SIXKILLER

Oh, chapter five is up! It doesn't answer all the questions, but it tells you what happened after Mark left the house.

Chapter Five

Mr. and Mrs.Berenson stood huddled together in a waiting room in the hospital's Trauma department. Half an hour ago Jean arrived home to see her youngest son Jake unconscious and bleeding in Tom's room. In her confusion she called her husband rather than an emergency number. Her husband gave her simple instructions and told her to dial nine-one-one. He'd be on his way home.

Steve had been first to arrive on the scene; he quickly aided her in decreasing the bleeding and told her not to remove the knife, as it was the only thing keeping the wound closed.

He then checked the rest of the house for intruders and satisfied himself that only he and his wife were in the house. As the police and paramedics entered the house Steve realized that Tom who should have been home at the time was nowhere to be found. He called the Sharing and they told him that Tom had left them at least two hours ago and said he was going to pick his brother up from school and head home.

The police asked Steve to check with Tom's friends; none of them knew where he was.

The unconscious Jake was already out of Tom's room and was packed into the ambulance with his mother. A policeman escorted his father to the hospital closely trailing the ambulance.

Already an investigation was underway and the police took blood samples from the phone, the large stain on the carpet and the smaller stain by the window.

Of course, the Berensons could barely recall what had happened in the last half an hour, all of it was mixed with the jumble of emotions that surfaced in their minds. They were both worried about Tom's disappearance, they feared that he was going to be a new victim to the mysterious serial killer the media was talking about.

The only thing that kept them together was that their youngest son was alive but in a life threatening situation.

Since he had been left lying for an hour in Tom's room he had lost a large amount of blood, the knife –which has a serious large blade with seriated edges- made a mess out of his internal organs, it penetrated his stomach and managed to tear at his liver.

The doctors discovered that Jake suffered from a concussion but how serious was yet to be determined.

Not long ago, Rachel, Marco and Cassie heard the news and rushed to the hospital. Cassie's parents accompanied them, as did Marco's stepmother Nora. They were all in the Trauma Waiting Room awaiting news from the Head Trauma Surgeon.

The Berensons were grateful for the support; Cassie's family sat closest to the Berensons as they already had established an affectionate relationship with the family of their daughter's friend.

Right now all was silent as they waited anxiously for news. Nora sat close to Marco who was staring blankly at the ground. Steve was taken out of the room to help the doctor's efforts in keeping his son alive, of course, Steve's profession may have been a doctor but trauma was not his specialty, they had called him to donate blood for his son. The hospital's blood bank was low and they did not have Jake's specific blood type anyway.

Fortunately, the father's blood was a perfect match.

When Steve came back to the room Jean asked him whether he saw Jake or not, Steve nodded slowly and told her that he was still unconscious. They took the knife out and they were closing up the damaged internal tissue.

After a longer wait, a middle-aged doctor greeted the concerned party; he introduced himself as 'Head of Trauma Department' and with a warm smile said that their son was stabilizing and Jake regained consciousness.

"Can we see him?" Jean asked anxiously.

The doctor looked hesitant but agreed to her request, under condition that they did not stay long. It was decided that only the Berensons should go in, the others stayed behind in the waiting room.

A drugged Jake struggled to sit up as his parents came in, after fussing a bit over him he managed to get across his message; he needed to speak to Marco.

His parents tried to calm him down, but Jake was already panicking and started to frantically shout for his friend Marco and cousin Rachel.

At this point the doctor advised the parents that it would be better to leave their son alone for a while, he may have confused the events that took part in the house especially after the concussion. They were all listening to Jake's demand that someone should try and 'find out where Tom was'.

But in hearing that Jake knew something about what happened to her eldest son, Jean started to ask Jake what he recalled. He answered this by a wild tale of two masked boys and something about his brother shoving him in the room while not intentionally meaning to.

Both Steve and the doctor urged Jean to leave the room. She was led out of the room in a shocked state, hearing that two armed men were chasing her Tom.

The delayed shock of finding her youngest son stabbed and bleeding in her house and the events that happened afterwards took their toll and she fainted in her husband's arms.

It was only after a while did Cassie's family, Nora, Rachel and Marco manage to hear what happened. All of Cassie's family stayed with the Berensons while Nora offered to see what the police had turned up with. Rachel and Marco were told to leave the hospital as not to worry their parents, surprisingly they did not object.

Only Cassie knew what Marco and Rachel were up to. Only she knew why they were eager to leave.

It really wasn't that big a mystery; they wanted to beat the Yeerks to Tom. Or possibly reach the assailants before they killed Tom.

This was exactly what Jake wanted to tell his friends. Only he was drugged and confined to his hospital bed. Unknown to Jake was the guardian angle who took shape as a fly buzzing around his room protecting him from the Yeerk infested hospital.

Of course, the fly was that secret somebody who got the message across to Cassie, Marco and Rachel. And it was also the fly that talked Jake into calming down. The suddenly calm Jake surprised the doctor and the nurse who had been ready to fully drug him.

This fly being a morph to none other than Ax, an Andalite so devoted to his Prince's well being.

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Jake is alive…for now. I'm not sure that he's going to stay alive. Turns out maybe I'd have to kill him…but you'll find out what happens. I'm not going to spoil the fun, I'll keep you hanging. Hehehe.

I want to thank all you people for the wonderful reviews! Thanks a lot! They really helped, I'm working on chapter six now and it's almost done; keep on the look out, its not going to take me long to upload.