"Excuse me," Jesse said as he poked his head back into the room once more. "But I really need to take Mona back to her mother now. She's wanting to take her home and the word lawsuit...." He barely suppressed a shiver at that word, his eyes falling on the ass. Hey, there was a potentially good thing. If Stegman remained an ass, it would lower the hospital's legal liability costs substantially and without the messy business of firing him either. He would have to talk to his aunt right away about arranging that. First things first, though. Returning Mona to her mother. He crossed the room to where the little girl was sitting and reached out his hand to take hers. He still couldn't quite believe that the child was totally normal and expected her to let him passively lead her away.

Mona squirmed backwards, shivering slightly as she passed through the bodies of the ghosts in her attempt to get away from Dr. James. Okay,
she did want to see her mom and let her know that she was alright but she certainly didn't want to go anywhere with this idiot. The last time she had been taken somewhere by an idiot doctor... She suddenly recalled the wand and swished it in Jesse's direction as he moved towards her.

"Well, that might make tomorrow's staff meeting a little interesting." Hook said as he looked down at the chicken that had formerly been the hospital administrator.

"Entirely his fault. You should have known better." Eleanor said as she glared down at the chicken. "She had already turned one of your doctors into an ass. Did you think she wouldn't do the same thing to you if you startled her? Well, you'll just have to remain a chicken until Monday when the transfiguration teachers return. I hope he wasn't needed for anything before then."

"I think we can get along without him." Hook said with a laugh.
He knew that his morale was starting to soar already.

Just then they heard a voice in the hallway. "Mona? Mona,
sweetie, where are you? Baby, come out! I'm here to take you home!"

"Eleanor," Michael said urgently. "Mona has the second bell and.
She has been able to use it right?"

"She and Mary hit Doctor Gottreich with the bells and he just crumpled into dust." Sally replied. "What are those bells?"

"Very complicated to explain but if Mona can use it, then...."
Michael started to say but then stopped as they heard footsteps drawing closer.

"I'll be more than happy to explain things to Mona's mother."
Antubis said as he moved away from Lona's bedside and started towards the door.

"No, you won't. You'll tell her too much and scare her. Stay right there!" Mary ordered him, just as the door came open and Renee came stalking in. "Mona? Dr. James if you don't produce my daughter right now...." Just then she stopped in surprise when she saw the chicken and ass. "Why is there livestock in the basement?"

"They work here." Mary told her as she stepped forward with Mona right behind her.

"They...." What sort of nutty hospital had her daughter been admitted too. Just then Renee spotted Mona. "Baby, there you are! I've been so worried about you! Mommy's here to take you home where you belong!
What in the world are you doing down here and where did you get that filthy looking bell?"

"That's a fifteen hundred year old family heirloom, not a filthy bell." Lucretzia said as she stood,. She knew that Michael wouldn't say anything but there was no way that she was going to let someone get away with calling one of her best friend's family heirlooms a filthy bell. So what if it could use a bit of a shining?

"Who are..." Renee started to say but stopped in shock when she realized that the woman who had just reproved her was more than a bit unusual. Renee could almost see through her and her clothing seemed to be slipping through various decades of fashion with alarming frequency.
And there were other wierd things that she was noticing now as she started to look around the room. There was another man, one she could also almost see through and.... The little girl that her daughter was standing next to certainly wasn't dressed in any fashion that a modern child would wear. And the ass and the chicken....

"Mona, sweetie, come to Mommy and we're going to go home now."
Renee said as she motioned for her daughter to come to her, backing towards the door as she did so.

"I don't think that's such a good idea right now." Mary said. Oh,
this wasn't going well at all and she could see that Antubis was getting ready to add his two cents to the matter as well. "Mona, maybe you better show your mother what you can do now. She might understand if she can see it."

Mona nodded, raising the wand and looking for a likely target. It probably would be best if she didn't change her mother into something. She would be grounded forever if she did that and then how would she take witch lessons?

"Hey, they're getting the halls fixed! I've really got to knock off now and...." As Johnny B. Goode appeared in the doorway, Mona swished the wand. A moment later, she clapped her hands in delight as she scurried over and picked up the frog. Finally a frog!

"Mona?" Renee stared down at the frog in her daughter's hands in shock not quite able to believe what she had just seen. How.
'I would be happy to explain all about that.' Antubis said as he stood once more.

What in the.... Renee's eyes widened as she spotted the anteater.
Her legs buckled and she screamed as she crumpled to the ground in a dead faint.

"Well, at least we won't have to hear Jesse saying that we could be sued for that." Chris whispered to Hook.