The Jenny Lewis Chronicles

Episode 4

Chapter 7

Jenny, Tracy and Harry watched solemnly as Nigel Stone was wheeled into the ambulance by the medics, an oxygen mask was strapped to his face, his wife was walking slowly behind the gurney. Soon they were seated in the ambulance. Harry made to follow them inside.

"I'm coming with you" he declared.

"Sorry lad" said one of the paramedics. "Ambulance is full"

"He's my dad!" snapped Harry.

"I know he is" said the paramedic. "But the ambulance is still full."

Mary Stone leaned out of the ambulance towards her son.

"Stay here, Harry. Everything's going to be alright." But the tone of her voice made it obvious that she was very unsure of that.

Soon the ambulance pulled out of the Stone's driveway and drove away down the road, it's siren blaring loudly. Jenny put her hand on Harry's shoulder.

"Harry, listen to me. I can see that you're about to break down here, and I am not going to let you do that. We are going to find that cynodont and somehow, we are going to save you're father."

"No, we're not!" said Harry in a tear choked voice. He turned to Jenny, letting the tears run down his face as he spoke.

"If I hadn't gotten involved with you, my dad wouldn't have been bitten. It's your fault! It's all your fault, you and your creatures. I wish I'd never seen any of them, I wish I'd never seen you!"

And with that, he dashed back into the house, tears streaming down his face. Yogi Dog followed him.

Jenny sighed and looked at the ground.

"He's partially right." she said solemnly. "It is sort of my fault. If only I hadn't been so quick to give up when things looked bad with finding that cynodont. But that's just the trouble with me, isn't it? I give up so easily, that's why I'm no longer on the team."

"No" said Tracy, placing her hand on Jenny's shoulder. "You've never given up, not properly anyway."

Jenny smiled. "Thanks Tracy. And actually, I have got a plan to save Harry's dad."

"What's that?" asked Tracy.

"Well" said Jenny. "One of my old team mates said that he was bitten once, by a giant centipede in the London Underground. And it made him feel really ill, until they collected the creature's venom, and the hospital was able to make an antivenom for it."

"I heard something about that" said Tracy. "There was a story in the newspaper once about a cleaner who was killed in the Underground."

"We're going to need a specimen jar" said Jenny.

"My dad's got one of those" said Tracy. "I'll go get it from him."

"Well hurry up." called Jenny as Tracy hurried off towards her house. "I don't think Harry's dad has a lot of time!"