The female officer talking to herself, "What a shame girl, what happened to you?"

CC turns her head and moans.

"Ah…mmm….my head."

CC's mind: Why is my head hurting so bad? Did I get drunk again? Is this my hangover? "Ah…" she tried to put her hand up to her face. Why am I aching all over?

"Relax ma'am." The female officer walked closer to make sure that she wasn't making this up in her mind before announcing that they had alive one.

"This one's still alive. Beaten but alive," yells the female officer as she runs up the male officer who is getting no answer on the phone.

CC mind: What happened to me? Why did she just say I was still alive? Was I dead before? My head feels like I was crushed in. Oh my side and legs hurt too. Was I hit? Well, I don't remember? What is happening to me? Am I losing my mind? Or am I dreaming all of this? That's it; this is all a dream in a minute I will wake up in my bed. Where, if I'm not, is somewhere I want to be. She tried to blink but her eyes hurt to bad too.

"I've one more number to try. Stay with her and see if she can talk to us about what happened to her."

"Tell them."The female officer responded, pointing to the phone her partner was using. "That she needs somebody here with her." The male officer dialed the last number listed on the card.

Sheffield Mansion:

The phone on the table in the foyer rang. And kept ringing. "I'm coming already." Niles said under his breath.

"I'll get it." Niles yells as he reaches for the phone. "Sheffield's residents….a who?….oh Babs…..yes why?…..found her where?…..we will be right there…thank you….good bye." Niles places the phone back down on the table in the foyer.

Niles' mind: What was that about? Ms. Babcock found in the parking lot of her apartment. If the police called, that means that she is drunk but why didn't she just walk into her building? This must be serous then.

"Who was that Niles? It looks like you just seen a ghost." Fran who is sitting on the couch looks up from her magazine.

"It was the police. Something about Ms. Babcock." He rushes towards the office where Max has been for the last few hours working as usual. Niles knocks on the door and then opens it.

"Sorry to disturb you sir,"

"What is it Niles?" Max questions.

"The police called to tell us that they found Ms. Babcock in the parking lot of her apartment complex."

"Is she ok?"

"That's all they said and that we should come down there."

"Grab Ms. Fine." Max said as he rounded his desk.

"Right behind ya boys." Fran called.

Parking lot of complex:

When they finally arrived at the parking lot, they saw CC sitting down on the edge of the back of an ambulance.

"What happened here?" Max yelled as he exited the limo. He was stopped by CC yelling at one of the EMT who was looking her over.

"I fine, I don't need to go anywhere." Max, Fran and Niles stood there staring at CC with their mouths open. "Get your hands off of me. I'm fine." CC slapped one of the people. She looked up and noticed them staring at her.

CC mind: Great just what I needed more of a circus around me. This is all a dream. They will go away in a minute.

"CC, I…." Max voice trail off when the EMT told him that she didn't want to go to the hospital and get checked out.

"As I told them Nanny Fine, I'm good to go. I don't need anyone's help." CC starts to stagger off.

"Not so fast." Niles steps forward towards her wanting to see her. "Hold it right there." CC stops. She looks back at Niles as he walks closer to her. She begins to shiver. He stares into her eyes. Something in them told him it wasn't a shiver from the cold. That it was something more. He sighs. The female officer looks over at Niles then back to CC. He takes off his coat, hands it to the officer and says to put it around her. The officer does what he requested while Niles steps back. He stands behind Fran. He understands that CC went though something terrifying. That look in her eyes, eye told him more then he needed to know. Immediately CC stops shivering and begins to relax some. CC shows, what Niles believes, to be a smile his direction.

CC mind: Oh the smell of lemons, the smell of him. I miss that smell at night when I'm all alone. All alone, she looked up at the building windows, in my apartment. She shook her head slightly. I must be going crazy to think like that about that man. Do I really want him near me that close? Close enough to smell him? Close enough to touch him? Fran walks up to CC and takes her gently by the arm.

