Disclaimer in Part 1...



Claire spoke to the doctor for a few minutes trying to get any additional information on Marie's condition.

The news wasn't very comforting. At the moment they had no idea how badly the poison would effect the baby. They took blood and tissue samples, but they still would not have any way to know if it would live or die.

Claire came back over to where Bobby and Darien were sitting. Darien still had his arm around Bobby's shoulders.

Bobby looked up at her hopefully.

She sighed and stood next to him. "He said that they have her set up in a room now and you can go see her," she told him not wanting to tell him the rest.

"Claire... please... tell me what he said," he stared at her with his intense brown eyes.

"They still have no way of knowing if the baby will live or not. It's just too early to tell," she said placing a hand on his shoulder.

Bobby nodded. "Do they know if it's a boy or a girl yet?" for some reason he really wanted to know.

Claire gave a smile small. "Yes, they do. It's a girl."

Bobby's chest ached a little hearing that. If things did go well he'd have a daughter. He'd always wanted a little girl. "What room is she in?"

"243."

He stood up shakily and gave Claire a quick hug. "Thank you."

Darien gazed up at Claire. He felt awful for Hobbes, and angry at Stark. 'He wont get away with this,' he thought menacingly.

Claire caught the glint of anger in Darien's gaze and agreed with him wholeheartedly. There was no reason for Stark to have done that.

"I'll be here if you need me, partner," Darien called as Bobby left to see his wife.

"Thanks, partner," Bobby called back to him.

Alex finally arrived at the hospital. "So, how's everything going?"

Darien and Claire gave her the update.

"That bastard! I can't believe he actually thought he could get away with giving her a fake antidote," Alex snapped.

"Well, he's not getting away at all," Darien told her.

"Right now he's locked in the padded room with three guards outside at all times and two guards at the main entrance to the building."

"Good," Darien knew that once Bobby was feeling up to it he would be ready to 'interrogate' Stark. And no one in this room would stop him.


****

Marie woke up and winced. She had a nasty headache. She blinked her eyes several times to adjust to the bright lights. 'Where am I?' she thought. The last thing she remembered was getting married and... the memories flooded back to her.

She and Bobby with some man. He wanted information from Bobby... he injected her with something... the burning sensation... followed by the blackness...

"Bobby..." she saw him sitting next to her bed. He'd fallen asleep in the chair.

Bobby jolted awake and took her hand into his. "Hey, baby. How do you feel?"

"Tired and my head hurts. What happened?"

He looked away for a moment.

"Bobby, what's wrong with me?" she asked noting that he was trying to avoid her gaze.

"Nothing, the doc says you're gonna be fine," he squeezed her hand.

"What are you not telling me?"

Bobby stopped and looked at her. It was killing him that he had to tell her this, but she was gonna find out sooner or later and he'd rather she heard it from him. "It's the baby... you were injected with some kind of poison and they aren't sure..." he trailed off as her face crumpled with grief.

"Tell me," she said quietly letting the tears run down her cheeks.

"They don't know if she's gonna be alright or not," he finished as he held her tightly.

"She?"

"Yeah, baby, it's a girl."

Marie felt several things all at once her mind was racing with questions. "When can I go home?"

"They didn't say yet. I guess they wanted to make sure you checked out ok before letting you go," he sighed.

Marie nodded and held onto Bobby. "Did they arrest the guy who did this?"

"Yeah, he's in custody."

"Good."

Bobby kissed her softly running his fingers through her hair. Now that he knew she was awake and more or less alright he could deal with Stark.


****


Arnaud walked inside the Agency undetected. He really didn't want to do this, but if he helped Stark now he'd be able to hold this over him for a long time.

He knocked out the guard outside the padded room and opened the door.

Stark looked up and saw the guards on the floor.

"Come on, monsieur," Arnaud said tossing a gun at Stark.

Stark smiled taking the gun with him. As they got near the entrance Arnaud went ahead and knock out the two men there and he and Stark escaped the building.


TBC...


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