racing with love. "And Peter, I already had a place in mind. Somewhere that I think is the most awesome view in Pennsylvania," Lianna typed in the coordinates and the screen began to zoom in on it.

"What's Pennsylvania?" Drax asked.

"Oh it's the state I live in," she said. "And the place isn't far away from the city, or my father," Lianna smiled to herself.

"Then what're we waitin' for!" Rocket said. "Steer us there Peter!" Lianna smiled and sat by Rocket, putting her arm around his shoulder to bring him closer. _Ooooh yeaaah_.

* * *

Peter carefully landed the Milano in the forest. The ramp came down and everyone gazed upon the scenery. Lianna couldn't but to smile when she saw Groot trying to socialize with a pine tree.

"The thing ain't got lips Groot," Rocket said, following behind Lianna like some loyal dog.

Then suddenly Rocket yelped in pain. Lianna whipped her head around and saw him hopping on one foot. She looked at the ground and saw thorn bush vines.

"You ok Rocket?" Lianna said, picking up Rocket.

"Ow, I-I stepped on somethin' sharp," he grunted. "You got knives in the ground here or somethin'?" Lianna just smiled and showed Rocket his foot.

"It's because you stepped on a thorn," she pointed to the object sticking out of his foot. "They're sharp because that's how it protects itself,"

"Well then curse those lousy-OW!" Lianna quickly pulled the thorn out of his foot, blood slowly seeping out. "What was that for! If their like knives you don't pull it out when your injected by it, it hurts more!"

"First of all, if it was like a knife, you would've already lost you foot," Lianna grabbed a band-aid from her jacket pocket and peeled the plastic off, "And second, you need to take the throne out before you get infected," she pressed the band-aid padding against the cut and the pressed the sticky part down.

Rocket wiggled his foot, amazed how the pain wasn't continuously surging through his foot. But when Rocket hopped out of Lianna's arms, the pain shot through his foot when he hit ground.

"It would be best if you stayed off it for a while bud," Lianna said, hoisting Rocket on to her shoulders. Rocket felt himself just melt away went she did that. He laid his head down to sniff her hair. _Mmmmm, smells like vanilla~_ Rocket couldn't help but to rub his face in her hair.

Lianna giggled at him, thinking he was being goofy. "Just follow me guys, the path leaves the forest and right to my house, nowhere else," Lianna said. Drax glared at the thorn bush. Peter had to get him to move along, trying to show him it isn't alive.

The path finally came to a clearing. Lianna smiled to the sight of her house, still standing and looking nice. She put Rocket back on the ground and ran over to the door.

"Hello, is anyone there?" Lianna knocked on the door. The others caught up with her and the door slowly opened.

"Who's there," the voice sounded a little old, but was still strong.

"I-It's me," she said. The door soon opened up. A man as tall as Peter stood in the doorway. He had dark brown hair with a stubble beard. He was wearing a red plaid shirt and dirty jeans with tan boots.

"Lianna?" the man said. They both stared at each other, examining every inch of their faces.

"Daddy?" Lianna said, feeling like she would tear up soon.

"Lianna!" her father quickly reached out and hugged her. "Oh I missed you so much honey,"

"I know dad, I did too," Lianna swore she shed a couple of tears.

"Oh, and who are they?" he stopped hugging her and looked at the others.

"Oh, these are my friends," she said. "This is Peter, Gamora, Drax, Groot, and Rocket," she pointed out.

"Well it's nice to meet you all," Lianna's father said, shaking hands with everyone.

"Aren't you scared of us?" Gamora asked.

"Why should I?" They all looked at each other confused. "Oh I see, just because I'm from Earth doesn't mean I don't know about the other people in space. I had some fun when I first met my wife, Lela," he chuckled.

"How you guys explore a little," Lianna said to them. "I just wanna talk to my dad for a little," They all nodded and went to look around the yard. But Peter felt a tug on his arm. "Keep an eye them, please?" she whispered to him.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure they don't destroy anything," Peter said confidently. A sudden thud came from behind, and it was Drax, who tripped from a butterfly coming close to him. Peter sighed and went over to help. Lianna and her father chuckled, but Lianna soon closed the door and sat down on the brown couch by the window.

"Is something wrong dear?" her father sat down by her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

"It's just... remember when I left on that ship," she asked.

"Yeah, I still kept the note you wrote me," he pulled out the neatly folded note from his shirt pocket.

"Well... half of it was a lie," her father looked at her confused. "I didn't sneak on a ship to find mom, I sneaked on to a ship because of him," Lianna looked out the window and watched Rocket as he investigated the deer feeder.

He father looked her way and said "You talking about the raccoon?"

"Yeah, Rocket," sadness seemed to cloud her blue eyes.

"Well what about Rocket?" her father got closer to her, comforting his only daughter at what was mysteriously haunting her mind.

"I snuck on to the ship because I saw them taking him, you know, before he turned cybernetic," her father nodded and she continued.

"Well after I snuck on, I found out he was tortured in so many painful ways. He was torn apart and rebuilt about five times and I saw it all. I didn't why, but I felt like I should've stayed home, but my mind told me no, and to help him. Do you think I did the right thing? To leave my home and father to care for a poor, hurt creature?" Lianna felt a couple of tears sliding down her cheek, but felt her father's rough knuckles wipe them away.

"It was the right thing to do, Lianna," he said. "You were getting a bit too old to be held home forever when you're meant to be out in the universe and meet people. When I first found out you left, I thought to myself that I lost my little girl, but then it hit; I didn't lose my little girl, she grew up and explored the universe like her beautiful mother,"

"Really?" Lianna sniffled.

"Yes, and just like your mother, you saw someone in need, and helped them," her father said. Lianna smiled at him and hugged him.

"Thanks dad," she said, and felt him stroking her hair. Lianna broke the hug and got up. "Well, I think I better go round-up the sheep and find somethin' for us to eat,"

"I could always give you some ramen noodles," he said moving to the kitchen.

"Ok, then let me see. Gamora, one. Peter, one. Rocket, one. Drax, two. Groot, three,

"Why don't you just take both boxes," he stood in the kitchen hallway holding two twenty-four pack boxes. Lianna smiled and took the boxes.

"Again, thanks dad," she kissed his cheek and went to open the door. "Oh, and just to tell you, we might be stayin' here for a while. That won't bother you, right?"

"No no, darling. You can stay as long as you need,"

Lianna smiled and said "Thanks," again. She left the house and went over to the picnic bench in the yard. She set down the boxes and looked around.

Peter looked like he was teaching Gamora, Drax, and Groot about what a butterfly was. Lianna giggled, but then it hit her. _Where's Rocket?_ she thought. _Wouldn't he be in on it? Oh wait, he probably already knows some things about Earth_. And then he finally came into sight.

He was walking out of the forest scratching all over his arms. He caught a glance of Lianna and quickly went over to her.

"Um Lianna," Rocket said, "I touched some leaf and suddenly I'm all itchy,"

"Then that was probable poison ivy," Lianna said, pointing to the leaf stuck to his suit.

"What's poison ivy?" he asked, still scratching himself.

"It's another plant with a protection strategy. If you touch it, it causes a reaction to skin,"

"Well is there some way to stop it?"

"By applying and reapplying itch relief. Go inside and ask my dad for some; he'll gladly give you some," Rocket nodded and went into the house, and as for Lianna, she went to grab a couple of pots from the ship.

"Mr. Argo!" Rocket called. "Lianna said you had some 'itch relief' stuff that I could use,"

"Poison ivy?" Mr. Argo asked.

"Yeah, who knew a little leaf could make you so itchy," Rocket seated himself on the couch and tried resisting to itch. Mr. Argo came back in with a tube of itch cream.

"You'll have to lather it in your fur like shampoo," he said.

"Thanks," Rocket said, and squeezed a handful of cream on to his padded hands. He started lathering the cream into his fur when he heard a metal rattle from outside. He looked out the window and saw Lianna putting two pot over a wide fire.

"Watchin' my daughter, aren't ya," Rocket jumped to the sound of Mr. Argo's voice.

"W-What?! N-No, I was... um," Rocket blushed and tried to explain.

"You like her, don't 'cha?" Mr. Argo sat down beside Rocket, who was blushing more because that was the truth.

He sighed and decided to just tell him. "Ok, I do like Lianna, but is it wrong for a cybernetic creature like me to love a beautiful girl like her?"

"Boy, if there's one thing to know about my dear Lianna, is that she's not for some ordinary, earthly joe,"

"Really?"

"Sure thing. She's like her mother, wants to meet someone different from the rest,"

"So would I have a chance?"

"Boy, you would hit jackpot if you got for it. I'm pretty sure she likes you too," Rocket's face lit up with joy.

"Thanks Mr. Argo," he said, sliding off the couch and towards the door.

"Please, call me Henry," Henry said. Rocket smiled and opened the door.

"Wait a minute Rocket," Henry called. He tossed the itch cream to Rocket and said "Keep it,"

"Thanks, Henry," Rocket was about to closed the door when he forgot something.

"Hey Henry," he said.

"Yeah?"

"How'd you I like Lianna?"

Henry chuckled and said "The Argo family have been known to be sympathetic to others, probably the reason Lianna cares about you,"

Rocket smiled and closed the door, walking over to the picnic table to see Lianna.

"Boy will make a fine man for my girl," Henry said, watching Rocket help Lianna with the noodles.

**Phew! Chapter four really brought out Rocket and Lianna's feelings.**

**I wanted to cram in a lovey scene between the both of them, but I guess Rocket helping Lianna with supper is still cute 'n' romantic.**

**Continue to read! -xXFangirlXx**


	5. Camping Out

It was getting dark now. Everyone loved the ramen noodles, especially Drax; he said it was something he never tasted before, and because it was chicken flavored.

Lianna thought of just camping out outside, but some of the others questioned that.

"Why 'camp out' when you have a ship to sleep in?" Gamora asked, following Lianna and others to a hill.

"Because it's fun to sleep under the beautiful night sky," Lianna said.

"I am Groot_(I think it would be nice to sleep under the stars, Lianna)_," Groot agreed. He caught a glimpse of a firefly and reached out to touch it.

"I think it's nice too, Lianna," Rocket agreed too. He thought if he tried doing the same things she was doing he would have a better chance when he asked her something special.

"Well I'm glad two people like the idea," she said, reaching a tree on the hill. "Because there's another reason I wanted to camp out here," She pointed to the cluster of lights far from the hill. Everyone looked in awe of the sight.

"What is it?" Drax asked, fantasized by the sight of the lights.

"It's the view of my home town," Lianna said, seating herself against the tree. "I've always loved how the town and starry sky came together in one beautiful landscape,"

"Wow," Rocket said, amazed by the view. "Who knew Earth had some beautiful perks," Lianna giggled a little and grabbed Rocket around the waist, pulling him down to sit on her lap. Rocket blushed crazy, thinking for a moment his member came out of its sheath.

"We should just set up camp right here!" Peter said, patting the tree.

"I thought you would say that," Lianna smiled. She set Rocket aside and climbed up the tree.

"Be careful!" Rocket warned. Everyone looked at him weirdly. "What? Just keepin' her safe," he blushed. Suddenly a dome of red hair formed around everyone and the tree.

"Hey Groot! A little hand?" Lianna called. Groot nodded and sat against the red wall of hair. He stretched out his arms around the dome, spreading out branches to hold the dome together. Lianna then climbed back down, clapping the grime off her hands.

"Lianna!" Peter said amazed, "I think you over did yourself now,"

"Nope, this is," Lianna tugged down on her hair and four hammocks fell down, perfectly weaved in a criss-cross pattern.

"Wow!" Peter looked at one of red hammocks, feeling how soft and silky it was.

"Won't it pull on your hair and hurt your head by doing that?" Gamora asked, watching Peter goof around on the hammock.

"As long as I tie it off," she said. "When I tie my hair around somethin' , it takes all the stress for me," she made her hair close in on Peter, trapping him in. Peter panicked a little, until an opening formed, and he realized the hammock turned into a floating pod.

Peter was like a little child again. "Could you turn it into something squarish?" Peter asked. Lianna giggled and formed her hair. It almost looked like a square booth with the small counter.

"I can see he likes it in that childish way," Gamora said, paying no attention to him.

"Well all have a little childish side Gamora," Lianna put her hand on her back and showed her to her hammock. "And I can tell you like somethin' a little royal," Gamora's hammock formed a little roof and curtains hung from it.

"Go on, try it out!" Lianna gave Gamora a little push. Gamora looked at her, whose smile was saying 'I know you'll love it'. Gamora sighed and climbed into it. She was surprised how relaxing it felt. Lianna gave a soft giggled and went over to Drax.

"And I guess you want somethin'... tubular?" Lianna questioned. Drax nodded and was about to tell why, but Lianna already had it done and showed him before he could speak. "Get in and try it," she said.

"Get in and try what?" Drax said confused.

"The tube hammock silly," she smiled. Drax nodded and got in. Then there was only one person left to satisfy.

Rocket.

He was just sitting there by Groot, fiddled away with a strand of her hair from the wall. Lianna smiled and decided to go up the tree. Rocket caught glimpse of her foot disappearing up the tree. _I wonder what she's doin'_, Rocket thought. He got up and headed for the tree.

"I am Groot?_(Aren't you gonna go to sleep soon too?)_," Groot asked.

"Maybe later, but I promise you I'll sleep Groot," Rocket said, and started up the tree. Groot smiled to him, and released some of his glowing puffs to light up the dome a little.

Rocket finally made it to the top, but saw Lianna heading toward the house. He climbed to the edge of a branch and jumped off, sliding down the side of the dome and quietly following her.

Lianna carefully opened the door and snuck inside. She looked around for her father, and found him in no sight. She sighed in relief and quietly tip-toed to her room. Suddenly a door opened, and she rushed inside the room, carefully closing the door.

Rocket pushed the front door close and looked around for Lianna. He looked in the living room and the kitchen. Then he heard a little shuffling noise coming from the hall. He looked down the hallway and saw no one. He quietly crept down the hall until a door swung open and he saw a fabricy monster. It stepped on his tail and he yelp. He pulled his tail out from under the monster's foot and it fell with a soft 'thump'.

"Ow," the monster had a very familiar voice until it hit him.

"Lianna?" Rocket went over to the pile of blankets and comforters and moved a blanket off her face. Her face filled with confusion when she saw Rocket.

"Rocket?" she said, sitting up and setting aside the blankets and comforters. "Wait, if your here, and I heard a squeal..." It took a couple of seconds for it to sink in that she stepped on Rocket's tail. Rocket's face was quickly planted on to her chest, his mind screaming 'BOOBIES' and 'BONER ALERT'.

"I am SO sorry about that, Rocket. I was just getting blankets for everyone and I didn't see you there, and I'm SOO sorry," she sounded like she was begging mercy for her life to be spared.

"Wow wow, Lianna, calm down," Rocket pushed his face out of her breasts and looked her in the eye, seeing she was slightly tearing up. "It was just an accident, it happened many times to me before," He reached out to her face and wiped a tear away. Her face flooded with pink and she quickly broke eye contact.

"Y-Yeah," she sat Rocket up and fixed herself to sit on her legs. "I-I guess I-I kinda overreacted from that," She soon got up and grabbed the bundle of blankets. "But I'm still doin' a favor for you because of that," Lianna picked up Rocket with her hair and sat him down on the blanket bundle. "Shot gun on the walk back," she smiled and walked over to the door, using her hair to turn knob.

"You know I could've done that for you," Rocket said, as she closed the door.

"Well I'm still doin' your favoring, so don't ruin it too quick bub," Lianna giggled. He chuckled slightly and looked up at the sky, remembering the old times, but some of the old times were also bad times that he never wanted to remember again.

"You ok Rocket?" Lianna's voice broke his focus and he looked at her.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he yawned.

She smiled and said "Let's get 'cha to bed," and stretched her legs to make her reach the top of the dome, shrinking them back to normal as she got inside. She put the bundle down by the tree and Rocket hopped off, yawning and rubbing his eyes.

"Why don't you get in the empty hammock over there," Lianna said, picking up some blankets some the pile.

"I-" he yawned loudly "-I guess so," Lianna smiled and he slowly made his way to the last hammock. It wasn't fancy like the others, but it was perfect for him.

Lianna watched Rocket as he attempt to get up in it with being half asleep. She quietly giggled and went to Peter first. She laid a brown blanket over him and stroked his head. She went over to Gamora and gave her a large, purple comforter, tucking her in like a little child. She gave Drax a large, pale blue blanket and rubbed his head. She looked over at Groot to find him asleep too. She smiled and gave him the big, black comforter, saving the softest one for her and Rocket. Rocket only had one foot on the hammock when Lianna came over. She smiled, knowing he was super tired, and helped him up.

"Thanks," he said tiredly. Lianna wiped the soft, tan blanket over him and went over to the other side of the hammock. She got under the blanket laid beside him like she always did back then.

"Aw man," Rocket said, kinda sounding drunk, "This is SO soft," he rubbed his face in the blanket, feeling the warmth from it. Lianna yawned and pulled him close to her, wrapping the blanket around the both of them. She swore he started purring afterwards, but she didn't mind; She thought it was cute. And as she closed her eyes, the night soon closed in around them, creating a peaceful, resting atmosphere.

The sunlight was shining through every crack of the dome, lighting it up like a lightbulb.

Lianna awoke first. She yawned and stretched her arms, finding Rocket facing her in his sleep. She softly smiled at him and scratched his head. He yawned and stretched out his arms, but what Lianna didn't expect was for him to knead her breasts.

He was doing the some motion as a cat would knead at something, but without the sharp claws. The process was slow and soft, making Lianna give off little hums of pleasure. _WHAT DA FUCK IS HE DOIN' ASDFGHJKL!_ Lianna was panicking and enjoying the kneading at the same time. _Wait! He's asleep! He's just trying to make himself comfortable like a cat, but then why my boobs!_

Rocket finally ceased the kneading. Lianna sighed with relief, but soon felt her body heat up. Rocket laid his head under her chin, his muzzle laying in the middle of her chest, breathing out warm, moist air. Lianna couldn't but let out a small moan of delight.

But suddenly she heard something. She froze up, listening to what it was. It was the sound of everyone stirring in their soon-to-end sleep.

Lianna carefully slipped out of the hammock, making sure she didn't disturb Rocket, and went over to Groot, who was still cozy and asleep.

"Groot, wake up Groot," she quietly said. Groot moan and slowly opened his eyes. "Sorry to wake ya up, but you came lose the grip if ya know what I mean," Groot gave a faint smile and yawned, his arms shrinking back as he stretched.

Lianna quickly went into action. She climbed up the tree and carefully began to lower the hammocks to lay everyone on the ground. Once everyone was out of the hammocks and laying on the grass with blankets wrapped around them, the hair untwisted their forms and shrank back into Lianna's head. She then shrank back the hair used for the dome, letting the rays of the sun wake up everyone.

Groot smiled to see his furry companion asleep. He walked over to the tree and helped Lianna down.

"Thanks Groot," she said, wiping the grime off on her suit.

"I am Groot_(You're welcome)_," Groot said. "I am Groot?_(By the way, how did you get Rocket to sleep again?)_,"

"To sleep again?" Lianna asked confused. "What do you mean by that?" she went to pick up the black comforter to fold it up.

"I am Groot_(He never really slept so much when you left)_," he said, grabbing the other two ends of the comforter.

"He barely slept? Without me?" Lianna realized how much he missed her.

"I am Groot_(Yeah, I couldn't even get him to fall asleep sometimes)_," Lianna just looked down in thoughtful silence, continuing to fold the comforter with Groot's help. When the comforter was folded into a neat square, Lianna laid it on the ground and sat on it, Groot joining her.

"C-Could... could he possibly 'like' me?" Groot's face filled curiosity and alarm from the question. "Because I've noticed him bein' a little clingy after the bar fight, and sadly I still remember it all,"

"I am Groot?_(Why is that?)_," Groot asked, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Langarians have to remember everything; The forms of other planetary lifeforms, all language universal wide, and our lives since birth. It's a natural need of Langarians," Lianna looked at the view of the town, feeling the sun's ray warm her skin as she remembered yesterday.

"I am Groot_(Well just forget about. You're surround by good people)_,"

"Heh, funny thing, I _can't_ forget things," The both of the chuckled slightly, hearing the others begin to awake.

Lianna heard Rocket yawning and looked to see him, looking like a cute baby raccoon waking up. She smiled and went over to him.

She kneeled down beside him and scratched his head. "Good mornin' sunshine," she calmly said. Rocket looked up at her with brown, dazy eyes, smiling goofy ear to ear and leaning against her.

She giggled and said "It's time to wake up, not a mornin' nap,"

"One more hour," he moaned, snuggling against her arm.

Gamora slowly opened her eyes, finding Peter just a foot away. She jumped at first, but knew she had to wake him up. She shook his shoulder a little hard, making a rude awakening for him. Peter sat up rubbing his eyes, thinking how he got there beside her and who to thank for it.

Then he saw Rocket, snuggling on Lianna's arms. He shook Gamora's shoulder and pointed to them, both of them thinking how strange and affectionate rocket has been ever since they met again.

Lianna giggled again. _Apparently he finally got a goodnight rest for once_.

"How about I let you sleep in for five to fifteen minutes," she said, picking him up like a child with the blanket around her shoulder.

"Yeah, sure, whatever,"he moaned, peacefully falling asleep on her shoulder. She got up and went over to Groot, showing him Rocket like it's their sleeping child. Groot was smiling with delight that his furry friend was actually sleeping.

Everyone was eventually awake now, picking up the blankets they mysteriously woke up with. Groot picked up the black comforter and waited for Lianna's command.

"Who's up for breakfast?" Lianna asked. Everyone perked up, especially Rocket. His head quickly popped off her shoulder.

"Um, what's that you say about breakfast?" he asked, Lianna swearing his tail was wagging. She laughed and made her way down the hill to the house, where everyone on else followed too.

**Ok! Big announcement! Sadly, the updates are now set to 3-5 days because of school coming and we all need to get into routine.**

**ALSO! I **_**AM**_** planning on doing some short stories with everyone(including OC Lianna Argo), and because of a certain someones idea, the first short story out after this is done with be winter-scened! I don't care if it's not christmas yet THERE WILL BE ****MISTLETOE!**

**Big scene comin' up! -**** xXFangirl311Xx**


	6. Love and Understanding

Breakfast went fast, but joyful. Lianna didn't really see the reason everyone was in a rush, but she knew it was for when something ghastly happen.

Everyone just LOVED the pancakes Henry(Lianna's dad)made. Drax had to have about ten pancakes, dosing large amounts of syrup and butter on each of them, but he squeezed the bottle too hard for the tenth one, causing it to explode.

Syrup was dripping off everyone. Rocket drenched the most; He was sitting by Drax. Drax slowly opened his eyes to see everyone staring at him.

"Whoops," he said. The room was deadly silent, until Peter started to chuckle, slowly turning into laughs. Everyone around the table started to laugh too.

Rocket's laughs faded into chuckles and said "Well I think we all need a shower now,"

"I agree, but there's only two showers on the ship," Gamora said.

"Well how about this," Lianna said, "There will be three groups of two, one group will shower on the ship, one group here, and the last group to a lake that's nearby,"

"And who will be with who?" Peter asked, glancing over at Gamora with a wink.

"I worked out some math and it'll be Peter 'n' Drax, Gamora 'n' Groot, and Rocket 'n' me," Rocket perked his ears and blushed. _Me! Showering with Lianna!_

"Now wait a sec," Peter said, standing up from the chair. "How come I get Drax?"

"Well here's the deal 'Starlord': you and Gamora would be a negative pair to shower and she and Drax would be negative, so I paired Groot up with Gamora resulting in positive, and you would learn a lesson about ogling at people if you went with Drax," Everyone just stared at her for a moment, then at Peter. "Am I now clear to you?" she said, putting her elbows on the table with her hands together.

Peter huffed and dropped back into his seat. "Fine,"

"Good," Lianna got up and picked up Rocket. "Me and Rocket will take the lake, Gamora and Groot take ship, Peter and Drax here," As soon Lianna closed the door, everyone looked at each other.

"Do you think they could possibly be," Peter said, pressing his pointer fingers together.

"Possibly be what?" Gamora asked.

"You know, in love?" he said.

"I am Groot_(They were already in love ever since they met again)_," Groot said, smiling with joy.

"What did he say?" Peter asked. Gamora and Drax shrugged.

* * *

Lianna and Rocket were walking down a path to the lake, carrying a pair of clothes, towels, shampoo, and body wash. Rocket couldn't help it but to blush at the thought of seeing Lianna bare skinned.

"How much longer Lianna?" Rocket whined. "My feet are startin' to kill me,"

"We're already there," Lianna moved aside a bush and to show a beautiful, vast lake. Rocket was amazed by the scene, but soon had his attention caught by Lianna walking up to the water, taking off her shirt to reveal a sports bra underneath.

Rocket blushed at the sight of her torso being shown. She kneeled down and started to wash her top, his mind thinking 'that's a blowjob pose'. He shook his head, trying to clear his mind from all dirty thoughts. He tried to calmly walk up to Lianna and sit beside her.

"So what are doin' first?" Rocket asked, feeling nervous and sweaty for some reason.

"I thought I could just washed off the clothes and just wash up a little," Lianna said, rhythmically scrubbing the shirt. "You'll probably be the one getting a full on bath because of your fur,"

"Y-Yeah," Rocket rubbed the back of his neck, realizing _he's_ the one getting naked. "S-So, w-when do I start?"

"O-Oh, um," Lianna blushed, knowing he just asked her when is he supposed to strip down. "Uh, a-anytime you want. Just as long you give me your suit before you wash up,"

"O-Ok, then I-I'll just be over there," he pointed over to a patch of bushes near the lake.

