Bottle of Pills

Chapter 2

Arianna LeAnn LeFay

The phones were ringing incessantly and the people around her made her nervous. She hated crowded rooms. With a discrete check of her watch she mentally sighed again. She was at the doctor's office and it seemed the poor man was on his own today as his partner's wife had gone into labor early in the morning. She was sorely tempted to cancel her appointment and schedule for another day but soon realized that it would be best to get the appointment out of the way.

"Arianna," a pink clad nurse called into the waiting room. Arianna looked up in relief. She placed her book back into its bag and followed the nurse into one of the examining rooms. The nurse informed her that the doctor would be with her in a few minutes after checking her vitals. Arianna decided to explore the room. A chart of the human skeletal system caught her eye and she nearly jumped when the door swung open. The doctor chuckled.

"I am sorry my dear," he told her. "I did not mean to frighten you. Ah, I see you have spotted one of the charts; always useful when trying to explain something to a patient. I just received your results and it does not look good." Arianna closed her eyes and prayed for something treatable. "It seems you have an allergy to one of your pills. It is basically causing havoc on your body and we need to flush your system before it gets any further. I'm going to have to admit you to the hospital."

"Where's LeFay," Brennan asked as she looked around to see her co-worker and basically assistant missing. She knew the girl had a tendency to disappear and reappear at the strangest of times but she hadn't seen her all day.

"She has a doctor's appointment today, Dr. Brennan," Cam informed her co-worker. "She's probably stuck in traffic."

"I can't get a hold of her," Wendell announced the second he was in hearing range. "I don't know where she lives."

"Did anyone consider calling the doctor's office," Booth said as walked onto the platform. Wendell nodded.

"Already did," Wendell confirmed. "They gave me the run around citing doctor-patient confidentiality. What worries me is that her appointment was at nine this morning. It's nearly four now. She should be back now." All of them jumped when Hodgins called across the lab.

"Wendell, there is someone calling for you," He called. Wendell headed into Hodgins work area and picked up the phone.

"This is Wendell Bray speaking," Wendell announced into the phone. He could almost hear the relief at getting a hold of him in the speaker's voice.

"This is Nurse Allen," the nurse informed him. "You are the emergency contact for an Arianna LeAnn LeFay, correct?" Wendell tried to keep calm.

"I am, is something wrong," he asked.

"I am afraid that Miss. LeFay had an allergic reaction to one of her medications and has been submitted to Georgetown University Hospital," the nurse informed him. "She is currently unconscious and you are her contact so we need you to sign papers as her acting contingent until she is able to do so for herself."

"I am on my way, thank you," Wendell said and hung up. He turned to the rest of the team who had gathered in the doorway. "She's in the hospital."

"What do you know of Arianna," Brennan randomly asked Wendell while they were waiting to hear news on her. Wendell's hand went to the back of his head as thought about what he did know.

"Not much," Wendell admitted. "She'll let a few things about herself out but nothing really that actual relates to her past." Brennan turned to look at Booth.

"Have you looked in her file," Brennan asked. Automatically of their eyes went to him, he sighed and nodded. "What's in it?"

"I don't know," Booth said as he ran his hand through is hair. "She has higher security clearance then I do, even higher than the director of the FBI kind of high. Anything I could see of the file was blacked out."

"How old is she," Hodgins asked as he peered at the rest of the group.

"I would think she's in her early twenties," Sweets commented as took a seat. All of them looked up at him surprised. Wendell shook his head.

"She just turned 26, actually," Wendell absent-mindedly corrected. "She's been in the US for 9 years this Friday."

"I thought you said you didn't know her that well," Angela said confused. Wendell laughed.

"I have to know that kind of stuff as her emergency contact," Wendell said amused. "She can't answer that stuff if she is unconscious and they could possibly need it for something other than just the forms."

"Arianna LeFay's family," the doctor called out as he searched for who he should talk to.

"She doesn't have any," Wendell said as he stood to greet the doctor. "I am her emergency contact, Wendell Bray." The doctor looked down at his chart and nodded. "What's going on with her?"

"She'll be fine," the doctor told Wendell. "The medicine has been completely flushed from her system and she'll be put on a new one that will hopefully cause no problems with her. She should wake up later today, at the latest tomorrow. We'll have to keep her for a couple of days to make sure that the new medication will not cause any problems but other than that she should be fine. If you want you can and go in and see her, just don't expect a response. She's in room 312." Wendell nodded and turned to the group.

"Dr. Brennan works with us so she'll be able to keep an additional eye out for anything else that could be wrong while we're at work," Wendell offered when he realized the doctor recognized his boss. "I'm sure she'd love to ask you more questions about what is going on with Arianna if you don't mind." The doctor looked torn. "Check the chart, the doctor is her second emergency chart. She'll have to know what is going on with her and who better to understand then another doctor?" The man smiled and turned to Doctor Brennan who automatically went into question mode. In a daze Wendell wondered into her hospital room. It looked so bland, so unlike Arianna herself. The hospital gown was overly large on her slim, pale figure. A hesitating figure in the doorway caused Wendell to look up.

"What did you learn," Wendell asked as he took a seat. Brennan sighed.

"She was lucky," Brennan informed Wendell. "She had a severe reaction to her medication. If she had been able to get her medication sooner, who knows what could have happened. They say she went into Anaphylaxis shock. They also said that she died for a minute in the ambulance. They were worried that she wouldn't come back because she seemed so peaceful before she died for that minute and thought she wouldn't have the will to come back." Brennan sighed. "There is more. They took x-ray's because she landed on the floor pretty hard. Wendell, her x-ray's show signs of child abuse."

The doctor informed Wendell the next day that they would have to keep her longer because she woke up screaming during the night. She ended up injuring herself in the process, fracturing her right wrist in the process. She had yet to wake up. Angela, Jack, Wendell, Temperance, Seeley, and even Cam coordinated so that Arianna would have someone to be with her at all times. Because she had yet to wake up they would bring something with them to entertain to themselves. Today, two days after she had been submitted to the hospital she had still not woken up.

"W-w-w-att-t-ter," a voice croaked from the bed. Wendell nearly fell out of his seat in shock.