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Bad Blood Work

The next day came and Ryan woke up and went to the hospital, he had to make sure that it wasn't just a dream that had happened. When he can to Cat's room, no one was there, and her bed was made with fresh linen. Ryan got scared, what had happened. Did she died, did she run away, did she get moved. No they would have told him any of this when he got there. He was starting to seem like he worked there since he was there practically there every day. Ryan approached the nurses station.

"Hey Ryan, how are you?" the Nurse asked. Her name was Nancy.

"Confused, do you know where Cat is?" he asked

"Umm… let me look… Oh she is doing some more tests, to see if there is anything wrong with her."

"Thank you."

"No problem. You can wait in her room, she should be done with the tests soon."

"Thank you again." Ryan said as he walked back to Cat's room.

Meanwhile in another part of the hospital

Cat was sick of all the testing. She didn't think anything was wrong with her. From what the doctors told her she should be feeling weak and not being about to move well. She didn't understand. She had finished with most of the tests and the doctors kept asking her if she needed a break after each time. She finally got to sick of all the poking and testing that she said yes. So she was seated on a gurney and told to tell them when she was ready. She decided that since they hadn't taking or weren't going to be taking her on a tour she would take herself. She went on her tour and no one asked her any questions. Mostly because they didn't know she had gone or was doing something she shouldn't be. She was almost done with her tour when she saw a girl about her age sitting in one of the rooms. She knocked on the door.

"Can I help you?" Asked the girl after seeing that the person that knocked on her door wasn't a nurse or a doctor.

"Yeah, could you answer me something?"

"Sure." Said the girl not knowing what the stranger wanted to ask her.

"What are here for?"

"I am not sure, I get tired easily, and if I move for more than a small about of time it hurts."

"Hey that sounds like what they say I have."

"Do they know what you have?"

"No, they cannot seem to find out why I am not weak, and immobile."

"That is the opposite for me, they cannot figure out why I am weak and immobile. They saw that I have nothing wrong with my blood work."

"They could be being stupid."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well I came here because I was in a car accident. They took my blood and tested it after my surgery. When did you get here?"

"Well I have been here since about eight weeks ago maybe, I keep coming and going."

"I have been here for about eight weeks too. So they might make the mistake or the person who keeps taking our blood is confusing us. Because as far as they are concerned I should be bed ridden right now not being about to walk, they are running all these tests with moving and such stuff like that and I am fine with them."

"Yea I have done those tests but they don't know what is wrong with me I am like died at the end of the first test and they don't understand, they think that I am faking it, but sometimes I cannot even move my finger without pain in my whole body."

"There you are, we have been looking all over for you, when we came to ask you if you ready you weren't there we thought something terrible happened to you." The two girls looked and saw the doctor that was treating Cat.

"Oh, hi Dr. Madden." Cat said

"We really should get back to the testing." Dr. Madden said

"Well about that." Cat said

"What about it?"

"I think that someone is mixing up our blood" Cat said looking at the girl

"What do you mean?"

"Well you keep telling me that I should be able to move after one test and I have been fine though out the whole thing, I was just trying to get away from the tests because they are getting annoying. This girl, has the problems that I am supposed to be having, I think some one is mixing up our blood work."

"I will look into it. Lets take some of your blood and see if you are correct." A nurse came in and took their blood the right labels were on them and everything. They were taken to the lab for work up, Dr. Madden made sure that they weren't mixed up. The whole time Cat stayed in Sara's room (the other girl). It had been about an hour until Dr. Madden came back. He walked in, with both clipboards.

"Well I think you were right Cat. From the timetables for the blood work, both of yours were brought in the lab at the same time, and analyzed at the same time. From the results of the new tests, it shows that Cat is fine, and that you Sara have the problem. I wonder why we didn't check it before."

"You didn't think it was possible. But can I go home now. I am beginning to remember why I hate hospitals."

"Sure." Said Dr. Madden, who turned to leave, "I'll go and sign you out."

"I would like to thank you Catheren." Sara said "Now they will believe me when I say I am in pain."

"No problem really. And you can call me Cat. We should hang out sometime. When you are feeling better and are on medicine."

"I would like that, I will call you sometime." Sara said. Cat wrote down a number and said good-bye. She then walked to her room to find Ryan sitting in his usual chair.

"There you are." Ryan said. "The nurse told me you would have finished over and hour ago."

"Well they didn't, they ran some blood work again." Cat told him

"Did they find something different?" Ryan asked hopeful that she was going to be ok.

"No." Cat said as she headed to the closet and pulled out her clothes and started to put them on

"Then why are you getting dressed?" asked Ryan, not bothering to look away, he had seen all of it before when she would come over his house for him to clean and bandage her back and legs from the beatings that she had received that day.

"I am going home."

"They found out what was wrong with your blood." Ryan said

"No."

"So why would they send you home if they didn't know what was wrong with your blood work?"

"Well it wasn't my blood work, someone kept screwing up when ever they took the blood, they confused it with another girl my age."

"Oh, is that a good thing?"

"Yes, for her and for me. I get to go home and the girl wont be in as much pain once they figure out what is going on."

"So they girl is happy about it."

"Yes she is thrilled, oh if you get a call from a girl named Sara, it is the girl that my blood was mixed up with."

"Why would she call my house?"

"I gave her your number since I am not going to be at my house a lot."

"Why?"

"Well, I figured you were right, I shouldn't stay with my family if they aren't going to be nice to me. They aren't really my family, so why should I stay."

"You could stay with me for a while if you would like."

"Shouldn't you ask the Cohen's first."

"Yeah, but I talked to them last night metaphorically about what they would do if they were to adopt a kid, and abuse them, and if they were the kid then would they stay and they said no they would both leave, so if I tell them that it was you that I was talking about or that you are having a family fight then you could stay with us for a while."