"O-Ok," she stuttered, continuing with scrubbing her shirt. Rocket grabbed a towel and quickly ran over to the bushes, feeling his heart pounding out of his chest.

"Ah fuck!" he said to himself. "I thought she was gettin' naked too! Now it's just gunna be weird!" He paced back and forth, thinking of what could possibly happen.

"What if she can see through the water and sees my junk, what if I accidentally cum in the water, what if the others come and ruin it all!" Rocket threw his hands in the air and sat against a tree nearby.

He sighed, going through all the possible mishaps as he ran his fingers through his fur. _Would I ever have the courage to kiss her?_ He knew that answer would only come when the moment came upon him. He got up and started pulling off his suit.

"Should've put a goddamn zipper on this," he muttered. He laid his suit on the ground, and went to grab his towel when he noticed something. His warm, pink member was peaking through its sheath. He blushed, feeling a compulsion to stroke it.

But he stopped, knowing once he gave it a little stroke he would go hard and would want for more. He huffed and snatched up the towel, wrapping it tight around his waist. He grabbed his suit and went to walk out the bushes, but a question struck his head. _Should I casually walk out, or should I walk out like a thug?_

Lianna pulled her pants off, revealing a pair of purple, lacy underwear. She grabbed the bottles and brought them closer to the lake. She then stepped in the water, a cold chill shooting up her leg. She got in more and kneeled down in the water. She was about to dunk her head when she heard footsteps coming behind her. She turned around to find Rocket, a towel wrapped around his hips low enough to see where a stomach lining would be.

Rocket was deeply blushing. He never saw her look at him like that before. He gripped at the towel and laid his suit by the wet clothes. "H-Here's my suit," he stuttered, gripping tighter on to the towel from it falling down.

"I-I'll do 'em after washin' up a bit," Lianna said, feeling her face burn up with blush. _I'm gonna be in a lake with a naked Rocket... ASDFGHJKL SCORE!_ She just put a smile on face and dunked her head in the water.

Rocket immediately tore off the towel and got in. Coldness shooting up his body, making him quiver. He flinched when Lianna whiped her head up.

He went stiff when he realized she was in her underwear as she pushed her wet hair. He felt his erection touch the cold water as it began to peak out of its sheath. He quickly grasped his hands around the sheath, trying to keep it in.

"Are you ok?" Lianna calmly asked, starting to lather shampoo into her hair.

"U-Uh, yeah," Rocket said, still grasping the erection's sheath. "I-I'm just.. cold,"

"Well your body isn't adjusted to the water yet," she said. "Just dunk yourself underwater and the warmth will start to settle in," Rocket nodded and quickly put his whole body underwater, feeling like a popsicle at first, but when he resurfaced, he felt a little warm.

He stroked back the fur on his head and grabbed the body wash, squeezing a handful into his hand. He pushed the bottle back, letting it float by the shoreline, and started lathering the soap into his fur.

Lianna couldn't help but to watch him as she rinsed out her hair. She thought he looked graceful gently lathering and stroking the soap into his fur, making her think of the morning kneading. She smiled at the thought of him doing that again as she dunked again.

She finally got the soap out of her hair and went to wash her face off. In the process of scrubbing her face, she noticed Rocket was having a hard time washing his back, where the network of holes and outputs were placed in his creation. She washed the soap off her face and decided to help out.

She reached over and gently rubbed the furless patch around the top-center of his back. He jumped at the touch and went to fall backwards, but Lianna caught him around the waist.

"You ok?" Lianna asked.

"W-What were you doing!" Rocket tried to not sound like he was yelling at her.

"I saw you needed help, so I helped out," she said.

After that, it was silent. The both of them just stared into each others eyes like they were reading each others memories. Then it happened, but not what like Rocket had thought.

Lianna kissed him.

Her lips pressed tightly against his, feeling like she was forced to. She quickly broke the kiss, looking at him with complete embarrassment that he didn't kiss back as their lips were still connected. _Why did I do that! I just completely embarrassed myself in front of him! OH MAH GAAAWD!_

"I... I-I'm sorry," Lianna stuttered, feeling her face blow up with redness. She quickly averted her eyes away from him, feeling like a complete fool, but felt padded hands turn her face back. Rocket just softly chuckled, smiling at her with relief that she liked him too. He softly pressed his lips on to hers, standing upright and holding on to her sides.

Lianna froze, but soon felt herself melt away in his hands. She slid her hands up from his waist to his head, running her finger tips through his fur. He let out a soft purr, making a bubble of giggles escape from her lips.

They slowly broke the kiss, staring into each other's love-struck eyes. Body temperatures slowly rising as eyes hooded.

"I never knew how soft your lips were," Lianna giggled.

"Well I never knew how you much you liked me," Rocket chuckled. They both smiled at each other, thinking how crazy their first kiss went.

"Well since that was brought off our chests there's somethin' I gotta tell ya," she said, removing her hands from his head.

"And what's that?" Rocket felt a little nervous of what she was going to say.

"This mornin', before you woke up, you kneaded my boobs," Lianna could but to giggle a little at him as she got up from the water. Rocket's face heated up and his erection went hard.

"W-What?" Rocket's member slowly peaked out of its sheath again, feeling the cold tingle through him.

"Yeah, you also laid your muzzle between them too," she smirked, wringing out her hair.

"I-I'm sorry then," he said rubbing his neck. "I-I don't remember any of that,"

"Well don't worry about it," Lianna kneeled down and took his chin in her hand. "I hoping for more in the future," she smirked, scratching his chin. He smiled ear to ear, feeling relieved and suddenly flirty.

He grabbed his towel and wrapped up as Lianna started to wash his suit. He laid against her back, purring and swirling his fingers in her hair. He wrapped his arms around her neck, purring even louder as she continued to scrub the syrup out of his suit.

"What are you doin' now Rocket?" Lianna asked, curious and amused.

"Oh just lovin' up on my sweetheart, nothin' else," he cooed. He pressed his muzzle against her neck, breathing out warm air. She gave off a little hum of enjoyment, but felt a tang of fear behind it.

"Don't you think your goin' a little too fast buddy?" she asked, trying to hide the rising panick in her voice. "I mean we just kissed a couple minutes ago," The fear began to build up more as Rocket started planting small kisses on her neck, slowly moving up to her jaw-line.

"Well I thought we could, I don't know, do some little pleasuring?" Rocket purred. Now she knew why fear was spreading through out her. _That phrase_. Lianna thought. _The alley... the exchange... the man..._.

"U-Um, why don't we stop now, save it for later," Lianna said, feeling like she was in the alley all over again; Fear taking over her body and mind.

"Aw, but I was getting started," Rocket seductively whined. Lianna's mind started to quietly chant the same words from the alley. 'Get out of there' her mind said. 'Get out of there before it's too late'.

And she snapped.

"Please STOP!" Lianna whipped around and it threw Rocket off, landing only a foot away. He got up and looked over at her; Her face filled with angry and stress, but quickly diminished to fear and pain. She silently gasped to what she had done, and turned back to the suit.

Rocket just looked at the ground and thought for a moment. _Why did she do that? She would usually give in to stuff, but she would never lash out if she didn't want to do it_.

"I'm sorry," Lianna said, her back still facing him. "I just went through some rough times after I left both of my homes, most of them happening after leaving Langara,"

"You were raped," Rocket said standing up, "Weren't you?"

Lianna turned her head enough to see him from the corner of her eye. "Exactly twenty-five and a half times," Rocket's mind quickly filled with sadness and sorrow.

"Where'd the half come from?" he asked, slowly walking up to her.

"Two days ago, outside the bar in a nearby alley, making trade with a guy for some units until it all went down hill," Guilt washed over him as he remembered that dreadful memory. He quietly sat down beside her and rubbed her hand, trying to calm her down.

"What were you tradin' him for?"

"I traded a bottle of Langarian blood for units, but he insisted that he gave me a gift with it. I don't really know what was in the box, but I took it, thinking there might be somethin' pleasant in it at least. But now I'm kinda scared to open it,"

A silence fell upon them as they just looked at the lake.

"You aren't alone ya know," Rocket said, breaking the silence. Lianna gave him a confused look.

"What d'ya mean?" she asked.

"I was raped too, when I was prisoned," he said, swirling his finger around in a strand of red hair again.

"Wasn't Groot there to save you?"

"No," he solemnly said. "Everytime Groot went to get some food or was put in another cell I was weak, defenseless, and vulnerable to everyone, especially to the ones who were craving for pleasure. And everytime Groot found me, he would asked me what happened, and I would just lied to him," Sympathy quickly filled Lianna's mind, making her see why he was sound so in control earlier.

She just smiled and wrapped her arms around him. "At least we understand each other a little more now," she said, laying a kiss on the side of his muzzle.

Rocket smiled too and said "Yeah, we do," and laid a kiss on her cheek before nuzzling his head on her. "I will always love you Lianna,"

"I will too Rocket, and protect you from harms way," Lianna said, and nuzzled her face on top of Rocket's head, humming that familiar lullaby again.

**And the moment has been revealed! You guys are probably like 'Finally it came!' So you know what's gonna be comin' up in a while ;p**

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	7. Arguments

Lianna and Rocket finally got dressed; Rocket wearing his maroon suit and Lianna wearing jean shorts with a white camisole and a black, see-through over shirt. They finally reached the clearing when Peter came rushing over to Lianna, hugging her around the waist while kneeling.

"'Ey! What's the big idea!" Rocket shouted. Peter was clutching to Lianna's outer shirt with fear struck in his eyes.

"Lianna you gotta help me!" Peter exclaimed.

"What? What happened?" Lianna asked.

"PETER!" They both knew that was Gamora when Peter ran into the forest. "I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!" Gamora was stomping down the hill with wet hair and a katana in her hand.

"Peter!" Drax called out, following behind Gamora, holding on to his arm. "I tried my best to hold her back, but she had cut me with her sword,"

"Why were you fuckin' helping him out anyways!" Gamora yelled back to Drax.

"Because he said he was gonna buy me knife polish if I did!" he said, rushing up to her side.

"I didn't say I was buyin' you shit!" Peter said, stepping out from behind the tree he was hiding. "You forced me to do that part!" Soon it was the three of them in a group, bickering at each other like three clans arguing about territory.

Rocket just looked at them, thinking they were a bunch of assholes fighting over somethin' stupid, but then he heard a moan of displeasure. He looked over at Lianna, finding her to be massaging the temple of her head with both hands, squeezing her eyes shut.

"Lianna, are you ok?" Rocket asked, tugging down on her outer shirt to get her attention.

"Yeah, I just-" she inhaled air through her clutched teeth and winced "-I just suddenly got a headache," she groaned out. Rocket knew something bad was gonna happen because of the headache Lianna was getting from the others.

He let go of the outer shirt and went over to the group. He kicked Peter in the back of his legs and he looked at Rocket.

"Ow! What was that for!" Peter angrily exclaimed.

"Your givin' Lianna a headache you ass, so just quit all this shit already!" Rocket yelled.

"You're not part of this vermin!" Drax said. That blew Rocket over the edge quickly.

"'Ey! You take that back you mother fucker!" Rocket growled.

The four of them now fighting, leaving Lianna on the sideline, looking like her head was gonna explode. She stumbled backwards, leaning her head against a tree. Her body starting to twitch and shake.

The argument was getting worse and Gamora lifted up her katana to strike at someone. But suddenly everyone found red hair wrapping around their waists and lifting them high in the air.

"ENOUGH!" A slightly deep voice roared. Everyone looked to see who it was, and found it was Lianna.

Lianna's body was twice its size, and her hair thick and bushy like a lion's mane. Her teeth and nails looking half as sharp as they were when she turned into her strange, monstrous form. Blood red filling her irises.

"You are ALL acting like fuckin' stupid, childish, ASSES!" Lianna growled, baring her teeth. Everyone looked away, knowing she was right. Rocket's ears went down, knowing he was foolish too to join in on an argument he had no business in.

"I'm sorry," Rocket mumbled, laying his head on the hair grasping him. Lianna's eyes quickly flickering back to normal.

Rocket felt himself being lowered, facing Lianna as she shrank back to normal size. She smiled to him and grabbed him under the arms, letting the hair grasping him slid back to its normal length. She sat him on her shoulder and looked back at the others.

"Now let's try this in a less violent way," Lianna stated, putting her hands together. "What happen?"

"Peter went to watch Gamora shower," Drax blurted. Peter glared at him.

"Thanks for being there for me," Peter said.

"Your welcome," Drax said, feeling himself being lowered. Peter just shot another glare.

"And how'd he get this?" Lianna asked, inspecting the long cut on Drax's arm.

"I did it," Gamora muttered, crossing her arms and looking down.

"Why, may I ask?" Lianna questioned, motioning her hand over the long cut to wrap with her hair.

"Because I heard someone outside the shower room and I slashed at the person there, but found Peter running down the hall and Drax there instead," Gamora felt herself lower halfway, looking at Peter, who was last to tell the truth.

"And last but not least, Peter," Lianna pointed out. "Why did you go to watch Gamora shower?"

Peter looked away and blushed, regretting he ever did it. "I-I... I," he sputtered out. His waist got tight and he cracked. "Ok, I DID go watch Gamora, b-but I was just checkin' up on her,"The grip got even tighter. "OK! I wasn't checking up on her! I was watchin' her cause she's hot! Happy now!" Peter yelled in panick.

Gamora shot Peter a deadly glare before feeling the ground. He knew he was dead once Lianna released them. The tentacles of hair unleashed them and Gamora quickly whipped her head toward Peter. She went to strike at him with her katana when a tentacle of hair gripped her wrist. She looked back at Lianna, who was giving her a look that said 'I'll take care of him'.

Gamora growled and said "Fine," The hair tentacle slipped away from her wrist and she put the katana in its sheathe, glaring at Peter once more before going to disappear over the hill.

"Phew! Thanks for savin' my ass Lianna," Peter said, walking toward Lianna.

"No problem," Lianna said, letting Rocket down from her shoulders and putting her hands on her hips with a smirk. "You just gotta do me a deal,"

"And what's that?" Peter asked, feeling a little nervous to her answer.

"You gotta lay off the 'Adora-Gamora' junk until Friday, a total of four days," Lianna held up four fingers in front of Peter's face, receiving a shocked look from him.

"What!?" he practically yelled.

"If you win, I'll serve for you for five days. If I win, you serve for me for five days. Deal?" she stuck out her hand to Peter, waiting for him to shake.

He hesitated for a moment, but then gave in with a groan. "I am regretting everything now," Peter mumbled, using a hand to wipe down his face.

Lianna just giggled at him with mischief, knowing she would win easily.

She turned her attention to Drax's wound as Peter walked away in regret, Rocket looking worried and aware of what just happened earlier.

"Lianna, are you ok?" Rocket asked, gently tugging on her shirt.

"Yeah, why you ask?" Lianna asked, tracing a finger down Drax's cut.

"It's just, you know, you DID just freak out earlier," Rocket looked down and fumbled his fingers.

"Oh... that," Lianna paused, ceasing re-wrapping her hair around Drax's cut. "I-I'm fine, just gotta relax for a while,"

Lianna finished wrapping a hair bondage around Drax's arm. "Come on Drax," she coaxed, "I gotta get 'cha to the ship and fix ya up," Drax nodded and walked along, Rocket at the back of the group. She gave a small smirk and brought Rocket to the front with her and Drax with a tentacle of hair, smiling at his as he stared at her. He smiled back, knowing she wouldn't let him far behind from her.

* * *

"OW!" Drax almost yelled as the rubbing alcohol came into contact with the cut. He struggled under the grasp of Lianna's hair pinning his arm down to the table.

"Hold still Drax," Lianna said, pulling back the alcohol soaked cotton ball. "This is supposed to kill the bacteria in the cut,"

Drax winced and groan when Lianna pressed the cotton ball on the cut again.

"Rocket can you get the gauzes from the drawer over there?" she said, pointing to the top drawer below the counter top. Rocket nodded and quickly grabbed them, knowing Drax wasn't gonna hold still any longer.

"Thanks," she gave him a little rustle on the head and put the gauzes on the cut. She then grabbed the bondage and began wrapping Drax's arm.

"How long will we have to stay here on your home planet Lianna?" Drax asked, wincing a little when the bondage squeezed the cut together.

"I don't exactly know," Lianna said, grabbing a metal clip. "Depends if we were found by the science control or not," She clipped the end of the bondage on the wrap and helped Drax up. He flexed his arm a little to test the bondage out, Rocket finding Lianna staring at him when he was doing that.

Rocket cleared his throat and tugged on Lianna's pant leg, catching her attention quickly. He nodded his head toward the side, Lianna quickly realizing.

"I think I better go find Peter and Gamora," she said heading toward the open hatch. "Might be fighting or somethin'," She disappeared down the ramp and Rocket quickly whipped his face to Drax, growling at him.

"What?" Drax asked.

"You know what!" Rocket said, his tail beginning to bush up.

"I know what?" Drax asked again, getting a full heartedly facepalm from Rocket.

"I saw you tryin' to flirt with my girl!" Rocket yelled. Drax's face filled with confused shock, but then fell into a wide grin. His booming laughter filling the room.

"What?! What are you laughing at?!" Rocket yelled again.

"My furry friend, I can see you're in love!" Drax boomed, trying to quiet his laughter. Rocket's face went red underneath his fur, his ears back in guilty truth.

"What are you talkin' about," Rocket said nervously.

"I'm talking about you liking Lianna," Drax said, squatting down to him. Rocket just looked away and blushed, but felt a reassuring hand on his shoulder. He looked at Drax and sighed, knowing there was nothing else to do.

"Ok, I do like her," Rocket admitted. "But! We aren't really just friends anymore now,"

"What happen?" Drax asked, putting his other hand on Rocket's shoulder.

"At the lake, when we were washing up..," Rocket hesitated a moment, "We kissed," He face blew up with blush when he it.

"So you are MORE than friends then," Drax said cheerfully.

"Yes, BUT don't tell anyone!" Rocket said pointing his finger at him. "If they find out too early, they'll think I'm goin' soft. Got it!"

Drax nodded with a smile, standing back up and heading toward the hatch. When he disappeared, Rocket quickly ran to his room. He rummaged through his dresser drawer until he came upon a rectangular bottle.

"'_Working Hard_', the cologne that makes you smell like you were in a ship repair shop on the annual, full day oil change," he said, spraying about every inch of himself with the cologne. _Lianna will LOVE this_, he thought as he stroked back the fur on his head.

* * *

Lianna was outside the house, trying to keep Gamora and Peter distant from each other.

"Why can't you guys stop fighting," Lianna whined, hanging the both of them by their waists with her hair tentacles.

"It's not my fault Peter is dumbing than a Carnak!" Gamora yelled.

"I'm dumb!" Peter yelled back. "You didn't even know what a butterfly was!"

"Da both of you stop it!" Lianna yelled, raising the both of them higher into the air. "I just had about enou-... e-...enough of... your... grease?"

A thick, pungent aroma filled the air quickly. Gamora holding her nose in disgust and Peter scrunching up his nose from the dense smell.

"Wait a minute," Peter sniffed the air and angered shock filled his face. "Hey! That's my cologne! Who's wearin' it!"

"Oh, so this was YOUR cologne?" Rocket said sarcastically, strutting toward Lianna and the other two. Lianna quickly looked over to him, taking in another whiff of the oily, metallic smell emitting off of him.

She hummed in delight and dropped Peter and Gamora, Gamora obviously sticking the landing. Lianna walked over to Rocket and quickly swept him off his feet, nuzzling her nose against his head and breathing in the intoxicating scent.

She turned around on her heels to face towards the others, quickly sitting on the ground. She sat Rocket in her lap and inhaled more of the mechanical aroma. Peter and Gamora staring in confusion.

"What's going on?" Gamora asked, surprised to see Lianna so clingy and touchy towards Rocket.

"Well from what I see, my stolen cologne, '_Working Hard_', is being very effective on Lianna," Peter said brushing off the dirt on his pants.

Lianna just giggled and laid down on the grass, pressing her face against Rocket's back and earning low purr from him. His eyes slowly lidding from joy and pleasure as she began to rhythmically rub circles on to his lower back.

"I am Groot?_(What's going on?)_," Groot asked emerging from the house. He found Lianna and Rocket on the ground, Lianna's face on Rocket's back and him purring in a low tone.

"I am Groot?_(What's wrong with them?)_" he asked a little worriedly.

"Oh, it's ok Groot," Rocket purred. "She's just likin' the cologne," he let out a giggly moan when Lianna traced the seaming of his suit up his body with a ginger finger.

"Okay," Peter said putting his hands together, "How about we separate them before somethin' else happens," Groot nodded and went over to pick up Lianna, hazily laying in his arms like she was drunk. Rocket's purr slowly faded away afterwards and he stood up, seeming mad.

"Hey, she was just gettin' a good groove on massagin' my back," Rocket whined as he walked over to Groot.

"Well that cologne seems to work too well on her Rocket," Gamora stated, making a sound of disgust when she inhaled his scent. "How much did you put on!" she asked, trying to keep her nose from burning.

"Like a tiny sprit of it," he lied.

"Yeah right," Peter jumped in, "You probably covered your whole body with it if she's goin' all goo-goo for you," A sudden idea hit Peter's head.

"Or is it somethin' else that between the both of you?" he asked curiously. Rocket deeply blushed, but kept up his anger towards Peter.

"No it ain't somethin' else," Rocket said, almost in a pouting way.

"I would've liked it better if it wasn't so densely sprayed," Gamora whined. An idea popped into Peter's brain as he continued to stare at Gamora, but to soon receive a whip on the back of his head.

"OW!" he yelled, and turned around to find Lianna smirking.

"I may be dazed as a drunkie, but I can still see you starin' at her Quill-boy," Lianna said.

"Heh, that's my girl," Rocket chuckled.

**Oh my god I am sooooo sorry about the late up date :'( School's kinda rough when you enter a higher grade.**

**Updates will have to become a weekly thing now; about every Friday or Saturday.**

**Continue to enjoy! -****xXFangirl311Xx**


	8. First Date

After the fighting and Lianna going flirty over the cologne, everyone finally calmed down. Peter though got a couple of whippings on the back of his head a couple of times.

"Goddamn Lianna," Peter mumbled to himself. He opened the freezer and grabbed an ice pack. "Why couldn't she just let Gamora at least hit me once," he grabbed a towel and wrapped up the ice pack, laying back in the pilot's chair.

He groaned when he laid the ice pack on his head. _I can make it_, he thought to himself. _I just gotta keep myself busy, that's all_.

Just then, the sound of Lianna laughing filled the room, causing for a headache to form for Peter.

"I can't believe you tried talking to a raccoon!" Lianna laughed out. She bent over, holding on to her gut from laughing so much. Rocket just growled at her and sat down by the table.

"It looked just like me!" Rocket yelled. "So I thought 'hey, why not talk to it', but APPARENTLY they don't speak english!"

"Would you stop yelling!" Peter said.

"Sorry," Lianna said. She looked at the clock and shocked realization fell upon her face.

"What's wrong Lianna?" Rocket asked.

"I just forgot I was gunna help my dad with somethin'," she said, rushing to grab her leather jack and satchel. "No trouble while I'm gone ok?" she asked Rocket.

"I promise," he said standing up on the chair.

"Good," she said, quickly laying a kiss on his cheek. "Bye," she waved before going outside.

Rocket just sighed and sat back down, thinking of maybe doing something special for her when she got back.

"Oh ho ho, Rocket bein' a lil' mama's boy now huh?" Peter deviously asked.

"W-What?" Rocket didn't know what he meant.

"Dude she just KISSED you!" Now he knew what he meant. He drew his ears back and snarled at him.

"None of yer business Peter!" Rocket got up and started toward his room.

"Wait a minute Rocket!" Peter got up and ran in front of Rocket. "I don't mean to nosey but-"

"Your always nosey!" Rocket interrupted. He walked around Peter, but ended up blocked again. He just growled at him now.

"But I wanna give you some advice! For a date!" This caught Rocket's attention.

"Why would I wanna take her out on a date?" he asked, regretting having ANY advice from the guy who couldn't keep a girlfriend for a week.

"A date is like a ritual of declaring her as yours! You can also do that with sex, but that's if you've been with that person for a while," Rocket knew Peter was getting a bit off track now. "But what I'm trying to say is you have to take her out on at least one date,"

"Have you ever went to a date?" Rocket asked, crossing his arms.

"Um, no," he plainly said.

"Wha! Then why do _I_ have to!"

"Because you get to know more about that person,"

"Then why don't you ever do it!"

"Because I just go for the hot ones,"

Rocket 'hmph'ed and said "Well then I'm makin' the RIGHT decision," before walking off to his room.

Peter just smiled and put his hands on his hips. "That's my boy,"

* * *

As soon as Rocket's door closed he ran for the dresser. He rummaged through the few clothes he had looking for something nice. He finally came upon a tux he bought from the last bounty hunting.

"I said it'd come in use," Rocket said to himself. He laid it down on his bed and straightened it out. And then it hit him.

"I gotta cook up somethin'!" he quickly ran out of the room and to the kitchen part of the kitchenette. He pulled open a drawer and pulled out a cook book Peter had. He frantically flipped through the pages until he found one.

"'Steak Delight' sounds perfect," Rocket said, quickly going to the fridge. He found the steaks, but at the top rack in the back. He grumbled something and stepped inside of the fridge, still not reaching it.

He let out an annoyed sigh and went to find a stool. When he came back he saw Gamora taking out the steaks.

"Hey, what're you doin'!" Rocket yelled, putting the stool down and walking over to her.

"Getting steak to eat," Gamora said.

"But I need it!" Rocket said, trying to reach for the bag.

