It was evening when Hook and Chris finally made their way back upstairs from Hook's Kingdom. "Maybe Elmer's awake by now?" Chris said hopefully as they headed down the hall towards Elmer's room. Okay, so she didn't hear any noise coming from that way but maybe Elmer was just quietly basking in his father and Lona fussing over him. The Lona fussing part alone would probably be enough to shock Elmer into silence. Chris shook her head slightly as she thought of it. When Elmer was on the mend, she was really, really going to have to have a talk with her friend about Elmer. Maybe there was a bit of hope for him after all.

"I hope so." Hook said as he looked down at the chart, flipping through the newest test results in search of something. Nothing, though.
This thing just didn't make sense. Why in the world were the tests all coming up negative when something was so obviously not right?

"Louis?" Chris called softly as she pushed the door open. She felt herself smiling just a bit when she saw Lona, her head resting on Louis's shoulder, her eyes shut as she slept what was her first undrugged sleep since the day before.

"She finally couldn't stay awake any longer about thirty minutes ago." Louis said softly, careful not to make any more noise than he had to. He didn't want to risk waking Lona. She seriously needed the sleep.
"What did the tests show?"

"Not a thing." Hook said with a shake of his head as he moved around to Elmer's side, checking the readouts on the monitors and then Elmer's eyes. This just wasn't making sense. The test results were normal. Elmer's vitals were normal. Why wasn't he awake? There was absolutely no reason for him to still be unconscious.

"So, what do we do now?" Louis asked. He just didn't understand this either. Elmer looked absolutely fine to him and the longer he had had to think about it, not to mention a check of the wounds his son had suffered, the more he was convinced that Elmer's condition wasn't due to any sort of mistake on Hook's part. It would require a seriously major effort to goof up what amounted to cleaning out the wounds and putting stitches in, after all. "Hook, this just doesn't make any sense. Elmer shouldn't still be unconscious."

"I know. I can't figure it out either. I'm going to make some calls to a couple of friends of mine, see if they've ever seen anything like this before. He definitely shouldn't be in this condition." Hook said. He was getting more and more worried the longer that Elmer stayed like this. He had been hoping that by the time that he and Chris got back from their nap in Hook's Kingdom that Elmer would have woken up on his own but the had obviously not been that lucky. For him not to be responding like this, Hook was definitely worried that something serious could be wrong. "Louis, has he ever had anything like this happen before, an old head injury or something?" Hook wanted to ask about drugs but he couldn't think of a way to do that without totally setting Louis off once more.

"Or has he maybe had a friend that could have slipped him something sometime?" Chris asked. "There were some stupid kids when I was in school that pulled something like that, slipping things into their friends' drinks just to see what would happen."

Louis thought about that for a moment, his mind running back for something, anything. Surely there was something in the past that might explain this. After several minutes thought, he couldn't come up with anything, though. "Nothing. Elmer was always...." He paused as he thought of his son as a child. He knew he had made mistakes with Elmer,
hadn't spent nearly enough time with him, had always paid more attention to his brother instead but he was sure that he wouldn't have missed something that could result in a coma. "Elmer was always healthy when he was a child. No accidents or anything."

Well, that was yet another possible explanation out. Hook shook his head as he tried to think of what else he could try to do to figure out what the problem was. "We'll run another scan of his head in the morning"
he said after a moment. "See if there's any sort of change." Maybe there was some sort of small bleed going on, something that was just taking a bit to show? Hook knew that was likely a long shot though.

"Are you okay with Lona staying here again tonight?" Chris asked gently. "We can take her downstairs if you want." She knew that being able to be near Elmer would probably help Lona but at the same time she didn't want to pressure Louis if he wanted time alone with his son.

"She's fine and Elmer will want her here i... when he wakes up"
Louis firmly pushed what he had almost said away. His son was going to wake up and be fine. Elmer had to. And when he did, Louis made a promise to himself. No matter what it took, he was going to fix his relationship with Elmer. He would do whatever he had to to fix things. He looked down at the sleeping Lona for a moment as he thought. And he would do whatever he could to help his son win Lona's heart as well.