Beech in Australia
Chapter 9: Doctor, Doctor.
The sun rising woke up the four sleeping officers in the hotel. First awake is Claire who stumbled to the bathroom, waking up John when she accidentally knocked over a glass.
"Morning," he greets. He then sees the way Stephen and Marion are cuddled up together. "Hey Claire have you seen this?" he asks motioning to the sleeping couple.
"Yeah, I know. Marion explained everything last night when you were down in the bar," explains Claire.
"Will you stop talking about us like we're not here?" yawns Stephen.
"Sorry."
A few minutes later Marion wakes up and sits up. Before she can say anything, she leaps off the bed and into the bathroom to be sick. "I see you're still feeling sick then," comments Stephen also moving off the bed.
"Uh, uh," is all she manages to say.
"I'll start breakfast then," says John which makes the girls feel even more nauseous.
Stephen helps John with breakfast as the others are unable to stomach the smell of food at the moment.
"I hope they're ok," mumbles John.
"Me too," adds Stephen, "this is beginning to worry me."
They all eat breakfast then get ready to go back to the police station.
"Do you mind if I stay behind today?" asks Marion just before they were about to leave, "I don't feel so good."
"Yeah, are you sure you don't want someone to stay with you?" states Stephen.
"I'll stay if you want," suggests Claire, "I don't feel brilliant myself."
"Ok then, see you in a few hours," says Stephen before he and John leave to go to the local police station.
While they are gone, Claire and Marion go to the doctors' surgery to find out what is making them so sick. They only had to wait about to 15 minutes to be seen and within an hour were back in the hotel discussing what they had found out.
"I don't think I can cope with this," starts Marion.
"I know what you mean. Of all the things I imagined that could make me this ill, I never in a million years would have come up with this," replied Claire.
"Are you gonna tell anyone?"
"No, not yet. I suppose I'll have to tell someone eventually, but I'm gonna try and keep it quiet for as long as I possibly can."
"Yeah, me too. God, how did we get into this mess?" sighed Marion.
"I'm sure you don't want me to do that."
"Yeah, you're probably right."
They were interrupted from discussing it any further when Marion's phone started ringing.
"I swear to God, if this is Whitehouse calling to check up on me again, I'll ..." started Marion before answering the phone.
"Hey Mar, it's me," comes Stephen's voice from the other end of the phone, "We've got some good news. It turns out Beech is planning to hijack a lorry full of mobile phones this afternoon with a local gang. Do you think you guys are up to helping out or should we do this without you?"
Marion relays the message to Claire before telling Stephen that they're in, and will meet at the police station in a few minutes.
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