Chapter 11: What a touch can bring.

Connor awoke.

            Angel watched the boy snuggling up in his arms with tender eyes. If he could melt, well he couldn't so whatever, but he could turn to dust and he never thought it was a good idea but right now he knew how it felt to have the heart pierced and taken by a warm breeze. He raved briefly that those footsteps approaching was his heart coming back to life, the heat of that body burning his skin like his blood would boil in his veins.

Doctors came running in Angel's direction. Face to face with their boss, well not really face to face since Angel was on the ground, they had that nervous look dogs have when they've peed somewhere and are about to be punished. Angel just watched them his gaze unreadable. A doctor volunteered and approached Connor to check if he was okay. Angel just didn't notice he was squeezing tighter as the doctor tried to touch the boy.

- "Quite a come back he made!" the doctor said "We were a little taken by surprise"

At these words Angel let the doctor approached Connor and back to his normal mode asked what happened 

- "Well, he woke up. Don't know how but when we went to his room he was gone. We heard a 'bang!' and here he's with you. Well I guess that means he's better" the doctor continued, he got up and writing things on his pad he said "Yeah, he doesn't seem to be hurt but we'll make test. How curious this is?" he turned back and walked away making place to the medical staff to return Connor to his bed. Angel followed them closely, they could drop him and right now wasn't really the best time for the kid to fall hard on the ground, well not that there was an appropriate moment for that anyway.

Angel was gently supervising the doctors when his phone rang.

- "What do you mean attacked!!?" a long moment followed that question before Angel spoke again "Im on my way, block all the doors!" Angel put his phone back in his pocket with a gesture well known when he heard gasps coming from Connor's room. Something was wrong he could tell, and he was a vampire so he could tell. He hurried toward Connor's room when he saw Connor pressed again a corner of the room like he was trying to pass through it. Angel approached him slowly a hand front of him like for reinsure an animal afraid.

- "Connor, you're up. What's wrong?" he said calmly.

Connor didn't watch him but whispered between rough gasps "They're not human. They're not…are they?" and with a trembling voice "I don't…I want to go home" he began to sob silently. Angel frowned filled with concern and pain, he finally took his eyes at what Connor was watching all along and just saw the three or four doctors' backs. They were fussing over radios and notes. Angel made his eyes flown to Connor and the doctors twice or so then fixed his look on Connor and tried to attract the boy's attention on him. He could see his kid was really troubled near hysteria and whatever made him think he could be a soothing value for the sobbing boy was a new strength.

- "Connor, what are you talking about? You're at the hospital. Do you remember? You were badly hurt? They're here to take care of you."

Connor finally looked into Angel's eyes, full of fear and resolution.

- "It's not a hospital…it's a grave." The door suddenly shut with a hard noise echoing through the empty room like in a church. Connor jumped his eyes wide and shining with tears. Angel watched the doors and followed Connor's eyes to the doctors.

The doctors turned back facing Angel and Connor. But they weren't quite like before, well if they were Angel would've never let them take care of his son. They looked like zombies, dead and rotten but yet still moving and talking. They're greenish skin were suppurating on their clean white coats. One of them took a step toward Connor and taking up a really big syringe.

- "I think he needs a lobotomy" he said evilly.

Connor looked him terrified and just sobbed stronger. He collapsed on the ground and curled up there keeping his arms around his knees protectively. Another zombie came near the first a stick in his hand, he took it up threateningly.

- "You don't like needles? Should think about it, my dart is bigger so it'd be just more painful"

Angel just watched furious by those remarks and by Connor's so unexpected breakdown. He rushed to the perfusion's metal bar and hit the two doctors with it sending them flying against the lightning board. The two others ran toward Angel but quickly joined their colleagues on the ground.

- "Like marshmallow" Angel said heroically. He ran to Connor and grabbed his arms lifting him from the ground. Connor stayed unresponsive so after putting him on his feet Angel dragged him out of the room. Angel used the metal bar to block the door. Connor froze, front of them dozens of zombies were standing in the corridors. All the medical staff and Angel could see some of the patients getting out of their beds and rooms slowly and groaning. Angel ran toward the room front of Connor's, he pulled Connor toughly behind him. The patient of that room was blocking the way so without management Angel crushed into him almost breaking the living dead in thousand pieces. Suddenly Angel felt a resistance in his right arm, he looked and saw a zombie nurse pulling Connor's other arm painfully, he grabbed her wrist and with a grimace at her ugly face which was trying to be seductive snapped her wrist. She screamed as her bones broke. Angel got back to his course still pulling Connor who was pale and badly shaken. Angel went right to the window, he got the fact that Connor was really reluctant when the weight he was pulling doubled as the kid tried to stop that man to throw them both through the window.

The window shattered and they crashed on the ground with a hard thud. Angel had managed for Connor to land on his rougher body, well they had just fallen through three stories. Connor had passed out so it's on Angel's shoulder he made the way to the car. Angel watched a minute the hospital for any sign of pursuers but he saw none. He started the car when his phone rang again. He looked at Connor sleeping not really peacefully on the seat next to him and drove to W&H.

A/N: Thanx for the reviews :D Hopes that answers the dream or not questions ;) I can't believe how a chapter so small took me so much time!