Elmer held Lona cuddled into his arms, stopping to hold her tighter
as another pain hit and she buried her face against his shoulder as she
moaned. He shook his head slightly as he looked from Lona to the group.
"Hey, wait up!" He called before focusing his attention on Lona once more.
She just felt so fragile in his arms. He wasn't sure if some of that might be due to whatever Michael had done to help him carry her but it was frightening all the same. If anything happened to her or the baby.... The baby. There was another problem. He still couldn't recall much about those med school classes on pregnancy but he was pretty sure that with how close those pains were it meant that there was going to be a baby coming pretty soon. He shook his head slightly, hoping that Lona didn't notice the sudden panic washing over him. He certainly didn't remember the classes that covered delivering babies! He thought he might have had the flu during those lessons!
"Not doing any naughty things back here, are you?" the anteater suddenly appeared by his side from seemingly out of nowhere.
"You just have to keep mentioning that, don't you?" Elmer said as he glared down at Antubis before trying to start forward once more.
"Well, we could always talk about that he...."
"Naughty things are fine, naughty things are fine!" Elmer interrupted before Antubis could continue with what he was saying. How did that anteater know so much anyway?
"I have my sources," Antubis chuckled slightly at the expression on Elmer's face. Honestly, he hadn't had a chance to play with humans like this in ages. Mary was much too innocent although she honestly did know more than many of the people here, he would bet. And as for Peter.
Suddenly the anteater stopped, his snout going up into the air before lunging forward and sinking is teeth into the leg of Elmer's pants.
"Hey!" Elmer felt his grip on Lona starting to slip as he tried to pull away from Antubis. What was wrong with that thing? Did anteaters get rabies or... Suddenly there was a shudder, not of the ground this time but of the walls and ceiling and moment later a large pipe came crashing down right in front of them.
"Elmer?" Hook called as the group hurried back towards them.
After awhile working at Kingdom Hospital, the ground tremors weren't that much of a shock but wall and ceiling earthquakes now?
"I think Jesse just tried to cast a spell," Michael said with a shake of his head. "I just hope it wasn't a severing charm again. Flakey cringes every time he sees a first year now. A shame he's the first year charms teacher."
"Should he even be allowed a wand if things like this always happen when he uses it?" Natalie said as the stopped in front of the pipe. It was hanging diagonally across the hall with no space to squeeze under and definitely no way for Elmer to get over it while carrying Lona. What kind of hospital had her husband ended up being admitted to?
"There's a petition circulating to that effect." Michael said as he moved to inspect the pipe.
"Elmer, are you two alright?" Hook called again as he joined the ghost. They really didn't have time for delays but they just couldn't leave Elmer and Lona there to wait. Who knows if they would even be able to return for them.
"Ummm, we're fine, I think," Elmer stared down at Antubis in shock as the anteater nudged him over to the wall and motioned for him to sit.
He slid down the wall, holding Lona snuggled against him. The anteater had... had actually saved them! Well, maybe he wouldn't object too much to having to hear all the details of the naughty things they did in the morgue repeated to anyone in the area.
Antubis shook his head as he looked at the pipe. He honestly didn't know why the hospital had these things in their ceiling. Granted,
they made good hiding places for borrowed material but they were definitely too convenient for dropping on people. He reared up on his hind paws,
sinking his front claws into the metal.
Elmer watched for a moment before turning his attention back to Lona once more. She was still much to pale for his liking, her skin too cool to the touch. He struggled out of his lab coat and wrapped it around her as she let out another moan. "It's okay, it's going to be okay," he murmured as he held her tightly. There was so much they needed to talk about, the situation with the baby and what they were going to do about it but he was afraid to speak the words as if by talking about the future it would somehow jinx it.
Paul snuck a look from a doorway nearby, sneering at the sight of Elmer fussing over Lona. Honestly, how pathetic could you get? He's been rejected too many times to count and he just kept coming back for more.
Totally pathetic. And that baby... Babies, the only thing worse than them was that little pest, Mary. Looks like he hadn't disposed of the brat to be yet but that was something that could be corrected. And it would work even better now. He could get rid of the anteater too. They would never know what hit them
Something, Elmer didn't know what, caused him to look up just as Paul stepped into view, a glowing ball of energy growing in his hand. With a yell, he jerked Lona down completely onto the floor and fell on top of her as the memory of what happened in the sleep lab, of holding Lona lifeless in his arms washed over him. Elmer ducked his head down lower and closed his eyes for a second as he felt the blast of energy shooting over them. There was nothing that he wanted more that to hurt that boy, to make him sorry he had even thought about touching Lona and the baby but.... He shot a glance around the hallway but there was nowhere that they could go,
no escape route. He didn't care so much for himself but Lona and the baby... Please, please..."
