Chapter 2 – More Details

The noise attracts some hospital personnel. "What are you kids doing in here?" gruffly asks an orderly barging into the room. Lisa quickly closes the file and shoves it back on the shelf replying meekly "Uh……nothing….."

"Well beat it! This area is restricted!"

"We were just looking for the cafeteria." squirmed Bart.

"Does 'RECORDS' suddenly mean 'CAFETERIA'?" barked the orderly.

"We thought it was music records - you know - like they play over the intercom. So we thought we were near the caftereia" Lisa added. "Then we got scared cause it's so dark in here."

"Get out and don't let me catch you around this area again! Turn right when you leave this room – walk 4 aisles then turn left, walk 2 more aisles and another left and the cafeteria is the first room on the right."

"Uhhh….well….thanks." stammered Lisa, hastily pulling Bart along.

The orderly watches them walk away then leaves the room and locks it.

"C'mon, Lise, now let's go have lunch!" says Bart.

"How can you think of eating now?" asks Lisa with a forlorn look on her face.

"Why? What's the matter with you?" queries her brother.

"You know what I read in that file?"

"Yeah. About mom getting' it on with a syringe."

"Well do you know what was in that syringe?"

Bart starts to get a disgusted look on his face. "Well maybe 'I' don't want to know."

"It boils down to the fact that maybe dad isn't really MY 'dad'."

"Cool….. HALF-sister!"

"Shhhhh….we can't let him find out. He'd go crazy. Maybe even more than usual and heaven help the poor man that donated."

"Did you see who it was?" anxiously asked Bart.

"Heh….heh…yeah…." Lisa trailed off.

"Wellllllll……?"

Lisa again whispers in Bart's ear and he begins to shriek anew.

"Oh, Lise….I feel so bad for you!" exclaimed Bart after calming down a bit

"Well, it would explain a lot." his sister theorizes.

"But dad already showed you, the Simpson women are OK in the brains department. It's the men that become zombies."

"Well, either way, I think mom owes me an explanation, but not while dad is around. I'll have to wait for the right moment"

The children manage to find their way back to the emergency room.

"Did you have a nice lunch?" asks Marge.

The kids hand back the money to her. "No, we couldn't find the cafeteria." explains Lisa.

"We'll stop at the Krusty Burger on the way home. You father should be almost done now."

A few minutes later Homer and Dr. Hibbert return. Homer is sporting a new plaster cast on his injured appendage.

"Now Marge, just keep Homer from trying to use that thumb and come back in three weeks and I'll remove it. It's what in medical terns is known as a greenstick fracture. The bone is just partially broken….kind of like splintered like a green twig." explains Hibbert. "It should be good as new by then." He chuckles.

"Thank you doctor." says Marge as she herds the family towards the exit.

(to be continued)