"Ryan…"

"Don't worry they don't know it was you I was talking about they aren't that good yet."

"Well then I guess I have no choice, I would rather stay away from my family right now. The hospital is going to yell at them about the insurance and about what we told them about the different names and addresses."

"Might be smart to stay away."

"Yea, but then again I am stupid because I stayed with them this long."

"No you were just happy to be with, you said."

"Maybe, Maybe not you never can tell I could be lying, I have been known to do that when I want to, and you never can tell."

"True."

The doctor came in and told them that they could leave at any point now. Cat was all signed out and could leave. So they did. They got in the car and drove to the Cohen's. They talked about what they should tell them and Cat said to tell them the truth, that way it would be better.

They arrived and entered the house, Kristen, Sandy, and Seth all came into the living room to see what was going on. When they saw the girl standing there, they weren't sure who it was. Kristen and Sandy had only seen her when she was covered in blood and Seth hadn't seen her for awhile, she was much thinner, paler, and not asleep and more. They stared in stock.

"You all remember Cat." Ryan said to them. "Cat this is Kristen, Sandy, and Seth, or the Cohen's."

"Hi nice to see you again, you look a lot better." Kristen said to her.

"Thanks." Cat said

"Yea, good to see you up and about." Sandy said

"Hi again, you don't remember me much I bet, but I had come and talked to Ryan when you were in a comma, not that you met me or saw me, or…"Seth started to say before he was interrupted.

"I know I heard you."

"You heard me?"

"Yeah, lets just say medicine doesn't always work for me, I could hear you and Ryan talking but I couldn't talk or move for that matter."

"Sorry to interrupt the friendly talking but I was hoping that Cat and I could talk to you about something." Ryan said to Sandy and Kristen.

"Sure." Sandy said a little concerned in what they were doing to talk about. "Anyways Seth you are supposed to be getting the dinner from the pizza place. You like Pizza, Cat?" Cat nodded her head. "Seth here's some money get some drinks too." Sandy said

"Yea, sure send your only son into the scary world of pizza…" Sandy and Kristen gave him a look. "yeah I am going." Seth left to the SUV Ryan just drove home.

"What did you need to talk about?" Sandy asked

"I was wondering if Cat could stay here for a little while, until things settle down at her home."

"What's happening at her home?" Kristen asked

"Well, see the bill for the hospital is going to be huge because they had screwed up on some of blood work and made her stay for a longer time then she needed to be." Ryan said.

"What does that have to do with her it wasn't her fault." Kristen put in

"But you don't know my parents, they blame me for everything." Cat said

"I am still confused." Kristen said " But if she wouldn't mind sleeping in the pool house with you it would be fine. My sister might be coming back soon and you wouldn't want to be in the room with her."

"I don't mean to put you out. I could go home." Cat said

"No you wouldn't be putting us out, it's just we don't usually have more than one guest at a time and that means we are just used to Ryan, not to say that you aren't part of the family, Ryan, but usually we have the guest room and the pool house for more than one guest and now that Ryan lives in the pool house we lost one room. And I am making a fool out for myself, but if you don't mind sharing with Ryan or share with Ryan when my sister comes you can stay for as long as you want."

"That is not the only thing we were going to ask you about." Ryan said

"What was the other?"

"She might be here for awhile. Her family problems aren't just because of the bills, well it is but…" Ryan began

"My family is abusive toward me. I was the only one that was not their only child. They would end up taking me to the hospital usually everyday or at least ever other. They would always change my name. A new name and not the same hospital in a month was what usually was the case. We ended up telling the hospital I was just at about that because they saw all the scars from the other surgeries and from all the cuts I have received from them and everyone else that hates me, which is mostly everyone." Cat told them about her life and Ryan would help with some of the details to make it clearer, or answer the questions that the Cohen's asked him.

"So when you asked us about the adopted kid and if we would stay it was about Cat and the reason she stayed was because of you, Ryan."

"Yeah."

"We would be glad to keep you here as long as you need us to." Sandy said

"Thank you." Cat said

"Do you have any clothes that you would like us to pick up for you at your house." Kristen asked, seeing that Cat didn't have many clothes but the ones on her that were the ones that she was in the accident in.

"I do but I should get them. I have to say bye to my sister."

"You have a sister, I thought you only had a brother, David." Kristen said

"My sister is about 5 I haven't seen her in a while since I was in the hospital for over eight weeks but she, didn't go to the party since she was to young, she also goes to bed to early to have come."

"When do you want to pick up your clothes?"

"Tomorrow would be good, both of my parents are going to be seeing Eddie."

"Eddie?"

"Yeah, my oldest brother. He still lives in Chino."

"They know about him."

"Why?"

"He came to town to look for Teresa, last week, she had come and he kind of ruined the party, and threw me in the pool." Ryan said as he remember how much he hated Eddie at this point in time

"Yeah he can be jealous, just be happy that he didn't have his knife, or gun."

"Yeah I kind of am, but still he made me mad. Why didn't he have his knife or gun?"

"My mom made him promise that if he ever came to this town he wouldn't have any weapons on him."

"Here's the Pizza!" Seth called out as he entered the house.

"So tomorrow we are going to get your stuff and bring them here, right?" Kristen asked

"Yeah."

"Ok, do you want us to come with you?" Sandy said

"Only if you want." Cat said

"I am going to go, so if you want to you can but you don't have to." Ryan said

"I am going to go." Sandy said

"Ok,"

"So what did I miss while I was going for the Pizza?" Seth asked

"Cat is going to be staying with us for awhile." Kirsten said as she smiled at Cat. Cat smiled back. The first smile in a very long time.

End of Chapter

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