Don't Tell Nana, It Will Only Worry Her! 4
By CrystalQuirt
Sibey / Yaoi [boyxboy]
Tobey saw the trouble Sid got in when he tried to keep a recipe so he could make it, but that didn't stop him from thinking he could make one and not get caught. Tobey tries to keep the Super Soba noodle recipe so he can use it and be strong enough to save Sid or Sue if they need help. Takes place after 'Origins.'
Borrowed Super Soba Noodles from Ranma 1/2 - Not a cross over! I only borrowed the noodles. Tobey will give the noodles back; one way or another when he is finished with them.
Sibey / Yaoi - Action, horror, Mild sexual and violent content, non consensual touching, mild language; implied but not described nudity.
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Tobey backed away from Kong Li when he threatened to 'get the recipe off' of him! The statement sounded gruesome since the recipe was written in permanent marker on his skin.
Kong Li shouted, "Shape Shifter . . . Hang him."
Tobey and Sid looked around for the Shape Shifter. It seemed that he was not in the area with them. Tobey's eyes shot back and forth showing he was really scared . . . "Hang?"
They didn't see Shifty until a black ooze came out of a crack in the wall behind Tobey. Shifty quickly moved up the wall. Tobey turned trying to watch Shifty and Kong Li at the same time.
Sid had not freed his hands yet, but started to get up anyway to attack Kong Li. Kong Li was over him in an instant with the poison blade against his back so he froze, watching Tobey.
Shifty secured itself to the wall with small root-like tentacles in the cracks. Two tentacles came quickly down the wall and grabbed Tobey's ankles. Tobey yelled and tried to jump away, but it was too late. Without warning the Shape Shifter pulled Tobey's feet out from under him backwards.
Without being able to use his hands, Tobey slammed forward to his knees and then his chest hit the floor. As Shifty pulled his legs up the wall. He banged his head and blood stained his white forelock.
"Tobey! . . . Dammit Kong Li – Leave him alone! Just take a picture or something!" Kong Li threatened Sid with the blade again.
After Tobey was off the ground, Shifty turned him around to face away from the wall. Not realizing how futile it would be, Tobey tried to use his cuffed hands on the wall to turn himself back around so Kong Li couldn't see the recipe. Shifty just forced him back around to face Kong Li and pulled his legs wider apart to keep him from turning around to face the wall again.
Kong Li stomped in the middle of Sid's back, left him lying on the floor gasping and walked up to Tobey.
"You didn't have to hurt Sid you monster!" Tobey objected.
"Sid are you okay?" Sid didn't answer him and Tobey couldn't see him anymore. Kong Li was standing right in front of him blocking his view.
Kong Li looked Tobey up and down. "I can not believe you wrote all the way down under your belt Son. What were you thinking?"
"Everyone's been asking me that lately."
Since he was hanging upside down, Kong Li unbuckled his belt and pulled Tobey's pants 'up' almost to his knees. Tobey made a soft whining sound.
Kong Li showed great frustration when Tobey's dark gray jeans wouldn't stay up with his legs held apart. Kong Li chanted a spell and Tobey could swear he heard several pairs of scissors working frantically.
He couldn't see any scissors, but his jeans were being shredded! The material fell off of him in long strips and only took a few seconds.
Tobey's belt, wallet with two dollars, blue phone, chapstick, gum and a candy cane from Christmas last year fell to the floor under where was suspended upside down. He was relieved that the spell left his blue briefs intact at least.
Sid recovered, got up and ran at Kong Li. Kong Li didn't even look at him, but put him in a magic bubble and threw him against the wall again. "Careful Sid, I don't really need you anymore to help control him."
Sid groaned and in a weak voice pleaded with Kong Li, "Please! You say he's your son . . . how can you do this to him? You don't have to do this! Just copy the recipe and let us go!"
"But then, who can I try my new strength out on if I let you two go? My Son is such a shrimp, I bet I can throw him twice as far as I can throw you – we will find out."
Tobey growled and twisted his back trying to wrench his legs away from Shifty.
"Now Tobey, tell me what you did to 'code' this when you wrote it down, besides the upside down and backwards part. I can see that part of what you did."
"You don't have the brain power to understand what I did Kong Loser!"
"Come now Son, are you going to make me threaten Sid's life again? Its getting tedious."
