"Elle took her?" Chuck's heart rate picked up and his breathing picked up a notch. He started shaking violently, like he was having a seizure, and his eyes rolled to the back of his skull. "Chuck?!" he suddenly stilled and his heart stopped.
An alarm went off and another flurry of activity could be heard stampeding towards the room. The door opened and a doctor and nurses entered the room bringing with them a defibrillator. "You need to stand aside and let the doctor do his work" one of the nurses requested as the other nurses pulled back Chuck's bed sheet and quickly placed the required materials over Chuck's now bare chest. "Charge to 1000 volts" the doctor ordered; the nurse did as she was told and charged the paddles onto Chuck and a static jolt went through him causing his body to arch into the air then crash back down onto the bed.
Serena cried out and buried her face into Lancaster's shoulder where he awkwardly wrapped an arm around her and patted her back. The doctor looked at the heart monitor and saw no change. "No change, charge to 3000 volts" the doctor ordered, once again the nurse did as she was told and charged to 3000. "Clear!" the doctor pressed the paddles back onto Chuck and Chuck arched his back up into the air then back down onto the bed. The machine made a low beep followed by more beeps showing that Chuck was alive.
The doctor breathed a sigh of relief and helped the nurses put the defibrillator away. Once the defibrillator was packed up he turned to Serena and Lancaster who were standing on the far side of the room, giving the nurses and doctor room to work. He walked over to them and stopped.
"I need you tell me what happened" he told them "I was sitting next to Chuck just talking to him when his breathing picked up and he started shaking" she answered, looking over the doctor's shoulder and watching as the nurses pulled Chuck's hospital gown back on and reattached all of the tubes and wires they had to take off, once they were done one of them pulled the blanket back up to his chest and they exited the room. "Miss, I need you to tell me exactly what you said to him because whatever it was may have triggered this," he told her. "He asked where Blair, his girlfriend was, and told him that Elle took her" she knew she shouldn't have told him that but she couldn't help herself.
"Whoever this Elle woman is-" "Elle is the woman that did this to him" Lancaster interrupted "well then when you told Chuck that 'Elle' had Blair it caused a severe heart attack so I would suggest avoiding any mention of Elle or Blair because it might set him off again; we were lucky this time but next time we might not be so lucky" he ordered them. "Of course doctor" Lancaster agreed Serena numbly nodded her head. "I need to get back to my other patients now so please remember what I said, no mention of Elle or Blair but if you can help it I would suggest no serious discussion at all" he requested "I think we can handle that doc, but I think that my presence might have also been a trigger so I'll be outside the door if you need anything" he said the last part to Serena. The doctor left the room and left the two alone with Chuck.
"Thank you for everything Detective Lancaster and I'm sorry for the way I treated you out in the waiting room" she apologized "you don't need to apologize in fact I've had a lot worse said to me, some of which is illegal so you have nothing to worry about" he assured her. "I'm going to be outside and if you need anything you know where to find me" Lancaster walked out of the room and closed the door behind him.
Serena stood in the same spot for a little while longer before her legs started moving towards the bed and sat down in the chair she had previously occupied.
Chuck lay motionless on the bed, looking more and more like a corpse then he did when she had entered the room. "If you can hear me Chuck, I'm sorry; sorry about giving you the news that led you to have a heart attack" she once again grabbed his hand and was surprised when she received a light squeeze. She looked away from her hand, intertwined with Chuck's, and up to Chuck's face that was scrounged up in pain. "Chuck, can you hear me?" Serena watched as his eyelids slowly started to flutter until his dark brown eyes were revealed but quickly hidden by the intensity of the light. "Is the light too bright? Don't worry I'll fix that" she got up from the chair and walked over to the light panel and experimented with the switches until she found the one she was looking for.
She walked back over to the bed and sat down. Chuck's eyes opened back up and looked around the room in a daze until his eyes landed on Serena. "What happened?" he rasped "you had a heart attack Chuck but you need to relax so we're going to move away from any serious discussions and only talk about more relaxing topics like…how dashing you look in your green hospital gown" she joked "why thank you Serena and I must say escaped mental patient is a good look for you" he replied sarcastically "so nice of you to notice my new look, it took hours to put on" Serena joked back.
