Part 5
Max, Alex and Maria made it as far as the doors of the Crashdown before Max put an arm out in front of them. Shaking his head slightly he waved his right hand over the other's heads. Both Alex and Maria seemed to come out of a trance, blinking rapidly.
"What are we doing here?" Maria asked, weirded out.
"Weren't we just with Liz?" Alex added.
"she's got powers now" whispered Max, loud enough for the all three to hear.
"You mean that Liz just made us leave?"……Alex's face was a mixture of confusion… "Why would Liz have powers?" he thought quickly, before his face turned ashen and he ran back through the Crashdown……..Maria and Max not far behind.
"Liz" Alex ordered, surveying the room with his eyes, noting the body on the floor, one hand still clutching the phone.
Remembering his limited knowledge of first aid, he turned Liz over. His fingers were soon pressed to her wrist, looking desperately for a pulse.
At 5:35 p.m Alex said his first prayer to a god he still questioned, pleading for the life of his best friend.
He managed to find a pulse just as he heard sirens approaching. He noticed her blue lips and held her hand, willing her to live.
Max and Maria stumbled in a moment later, taking in the sight before them. Maria dropped to her knees, "Is she?"
"She's alive…….barely." Alex answered.
"Move" they heard a loud voice behind them bellow.
Three paramedics rushed into the room and surveyed the scene. Two extracted Liz's hand from Alex's as they placed her on the stretcher they had and began asking him questions. He didn't know much of Liz's medical history….so he was of little use to the paramedics, they looked about the room, investigating the bathroom, in a matter of moments, as one paramedic noted the empty bottle of Tylenol on the floor.
"Overdose" he said and wrote and the same time.
Maria began to sob as the three paramedics wheeled Liz out on a stretcher, strapped in and covered by a thin sheet.
Max, Maria, and Alex followed closely behind, watching from the sidewalk as Liz was placed inside the ambulance and taken away.
Maria was sobbing harder, Alex's arm around her, trying to comfort her, as Max stood apart from them. For a moment none knew what to do. Then Maria rustled through her purse to grab her car keys. She opened her door and looked at the other two.
"Come or Stay." She managed to get out between sobs.
Alex made the first move, Max coming up behind him and reluctantly getting into the car.
The rode in silence…….suddenly another voice entered Max's mind "max, max what's wrong?" It was Isabel……."damn I'm projecting." He thought to himself…
"We're going to the hospital…….Liz…….." he couldn't make himself say the rest. "Is she going to be alright?" Isabel asked worriedly.
"I don't' know." And with that he cut off Isabel from his mind.
Liz awoke with a start, noting her surroundings blankly. She was in a room. Not her room. She scrunched her eyes together, trying to put together what had happened and where she was. She remembered telling Max, Maria and Alex to leave, but beyond that, everything was a fuzzy blur.
She sat up, noting the loose hospital pants and shirt she was wearing.
She walked to the door and opened it, entering a darkened hall, light enough to see though.
Walking down, she noticed the nurses station to the right.
"I'm at a hospital?"
She knocked lightly at the window. A blonde nurse came out quickly.
"Where am I?" she got out, noticing how sore her throat was.
"This is the Psyche unit at Roswell Hospital, do you remember what happened?" the nurse asked gently.
Liz shook her head.
"You overdosed," the nurse looked at her tablet again, "Liz."
"That's not true," Liz managed to get out, "I was just trying to get rid of the headache…" she trailed off, realizing how ridiculous it sounded.
Think Parker, Think
"What time is it?"
"1:15a.m"
"Do my parents know?"
"Yes"
Liz winced at that.
"How long am I in here for?"
"That's up to the doctor dear, you could be in here for 24 hours or longer. It's all up to him."
"Now why don't we get you back to bed?"
An arm latched onto Liz's and directed her to her new room.
Liz obeyed and lay down. The nurse left and with that, Liz was left looking at the ceiling tiles until sleep finally claimed her.
"Hello Liz" she managed to hear as she sleepily lifted her head from her pillow.
"I'm Dr. Rosin, I think we should talk about what happened last night."
Liz forced herself to an awake state and sat up, noting the Doctor sitting in a chair at the foot of her bed.
"What happened last night?" he asked calmly
"I had a headache."
The Doctor scribbled something down on his yellow tablet and looked at her again.
"Liz, you took a full bottle of Tylenol, you must've had some other reason."
"none"
"then what are the marks on your body?"
Shit. She forgot about those.
"I broke a vase and it scratched me while I was picking up the glass." Liz looked at him evenly.
He scribbled more onto his pad.
"And your leg?" he inquired.
"I tripped on my pillow and fell on the shards before I could clean them up."
He scribbled more.
"What time is it?"
"1:45p.m"
"Why is my throat sore?"
"The emergency room had to pump your stomach last night"
"How long am I in here for?"
"At least until tomorrow, maybe longer since you are 17 and a minor. I'll have to make that recommendation based upon my own accumulation of how well you are."
This is bullshit. Time for Plan B
"Please God no headache" she intoned before starting.
She closed her eyes, and appeared to the Dr. as though she were simply blinking.
She opened them and looked directly into his eyes.
"I am fine. I am normal. I fell on the vase, that is what happened to my leg. I was trying to clean up the vase. That is what happened to my arm. I had a headache last night. I was not suicidal. You will go up to the nurses station and tell them that I am fit to leave immediately. This interview is over. When I stop talking you will get up and go do what I have told you to."
Liz closed her eyes and opened them again to find the Dr. gone. No headache…..she smiled inwardly.
She stood up and walked out of the door. Going by the nurses station she looked inside, and knocked on the window again.
"I'm free to go, right?" she looked into the woman's eyes.
"Yes, of course you are" She guided Liz down the hall and slipped her security card into the slot watching the door open.
"Have a good day" the nurse tossed to Liz.
Liz looked back. "You too." And smiled again.
Three steps out though Liz forgot about something. Sitting in the waiting room, and dozing were Max, Maria, and Alex……..Isabel and Michael were there too, along with her parents.
Oh crap.