"For what?" she asked again.

"A DATE! I need them for a date!" he couldn't believe he just said that. He thought of what would happen next from his weird pleading action.

_Gamora just whipped the bag away from him. "Who would care for such a silly ritual! It's just like eating with only two people!" She stormed out of the room in disgust, leaving Rocket in sadness and failure of showing care to his one true love_.

"Ok," Gamora said, handing the bag to him. Rocket just stared in shocked confusion as it laid before him in his hands.

"What?" he just stared at the bag and Gamora, confused of what just happened.

"You can have it," she said. "I know this is important to you,"

"How'd you know?" he quickly turned angry and bared his teeth a little.

"An assassin must be very observant of his or her's surroundings and enemy. Also I heard and saw the entire thing before and after Lianna left," she said.

"So you know it's for Lianna," he said, his ears going back in embarrassment.

"Yes,"

"Would you help me?"

A silence fell upon them until Gamora said "Sure," Rocket looked at her with glee and gestured to her to take the bag. He ran over and grabbed the stool, putting it by the counter ledge. He picked up the book and laid it on the counter.

"Okay... do you know where the herbs are?" Rocket asked, earning a little giggle from Gamora as she reached for the cabinet with spices.

* * *

"Easy putting it down Groot," Rocket said, gesturing his hands for him to carefully set the picnic table down.

"I am Groot?_(Why do you want the picnic table up here anyway?)_," Groot asked, setting the table down on the ground.

"For a good reason," Rocket said, grabbing the red table-cloth he brought up. He flung the cloth over the table top and straightened it.

"This is the perfect place for it," he said, putting his hands on his hips.

He planned on setting the date back on the hill by the tree, where the view of the city will be their background during tonight.

A blinking sound caught Rocket's attention and saw it coming from his communicator; It was Gamora. He quickly put the communicator back and ran downhill to the ship, Groot watching him in confusion.

Rocket ran up the ramp, greeted by a delicious smell of meat and sauce.

"The foods comin' together well," Gamora said, stirring a pan with sauce. Rocket went over to Gamora and stood on the stool, dipping a finger-tip into the pan. He taste tested the sauce, delighted by the mild and spicy taste.

"Keep it up Gamora," Rocket said, it almost sounding like a complement.

Rocket heard another beeping noise and checked the communicator. He gasped to see it was Lianna.

"What do I do!" he said in panic.

"Go answer her!" Gamora said. "She'll call you again if you don't,"

"H-Hello?" Rocket answered nervously.

"Hey Rocket," Lianna said. "I was callin' to tell ya I'll be back soon. Probably in about ten to fifteen minutes,"

"O-Ok hun," he said. "I'll see you soon then,"

Lianna giggled over the line. "Love ya! Bye!"

"You too," Rocket ended the call and pulled at the fur on his head.

"She'll be here in ten ta fifteen minutes!" he yelled. "What now!"

"Go get dressed!" Gamora said flipping the steaks. "By the time she gets back, the sun will begin to go down," Rocket nodded and ran to his room, quickly ripping his suit off and putting on the tux. He went over to his dresser and grabbed the cologne, remembering to spray a small amount. He went over to the mirror he kept by his desk and checked himself for flaws. _Tonight, Lianna will be mine_, he thought to himself. _Nothin' could break our bond_.

* * *

The moment had finally came.

Rocket was on the hill setting up the table decorations. He hid a jar of Groot's glowing spores underneath his seat and straighten the sliver plates. He couldn't stop straightening his bow and sleeves while waiting for the signal.

And then it came.

A light flashing back and forth came from the ship, meaning Lianna was coming.

He quickly ran down to the bottom of the hill and looked for her, seeing her figure in the distance.

She was still wearing what she wore from the lake, but with jeans and a leather jacket. She was looking around curiously, wondering why Gamora sent her here. She noticed Rocket by the hill, wearing a black tux.

"Well aren't you mister proper," Lianna teased as she approached him, kneeling down on one leg to get near his head level.

He gave a soft chuckled and reached into his over coat, pulling out a dark blue rose he asked Groot to make for her. It was speckled with white and thin swirls of yellow, supposedly resembling space. "I got this for you," he said, handing it to her.

Lianna gazed at the delightful present Rocket had given her. "It looks like beautiful, but how?" she asked with amusement.

"Had a little help from Groot," he said, grabbing her hand. "Closed your eyes," he gently pushed down her eye lids, she giggling as Rocket lead her up the hill.

"Where we going Rocket?" Lianna asked, trying to stay bent over for Rocket to hold her hand.

"You'll see," he smirked, knowing his plan will work.

They reach the picnic table and Rocket let got of her hand. "You can look now," he said, smiling with joy.

Lianna opened her eyes, and was surprised to what she saw.

It was a candle-lit dinner with some bottles of wine and two silver plates with lids.

Lianna gasped with joy that Rocket had planned this for her. She quickly snatched him up and gave him smooches all over his face. Rocket could help but to chuckle at Lianna attacking him with kisses.

"Ok ok, calm down," Rocket said, grabbing ahold of her face. "Wouldn't you like to eat before havin' 'desert'?" Lianna's face immediately lit up with excitement and she set him down, taking a seat at the table and Rocket went to take his.

"Go ahead," he cooed. "Take off the lid," she took off the lid and a cloud of steam escaped, a delicious smell filling her nose. She looked and saw a marvelous steak in front of her covered a brown-marron sauce with some garnishes around it and on top.

"Steak, for me?" Lianna asked in astonishment. Rocket nodded with a smile. He carefully opened the bottle of wine and poured them into their glasses.

"To the gal I love," he announced, standing up from his seat to cling his glass to her's.

Lianna smiled and took a sip of the wine, Rocket grabbing the jar beneath his seat. He sat the jar on the table and screwed off the lid, letting the glowing spores light up their table more. Lianna gazed joyfully at the sight of the glowing spores, laying her stare on to Rocket with a happy smile on her face.

They both began to eat when Rocket heard something. His left ear turning to the side to detect what it was. He heard nothing and just continued to cut though his steak with all his might.

* * *

Gamora was in the distance; Not too far from the date. She watched them eat and play around with the spores, flinging them at each other no and then.

She couldn't but to smile at them, seeing how happy Rocket was. It's been a long time since Rocket had smiled his genuine smile of joy, and that last time was when Groot's young body formed in the little he held on the new Milano.

Gamora's always had a secret soft side, no matter how cruel she seemed. And that was the reason why she helped him with the date dinner. Sure she doesn't like getting no credit for something she has done successfully, but was different with helping a friend with a _reasonable_ and _unquestionable_ need.

But then she felt a presence, very close by. She kicked the person out from under their legs and quickly unsheathed her katana, holding the tip up against under their chin.

It was Peter.

"Oh, sorry," Gamora simply said, removing the katana from his chin. He let out a shakey breath and clambered up on to a sitting position, holding a hand to his chin. "What are you doing here?"

"I was just about to ask that until you almOST KILLED M-!" Peter's mouth was quickly covered by Gamora's hand, her giving him a harsh shushing gesture with her hands.

"Don't yell!" she whispered. "They'll hear us!"

"Who?" Peter asked quietly as he removed her hand. She pointed down toward the tree they last slept in, where Lianna and Rocket were dining. "Oooh," he whispered in realization. Gamora just gave him a 'you kidding me you stupid fuck' look.

"What're they doing?" he asked.

"They're on a date," she said a little harshly, still mad at him for almost blowing cover.

"Then why are you watching them?" he asked again, just slightly scooting closer to her.

"To see how things go," she replied, watching as Lianna playfully bounced a spore off Rocket's nose. "You don't know what Rocket would do if he messed up somethin',"

"Got that right," Peter nodded in agreement, surprisingly earning a small smirk from her. "Hey, uh, didn't you make that?" he pointed to the food.

"Yes," she replied, still carefully watching them.

"Then aren't you made that Rocket stole the credit from you?"

"No, why should I?" This shocked Peter.

"Gamora are you sick?" Peter asked, putting his hands on her shoulders.

"No, just helping out a friend," Gamora said, pushing away only one of Peter's hands. He was again shocked, pulling his hand back to himself. Gamora noticed and knew she must've been freaking Peter out a little.

"It's just sometimes another sense will come over me, making me a little more helpful for some other's needs," Peter could see her blushing now from embarrassment. He put his hand on her hand and she sheepishly looked over at him.

"I'll won't tell anyone," he said, earning a smile from her. "Just don't tell Lianna I was with you alone. I'll get whipped in the head again," Gamora slightly giggled and gripped Peter's hands a little, watching as the date began to wrap up a little.

* * *

Lianna was the first to finish, Rocket still trying to eat the other half of his steak without using his hands and teeth. _Steaks damn tough without using my teeth_, Rocket thought to himself as he managed to cut off another small chunk.

Lianna was just messing around with the spores as she waited patiently for him to finish. She looked passed the tree and spotted a weird, lumpy figure in the distance.

"Shit! She saw us!" Lianna could recognize that voice a mile away; It was Peter. She soon after found out Gamora was with him as the both of them ran for the ship in a hurry. _I guess I could give the guy some slack_, Lianna thought as she watched the hatch come down on the ship, a giant ray of light shining out from inside the ship.

Rocket saw Lianna distracted and decided to ditch the utensils. He grabbed ahold of the half-eaten steak and took a huge bite out of it. _So damn good!_ he thought to himself again, but soon felt a little weight on his chest.

It was the sauce, dripping off the steak and on to his tux.

"Fuck!" Rocket quietly cursed, but apparently not quietly enough for Lianna. She looked at the saucy mess upon his tux and mouth, slyly slipped a smile from her lips. She got up and sat beside Rocket, who was currently trying to clean up the mess on his tux first.

She took his chin in her hands and planted a kiss on his lips, licking her's as she tasted the tasty sauce again. She ran her tongue along the line of his lips, licking up the sauce. She started to take off the top of Rocket's tux as she laid another kiss on his lips, slipping her tongue into his mouth a couple times to taste more of the sauce.

When she broke the kiss, Rocket topless. He blushed in little embarrassment, but felt a clothing being put on him. It was Lianna's over shirt. The both of the smiled at each other, Rocket standing up and laying a kiss on her cheek. She split the steak in half and put him on her shoulders, handing him the one half as she picked up his messy shirt and coat with one hand and blowing out the candle.

They both finished off the steak as they walked downhill to the ship. They got inside, dropped the dirty clothes off at the makeshift laundry room, and went to Rocket's room. Lianna fixed up his bed as he just washed off his chest a little.

He came out of the bathroom scrubbing a towel against his chest. He opened his door and found Lianna sitting on the bed, waiting for him with a little, flirty smile on her face. He smiled too and climbed under the covers with Lianna, using a remote to turn off the lights.

"Goodnight sweetie," Rocket said, laying a kiss on her nose. He felt his tux pants pulled off in one swift motion. Lianna threw the pants carelessly over her shoulder with a smile and brought him to her chest, the both of them quickly dozing off.

**Ok! I didn't really want a long chapter, but had to have this in there! Love scene might be next, so I'll warn ya before you start into the 9****th**** Chapter folks!**

**Lots of Love- ****xXFangirlXx**


	9. First Mate(AN)

**..)IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT(..**

* * *

This chapter will be briefly removed for some slight reconstruction. I have gotten a message saying it was too descriptive and was being rated MA, which MA isn't allowed on Fanfiction. The chapter will be back up again, and it will not stray from the plots it will lead to in chapter 10. It will just be changed to fit the M rating, nothing else.

Thank you for understanding.

-**xXFangirl311Xx**


	10. Damn it, Peter!

Everyone was sitting at the table, drinking their cups of coffee. Gamora and Peter smirking at each other, thinking they knew _why_ Lianna and Rocket weren't up yet. And just then they heard a door slide open.

It was Lianna, walking towards everyone in her light, blue robe with damp hair.

"Well good mornin' sunshine," Peter said, smirking as he sipped from his cup.

"Well morning to you too," Lianna said, going to the fridge. Peter and Gamora looked at each other with smirks, Lianna noticing their strange behavior.

"So since Rocket's not up yet, I got somethin' _really_ important to tell you guys," she said, pouring the milk into a cup.

"You guys bang?" Peter blurt.

Lianna's eyes shot wide open, her cheeks filled with milk like she was gonna spit. She covered her mouth with a fist and swallowed down the milk, a gasp for air shortly afterwards.

"What! N-No, I mean, u-uh...fuck," she blushed and rubbed her neck, looking away from them. Peter's grin just grew bigger.

"Oh ho ho! Grabbin' some action already, aren't 'cha?" he teased. She just looked at him without turning her head and growled, sounding almost like a creature.

"Wow! Easy there...tiger," he grinned wildly. She turned her head and narrowed her eyes, purple starting to flicker in her irises.

Gamora quickly noticed and wacked Peter upside his head. "OW! What was that for!" he yelled.

Lianna just closed her eyes and ran her finger through her hair, opening them back up to look at them with a little smirk. "Ok, take it easy, we still need this douche-bag for sumthin',"

"And what's that?" Drax asked.

"Ship, music, somthing else," Lianna said with a giggle. Drax chuckled, Gamora too.

"Hardy har har," Peter said sarcastically. "Now didn't you say you had some news for us?"

Lianna quickly went back to her serious mood. "Yes, but you CAN NOT tell Rocket about it," she said.

"Why?" Gamora asked.

"It's because...they found us," Lianna said, looking down at the counter.

"What d'ya mean Lianna?" Peter asked, for once feeling concerned about his new, teammate.

"That Science Control, the ones who...made Rocket," Shock quickly filled everyone's faces. They've heard Rocket talk about some group of people who made him during his drunken rampages, but not specifically who did.

Everyone just got closer to Lianna as she walked around the counter and sat at the table, waiting for her to continue. "How did they find you?" Drax spoke out.

"It was this morning, back on Earth," she begun. "I was layin' in bed with Rocket when my visual communicator went off. I got up and took it to the kitchen to answer. I answered it, and I saw that same damned scientist that was the head of the program of Rocket's creation. He said he found me, and was coming to take me, Rocket, and Groot back. He said he was coming for us, and he ended the call. I was filled with fear and horror, and I did the only thing my mind was telling me to. I stole half my dad's stock from the basement and loaded it all in my room, and drove us far away from Earth. We're just inside the line of an unknown space quadrant, meaning if we flew out west, we'd be back on the map. Later when Rocket woke up, I accidentally broke my communicator from the fear of him finding out, and found a GPS chip in it. And that's why we're out here in space, instead of at my house,"

Lianna crossed her arms around her chest, looking away and letting the information she told sink into the other's minds. She felt a hand on her shoulder, looking to see it was Peter.

"Are you mad?" she asked, feeling her eyes starting to well-up.

"No, Lianna, I'm not," he said, kneeling down beside her. "But do you know what I see?"

"What?" she asked.

"All I see, is a woman trying to protect her friends, and most of all her family," he took her hands into his and smiled at her, receiving a bigger smile from her.

"Aw! That has to the most un-douchiest, jackass thing you've ever said!" she said, quickly pulling Peter into a hug. Everyone just laughed, knowing that _was_ true.

"Also, two questions, no three," Peter said getting up and sitting on the table edge.

"And what are they?" Lianna said, turning in her seat sideways.

"Question number one," Peter began, holding out a finger, "Why are we in space?"

"Weren't you listening, I said to get away," she said.

"Oh yeah, question number two," he put another finger up, "Why is your hair wet?"

"I took a shower like any other creature,"

"And last but not least, how did Rocket get you off with probably a small, ass dick?" Lianna's face quickly flooded red with embarrassment and anger.

"What kind of a question is that!" she yelled.

"Because a raccoon's dick is like long and thin and-"

"How do you even know this!"

"Curiosity," Peter smiled sheepishly as Lianna gave herself a facepalm.

"Peter does she _really_ have to answer that inappropriate question?" Gamora asked, grabbing his shoulder and squeezing it.

"Yes because about ninety-nine percent question SHOULD be answered," he said, turning back to Lianna with a grin.

She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Couldn't I just like tell you in private or write it?" she asked, feeling extremely weird and annoyed of Peter's dumb-ass question.

The sound of a door quickly snapped everyone into alarm.

It was Rocket, walking down the hall slowly with a tank top and shorts lazily put on.

Lianna smiled at him, relieved to have him interrupted Peter's question. _For now, sadly_, she thought.

"Apparently someone doesn't know how to put on their clothes," Peter said. Rocket just snorted and pulled his shorts up, not even bothering with his shirt being half up.

"Well how would you feel if you felt like you ran one hundred miles per hour?" Rocket said, crawling up on to Lianna's lap with a little help from her.

"I've ran a marathon before," she said smiling.

"Little miss competition," he teased, nuzzling his nose under her chin.

"Kmm**sex**kmph," Peter coughed, getting a glare from the both of them. Gamora sighed and swung her arm back, hitting him in the gut. "UMPH!"

"Why don't you mind your own damn business Peter," Rocket growled, leaning up against his lover with his arms cross.

"Well it's just seeing you and her, you know," Peter shrugged with that same wild grin. He gestured his fingers like he was almost pinching something and was making a little, high pitch sound with it(He's motioning about Rocket possibly having a small dick).

Rocket growled and got up, slamming his hands on to the table. Peter let out a little yelp and jumped back.

"That is none of your business to know!" Rocket growled. Lianna just sat there with her arms crossed, not even pulling him back to lay against her. She knew this was something she would allow Rocket to do to Peter.

"Ok ok, calm down!" Peter said, frantically shaking his hands and backing up. Rocket just huffed and sat back down, still death glaring him. Two death glares in fact, Lianna was doing it too.

"I'm just gonna go back to my room," Peter said, and rushed off in the direction of his sleeping quarters.

"I swear that damn douche has to know about everything now a days," Rocket scuffed, feeling a gentle rubbing on his ear. He knew it was Lianna, but didn't want so much attention around the others still. He twitched his ear, slipping it out of Lianna's grip. Lianna just softly giggled and stopped, going to his tail to give it long strokes.

"So what're we doin' in space?" he asked. "I thought we were still hanging out at Lianna's place?" Fear quickly stricken the three of them.

Gamora spoke first. "We received a call about a bounty request, but we don't know how much he's giving us or if he's going to even do it," she said, quickly looking at Lianna with a 'got your back' face.

"Well then the guy better make up his mind quick," he said. "I don't really wanna be crusin' around space with nothin' to do," He slipped off Lianna's lap and went over to the fridge, Gamora quickly going over to Lianna.

"How long do you think he'll believe the jig?" Lianna whispered, looking over to the fridge door a couple of times.

"As long as he's kept busy," Gamora whispered back. "But after a few days, he'll probably start getting suspicious,"

"Your right," Lianna said, quickly tensing up to realize she didn't whisper.

Rocket looked around the corner of the counter, Lianna looking at Gamora with little panic.

"Weee should punish Peter!" Lianna then said, Gamora going along with it.

"Agree, but what should the punishment be?" Gamora said.

"I don't know, maybe a grounding him from somthing?"

"Ground him from his music," Rocket spoke up, walking around the corner with a mug in his hand. "He can't live without it. A few days would make him go crazy,"

He sipped from the mug and made his way down the hallway. "If ya need me, I'll be in my room makin' somethin'" he said, then disappeared into the room.

Lianna sighed and slouched back in her chair, knowing that it was a close one.

"Are you really going to punish Peter?" Drax said, sitting there in his chair with a knife out.

"Mmm, maybe," Lianna said. "He DID make a complication earlier,"

"You're just going to get used to him being like that," Gamora said, going around the counter to fill her mug up. "Ever since we all became the 'Guardians of the Galaxy', I've notice a few things Peter will do when it came to the subject of romance,"

"And what's that?" Lianna asked.

"He'll become over curious and seek answers, like he wants to use them for teasing or comebacks. And he strangely seems a bit more flirtive too, more than usual,"

"Wait he's not gonna like come in the middle of night to me when I'm out here and try to smooch me or something, right?" Lianna said, getting up from her seat.

"No, he'll try to get himself his own 'score', or whatever he says," Gamora said, stirring her coffee.

"Ok then," Lianna giggled. "I'll just be with Peter for a moment if you need me," she walked down the opposite and opened up the door, giggling to find Peter sprawled out on the bed asleep.

She quietly tip-toed inside, but then jumped on the side of the bed, scaring Peter. He fell of the side of the bed with an 'umph', but got back up on to the bed.

"God Lianna! Knock next time!" Peter said, Lianna still laughing.

"Why should I?" Lianna said, sitting down on the bed.

"How about I barge in while you and Rocket have sex?" he teased. She pushed him over and on to the floor again.

"You do that and we both kill you," she said, trying to sound serious but couldn't help but to laugh at him.

"Oh hey!" he exclaimed, pulling his torso on to the bed. "You still haven't answered my question," He looked at her deviously and she looked away from embarrassment.

"Do I _have_ to?" she whined.

"Yes, and if you don't, I'll run around the ship with your underwear in my hand, swing it around like a lasso,"

Lianna sighed and said "Fine, you sick bastard," She yanked him back on to the bed with her hair and made sure the door was lock.

"Rocket's gonna kill us both after this," she said, feeling weird as she pulled Peter close to quietly whisper to him.

* * *

It was later in the day now. Lianna couldn't go by Peter without growling or sneering at him, and he would just smirk in satisfaction. _Dude has a major problem_, Lianna thought as she went to Groot's room.

Nobody has seen Groot since last night, so Lianna decide to drop in to see if he's fine and actually there.

She opened up his door to find his room was strangely filled with books. She knew Groot used to mainly sleep with Rocket for protection, but with her here now, it kinda gave him a break. He slept in the little library the ship had; nobody really went in to unless for information or extreme boredom.

She looked around the room to only find a chair with some moss on it. There were a few flowers on it, and she sensed they weren't there not so long ago. She soon felt an earthy sense coming from her room. _Thank god for the garden aliens_, Lianna thought as she closed the door and went to her room.

She indeed found Groot in there, but looking down at a piece of paper with concern. He finally noticed her and turned his head, facing her with a grim look.

"I am Groot?_(What is this?)_," Groot asked. Lianna looked to see that box open, knowing that it came from inside. She walked over to him and took the paper, quickly remembering it all. She quickly closed the door and locked it, a confused grunt coming from Groot.

"You have to promise me Groot you won't tell anyone, especially Rocket," Lianna said, looking at him worriedly.

"I am Groot?_(What is it Lianna? Is it something bad?)_," he asked again, laying his hand against her cheek.

"Well...do you remember that guy? The one back in the alleyway?" she asked, him nodding in response. "Well, I paid him to get me something very important to me. I knew I couldn't get it myself because it would've been a suicide mission. It's something I knew I would need to have justice served and be finally free from this dangerous game of cat and mouse," she looked at the piece of paper again and soon felt terrible memories flooding back to her.

She squeezed her eyes just and began to quietly sob before feeling Groot's reassuring hands on her face. She looked at him, seeing his face say 'you can tell me anything'.

She sniffled and wiped her nose, taking a deep breath.

"This...," she hesitated for a moment. "...This is Rocket's experimentation form,"

**Sorry for the late update! I got SUPER busy with homework and junk. Hopefully won't happen again.**

**Also, Review Answers! I know I got some on Rocket's junk, so I'll explain about it: He has a human sized, human-like dick because the scientist planned on making a female for reproduction breeding. But when he escaped, they saw it as a fatal flaw and didn't make the female. The dick is rounded on the top, like some tentacle dick but a thicker top.**

**I also got a mention of turning the story into a comic, but sadly I don't really have enough artistics in me to do that. Especially if I have to draw the sex scene. But I wouldn't mind if someone was nice enough to become my illustrator, but I bet that wouldn't really happen though.**

**Continue reading! -****xXFangirl311Xx**


	11. Lullaby

Lianna didn't talk much for the rest of the day. Her mind was too cluttered with what consequneses that she might face sooner or later. _Probably soon_, she thought.

For most of the time, she just laid on Rocket's bed; listening to Peter's music and the sound of metal clinking from Rocket tinking from the outside the room, but sadly started playing the last thing she said to Groot in her mind:

_"So like I said earlier, you can't tell anyone and most of all Rocket. If, at least half the reason why, we're all of a sudden bein' chased, it might be because this form wasn't updated, meaning it's illegal and they go to jail if brought to Nova Corps, and that's what I want; justice and freedom," Lianna said, rasing her fist proudly._

_ "I am Groot?(__**What do you mean by 'freedom'?**__)," Groot asked._

_ "In the back of my mind, I knew we all weren't safe the moment we stepped foot outside of that damned place. That we were all immediately criminals then forth," she said, looking down, but then felt Groot lifting her head up to him._

_ "I. Am. Groot!(__**We weren't wanted criminals back then, we were wanted BY criminals. They were the ones who needed to be running in fear. Heck! I wasn't even an experiment! I was just lost and taken as one!**__)," he said, earning a giggle from her._

_ "Yeah, but me and Rocket were, which creates a pretty tight bond for us. Especially since we're soulmates now," She smiled at him, but it diminished then, quickly getting back on topic._

_ "Anyways, keep it tight between us. If they guys find out, who knows how much hell will break loose from it," She walked over to the door and unlocked it, but soon felt Groot's hand on her shoulder._

_ "I am. Groot?(__**You should be happy though with being surrounded by love and friends. Why aren't you?**__)," he asked._

_ "Because, this all might be my fault," she said, and walked out of the room, leaving Groot with a sad and worried look on his face as he watched her walk down the hall._

Lianna's focus was soon interruped by a knocking on the door. She sat up on the bed and heard 'Fooled Around and Fell in Love' playing, feeling like it was meant to be a soundtrack for right now.

"You in there?" She smiled to hear the familiar voice echo through her mind.

