I am going to do small adjustment in the continuing of this fiction. For I have not read through all books yet and I have now run in to the first big surprise. I let my fanfiction play out a bit beyond the time frame it have played out in, for it felt odd to put in something like this in where I am in her story. I wasn't at all ready that that character would get pregnant (and hopefully then the child (it's not Eve)).

Chapter 4

"What can you tell me?"

Eve was again in her office, together with Roarke and also Dr. Mira. Who had come in just after three o'clock to report what she could about their mystery boy.

Mira had finished with her talk together with Danny about two hours after he woke up, which had been about eleven o'clock. It was a bit of a worry really that something that should keep him asleep till somewhere in the evening couldn't even hold him till noon. She had inquired about if he felt any pain or discomfort, but he had denied anything of such. And there had been no signs of lies in when he said it but there had been signs on him about it. He did well in covering it so it was indeed hard to tell.

"As normal I will be bound some by confidence rules but have made certain of what he felt could be given. I will also give you my personal take on person."

"Okay. So go head, report."

"His name is Daniel but prefers to go by as Danny. It was very little he felt he could share with me, both openly as well as confidential. He loves his home and feel safe there and wishes to go back as soon as possible. But even as he saids that he knows how to get home, it is also clear that his lost. Those are the main points he is willing to let me give you for now."

Mira took a sip of the tea Roarke had offered her. "As a person he is like a riddle. At first glance most would likely see him as simple, with how he acts in both vocal and bodily expressions. But if one sees deeper they will run in to complexity. Without giving any real signs to either hide or lie, it is still clear that there are things he do not tell that makes him concerned. And even deeper then that you will come to something even more simple, like a very small child. I would say that he personally is a kind and honest boy, who shows signs of not only being non violent but also have a disliking to it. He is in essence harmless. The complexity is likely from a trauma that have caused his own personality to be compromised for a longer duration of time. And as an end result backed his basic persona in it develop stage."

Eve lifted a brow. "He turned back in age?"

"Not exactly. He emits behavior in social and emotional confrontation that shows such damage. But in longer interactions he can still control what he don't want to, or feel that he can, say. He side steps, change direction or simply won't answer if he don't like the subject. And he notices if you try to dress it up as something else. He had at some time developed at a reasonable pace, then something put stress on that development and then the stress ended, at that time he likely tried to go back to the first one. But because of damage he took on a more incomplete version of it. It is also likely that he himself is not fully, if at all, aver of this condition."

"A failed recreation then." Eve looked a little pale and Roarke went to her to lay a supporting hand on her arm. "But you say he was suppressed for a more than just temporarily. The are confirmed scarce on him that points to it and some of them is of a kind to the big the final one. You said that he feels safe in his home, so not the parents then but I don't think their fully innocents. A child don't just come home with wounds repeatedly without they noticing something. We need to find them."

"On it." Roarke went to the unit and started a search after Daniel.

"What can you give me more specifics of his family?"

"Not much and it's not from it being confidential but simply that he didn't talk of them. All mention of home was positive but when it was family he avoided it."

"Shit, then it's likely a member of it or close to it. Not his parents but close enough."

An oath from Roarke got them to look over his way. "He's not here."

"What do you mean not there?"

"I mean that I still can't find him. He is still a ghost for both us and the computer." He turned to them. "And I have tried to dig but even under normal level his missing. I can still try some few other things but they will most likely not give us anymore then what we have now."

"Which is nothing then. This mean I will just have to try with him again and see if anything will come out of it. Thank you for the help Mira."

"Your welcome, he is a rather lovely boy so I have nothing against it. I plan to keep having seasons with him."

"You do that." Eve could see and hear that Mira had already come to like the missing boy. "I'm just going to send a report to Whitney first before-" her 'link peeped, interrupting her. "Dallas."

The call was short and fast, as it described an incident at the hospital. Their ghost boy had appeared to be distressed and then panicked before his wound had, in a sense, exploded. Cursing Eve ran out of the room with the other two close after, she tagged her aide as they climbed in one of Roarke's cars. They are faster then her own.

When they reached the hospital Eve did not waist time as she demanded the status on their boy. Got told that he was stable but that they had found traces of an other unknown in him that reacted badly to the first one. It had tried to melt him. They cleaned the wound out again but didn't dare to close him like they had the done before, in fear that it may still be some of the harmful unknown left. An full and complete scan is also being done to the boy.

Eve wanted to talk with the one who had been in contact with him right before or under his first distress and then panic. It had been a nurse with blond neck short hair, brown eyes wearing the usual green nurse coat. She had very little color on her face.

"He seemed fine until he put his hand on his chest. Then he started to cry about a necklace that was missing. He tore at his bandage before I could stop him and when he saw his wound, he screamed. I tried to calm him down but he wasn't listening as he started to claw at it, the cut. Screamed a lot about it not being open. Assistant was called for and we was about to restrain and sedate when his wound just burst open. The sound- it was terrible, and there where so much blood and he kept screaming. I-" She had reached her limit it seemed as she bend over and retched.

After that Roarke had guided the nurse to a seat, Eve barked out orders. One to get a tox report, another was to call her on any changes in the boy condition and lastly to find the necklace the boy had talked about before bursting.