Antubis roared as he dodged Paul's first blast, swerving around Elmer and Lona as he lunged forward, trying to sink his fangs into the boy's throat.
"Get off of me!" Paul shouted, struggling to push Antubis away.
With that blasted thing right on him, he couldn't focus enough to generate a second blast. Suddenly the anteater dropped down and with a smirk Paul's hand started to glow. Before he could even generate a small blast,
however, he was suddenly hit by the pipe as it came flying towards him,
knocking him down the hallway and out of sight.
"You know I really wish that boy was a student," Michael said with a shake of his head he looked down the way Paul had disappeared. "A lifetime detention cleaning up after the school unicorns would do him some good."
"Lona?" Elmer pulled himself off of her as soon as he felt it was safe, anxiously looking for any sign of injury. He felt vaguely that he had done something wrong in not trying to stop that boy himself, in not fighting back but.... His eyes suddenly widened as he caught sight of a pool of some sort of liquid beneath Lona. No, she couldn't be bleeding again. The little girl wasn't there and....
"Might want to remember to breathe," Antubis said as he came over,
sniffing at the liquid. "It's not blood. Looks like her waters just broke. You know, we might want to get a move on. You weren't wanting that baby born in the hallway, right?"
Lona moaned in pain as Elmer hastily pulled himself to his feet,
gathering her into his arms once more. Although she didn't understand how it was possible, the pain was worse now, almost blinding and she didn't have the energy to even speak as it slowly eased somewhat. Oh, this couldn't be happening. She couldn't be about to give birth in a hospital that burned over sixty years ago with.... She opened her eyes for a moment looking into Elmer's rather panicked face before stealing a glance at Christine and Hook. Surely someone here had an idea of what to do to deliver a baby!
"There's nothing to it," Antubis said as he glanced up at her.
"I've seen it lots of times."
Elmer didn't even want to think about that. Surely someone besides the anteater.... Just then he noticed something odd. "Hey, does anyone else smell smoke?"
"It's coming from down here!" Aubrey called as she cautiously moved down the corridor, stopping when she suddenly heard screaming. She darted over to the door the sounds seemed to be coming from and started to pull on it. "Come on! Hurry!"
"Hey, I thought we were supposed to prevent a fire, not stop one!"
Elmer called as he followed the others as best he could. Hadn't he heard something about smoke being bad for babies and mothers? "Shouldn't we go upstairs and get some fire extinguishers or something?"
"Hey, wait up!" He called before focusing his attention on Lona once more.
She just felt so fragile in his arms. He wasn't sure if some of that might be due to whatever Michael had done to help him carry her but it was frightening all the same. If anything happened to her or the baby.... The baby. There was another problem. He still couldn't recall much about those med school classes on pregnancy but he was pretty sure that with how close those pains were it meant that there was going to be a baby coming pretty soon. He shook his head slightly, hoping that Lona didn't notice the sudden panic washing over him. He certainly didn't remember the classes that covered delivering babies! He thought he might have had the flu during those lessons!
"Not doing any naughty things back here, are you?" the anteater suddenly appeared by his side from seemingly out of nowhere.
"You just have to keep mentioning that, don't you?" Elmer said as he glared down at Antubis before trying to start forward once more.
"Well, we could always talk about that he...."
"Naughty things are fine, naughty things are fine!" Elmer interrupted before Antubis could continue with what he was saying. How did that anteater know so much anyway?
"I have my sources," Antubis chuckled slightly at the expression on Elmer's face. Honestly, he hadn't had a chance to play with humans like this in ages. Mary was much too innocent although she honestly did know more than many of the people here, he would bet. And as for Peter.
Suddenly the anteater stopped, his snout going up into the air before lunging forward and sinking is teeth into the leg of Elmer's pants.
"Hey!" Elmer felt his grip on Lona starting to slip as he tried to pull away from Antubis. What was wrong with that thing? Did anteaters get rabies or... Suddenly there was a shudder, not of the ground this time but of the walls and ceiling and moment later a large pipe came crashing down right in front of them.
"Elmer?" Hook called as the group hurried back towards them.
After awhile working at Kingdom Hospital, the ground tremors weren't that much of a shock but wall and ceiling earthquakes now?
"I think Jesse just tried to cast a spell," Michael said with a shake of his head. "I just hope it wasn't a severing charm again. Flakey cringes every time he sees a first year now. A shame he's the first year charms teacher."
"Should he even be allowed a wand if things like this always happen when he uses it?" Natalie said as the stopped in front of the pipe. It was hanging diagonally across the hall with no space to squeeze under and definitely no way for Elmer to get over it while carrying Lona. What kind of hospital had her husband ended up being admitted to?