"Yeah I'm in here," she replied, laying back on the bed with her hands behind her head, bending up a leg and crossing one over it.

"What're ya doin' in here?" Rocket asked, smiling as he confronted the bed.

"Nothin'. Just louchin' around and thinking for some ideas," she said, laying on her stomach as she moved to face him with a kiss on the nose.

He softly chuckled and said "You could help me with cookin' somethin' for everyone,"

"Ok," she said, sitting up and getting off the bed, following him out the doorway.

* * *

"This is unbelieveable!" Peter said, shoving a forkful of food into his mouth. "Who knew a raccoon genius and a crazy, multi-language knowing lady could cook something this good," Lianna just giggled at Peter's comment.

"Indeed. They are masters of the culinary arts," Drax said, taking in a forkful too.

"You guys just not sugar coating it?" Lianna asked with a smirk.

"If I were sugar coating, I wouldn't be takin' loads into my mouth," Peter said, slurping up a noodle strand.

"Wouldn't covering our food with sugar ruin it?" Drax asked with a puzzled look. Everyone, except Lianna, sighed to Drax's **total** lack of knowledge of metaphors.

"Sugar coating means you're saying somethin' sweet or nice about something than telling the actual opinion or truth about it," Lianna said, him nodding in understanding.

"Well anyways, I'd just like to say that we did better cooking than all of you morons," Rocket bragged, getting a pushed at the shoulder from Peter. "What! I'm just sayin'!"

Lianna just giggled again and sat up, taking her plate over to the sink. "Rocket, you didn't know the difference between boil and broil,"

"That was for the other recipe!" Rocket said, wiping sauce off his mouth.

"You also thought the noodles were dried out worms," she teased smirking.

"I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE MADE OF AT FIRST!" he yelled, everyone trying not to laugh.

Rocket just growled and pulled his ears back, giving everyone a glare through narrowed eyes. _Not my fault I don't cook much_, he thought. He leaned back against his seat and continued glaring at everyone as they _attempt_ to hold their laughs.

"Peter, it's your turn," Lianna said, walking back over to the table.

"Eh he he, what?" Peter asked, his face red from holding back his laughter.

"It's your turn to do dishes," Peter's smile faded away, and he quickly sat up.

"Um, I think I'm getting a call," he said, quickly walking down the hall with his drink.

"But your trasmitioner is over here," she said, pointing over to his device laying on the counter.

"Uh, I have a private one," he said, trying to quickly reach his door.

"Peter, your not ditchin' me with this again," She started walking towards him, panic quickly filling him. He quickly ran to the door, but caused his drink to spill, right on the control panel.

Sparks emitted from the small panel until it sizzled and died.

"What was that?" Lianna said, a puzzled look on her face.

"U-Uh, nothing," Peter said uneasily, repeatedly pressing the buttons on the panel to open his door.

"You fried it, didn't you?" Rocket asked.

"N-No," Peter began to practically punch the buttons now.

Gamora just sighed and muttered "Moron,"

"Let me see it," Lianna said, going over to the now-broken panel.

"Nothings wrong," Peter quickly blocked the panel from her and smiled nervously.

"Peter, I gotta see the problem," she said, pushing him out of the way with ease.

He stumbled back a little, but suddenly ran behind the counter. Everyone stared at Peter for a moment, him peaking over the counter top, and looked back over to Lianna.

She unscrewed the bolts off with her hair and looked at the wires; all of them covered in Peter's drink and little strands of electricity flickering now and then. She carefully moved some wires out of the way to see a box in the back. She took a handful of her hair and formed a flashlight, it actually lighting up as she pointed it inside.

"'Ship System: Lock Control'?" Lianna quietly mumbled, until it hit her.

Peter shrank back behind the counter when he saw her shot up straight.

"You spilled pop on the LOCK CONTROL!?" she shouted, hearing him whine a little. "Do you know, what that does, to all our rooms!"

"What will it do?" Drax asked.

"It locks them all!" she said, stroming over to Peter. "And that means no access to ANYTHING we left in our rooms!"

"Great goin' Peter," Rocket said.

"Oh you shut up!" Peter whispered, but soon was lifted into the air by Lianna's hair.

"I hope you didn't leave somethin' important in there, cause from the looks of it, it's not gonna go back to normal until tomorrow!" she growled.

"Well I didn't," he said, "I got my walkman right here-" he reached into his pocket, and didn't feel it. He patted his jacket pockets and pant pockets, quickly freaking out.

"OH MY GOD I LEFT IT IN THERE!" he yelled, franticly swinging his arms around to get down.

"Calm down, Peter," Gamora said, getting up from her seat.

He just looked at Gamora, still struggling against the hair's grip. For some reason, her eye's were showing comfort and calmness, suddenly relaxing him.

He stopped moving, and just hung there in the air until he was brought down. Gamora walked over to him and laid a hand on his shoulder.

"Everything will be fine," she said, for once softly and calmly.

The others just stared in confusion, puzzled by Gamora's sudden calmness. Drax broke the silence first.

"What will we do until tomorrow?" he asked.

"I don't know," Lianna said, "But all I know is it's gettin' late," Not long after, Rocket had began to yawn and lean against her.

"Yeah, sounds great," Rocket said tiredly.

The others looked at each other with small, soft smiles, and began to find somewhere to rest.

Groot had seated himself the wall, his tendrils already spread out behind him. Lianna seat next him and laid her head on his shoulder, Rocket then crawling on to her lap.

As Peter settled himself across from them, he heard Lianna singing a lullaby.

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. I'll make you happy, when skies are gray. You should know dear, I will protect you. They can't take, my sunshine away," Her voice was soft and soothing, and Rocket had started to close his eyes. She continued.

"And tonight dear, when you lay asleep, I will hold you in my arms. For when you stir, I will sing, this little lullaby for you to sleep," Peter could feel his eyes too dropping down now, but he continued listening.

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. I'll make you happy, when skies are gray. You should knnow dear, I will protect you. They can't take, my sunshine away. No they can't, take you, away,"

Rocket was sound asleep, his head resting on her stomach as she stroke it. She bent down and kissed the top of his head, quietly saying 'good night' as she laid her head against Groot's shoulder again.

Peter just stared at Lianna in amazment, for some reason feeling proud for her. Until he realized why he felt. _She's the only one who sees him as an equal_, he thought, before his mind began to shut down and fall asleep.

* * *

It was early. The aroma of food filling Peter's nostrils. He groaned and rubbed his eyes open, seeing Lianna at the stove.

"Well good morning, Star Lord," Lianna said softly, apparently stirring something from Peter's view.

"Moring to you too," he said, slowly getting up. "What're you doing up this early?"

"Makin' breakfast. That's all," she answered.

Peter sat down at the table, and got a better view of what she was doing. She was making scrambled eggs in one pan and bacon in another. Peter rubbed his head for a moment, feeling like he was forgeting somthing. It popped back into his head.

"Hey, Lianna," he asked, leaning forward in his seat with his hands together.

"Yes?" she answered, stirring up the bacon.

"I was wondering, last night?"

"Yeah?"

"Well I heard you singing that lullaby, and, you were singing it wrong," Lianna looked over to Peter for a moment before turning back to the eggs.

"I wasn't," she replied, slowly stirring up the eggs.

"But that's not how you sing 'You Are My Sunshine'," he said, moving over to the counters and leaning against them.

"That's because that was my version of it," she said, not looking at him, but smiling.

"It's for Rocket, isn't it?" he asked.

Lianna just looked at him and turned off the one burner. "Yes, back in the labratory,"

"What happened in there?" Peter asked. "Rocket never really told us what happened back then,"

"I'll tell ya if you help me out," she said with a smirk.

"Ok," he said, and grabbed the pancake mix from the cupboard.

"Where should I start?" she asked as she turned off the other burner. "Should I start off at when we first met, or when I first went to the lab?"

"At the very beginning," he said, smiling at her.

"Ok then," she said, sitting on the table top and setting her feat on a chair. "Make sure you got your listening ears on 'cause this is gonna be a bit long,"

* * *

**Oh my god! Why is my life all of a sudden so busy!**

**Again, SOOOOO sorry for the late update. Chapter 12 I KNOW will be early, so not so much wait for that one.**

**There might be some errors since the auto-corrector disagreeing with me, so you should know what should be written.**

**Continue reading- xXFangirl311Xx**


	12. Storytime: Part 1

"It all started back when I was twenty," Lianna began:

It had only been about a year since I first got a good job. I was still living with my father because he was almost done recovering from his broken arm. He said I shouldn't be babying a grown man, but the fact was he was never given a good amount of time to relax. I was oftenly giving him the things he needed and wanted until the doctor said he could start trying to move his arm around; give it a little excersice. Everything was just getting better, until they came.

"Who's 'they'?" Peter asked.

"Duh! The nerd squad!" Lianna said, flicking her wrists down in exaggeration. "Anyways..."

It was June when they had came. It was dark out and I was just taking out the trash when I saw a weird light in the woods. I went to investigate and saw these weird, bulky people with blue skin, which I learned later were Borgauns, who were loading some boxes of what appeared to be our pine trees. And of course from curiousity and knowing my mother wasn't terran, I decided to go on a little field trip.

"Wait, hold on," Peter interrupted again, Lianna getting mad. "I thought the whole entire reason you got on that ship was you saw before-cybernetic Rocket in help?"

"You can say the note was half a lie," she said, rubbing her neck. "I got on the ship for adventure, possibly find my mom, and then later on for Rocket. Also how'd you know?" Peter gave her a nervous look and rubbed his neck too.

"Your door was still kinda open and I heard you talking about Rocket to your father," he said, smiling for innocence.

"You got issuses, but as I was saying, I went for a trip,"

I overheard one of the scientist saying they were going to pack up things and leave soon, so I ran back to the house to pack up. I grabbed my needs and some wants and quickly wrote a half-lying note to my father. If he knew I was leaving for no apparent reason, he would've kinda flipped at that time.

I put the note on the fridge and quickly ran back to the forest, sneaking on to the ship just in time before it left. I hid behind a cargo box until the ship stopped at another planet.

I took the time to explore the place a little, and went back to the ship before they even started loading their new cargo on. I took the diginty of 'borrowing' a couple of things from some of the merchant stands I visited before heading back.

It was a new world for me, so I knew that I had to have some of the high-techy stuff they had so I could blend in a little more in the places the scientists stopped at for getting more materials for something they later on used in my story.

"But right now I'm gonna cut ya some slack and fast forward," Lianna said, slidding off the table and seating herself in the backwards chair.

"So where would your story be now?" Peter asked, stirring up the pancake batter.

"It would be at the time I first met Rocket, four years later since I left home," she said.

My life on the ship turned into a daily routine: try to sleep for about six hours, stay behind the spare cargo boxes in the corner of the ship's cargo space when someone was in there, get out and about ship for sunshine and food, try not to get into trouble. But that routine was soon broken when I over heard the scientists making one last trip for somthing and that was to Earth.

I was planning on whether to go back home or just live the rest of my new life. I was about to do my first idea when they first landed, until I saw him.

The cargo space's hatch opened up and all I saw from behind my little box shelter was a raccoon being held by his tail and shoved into a cage.

I felt so sorry for him and wished I could've done something for him, but it was too late when the hatch closed back up.

The poor guy was pacing back and forth in his cage, chittering and whining in fear. I made an attpemt to encounter him, but he saw me as a predator. I offered him a piece of fruit I had in my bag, and he slowly warmed up to me. But that growing bond was quickly broken when the ship stopped at it's port.

I ran back to my box shelter and just observed what the scientists did to the raccoon before taking him out of the cage. I over heard one of the scientists say they were going to to reconstruct his body, and that didn't sound good to me.

As soon as the scientist instructed a robot to carry the cage to the testing room, I quickly shrunk down and ran like a Cheetan after them. But just setting one foot into that place changed my life.

The place was mainly white, maybe a few different colors here and there, and every door had a lock system on it; talk about high security. I just kept on running until I reached the robot's foot; hitching a ride the rest of the way.

Everything seemed fine at first as I made my way up the robot's body, but once I seated myself on its shoulder, and watched the scientist stop at a steel panel window, I didn't expect to see what I saw when he opened up the panels.

All I saw, was **horror**.

An innocent creature with fours strapped down on a metal board with its chest cut wide open. Blood all over his torso area and on the surgen's gloves. The sound of an ear-piercing screech filling my head and ears.

I was terrified.

I whimpered a little as the scientist continued on walking down the hall with the robot following along. I looked over to the raccoon with a worried and scared expression, possibly knowing what he was in for.

"Should I skip the next part?" Lianna asked, putting her hands together with her pointer fingers sticking out and pressed against her lips.

"Why would you want to skip the next part?" Peter asked, pouring some of the batter into the pan.

"Well it's just your making breakfast and your probably hungry. I don't really wanna ruin your appetite," she said.

"What so disgusting about this part of the story?" he asked.

"You really want me to tell you every detail they did to him below his torso?"

Peter's face went a little grim and pale. "Um, no,"

"Ok, but I'll tell you this," she said. "It was all filled with screams, cries, cracks and snaps, metal clinking, blood, and the sound of insides being squished," Peter shuttered to the metal image of seeing that in person.

"Just be happy you can actually forgot things like that," Lianna said, frowning to herself. She quickly then cleared her throat and said "Where were we left off at now?"

"_After_ the operation," Peter said.

"Good, making sure your listening with being the kind of guy you are," she smirked. He couldn't help but to slighty smile to that too.

It was only _half_ of the performance that they were planning on doing to him from what I heard.

I was just sitting there on top of the door frame withering and curling up into a ball. The images of the persejure kept flashing through my head, and I kept on blaming my Langarian side for this one of the many gifts I had.

The raccoon had already passed out from exaushtion from the operation. He laid there strapped to the board with dry blood all over his legs and speckling his tail and torso.

An assisstant scientist unstrapped him and carefully laid him down in a cage. The assisstant then pushed a cart the cage was on toward the door, and I quickly jumped down before he finished punching in a code.

As the cart strolled down to god knows what, I saw a tag on the raccoon's ear. 'Subject 89P13' it read, and I thought that was the most stupidest thing to call someone.

Soon the cart came to a halt. I looked up to see a door slidding open and the cart moving forward again. Fear began to flood through me again, wondering what was gonna happen now.

The assisstant picked up the cage and sat it against the wall, unlatching the door for the raccoon to get out and about when it awoke again. I quickly jumped off the cart and ran under the pull-out bed, waiting for him to leave the room before I returned to my normal.

The door closed with a 'ssssht' sound, kinda weird sounding to me, and I grew back to normal size; being shrunken for a long time does no bad pain to you, but I always got this feeling I was just pulled out of a small box and needed to stretch.

I looked over at the poor thing, doing the nice thing of cleansing him from the blood; I would be terrified too to wake up and find blood all over me.

I used the rest of my water from my water bottle for a better result in the cleaning, trying to use an equal amount of water on each area of his lower body.

He started to wake up when I finished drying him off with the cell blanket. I laid him down and gave him space, letting him take in his surroundings.

His eyes fluttered open, but once he began to get up, he looked so unnatural and disfigured; he looked like a hunch-back raccoon whose arms always dangled from his figure.

He quickly noticed me and froze in place, thinking of me as an enemy again. I simply just laid down on the ground, my eyes fixed on to him as curiosity shined through his eyes.

He took a step toward me, clumsily; he still wasn't used to his humafied legs. I took the chance to rise slightly; positioning myself with my arms propping my up.

He froze again, but suprised me when he took two more steps closer. I just smiled and giggled softly; he tweaked his head to that, and I swore I saw the corner of his lips tug up into a smile himself.

Soon, there was only an inch of space between our noses; his twitching and sniffing. I began to slowly lower my hands, letting them rest against the ground. He backed up to that, but began to investigate my hands.

He touched and grasped and sniffed and even gave my hand a lick or two, and all I did was smile and giggle at his curiosity.

I lifted my hand, thinking he would flinch, but he just kept on touching and licking my hand. I reached out to his head, him ceasing his 'investigation', and gave a little scratch behind the ear.

He enjoyed it.

Soon after the little scratch session I gave him, he got closer to me and rubbed his head on my cheek; a sign of affection and trust.

Lianna sat there in the chair for a moment in silence, remembering the joy and fun that started from that day on.

"So when do we reach the part he becomes fully cybernetic?" Peter asked, flipping a pancake.

"God, should've called you 'Question-Lord' with how much you ask," she playfully whined. "But I guess I could; from there to the rest of the operation was just a new daily routine and bonding, but there was one moment I remember most between those the two events," she smiled to herself to the remembering of the memory.

I was awake and fixing breakfast, liturally. With past experiences, I had learned how to make breakfast tasty and edible for the both of us since the facilities just served a bowl a gray, plain slop and a healthly side of one, single fruit they randomly gave you.

I looked back to find Oreo still asleep and-

"Hold on a second," Peter inturrpted. "You used to call Rocket 'Oreo' back then?" he smirked to the thought of a manly creature Rocket was to be called a cookie brand.

"It was a temporary name," Lianna said sternly. "I was only twenty-four; I was just gaining some more of my maturity,"

"You weren't really mature after eighteen?" he questioned, smirking with a thought of what she did before then.

"It's called being 'babysitter material'," she said. "Many people wanted me for a babysitter back in my town because of how imaginative and creative I was with children; a very natural talent I had; no alien species power used for it,"

"Sure you did,"

"It's true! I found out it _was_ natural when I remembered that each time I used a forgein power, I would get this little tingling feeling in my head; nevered happened when I was babysitting,"

"Ok, can we get back to the story?"

"Well your the one who's like 'Oreo? That's a dumb name!' when I was starting that part!"

"Ok, I'm sorry! Could you please continue on!"

Lianna gave him a 'you really interested in this?' face, then said "Put more bacon in the pan for me if you really wanted me to continue,"

Peter sighed and grabbed the box, dumping the rest of the bacon on to an empty pan.

"Wow-hoo! You weren't kiddin'!" she said, suprised, humored, and satisfied by his action. "Alrighty then, back to the sleeping prince,"

I looked back to find Oreo still asleep and curled up on the pull-out bed, his ears now and then twitching. I decided to let him sleep in, knowing his next operation would be coming up soon.

I put my attention back on to the bowl of grey slop, which kind of reminded me of oatmeal. I grabbed the teal and green colored fruit and sliced it into pieces with my pocket knife, mincing half of them for the bowl.

Soon I heard the familiar sound of Oreo's morning yawn; a long high pitch transending to a small low grumble of some sort. I listened to the sound of him getting up, stretching, climbing down from bed, and walking over to me.

I knew he was watching me mix the fruit into the bowl while resting his head on my lap, which I found cute of him to do. But soon, I felt him pulling at my jakcet which meant he was ready to eat.

"Here ya go buddy," I said to him as I laid the bowl down in front of him. He gave me his usual chitter in thanks and began to eat his fixed breakfast.

As for me, I took a piece of the cut fruit I didn't use for his breakfast and made it into my breakfast serving; it wasn't much for me, but kept me down until lunch where a little bit more food is given for us.

He was still eating when I finished of my half of the fruit, but my stomach for some reason was telling me that wasn't enough.

I laid against the thin side of the pull-out bed, trying to calm down my hunger my distracting it or rubbing, but both of my stratagies for calming it wasn't working.

My attention was soon caught by the chittering sound of Oreo. I looked over to him, and found a new experession on his face.

He had the shine of curiousity in his eyes, but he had his eyebrows frowed down in confusion, and possibly worriedness.

Next thing you know it, he was pulling the bowl to my feet. He chittered to me again, and laid his paw on the rim of the bowl.

I caught on quickly that he was insisting me on eating the rest of his breakfast, which I politely refused at first, but gave in when he pulled my hand to the bowl.

"You sure your finished?" I asked him, picking up the spoon that laid on the tray. He nodded his head and sat beside me, laying his head against my stomach.

I smiled and rubbed his head before taking a mouthful in, suprised but glad to see him sharing something.

"So that was like the first thing he did nice for you?" Peter asked.

"Food wise to say, but the bigger stuff is comin' up next now," Lianna said. "Groot will be involved soon too, but inbetween the full operation and escape from that place,"

"Well then continue on, fair storyteller!" he said. "Don't let me stop you!"

"I will, just after a little break," she smiled getting up. "I wanna grab a blanket, freshen up a little, and grab a water; throats dryin' up from all this talking,"

"A mid-story cliffhanger?! Your crazy," he said before she walked down the hallway.

"Why thank you; I take pride in that," she said, giggling before disappearing from Peter's sight.

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**Sorry for the silence guys, just lost the groove for a little bit, but don't worry, it's comin' back now.**

**I'm gonna try to do a weekly update again, but if I don't, get at me for it; I'm trying to myself finish stories I've started.**

**Thanks for the support and begging ^^**


	13. Storytime: Part 2

Peter sat there in a chair waiting for Lianna to come back from her 'break'. He sighed and laid back in the chair, watching the steam from the food gather up inside of the microwave.

"Why did she make breakfast so early anyways?" he mumbled to himself.

Soon, he heard the sound of a door sliding open. _There she is finally_, he thought. She came into his view, and what he saw was no surprise.

She casually walked down the hall wearing a plush, white, rob with her hair wrapped in a blue towel and rested on her shoulder. She also had a bottle in her hand and purple slippers on her feet. She saw him and smirked to him.

"Waiting for me?" Lianna slyly asked.

"Been waiting for over an hour now," Peter said, crossing his arms and laying back in his chair.

"Well the wait is over, my fair boy," she chuckled. "For I am now clean and refreshed to continue on with my magical story,"

"Yeah yeah," he said, wanting to cut to the chase. "Last off in story, part two of Rocket's operation,"

"Already then," she said.

That day was the start of a new life and journey for Oreo and me.

As the cart strolled down the hallway, I was trying to comfort Oreo in a suitable size for him to see me and not get caught.

"It'll be okay, Oreo; quick and easy..._hopefully_," Lianna said. Oreo just gave a nervous chitter and whine, and pressed his face against me.

"Just remember, buddy," I reminded him, "Whatever happens, whether you get better or worse, I will always still be there for you," Oreo just gave a little purr in some glee, but soon lost it when the laboratory door opened up.

"I'll be watching," I last whispered, and stretched out of the cage, perching in the same spot I did the first time he went through surgery. For some reason I felt like that was a weird thing to say, but I thought of it meaning 'I'll be watching over you', but it felt more like 'I'll be watching you be brutally handled and ripped open, good luck'.

As I watched Oreo being taken out of the cage with ease and laid down on the cutting board, he looked at me with a plead of mercy and wishing for a miracle.

"And like the first time: ear-piercing screams, bones cracking, blood everywhere, with, if I remember-oh wait! I do! My vomit." Lianna said sarcastically at the end.

"You got sick?" Peter asked.

"Dude, they open up his _head_," she said.

Peter just kept silent, until he cleared his throat and said "Continue," in a very quiet voice.

"Anyways, it's after the last _major_ surgery Oreo needed," she said.

His whole entire body then was fully reconstructed. His hips were more alined with his legs and back, his shoulders actually visible and connecting to his a little, extended neck, his muzzle reformed to produce human words from what I had overheard from the scientists. He looked like an anthromorphic raccoon, or in simpler words, a furry.

"What's a furry?" Peter asked.

Lianna just shook her head and said "when you get the chance to use a computer or search engine, look it up, but as I was saying...,"

He was covered in blood and some other inhuman fluids that I didn't want to fucking know about at that point of time, all I cared about was his actually still breathing.

A scientist actually did a _good deed_ and washed him off in a nearby sink, and thank god I had thought to myself, I didn't have any water left.

The scientist finished drying him off and laid him down in the cage, me quickly catching my ride before stranding myself in that bloody horror room.

I landed softly on the bedding they actually given him this time, and observed his newly, developed body, a little fascinated but horrified of the technology the used on him.

Peter was giving Lianna a 'you perving on him already then?' face.

"Goddamn you Peter; I was just lookin' at 'im!" she said, wanting to get back to the story.

"Sure you were," Peter teased.

"For god's sake! He was in pain and torture!" she snapped at him. "Why would I crush on someone who is being hurt and becoming mentally unstable?!"

He sunk in his chair a little, and quietly uttered out, "C-Continue..,"

She huffed, and pulled her hair back, using a strand of her hair to act as the ponytail. She continued on.

The assistant stopped the cart, punched in the password, and the door slid open. The assistant this time opened the cage and lifted Oreo up, me not realizing and missing my ride. He laid Oreo down on the pull out bed and went to leave. I quickly jumped down and ran inside so the door didn't shut me out.

As soon as the door came to a close, I grew to my normal size and quickly went over to him, checking his heart rate and breathing. He was still alive luckily, but would be sleeping for a good bit.

And he did, actually.

He hadn't opened his eyes for two days. I tried to store the longer-lasting foods in my bag so when he had woken up, he would have more to eat to restore. When he finally did opened his eyes, it was a whole different thing for him.

Oreo's eyes fluttered open, and he groaned. A _human_ groan. He propped himself up with his elbows and looked all around the room, locking his tired gaze upon me. He smiled, and slowly stood up like a human, taking in his new appearance, but not for long. He soon after jumped off the bed, but stumbled from the new bodily balance, and wrapped his arms around my torso, surprisingly holding a tight grip on me.

"T...Ta-an-k..y-y...y-you," His first words. It shocked me very much, but I was also proud of him. I was actually kind of speechless from it.

"U-Uh...you're welcome, Oreo," I said to him, wrapping my arms around him too and burying my nose in his head, trying to stop myself from crying. "You hungry, buddy?" I asked, looking him in the eyes. He just nodded his head and laid it against me, which I couldn't help but find adorable.

