Chapter 3.

The Cobra came to a screeching halt outside the emergency room entrance doors. The driver's side door swung open the biker girl jumping out as quickly as she could running round to the passenger side to get to Jill shouting out as she did.

'I need some help here! Please quickly, she's been shot!' Doctor's and nurses on the breaks out by the ER came rushing to help Jill. A stretcher was brought out carefully taking Jill the nurses and doctors lifted her on to it and took her straight through in to the hospital, the biker girl not far behind.

'I'm sorry,' the ER nurse said 'you can't go any further than here, please go to the desk and give them your friends details. A doctor will be out as soon as they can to speak with you.' The nurse turned on her heel and rushed through to the room they had taken Jill to.

'Thank you' The biker girl called after her. 'I really don't have the time to give all that information though.' She headed to the nurses station asked for a pen and some paper and scribbled down some information handing it to the nurse behind the desk she said 'here, you'll need this information for the lady they just rushed into that room, with the gun shot wound.' The nurse took the paper from the biker girl, before she could stop her the biker girl had left the station and was lost in the jungle of the busy ER.

Moments later Kris, Kelly and Sabrina arrived at the hospital. Parking Sabrina's car they climbed out and headed towards the hospital entrance, Kris practically running led the way.

'Who ever that stranger is who's been helping Jill I'd really like to talk to her.' Sabrina said to Kelly as they rushed to keep up with Kris.

'Look! Over there, there's my car.' Kris moved on toward the Cobra, checking it for any signs of someone.

'Well at least we know that they're here.' Sabrina said surveying the car.

'Come on let's get inside.' Kris rushed through the doors towards the nurse's station with Sabrina and Kelly following closely behind her.

'Excuse me, I'm looking for my sister, she was brought here with a gunshot wound I think, please, her name is Jill Munroe.' Kris fidgeted with worry and fright as the nurse searched the files for Jill. Kelly stood beside Kris placing a reassuring arm around her, filled with worry herself. Sabrina, keeping herself busy was scanning the people in the waiting area looking for the young woman who had taken Jill and brought her here, hoping to find some answers from the mystery woman. Her thoughts and search were interrupted by the nurse.

'Yes, here we are, Jill Munroe. She was brought in with a gunshot wound to the upper body and she's been taken up to surgery. I'll have the doctor come out to you and also this note was left for you Miss Munroe.' The nurse handed her the piece of paper as she rushed off to find a doctor to speak with Kris.

Kris was frozen to the spot.

'Surgery.' She whispered. Kelly pulled her in close to her

'It'll be OK Kris, Jill's going to be OK.' Kelly held Kris tightly doing her best to believe her own words as she spoke them. Sabrina took the note from Kris's hand unfolding it and reading its contents aloud.

'Angel's, sorry I couldn't stay to make sure Jill was OK, I've left her in the best possible care knowing you weren't far behind. Sorry about taking the car.' Sabrina looked up at her friends a disappointed look on her face.

'Is that all she wrote?' Kelly asked still holding Kris. Sabrina looked down at the note again.

'No, she also apologises that she had to hot wire the car, it'll need fixing.' Sabrina folded the note and placed it in her jacket pocket. 'We can check it later for any prints, you never know we might find some, either on here or in Kris's car.' Sabrina said looking sadly at Kris.

'Miss Munroe?' The Angel's turned to face a handsome young man, tall, brown hair, hazel eyes wearing blue medical scrubs. 'I'm Dr. Rose, I've been with your sister since your friend brought her in, who disappeared soon after.' The doctor explained leading the Angel's to a quieter part of the ER department.

'How's my sister Dr. Rose? Is she going to be OK?' Kris spoke up, wiping her tear soaked eyes.

'When she arrived she had lost a lot of blood and was unconscious from this, the bullet had lodged itself within her ribcage, which is lucky for her really.'

'Lucky.' Kelly choaked.

'Forgive me, I'm sure that sounded terrible but the bullet being trapped within the rib cage stopped it from passing through her lung or any other major organ including the heart. Once a bullet enters your body there's no telling where it may finish up. In any case we removed the bullet and found that although the bullet hadn't passed through the lung the force on the bone surrounding it had splintered and scratched the lung causing bleeding. To be absolutely sure and safe we sent Jill up to surgery to make any repairs to the lung and the surrounding area and also any internal bleeding had to be stopped of course.'

