Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews and enjoy the chapter! By the way the story will officially have 2 more chapters left.
Kevin pushed Corra away with a disgusted glare. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Corra scowled and placed both hands on her waist. "I'm giving you what you want. Wendy isn't right for you Kevin. She's going to ruin your life and turn you into a 9 to 5 guy which I'm sure you don't want to be. You need a little more fun in your life. Wendy's a nice girl but she's not exactly the club type."
Kevin scoffed. "Wendy might not be the partying type but I'm fine with that. She's incredibly smart, beautiful, compassionate, and brave. She's the one for me and that's more than I can say for you."
Corra rolled her eyes and strode out the room in a huff. She began snatching her belongings from the living room hastily. "Fine be that way but when you finally have enough I won't be here anymore. I quit."
Before leaving she added, "Tell Jason I'll miss him."
Kevin sighed and shook his head. "This has been a long day."
The house phone rang and to his surprise it was Ryan on the other line.
"Yeah?"
"I just finished reading a very interesting newspaper article concerning you and your wife and let's just say that you've made a believer out of me-for now. So I checked up on that bus incident and unlike at the hospital scene, our guy forgot to wipe away the fingerprints. Besides the bus driver's fingerprints there was another set of prints; belonging to Creightonne Black. You were right."
"That's great man. Now are we going to go after him or what?"
"We need a warrant before we could interrogate him. I can get one most definitely but it might be a while."
"I don't think we have a while. Wendy's missing. Normally I would think that she's working overtime at the hospital but she always calls either me or the baby sitter to check up on Jason and she hasn't done either."
"What makes you think Creightonne is behind this?"
"It's just this…feeling that I have."
"Oh what you're psychic too?"
"Funny. No I'm just a good husband in my opinion and I can tell when something is wrong with Wendy. We've been through a lot together."
"Alright then. I'll put out a report on him, if anyone sees him he'll be in our custody in a blink of an eye and hopefully by then we have the warrant."
"Thanks Ryan I really appreciate it."
"No problem. And I owe you an apology man."
"Don't worry that punch to the nose you took is enough for me."
Ryan laughed. "See ya later man."
Kevin hung up and grabbed an old band t-shirt he had hanging in his closet. After throwing it on, he went into Jason's room and carefully scooped him up in his arms. Then he turned off all the lights in the house and holding Jason tightly, left for the hospital.
*** "Servano! Where the hell is Christensen?" Wendy and Rosemary's attending demanded.
Disgruntled Rosemary looked at him stressfully. "I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know you're both interns you're supposed to stick together?"
"She left."
"You mean she left to go use the restroom or to have a snack right? Because if you're telling me that Christensen left the hospital knowing that she had a critical patient and before her shift ended then there will be some serious consequences."
Rosemary gazed at the floor intently. "Wendy's at the nurse's station. She'll be here soon." She lied grudgingly.
The attending's stare softened and he nodded curtly before departing.
Rosemary tucked a strand of hair behind her ear thoughtfully. "HELP!" an alarmed voice cried.
She whirled around to see a Goth kid holding a girl up by the shoulders. She looked extremely weak as if she would crumble to pieces if someone as so much poked her, her face was white as a ghost, and she was shaking uncontrollably.
"What happened?" Rosemary asked, motioning at a nurse to bring over a gurney.
"S-she was thrown into a bay and was unconscious when I fished her out and she seemed fine but now she lost consciousness again and she won't stop shaking. I-I don't know…"
"Ok sir what's your name?"
"Freddy. Freddy Goodrich." He answered.
Rosemary blinked remembering the name from the newspaper article. "Wendy's friend?"
"Uh yes why does that-"
"Do you know where she is?" Rosemary inquired, loading Angela hurriedly on the gurney.
"What do you mean? Isn't she here?" Freddy asked panicky.
"No she left about a half hour ago, some big emergency."
Freddy's face turned as white as Angela's.
Rosemary pushed Angela's cart an available room and yelled out for a crash cart.
"Is she going to be alright?"
"I don't know she appears to have severe hypothermia we have to get her temperature back to normal." She responded while for the second time that day nurses arrived to the room with a defibrillator machine and she compressed Angela's chest.
Freddy left the room in search of a phone. He found a wall one and punched in Wendy's number swiftly. It went straight to voicemail.
"Damn it!" he cursed. He returned to Angela's room and found himself in a situation. Wendy and Adie or Angela?