I reached for my bag without moving my spot, since he was plastered on to me at the moment, and pulled out a red and brown fruit out for him. He sniffed it and took it into his new, developed hands, turning around to lay his back against me as he feasted on the exotic fruit.

I was glad to see he was well and healthy. He may had looked like a twig, but he was still alive and moving. But soon I felt a tug on my shirt, and it was him asking for more. I just chuckled slightly and grabbed another fruit. "Don't be eating too much, bud, I only got enough to give you an additional fruit for about a week,"

"Oh-...kay," he said, and I couldn't help but to give a gleeful giggle and scratch his head. I couldn't believe how fast he had already learn to talk. He must of had been watching me as I said every single word and remembered how to form his mouth to produce the sound.

"Quick little time skip," Lianna said, sipping from her water bottle. "It's now the part where things get a little hairy, and I guess that could be a pun for what happens,"

It had initially been three and a half weeks. Oreo has been going outside of the cell for English training with hopefully nice scientists and had improved a great bit since then. But today was going good until it happened.

"What happened?" Peter interrupted.

Lianna groaned and said "You'll see if you stay quiet," through clenched teeth. Peter just sat there in his chair, sitting straight up with legs criss-crossed. _I feel like I'm telling a story to a kid_, she thought and began to continue.

Oreo had just came back from another lesson, seeming very gleeful. The door closed and I quickly grew back to my normal size.

"How was lessons today, Oreo?" I asked him, laying on the bed with my arms crossed behind my head.

"Great!" Oreo exclaimed, putting his hands on the bed and looking at me with the biggest smile I ever seen. "Teacher talked about space and rockets and I learned new words, but the rockets I liked the most!" He jumped up and down like a little kid did something extraordinary in their words.

"Rockets you say?" I said turning to smile to him. "Well I've been on one for a long time before,"

"You did! How it like!" he said, pulling himself up on to the bed. He straighten out his white shirt and shorts and sat on his legs facing towards me, his eyes glowing with curiosity and ears waiting for me to speak.

"It was very scary at first for me," I began. "Everything shook for a little bit, but then balanced out. I could feel the ship itself rise through the sky, until we hit space and all I felt was the hum of the ship's engine. The stars outside looked so beautiful as they were passed by," He was looking at me in awe, apparently fantasizing about it from the look in his eyes.

"Rocket!" he then said loudly(we try not to talk _really loud_ or else someone outside would notice). "I wanna be Rocket!"

"But how would you become a rocket?" I asked, a little confused by him.

"No, I want to be 'Rocket'," he pointed to himself, and I quickly pieced it together.

"You wanna be 'Rocket' instead of 'Oreo'?" I said, and he nodded with a smile, very happy with his 'brilliant' idea. "Ok, then," I sat up and faced toward him. I pulled out my pocket knife and pulled out a screw driver tip(safer than the knife obviously).

"Then I now, pronounce thee, Rocket Oreo...Raccoon," I said, quickly thinking of a last name other than mine. I then 'honored' Rocket with the screw driver. "I guess you were a little too old for 'Oreo'," I said, putting my pocket knife away and ruffling the fur on his head.

But then I realized, I let go of my guard too much.

One of the interns for the facility came in to deliver Rocket's food, and he saw me. He quickly hit a button that was outside the door and the door slammed shut. I heard gas start to fill the room and I panicked.

"Shit- Rocket!" I quickly grabbed him and ran to the corner of the room. I pulled my legs to my chest with him in between. Immediately, I formed a dome around us with my hair, keeping the strands very tight and locked together so the gas didn't seep in.

Rocket just looked at me with worry and fear. I never liked to cheat with life and physics, but I needed to know what flooded his poor mind right now, so I quickly read his mind.

He was worried something was going to happen to me. That I was going to be taken away from him, or possibly end up dying for being with him. I needed to calm him.

"I-It's ok, Rocket," I tried to calmly coo, for he started to clutch my shirt with his hands and cry. "I-I'm not leaving you, no matter what," I clutched him tight and tucked his head under mine, tears slowly falling from my eyes.

But then I heard the door slid open.

"You fool! Cut the gas!" Someone yelled. The gas then stopped, and was then sucked back from the apparent sound of a vacuum.

Footsteps then filled the room. There had to be about five people outside of the dome. Quiet mumbles quickly filled the place, scaring Rocket as I felt him shake a little.

"Williams, go fetch me the scalpel," I heard, and knew no way was I going to waste hair for nothing. I slowly let my hair drop its form, quickly sensing 'William' being stopped by someone. The five scientists store in awe as my face began to show. I just looked back at them with fear, wrapping my arms tight around Rocket as my hair slowly fell to the ground.

When my hair was down, it quickly slithered behind me to normal length. They just kept staring at me, and it grew uncomfortable by the second. Soon a brunette man walked to the front of the small group. The name tag clearly written out in bold letters '**Prof. Stein**'.

"What is your name, miss?" Stein asked. His voice was just so stale to me, like no emotion existed in him.

"U-Uh...," I felt speechless, my mind in conflict with telling him a truth or lie.

"Your name, please," Anger actually started to show a little that time.

"L-...L-Lianna Argo," I stuttered, rubbing Rocket's shoulder with my thumb.

"Well, Miss Argo, I would like to ask what are you doing here? In one of our experiments chambers?" his eyes felt like spears piercing my soul and body, tearing at my thoughts and causing difficulty to think and answer.

"I-I've actually been here for a-awhile now," I said, surprising him. "I've had been on one of your cargo ships for fours years since it came to my home planet and left. I was going to leave until I saw him," I looked down to Rocket and stroked his head. "He looked so helpless, so I stayed, coming into this place with him. I've been with him ever since, helping him and caring for him; teaching him a little something new everyday,"

"That explains how well he is in the English lessons!" A scientist said. The other scientists mumbled agreements but were soon silenced by Stein raising his hand. He took a few steps closer, clearing his throat.

"So your to say, that you've been helping him and living with him," he said.

"Yes, sir, I could never leave him alone. We've formed a very strong bond between each other," The brunette scientist just store at me and Rocket, turning his attention then on to me.

"How did you do that trick?" he asked.

"T-The dome?" I asked.

"Yes, that,"

"Well it's because I just can; it's in my blood," I needed to punch myself for saying that.

Stein just then formed a little, sly smirk on his face. "Well then you wouldn't mind a blood test, wouldn't you?"

"I-I-,"

"Wonderful," he grabbed my arm and nicely pulled my up. "I'll let Subject 89P13 come along too," he put his other hand on my back and began to lead me out of the room, Rocket just looking at me like 'this isn't going to go well'.

We came to a room with the a larger cutting board and I freaked. I got out of Stein's grip and went to run out the door when two scientist caught me. A third one came and took Rocket from me as the two holding me pulled me back to the board. They started to strap me down and Rocket began to squirm in the third scientist's arms.

"Don't hurt friend!" he yelled, trying his hardest to break free from the grasp of the scientist.

"Oh don't worry, we won't hurt her," Stein said, pulling gloves over his hands. "Not unless she doesn't hold still," he picked up a needle from a tray nearby and walked over to me. He was nice enough to put numbing gel on my arm first.

"Don't you think this is a little extreme for a blood sample?" I asked, failing in moving away(I may have had the knowledge and powers of other species, but that didn't stop me over-looking a problem and seeing I actually had a solution for it).

"Don't move~" he cooed sadistically. I couldn't help but to obey him, I didn't want to cause more pain to myself by tensing up my muscles. I tried my best to relax myself, but I tensed up halfway through the process. I looked across the room to find Rocket hiding his face with his shirt, not wanting to see the needle and its action.

"All~ better~" he sickly cooed again, applying a gauze with tape then afterwards. The two backed off me, giving me room in case I might do something. I just sighed and relaxed my shoulders, breathing a little heavy for a bit. Rocket slowly pulled his shirt back down with shaky hands, looking at me then with great relief.

He managed to slip out of the distracted scientist's arms and run over to me, crawling up the board and hugging my neck. Stein just stared at us in confusion and awe, like he never saw affection in his life. I made my arms go limp and with ease pull them out of the straps, gaining form once released and wrapping them around Rocket.

"Amazing," Stein muttered "The ability to just let your body become soft and elastic," He moved his hands closer to me and I moved away, looking at him with concerned eyes. He just smirked at me with shady eyes, withdrawing his arm.

"Miss Argo, I would have to say you have such amazing abilities, any that I don't recall being in one, single body," he said, emptying my blood sample into a test tube. "What breed of species are you?"

"W-Well my mother was Langarian and-"

"Langarian!" he exclaimed. "We were _never_ able to get a Langarian to let us test their blood!"

"How come?" I asked, setting Rocket on my shoulder and un-strapping my legs

"Well, we just wanted to sample their blood. Test them for possible outcomes of cures for diseases. But the president declined our offer, for he thought it was a bad idea for his people's blood to be in our hands,"

"I-I guess I could help out then," I said, pushing myself off the board. "I mean, your just testing for medical reasons, why not?"

"And there," Lianna began. "I have made the **biggest mistake** of my life. That will then, spiral. Into. Hell,"

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**Did not expect for Lianna's story to turn into a 3 chap. split, but don't worry, the grooves slowly coming back, and even stronger :)**

**Alsooo~ I **_**might**_** start to draw my lovebirds together, and if I get there enough, a possible comic might come out. But don't hopes too high, for Biology is coming to ruin my life.**

**Yeeeeeeeeeeah (T_T )**


	14. Storytime: Part 3

"My first week 'officially' living there, was filled with mainly tests of some of my abilities and my knowledge of all species," Lianna said, reaching into the microwave to grab a piece of bacon. "It was freaking, boring shit, but I guess it was better than the progression of number of shots I got every week after all the tests,"

"Was that the start of your...you know...," Peter felt it hard to say it to her, but then again, she was just chewing on a piece of bacon like a cow at the moment. "T-The...the beginnING-"his voice cracked a little, "of your...symp-toms?"

"My mutation, you mean?" she said, looking at him with an emotionless face. Peter gulped and shook his head, looking away. "It's nothing to feel ashamed to say to me, Peter. I may remember all the horror and pain I have went through that time, but it's not like just hearing the word causes a major traumatic flashback,"

"Ok then," he said, feeling a little awkward placing himself in this situation. "M-May we continue?"

"Yes we can," she said, going to her seat. She stopped and quickly whipped back around to grab five more pieces of bacon. Peter just chuckled.

"I'm gonna try to fast forward to the nearing of Groot's appearance," she said, munching on a piece of bacon. He nodded and she began again.

It had to have been two months since I had began to get those 'medical reasoned' shots. The first week was fine, got a little sore in my arms and legs, but was just fine. But then the next week seemed to notch up the shots to about two, and a rare headache would visit. It wasn't until one month had passed when I had some serious symptoms.

I would now and then have an excruciating headache and an every fourth day, midnight vomiting session. I was so lucky Rocket was kind enough to help out when it happened. There was also the drastically body temperature changing. When I over-heated, I would roll up my white uniforms pants and take off my shirt. And when I grew very cold, I would almost cocoon myself in my hair wrapped with a blanket.

Lianna just softly giggled then.

"What is it, Lianna?" Peter asked, thinking he missed a joke in the story.

"It's just I remembered something," she said smiling.

"What was it?" he asked.

"I remember when I grew unbearable hot again and Rocket was just coming in the room," she said, beginning a little short story. "The door closed and he asked me why I had my shirt off. I just sat there in my bra blushing and trying to cover myself, but it was just so damn hot for me. I just told him I was really hot and he was just like 'ok'. But then as soon as he sat by me he asked 'what are these?' and pointed to my boobs," she began to crack up a little at the end, hearing Peter chuckling across from her.

"Did he really ask that?" he said, cheeks growing faintly red from his laughter.

"Yeah! And so I'm like 'shit, what I tell this kid?' So all I said was they were just extra muscles on my chest; help pad me from a punch," she snickered.

"Oh my god, then what did Rocket say?" he laughed.

She snorted at first, and then said "'I wish I had some too'!" They both just blew up with laughter, but stopped to the sound of someone moaning in their sleep. Lianna got up from her seat and looked around the corner, finding Groot anchored to the wall like she remembered and Rocket curled up on his lap. He then out-stretched his body and yawned, making her think he was waking up, but he just repositioned himself to lie against Groot's chest.

"What was that?" Peter asked, trying to see what she was looking at.

"Just Rocket," she replied. "Good thing he didn't wake up yet. He would've interrupted the story,"

"Why doesn't he like to tell us about it?" he asked, placing his elbows on his legs and resting his head in his palms.

"Because he suffered more from that time than me," she said, moving back to her seat. "He seen more horror and felt more pain than me, and just remembering all of that just unbalances him, explaining why you guys see him get angry, upset, and even horrified to the topic of it,"

"That explains it then," he said, but soon realized they were getting off topic. "Where did we left off again?"

"Oh yeah, the midnight shot appointment," she said.

I was just laying there in the room snuggled up with Rocket. The bottom of the metal door was lifted up a little to let in some light during the night. It was allowed only for us since Stein trusted me for some reason. No idea why. But then came along the queue.

My stomach began to very slowly churn, and I tried to settle it. I looked at my watch and saw it was eleven forty-five.

"Damn it," I quietly cursed. It was going to happen soon, and I would ruin another perfect night of sleep for Rocket. I felt like with Rocket having to start take care of me now and then it kinda matured him. He was still childish at times, but when it came to my symptoms, he automatically goes into a matured-person mode.

But then light blinded my eyes. I looked away at first, but then heard someone.

"Lianna," It was Stein.

It surprised me to see him up at this time, and requesting for me.

"Lianna, wake up," he then had came over and shook my shoulder. I slowly got up and rubbed my eyes, faking the expression of just waking up.

"Oh..., hi Doc," I tiredly said, rubbing my eyes.

"I'm sorry to wake you up in the middle of the night, but apparently we forgot to give you a shot today," he said, moving back to give me room to stretch over Rocket.

"Ok then," I yawned. I straightened my shirt and followed Stein out into the hallway, watching him close the door and walk towards the same room I've been going to while Rocket's been learning stuff. But just then, my stomach kicked me. I moaned a little to the pain that grew inside me, and apparently caught Stein's attention.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"Y-Yeah, just tired," I replied, crossing my arms across my stomach.

"Again, sorry for the interruption," He seemed so caring for some reason, and I didn't know if I should fear that or admire it. He _did_ have me strapped down to a board just to draw my blood, but he was nice enough to let me stay with Rocket and give us more food.

Soon we had made it to the room and I got the shot done and over with, but brunette seemed to have something else up his sleeve.

"Well, glad that's over," I said, sliding off the stool and stretching my arms. "Am I actually getting that one week break from the shots?"

"Y-Yes, you are," Stein said, seeming nervous all of a sudden.

"Alrighty then," I said. "I think I should back to my room; Rocket probably figured out I'm gone by now with no warmth comforting him,"

"Warmth~"Stein muttered, loud enough for me to hear it. "U-Um Lianna, can I tell you something?"

"Sure," I said, closing the door and turning around, "What is it?"

"For some time now, since we've been around each other since testings, I feel like something...grew...between the both of us," He drew close to me, and panic slowly flooded my mind as I stepped back.

"I felt these warm, fuzzy feelings inside me, and it grows just everytime I'm around you," Soon I was against the door, and he showed to stopping in growing closer.

"And so I've made it clear now to say that...I lo-," Just then it struck midnight, and my session happened luckily right on time.

I quickly covered my mouth and it came up, seeping through my fingers. Stein was just horrified, and I couldn't help but to mentally smile.

"Oh my god-Come here!" Soon he quickly pushed me over to a tall, metal cylinder, letting me expel my nasty substance. "Are you ok? I mean, did you eat something bad?" he was in full care-taker mode once I finished.

"No, I'm fine," I said, wiping my mouth. "This is normal,"

"Normal!? What do you mean 'normal'?! How long has this been happening?!" I was glad he was worried about my health and all; he even gave an additional four days of no shots just so he could make a remedy for all of the symptoms. But that caused the dangerous side-effect. Something I never knew I had until Groot showed up.

We were just sitting in a room. Stein called us both to tell us something very important when we heard a commotion outside.

"What was that?" I asked, looking at the door behind us. "It sounds like there's a fight outside,"

"It's probably nothin', Lianna," Rocket said. His speech improved a lot, but the teachers don't like the accent he been forming. He had lost most of his childish ways over the time being, but I know it's because of the discipline he's been getting since his brain should be 'maturing to its age'.

The banging got louder and I swore I heard a scream. "Are you sure nothin's goin' on out there?" I asked, feeling a little paranoid that something might burst through the door.

"Oh, that's just the new capture," Stein casually said, shuffling some papers together. "We had a call for it last night, someone reporting there a humanoid, plant-man outside their house and playing with their children,"

"Just another freak to add to this place," Rocket murmured. Stein looked at him with a hellish glare, making him sit up straight and say "S-Sorry, sir,"

Stein cleared his throat and said "Now, what I wanted to tell you is I have some good news and bad news," Not one bit did that sound good. "Good news is Rocket has accelerated in his English and math, meaning we can go to his hands-on tests. Also, from what I've observed, _you_ have recovered from your symptoms, correct?"

"Yup, haven't gotten sick, hot, cold, or have any headaches," I replied. "I'm glad you're well," he smiled, but it diminished when he went on to the bad news.

"The bad news is Rocket _will_ have to go through some tweaking surgeries if he fails to meet the scores needed for his determined abilities," Rocket looked at me with fear in his eyes. "Also, there has been some complaints by some of the teachers, so we're gonna need to-"

Just then the door was broke down by a scientist. I quickly got up and inspected him. He was beaten up and was bleed from his arm. His legs looked broken, and he was covered in leaves for some reason. I looked up and all I saw was a tendril dragging a screaming scientist down the hall. I got up and went to go find the creature when I felt Rocket, and surprisingly Stein, grab a hold of me.

"Don't go out there, Lianna!" Rocket cried, clutching my pant leg.

"Please, Lianna, you'll get hurt!" Stein warned, holding my shoulder.

"I'm not gonna stand here and let people die!" I pulled out of both their grips and ran down the hall, following the sound of screams and roaring. I heard someone behind me and saw it was Rocket and Stein chasing after me from far behind. I just ran faster until I saw it.

It was like watching a horror movie. The creature almost looked like a walking tree covered in tough vines and moss, with blood painted on his hands. He roared with outrage as he slammed a scientist into a wall. I heard some others coming.

I shook out of my paralyzed state and got into a battle stance, expanding my fists some. I charged at it and locked a hand on his arm, ripping the hurt scientist from its tendrils. The creature grew more furious and grabbed a hold of my arm, me quickly setting the person down before locking arms with the alien plant.

"Lianna!" I heard Rocket yelled. I looked back to him, but was soon slammed into a wall, hurting my back. Rocket just gasped as Stein finally showed up, pushing a button on the wall to alert everyone.

"I am Groot!" the beast yelled, pushing me farther into the wall. I pushed against 'Groot's force to allow enough room for me to level to its height. It seemed confused at first from my action, but just shook it off and went to push me back again. I whipped us around and pinned it to the wall this time, but it slashed my face with a tendril and I stumbled back. I tripped over a piece of tile and fell on to my bed, making myself vulnerable to it.

"Back off, you hunk of wood!" Rocket got in front of Groot and took a piece of loose concrete, throwing it at its chest.

"I am Groot!" it yelled again, snatching Rocket up in its hand, squeezing him and making him groan in pain.

At that moment everything felt like it slowed down. My head suddenly began to pound and my stomach was spinning. My body soon became cold and my heart raced. I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to figure out why all my symptoms came back at once. And then it happened.

I shot my eyes open, feeling the immense rush of my blood. I went to puke, but I swallowed it down. I felt myself gradually grow bigger and bigger, until my eye level was above Groot's. My teeth and nails grew sharp, and my skin turned grey. The only thing on my mind was to destroy.

I lunged at Groot and ripped his arm off, tossing it aside with Rocket locked in the dead grasp of the wooden hand. I grabbed its shoulders and threw it into the wall, causing a huge dent. I growled in its face and squeezed its shoulders, letting my nails puncture its barky skin.

"Don't you touch my friend!" I screamed, my voice dark and horrifying. I continued to crush it with my hands when I heard someone yelling. I couldn't make out who it was and what they were saying. In fact, everything around me became silent. I just continued to glare at it and crush it with all my might, but then, I saw the look of fear in its eyes.

"I'm...the monster," I said, suddenly regaining all of my hearing. The alarms were blaring all around me, and then I heard someone shout.

"Fire!" I was about to look when something sharp pierced my thigh.

"Ow!" I yelped, un-clutching my hands from Groot and pulling the object out. I looked at it, and saw it was a tranquilizer.

"Shiiiiiit," My voice slurred and I felt myself being to lose balance. I heard muffled voices in front of me. My vision grew blurry and dark. The last thing I remembered was Rocket, frantically pulling down on someone's coat.

Lianna looked down at her hands, remembering all the horrible things she did to her friends.

"Are you ok?" Peter spoke, catching her attention.

"Um, yeah, I'm fine," she said, running her hand through her hair as she dropped its ponytail form.

"You can stop now if this is bringing back too much," he said, laying his hand on hers.

"Oh no, I don't wanna stop you from knowing the rest, it'll make another cliffhanger," she said, looking at him with a 'I'm fine' look.

"Lianna, I'll be fine. Besides, everyone's gonna be waking up soon and we can just continue this afterwards," he said, gentle grasping her hand in his.

"But Peter, you really wanted to hear this,"

"I know I did, made the _whoooole_ box of bacon just to hear it all, but teammates come first on this ship, and I say we continue after breakfast. Starlord's command,"

Lianna smiled and rested her other hand on Peter's. "Ok then," she said. "We'll continue after breakfast as you wish,"

Peter then chuckled. "I kinda don't know if I should be happy or freaked out that you sound like my mother so much,"

"Be happy, I'm glad I remind you of your mother," she said giggling, "Cause I want everyone on this ship to know that I'm there for them and I will care you,"

"Thanks," he said, smiling to her as she smiled back.

"You're welcome," she said, standing up then. "Now, let's get these sleepyheads up and about before the food goes bad,"

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**I didn't plan for the rest of the biography to be put on a fourth chapter, but I don't want the chapter to look like it was 20 pages long, so fourth one it'll be.**

**Also the climax is coming up soooon~ ;) Probably just a few more chapters and then BAM! Total plot twister! So keep reading if you wanna see what happens soon!**

**-xXFangirl311Xx**

**P.S.\- I just realized that if you abbreviate the story title, it spells 'YAMS'. Why didn't I see this ("-w-)**


	15. Danger's Coming

"Rooooocket~" Lianna cooed, gently nudging his shoulder. He moaned and lazily swatted at her hand, curling up more on Groot's lap. "Come on, Rocket. Breakfast is awaitin' for ya," She hooked her hands under his armpits and lifted him up to his feet, him just moaning in rejection to wake up.

"I am Groot_(I guess he had__** too**__ much sleep)_," Groot chuckled, slowly detaching himself from the wall.

"I guess he did," she giggled, laying a kiss on Rocket's forehead.

Peter was kneeling down by Gamora's sleeping body that laid curled up behind the co-pilot's seat. He watched her sleep peacefully instead of acting like a brutal, killing assassin. But soon, he felt a hand slap him across the back of his head.

"Ow!" he yelped, looking back to find Lianna there. "What was that for?!"

"You don't think I forgot about the 'No Adora-Gamora' challenge, do you?" she slyly said, putting a hand on her hip.

"U-Um...maybe?" he pleadingly smiled, only earning a hand run over his hair and ruining its curly waves.

"I'll give you one day,_ one day_, to try to redeem yourself in the challenge, but you must try to avoid Gamora for the _whole_ day; starting after breakfast," she said, walking over to Drax to wake him up.

"Fine," he bluntly said, angered that the bet had notched up to a higher difficulty for him to abide.

She just giggled as she knelt down in front of Drax, who was sleeping against the wall with his legs and arms criss-crossed.

"Drax, wake up," she said, resting her hand on his shoulder. He quickly fluttered his eyes open and looked up, smiling a little to see it was her.

"Good morning, Lianna," Drax said, putting a hand on her shoulder too.

"You slept well?" she asked, taking his arm and helping him up.

"Yes, I did," he said, stretching his arms back.

"Glad you did," she said smiling, before turning around and walking behind the counter to announce "Breakfast in session!" With that, she opened the microwave, laying out the food with multiple arms she formed.

"I am Groot_(Come on, Rocket)_," Groot said, standing Rocket up before betting up too.

"Why'd you wake me up so early?" Rocket whined, slowly walking over to the counter.

"It's actually near afternoon, buddy," Peter said, taking a seat.

"Well someone should've woken me up so I didn't sleep in," Rocket said, lazily making his way up the stool.

"Well eat some breakfast," Lianna said, "There's a reason why your supposed to eat three meals a day,"

Rocket just grumbled something and laid his head down on the counter, soon being greeted by a plate of steaming scrambled eggs, pancakes, and bacon.

His eyes lit up with delight as he inhaled the delicious aroma. He sat up straight and grabbed the fork, immediately shoveling a forkful into his mouth.

"Looks like someone's hungry," Peter teased, spreading butter on his pancakes. Rocket just glared at him with his cheeks full, slowly putting another forkful in his mouth.

Lianna giggled at the both of them. "You two are goofballs," she said, giggling a little more. Peter just looked at Rocket and began to chuckle too, Rocket turning his focus back on his plate with a slightly annoyed expression.

Soon, Drax, Gamora, and Groot were chuckling too, and Rocket couldn't help but to smile too with the others.

* * *

"Where's the dish soap?" Peter yelled, standing at the currently cluttered counter sink.

"I don't know," Gamora said, passing by.

"Never saw it in my life," Rocket said, going by the other way while carrying a box of scrap metal.

