A/N I own nothing other than my OC's.
I run to the elevator as the doors start to close just making it. Seeing that the button for the ground floor is already pushed I sit down my phone and boots to put on my socks hopping from one foot to the other. My phone rings as I get the first sock on, not looking I answer on speaker. "This is Kave."
"Hey babe, would you like me to bring you clothes to the infirmary?" Eric's amused voice comes over the speaker.
"No I have an extra set down there. If I get time I will just shower and change there. I will let you know what is going on when I talk to my nurses." Both socks down onto the boots.
"Did you need to leave half naked?" Eric huffs.
"At least I stopped to put clothes on before I left. I could have took that time to get coffee instead. You could bring me coffee." I finish lacing up my boots standing up looking into Four and Tris's shocked faces. "Shit." I whisper.
"What's wrong." Eric's voice becomes strained.
"That awkward moment when you realize you are not alone on the elevator." I smile at them and wave. "Morning!"
"Who is it?" Eric chuckles.
"Four and Tris." They give me pained smiles.
I turn off the speaker as his laughter fills the elevator.
I walk into the infirmary to find utter chaos, every personal I have is inside or still coming in. "What happened?"
"Dr. Blaine it is Max. His wife Mazikeen called us. He was fine yesterday until he came back from his last meeting with the other council." My head nurse Marlene informs me.
Walking over to where Max lays on a bed hooked up to oxygen as well as heart monitor, pulse ox, and blood pressure cuff with his hand clasped in his wife's hands. "How long has he been like this?" I ask her while checking him over.
"He had a severe headache last night and went to bed early, moments ago he woke me up shaking and having trouble breathing. I didn't know what to do so I asked our sons to help me get him down here." Mazikeen holds tight on his hand. "Don't let him die. Please I still need him."
"I will do everything in my power to help him." Turning to Marlene, "I need a full work up of his blood. This could be a poisoning. We need to know which one to get the antidote administered right away."
"Yes, doctor." She runs off to get the needed vial and reader. Thankfully we had such a slow day yesterday so that I was able to give additional training to my staff. With the state of the art equipment I have everything here that I need to help Max if he is still able to be saved.
"Have you completed your training yet?"
"I have. Yesterday was my first day. It gave me a chance to train the staff here."
"Do you really think it is poisoning?"
"Yes but I won't know until I get the blood test. Has he been losing consciousness long?"
"Just as we were coming up."
"Mom, yours and dad's phones have been blowing up. Mainly from Eric." A voice calls, I turn to see a younger version of Max walk into the room.
"Alec, thank you." She takes both phones as one starts to ring.
Just then Eric comes into the room with a large cup of coffee in one hand with the other pressed to his ear. The phone in Mazikeen's hand rings again, Eric's eyes snapping to it.
"What is going on?" He hands me the coffee walking over to Mazikeen and Alec.
"Max got sick last night." Mazikeen tells him. "McKaven thinks that it is poison."
"The symptoms fit." I take the vial from Marlene as well as the hand held reader from her hands, "thanks." I grab a syringe and take the blood that I need before sliding it into the reader. Moments later a ping is heard through the room. Aspirin overdose flashes over the screen. I bow my head and give a sigh of relief. It could have been much worse. "Flush his system than administer charcoal. What ever is pumped from his system send to our lab I want to look over it. Aspirin poisoning happens quickly I want to find out why it didn't. Keep him hooked to the machines and keep giving him fluids." I look to Mazikeen. "Did he take anything for his headache last night?"
"No he doesn't feel like its Dauntless enough to take an aspirin." Mazikeen looks confused.
"That is what I thought. My father was the same way, even in Erudite." I look through Max's file. It is short, yearly physicals but he hasn't came in for any other problems. I open up the other family members files. Aspirin is not listed in any of them. I look up at Eric who still stands by Alec. "Did he ingest anything yesterday?"
"Yes a cup of coffee that he brought with him to the meeting." Eric narrows his eyes. "What are you thinking?"
"If he didn't take the aspirin someone else had to of given it to him." Marlene comes into the room with an orderly with the stomach pump and charcoal. "Marlene was his body checked for patches? It says here that he gets a nicotine patch. It could have been tampered with."
"Someone poisoned him on purpose?" Alec yells his hands balled into fists.
"I think so." I step back letting Marlene work. I feel familiar hands on my back. "Thanks for the coffee."
"My pleasure, can't have my girl go without her coffee all day." He wraps his arms around me tight, I lean into him with my head on his shoulder. "I need to get to work."
"I know so do I. But I think I will finish this than take my shower. Max should be just fine. I will let you know what I find out." I turn around and give him a kiss before going into my office.
A/N Next chapter we find out what happened to Max. Let me know what you think.