*** Wendy barged into Adie and Angela's dorm room and had to avoid tripping over the discarded clothing on the floor.
"Close the door quietly behind you and lock it. Don't try anything or your friend Adie will regret it." A voice spoke up from the couch.
Wendy did as asked and tip-toed further into the room.
"Were you followed?"
"No I keep promises and I hope you do too."
"Exactly what promise did I make?"
"That you wouldn't hurt Adie as long as I came unaccompanied."
"Ah that."
Wendy stopped in front of the couch and Creightonne stood up and turned around.
"Where is she?" Wendy questioned carefully.
Creightonne gestured at a figure on the couch with his head.
Wendy sauntered over to the couch and looked down to see a limp Adie who looked like she was sleeping. But despite no signs of bleeding being a doctor and having empathy powers Wendy knew better. She was dead. She felt an angered presence behind her and ducked to the ground just as Creightonne slashed at the space where she would've been with the knife.
Creightonne cried in fury as Wendy jumped to her feet. She dodged another attack and sped towards the door. She managed to unlock the door but Creightonne clenched her shoulder roughly and pulled her back, throwing her to the floor. Wendy winced as the sleeve of her sweater was slashed off by Creightonne's knife. Rolling away Wendy grabbed an article of clothing and threw it at Creightonne's face momentarily blinding him and giving her a chance to get to her feet.
Wendy sprinted into Adie's bedroom and slammed the door shut. She frantically locked it and leapt away from the door when Creightonne's knife went straight through the door. Wendy's breath caught in her throat and she dashed to the window. Naturally, it wouldn't open. She shouted in frustration as Creightonne threw his weight against the door and kept hacking at it with the knife. She felt as if she was in the climatic moment of a bad horror movie and kept searching for a way out. The closet caught her eye, maybe there was something in there that could help. On the way she tripped over someone's leg and she found Micah's body hidden underneath Adie's bed. Wendy pulled him out and saw blood trickling from his head.
Suddenly, the door broke from its hinges and Creightonne emerged from outside the features of his face contorted in anger. "You bitch! This is for my brother!"
Wendy pushed Micah aside from Creightonne's range and the knife went straight through her stomach.
***Adie looked up seeing something that Micah couldn't and smiled. "It's time for you to go." She told him solemnly.
"Will I be alive?"
"You solved your unresolved issues so yes you will be returned to your body but whether you live or not depends on Wendy." Adie replied.
"Wendy?"
"You'll see. Now just walk towards the light." She pointed at the end of a lit hallway.
Micah sighed in relief and sadness and grinned at Adie. "We're good?"
She chuckled. "We're good. Oh and tell Freddy that I hope he enjoys my mind-reading powers. He deserves them."
Micah decided to not question anything and trotted to the light.
*** "He was last seen purchasing several items including rope and duct tape at a convenience store next to McKinley University." Ryan informed Kevin over the phone.
"McKinley University? That's where Adie is. Can you send some units over there?" Kevin requested.
"Well we got the warrant issued and he didn't respond so technically he can be considered a prime suspect. So yeah I'll send some patrol cars over but it might take a while because we're backed up; there was an accident on 5th lane."
"Thanks man." Kevin ended the call and was surprised to see Freddy pacing in the hallway.
"What are you doing here? Have you seen Wendy?" Kevin asked him.
Freddy looked up at him in dual surprise. "Um no haven't you?"
Kevin shook his head.
Freddy sighed and rubbed the side of his head. "Aw crap she must be with Adie."
Kevin's heart nearly stopped. "She's with Adie?"
Freddy shrugged. "I think so. Apparently she left the hospital after she sent me to the university to look for Adie so my guess is that after she didn't hear from me she went after Adie."
"But why what's wrong with Adie? I thought she was mad at her."
"Wendy thinks that Creightonne is after Adie."
"What do you think?"
"I think she may be right because I just found Angela, Adie's roommate, dumped in a bay after being knocked unconscious when she went to the dorm room and I sent Micah to the dorm room as well. I haven't heard from him since."
"Oh god. Can you take care of Jason while I go check up on all this?"
"No I'll go and you stay here with Angela. If something's happened to Adie that's bad enough for Wendy. Now if something happens to you, it'll kill her. I'll go."
Kevin looked at him with newfound admiration and reached for his gun holster. "If that bastard really is there you're going to need this." Freddy gripped the gun nervously and nodded. He left the hospital, his heart pounding erratically in his chest.