"We'll make sure she goes to the hospital." She winks at one the emergency crewmembers. "Trust me."

Hospital:

Max, Fran and Niles sat down in the lobby.

"She's going to be alright." Fran tried to clam them down.

"Its just hospitals, they frighten me…." Max started; he put his head in his hands.

"Oy, about your wife."

"Yes, I remember. That was one of the saddest days of all times. The wait was the worst." Niles commented. Fran sat between the guys and put her hands on their shoulders.

"It's going to be alright." A Nurse comes by a few minutes later.

"Are you the ones with…" she looks at the chart that she was carrying to make sure of the name. "CC Babcock."

"Yes," all three jump up.

"We are still running a few test. We should be done shortly."

"How is she?" Max asked.

"We…" a Dr comes from her room bring a folder. The doctor faces the three of them. "We have good news and bad."

"It has to be bad, with the nurse won't tell you anything and look at the Dr.'s face." Fran whispers to the two of them. The nurse hands him the clipboard with test results. "I see.." the nurse takes the file back and disappears out of the room.

"We um….." the doctor swallows.

"Is she going to be all right?" Niles questions.

"Um…." The doctor looks over at them. "Let's sit down. For the most part she will be fine."

"There's a but isn't there." Niles responded. Hoping that it wasn't a big but. He had some thoughts about what the doctor was going to say.

"Niles," Max calls.

"Yes, sir." The doctor looks at Niles.

"Are you her husband?" Fran starts to chuckle at that. Niles glares at her.

"Hell no!"

"Now, Niles," Max response.

"Are you?" the doctor looked at Max.

"Who me?" Max points at himself then shakes his head. "No, no she's my business partner." The doctor calls for his nurse, "Then I can't share all the results with you guys. Patient-doctor confidentiality. I can tell you that she had a head concussion and since we don't know how long she was out of it," All her life. Niles thought. "How much she will remember." All swallowed.

"And where's the bad news?" Fran smiles at Niles. "If she doesn't remember that's good news right?" Max and Niles look at Fran who gives then a 'what' look.

"The bad news to her not remembering, is when she does, we don't know how she will react."

"You mean she'll remember." Max responded.

Max's mind: What's that going to be like? Not working for sure. On the other hand I might actually get something done. Oh how can I say that? After all she's a friend of mine. I should have more compassion for her right now.

"Does she remember any of us?" Fran asked. She was scared that Ms. Babcock wouldn't remember any of them.

"We don't know right now. Um… she hasn't mentioned anyone yet. So we don't know."

"This is bloody awful. When will we know something?" Max asked, still worried about how CC would react to them.

The doctor took a deep breath. "Soon I hope." Another nurse came into the waiting room.

"Doctor," The nurse motions for the doctor. He walks over to her and they talk for a few seconds. Then the doctor turns back to the three of them and asked, "She asking for a…let me get this right." He looks at his nurse, she nods. "A Nanny Fine?"

"That would be me." Fran shook her head.

Fran's mind: Why is she asking for me of all people? Is that all she remembers, is me? I flattered but I've always been the last person on earth that she would want to see. Oh well, if I'm the one that she asking for then so be it. She looks over at Niles and Max.

Niles' mind: Why is she asking for Ms. Fine? She must have hit her head to hard; no wait I've done that already. What could she possibly want from her? Oh hell she wants to take her away from Max.

Max's mind: Why Ms. Fine? CC has never had anything good to say to her. Neither one of them like each other. She's doing it to torture Niles. Yeah that's it. It's got to be. They both shrugged at her. "We don't have a clue." Niles answered her.

"I'm assuming she will be staying with you?" Doctor comes closer to Fran.

"Uh um….." she looked at Niles and Max.

"Yes, she will." Max gets up. "She'll be staying with us." Both Fran and Niles glared at him. "What choice do we have? We can't reach her family."

