Disclaimer: Now you really ought to ask yourself, if she is writing this stuff what are the chances of her owning the rights to it...hmmm...gee that's a hard one.
Author's note: I apologise if I begin rambling, I just finished typing up my sisters nursing assignment and feel like my head is about to fall off. Thank you again to those who have reviewed...BTW I'm sure that deep down inside my heart somewhere I'm sorry for the suspense...hmmm.... ya and I keep Darwin in my bathtub too...*stares off into space, notices her audience glare at her* Oh you wanted more.... right....
Nathan watched over Lucas and Kristen as she worked, trying to figure out what had caused. Lucas to faint this time around. She had taken blood to test and had peered into his eyes, taken blood pressure, temperature, blood sugar levels and more. Nathan thought that any moment now his head was going to explode from spinning around too much. Kristen made her exit to look at the blood test results and do a few more tests on it. So far nothing conclusive had come up as the cause for Lucas' sudden ailment. She had poked and prodded the boy until she felt like she too was going to pass out.
Nathan watched over Lucas, the chair he was sitting in was probably the most uncomfortable chair that he could ever remember sitting in. He held Lucas' hand, more to reassure himself than Lucas. He wanted the boy to know that he was there for him but he also needed to know himself that Lucas was indeed present. Kristen had made her way back every twenty minutes or so just to check for herself that Lucas was in deed still okay. The fact that he still hadn't regained consciousness worried her, but she wasn't going to tell the Captain that. The blood that she had gathered from Lucas was still being tested and she was just working herself into more of a frenzy waiting for the chemical reagents to do their stuff. She looked over towards Nathan and Lucas, noticing that the man had fallen into an unsettled sleep. What also surprised her was that she could see a slight glint of blue looking down at the sleeping Captain.
"Lucas, how are you feeling?" She whispered to him.
"Okay, but did someone get the number of that truck that hit me?"
"Ah, that good hey?" she walked away from the bed and took a couple of tablets out of her cupboard. "Here take these, they should help with your headache." She placed the pills into his hand and passed him a glass of water, "Sip slowly"
He swallowed and within a few minutes had followed the Captain's lead and fallen asleep.
Kristen was puzzled; she was as without as clue as they come. She continued to look down at the results of Lucas' blood test hoping that the answer would miraculously come to her. She prayed that somewhere there was a God and that he would give her the answer she wanted, but it seemed that even if there was a God he was on holiday. She glanced over to where Lucas lay sleeping. She took another look, Nathan was missing, 'when did he wake up?'.
"Any clues" Kristen almost jumped right out of her chair.
"Nathan" she growled looking at the slight mussed up Captain.
"Well?"
"Well...oh I don't know...It just doesn't make any sense."
"What doesn't?"
"These stupid results" She said flapping them around wildly, so much so that Nathan feared that he would get a paper cut to his neck and then Lucas wouldn't be the only one in med. bay.
"Maybe if you talk through it? Talk to Kristen, what don't you understand?" Nathan hated to see the two most important people in his life hurt and he wanted to help either of them any way he could.
"They say he has drugs in his blood Nathan," she rattled off a list of drugs that made his head hurt, "Why would he have them in his system, surely if he was being treated for something on the mainland then it would be in his file. Wouldn't it?"
"Well what do they do? What would they be used to treat?"
"In this combination?" she thought for a moment, Nathan thought that the silence was going on forever, "Epilepsy!"
"Pardon?"
"In this combination, these doses, that has to be it. Why didn't I think of it before, I such an idiot!"
"Are you telling me Lucas has epilepsy?" Kristen looked at Nathan for a long moment before replying.
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying." They both sat and looked across at their young friend. The biggest question remained, why hadn't Lucas told them and why wasn't it in his file?