"They sat in silence for a few minutes before he spoke again. "Where is she Serena, where's Blair?" he asked her "Chuck can we please talk about something else?" she pleaded "do you or do you not know where she's taken Blair?" Chuck grounded out "Chuck your getting stressed out and you need to calm down" she tried but this only got him even more worked up "tell me!" he shouted/rasped "no! Okay no, Elle took Blair and ran off, no one knows where she is" Serena burst reciting the information Detective Lancaster had given her in the waiting room. He suddenly tried lifting himself up from the bed but Serena put a restraining hand on his chest and gently held him down. "What are you doing?" she asked him, stopping his movements "I need to find Blair" he stated "that's the polices job Chuck; Your hurt enough as it is and I bet that if a breeze of wind came it would ultimately kill you" she reasoned. "It's because of me that Elle is targeting Blair" he said, trying in vain to get up but his injuries and blood loss had weakened him so he was fighting a losing battle. "If you really care about me you'll turn your back and let me go" he begged "I do care about you Chuck and that's why I can't let you go; if you really want to help Blair you'll stay in bed and rest and do as the doctor says" she retorted.
"Where's Detective Lancaster?" Chuck asked changing the subject "he's outside" she answered, "can you tell him to come inside? I want to speak to him" he requested but by the determined look in his eyes you could tell it was more of a demand. "Okay" Serena stood up from the chair and walked over to the door; she poked her head out and asked Lancaster to come inside. Lancaster walked inside and walked over to Chuck's bedside. "You wanted to speak to me?" he asked "yeah, Serena would you give Detective Lancaster and I some privacy?" he asked, not taking his intense expression off of Lancaster "sure, I'll just be outside" Serena said, confused and a little worried as she walked outside and closed the door behind her.
"You said nothing would happen to her" Chuck started "we're doing everything we can to get her back in fact I have an idea as to where she might be" Lancaster replied "if you know where she is why the hell aren't you out there getting her back" Chuck asked outraged "I have officers out there right now checking all of the possible areas that she could be" Lancaster assured him. Chuck sat up as straight as he could and look deep into Lancaster's eyes.
"Get out there and find her. NOW!" he ordered. Lancaster walked away from Chuck and walked out of the room; He all ready had full intention of going out there and looking for Blair himself but he figured that he didn't want to upset Chuck further and cause another heart attack. He passed Serena who had been trying to listen in on their conversation but the door had been too thick.
Serena walked back into the room and closed the door behind her. "Where was Lancaster going off to in such a hurry?" she asked walking back over to Chuck "he went to find Blair" he replied sliding back down into the bed. Just as Serena was getting ready to sit back down Chuck stopped her "Serena would you mind going to my loft and picking up my lab top? I have a few things I have to finish and send out by tomorrow," he asked. She looked at Chuck, questioning his real motives "okay…" she said suspiciously. She had a feeling that there was something more going on but she had made a promise to herself that she wouldn't upset Chuck again.
"Thanks Serena, for everything I mean it" he said with a note of finality "your welcome Chuck; I'll be back with your lab top as soon as I can. You haven't changed the locks on me have you?" she asked "don't worry your key will still work but I still question why I gave you a key in the first place" Chuck replied "because when you get wasted and you don't want Blair to see you in that state you have me; the sister/friend who has seen her days of puking her guts out as well" she walked over to the door and before she walked out she turned to Chuck "don't do anything stupid while I'm gone okay?" she said "you have nothing to worry about" he assured her. She stood in the doorway for a little longer before she walked out the door and closed the door behind her.
When she was gone Chuck pulled the covers off of him and carefully took the tubes and wires off of himself, being extra careful around the wires around his wounds. No one realized this but the first time he had been hooked up to heart monitor. He had been fifteen at the time and had become seriously ill. He had watched the nurses as they hooked him up to the machine he had paid extra close attention to the buttons they pressed to turn it on and off. So he was now going to put his knowledge to the test.
He reached up and pressed the button that would turn the machine off and once the machine was off he took the wire connected to the machine and off and threw them aside in the pile with the other wires and tubes. He eased himself up from the bed and walked over to the closet where he knew where one of the nurses had placed a pair of scrubs. He walked over to the closet and when he opened the door sure enough there were the pair of blue scrubs.
Knowing that he only had a small window of opportunity open he hurriedly stripped out of the hospital gown grunting in pain the entire time as he changed from the gown to the scrubs. When he was changed he walked over to the door and looked through the small window to see if anyone was coming, when he didn't see anyone he opened the door and walked outside, still being weary of any passing nurses or doctors that would recognize him. Once the coast was clear he made his way down the hallway and followed the map he passed that showed the way to the stairs.
A few minutes later he came across the stairs and he quickly descended them until he found the emergency exit. He walked through the exit and immediately regretted not having a coat from the crisp air outside and the light rain.
As he was walking down the parking lot a pair of headlights suddenly blinded him. He squinted his eyes and tried in vain to see the owner of the lights but he saw nothing but the shadow of the car. The car sped up and Chuck closed his eyes and prepared and prepared for impact but…
A/N: Sorry about yet another cliffhanger but it keeps you interested. Next Chapter will have Blair in it so don't worry I haven't forgotten about poor Blair. Review if you want more!