"No! I didn't say I wouldn't tell you, you are just stupid and won't understand. I – I messed with the measurements."
"Tell me how."
"For the first ingredient I copied, I added 1.052 percent to what the true amount was and then an additional .58 percent to each measurement after that; multiplying by two, so the amounts would all be changed by a different number."
"Your kidding right Son? Or you had a calculator?"
"No, I did it in my head."
"I had no idea you could do math like that in your head."
Sid looked a little surprised too.
"What makes you think I can do it accurately? There's a chance some of them are wrong – you don't want to try to cook it – instead of making you strong, it may make you grow a beard or even better - a tail!"
"When you wrote it down, you were intending to cook it and use it yourself, I am sure you did it right. I will take my chances."
Kong Li scribbled the last line from under the edge of Tobey's briefs. He turned the page sideways and added some notes, and even got out his phone to use the calculator function.
Sid taunted, "Ha, you have to use a calculator!"
"Gei Kow No!" Kong Li shot a fireball at Sid. Tobey yelled! "Sid! Look out!" Sid ducked and rolled up to his knees.
"Whoa – Sensitive much - Kong Li?"
Kong Li tapped his staff on the floor and the blade shimmering with green poison flipped out again. Tobey screamed as Kong Li swung it at Sid.
Sid put his arms up like he was trying to block and the blade cut the ropes off his wrists! With a cartwheel and a flip, Sid stood in front of Tobey, fists ready.
"This is futile Sid. You already appear to be injured and can never beat me alone even when you are at your best. Now, do I have my Shape Shifter pull Tobey's legs off?"
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At the hospital, Nana sat with Sue in the treatment room waiting for the doctor. The doctor would come back soon with Sue's test results. Nana had her phone and Sue's phone both out and open trying to locate the boy's GPS signals. "Still no signal for either one of the boys, Sue."
"I know they both had their phones. We were in the middle of making deliveries. Nana please - just go find them! When the doctors release me, I will take a cab to where ever you are."
"Sue, where would I go? I'm sorry, but they could be anywhere in Chinatown. If Kong Li kidnapped them to try and get the cookbook I dont think he would harm them for no reason."
"But Nana, what if he want's something else from them?"
"What could he want besides the cookbook? I have a responsibility to make sure you are alright too."
"But Nana . . ."
Sue stopped talking when the doctor came in.
"Hello Sue Yee. They tell me you fell off your bike."
"I had a little help to fall off, but yeah, that's pretty much what happened."
The doctor turned to Nana. ". . . and you are her legal guardian?"
"Yes."
"Sue will be fine. She has a back sprain. The ligaments which control her back joints in her lower back were damaged when she hit her back. These ligaments can be damaged by an accidental fall, twist or slip, much like the ligaments in your ankle when they are damaged by a sprain. Her sprained back comes from stretched and damaged pelvic ligaments."
The doctor continued, "The damage that is done when someone suffers a strained back can be quite variable. In Sue's case, the muscles that support and move her spinal column have been injured and she has a mild case of a slipped intervertebral disc. In Sue's situation she will heal and will do so without surgery, if given the proper treatment from here on."
"But doctor, how long will it take? What is the treatment? I have to find Sid and Tobey!"
Nana took Sue's hand and gave it a squeeze while the doctor continued. "I'm prescribing a course of anti-inflammatory meds, a brief period of rest; six weeks if you do well and then a gradual return to normal activities."
"Six Weeks! That's too long! . . . Nana?"
"Everything will be alright Sue."
"Can I take Sue home now Doctor?"
"Yes, as soon as the nurse comes in she will fit Sue with a brace and we will release her."
Nana thanked the doctor and he left. Sue was fuming, already having trouble lying still in bed.
"Sue you have to take care of yourself, he mentioned surgery if you do not take care of your injury and it will only make it take longer to heal. Now that we know what is wrong, I think some of my own herbs and special physical therapy will help you heal faster, but you have to do what the doctor says!"
For the first time, Sue got tears in her eyes. She cried not from the pain, but from concern. "What about Sid and Tobey?"
"I will find the boys. Try not to worry. Maybe they are already home wondering where we are."
"If they were home, they would answer their phones."