'Surgery for all of that, couldn't that have been done down here?' Sabrina questioned

'Some yes, but we had a call or rather our head of surgery had a call from an old friend who is close to your friend and so she was sent up to surgery and the best of the best doctors we have here. Now, if you'll follow me I can take you up to the waiting room where you can wait for the doctor. It's a lot quieter and peaceful up there.' The doctor smiled a reassuring smile to the Angel's turned and led the way to the waiting room on the surgical floor.

'Dr. Wilson will be a long to speak with you as soon as he can. There's coffee here in the room, help yourselves and should you need something to eat there's a vending machine just down the hall here, it's not great but it's something to keep the sugar levels up.' Dr. Rose smiled as he awkwardly headed to leave the room.

'Dr. Rose,' Kris called after him, he turned to face the voice 'thank you, for everything you've done.' She finished. The doctor smiled nodded his head and left the room closing the door behind him.

'So, an old friend called the head of the surgical department and asked for special care to be taken of Jill.' Sabrina said smirking as she removed her ear rings.

'Charlie.' Kelly said smiling herself as she sat down on the couch watching Kris who was hovering by the window.

'Charlie.' Sabrina agreed turning her attention to Kris also.

'I can't lose her' Kris said quietly keeping her gaze set on the view out of the window.

'You won't Kris, Jill's going to be fine, Dr. Rose explained as much to us. She's here with the surgical team to get the very best care Charlie's seen to that, she'll be OK.' Sabrina said reassuringly trying to get Kris's attention away from the window.

'Who was she? That woman in the biker gear, she just appeared from no where and just helped out? How is that normal?' Kris said angry and confused 'And then not to stay at a hospital after you've brought someone in!'

'They have security camera's in and around hospitals right?' Sabrina asked

'Yeah, why Bri, what are you, of course! The footage on the security tapes should hopefully show us our mystery helper.' Kelly said getting to her feet. 'I'll go to the security office see if I can talk them in to letting me view the tapes from when Jill was brought in.'

'Right,' Sabrina said 'I'll call Charlie, make sure you get to see the tapes, also she was wearing biking leathers right?' Sabrina thought out loud pinching her bottom lip between her thumb and finger as she thought, Kelly nodded answering her question. 'I'll contact Bos, get him to check around the buildings at the docks, see if he can find the bike that may go with that outfit she was wearing.' Sabrina sat in the arm chair by the phone picking up the receiver as Kelly headed for the door she turned to look at Kris before she left the room. Sabrina met her gaze the two older Angel's looked at their young friend as they would look to a younger sibling. Sabrina nodded her head towards Kelly motioning for her to carry on, she'd look after Kris. Knowing the signs Kelly nodded back and left the room leaving Kris in very capable hands.


Having left the hospital before the Angel's arrived, the Biker girl walked away from the hospital a couple of blocks before hailing a taxi. The cab ride seemed to drag on forever before arriving at her destination. Getting out of the cab the next passenger to take it from her was in such a rush he crashed in to the biker girl's side clipping her shoulder as he did so.

'Ow!' She cried out in pain.

'Sorry!' The man called out as he shut the taxi car's door. Lowering the zip on her jacket to reveal more of her shoulder, she found the source of the pain. Blood all over the wound and what seemed to be a hole.

'Terrific. That just tops my day.' Hailing another cab she headed off to get the wound seen to. The cab pulled up to the front of a small Veterinary clinic in a pretty little suburb. Getting out of the cab the biker girl headed around the back of the clinic and entered through the back door. The front entrance clearly stated the clinic was closed and chalked in on the board was the emergency number to call.

'Hello?!' She called from the back entrance way closing the door behind her. A honey golden retriever came rushing to see her. 'Hey boy, where's that master of yours? Aunt Caitlin needs a little help.' As if understanding completely the dog turned and lead her to the side office.

'Hi Cate, what trouble you found today?'

'Nice Marcus, honestly, you'd think that was the only reason I ever came to see you!' Cate said as she entered the room.