"But sir," Max glared back at Niles. "Great another one to clean up after." He murmured under his breath.

"What was that old man?"

"Great to have her staying with us." Niles' mind: I'm, but not in this condition. What if this is more serious then we think? What if she starts to remember what happened to her? How is that going to affect us? I mean she was attacked. Oh, I wish I could go see her. I want to know how my baby's doing. Baby? Did I just call her my baby? He remembers what happened in the parking lot when he went up to her. What if she freaks out again like she did in the parking lot? Which, Max and Fran will never know about. What if she thinks that we did this to her? Oh, don't think that. He scolded himself. Don't even go there? But there's that possibility of her thinking that. Oh what are we going to do?

"Can we see her?" asked Max. The doctor sighs.

"Well," the doctor points at Fran. "She's asking for her remember. I think we should see how this goes first." The doctor takes Fran by the arm. Fran turns to them. "Sorry guys." Both Niles and Max just sit back down with loud sighs.

The doctor leads Fran down the low-lit hall. He is holding her hand, which Fran thinks, is kind of weird.

Fran's mind: Dating a doctor like ma says might not be a bad idea. This guy's cute. I wonder if he's single? What am I thinking? I have to focus. She smiled at him. He smiled back.

Dr's mind: What a beautiful woman. Na. What am I thinking? She'll never go out with me. Look at me. I'm about twice her age at least.

"Here we are." He reached out to open the door. "Before we go in," he breathed in, "There's a detective in there. She's trying to talk to CC about what happened. If she starts to remember anything about this attack then call the police immediately."

They walked in. "Nanny Fine," CC responded immediately a pond seeing her. "It's good to see you, my friend."

Fran's mind: Now I know she hit her head and hard. She never called me a friend. We have never been able to be in the same room with out saying something mean to each other.

"I'm here." Fran smiled. She walked closer to the bed.

Fran's mind: I'll just play along with this 'friend thing'. It won't last long. CC had one bandage on her forehead and one on each of her arms. She had other scathes scatter on her face and hands.

"Look, I fell." CC pointed with her hand showing Fran her bandages.

"That's nice."

Fran's mind: Oy, she doesn't remember a thing. What am I supposed to say to her? This is harder then I thought it was going to be. What if she starts to remember? What's it going to be like when she does? That will be something to look forward too.

The detective in the room walked up to Fran. "Detective Shing."

"Fran Fine." Shing holds out one of her cards.

"Call me if she remembers anything, anything at all. Big or small." Fran takes the card and places it in her pocket.

"We will keep in touch."

Fran's mind: Yeah right, I wouldn't hold my breath on that. It doesn't seem she remembers one thing. Shing nods at the doctor.

"I've to get going."

"Bye friend." CC waves as Shing leaves the room.

"Good luck," She shook her head as she left the room. "Cold case files here we come." Fran faces the doctor.

"Are you sure she's going to be alright?"

"Only in time." A knock at the door, an older doctor enters. "It seems that you have cleared the other test and you may be released." He looks at Fran. "If you just sign right here. She's all yours."

Fran's mind: Great that's just what I want to hear. Fran takes the papers and signs her out while the nurse helps CC into a wheelchair. The doctor holds open the door.

Dr.'s mind: Thank god my shift's over.

"This way." The nurse pushes CC down the hall.

"I can do it myself Nanny Fine."

"I think she back to normal, when it comes to me."

Max walks up to her. Niles sees her twitch some. "You are staying with us for a few days CC." She just rolled her eyes. Niles' mind: that was another twitch. Like the one I saw in the parking lot, but why? What is wrong with her? It's like she doesn't want us around. Is this the right place for her to be staying? Where else does she have to go?

CC's mind: Fun can't wait. All I want to do is go home and get some rest not stay with them. Why do I need to stay with them anyway? It's not like something bad happened. Did it? If not, why am I here? It's just your imagination CC nothings wrong with you.