"So how was your day?" Letty asked Rae.
"Same old, same old. People come and they go," she replied with a small smile.
"That's what I like about you. You're always the subtle type of person," laughed Letty.
Suddenly, they heard the screeching of tires and a familiar cry.
"Nick," gasped Rae before they ran to where the noises came from.
The two ran over to see the man lying on the ground near his vehicle and a strange car feet away from him.
"Nick!" the two cried in unison.
The driver and passenger of the car turned their heads towards them before the driver decided to hit the gas and leave the scene in a really big hurry.
The two ran over to the fallen Nick, who was lying completely motionless by his car. The only movement coming from him was his heavy breathing
"Come one, we have to get some help out here. You go get someone," Letty said to Rae.
Rae nodded her head and ran off to get help as Letty talked to Nick.
"I'm here Nick. It's Letty. Someone has gone to get some help now," she told him as she started to hear noises in the distance.
Rae arrived with some other doctors and a stretcher.
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Soon, Nick was in the ICU. Sarah couldn't say a thing when she saw him being taken into the room across the hallway from her brother.
Jules walked up the teen, who seemed oblivious to everything.
"Sarah?" Jules said to her, question in her voice.
Sarah blankly looked at the doctor before her.
"Since you and him have become such close friends since your arrival here, I think you should know his condition," she told the teenager, leading her away from the room.
"How bad is it?" she reluctantly asked.
"Well, he has a severely broken leg, shattered is more like it, a moderate concussion and some mild internal bleeding. He also has several scrapes and bruises, including the one he received earlier today from that fist," Jules told her with a sigh as Harriet walked over to them.
"It's all our fault. He's like this because of us, it's our fault," she said quietly to no one in particular.
The two doctors glanced at each other, confused before their stare came back to Sarah.
"What do you mean, it's your fault? You didn't do anything that could even indirectly cause this to happen to Doctor Kokoris," Harriet said.
"You won't understand, it's our fault. Now if would please excuse me now, I'm suddenly not feeling well," Sarah told them before walking past them and out of the room.
Harriet looked at Jules as if to say 'what just happened?' Jules shrugged her shoulders as if to say 'your guess is as good as mine.'
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The next morning, Sarah headed towards the restaurant to eat breakfast when she ran into Henry again. She gasped as she slowly, and nervously, backed away from him.
"What do you want?" she quietly asked him.
"I want you to come like you're supposed to. I don't want you here nor your brother," the man coldly replied.
She snorted and shook her head furiously. He tried pulling away but Henry wasn't letting him.
"What? You don't want to join me? Well, too bad. You will be sooner or later," he told her before leaving.
Sarah watched him go when suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder. She gave a small yelp of fear as she turned to see it was Jackie and Matt.
"Hey what's wrong? We're not going to hurt you. After all, we did help both you and your brother the other day," Matt said.
"You're shivering all over. Is there something wrong?" asked Jackie, becoming worried.
Sarah shook her head, the terror still obvious on her face.
"No, everything's alright," she lied.
"Are you sure? You don't look alright. Remember, we're here if you need to talk to anyone," Jackie told her.
She nodded her head and walked away from them.
She walked into the room and looked over at Nick lying on the bed. She carefully walked over to him and sat next to him. She placed her chin in her hands and sighed, not knowing that Rae was quietly listening from the doorway.
"I'm sorry Doctor Kokoris that we got you into this mess," she told him. "You wouldn't be here right now in this bed, fighting for your life but we had no choice. We had to get away."
She stayed there for one moment more before heading over to her brother's bed. The unseen Rae became instantly curious to what she meant by that.
That night, around suppertime, Rae walked into the room and up to Nick's bed.
"How're you doing Nick? I mean, I know you can hear me, you just can't respond. Everybody here's doing their best for you," she told him quietly.
She gazed over the I.V. tubes going into his arm. She sighed as she stood back up and walked out the door. She met Harriet on the way out.
"Harriet, what are you doing here?" Rae gasped.
"Probably the same reason you are Rae. To see how Nick is doing. After all, he's my friend as well," Harriet replied with a smile.
Rae smiled with her before it all came to an abrupt end when they heard groaning and gasping coming from inside the room. They hurried in to find Nick breathing heavily, almost gasping, and shuddering a bit.
"We have to find out what's wrong before it gets worse," commented Harriet as they hurried up to him.
Rae put the stethoscope on Nick's chest as Harrriet put a glove on her hand and slightly opened Nick's mouth. She gasped.
"Harriet, what's wrong?" Rae asked cautiously.
"The back of his throat is red and sore and his tonsils are enlarged. That's probably the reason of his difficulty breathing," Harriet told her. "At least it looks like it from this angle."
Rae's eyes widened a bit.
"What else can go wrong?" she asked.
TBC...