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The Shape Shifter pulled on Tobey's legs and scared him, he whimpered and looked up to try to see what the Shifter was doing.
"Stop!" Sid put his fists down and stood up straight.
"Turn around and face Tobey. Hands behind your back." Kong Li ordered. Sid did as he was told. He expected to be tied up again, but instead felt a sharp pain in his head from a hit with the heavy dragon end of Kong Li's staff.
Tobey didn't see what happened. From his upside down position his eyes were level with Sid's stomach, he was too low to see much behind Sid, but he guessed what Kong Li did when Sid fell against him before going to the floor.
"No Sid . . . I'm so sorry – I never should have tried to keep the recipe!"
Kong Li pulled Sid to the back wall in the room. He went to stand next to the heavy sliding wall.
"I am finished with them for now Shape Shifter. Drop him, get my stupid servant and come here to close the wall."
Tobey screamed when Shifty dropped him. He almost landed on his head, but tucked and rolled just enough to hit shoulders first. He scrambled to his feet and ran to Sid.
Frustrated that he couldn't touch Sid with his hands cuffed behind his back Tobey rolled back on the floor, arched his back, put his toes over the chain between the cuffs and curved his spine the other way bringing his knees to his chest, and his hands in front!
He felt for Sid's pulse at his neck and moved him away from the wall where Kong Li dropped him.
The Shape Shifter pulled Guido out of the room and slid the heavy wall back across the space alone. The space became a dimly lit concrete room again where the two boys were left alone. Sid was left shirtless, but Tobey was down to his underwear and felt a little cold.
Tobey shivered a little as he dug through the trash and crap on the floor. He found a large pair of broken bolt cutters! Broken handle but still – bolt cutters. "What luck."
Tobey stood the cutters, handles up, in the corner with a pipe over the broken part of the handle to make it longer again. He carefully put the chain in the jaws and leaned into the pipe with his shoulder. With a 'snip' the chain came apart and his hands were free.
"Yes!" he exclaimed and ran back to Sid. After he tried to wake him up again, with no luck, he pulled his head and shoulder's up in his lap and stroked his hair.
Kong Li and the Shape Shifter went back across the large loading platform and through a doorway. They left Junior and Guido lying on the floor moaning.
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Kong Li sent the shifter to steal the ingredients he needed from a market on the surface just across the street and started cooking the instant he returned. He had his own magic herbs and spices to add to the noodle recipe.
Using the calculator function on his phone Kong Li double-checked all of Tobey's calculations according to what he said he had done and everything checked out.
Junior finally woke up and went over to the room where Sid and Tobey were intending to get revenge and convince Tobey to be his boyfriend. Fortunately he couldn't make the wall move by himself.
He left and went through the same door that Kong Li and the Shape Shifter had. Sid and Tobey never knew how close they came to another fight.
Junior entered the lab, or kitchen-like area that Kong Li had set up and sat in the corner silently. He watched Kong Li cooking the Super Soba noodles with great interest.
Shifty stayed close, in case Kong Li needed anything. He didn't need anything, and completely ignored the Shape Shifter even when he should have listened.
"Yes! It is finished, now I will have the physical strength of the Super Soba Noodles and can easily beat Mei Hua and break into the stone to get the cookbook.
The Shifter's voice echoed a little when he spoke. "Master, shouldn't you try it out on someone else first – to make sure it works – a guinea pig – like him." He pointed at Junior.
Instead of being offended Junior nodded, he wanted to be super-strong and was willing to take a chance.
"No Shifter, I will not have anyone else be as strong as I."
Kong Li used a spoon and dribbled the soup into several small jars, noodles and all. He put them in his insulated bag, padded so the jars wouldn't break and led the way back out to the large room.
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To Tobey, a lot of time had passed since his enemies left. He was cold, in pain, and worse Sid hadn't moved or even moaned. Tobey found himself getting emotional. The injuries that had been inflicted on Sid because of his stupidity were horrific. The whip marks, his head had a cut and a two lumps since he was struck once in the whirlwind and once by Kong Li's staff.
Tobey got up to put an empty cardboard box under Sid's legs to elevate them thinking he heard once you should do that if someone is injured.
He gently put Sid's calves on the box and lost control. Turning to face him as he sat back down, Tobey pulled Sid up in his arms and hugged him tightly to his chest as he started to cry. His fingers found the cuts and welts on Sid's back and he cried even harder.
