Author's notes: Yay! You people rock!

Violet Aiken: I totally agree. Hey, let's start a Fiona-hating C2 (sorry Chofrog09)!

Sassandra: Sorry! But I LOOOVVVVVEEEEEEE cliffies! This one has a major one.

Chofrog09: I think it's good for someone to have sympathy for the characters. I could not possibly do that, though. Like in Tom Sawyer (which I am now reading), I think he didn't get what he deserved. He did in Huck Finn (I read ahead), but he didn't learn anything from it! Anyway, I'm sorry I changed the subject. Thanks for the review!

IssyQ: You're welcome, and thanks for the review!

violetbooklover: What's the surprise? Thanks for the review!

coolgirl44: YAY POPCORN! YAY FIONA BASHING (once again, sorry to Chofrog09)!

Guy: COOL! ANOTHER FIONA HATING (AGAIN, sorry to Chofrog09)!

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Here's the chapter…

Chapter Five: Stating the Facts

It was now about 4:00 in the afternoon, and they still hadn't seen Klaus.

"What's taking so long?" Violet asked. She had woken up from her nap several hours earlier, and had been restless ever since.

"I don't know…" Quigley replied, hoping that it was for a good reason.

Suddenly, Duncan walked into the waiting room with Sunny.

"Duncan?" a puzzled Violet inquired. Quigley and Isadora purposely chose not to tell her about their suspicions.

"Umm… yeah." Duncan said, not sure how he would tell them about his findings.

"Hiquigdorvilet?" Sunny said (Hi Quigley, Isadora, and Violet. Any news on Klaus?)

"No," Isadora said meekly.

"I know who did this," whispered Duncan.

"Who?" Isadora asked.

"It was either Fernald or Fiona. Okay, so I found a lens from Fiona's glasses on the floor, and then Fiona came back. She tried to say that she saw you and Klaus kiss, and that her glasses broke on the way back to her brother. When she told her brother, he took her glasses and left for town to get them fixed. She claims that he's had her glasses the entire time. I'm not sure I believe her."

"Oh, Duncan," Isadora sobbed, "I'm sorry I was so angry. I guess I was so upset that I wanted to blame it on someone. I'm sorry it was you."

"I forgive you. I'm sorry, too," he said.

"For what?" Violet asked.

From behind her, Quigley made a slashing movement near his neck.

"Nothing," Isadora said quickly.

Then, the same doctor Quigley had spoken to earlier walked in the room towards him.

"You can see him now," the doctor said, "but in groups."

He led the first group- Violet, Quigley, and Sunny- past the elevator and through the winding halls to a room with a glass wall. Violet held her breath.

Klaus was lying on a bed with a metal frame. He was wearing a green and white hospital gown, and he was covered with a pale blue blanket. An IV line ran down to the back of his left hand. His entire body was bruised and had cuts and stitches on it. His eyes were closed, and Violet could see that his lips weren't quivering as they normally did when he slept. Other than that, he looked like he was sleeping. He had a high fever, too.

"Oh my…" Violet whispered when she caught her breath. She knelt by his bed and gripped his bruised hand. She rubbed it, as if that would make her younger brother wake up.

"He'll be okay, right?" Quigley asked the doctor standing in the doorway.

"As far as we know. We're sorry you had to wait so long to see him, but we wanted to make sure he was stable. You see, we didn't want to tell you this before, but at the moment his immune system is very weak. A common cold could put him on life support. Anything worse would probably kill him," the doctor said.

"His condition is that bad?" Quigley said, shocked.

"Yes. He had a concussion. That and appendicitis don't exactly go together very well. We were worried that he'd go into a state of shock from that and the loss of blood. He lost a lot of it. We just hope we gave him enough in the transfusion. I'm sorry; I tried to sugarcoat it earlier when we spoke because we didn't want to scare you. It was wrong of me."

"I guess… well, thank you for telling me." Quigley said. He walked over to Violet and Sunny, who was crying softly in a chair near the bed.

After about ten minutes, they walked out to the waiting room, where Duncan and Isadora tried to stay calm.

"Guys…" Quigley started.

"And girls," Violet added with a smile in spite of her tears.

"Well… I was talking with the doctor in there and…" He told them what the doctor had said. It caused Isadora to break down in tears, Sunny's cries to get seemingly louder, and Violets sobs to grow more.

"You want to see him, don't you?" Violet said.

Isadora and Duncan walked to the room, and Violet and Quigley walked to the cafeteria for some supper. But Violet could only pick at her food.

"It's all my fault…" she whimpered.

"No, it's not," Quigley said. "It wasn't anyone's fault. The appendicitis would have happened anyway, and the… well, attempted murder was just at a really bad time."

"I just know… if maybe I would have payed more attention when he said he didn't feel well, then maybe…"

"We were all at fault. He'll be fine."

Although, he wasn't sure. His suspicions were confirmed when he walked up the stairs.

"WHY? WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO HIM?"

It was Isadora shrieking. Doctors were running towards Klaus's room.

"Oh no…" Quigley said under his breath.

Author's Notes: NO! KLAUS! (gets as spazzy as Isadora). Will Klaus live? Will he die? The only way for you to find out is if you press the cute little button down there and REVIEW! Please?