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The nurse was worried her patient wasn't responding to treatment of blood loss as well as she had hoped. She had given the girl a diet designed to help her body heal as well as supplements through IV. She sighed her patient's blood pressure and heart rate was still very low. Plus her patient was still feeble if she didn't help her sit up then she'd be forced to lie there all day. There were times the patient would ask her to help her lie back down being too tired or too light-headed to sit up anymore. She planned to allow Sayori to take her out in the wheelchair tomorrow hoping that the sunlight and sometime in the fresh air would help improve the girl's condition. She had talked to Headmaster Cross about Naomi's lack of real progress and he promised if no improvement happened after her trip outside that he'd have a doctor come check her out. She added a sedative to Naomi's IV after having noticed that Naomi didn't seem to sleep well. She hoped with the addition of the drugs it would help Naomi recover, but it seemed as if nothing was causing any improvement at least Naomi wasn't getting any worse either.

~ With Takuma ~

Takuma rushed from his talk with Naomi to search Maria's room for the name and address of the doctor she used. Once he found the information he took off to the physician's address hoping to get some answers. He had arrived at the physician's office trapping the doctor in his office saying, "I want the file for the girl who was in Maria's room."

The doctor turned saying, "I was just about to give the result to Maria boy is she rather impatient to get them." He handed him the file adding "Don't lose that it's the only copy and Maria will have both of our heads if she doesn't see this file."

He took the file glad the doctor thought he was working with Maria apparently she was sending someone to get the file soon. He could care less what happened to the doctor he knew he needed to get far away from that place so that Maria would have a harder time knowing who took the file. Hopefully, the doctor would be smart enough make up a fake file to keep himself alive. He returned to the moon dorm swiftly in hopes to look over the file before getting some shut eye, but retrieval had taken longer than he had planned, so he decided to sleep with the file under his mattress. If someone wanted this file, they were going to have to lift him to get it.

The doctor was taken by complete surprise when Ichiru showed up the next day asking for the file to give to Maria. It was then that he realized his mistake asking Ichiru to sit for a moment while he finished the file he went in the back and quickly filled in a file for a victim of blood loss due to a vampire attack. He added details he remembered about the girl to make it look like it was the original although he couldn't remember everything that was in the first file he figured this was close enough. He took his time to list that in his professional opinion that he felt the girls hope for a normal life were slim and odds were that she'd be bedridden for a long time. For added measure, he put down that the girl was most likely to need long-term care and would be a burden on her family. Then he handed the completed file to Ichiru saying, "I hope this girl comes from a family with means as she's going to need ongoing care for life."

Ichiru replied, "I don't know, and I don't care the Academy has taken over her care. She's a student there I would assume since she was attacked while at the Academy that they would cover her medical care. Maria will be pleased by the report odds are she will just give a copy to the headmaster to be compensated for providing the girl care."

The doctor let out a sigh of relief when Ichiru left decided perhaps it would be best for him to settle down somewhere with a wife becoming a simple country doctor a great distance away from the Academy that seemed to attract vampires. He felt it would be in his best interest to move immediately and start building his practice again from scratch. He turned his attention to packing what he deemed necessary to take with him leaving his patients and practice to his partner after receiving payment for his half of the practice. By the next day, he had everything loaded and was moving to a remote location that had no doctor.

~Day Class ~

It was now afternoon Sayori had just finished classes for the day and headed directly to the nurse's office. She smiled saying, "Today is the day I take you outside for a while, and hopefully soon you will be well enough to go to your room."

Naomi smiled as the nurse brought over the wheelchair and put her in it. She hated being so helpless, but she had rested all day so that she could enjoy outside as long as possible. Once she was in the chair, and the nurse stepped aside Naomi looked at Sayori saying, "Take me outdoors into the fresh air and to the green grass."

Sayori chuckled she had never seen anyone so excited just to go outside and into the fresh air. She would be the same way if she were stuck in the nurse's office for days on end. She wheeled Naomi outside to a beautiful shady area Sayori smiled as she rolled Naomi into the day class outside in the courtyard. Most were there waiting to see the missing day class member but not crowding her. Naomi was touched that the day class was all outside to greet her.