Sid leaned limply against him with his head on Tobey's shoulder.
Tobey heard voices and thought Kong Li and his minions were coming back. He hugged Sid tightly one more time and gently let him lie back on the floor so he could stand up. With Sid still unconscious, Tobey prepared himself to fight all of them alone for as long as he could.
Sid put his hand to his head and groaned. "Ow, my head."
"Sid! You're awake!" Tobey spun around and dropped to his knees again. "We have company, it sounds like they're coming back."
"Ai-ya. . . " Sid sat up weakly and leaned against the wall. "Tobey, I don't think I will be much help – my head really hurts and my vision is blurry." Sid was blinking trying to focus on Tobey's face.
"Its okay, I will take care of them." Tobey sounded like he didn't believe it himself. "Stay here and stay down Sid."
Tobey stood up again, ready for whatever came.
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Kong Li stopped near the center of the room and got one of his jars before he carefully placed his bag on the floor. Slurping noodles, barely chewing them before he swallowed, he downed the jar.
Something was happening! Muscles and tissues moved and changed cells re-arranged. Kong Li smiled his most wicked smile and looked at the wall where his little enemies were trapped.
"Prepare to meet your end!"
Kong Li's threat was followed by a flash of light and he grew small, round ears, whiskers and a tail right before he shrank down to large rat-size.
Junior screamed, "The boss! He just turned into a rat! The recipe didn't work!"
Kong Li, rat still had pale blue eyes and shiny black fur. His nose twitched and he raced off to the lab with Junior and the Shape Shifter following him.
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Tobey laughed and looked down at Sid, "Did you hear that? Kong Li just turned into Kong Rat! I heard them leaving!"
"Yeah Tobey . . . Kong Rat, that was great." Sid smiled weakly.
"Stay awake Sid, maybe I have time to get us out of here!"
Tobey tried to move the sliding wall again, and couldn't get it to move at all. He looked around at all the trash and junk on the floor. He found a long chain and pulled the end of it with him as he dug through more trash looking for something else he could use.
"What are you doing Tobey?"
"Working on a way out of here!"
Next he picked up a large piece of heavy, 'L' shaped angle iron that had holes on one side and a heavy pipe about seven feet long.
Tobey tossed away the trash all along the bottom of the wall he intended to move. All he found was a hole in the floor where an electric outlet used to be. He smiled, intending to make it work.
Tobey stuck the pipe in the hole and wrapped the chain around it. He picked up another long section of pipe and swung it like a bat at the first pipe. The wall moved an inch!
Tobey tightened the chain and did it again. Now it was open just enough he could get the pipe through. Sid leaned on the wall to stand up.
"Tobey you did it." he said softly.
Tobey smiled and shoved the pipe through, but found he had no leverage. He got the first pipe out of the hole and shook the chain off of it. Tobey put the first pipe between the pipe he shoved in the crack and the wall and pushed with all his might on the end.
The door slid open some more! He found a wider piece of metal and shoved against it again. The door opened wide enough that Tobey thought even Sid could get through!
"Come on, can you get through that?"
"I think so." Sid turned sideways and exhaled trying to make himself smaller. He got through scratching his wounds open again on the concrete wall. He winced and held his chest.
"Are you okay Sid?"
"Yeah." Sid looked around. "Now how do we get out of here? The Shape Shifter didn't let me see how he brought me here."
"We can get out the same way I came in! The van!"
Tobey helped Sid stay on his feet as they half walked, ran to the van. He helped Sid down off the platform near where the van was still parked.
Junior saw Sid and Tobey running, but thinking he couldn't catch them in time, he called the Shape Shifter and ran to get his motorcycle parked nearby.
Tobey glanced quickly in the van, "Yay – the keys are still in it!" He pushed Sid into the van through the driver's door and over to the passenger side.
The roar of Junior gunning the motorcycle echoed loudly in the tunnel and Tobey tried to hurry even more. He quickly put the seatbelt on Sid, landed in the driver's seat neglecting to put his own seatbelt on or closing the driver's door before he started the engine.
"Tobey you can't drive!" Sid realized what was going on through the fog in his mind from his injuries. "Isn't there some rule about driving in your underwear?"
