Disclaimer: read Ch. 1
"With the poison in your system and with the 'stress', for lack of a better word, of a missing child, we need to keep a close eye over you." Robin said calmly.
"Get her to room twenty-four. I'll call t he father." Noah said to Patrick.
"You know who the father is?" Patrick asked.
"Yes. Get the paperwork started to admit her." Noah said going to t he desk to use the phone to call Pete. Patrick practically pulled me out of the chair to go to the specified room, while Robin went to the desk to start the paperwork.
"Patrick, I can't breathe." I said slumping against him.
"Don't just stand there, get a gurney." He said to Emily.
They got me to the room and hooked me up to the oxygen tank in the room, as well as a heart monitor and other equipment. Noah came into the room and sat by my bed.
I took the mask off of my face, looked at Patrick and said, "Whatever happens, find the cure for Nikolas. Don't worry about me." I said.
"I already gave you a dose of the counteragent that Craig gave you to give to Nikolas. We still don't know if he gave you the same poison." Patrick said.
"Don't worry about me. Worry about Nikolas. I'll be fine. If I die, I'll know that Erin will be taken care of. She has a doting father and I'm sure that he won't have to raise you alone." I said.
"You are not going to die. I won't allow it." Noah said.
While all of that was going on, Robin went about her work. She went to Hermione's room to find Harry, Ron and Ginny were sitting in there.
"How did you get here?" Robin asked.
"We walked." Ron said.
"You were hooked up to a heart monitor."
"Oh? That thing that beeped?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, it beeped."
"I broke it." Ron said holding up the cords that were still attached to his chest.
"Why did you break it?! How did you break it?!"
"It just happened." Ron shrugged.
"Oh, well, I have…um…something I have to do." Robin said.
Robin left the room, Harry and the others just looked at each other.
"You know that Draco's here, right?" Ginny said to Harry.
"Why is he here?! Did he follow us?!" Harry ranted.
"Geez, Harry, don't you know?" Ginny said.
"Know what?" Harry asked, with a raised eyebrow.
"Geez, Harry. Draco's in love with you!" Ginny shouted.
"No way, Gin. He's just looking for an excuse to follow me around to try to stop me from killing Voldemort." Harry said.
"Harry, Ginny could be telling the truth. Malfoy does have a tendency to show up unannounced and at t he weirdest times. And with a hidden agenda." Hermione pointed out.
"I know that you don't really believe Malfoy. Let's get out of here. I want to track down that Craig-guy I told you about." Harry said.
"Harry, this is not your problem." Ron said.
"I can't just let take off wit h the child. You weren't there, Ron. He spoke with venom in his voice about Erin. I can't just let him harm a baby just because he thinks it would be getting 'even' with her mother. I know what it's like to grow up without parents. It's not easy. He poisoned Erin's mother, you know." He said.
"Harry, what are you saying?" Ginny asked, worried.
"Hermione, Ginny, I want you to try to find a lab and make an antidote. Remember what Snape told us about poisons." Harry said.
"What will you and Ron do?" Hermione asked.
"We are going to get Draco and go after Craig."
"Harry, you can't be serious." Ginny said.
"Ginny, think about it. You save her, we save the daughter, they won't do anything to us." Harry said.
"I don't think this is going to work, Harry."
"Of course. Brilliant idea, Harry. Now would someone kindly remove these restraints?" Hermione said, after giving the plan some thought.
"Can we leave Malfoy out of it, thought? It might go to his head to do something good for once." Ron suggested.
"Ron's right, Harry. You are better off leaving him behind. He might only make things worse." Hermione said.
"Alright, we'll leave Malfoy behind." Harry said watching Hermione rub her wrists after Ginny released the restraints.
"Let's go. Ron and I will see you safely to the lab, then we will get the child back." Harry said as they left the room.
"Hey! You aren't supposed to be out of the rooms!" Epiphany yelled across the corridor.
They ran as fast as they could toward the stairs.
"Let's split up." Ginny said.
"Brilliant. We will go find a lab. You two go do what you do best." Hermione said.
"Get into trouble.' Ginny added.
The boys ran down the stairs, while the girls ran through the corridor. Unfortunately, Ginny wasn't watching where she was going. The next thing she knew, she was hitting something hard and almost fell flat on her bottom.
"Oh, I am so sorry. My friend wasn't watching where she was going and--" Hermione said, but the person she was talking to cut her off.
"Don't worry about it. I'm Dillon, by the way." He said helping Ginny up.
"Ginny. And the girl talking is my friend Hermione." Ginny said shaking Dillon's hand.
"These are my friends, Spinelli, Lulu, and Milo." He said gesturing to each of them in turn.
"Why were you running through the corridors?" Lulu asked.
"We were running from these three guys in uniforms." Hermione said.
"You were running from security?" Milo asked.
"Yeah, I guess we were. I was supposed to be restrained in the room that they assigned to me. I decided that I didn't want to stay here anymore, so my friends, Ginny included, removed the restraints. We left the room, one of the nurses saw us leave and she called security."
"Doesn't the red head talk?" Dillon asked.
"Only if she feels comfortable with the person. She's very shy. Especially if she likes the person." Hermione answered. Ginny blushed at that statement.
"Really? Does that mean that she likes one of us?" Spinelli asked.
"Yes. Ginny seldomly gets quiet, but when she does it is a tell-tale sign that she is interested in someone."
"Which one of the three is it?" Lulu asked.
Ginny just looked at Dillon and blushed again.
"Listen, we'll help you get out of here. The only thing that we need in return is for you to tell us what is going on." Lulu said.
"Can we tell you when we get out of here?" Hermione asked.
"Let's go to Mr. C's coffee shop." Milo suggested.
"Alright, let's go." Spinelli said.
The group of them-Spinelli, Dillon, Milo, Lulu, Ginny, and Hermione- got to the coffee shop, where Ginny and Hermione, mostly Hermione, told them how they arrived at the hospital and how they met Evelyn and Noah.
"So, the two of you are really witches?" Dillon asked.
"And our two friends are wizards." Ginny said. She had finally warmed up to them, even Dillon, whom she fancied.
"Do you mind if I grab my camera and film what happens between the four of you and this Mr. Craig?" Dillon asked.
"I don't see why not. As long as it doesn't get released to the public. The ministry doesn't need the public knowing anything about the magical world." Hermione said.
"This is just for us. No one else is going to see this tape." Dillon said.
"If they need it to bust Craig, I can alter it on my lap top." Spinelli said.
"That's no problem. I just don't think Rufus Scrimgeour needs the publicity right now." Ginny said.