"Groot?" Peter asked.

Groot nodded 'no' and followed Rocket.

"Drax?" Peter asked.

"No, I have not seen the soap for dishes," Drax said, going down to the storage space below.

"Liaaannaaaaa," Peter yelled, soon hearing footsteps coming his way.

"God, Peter, you want'ta whole planet to hear ya?!" Lianna said, sitting on the counter. "What d'ya want?"

"Where's the dish soap?" he said, smiling from how stupid he felt.

"Are you kidding me?" she said, looking at him annoyed.

He just shrugged his shoulders as she face palmed herself, slowly raking her fingers down her face. She sighed and stretched her arm over to a nearby cabinet, pulling open the door and revealing a full bottle of dish soap.

"So _that's_ where it is," Peter said, nervously chuckling to himself.

Lianna just store at him with a 'really?' face while setting the soap down and closing the cabinet door. "You could've tried looking before yelling at everyone where is it," she said, tossing the bottle to him.

He clumsily caught it in his arms and embarrassly smiled at her, setting the bottle by the sink before clearing his throat.

"So, when are you gonna continue telling the story?" he asked, running the faucet water.

"Sometime when their asleep or out without us," she said, turning herself sideways to have her feet on the counter and back against the cupboards.

"Why not now?" he asked, squeezing some soap on to the sponge.

"Because I can't risk anyone else hearing, especially Rocket,"

"Why can't you tell the others?"

"Not to be mean, but Drax will asked many question and explanation through the story, more than what you did, Gamora will almost be like Drax but with 'why didn't you' questions, Rocket will have more nightmares and get angry at me, and Groot, it wouldn't bother him, but he doesn't like remembering the fight I had with him whole ways to when I had to leave them,"

"Wait, you left them?" Peter asked, putting his attention on Lianna.

"That's near the ending of the story, where I me-"

"Don't tell!" he exclaimed, flicking his wrist to splash her with some water from the sponge. "I don't want any spoilers!"

Lianna giggled and said "Okay then, no spoilers," as she wiped the water off her face.

"So how will we get the chance to continue?" he asked, going back to the task of cleaning dishes.

"Like I said, either asleep or alone by ourselves," she said.

"Well don't we need more food and stuff?" he asked.

"I guess," she said. "But remember?" She gave him the reminder look and he remembered.

"Oh yeah," he said. "But, wouldn't it be fine if we just quickly went to a planet and back outside the quadrant?"

Lianna thought about that for a moment. _Could that work?_ she thought. _Or would they be able to immediately track us down?_

"I guess we could give it a shot," she said. "I mean, it's only for a little bit, what could go wrong?"

* * *

Henry was in the living room, watching the TV. He had known his daughter had left Earth to do some business and was fine about it. _A busy girl she's became_, he thought, smiling to himself.

Suddenly, multiple knocks echoed from the front door.

"Coming!" he yelled, shutting off the TV. "It better not be Mrs. Cheka again," he mumbled, twisting the door knob.

He was greeted by a thirties looking, brunette man wearing a lab coat. There was two other men behind him, wearing military-like uniforms.

"Why hello there," Henry greeted. "How may I help you?"

"Hello, I'm Professor Stein, head scientist of the Xandarian Science Control," Stein said, holding out his hand.

"Nice to meet you Mr. Stein," Henry said, shaking his hand. "Say, doesn't that name sound a little 'unearthly' to be a facility?" He knew who they were, and he hated them. He knew what they did to his daughter after Lela contacted him after finding her.

"Unearthly, no. Foreign, yes," Stein said, trying to keep their cover. "The main reason why we came here was to see if Lianna Argo was here, your daughter,"

"Yes, what about my daughter?" Henry asked, beginning to question their appearance here.

"Well we needed to ask her a few things," Stein said, looking behind Henry for any sign of her.

"Sure, sure," Henry said, "Come in!" He stepped back and let in Stein and the two men, grinning as they walked inside. But then, he slammed the door closed, getting the attention of the men. He turned the lock and reached into his jacket pocket hanging on the coat rack, pulling out a pistol. He pushed down the hammer and hovered his index finger in front of the trigger, pointing it at Stein.

"Tell me the goddamn reason why your here for my girl," Henry ordered, ready to pull the trigger in an instant.

"Oh no, what ever will I do," Stein said sarcastically. He snapped his fingers and the two armored men charged at Henry. Henry shot at the two, but the bullets just bounced off their armor, only leaving a tiny dent. They slammed him against the wall and ripped the pistol out of his hands, lifting him up by his neck.

"Where is Lianna?" Stein ordered, walking towards Henry choking.

"Gah...I...hak," Henry couldn't say a word. Stein just narrowed his eyes at him and backed up.

"Let him speak boys," Stein said. Immediately, the men backed off, dropping Henry to the ground coughing and gasping. As he got up, they grabbed a hold of him again, and threw him on to the coffee table, snapping it in half.

"AAAAUUGGH!" Henry yelled, arching his back from the immense pain. The men grabbed a hold of Henry again, lifting him a foot off ground.

"Now let's try this again," Stein said, walking over to him.

"You've hurt my daughter!" Henry yelled, still huffing from breathe lost. "You've injected shit into her and she became sick! She's not my same little girl anymore because of YOU!"

Both of the men just looked at Stein, waiting for a signal. Stein just walked to the other side of them, continuously staring at Henry. He then looked at his men, nodded his head to them. The two then gave Henry a blow to the jaw and stomach, him groaning in pain.

"Now, tell me where is your sweet, little girl right now," Stein said again, slowly feeling himself grow irritated.

Henry said nothing, just muffling groans and licking the blood off his lips.

"Where is Lianna?" Stein asked again, getting closer to Henry's face.

Again, Henry didn't respond.

"Tell me," Stein ordered, feeling angered by Henry's unresponsiveness.

Nothing.

"Tell, ME!" Stein yelled, slamming his fist on the other half of the coffee table.

"I DON'T KNOW!" Henry yelled, spooking Stein only a little. "I don't know! I don't know where she went! She hasn't been here for over a day and just left for something important,"

"It was to get away from me," Stein said, moving back to the other side of him. "She knew I was going to take her back along with her big and little friend. A clever girl I could say you have, very clever,"

"You stay aWAY FROM HER-!" Henry went to attack Stein when his men held him down, struggling against their grip. "If I _**ever**_, see _**near**_ Lianna, you, will, _**DIE**_,"

Stein just looked over his shoulder to Henry and then turned around to face him. "You won't have to worry one bit, Mr. Argo, we'll take _great_ care of her once we get her back to the laboratory,"

Just then, Stein's communicator went off. He picked it up, and deviously smiled before putting it away.

"Great news! We just picked up their signature!" Stein sarcastically exclaimed. "So you know what that means,"

Henry was first shocked, but then grew furious. He got lose from the armored men's arms and went to hit Stein in the face, when he felt a needle pierce the skin on his back.

"GAAAAH!" he yelled, falling to the floor. He pulled the object out his back quickly and groaned again, pain just filling his body, but mysteriously fading away. He looked and saw it was a tranquilizer dart.

"Fuck," Henry said, arms collapsing underneath him and landing him entirely on the floor. His vision became blurry, but he still knew where Stein was.

"Sweet dreams, Henry," Stein said, and Henry completely blacked out.

* * *

Everything in Henry's body ached.

His senses were slowly coming back along with the feelings of his body part. He groaned as he picked himself off the floor, slowly remembering what just happened.

His eyes then went into shock.

"Lianna," he muttered.

He immediately began to push himself to his knees, gripping on to the couch to help pull him up. Once he got on to his legs, he slowly made his way to his room.

"I gotta warn Lianna," he said, opening his bedroom door and stumbling across the room to his dresser. He opened the top drawer, and threw a stack of shirts out. Underneath was a communicator.

He picked it up, but soon fell to the ground. The communicator was still in his grip and he brought it closer to him. He press a red button that turned it on and punched in Lianna's address code.

It started calling.

He waited for her to pick up so he could tell her the bad news, but she didn't pick up after awhile.

"Would you like to leave a message?" the screen said, "Or would you like to recall?"

"Recall," he said, and the communicator began recalling.

Still no answer

"Would you like to leave a message?" the screen said again, "Or would you like to recall?"

Henry paused for a moment, and commanded "Leave a message,"

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**IT'S.**

**HEATING.**

**UP.**

**More secrets are being released and more chaos is coming their way. You ****will**** be seeing more drama and action coming up and the next chapters: back-story and story itself. I hope your enjoying this as much as I'm enjoying getting back into writing :D**

**-****xXFangirl311Xx**


	16. Storytime: Part 4(Final)

"Don't take too long, guys!" Peter yelled from the hatch. "We can't be stayin' too long since that guy replied,"

"Okay, Peter, stop worrin'," Rocket yelled back, walking along with Groot and the others. "But why can't Lianna come?"

"I gotta check the engine, it started sputtering and glitchin' when I went down there earlier," Lianna yelled out from behind Peter, grease covering her hands and a wrench that she held in grasp.

He smiled and said "Alrighty then, make sure you don't burn yourself then," and continued on walking.

"I won't~" she said, turning around to walk back up the hatch. When it closed, Peter found Lianna in the same seat as she was in from in the morning, wiping away the grease she rubbed on her hands to play along with the act.

"So, are you ready to continue the story?" Peter asked. "Ready as much as you," Lianna said, chuckling a little

Bright lights were blinding me. I squeezed my eyes closed and slowly cracked them open. Everything around me felt different, almost like I just swapped bodies with someone. I groaned and went to push myself up when I soon realized I was strapped down to something. I looked and saw I was on a board, an IV hooked up to me along with a heart monitor as well.

"Lianna?" The voice sounded soft, but I knew it was Stein.

"S...S-Stein?" My throat was aching and my voice sounded croakish.

"Oh, Lianna, you're awake!" Soon I felt him wrap his arms around my neck, and I flinched a little in surprise. I was glad he cared about me again, but then something clicked and moved from behind my neck. I watched Stein stand straight up and hold in his hands an advanced shock collar. _Was I really that bad?_ I thought to myself. _Did I hurt someone while I was out?_

"How are you feeling, Lianna?" he asked, going to un-strap my arms and legs next.

"Mmm...yeah," I meekly said, my throat still hurting. "But, where am I?"

"You're in 'HCZ', short for 'Hazardous Containment Zone', which is the second level of the facility," he said, finishing un-strapping me.

"'Hazardous Containment Zone'?" I said, slowly lifting myself up from the board.

"You were not alone as well in the transfer too," He pointed to two large two-way windows that were on my left and right. I carefully stepped off the board and looked into the right window, the mirror effect being on the other side of the wall. All I saw was Groot, strapped down to a board exactly like mine and hooked up to a heart monitor and other machines that we're in my current room. He wasn't struggling or anything, so I guessed he was knocked out.

I turned around and confronted the mirror part of the left window, squinting and shading my eyes to see into the other room. There was Rocket, hooked up to the same things as Groot and looked as he was waking up. He turned his head slightly to the right, and quickly woke up when he saw me. He began to struggle in the grasp of the straps and continuiously call my name from what I read off his lips.

"_Oh my god, Lianna's awake!_" I heard from inside his head. "_I gotta tell her what happened while she was knocked out for months!_"

"I was out, for months?" I asked Stein, looking at him from behind my shoulder. "You were only out for two weeks," he said. "But very much happened during that time you were asleep,"

"Like what?" I asked, turning away from the window then.

"Well, after we tranquilized you, much fuss had come up. Rocket continuiously complained about the method we used on calming you down and refused to do the last of his Math and English tests before moving him on to skill testings,"

"Did he miss me?" I asked, moving back to the window to watch Rocket stare back at me with an exhausted look. "He must of, for he refused to eat for five days and stayed huddled in the corner of the room, apparently hugging and or stroking your satchel bag. It wasn't until the next day did he actually do something, and awful something,"

"What did he do?" I asked, still looking at Rocket.

"He had bitten one of the staff members," I was shocked, and gave that same expression to Rocket.

"H-He bit someone?" "Two actually," Stein said, making the number gesture with his hand. I was shocked even more, actually almost horrified. The thought of Rocket doing something violent scared me. Sure, he can be 'rough 'n' tough', but never that harmful.

"The first one was just one of my assistants. He were taking in some food for Rocket since the food deliver system was took out in that hallway. He went in, and said 'Here's your food, 89P13', and sat the tray down on the bed. Rocket quickly grabbed his wrist and said 'Where's Lianna?' in a serious voice. My assistant said he didn't know where she was, and Rocket just said 'Wrong answer', and bit into his arm, drawing blood," I was just horrified as I imagined how it looked. I clenched my eyes tightly and put a hand on the window, feeling myself being to tear up to see I didn't raise him good enough(thank you, motherly species, like I needed you at all).

"And who was the other one?" I choked out a little, trying to hold back my tears as I turned to face him.

"Me," He pulled up his right coat sleeve and revealed a bandage wrapped below his elbow. I covered my mouth, feeling myself fall deeper into parental failure. He went to comfort me when I sprang him, clutching him and slowly cracking down my non-existent shell of bravery and toughness.

"I-I'm so sorry, I-I never knew R-Rocket would e-_ever_ hurt anyone f-for _real_?!" I was like a sobbing mess. I just couldn't believe Rocket would have ever done that. But soon I felt a reassuring hand stroke and pat my back, and I cracked down even more.

"It's okay, Lianna, it's not your fault," he tried cooing, but I popped my head off his shoulder and gave him a slightly meaner look as I gripped his shoulders then.

"But it _is_! I was his caretaker, his guardian, his _family_, and I must've not did good of a damn job if he went off and fuckin' **bit** someone!" I was just a clusterfuck of sadness, failure, and anger right now. Stein was just staring at me with a shocked looked, like he just heard his mother call him by his full name. "I-I'm sorry," I said, loosening my grip on him. "That was the motherly species coming out of me,"

"It's alright," he said, caressing his hand on my cheek. "You've been through some tough times right now; you need to relax,"

"Yeah, I guess," I said, immediately feeling all my stress flow out of me. "So where will I be staying?" "In one of the cells in this level," he said, placing a hand on my back and leading me towards the door. "Your bag will have to stay in my office for security reasons, but you'll be fine without it, because soon you'll have your old roommate again,"

And he was right. It was almost nighttime and Rocket was being release from the testing chamber. I sat there in my new cell waiting for his arrival. All the walls, ceiling, floor, and door was padded with soft, yellow, thick memory foamish material. The door opened up like a normal door and revealed a guard covered in white, advanced armory.

"Stein said he needs you in his office, and you are trusted to go on your own," The guard said, and walked down the hallway. I got up and peeked my head out the cell, looking both ways for anyone. I felt skittish around people in this level since they seemed mean from what I could hear and see. I slowly walked out of the cell, and closed the door behind me, it instantly locking up. _I don't think this is gonna go well_, I thought to myself. _I can sense there's gonna be trouble ahead_.

"'L-07'...'L-08'...'L-09'," I counted aloud the room numbers as I walked down the deathly silent hall. I thought of it strange for extremely, hazardous creatures to be so quietly in this zone. But then something caught my eye. It was room L-12, the room Groot was in. I was curious and pressed my ear against the door, and surprisingly heard groans from the other side. I suddenly felt a little sorry for him. Sure, he did try killing the scientists and almost me at some point, but he was just scared and freaked out. I noticed then a small rectangular window at the top of the door, and decided to take a peek in.

I slowly levitated myself up to the window and felt a little relieved to he looked fine, misusing the fact I ripped off his right arm, but it looked to be slowly growing back. I smile to myself a little to see he was fine and not hurt, I couldn't really vow him to agonizing pain for being scared. Soon I noticed a set of red buttons beside the door, and stretched my hand over to them, thinking thoroughly of which one to choose. I closed my eyes and randomly picked like 'eenie-minie-mo'. The door opened, and I opened my eyes to see my finger on the second button. I then lowered myself down to the floor, cautiously walking into the room with the door closing down afterwards.

"I...am Groot?" Groot groan, looking up from the board, but showing a slightly scared expression towards me. I just kinda there, like if I moved he would attack me.

"U-Um...hi?" I meekly said, my eyes locked on to any movement he made. "U-Uh, how's it goin'?"

"I am Groot?" he said, raising his body up more to look at me straight forward.

"Well...I see your gettin' better, hehe," I felt stupid. I was telling him, the creature that terrorize everyone, how he was looking better, after I had ripped his arm off. Nothing weird at all. "I am, Groot," he said, looking over to his generating arm.

Tension seemed to fill the air as the both of us went silent, and it was awkward as being put into a room with someone you didn't know, which was ironically this situation. But soon I just couldn't go slow and calm anymore with him.

"Look, I'm sorry I hurt you and ripped your arm off," I said, walking towards him. "It's just you were hurting people and I wanted to keep them save and you did hurt my best friend too, so I just went into action. Even though we don't really know each other, would you accept my apology?" I stood there by his bad arm, waiting for a response from him.

"I am Groot," he grinned, and moved his small arm to rest on my mine. I can tell it was a 'yes'. "Ya know, you ain't that bad once you get to know you; you actually seem like a sweet person when your awfully calm," I said. He grinned even more, but it quickly faded away when his body went limp. I grew scared and went to comfort and ask him what's wrong when I heard the door open.

"Lianna? What are you doing in here!" It was Stein, and he sounded pissed. "I specifically said come to my office and you go in here?!" I hunched over and backed up some, like a puppy being scolded. "I needed to tell you Rocket was being held back a day for hostile actions," I quickly sprang up straight when I heard that. _'Hostile actions'? Come on, Rocket_.

Afterwards, I was sent back to my cell with the addition of a collar because of the event. But later on Groot was surprisingly added to my cell all because he seemed so calm with me and they wanted me to keep him like that. He made good company, even though he only says three words. And I was especially glad he was there when Rocket came in that night.

The door opened up and I felt someone being thrown in. I opened my eyes and anger slowly built up when I saw it was Rocket. I wanted just smack him upside the head, but I was too scared to confront him. I just huddled more closer to Groot in hoping to him from him.

"'Ey, you," Rocket called out to Groot. "Do you know anyone by the name of 'Lianna'?" I felt Groot hum a 'yes' and moved his arm up, blowing my cover and making me quietly curse. "Lianna!" Rocket cried, soon dropping to his knees and laying a hand on my side and back. "Oh Lianna, I missed you! Did they hurt you in anyway?"

Hurt. That word immediately lit a match in me. He didn't know what he did _hurt_ me. So I just kept myself facing the wall, trying to ignore Rocket's worried tone. It was just sickening me more and more. Finally, he asked Groot what was wrong with me and I just blew.

"You wanna know what's wrong with me?" I said, slowly sitting up and turning myself enough to see him from the corner of my eye. "I'm disappointed," "Disappointed at what? That we had to move to another level?" Rocket said, putting a hand on my shoulder. "I'm disappointed of _you_," At that moment I felt him take his hand back.

"Me? Why me?" "You did the one thing I've told you not to do since the day you started lessons, and _what do you do!_" I stood you and faced him, saying "You go and bite _two_ people!" with my arms thrown out in front of me.

"They were annoying me, you wouldn't understand," Rocket said, his voice slightly timid, but raising as well. "'Wouldn't understand'?! How about I just randomly bite you right now since _you're_ annoying me!" Groot then began to stand up and back up a little from our growing fight.

"You wouldn't know how it feels to be alone!" Rocket striked back, a snarl pulling at his lips. "I spent _four years_ alone without _anyone_ to comfort me, and then I stayed even _longer_ to save your sorry ass!" "I didn't need saved, I could've gotten on without your help! You were just an obstacle in my way!" "Well _you_ were one too! You pathetic, fucking rat!" It was like a spear striked him to the heart, and he looked like he was about to cry. "Maybe I should've never helped you! Maybe I should've never came to your cry for help! Maybe I shouldn't have came here! Maybe...I-I should've stayed home," Soon I felt myself begin to tear, and I laid back against the padded wall, feeling myself slide down to the ground to curl up into a ball.

"M-Maybe...I'm a monster," I just laid my head down on my legs and began to quietly crying, knowing that was the true after all. I was just a big, mean, brutal monster. But soon, I felt Groot's hand lift my head up. He store at me with worry, but soon changed to a soothing smile as he caressed my cheek. "I, am Groot," he said, soon growing a flower from his wrist and plucking it off to put into my hair. I just smiled, and leaned into his touch, feeling all the bad feelings fade away.

Suddenly the lights went out and everything went black. "Groot?" I called out, feeling his hand on my shoulder for assurance. "R-Rocket?" I called out, only hearing a shuffling sound come close by me. Soon the cell began to slowly light up a soothing yellow, and it was emitting off of Groot. The little, light spores were floating among us and gave off enough light to be a night-light until lights came back on.

Groot yawned and began anchoring himself to the wall, I decided to use him as a pillow. The shuffling sound drew closer to me, and I saw from barely closed eyes it was Rocket, hugging himself as he just laid against the wall beside me. He looked like he was acting he could sleep by himself, but I knew he couldn't. So I acted as if I was grabbing my favorite stuffed animal, grabbing Rocket by the arm and slowly dragging him over to wrap my arms around him. He easily gave in, and huddled against me.

"I love you," I whispered to him, feeling him be shocked by my words. "I...I-I love you, too," he said, curling up against me as he drew closer to me. I smiled and buried my nose in his head, slowly drifting away to sleep.

In the morning, everything was a lot better. We were all caring for each other, making each other laugh, giving each others flower crown(Groot started it), but then Stein came in with news for us. Rocket was to begin his skill tests tomorrow and I was to be put into experiments to find the cause and cure for my strange outbreak in rage, and Groot only had to go in with me for a quick sample and some tests.

One and a half weeks later, everything was hard on us. Rocket had been through four tweaking surgeries and I've had three shots per day with four tests afterwards, making it a total of thirty-three shots and forty tests. During that time, Groot's been our stay-home mom; caring for us and our almost constant needs from our 'day's work'. It wasn't until the day Rocket was going in for his fifth surgery when we saw this place as hell.

Groot was just rubbing our backs when Stein came by to get Rocket. He walked down the wall with him, but didn't fully close the door when he left. Groot had laid me down beside him and was looking curiously at the doorway. He kept looking back to me and the doorway, apparently thinking I was asleep since my eyes looked closed to him. Just then, he got up and popped his head the door. He looked back at me once more, and left, closing the door behind him. I knew I needed to go after him, but everything in my body was sore and crying for rest. And soon, I found myself drifting off to sleep again, like I had no care in the world what Groot was doing.

Suddenly, the sounds of alarms awoken me. I quickly shook off my sleepy expression and was soon greeted by the door being ripped off by Groot holding Rocket like a baby. His face showed fear as he quickly gave Rocket to me and went to put the door back in place. Rocket was groaning in pain, and I noticed a large leaf wrapped around his back, but what caught my attention the most was the blood staining the leaf itself. I panicked, and held Rocket closer to me as Groot finally got the door back in place and went to huddle over by me. "What happened?!" I yelled over the alarms, but soon the door came down, and guards came into the room with Stein behind them. "What the hell is going on?!" Stein yelled. We soon were put into a horrifying lecture from Stein, him yelling and poking his finger at us. It was terrifying to see him so angry. But that wasn't the bad part.

One day later, we were told that we were going to be put into separate cells and that Rocket had to be completely restructured since Groot had apparently ripped him out of his back surgery session, possible causing future back problems for him. I wished it was all a nightmare, but I soon saw we were _living_ a nightmare. So then that night, we planned our escape. We would bust out of cell and go to the control room, taking out the security and door locks so it was about smooth sail afterwards.

And we did it.

Thirty miles away from the facility, we were living in the alleyway beside a restaurant, trying our hardest to survive in the shitty place we found. It was high in crimes and pollution and drugs, alcohol, and lust just painted the streets. It was just perfect, being in a place where I couldn't keep Rocket safe from those three things. I was able to keep him safe from the drugs, but the alcohol and lust sadly got to him. He'd spend some nights at the bar and come back puking, and the lust caught him around his mating season. I could sadly deal with the occasional 'drunken sailor', but when it came around that 'time of the year', me and Groot tried giving him as much room as we can, trying not to get hurt or let alone 'loved' by him. He did seem more 'huggative' during that time towards me, but he never went as far as kissing my head now and then.

But then came our final moments together.

We were huddled behind the dumpster, our usual sleeping and hiding spot. I heard someone walking down the alleyway, and saw it was a person holding a gun. I was thinking it was that bub that was trying to woo me and was threatening me now for not 'falling in love' with him. I carefully pulled out the gun I've been hiding down my boots from the others and sprang out from behind the dumpster. "What do ya what?" I ordered, my gun cocked sideways to look more threatening. The person also had their gun at me, but it soon fell down to their side and into it's hostler. "Lianna?" Their voice sounded feminine, and it hit me. "Mom?" I asked, and soon knew it was her when her hood came down. He ran into each other's arms and bear hugged. It was _really_ surprising that I finally got see her again(she had to leave me to go back to her home planet when the president signed the agreement, leaving me with my father at age two). Soon the others began waking up, and the first thing I heard was "Where da _hell_ did you get a gun at?" from Rocket. I introduce my mom to the two, but was asked something shocking afterwards.

