The drive to their destination wasn't all that long. Albany was significantly closer than their first drive, and traffic was, fortunately, light. Along the road JJ and Noah would occasionally sing along loudly with the songs playing, and when there was an ad break they would ask Ruby questions about her time as an agent in the NERDS. The ride went without incident, and soon they had arrived in front of a quite large hospital.

"Alright kiddos. We're here." Ruby said, turning to Noah and JJ

"Woohooo! Yeah!" JJ cried, opening their door and jumping out. Ruby and Noah followed their example, unbuckling and stepping out. They stretched their legs a bit before starting to walk towards the hospital.

"So, I'm guessing we just go in and ask if doctor Hodges is there?" Noah asked

"I'm guessing. Hopefully he didn't change his name again." Ruby replied. JJ and Noah raised a brow at this

"What do you mean? Did he used to change his name a lot?" JJ inquired.

Ruby flinched at this. Seemingly remembering something that she would rather not remember.

"I'll tell you in the future. Its probably best to get everyone back together first. Its a bit of a long story, and I don't want you jumping to conclusions about him. Hes changed a lot." JJ and Noah looked at eachother with confused looks, but dropped the subject, opting to bring it back up at a later date.

They opened the double doors to the hospital and entered into a large reception hall. There was a cirlcled desk in the middle of the room that had a space for about six receptionists to sit at inside of it with room to spare. The group walked up to one of the receptionists at the desk. She had an apathetic look on her face that told them that she would probably rather be somewhere else than working here.

"Ah, uh, hello miss, we would like to see one of your doctors?" The woman gave the group a once over

"Have you booked an appointment?" Ruby cringed a little

"Well, no, but its important. Do you have a doctor working here named Heathcliff Hodges?" As soon as the receptionist heard that name she let out a loud groan before giving them a strange look.

"Yeah. We do. He's an annoying guy if you ask me. Why do you need to see him?" the receptionist asked

"He's an old friend of mine." replied Ruby.

The receptionist shrugged before picking up a phone that was close to her and dialing a number.

"Dr. Hodges? Yeah, some people are here to see you." A unintelligible voice came through the phone, and the woman nodded.

"Third floor room six."

"Thanks." Ruby said, placing her hands on JJ and Noah's backs and ushering them to an elevator at one side of the room. They entered it and pushed the button for the third floor.

"So, what do you think hes gonna think?" Noah asked. Ruby seemed to think for a moment, before shrugging.

"I really don't know. Hes probably changed a lot." The elevator stopped, and the doors opened, letting the group exit into the hallway. They trodded down it until they reached room six, looking at eachother before JJ knocked on it.

"Come in!" Said a voice from inside.

Sitting in the room was a young man. His hair was a bright redish orange and stood up a good amount. He wore a set of glasses similar to Rubys that covered two lime eyes and was sitting at a desk close to the wall. Ruby smiled a bit at him.

"Hello Heathcliff. Long time no see." Heathcliff gave her a confused look, giving her an up and down with his eyes.

"You look familiar. Do I know you?" Ruby raised a brow at him with a laughing smile

"What, you dont recognize me? I knew I changed, but I didn't think I changed that much. Its Ruby." Heathcliff's eyes widened, jumping up he rushed over to her with a giant grin on his face.

"Holy crap! Ruby? Its really you? Why are you here? And how did you find me? Who are these kids with you?" the questions were being thrown rapidly, and eventually JJ got annoyed, and placed a hand flat over his mouth, shutting him up.

"Whoah whoah woah. Hold up there dude. First things first. We're here to bring back the NERDS." Heathcliff froze, staring at JJ like they had a second head.

"Wha-" He looked back and forth between the group.

"What? Am I going crazy or something?" He sat down and layed down onto the ground.

"I'm going crazy arent I." For a minute he mumbled to himself while JJ in particular gave him an exasperated look. His mumbling was stopped by a small piece of metal smacking him in the forehead.

"Nope. Your not going crazy. This is happening. JJ said as the same piece of metal that had smacked him in the forehead floated into their palm.

Heathcliff didn't respond for a second. Only staring and processing everything. Suddenly a large grin nearly split his entire face in half.

" WOOHOO!!" The sudden loud woop of happiness caught them all off guard, causing them to jump. Heathcliff hopped up and promptly grabbed JJ under their arms and spun them around in the air. JJ laughed a little at this. Heathcliff put them down after spinning them and immediately gave Ruby a large hug.

"Oh my GOD. I can't believe this is actually happening! You have to tell me everything." JJ, Noah, and Ruby looked at eachother and nodded. For the next few hours they answered as many questions as they could, bringing Heathcliff up to date on everything they were doing. Heathcliff nodded along as the info came to him, giving the kids a surprised look when they told him how they had quite literally driven eight hours to get to Ruby.

"So, thats pretty much it. Are you with us or not?" JJ finally asked after finishing the story.

"Do you even have to ask? Of course Im with you." He replied. They all agreed to meet up early tomorrow morning at a frozen yogurt place to reaserch together. Over all JJ would say they considered it a successful day. They were doing this. The excitement of that came with that statement nearly kept them up all night.