"I can do this! Hang on!"
Tobey stomped the accelerator and the tires squealed as the van took off. The driver's door slammed shut on its own from the force. Junior raced toward the edge of the platform at an angle. He jumped off and landed right behind the van as Tobey raced away. Right behind Junior was the Shape Shifter flying low.
"Tobey look out!" Sid saw the cover at the top of the ramp they were heading for and thought it solid. Tobey was already pushing every button on the dash board. The radio blared, the windshield wipers and the fluid squirted, the lights came on, the horn blared and finally the cover over the entrance started to open.
The roof of the van scraped the cover on the way out, but landed in the alley with squealing tires as Tobey kept it floored. He hung on tightly to the steering wheel the whole time.
Not knowing where else to go Tobey headed for Wu's. Sid was not much help to come up with a plan. He was in and out of consciousness during the rough ride.
"Aaaaah! Get off Shifty!" Tobey screamed when the Shape Shifter landed on top of the van and looked over the front through the windshield at him. Tobey jumped a curb and ran through Chung Lee Park at full speed.
Sid moaned and held his head with both hands. "What's going on?"
"Nothin' much, just scraping off some dirt we picked up." Tobey aimed for the trees and went under and through all the low hanging branches he could find. The branches peeled the Shape Shifter off in pieces. The loud noise made Sid yell and cover his head.
"Tobey! Your driving on grass and under trees?"
"I know Sid, it did the trick." The van bounced again off the curb and back out in the street.
The motorcycle with Junior was still behind them so they didn't slow down. Tobey had the van up on two wheels once when he went around a corner and yelled a 'yahoo', even though he scared himself a little. Sid squeezed his eyes shut and covered his head again.
They were only a block a way from Wu's and had done it without any serious incident, much. Even though Tobey drove the van like he rode his bike.
On the wrong side of the street, it was lucky there was not much traffic at that early morning hour, Tobey was heading for the front of Wu's Garden way too fast! He panicked and stomped on the clutch instead of the brake and the van crashed through the glass windows.
The glass looked like it exploded as the van smashed through. Then the first booth was smashed, the second booth too and the van stopped abruptly crushing the third booth against the counter and the wall.
The sudden stop propelled Tobey through the windshield and over the cash register. He hit the wall and slid down to the floor.
Junior saw the van crash and the few people coming out of their apartments in bathrobes to see what happened. Rather than be seen, he left. Junior gunned the motorcycle and took off around the next corner.
The Shape Shifter pulled himself together and flew over the building's rooftops and out of sight.
The crash rattled Sid's teeth and hurt his head. He was vaguely aware of crashing, he became very aware when he saw Tobey go through the windshield and screamed his name.
With shaky hands he got the seatbelt off, but his door was jammed against what was left of the wall and booths. Sid fell over the gear shift when he tried to get to the driver's door. He weakly tried to pull himself up on the driver's seat and could go no farther.
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The time was early, well before daylight and Mr. Wu and Barney had just entered the kitchen to start preparing all the food for the day. Mr. Wu was already angry after seeing his mom in the hallway upstairs. She told him that Sue was hurt and wouldnt be able to work for six weeks.
He was on a rant, "Again one of those three kids is hurt . . . Barney! You are going to have to take some deliveries."
"Its fine dad. I don't mind."
"Well I do mind! Those slackers! I wonder for how long Sue will milk this injury to get more time off! She's probably not even hurt – just wasted Mom's money to take her to the doctor."
Barney looked embarrassed even though there was no one else to hear his Dad being mean again.
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Nana was upstairs with Sue. She got Sue all tucked in and prepared to go out to look for the boys. She got her bag of magical ingredients just in case and looked back in on Sue one more time before she left.
"Barney said he would check on you while I am gone. Now promise me you will lie there and rest. Wait for me to call you with news." Sue said nothing but smiled. Intending to leave as soon as Nana did.
Nana didn't even make it to the stairs when a loud noise and the sound of glass braking came from the dining room below. Nana ran to see the last of the glass showering down around the van. Mr. Wu and Barney ran out of the kitchen, Mr. Wu screaming.
"My restaurant! Who did this!"
Nana opened the driver's side door and found Sid lying across the driver's seat "Sid what happened."
