Hilda was flipping through the magic book looking for any referances to the flower queen or to other possible cures for Zelda's coma while her mother, Vesta and Sabrina sat at Zelda's bedside taking turns holding her hands and stroking her face. Just then the door came open and the doctor came in.

"Visiting hours are over. You'll all have to leave," the doctor said with a frown, "and from now on, only one person at a time is permitted in here at a time!"

What a nice rule. Now why don't you go and enforce it elsewhere. We aren't leaving," Hilda said as she glared at him. "We can't just let people come and go in intensive care! It disturbs the other patients! If you don't leave voluntarily, I will have to call security to have you removed."

"Go ahead and call them," Hilda said with a smile. "You call them and I'll call the paper. I'm sure that they would just love to know how you bully families and prevent them from comforting their poor sick relatives."

The doctor scowled at Hilda but he decided not to press the issue of the four witches leaving. All he needed was for the hospital to get bad publicity in the newspaper. The board of directors would be furious.

"I need to talk to you about continuing your sister's care. I'm afraid that the latest test results don't look very good," the doctor said as he took a sheet of paper out of the chart that he held and handed it to Hilda. "As you can see, her last EEG was almost flat. I recommend that you seriously consider removing her from the respirator. At this point, all that it's doing in prolonging her death."

"What?! Are you getting a commission from a funeral home for each person you kill or something?!" Hilda yelled as she jumped up. "We're not pulling the plug on Zelda! Now get out! You're fired! I want a doctor that's willing to at least try to help my sister!"

"Fine, but you have to be prepared to face the reality of your sister's condition. She is going to die. It's just a matter of when," the doctor said as he stormed out.

"I should have turned him into a frog too," Hilda muttered as she joined her family at Zelda's bedside and took her had. "Zelly, that idiot doctor's gone now. Don't you listen to him. You're going to be fine!"