Chapter 3
John paced the penthouse, waiting for the call from the ISA. It had been two days since Sami's accident and he had asked Shane to rush an examination of the chip, that the doctor had pulled out of her neck. Marlena came downstairs, looking as though she hadn't slept at all. He turned to her concerned. "Did you get any sleep, Doc?" He asked her. "Not much, I'm just so worried about Sami." Marlena said. John came over and put his arms around her. "She's a fighter, Doc!" he said. "She'll be alright." Marlena pulled out of his embrace and looked up at him. "I know that John. But it's been three days and she still hasn't woken up!" Just then John's cell phone rang and he picked it up immediately. "Yeah?" He said. "John, It's Shane." John's ISA contact said on the other end. John covered the mouthpiece and looked at Marlena. "I'm sorry, Doc." He said, "I gotta take this." "Yes of course. I'll be in the bedroom." Marlena said and walked away, leaving John in privacy. "Ok Shane, what do you got?" "Well, it's really very strange, actually." Shane said. "Strange?" John asked "Strange how?" "Well," Shane said. "What the doctor pulled out of Sami was indeed a microchip. However I'm not convinced that it was a Dimera that put it there." John was puzzled and asked "Why not?" "Because the information that we obtained from the chip indicates that it wasn't planted there to create any type of impulse or memory in Sami, as was the case with Hope and with you." Shane answered. "Well, if the chip wasn't in there to control Sami, then what the hell was it doing?" John asked, getting irritated at Shane's giving him the runaround. "Well now, I didn't say it wasn't in there to control Sami." Shane said. "In fact, it was controlling her. However, as I said, it wasn't creating impulses or memories in her. Rather, it was repressing them." John was about to say something when Marlena came running down the stairs. "John." She cried. "We have to get to the hospital right away. It's Sami, something's happened!"