Sid answered in a voice so weak Nana could barely hear him. "Help Tobey! He saved me all by himself."
Nana climbed up higher where she could see to the back of the van and spoke to Sid again. "Tobey's not in the van, where is he?"
But Sid was unconscious again and couldn't answer.
Mr. Wu saw Sid, "My restaurant! SID! YOU did this?" Mr. Wu grabbed his own hair like he was going to pull it out.
"Calvin either help me or get out of here!" Nana yelled at him as she pulled Sid over the driver's seat and carried him over to a booth to put him on a bench. After she put him down, she traced the welt on his chest with her finger.
"Sid. What happened to you two?"
Sue heard the crash too and came to see, but it took her a while to come down the steps. She saw Nana standing over Sid in a booth and hobbled over.
"Sue! Sit down!" Nana ordered and started to go back to the van to look again for Tobey.
Sue touched her brother's cheek and cried. "Sid, can you hear me?"
"Sue . . . Tobey . . . w-was driving."
"Nana! Sid said Tobey was driving."
Barney found Tobey behind the counter.
"Nana! He's back here!" Barney kneeled next to him and shook him gently. "Tobey! Wake up!"
Mr. Wu didn't even seem to notice that the boys were hurt and still stomped through the broken glass looking at all the damage, and yelling.
"What! Tobey was driving! I should have known – I knew he would be the ruin of my restaurant one day! I have to call the insurance! And the police to arrest those two!"
"Calvin, don't you dare- you can't have them arrested! Shut up and go to the kitchen. One more word out of you and I will shut you up myself!" Nana rarely yelled, but he listened when she did.
Nana joined Barney behind the counter with Tobey. They were both surprised to find him in his underwear. Nana especially concerned because of it. He lie on his stomach until Nana helped Barney roll him over.
They both saw the writing on Tobey's stomach at the same time. "Nana why would he write a recipe on his stomach like that and why are there broken handcuffs on his wrists?"
"Sid and Tobey have been through a terrible ordeal. I don't know about the recipe he wrote; he must have thought it was a good one." Nana new right away that it was a magic recipe and knew why Kong Li took the boys, but it didn't explain why Tobey was nearly naked or why Sid had been hurt.
"Barney, can you carry Sid upstairs for me? I will bring Tobey."
"Yes Nana."
"Sue can you get back up without help?"
Sue nodded and started to the stairs. She had to stop and lean over the table in the next booth until a spasm passed.
"Calvin! YOU will call the police and report the accident. You didn't see the driver. He must have ran away after the crash. Right?"
"But Mom!"
"Calvin, I expect you to do as I say. You're insurance will pay for the repairs either way. I will take care of this."
"Okay Mom."
They carried Sid and Tobey upstairs and put them in their room. Barney got their mattresses off the bunk beds and put them on the floor for them so Nana could reach them better.
"Shouldn't we call an ambulance Nana?" Barney was worried.
"I don't think so, let me check them. Can you go to the storeroom and get your father's bolt cutters?"
"I will go help Sue and bring them back with me." Barney ran to the steps and helped Sue up the last few. "Thanks Barney."
"No problem." Barney held her hand until they got to the boys' room. Sue sat in the desk chair while Nana checked both boys. She added to Barney's list of things to bring back by asking him to go to her room and get her bag. Nana pulled a blanket over and covered Tobey's lower half.
A very stinky herb held under their noses woke Sid and Tobey up. Sid opened his eyes and saw Nana first. "Is Tobey . . . ?"
Sid saw Tobey moving next to him and sat up to see his face – just to make sure he was okay. Tobey smiled at Sid, but Nana kept him from sitting up with her hand on his shoulder. Sid found his hand to hold.
"How do you feel Tobey?"
"Just wonderful."
Sid looked at his sister. "Sue - what's wrong – how badly are you hurt?"
"Not too bad. I'm worried about you two."
"They told me and Sid that they had left you dying in the street or killed you already - and there was nothing we could do!" Tobey sounded like he might cry. Sue would have gone to them, but she couldn't bend over without great pain and Nana wouldn't let the boys up yet.
"I'll be fine Tobey, try not to worry."
"Sue, they are alright, please go lie back down. I will get them cleaned up."
Sue reluctantly did what Nana told her to do.
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Tobey continued . . .
- one more chappy coming