"We need security in here!" she cried.
Sarah could nothing except stand there, hands over her mouth and slowly back away. She watched as the man drop the syringe into the mattress as he turned around. He menacingly headed towards her as she backed away from him. Sarah glanced at Nick, who was oblivious to all that was happening around him.
"Get away from me!" she cried as he grabbed her bad arm.
She cringed and smacked him right hard in the face. He dropped her arm and held onto his face. Rae hurried up to Sarah and pulled her back as the man stood there stunned. He growled and clenched his fist before trying to escape through the door.
Rae tried to stop him but was soon pushed out of the way as the man ran out of the room.
The two watched as the man was trying to be apprehended by the people there. He dodged by them and soon fled out the door.
"Maybe he'll get captured on the way downstairs," Rae quietly said to herself as she hurried up to Nick.
She gasped as she looked at the syringe. She looked at Nick and her widened. He seemed almost pale as he laid there motionless in the bed.
"We have to get him checked for any foreign substances. Maybe he managed to inject some into him before we arrived," she muttered to herself.
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Several minutes later, a few police officers were there. They asked questions of the nurses who were at the station, other witnesses and of Rae and Sarah. They took the syringe to examine for fingerprints and as evidence against the person if they found him. The mysterious man managed to elude the clutches of police and everybody else.
"Are you sure you didn't see his face?" asked one police officer.
Sarah shook her head as she was almost to tears.
"No, I didn't," she quietly replied.
"Alright, if you remember anything give us a call," she said as she walked away from the frightened teenager.
Sarah watched her leave, the tears falling down her face. Rae walked up to her once everything had calmed down.
"Sarah, I think you know what's going on. Now you and your brother have some explaining to do," Rae told her. "Now come on."
Rae led Sarah into a secluded room, where Patrick was already waiting in a wheelchair. He gazed up at them and sighed. Matt, Letty, Jackie, Harriet and Jules were already there with them. Jules closed the door behind them.
"Now we'd like you to tell us what is going on here. First, that man shows up the other day, demanding for both of you, resulting in Nick getting punched in the face that caused a black eye and some bleeding in his mouth. Then that same night, he gets run over by a car, resulting in severe injuries. Namely his leg. Just now, he's attacked in his hospital room by a strange man with a still unknown substance which we have no idea is in his system or not. Tell us now what you know," Jackie demanded.
The brother and sister looked at each other and sighed.
"My name is Patrick Smith. Sarah, here, actually is my sister. It's our father who's doing all this and our mother wants him to do it as much as he wants to. She wants us dealt with as badly as he does as they both hate us," Patrick angrily said, his arms crossed and looking away from them.
"So that man who was here really is your father?" Harriet asked.
The two sadly nodded.
"We ran away from home. We couldn't stand their abusive ways any longer. We would have gotten away too if it wasn't for the cat really running across the road and Patrick swerving to miss it. We ended up in here and this is where they found us," she explained.
"And it just so happens that our father is avery stubborn man. If something's in his way, he gets rid of it before moving on. It just so happens that this Doctor Nicholas Kokoris is in his way of getting to us," Patrick explained to them.
The six gasped as they looked between each other.
"Do you think he'll come back after him?" asked Matt.
"Most definitely. Doctor Kokoris isn't out of the picture yet and he'll stop at nothing to get him out of it," Patrick replied.
"He won't stop until he has us," Sarah added.
"Oh my God," Letty said.
"We have to put security on Nick's room 24/7. I know that none of us wants to lose a good friend," Jackie said to them.
The others nodded.
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Sarah looked at Nick laying in the bed.
"I'm so sorry it has to be this way Doctor Kokoris. I really am," she whispered to him.
"It's not your fault Sarah. It's never been your fault," came a quiet voice.
Sarah looked to see Nick staring at her from the bed.
"You're awake!" she said, obviously surprised.
"Yes, I am. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine," he told her.
Sarah nodded sadly as Jackie and Letty walked into the room.
"Hey Nick, how're you doing?" asked Jackie.
"Good," he replied quietly.
"They're still trying to find the man who attacked you earlier," Letty told him.
"I hope they do," he said as he gave a cough.
"Now I think we'd better let you get some rest," Jackie told him putting a hand on his arm.
He nodded just before they left. He closed his eyes.
Just before Sarah left the room, she looked back at him.
Nick watched them leave. He closed his eyes and winced in pain.
'I hope they catch the people who caused all this pain and suffering,' he thought. 'I don't want a maniac on my tail for the rest of my life.'
He slowly drifted into a deep sleep.
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The two doctors looked at Sarah once they got outside.
"Sarah, how soon do you think your father will come after you and your brother or even Nick?" asked Letty.
"Anytime now. He's stubborn when he has to get something out of his way and he's quick about it too," she replied before walking down the hall.
Jackie began to think about what they found out earlier from the siblings.
"Jackie, what are you thinking?" Letty asked cautiously.
"Nothing much. Just the beginnings of an idea on how to save those two and Nick if the jerk doesn't decide to come back on his own," Jackie replied with a smile.
Letty smiled with her.
Rae and Harriet waited patiently as the sample of blood Rae took from Nick was being studied. the people in the lab were told them to look for anything out of the ordinary.
Rae was walking back and forth in her office as Harriet looked on.
"Don't worry yourself Rae. They know to come and tell us once they get the tests finished," Harriet reassured her.
"I know, I know. That's not what's worrying me," she replied.
"What is then?" wondered Harriet.
Rae was about to answer her when a knock came to the door.
"Come in," she called out.
A young man walked in through the door.
"We have the results from the blood sample you gave us," he said,
"Well, what are they?" asked Rae.
"The results came back negative in all aspects," he replied.
Rae sighed with relief as did Harriet.
"Good. Thanks a lot for doing it so quickly. Now we don't have to worry," she thanked him.
He left the room as Rae turned around to do some paperwork.
"Now we don't have to worry about anything in his system," Harriet told Rae.
"No, we don't," replied a thankful Rae.
There was silence in the room between the two until they heard the door open and neither bothered to look back.
"How can we help you?" Rae asked.
"By leading me to the man who keeps me from my children," came an unfamiliar voice.
Rae and Harriet slowly raised their heads and looked towards the door.
There stood the same man who was in Nick's room.
TBC...