"Lianna, I think you should come home with me," my mom said, my hands in her grasp. " I haven't seen you for about 18 years, and your father's been there for you ever since, so I feel it's my turn now; teach you everything I know about exploration and trade markets," "I wish I could, but I have these guys to look after," I said, looking back to Rocket and Groot. "Okay, I guess the easy way didn't work," she said, catching my attention. "Lianna, I was actually here to bring you back to Langara, lawfully," "A-Am I under arrest?!" "No, sweetie, your not, but since you've gotten your blood taken by those scientists, the president ordered an immediate return and sent me to find you. I know this all may feel like what I said before was a lie, but it actually wasn't. I've really missed you, Lianna. I regretted every moment for not refusing to the order and staying there at Terra with you and your father," Now I knew I didn't have a choice. "Could I still bring Rocket and Groot with me?" I said, gesturing a hand towards them. "I'm sorry, sweetie, I can't. I can't even take them to a better place for them to continue on with their lives,"

Soon I felt Rocket holding my free hand, drawing my attention. "Lianna, just go with your mom, you'll be more safer with her anyways," He said, rubbing his thumb against my hand in assurance. "But I can't leave you guys alone, you barely even know anything about being out in the real places," I said, kneeling down to his level. "That's why it called 'learning on your own', Lianna. I've toughen up a good bit out here, and I got Groot by my side to help, so you don't have to worry about us, about _me_," I looked Rocket in the eye and hugged him tight, Groot joining in as well.

"Honey, we gotta get going soon," my mom said, resting a hand on my shoulder. "I'll meet you in front of the thrift store, mom," I told her, and she nodded and left.

"Will you promise me one thing, Rocket?" I asked him, placing my hands on his cheeks." "What is it?" he said, putting his hands on mine. "Stay strong, stay bold, and shine one," And with that, a placed a kiss just on the corner of his lip, and left for Langara, hoping that the stars would lead us together again.

"And we did, five years later," Lianna said, laying back in her chair.

"But my question is why did you kiss him so near his lips?" Peter had his genuine smirk on his face again, making her blush a little.

"Ugh, okay, I did like Rocket for some point of time before we departed," she admitted, but only getting a bigger smirk from Peter.

"Was it because he was jackin' off in the corner and giving you all those 'hugs' and 'forehead kisses'?"

"Peter, I swea', ta gawd, shut da fuck up,"

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**HHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNN I'm such a bad author for updating _two weeks_ later. Well plus a day too since it's 6-13-15 and is like 2:30 in the morning and I neeD TO SHUT UP. But it was because of school being out and everyone's usually out somewhere and *blows raspberries*.**

**Bottom line is, I'll try to keep myself of a schedule to Friday and only a stretch to Saturday if I'm bad behind. Also I had help with this chapter from XA55assinxeliteX, and I'm glad I did ^^**

**Hope you enjoy it as much as I messed up my sleep patterns TwT**

**-xXFangirl311Xx**


	17. Crash Landing

"So how was your life afterwards?" Peter asked, grabbing a pop from the fridge.

"Well like my mom said hers was like, 'full of adventure, danger, and fun'," Lianna said. "Sure, I did wanted to stay with my mom a little longer back in Langara, but it was just so dull and boring, especially since it seemed so strict with some rules,"

"What all did you do after leaving your mom?" he asked, taking his seat again.

"Mainly just turning in criminals for money so I at least had some money to get me a motel and two meals a day. But I did do a _little_ stealing during that time," she said.

"What do you mean by 'little'?" he questioned.

"I stole ten ships, one thousand units, five plasmatic guns, and a bomb," Peter just store at her with his jaw dropped.

"How it that little?!" he exclaimed, surprised by the amount of things she had stolen.

"Because technically it's little since all the things I stole was small, including the ships, portion of money, guns, and bomb," she smiled, counting out the types of objects she stole on her finger. "In fact, I actually still have the bomb with me right now! Wanna see it?"

"NO! Nope nope nope, I don't wanna see," he said, waving his hands toward her. "God, no wonder you and Rocket get along so great,"

"Well, not all the time, ya know. We still have our moments," she said, having to slightly grin to his, technically, compliment.

But soon, her eyes were locked on to a red, flashing light that beckoned her to come towards it. she got up and walked over to her communicator that lied on the counter top.

"Strange, I must've not heard my com go off," Lianna said, then pressing a button nearby the light. A holographic screen popped up and showed an icon of an outline of a person with a question mark in the center, it reading '(1) message' underneath. She pressed the icon, and soon played a video of her father.

"Lianna, your in great danger," Henry's first words were. "Stein had found me and had beaten me up pretty bad, but don't worry about me right now, it's _you_ you need to worry about right now. I don't know where you were earlier, but now your being tracked and he's immediately coming for you. I've always said 'Don't be afraid to be scared', but I've never thought I'd be tellin' you this, and it's to run," The message ended and a boxed popped up saying 'delete or ignore'.

Lianna just froze, quickly realizing she just jeopardized everyone. She felt like she just failed the most simplest test anyone could ever take. Soon, she felt Peter's hand on her shoulder and she jumped.

"Lianna? Are you okay?" Peter asked, waiting for a response.

"He knows where we are," Lianna muttered.

"What?" he asked.

"He knows where we are," she said louder this time, and rushed over to the control board.

"You mean Stein?" he asked, walking over to her.

"Who else?! And we're all fucking dead now because of me!" she pulled up the holographic screen and began doing calculations.

"Whoa now, you need to calm down now," he said, laying a hand on her shoulder to reassure her, but just receiving her push his hand off.

"Stay calm?! I just endangered everyone on this ship! You have no idea how powerful Stein can be!" she yelled, facing him.

"Then we'll hit him back with more power," he said, triumphantly raising his fist.

"Peter, this is almost like facing two infinity stones, he has sources and machines that could disintegrate you in a nanosecond,"

"Well then, what do we do?" he asked.

"Get everyone back on the ship, pronto," she ordered, typing in numbers on the holo-screen. "We need to leave as soon as possible," He just nodded a 'yes' with uneasiness and pulled out his com, contacting Rocket. As he did so, Lianna was shocked to see their estimate time of getting away.

"What do ya mean we need to leave now?" Rocket questioned.

"Rocket I can't really say why, bu-" Lianna interrupted Peter then. "Get yer asses on this goddamn ship right now or else we're gunna leave without cha!" She then ended the call and opened up the hatch. She jumped into the pilot's and started up the engine, quickly trying to calibrate everything for a quick getaway.

Soon she heard the others come in, huffing and panting from their run here, and quickly closed the hatch. "What da hells going on?!" Gamora yelled, and that was the last thing everyone heard once the thrusters engaged and rocketed the ship off the ground.

Everyone was thrown back by the powerful force as the ship shot towards space, almost plastering them all against the wall. But soon they gained momentum again, but were being slightly shook around with the quick turns being made around straying asteroids.

Peter managed to lift himself up with the table and looked over to Lianna, seeing her with two other sets of arms that were pressing buttons, flicking switches, and adjusting levers as her original arms steered the ship. He could read the amount of stress that was showing on her face and body language. He then heard the others coming up behind him, staring in shock to seeing Lianna's current state.

"What's wrong with Lianna?" Drax asked.

"I don't know, but I do know we should buckle up!" Gamora said, then trying to steadily walk over to one of the seats. The others began to follow along as well, Rocket and Peter heading towards Lianna to latch on to her seat.

"Lianna, what's wrong?!" Rocket almost pleaded, looking up to her uneasy expression.

"I-It's nothing! It's just w-we need to go to Nova Corps!" Lianna said, not breaking her dead, straight stare from the invisible road in front of her.

"But I thought we were being given an assignment by that guy who called us?" he asked, slowly growing suspicious of his lover's behavior.

"O-Oh yeah, well he just cancelled it," she said, feeling herself being to sweat nervously.

"Don't cha think that's very sudden for him to do?" Peter then asked, and she knew what he was actually trying to tell her: 'Tell him the truth'.

She hesitated for a moment, but sadly gave in. "Rocket, there's something I have to tell you,"

"And what's that?" he said.

"I've been lying," she said, looking at him dead in the face with the expression of rueful remorse. "There was no guy asking us to catch someone and we're being chased by Stein,"

He was first off dismayed, but then became infuriated. "Stein?!" he yelled. "He found us?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

"I didn't want to make you feel insecure about it, you were looking so happy once again in your life," she blithesomely stressed, but was soon override by his frustration.

"Lianna, why would you lie to me!? I could've handled the situation!" His voice began to raise and make her want to back up into a corner. "Why do you always have to be so protective?! I can care for myself ya know!" The words struck her heart like a mother hearing her child say 'I hate you' in a way, and her mood quickly accelerated. She went to rant at him then, until 'watch out!' and 'big ship!' were suddenly thrown towards her.

She gasped and pulled hard on the steering wheel, rearing them to the right from the sudden appearance of the huge, white ship. She saw the side of ship have 'X.S.C.' printed in big, bold letters, and the abbreviation was well to known to her.

"Brace yourselves!" Lianna yelled, and thrust a lever forward. The ship then began to speed up more, and she curved it around the cargo ship before being able to go the opposite way it was going.

"Great! They found us already!" Rocket ranted, making her blood begin to boil. "What're we supposed to do now?!"

"Why don't you shut your fat mouth and let me drive!" she yelled, dodging another asteroid and throwing everyone off balance.

"Well at least my fat mouth doesn't lie to my close ones!" he spat back, his fur beginning to go on edge.

"I was just trying to keep you HAPPY!" she growled at him, whipping the ship around a smaller ship that was passing by.

"Rocket! Stop distracting Lianna, you're gonna get us killed!" Gamora yelled as she cling to the co-pilot seat with all her life.

"You don't need to! I've got plenty of other things that make me happy! And you know what else that'll make _you_ happy?! I banged someone _RIGHT _after you left with your mom that day!" Everyone just went silent, awaiting for Lianna's action.

Her irises turned purple and her hair spiked up again. She gritted her sharp fangs and clutched the steering with knife-like nails. She grew twice her size and whipped her head to Rocket. "You diD WHAAAAT?!" she roared with slight demoniacs in her voice, and pulled the steering out of its socket. It violently flashed electricity at her and she quickly realized she messed up bad.

Soon they felt the cargo ship hit them forward, enough to make them enter the atmosphere of a desert planet that they were nearing. "Fuck," she said, before suddenly blacking out.

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"Guha! Huff..huff," Lianna shot her eyes open, her conscious quickly snapping awake. She laid there in the orange sand for a while, huffing as she was trying to go over what just happen.

"Drax! Lianna! Where are you!" Peter yelled, quickly gaining her attention. She went to push herself off the hot, sandy floor, when pain shot through her. She immediately dropped herself back on to the ground, and just rolled over to her left.

There upon her hip was a deep, bloody cut that, by a doctor's view, would need to be stitched up. She looked down her right arm then to find a shorter cut like the one on her hip, still looking to the needs of stitching it up. She carefully sat herself up with her left arm, and soon discover another deep cut on her left thigh, blood and sand mixing in the cut.

"Fucking great," she huffed. She pulled out a pocket knife and zipped down her suit, revealing the tank top she wore underneath. She cut the tank top following the outline of her sports bra's rim. She zippered her suit back up and cut the cloth into three pieces before putting her knife away.

"Lianna!" Rocket yelled. She looked in the direction of the call as she tied up her thigh. "Where are you, Lianna!" She looked downed in worry as she quicken to tie her hip and arm. _What if they're all hurt?_ She thought as she slowly pushed herself off the ground once more.

Once she was standing, she called out to them. "Guys! Guys! I'm over here!" she yelled, trying her best not to put so much pressure on her left leg. She heard nothing afterwards, until Rocket called back.

"Lianna! We're coming!" He yelled, and she had to smile with glee. She squinted and looked for any sign of them, finding nothing at first, but then seeing blurry dots coming in from the horizon and slowly grow in size.

"That's them," she said, and slowly began walking towards them. "Aaaand this is gunna take a good 'mount of time before getting with them,"

The others became to be more clear to see as she carried on with her good pace. And she couldn't help but to smirk all the way when she saw Rocket was in front of everyone, running like a mad man.

"Lianna!" Rocket yelled as she rushed over to her. "Your alive!" he quickly wrapped his arms around her leg and squeeze the cut.

"Take it easy, Rocket," she said through clenched teeth, and gently pushed him away from the injury. He noticed by then and went in a worry-panic attack.

"Oh my god-are you okay?! I mean your covered in bruises and all three of your bandages have _blood_ on them and-your cheek's bleeding too-fuckin' GOD, Lianna! Your a bloody mess!" She just looked at him with a confused looked as she checked herself.

She indeed have a small cut on her cheek that was bleeding, but it wasn't like a gash like how he sounded like it was. Her bandages _did_ have some blood, but she was going to fix them up with the first-aid kit. She had a few bruises in some areas, which didn't matter, and lastly, she wasn't bleeding anywhere else.

"Rocket, your overreacting, although I could really use an aid kit right now," she said, looking at the others. "Where'd the ship go?"

"Lianna, you broke the steering and crashed it," Peter said, trying not to frown since she destroyed his ride.

"O-Oh, yeah, well do you at least thought of _bringing_, the kit?" she said.

"I am Groot_(I did)_," Groot said, and walked forth to her, his chest opening up and revealing the white kit inside.

"Thank god one of who guys did," she said, grabbing the kit and watching his chest form back together. "But I think we should head back to the _remains_ of whatever's left of the ship,"

"It's called the 'Milano', thank you very much," Peter snobbish said, still sad and mad about his beloved ship that was blown to pieces. "And it's this way"

As he began to lead the way to the ship, Lianna and Rocket just exchanged confused expressions before shrugging and walking off being Peter.

"I? Am Groot_(Do you need some help? I could carry you if you want)_," Groot said. "Sure I guess, I should really be off my leg," she said, soon being swept into his arms like a baby. "You want up here too, Rocket?"

"Pfft, I'll come up when I feel like it," Rocket said, continuing on with just walking. But a could seconds later, he crawled up Groot's back and sat on his shoulder.

"Well _that_ was a very long decision you've made there," she joked, receiving a tug at the corner of his lip from Rocket.

Five minutes later, Lianna sees the wreckage of the 'Milano' ship.

It was broken into three pieces and the windows were all broke. Only one wing had managed to stay on and the nose of the ship was dented in cocked. Broken pieces of metal, glass, and machinery were scattered all over the place.

"Well, that was perfect parking," she muttered, hoping Peter didn't hear.

"We might be able to find or make a communicator from the Milano," Peter said.

"And by 'we' you mean 'us'?" Rocket asked, knowing he would end up making one.

"Yeah, cause I'm gonna try to find all my stuff from inside my current horror house ship," Peter said, and began walking down the hill of sand.

"But how is the ship a 'horror house' if it is not scary and not a house?" Drax asked, receiving multiple sighs from everyone.

"When you ever get the hang of this," Rocket groaned, squeezing the bridge of his nose with his fingers.

But suddenly, a gust of sand blew over them. The sound of something big and heavy was nearby them until it stopped like an engine. The sand wind finally settled down, but revealed the danger.

"Hello, Lianna," Stein said.

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**Well, at least it wasn't _2 weeks_ late, but it was _2 days_ late. Again, summer is very busy and people are usually are out more. Also I ran into some Father's Day card trouble so yeah; kinda hard to celebrate Father's day when you always make a card for them.**

**Sadly enough, I plan on ending the story with a total of 20 chapters, so there's still three other chapters you gotta read. But don't worry, I don't think this will really be the end or Rocket and Lianna ;)**

**-xXFangirl311Xx**


	18. lamentations of the Heart

**Now there are two reasons why I choose this name for the chapter: 1) It's fits perfectly for what happens. 2) There's a song called this by Philip Wesley, and I'd insist to listen to it while reading this. Furthermore, enjoy. : )**

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"Nice seein' ya, Stein," Lianna said, narrowing her eyes along with Groot and Rocket. "I see you finally found me, took ya long enough," she smirked, earning a small sneer from Stein.

"I see you've grown a good bit since I've seen you," he said, drawing a little closer. "A marvelous women you became indeed,"

"Back off!" Rocket snarled, jumping down from Groot's shoulder. "She's already owned by someone," _'Owned'? Are you kidding me, Rocket?_ She thought as she narrowed her eyes to him now.

"Oh, then whom would that be?" Stein said, smiling a sick smile.

"Me," Rocket said, pointing to himself. Stein put on an annoyed look afterwards, pushing up his glasses as he came more closer.

"I should've know you would've picked the strange ones," Stein said with his head tilted down. "I thought you would've liked someone more professional then a little rouge criminal like him,"

"What chu say about me!?" Rocket spat, his fur going on end again.

"I said Lianna could've done better than you," Stein said. "And I'm gonna prove that I could've finished you all when I had the chance," He quickly reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a plasma gun, shooting at the ground in front of Rocket. Rocket stumbled backwards and fell on to his back, sending everyone into a battle stance.

"Hey guys! I found my Walkman!" Peter yelled out from behind, earning a blank stare from everyone towards him. "Oh, are we in the middle of something?"

"We are now!" Lianna shouted, and whipped the gun out of Stein's hand with a tentacle of hair. "Run!" Everyone immediately then ran down to the ship, Stein then coming up quickly behind them.

"Groot! You need to get me somewhere sheltered so I can patch myself up!" she shouted, Groot nodding in understanding.

The others stood outside the ship, standing guard and awaiting the fleet of security soldiers. But all that came was Stein with no one else.

"This shoulder be easy!" Peter said, his gun aimed towards the target.

"I would speak so fast, Quill!" Gamora said.

Soon, Stein had pulled out a bigger gun from his pocket and aimed it at the others. "I'm leaving this place with you three whether your alive or dead!" he yelled, and shot a fire between Peter and Gamora.

"Lianna, they look bad out there!" Rocket said, watching from aside Groot as he helped with bandages. "Can't you heal yourself?!"

"Rocket! I can't heal myself with all this commotion! I need complete focus to do that and we're in the middle of a fight!" Lianna yelled, wrapping bandage around her arm.

"Can you levitate?" he asked, flinching back from a shot.

"Focus needed," she said, her voice sounding annoyed.

"Force field?" he asked, picking up an abandoned gun and quickly tweaking with it.

"Fooocuuus," she said through clenched teeth as Groot poured some alcohol on a cut.

"What about elemental control?" he asked, testing the improved gun by shooting at Stein.

"Focus focus focus! Rocket, most of these things need concentration!" she yelled, getting up as she finished wrapping her hip up. "Until we nip Stein with a shot or something, I'm gunna have to rely on a trusty bandage and strength for now! Stop worrying about me!" she then quickly dashed out from behind the metal wall. "And stay here, we'll call out for you if we need you,"

"But it's _our_ fight, we should be fighting out there too!" Rocket said, gripping on to the edge of the ship wall.

"I know it is," she said, kneeling down to him, "But you guys are more important to me, and I wouldn't know what to do with myself if you were taken away or, even worse, dead. Just stay here, and stay behind the walls," She rubbed and laid a kiss on his head before departing into the fight.

"But it's my job to protect you," he muttered.

"Lianna! Watch out!" Drax yelled. She jumped and successfully dodged the electric whip Stein had pulled out earlier, a small amount of pain emitting from her thigh.

"How many gadgets does this man have in his pockets?!" Peter yelled as he dodged another shot.

"As many as he can make, which is a lot," Lianna said, shooting at Stein again.

"Well I'm sick and tired of prancing around like dancer," Gamora growled, earning an offended face from Peter.

"Hey! Dancing is a privilege to some people who actually still have two legs!" he yelled almost getting nipped by the electric whip.

"Focus on fighting, Peter!" Lianna said. "This is no time to be lecturing people!"

"But I do!" Stein said, his attention turning on to Lianna for a moment before shooting at Drax again. "For you see, I have big plans for you three afterwards if you're all still alive,"

"And what's that?" she said, shooting at him again.

"Your little 'boyfriend's mind will be erased along with tree-man, and I'm going to update that form you got. Then _you_ will become _my, little, assistant_," he said, sadistically smiling.

"And I don't wanna know what that means," she said, quickly snatching Gamora's katanas and charging at him. "So, I just gonna do what I'm gonna do and be done for the day," He pulled out two knives from his pockets that extended longer and blocked her charge.

"Oh, but the day's just begun," And with that, he pressed a button on both the handles of the knives that sent out an electric wave, shocking her and tossing halfway to the ship.

"Lianna!" Peter yelled.

"Lianna?" Rocket said to himself, sitting behind the wall. He looked out to the battlefield to find her lying in the sand. "Lianna!" he then yelled, running out to her.

"I, am Groot!_(Rocket, get back here!)_" Groot yelled, but soon noticed Lianna's laying on the ground, going along as well with Rocket to see if she was injured.

"Oh my god, Lianna! Speak to me!" he said, picking up her head. She just moaned and fluttered her eyes open.

"Ooooh, that felt good," she sarcastically said, slowly picking herself up. "Just what I needed,"

"Lianna, I don't want you fighting anymore, ya hear me!" he said, taking away her gun.

"Nope," she quickly snatched up the katanas again and charged at Stein again.

"Oh no-Lianna! No!" he yelled, running after her.

Stein just smirked when he saw her coming towards him again. He pulled out the extendable knives again and readied to shock her again.

She came, interlocked weapons with him, and he pressed the buttons. She felt the electricity course through her until he stopped, smoking rising from her body. Everyone just store in astonishment to see she wasn't flung this time.

"Come on, hit me with your best shock," she devilishly grinned to him, earning a look of confusion from him as he hit the buttons again.

This time, she actually moved. _Forward_.

She began pushing him until he was leaned against the steep wall of sand, pinning him between wall of sand and the electric knives.

"How about I tell you something shocking," she said, then pushed the knives on to him, electrifying him. He let go of the buttons, but she released all the electricity she was storing in herself on to him. Finally, she had exerted all the energy on to him, backing away from his now smoking and slightly burnt body.

"And that's why you don't mess with the Miss Argo's in my family," she said, turning around to the others and smiling to Rocket.

"Lianna, look out!" Gamora yelled. Lianna went to look back, but was soon greeted by another painful pulse. Her body quickly went limp and she fell on to her knees.

"Lianna!" Rocket yelled, watching her then fall on to the ground with Stein standing behind her.

"'Paralytic Shock', she should be in a paralyzed state long enough for me to get her on to the ship without fuss," Stein said, stashing the gun away into one of his pockets.

Everyone just stood there in overwhelmed shock, not believing their eyes that their trusted teammate had fallen to her enemies feet. Rocket felt as it was the end for her, and went to take action.

"You...you monster!" Rocket yelled. He went to charge at Stein, but the others quickly grabbed a hold of him. "Lemme at 'em, lemme at 'em!"

"Please, I'm twice your height and weight and have a high intelligence of mechanics and software than you," Stein said, walking around Lianna's limp body. "Also, your a rodent, and that's the only reason why she likes you, cause your cute to her," he devilishly grinned.

Rocket snapped to that comment and pulled out of Peter and Groot's hands, running towards Stein with true fury. Stein just grinned even more as he pulled out another gun, waiting for the perfect moment as Rocket quickly drew closer. Finally, once Rocket went to jump at him, he pulled the trigger on the gun and electrocuted him. He fell to the ground beside Lianna, overwhelmed by the power force and trying to regain himself quickly.

"I am Groot!_(How dare you treat my friends like that!)_" Groot yelled, charging as well towards Stein as he went to switch out weapons. He went to slash at Stein with his arms when Stein pulled out the extendable knives again and sliced off both his arms.

Groot backed away from Stein, and frowned as he the damage done to him. Rocket had regained some strength and began to slowly push himself up, looking to his now-armless friend and Stein.

"You fools have chosen a fight against a very powerful being, you know," Stein said, putting away the knives. "I'm sure she had warned you about that," Peter looked down to Lianna, knowing she was right about him being very hard to challenge. "But right now I should be taking at least my prized possession with me,"

"Your not taking Lianna anywhere without a fight, bud," Peter said, pointing up his gun as Gamora and Drax got in battle stances.

"Well that's a shame, for I'm in a busy schedule right now, so I'll have to make this quicker," Lianna had already begun to stir from her state when Stein quickly yanked her off the ground, putting the gun to her head as he wrapped his arm around her neck.

Everyone froze, seeing the situation they had just placed upon her.

"Lianna," Rocket muttered, watching her trying to breath and loosen Stein's grip.

"So are we gonna do this the easy way, the simple way, or the hard way," Stein said, pressing the gun harder to her head.

"The easy was is letting the other two come along with me and my dearie here with no fuss. The simple way is you don't give the two to me and with little fuss I leave with my sweetheart. The hard way, is when all three of them get a bullet to the head, starting with her first," He tighten his grip on the handle as he awaited for the others actions.

"Or we could do it the free way!" Lianna said, elbowing Stein in the stomach. He quickly released her and she kicked the gun out of his hand, snatching it from mid-air as she pointed it to his head.

"Groot, get back! And take Rocket with you," she said, her aim still locked on to his head as he slowly stood up.

"I'm not leaving your side again, Lianna!" Rocket yelled, finally standing up on his feet.

"I'm not letting you get hurt again!" she said, picking him up by his collar. "Drax, hold on to him tightly. Don't let him get away," And with that, she flung Rocket towards Drax, catching him with a death like grasp.

"Hey! Lemme go!" Rocket whined as he squirmed under Drax's hold.

"You'll never get away with this, Stein," she said, her eyes locking on to every movement Stein made as he stood up straight

"Oh, but I have, my darling," he said. "I have for the past ten years, I have made it spotlessly by every inspection the Nova Corps have did in the laboratory, and not once did they get suspicious,"

"Probably because all they saw was a sad, heartless man running the place," she said preparing herself to shoot.

"Well I wasn't always a sad, heartless man, you know," he said. "I used to have feelings...for _you_, Lianna,"

She just froze there in disgust, remembering that night as she backed up a little.

"You were always the light in my day everytime I saw you, but it would be quickly ruined when _he_ had finished his lessons everyday," he said, pointing towards Rocket. "You we always so attached to him just like he was to you, and it would drive me crazy sometimes with how much you cared for him than me,"

"But when I learned you had a deeper connection with that vermin, I realized you loved a pathetic, meaningless pest more than me. I saw that you were making the wrong choice for your self, and I wanted to fix that for the better good,"

"Well at least I make a better lover than you!" Rocket insulted. "You probably don't even know how to stick your dick in her!"