'Well it is.' The older man turned in his chair to face her, her blonde shoulder length hair brushed back off her shoulders, leaning against the examining table she stood smiling at her friend.

'You look pale, and you're bleeding! What happened?' Marcus quickly got up from his seat forcing Cate to sit on the table.

'I was working and things got a little heated. I helped out as much as I could and well..'

'You got shot.' Marcus finished. 'Damn it Cate, Charlie is asking too much of you, putting your life on the line like this.' Marcus got to work with Cate's shoulder straight away, cleaning the wound to see the real damage.

'Charlie's asking me to do exactly what he pays me really well to do. Watch from a far keep to the shadows and when the situation seems bad enough only then get involved, try not to hang around too long though. Granted the last one is more my rule than Charlie's but I'd rather he told the Angel's about me than me trying to explain it.' Cate winced as Marcus dabbed at the wound cleaning it some more.

'Well you're damn lucky this time, the bullet went straight through but as you're here and the place is empty we're going to x-ray your shoulder and make sure there's no other damage.' Marcus said making sure Cate followed him to another room in the clinic.

'You can do that?' Cate teased, knowing full well Marcus had all the qualifications needed to take care of her.

'You know I was a doctor for people before I cared for animals, I can handle x-raying your shoulder without killing you.' He shot back flipping the light switch in the room they now entered that contained the x-raying equipment.

'Well that's good to know.' Cate said laying down where Marcus indicated to.

A few moments later the x-ray was taken, whilst waiting for the film to process, Marcus continued to tend to the wound.

'The film shouldn't be that much longer.' He said taping down the dressings that covered the wound. 'Minimal stitches needed you were damn lucky Cate.'

'Yeah, I know. I just hope others were as lucky. I'd better phone Charlie whilst you check on the x-ray film.' Nodding Marcus left the room whilst Cate called Charlie.

'Hi Charlie, it's Cate'

'Cate! Are you alright? Where are you calling from?' A very concerned Charlie asked in what seemed like a second.

'I'm with Marcus Charlie at his clinic, yeah I'm OK turns out one of the bullets being fired at us when Jill and I went through the window went straight through my shoulder. No I'm fine really Marcus has patched me up and is checking the x-ray of my shoulder as we speak making sure there's no other damage, the bullet went straight through. How's Jill doing?' Cate asked nervously not sure what she would hear next.

'She's going to be OK Cate. I just got off the phone with her surgeon, an old friend of mine I asked to take special care of her. He said that thanks to your speedy actions and the medical team in the ER department Jill will make a full recovery. The bullet lodged in her ribs so she's got some cracked ribs and some minor damage to the lung tissue around that area but it will all heal. They've moved her in to her own private room, Kris and the other Angel's are with her. Thank you Cate, you saved Jill's life.'

Slightly embarrassed by Charlie's heartfelt thanks she smiled and nodded to herself, realising Charlie couldn't see this she spoke up.

'No problem Charlie, all in a day's work right?'

'Right you are Cate. They're asking all sorts of questions about you Cate, we're going to have to reveal you sooner or later.' Charlie said

'The same could be said of you Charlie. Maybe we should just let things settle first.'

'That won't fly with these Angel's and you know that Cate, they'll track you down it's what they're best at especially as you were with Jill, she'll remember you, be able to have an artist sketch your face no doubt. Plus there's the matter of your motorbike.' Cate closed her eye's tilting her head back in sudden realisation.

'With everything that's happened today Charlie, I'd completely forgotten about my bike. They'll find it before me.'

'Yes, and eventually trace it back to me.' Charlie said a light tone to his voice 'It's time to come out of the shadow's my under cover angel.'

'Great. Well I'd best get cleaned up a little, buy some grapes and magazines and make a visit to the hospital.'

'Get some rest first Cate, the Angel's won't be doing any more detective work tonight not now they can see Jill. Goodnight Angel.'

'Goodnight Charlie.' Cate hung up the phone smiling to herself 'If I didn't know any better I'd swear that man plans these things to happen this way. Marcus!' She called out.

'Yeah.' He called back.

'Can you give me a ride home?'