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Chapter 4:

The rest of the week was a blur. Paige was on the afternoon shift, from 3 Pm to 10 Pm, which meant she was in charge of not only dinner time, but putting people to bed. At first, this was simple and easy to accomplish, until Friday came around.

The day had been very difficult. Sylvester had yet again run out of gloves, Happy was in Solitary Confinement, Walter was being especially bitchy that night, and Toby was out. This left Paige completely weary inside and out, and it was only when she heard Sylvester crying for the fifth time that night, that she completely snapped.

Paige ran out of the hallway, past the corner opposite to the door, and straight into a man she had never seen before.

"Woah there, slow down kid." The man had a grizzled look to his face, a tie over his custodian suit. "You ok there?"

Paige wiped the tears from her eyes, "Oh...yes, yes I'm fine. I apologize for crashing into you-" She tried to go around him, but he gently grabbed her shoulder.

"You're ok...listen, why don't you sit down? I'm Cabe."

Heavily, Paige sat down on the metal bench. "Paige." She shook his hand, "I promise I usually don't do this...it's just been an incredibly difficult night."

Cabe nodded sympathetically, "You want to talk about it?"

The next 10 minutes, Cabe's face stayed sympathetic, and not once did he judge her makeup smudged eyes, or her constant stream of emotion. It was only when she was done, Cabe smiled.

"Kid, I know these guys. They're a handful, I would know, but you've been doing the best you can. How about this, you go into the bathroom and wash your face, and I'll run to Walgreens and pick up some more gloves for Sylvester. Sound good?"

Paige burst out into tears again, "Thank you, thank you so much."

Cabe patted her back, "Alright then. I'll be back faster than Jesse James on Cisco."

Within 20 minutes, Cabe had returned with gloves, and another small toy car that he placed on Happy's pillow. Sylvester fell asleep within moments after putting on his protection, and Walter slept without dreams.

Paige and Cabe talked for the last half an hour she was on shift, and then she went home.

The weekend passed without any activity, and Paige felt strangely distant from her job. She wondered how Walter was doing with his PTSD, if the other Orderly knew how to take care of Sylvester properly, if Happy would throw another fit and she wasn't around to stop it.

Monday came slowly, but Paige had never felt more content inside her blue orderly suit.

Two more weeks passed without much activity. Walter began to talk more, instruct less, Happy laughed at a joke Ralph had written for her, and mysterious boxes of gloves kept appearing in Sylvester's drawer. Toby mentioned to Paige on day that, "Happy actually asked about you over the weekend, wondered when you were coming back."

But everything started to go downhill about the middle of May.

"Sylvester is crying."

Paige's head snapped up to the sound of Happy's warning. "What happened?"

Happy shrugged, "Maybe he ran out of gloves?"

"He has two backup boxes in the cabinet, and I just replaced them a few moments ago." A strange feeling began wrapping its tendrils around Paige's stomach. She walked quickly to Sylvester's room, and gasped.

The man was crying, throw-up was all over the floor, and it looked like he wasn't done. "Happy go get Toby!" Paige yelled over her shoulder, grabbing her gloves and pushing a garbage can under Sylvester's mouth as he expelled his supper.

Within moments, Toby had appeared in the doorway, "Happy can you find Cabe?" He asked, before pulling on gloves and entering the room, "Hey there big guy." He soothed, opening up the windows to help relive the smell. "What happened?"

"I don't know." Paige answered honestly, "One moment he was playing with one of Happy's cars, and the next he was screaming and crying..."

Toby picked up the car and looked it over, "Happy, can you come here?"

Cabe walked in the same time as Happy, "What's up Doc?" She asked.

"It's not like you to leave a few bolts out of place...where are they?"

Happy's eyes widened, "How did he get that? I haven't given him and cars to play with today. I don't even recognize that one..."

"He swallowed them." Toby mumbled, "Someone loosened the bolts for him to swallow. Cabe, call 911, it's a pretty big model and the bolts could rip open something."

Cabe ran out of the room quickly, dialing 911 as he ran.

Paige was in tears, "I am so sorry Toby, I don't know how this happened...Walter called me into his room and I was there for a few minutes, but I swear I-"

"What's going on in here?"

The three people turned, shocked to see Walter in the doorway. He wheeled his way in, "Sly?" He asked, "What's going on, Tobias?"

"He swallowed some bolts."

"How did that happen?" It was accusatory.

No one answered.

Walter wheeled himself over to the bedside table and picked up the car, turning it over, "This is a large car model, bigger than my hand. The bolts had to have been loosened purposely, I can't even loosen them, and Sylvester is weaker than me."

"So...someone wanted to hurt Sylvester?" Paige asked worriedly, as Sylvester made a gagging noise, and began retching again. "But why is he throwing up so much?"

"I don't know."

It was the last conversation Paige and Walter would have for a few days, as when the paramedics came in, Sylvester had grabbed onto her sleeve with such ferocity and fear that Paige rode in the ambulance with him.

Toby drove with Ralph over to the hospital, leaving the Orderlies and Cabe to take care of Walter and Happy.

"Sly?"

It surprised Toby to hear Ralph say something, "He's going to be ok." He reassured the boy, "Sylvester's a tough guy."

He wished he believed his own words.

Oh no! Poor Sylvester! What do you think happened to him? Lemme know in Reviewwsss