Stein's face blew up with anger, and he shoved his hand down his pocket, rummaging around for something.

"Rocket! Just shut yer fuckin' mouth!" Lianna angrily said, turning around to face him with an annoyed look. "We're in a big enough mess and we don't need any smart remarks to make it worse,"

But she had spoke to soon for that.

"Fine!" Stein exclaimed. "You think your better than me?! You think your a better mate for her?! Then go ahead! I don't care!"

He finally pulled a large plasma gun from his pocket and pointed it towards Lianna.

"Cause you know what?!" he yelled, flicking a switch on the gun that began warming it up.

"Nobody gets her then," He then pulled the trigger, and the gun let out a gigantic plasma ball.

"Lianna, watch out!" Peter yelled.

But it was too late.

Lianna just stood there, feeling immense pain course through her. She felt herself going light-headed and everyone began to sound distant. She felt something trickling down her side and went to touch it. She wiped a finger up her thigh and found it to be blood. _Her_ blood. She looked at her side, and saw she was missing a crescent of the side of her torso. She wanted to react to it, but she felt weightless then. She fell on to her knees, and just store blankly at the others. All she saw was their figures growing fuzzy. She could hear them call for her, but she could barely hear them. Her body felt drained, and her heartbeat began to slow down. She then felt backwards, and laid there in the sand. Her eyesight began to grow dark, and she thought she could hear someone. But then she blacked out. Her body still. Her body cold.

Rocket felt tears trickle down his face as he screamed these words:

'You killed her'.

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**Another good song that goes with this could also be 'As Real As You and Me' by Rihanna : )**

**-xXFangirl311Xx**


	19. Scars, Tears, Stitches and All

"MURDERER!" Rocket yelled, squirming around in Drax's grasp. "MUUURDEREEER!" He couldn't help but to just cry out in the opening with everyone around, knowing deeply inside him he just ruined his reputation of being a tough guy.

Everyone else just stood there in overwhelmed shock, silently shedding tears. Gamora didn't know what was coming over her, but she gripped Peter's arm, and buried her face in his shoulder. It surprised him at first, but he let it be, and wrapped an arm around her.

"I've made myself clear now," Stein said, putting away the large, plasma gun in his pocket. "So hand over the forum,""What forum?" Peter asked. "We don't have a forum,"

"Don't fool with me-I know you have the experimentation forum of Rocket," Stein said, earning a little understood look from everyone for the main reason of his presence.

"M-My experimentation forum?" Rocket stuttered, wiping away tears from his eyes.

"Yes, it expired and she knew what Nova would do to me with it outdated," Stein said. "Clever girl for not going in herself,"

"That guy, the money and blood exchange, the hiding, all to free me from him," Rocket said to himself, staring at his lover's still body.

"W-Well we don't know where it is, so we c-can't!" Gamora shouted, feeling deeply ashamed for showing fear in her words.

"Oh, but I know where she would put it," Stein said, "In her suit pocket," He eyed the square bump in her shirt pocket, knowing that was it.

"Well your not getting it then," Peter said, and shot at him, perfectly nipping his hip.

He felt to the ground in pain, and tried to get back up, but then another shot got him and electrified him, almost putting him in a paralyzed state.

"Quick! Get him while he's down!" Peter yelled, and ran over to him. The others followed, which lead to Drax finally releasing Rocket from his grasp.

Rocket just dropped to his knees as he store at Lianna, not believing he lived longer than her.

But then, a weak moan slipped from her lips, making him perk up and run over to her.

"Lianna...Lianna?!" Rocket said, placing his hands on her chest.

"R...R-Roc...ket?" She spoke, bringing tears of joy to his eye's.

"Oh Lianna, your not dead!" he said, wrapping his arms around her shoulders.

"Not yet," she said, quickly making Rocket pop off her chest and flood worry over his face.

"Lianna, I'm not letting you die on me," he said.

"Yeah, but that was just the defense instinct, I need to go to a hospital a-s-a-p," she said, slowly turning her head to him.

"Ah h-how long can ya l-last?!"

"A-About...an hour and a-a half, possibly more or-r less,"

"Hold on there Lianna, hold on there,"

Suddenly, the sound of a large shot filled the air.

Rocket looked over to the sound, and was almost terrified by the hole that now gapped in Stein's torso. Stein said nothing, but groan as he fell to the ground, Peter standing behind him.

"Man, this baby has some major power in it," Peter said, resting the stolen plasma gun from Stein on his shoulders.

Lianna just smiled to the sight of Stein dead in the sand, but soon realized she was going to be that too if she didn't get to a hospital quick.

"Rocket," she muttered, feeling her eyes slowly close.

"Please! Hold in there, Lianna!" Rocket said, before she blacked out again.

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The smell of medicine and sterilized fabrics filled Lianna's nose. She coughed to the intense smell and went to lean up when someone gently pushed her back down.

"Lianna, please stay down, you are very weak right now," It was Drax, and she couldn't help but to grin the best she could to hear one of her fellow friends.

"Drax," she said, trying to make herself sound happy and joyful, but her voice was harsh and rough.

"Is she waking up?" She grinned more to hear the voice of Gamora too, soon finding enough strength to open her eyes.

She saw she was in a hospital, and was connected to a heart monitor and several IV's with a different colored liquid in each bag.

"G-Guys, where, am I?" she asked, looking around the room.

"You're in the Xandarian Hospital, we were lucky enough to get you here in enough time," Gamora said, coming and kneeling by the bedside. "The doctors had to rush you in so your still wearing everything from back on that abandoned planet, which I find a little mean since they then left you dirty and unsanitary," Lianna smiled and then placed her hand on Gamora's shoulder.

"Are P-Peter and Rock-ket fine?" she asked.

"Yes, their just getting patched up right now, Lianna," Gamora said, placing her hand on tops of Lianna's with reassurance.

"Then I-I have something imp-portant for y-you," Lianna said, slowly reaching into her shirt pocket.

"What is it?" Gamora asked, willing to do the given job.

"Take this to N-Nova Prime, tell her i-it's Rocket's experimentation forum and that S-Stein had been backstabbing them," Lianna said, grinning in trust that her friend will do the duty.

"A-Are you sure you want me to do this?" Gamora asked, feeling a little unsure. Especially since she was mortal enemies with the Nova Prime before the big save of their planet.

"Rocket's injured, Peter will goof, Groot has no _arms_ for pete sake, and Drax doesn't really look like he'll leave my side," Lianna said, grinning at Gamora in reassurance. "You can do it,"

"Fine then," Gamora smiled, and left the room.

"Are you sure that assassin can do her given job?" Drax questioned, still not technically over the fact that Gamora used to work for Ronan.

"I have faith and trust in her, Drax. You'll see," Lianna said, grinning to him.

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"Nova Prime, you have a visitor," A guard said, standing at the entrance of the conference room.

"Who is it?" she asked, looking up from her work.

"One of the Guardians of the Galaxy members, Gamora," they said.

"What is it _this_ time?" she asked, thinking it would be another unimportant request.

"She said it was urgent to see you, she has an expired forum for you," This quickly caught her attention.

"Bring her in," she said, as she walked to the other side of the holographic table.

The guard stepped aside and Gamora walked in, feeling nervous to be in this place alone. Nova Prime confronted her, and awaited for the expired forum that she was told of.

"This is Rocket's experimentation forum, from Professor Stein," Gamora said, reaching in her pocket and pulling out the folded forum. "He has been lying to you about the things he's been doing in his lab for over ten years now,"

Nova Prime took the forum into her hands, and felt ashamed of the fact she never notice what Stein was actually doing with their funds to them. Thinking of all those other experimented creatures along with Rocket who suffered there without the protection that Nova swore to give them.

"You there," She commanded, walking over to a guard. "I want you to have this sent in to the supreme court and have everyone inside this place arrested for placement of illegal experimentation. Also revive the body of Stein and bring it to the court, since I've heard he had the mishaps of being shot through the stomach," Gamora couldn't help but to grin in gratitude with Nova Prime's help.

"Now then, where are the others?" Nova Prime then asked, kinda shocking Gamora.

"T-There all back at the hospital," Gamora replied.

"How is Lianna, most of all?" Nova Prime asked, shocking Gamora even more.

"She's...not so good, I can say," Gamora said. "She was badly injured from the crash and she still hasn't regenerated the piece of the side of her torso back yet,"

"I never really do this for most others, but since _I am_ friends with her mother and she stopped a very important criminal, your hospital bill will be free," Now Gamora was just plainly, jaw-dropping shocked.

"You know her mother?" Gamora asked, but knowing she should be heading back.

"She was a very courageous women when she saved me from assassination, so I owe thanks to her," Nova Prime said, grinning to Gamora. "Now off you go, you need to comfort your friend in recovery, and keep an eye on that 'Starlord' of yours,"

"Thank you very much then," Gamora said, holding out her hand for her to shake.

"Your welcome," Nova Prime said, shaking Gamora's hand.

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Gamora was walking down a hallway in the hospital when she heard a familiar voice.

"Do ya know which room Lianna Argo is in along with the visitor named 'Drax the Destroyer'?" It was Rocket, sitting on Groot's shoulder as he asked the person at a desk. And she soon spotted Peter, sitting in a chair on the wall opposite of the desk and running his fingers up and down a stitch he had on his arm.

"Hey there," Gamora said, quickly getting Peter's attention. He smiled and quickly stood up, grabbing his leather jack as he walked over to her.

"Where were you?" he asked.

"Giving that forum to Nova like Lianna told me too," she said.

"Lianna?" Rocket asked, hopping down from Groot's shoulder. "You know where Lianna is?"

"Yeah, follow me," she said, and walked off towards the direction of her room.

Soon they had came to the Lianna's room and went inside, Rocket pushing to the front and rushing to the bed.

"Lianna! You're okay!" he said, stepping on a bar on the side of the bed to lift himself higher to hug her.

"You're okay too, right?" she asked, hugging him back.

"Sure I am," he said.

"He got three stitches," Peter blurted, earning a glare from Rocket.

"What! Three stitches!" she exclaimed, scooping him up and sitting him on her lap.

"It's fine! They were minor," he said, until she quickly ripped his zipper and sleeves down and turned his back to her, revealing three four to three inch stitches.

"Rocket! These aren't minor for you! They are major!" she almost yelled, searching him for any more injuries he would possible hide. "They're very dangerous to stress with them being so close to your cybernetic spine! It might cause _more_ problems for you!"

"Oh! So is missing a piece of your torso is not _dangerous_?!" he loudly said, ripping the sheets back and revealing her damaged side bandaged up with a few IV lines connected there. "You're lucky that that was only a defense instinct!?"

"But you meant more in that time of crisis!?" Suddenly, a large lump popped out of Lianna's shoulder, shocking and silencing everyone.

"What?" she asked.

"U-Um," Peter hid behind Gamora slightly and pointed to the lump. "Y-Your shoulder, Lianna,"

She looked at her shoulder, and became shocked.

"Oooh my god!" she exclaimed, leaning to the other side of the bed in an effort to not be touched by the sudden lump. "What is this what is this what is this!" she rapidly said.

"H-Hold on, Lianna!" Rocket said, putting his hands in front of himself. "Someone call for a doctor!"

Another lump popped out of her hand, freaking her out more.

"Peter! Do something!" Gamora said, grabbing him by the shoulder. He shook his head 'yes' and ran out the door, looking for a doctor.

"Hey! You!" He yelled, spotting a doctor talking to a nurse.

"Huh? Me?" The doctor said, staring at the currently jumbled Peter.

"Yeah, you have a patient named 'Lianna Argo'?" Peter asked.

"Yes, what seems to be the problem?" The doctor asked, worried of what happened.

"Come with me," Peter said, grabbing him by the wrist and yanking him over to the room.

"What's going on? Unhand me!" The doctor protested, until Peter opened the door.

"Peter, she got worse!" Gamora said, rushing over to him.

"What's going on? Is everything okay?" The doctor was soon released from Peter's grip and shoved toward the bed, showing Lianna looking swollen up.

"Oh my god-someone call in the nurses!" The doctor rushed over to her and checked the heart monitor, it beeping rapidly. He rushed to the other side of the bed and picked up a scanner device, scanning her head.

"She's starting to run a fever!" he said, and began rummaging around the medicine bottles underneath the tray.

"Doctor Irot, is there something-" The nurse coming in the door stopped dead in her tracks as she saw the swollen patient. "I'll grab more people!" she said, and rushed back.

"Was this going on for a while?" Irot asked, still rummaging around the medicine bottles.

"It started after they started yelling," Drax said.

"'Borgaunic Lumps', high stress levels mixed with the allergic reaction to Gunzanio," Irot said. "She's Langarian, right?"

"_Half_ Langarian," Rocket pointed out.

"Really? Cause when I di-" Suddenly Lianna began slowly growing, the suspension of the bed soon being stressed by the immense weight.

"Doctor Irot!" Another doctor said, bursting through the door. "What is she being diagnosed with?" Soon three nurses followed after the second doctor as they surrounded her.

"Borgaunic Lumps, a high fever, uncontrolled growth, and high heart rate levels," Irot said, finally pulling a bottle out from underneath the tray.

"What are we gonna do! She's maintaining too much for us to lower!" A nurse yelled as pulled a green, liquid filled IV out of Lianna.

"The only thing we _can_ do," Irot said, filling a shot with a purple substance.

"You don't mean!?" The second doctor said, shocked to come down to the final resort.

"It's the only choice left!" And with that, he injected the shot into Lianna, releasing every bit of it.

The heart monitor showed her heart rate going down. Her body returned to normal size, and the lumps began disappearing into her skin. The monitor showed her heart rate going down even more, until it came to just a long, high pitch noise.

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**The sadly true, final chapter 20 is now just around the corner. It felt like so much time had flew since I first started this story, and so many people had loved reading as what I've seen. And to show that Lianna will still live on, I'm open to story ideas of what Lianna and the crew should do.**

**-****xXFangirl311Xx**


	20. Surprise

**There's gonna be a Lianna P.O.V. part in here just to let you know.**

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"Get that damn shot out of her," Rocket said, pointing a small plasma gun to Irot. The other medical people pressed themselves against the walls in surrender way.

"Sir, please put the gun down," Irot said, the shot still inside of Lianna.

"I said get the goddamn shot out of her!" Rocket yelled, making everyone but Irot flinch.

Irot just store at Rocket with a blank expression, and then pulled the shot out.

Rocket put the gun away, and got closer to Lianna, running his hands down her limp arm.

"Sir, the procedure isn't finished yet," Irot said, earning a glare from Rocket.

"Oh you finished it all right, you fuckin' killed her for real!" Rocket said, feeling some tears form in his eyes. "She's gone for real now, and it's all because of what you had in that fucking shot that killed my wife!"

"'Wife'? That's a pretty strong word you used there," a familiar voice said, a smile being detected in the words.

"L...L-Lianna?" Rocket said, looking up to the bed.

"Well who else, ya furry gunsmen," Lianna said, sitting up on the bed with her eyes closed.

"Why your eyes closed?" Peter asked.

"Side effect of Qubetten liquid, you lose your eye sight," Lianna responded.

"Your not gonna be able to see?!" Rocket exclaimed, trying to get on to the bed.

"Rocket, calm down, your eyes are getting sweaty," Lianna smiled.

"Where'd you hear that?" Rocket asked, managing to place himself high enough to hang on to the railing.

"When we first came into the hospital you said that, ya goof," She said, reaching over to him and petting his head.

"I did," he admitted. "Wait, how'd you know I was over here?" She showed her hand to him, and saw there was an eye on each finger.

"Okay, that's kinda creepy, but I can live with it," he said, hugging her then.

"But then why did the heart monitor say you died?" Gamora asked.

"Someone stepped on the cord that connected to me," Lianna said.

"Well, Miss Argo, since you seem completely fine, could I finish?" Irot asked.

"Yeah, I don't really think everyone would adjust to finger eyes," Lianna joked, lending Irot her arm.

He stuck the shot in, and her skin began to from a small lump. When the lump stopped growing, he drew, filling the shot back up with the purple liquid.

"That should do it," Irot said, pulling the full shot out of her arm. She opened her eyes, revealing blind eyes, until her original eye color began to fade back in.

"Aah, much much much better," she said, rubbing her eyes and blinking a few times.

"Now, Lianna, I have something very important to tell you," he said.

"And what's that?" she asked.

"You are not half Langarian, but actually _full_ Langarian," This shocked everyone.

"What?" she said, completely confused.

"I did some tests, and it shows your father was actually half Langarain," he said, putting away the medicine and shot.

"My dad?" she said, now completely shocked.

"Yes, and with the reproduction a full Langaraian, your mother, that will make another full Langarian; not another half, not a quarter of it,"

"B-But, if I was always full Langarians, why didn't I found out myself?" she question, still confused about the whole thing.

"You could say thanks to the belief and stubborn species that live in the galaxy, they always stick to what they've been doing and believe in what they were told for most of their lives growing up,"

"So that means I could do all those other things that I thought I couldn't do?" Irot slowly shook his head yes, which made Lianna smiled with joy.

"So what does that mean?" Drax asked.

"It means I can a lot more now, but I'll list off the ones I like the most," she said.

"One's changing skin color," Her skin quickly transitioned to orange with big, yellow freckles all over her body.

"Another's changing hair color," Her skin quickly went back to normal, and her hair became a vibrant, neon green.

"Fur," The hair went back to red and she put her hands on her face, pulling them down to then reveal brown fur covering her face. It shocked everyone and she giggled.

"And body reformation," The fur disappeared and she pushed up on her head, making her neck long then. She placed her hands on her shoulders, and slid them outwards, making her shoulders look thick and broad. She brought her foot to her, and pulled the ball of her foot out, giving her foot an anthromorphic look.

"Does this mean I could make you look like a grandma?" Peter asked mischievously.

"Why do you ask that?" Lianna questioned, forming her body back to normal.

"Senor citizens are more cheaper, unless we make you a little kid that's eleven or below," he said, making everyone slightly laugh.

"Well now, Lianna, do you feel that your fully rested?" Irot asked, they other nurses and doctor soon leaving the room.

"I guess so," she said smiling, pulling all the IV's out of her and getting out of the bed.

"I, am Groot_(Lianna, your torso isn't healed still)_," Groot pointed out.

"Oh, yeah," She unwrapped her torso, revealing her injury covered in dried blood and a few loose organs.

"Man, doesn't that hurt?" Peter asked, feeling he might get sick.

"At first, yeah," She said. The side of her torso then began to slowly form again, the skin crawling over her wound in a liquidish manner. Soon, her torso had healed up, just leaving then a large hole in her suit.

"Shall we go on to see Stein in court then?" Gamora asked.

"Sure, nothing like a little reunion with an old friend, right?" Lianna smirked to Rocket.

"Yeah, it's the _good thing_ to do," He smirked back.

"Off to supreme court we go!" Peter said. "Hope they don't bring up my recent records,"

"But didn't Lianna crash the ship?" Drax asked, making a point.

"So how do we get to the court house?" Rocket asked.

"We don't even know what date it will be held," Gamora said.

Lianna looked over to Rocket and then back to the others. "Off to _Nova Prime_ we go!" she said, leading everyone out of the door.

Everyone followed out, and Rocket rushed to the front to walk beside Lianna, letting his hand then be grasped by her as they walked out of the hospital.

* * *

Lianna's P.O.V.

It was two weeks later since the affair with Stein and hosptial.

The court case for Stein proven him guilty and he was punished with incineration. Serves him right for putting that cresent indent in my torso at that time.

The team was given an award for exposing Stein's plan and we were getting the ship back. Well, not the one I crash, but an exact replica of it. Of course we had to do a little shopping spree since we about lost everything in the crash, but I was surprised with how much the guys had bought. It looked like they were holding their girlfriend's shopping bags.

Nova Prime was letting us stay at a nice hotel until the ship was done, which was very nice of her. Rocket said she could've done better for us, so I had to give him a little whip on the back of the head with my hair whilst we were there with her.

But right now I was laying in bed, sleeping with no care in the world of what was gonna come through my door.

"Lianna! Wake up!" I spoke too soon.

"Don't yell, Peter! She's still asleep!" That was Gamora then, and I couldn't help but smile when I heard the sound of a slap.

"Ow! I'm sorry!" Peter said.

"They both of ya go get ready!" That was Rocket all right. "The ship's already, so stop messin' around! And don't be yelling in here either, the doctor said she needs to try getting good sleeps to help balance her body out from the injury,"

"Rocket, it's been two weeks, I think she's pretty good by now," Peter said, but I could handle the conversation going on any longer.

"Will ya shut up!" I moan, stretching my arms as I sat up. "It's like what, seven in the morning?"

"I am Groot_(It's nine-forty)_," Groot said, passing by the door carrying boxes.

"Nine-forty!" I exclaimed, knowing I slept in too much again. "Why didn't you ding-dongs wake me up earlier, I practically slept half the day!"

"Well, you looked so peaceful sleeping," Rocket said, trying to flatter his way out. I got out of bed and went over to my door.

"You guys hurry up and get cher shit ready, I'll be out," And with that I closed my door, rushing over to some bags of clothes. I rummaged through them until I found my original outfit. I quickly threw it on and gathered all my stuff I had in the room, rushing out the door.

"Why is everything in the kitchen?!" I couldn't believe how bad the day was starting. "You should have it by the door for when we leave!"

"Peter instructed for us to put it here," Drax said, setting down a box. I just facepalmed myself with my free hand groaned, knowing this was gonna be a long day.

We finally got everything out of the hotel and headed to the center of town, where our ship has been placed. But soon, a little kid had confronted me.

"Hi there!" I greeted, setting my box down on the ground as I kneeled down.

"Hello," The little girl said, apparently holding something behind her back.

"Watcha got there?" I politely asked, making her twist her shoe into the ground.

"I-I made you something," she said, looking at me briefly before looking away with shyness.

"Oh! You did!" I was quite surprised, but thought it was cute of her to do so.

"Yeah, a picture of you guys," she said, already acting she opened up to me. She pulled the large piece of paper from out behind her and held it in front of her, displaying it.

It was a drawing of the whole team with the ship flying in the sky. Peter was standing by Gamora holding guns, Drax had his arms up in a cheerful manner with Groot covered in flowers, and what caught my attention the most, was Rocket and me holding hands with a heart between us.

"T-Thank you," I said, taking the picture from her. "But, how'd you know about me and you-know-who?" I looked back to Rocket, who was giving boxes to Groot, in a hopefully point-out to him.

"Almost everyone knows," the little girl replied. "I heard from my Mom who works as a nurse at the hospital,"

No wonder why, but now we might be the next famous couple. Rocket's gonna flip when that comes up in the news.

"What's your name, little girl?" I asked with a smile, trying _not_ to sound creepy if I did.

"Maexa," she said.

"Well, Maexa, lemme give you a little something," I opened up my box and reached inside. I pulled out my old satchel and dusted it off, going to pull a marker out of the box next.

"This was my satchel I used back when I first met Rocket," I said, still rummaging for a marker. "I kept spare fruit in there and water and a blanket for him when he needed them. He went through some very hard times you know, but I was there to help him up and be happy,"

A finally felt a marker and pulled it out, opening the satchel and started writing underneath the flap. I wrote 'Take care of the one you find in need. -Lianna Argo', and put away the marker.

"Promise me, when you find someone, someone who's different, someone who's hurt, someone who's sad, you will help them get better, okay?" I held the satchel in front of me, waiting for Maexa to take it.

"I promise," she smiled, and took the satchel from my hands. She looked at it with awe and read my writing, smiling afterwards to me.

"Thank you," she said, and hugged me. It surprised me at first, but I soon returned the favor by hugging her too.

"Your welcome," I said, breaking the hug. She smiled to me once more before skipping back to her mother with her new satchel around her body.

"Yo Lianna!" Rocket called for me, gaining my attention. "You gunna hurry up or what?"

"I'm coming," I said, closing the box back up and scrolling the paper up to carry. I picked up the box and went on to outside the ship, giving the box to Groot and sitting by the open hatch.

"What did the little brat want?" Rocket asked, standing on the hatch to level with me.

"She wasn't a brat, she was actually very nice," I said, putting the paper on my lap.

"What's that?" he asked, sitting down.

"She made it," I said, unrolling it. "It's the whole team together," I laid the paper open on my lap and let Rocket take in the drawing.

"How does that little rascal know about us?!" Rocket said, looking around in the crowd for her.

"Rocket, she said almost everyone knows now, because of the 'wife' thing back at the hospital," I said, looking at him with a smirk.

"Oh, yeah that," he said, rubbing his neck. "I-It's just, ya know, I thought I actually lose you that time for good, a-a-and-"

"Say no more Rocket," I said, putting my hand on his shoulder. "There's no need to explain your love for me," He chuckled then and relaxed, leaning against me.

"But, I did get this for you," He reached into his pocket and pulled out a little black box.

"What is it?" I asked, curious of what he got.

"I got you this so you know that I'm always with you," He opened the box, and revealed a citrine crystal ring. I gasped and looked at it with awe as he took the ring and slipped it on my finger.

"Oh, Rocket, it's beautiful!" I couldn't think of any other words to describe it. I grabbed the sides of his face and began planting kisses all over his face.

"Come on, now, we're in public!" he whined, ending my kisses. I just giggled, and snuggled against him. "I love you, Lianna," he said, smiling.

"And I will always love you too, Rocket," I said, planting a kiss on his lips.

And that was the best and happiest moment of my life ever.

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Guardians of the Galaxy, Hurt-Comfort, Romance