Chapter 2
Doctor Ramoray walked out into the waiting room to face the expectant crowd gathered there. "How is she?" Marlena said jumping up. Everyone crowded around the doctor at once. "She came through the surgery fine, as far as we can tell. However there could be some complications." "What complications, doctor?" Roman asked. "Well" he said, "There's severe damage to her vocal chords, and it's almost a certainty that she won't be able to talk. Whether or not that will be permanent remains to be seen. There is the possibility of brain damage as well. She lost 8 units of blood and that caused a lack of oxygen to her brain. We're also facing the possibility that she may be paralyzed. "Oh my God." Gasped Marlena. John reached out to steady her. "Can her mother and I see her?" Roman asked. "Yes but only you two and only for a few minutes." Doctor Ramoray said. "Sami needs her rest now more than anything." As Roman and Marlena went with the nurse to Sami's room, Dr. Ramoray took John aside. "Mr. Black, I'd like to see you in my office for a moment please." He said to John. "There's something I'd like to show you." "Sure thing Doc." John said and followed the doctor from the room. Tony and Lucas both noticed John's departure with Sami's doctor. "I wonder what that was about." Lucas said. "Yes." Said Tony, "So do I."
"I know something of your history Mr. Black and that's why I asked you back here." Dr. Ramoray said to John. John raised his eyebrow in question but said nothing, as the doctor unlocked his drawer and took out a small plastic bag. "I found something when I opened up the back of Samantha's neck, and I was wondering if you might be able to tell me what it is." He said. He handed the small metal piece to John and watched him for some reaction. John held the piece up to the light and examined it for some time before looking at Dr. Ramoray. "You said you took this out of Sami's neck." John asked. "The back of her neck to be more precise." The doctor answered. "It was right at the base of her skull. Do you have any clue what it might be?" "I think I have a pretty good idea, but I'll need to send it to a special lab to be sure." "Might I ask what it is?" Dr. Ramoray said and continued, when he saw Johns hesitant look. "The reason I ask is that I want to be sure that I haven't endangered her by removing it." John nodded and said. "As I said before I'll need to send it to a lab for testing, before I can say for certain what it is. But I think what we have here is a microchip. And as far as endangering her life, well, I think by removing it you might just have saved her." "A microchip?" Dr. Ramoray said in surprise. "Who on earth would have put a microchip into that young girl's neck?" "Oh, " John said raising his eyebrow and looking at the chip. "I think I have a pretty good idea who did it."