"There's a petition circulating to that effect." Michael said as he moved to inspect the pipe.
"Elmer, are you two alright?" Hook called again as he joined the ghost. They really didn't have time for delays but they just couldn't leave Elmer and Lona there to wait. Who knows if they would even be able to return for them.
"Ummm, we're fine, I think," Elmer stared down at Antubis in shock as the anteater nudged him over to the wall and motioned for him to sit.
He slid down the wall, holding Lona snuggled against him. The anteater had... had actually saved them! Well, maybe he wouldn't object too much to having to hear all the details of the naughty things they did in the morgue repeated to anyone in the area.
Antubis shook his head as he looked at the pipe. He honestly didn't know why the hospital had these things in their ceiling. Granted,
they made good hiding places for borrowed material but they were definitely too convenient for dropping on people. He reared up on his hind paws,
sinking his front claws into the metal.
Elmer watched for a moment before turning his attention back to Lona once more. She was still much to pale for his liking, her skin too cool to the touch. He struggled out of his lab coat and wrapped it around her as she let out another moan. "It's okay, it's going to be okay," he murmured as he held her tightly. There was so much they needed to talk about, the situation with the baby and what they were going to do about it but he was afraid to speak the words as if by talking about the future it would somehow jinx it.
Paul snuck a look from a doorway nearby, sneering at the sight of Elmer fussing over Lona. Honestly, how pathetic could you get? He's been rejected too many times to count and he just kept coming back for more.
Totally pathetic. And that baby... Babies, the only thing worse than them was that little pest, Mary. Looks like he hadn't disposed of the brat to be yet but that was something that could be corrected. And it would work even better now. He could get rid of the anteater too. They would never know what hit them
Something, Elmer didn't know what, caused him to look up just as Paul stepped into view, a glowing ball of energy growing in his hand. With a yell, he jerked Lona down completely onto the floor and fell on top of her as the memory of what happened in the sleep lab, of holding Lona lifeless in his arms washed over him. Elmer ducked his head down lower and closed his eyes for a second as he felt the blast of energy shooting over them. There was nothing that he wanted more that to hurt that boy, to make him sorry he had even thought about touching Lona and the baby but.... He shot a glance around the hallway but there was nowhere that they could go,
no escape route. He didn't care so much for himself but Lona and the baby... Please, please..."
Antubis roared as he dodged Paul's first blast, swerving around Elmer and Lona as he lunged forward, trying to sink his fangs into the boy's throat.
"Get off of me!" Paul shouted, struggling to push Antubis away.
With that blasted thing right on him, he couldn't focus enough to generate a second blast. Suddenly the anteater dropped down and with a smirk Paul's hand started to glow. Before he could even generate a small blast,
however, he was suddenly hit by the pipe as it came flying towards him,
knocking him down the hallway and out of sight.
"You know I really wish that boy was a student," Michael said with a shake of his head he looked down the way Paul had disappeared. "A lifetime detention cleaning up after the school unicorns would do him some good."
"Lona?" Elmer pulled himself off of her as soon as he felt it was safe, anxiously looking for any sign of injury. He felt vaguely that he had done something wrong in not trying to stop that boy himself, in not fighting back but.... His eyes suddenly widened as he caught sight of a pool of some sort of liquid beneath Lona. No, she couldn't be bleeding again. The little girl wasn't there and....
"Might want to remember to breathe," Antubis said as he came over,
sniffing at the liquid. "It's not blood. Looks like her waters just broke. You know, we might want to get a move on. You weren't wanting that baby born in the hallway, right?"
Lona moaned in pain as Elmer hastily pulled himself to his feet,
gathering her into his arms once more. Although she didn't understand how it was possible, the pain was worse now, almost blinding and she didn't have the energy to even speak as it slowly eased somewhat. Oh, this couldn't be happening. She couldn't be about to give birth in a hospital that burned over sixty years ago with.... She opened her eyes for a moment looking into Elmer's rather panicked face before stealing a glance at Christine and Hook. Surely someone here had an idea of what to do to deliver a baby!
"There's nothing to it," Antubis said as he glanced up at her.
"I've seen it lots of times."
Elmer didn't even want to think about that. Surely someone besides the anteater.... Just then he noticed something odd. "Hey, does anyone else smell smoke?"
"It's coming from down here!" Aubrey called as she cautiously moved down the corridor, stopping when she suddenly heard screaming. She darted over to the door the sounds seemed to be coming from and started to pull on it. "Come on! Hurry!"
"Hey, I thought we were supposed to prevent a fire, not stop one!"
Elmer called as he followed the others as best he could. Hadn't he heard something about smoke being bad for babies and mothers? "Shouldn't we go upstairs and get some fire extinguishers or something?"