"Steve…" Danny whispered as he popped his head around the curtain, holding a freshly awaken Reuben.
Tearing his eyes from him his wife, Steve then looked to Danny as he heard his voice. Getting to his feet he headed over to him as he took Reuben as he put his hands out for him.
"How is she?" Danny asked looking to Sam before looking back to Steve.
"She hasn't woken up yet." He mumbled to him with a sigh as he held Reuben close to him. "I feel so…helpless right now."
"It's not your fault." He sighed. "Look, I'm going to have some tests done to see if I'm a match. I've called Lou, he and Jerry are going to have a little look around your house, see if they can find anything. Follow Sam's steps from the doctor's."
Steve nodded a little before he then looked to him. "When I text her this morning, she said she was going for lunch…"
Danny nodded. "I'll let Lou know. Maybe they'll track her to where she went for lunch. Tani said Eddie's settled down and I've checked on Alfie and Lily, they are okay, they're excited to have a sleepover with Grace and Melissa." He offered him a soft smile. "I won't be long." He promised him before he then smiled to Reuben before he headed out of the cubicle and followed the doctor.
Steve watched him go before he then looked down to Reuben who was looking to Sam.
"Mommy." He pouted to her before he then looked his father. "What's matter mommy?" He asked looking to his mother once more. Although Reuben was quiet most of the time, mainly because Alfie and Lily would talk for him, he did have some language, which was improving the older he got.
Hearing his son, he sighed a little before he kissed his head. "Mommy's poorly buddy." He told him as he moved and sat back down. "You hungry?" He asked looking to him.
"Snacks!" Reuben grinned to him.
"Should have known you wouldn't say no to food." He chuckled and got up once more before he looked to Sam one last time, making sure that she was still sleeping before he headed to look for a vending machine. Grabbing some change out of his pocket he popped the money into the vending machine before he got an orange juice for him and a box of raisons. He didn't particularly want to give him junk food. Heading back to the cubicle he then frowned seeing the nurses wheeling Sam out. "What's going on?"
"Nothing to worry about sir, we're just moving her upstairs to the ICU." The nurse informed him with a soft smile. "Follow us, there's a cafeteria on the same floor too. Better than the vending machines down here."
Steve nodded to her before he happily followed them. Passing some raisons to Reuben.
Taking the raisons, Reuben happily started munching away on them. "Thank you daddy." He mused to him before he then watched his mother. "Mommy…"
"She'll be okay buddy I promise." He told him as they headed upstairs. Waiting for the nurses to finish with Sam he then headed inside, popping Reuben down on his feet. It was a secure room so he didn't have to worry about him trying to run off. Moving over to Sam he sighed to himself as he looked to her. "Please wake up…" He whispered to her before he then looked to Reuben as he came over for some more raisons. Sitting on the chair he smiled as he handed a few more to him. He knew he couldn't give him the box. He'd try and eat them all in one go. He loved his food. Grabbing his phone from his pocket he text Danny their new location before he opened the orange juice, taking a sip for himself before looking to Sam once more. As she started to stir, he sat forward slightly, taking her hand in his. "Sam…" He whispered to her. "Baby open your eyes for me."
"Steve…" Sam mumbled with a frown. "Where am I?" She asked as she noticed the wires in her arm.
"You're in hospital…" He told her with a sigh.
"Hospital? But why? What happened?" She asked her eyes still quite heavy.
He looked to her. "Sam you collapsed in the street…" He paused a little and looked to her. She needed to know. "You're going to need a kidney transplant."
Sam frowned. "What? Why?" She looked to him, her eyes wide. "Reuben… Alfie...Lily…"
"He's okay." He told her with a smile. "He's here." He gestured to their little boy who was happily exploring the room. "Danny went to go and get the kids…they're with Grace and Melissa. They're okay, don't worry."
Sam nodded a little before she looked to him and sighed. "Is my kidney problem the reason I can't remember anything?"
"Partly. It can be a side effect…" He looked to her. "Someone's been drugging you Sam…they're working on flushing it out of your system but we don't know how long it's been going on…"
"Wow…I'm having a pretty sucky time…" She looked to Reuben before she sighed a little as she tried to remember.
"We will get to the bottom of it." He promised to her before he gave her hand a gentle squeeze. "Danny's gone to have some tests done to see if he's a match to donate…"
Sam nodded a little before sighing a little. "Can I go home?"
Steve shook his head. "You're not allowed to leave until you have a new kidney."
Sam looked to him. "What? I can't stay here…"
"You have to babe." He told her with a sigh. "You have a new kidney or you go on dialysis."
Sam sighed a little as she relaxed her head on the pillow.
"Hey you're awake…" Came Danny's voice as he came in. Heading over to his sister he smiled to her. "How you feeling?"
"Well I collapsed in the street so kinda mortified, I need a new kidney and can't leave this hell hole until I do so kinda annoyed and someone's been drugging me and messed with my memory…so kinda pissed."
Danny sighed a little as he looked to her. "I'm sorry for accusing you of doing drugs…"
"A genuine apology from Danny Williams? That's a first."
"Mommy!" Beamed Reuben as he came over and opened his arms for her to pick him up.
Danny smiled and he picked him up and gently moved him onto the bed, smiling as he happily cuddled into his mother before he looked to his sister and sighed. "I know, but I am sorry. Guess being in cop mode all the time isn't the healthies or nicest, especially for you."
Moving her arms around Reuben, making sure that he wasn't tangled into any of her wires before she looked to them and frowned a little. "How did you know I was being drugged?"
"There are traces of it in your blood and the injection mark was in the back of your neck…" Steve explained softly to her.
Sam instantly moved one hand to the back of her neck.
"Sam you went for lunch…" Danny began looking to her. "Lou called me and said he found the diner you were in. Who was the girl you were with?" He asked curiously to her.
"Oh her name was Polly. I met her at the park this morning." She sighed a little. "Reuben had dropped his pacifier and she picked it up for me. We got chatting, turned out she and her husband have had trouble having kids. Multiple miscarriages. She just needed someone to talk to feeling she couldn't talk to her husband." She shrugged a little keeping her eyes locked on Reuben. "Knowing what she went through I gave her some friendly advice." She looked to her brother and gave a little shrug. "She was nice."
Danny gave a slight nod. "Nice enough to slip something in your bag?" He asked looking to her.
Sam frowned. "What do you mean?"
"Lou said on the CCTV he watched, when you go to pick up Reuben from his pushchair she put something in your bag…"
Sam looked to him and frowned a little. "I don't understand…wait where is my bag? It was on the back of Reuben's pushchair."
"Tani took it home when she took Eddie home…we'll get her to have a look, see if whatever she popped in there is still in there." Steve explained before he thought for a minute and looked to her. "Sam what did you do when I left to go back to work this afternoon?"
Sam looked to him before she thought for a minute, a frown forming on her features. "I'm not sure…I must have dozed off on the couch, I woke up with Eddie licking my face and then we went to go get Reuben from his nap and then to go get the kids from school…"
Steve and Danny looked to each other. "That explains it…"
Sam frowned. "What do you mean?"
Steve looked to her. "Sam when you collapsed in the street, Eddie got so protective of you he wouldn't let anyone near you. Not even Duke. Every time someone tried to get to you he would growl and bark and go for them…"
"So?"
"So he wouldn't do that unless he thought you were in danger." Danny told her before looking to Steve. "Someone must have been in the house…they must have waited for you to go and then made their move to which Eddie saw…"
"That is so creepy…" Sam mumbled with a frown to them.
"Extremely…" Steve commented with a frown himself. Someone watched them have sex this afternoon.
"Why would someone want to drug me?" She asked in confusion looking to them. "It doesn't make sense to drug me then me not remember anything…"
"We will get to the bottom of this." Danny promised looking to her.
Sam nodded a little as she let a yawn pass her lips once more, her eyes getting heavy again.
"You get some sleep." Steve whispered as he got up and pressed a kiss to her head, seeing Reuben was happily cuddled into his mother, although he was awake Steve knew he wouldn't be able to move him without him kicking off. He was a mommy's boy. Seeing Sam had nodded off he then looked to Danny and gestured for him to move over by the door so they could talk without disturbing Sam. "We got to find out who is doing this to her." He whispered to him.
"She has a valid point mind…I mean why drug her if she then can't remember anything?" Danny whispered back to him.
"It's that time between the injections. She's drugged to knock her out…she then wakes up for a short period of time where whoever is doing this talks to her or gets information then she's drugged again so she doesn't remember their encounter so she won't report them…"
"But if she doesn't remember their encounter she's not likely to remember them when they drug her again…it just doesn't make sense. Someone's going out of their way to do this to her but we don't know why. And who would want to stay hidden that bad?"
"I don't know but we are sure as hell going to find out." He told him before he looked back to his sleeping wife and sighed to himself. "They did this to her Danny. They messed with her memory…who knows what that will do long term, not to mention they've completed ruined her kidney with whatever they've been giving her…" He looked back to his brother in law. "I'm going to make them pay." It wasn't a threat. It was a promise.
