Chapter 3

A/N: Again, I'm sorry about taking so long to update. My feelings have been hurt because of loss of review count…went down way low. So I haven't really been all that excited to update. But I thought that I better for my loyal readers. I love you all. Well…here you go.

Adrian was of course back at the hospital, holding Trudy's hand. In his opinion, she looked a lot better. She so longer had the large bandage on her head. But in it's place, there were about 28 stitches where a gash was on her forehead. And she was finally able to wear real clothes again. Adrian had Trudy's bag down on the floor next to his feet. He was impatiently waiting for the hour when Trudy was to come home.

"So, when you come home, we can finally take our walk in the park, okay?" Adrian said eagerly. He always looked forward to Sundays when the couple would casually stroll through the park hand in hand.

Trudy squeezed Adrian's hand in response.

"Adrian, have you not been listening? My nurse said that I should rest at home for a few days. We can go on Wednesday."

Adrian stared. "We can't do that. We have to do our walk on Sunday."

"Then I guess that we have to wait till next Sunday."

Adrian nodded. He had a nasty habit of blocking out things he didn't want to hear. He said, "That's okay. We can discuss this further when we take our walk tonight."

Trudy sighed, smiling all at the same time. "Now, Adrian. Please tell me what you did to your hands." She said, looking at the bandages.

Adrian immediately felt the tears come to his eyes. He was scared to tell anybody, for the fear of thinking he was crazy was evilly lurking in the back of his mind.

He took a deep breath. "I was washing my hands with…with…" He couldn't finish.

"Go on, Adrian. I wont be upset." She urged.

"I'm so sorry! I was just so scared. I know it's selfish…"

A new voice came into the room. "I caught him washing his hands in boiling water."

Adrian winced as Trudy gasped loudly. "Adrian!"

Adrian sighed. He may as well tell her what Dr. Kroger said to him. "Dr. Kroger said…my…condition has gotten worse."

Trudy sighed.

"I'm sorry." Adrian mumbled.

"No, it's not your fault." Trudy said, gently patting Adrian's scaled hands.

Adrian could only nod. Stottlemeyer left his post in the doorway and walked over to Trudy. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small bracelet. Trudy smiled and reached out her hand. Stottlemeyer dropped the jewelry into her outstretched hand. Adrian let her other hand free so she could put it on.

Suddenly Adrian cried out and quickly kissed his wife. "Thank you! Thank you!"

Trudy looked surprised. "What?"

"I know what happened. You forgot your bracelet inside the store. You took it off because it kept pinching you. So you turned around to go inside to get it, and the car blew up!" He said happily, giving Trudy another hug.

Trudy was used to Adrian solving anything before she could tell or before anybody else could. She nodded in response.

"No, all this excitement set aside, I have something I have to tell the both of you. Okay, due to the incident, Monk I want you to stay away from your office and stay with Trudy. I don't want any of you leaving your house. You will have a 24 hour guard on your house. And it is being checked right now. If you need anything, call me, and I will go get it for you. Understand?"

Trudy and Adrian stared at Leland blankly. Then they nodded.

"Leland?" Trudy asked.

"Mmm?"

"Why did the bomb go off before I even had a chance to get into it?"

"Well…I don't know…but…"

"It was a timed bomb or something." Adrian blurted out.

"Well whatever it was, I swear we will catch the man who did this. Then the two of you will be okay."

Adrian's eyes suddenly went wide again. He knew they weren't watching out for him. They were looking out for Trudy. He held on tighter to her hand as though he expected some stranger to burst thorough the door and steal his life and love away from him.

"What does he want with Trudy?"

Leland pretended to look surprised. "I don't know what you mean."

Adrian dropped Trudy's hand and stood up. "You know damn well what I mean! He's not after both of us! He's after my Trudy!"

Leland's expression changed. He knew that he couldn't tell a lie to his best friends.

"We suspect that he might be after Trudy."

Adrian looked at Trudy. She didn't seem all that worried about herself. Adrian was confused.

"Why!" Adrian asked He began to get weak. Everything was beginning to look foggy.

"Sit down, and I will tell you."

Adrian immediately sat down.

"Personally, I thought you would know. But I think he is trying to get to her to get to you."

Adrian understood. He wasn't going to argue. He looked at Trudy again. She still looked fearless. But there was a bit of worry in her eyes.

"Please catch him, Leland." Trudy pleaded. Stottlemeyer nodded.

"I promise I will get him. But it is time for us to go. I believe Randy has packed Trudy's stuff. Now let's go.

Adrian rushed to his wife to help her out of the hospital bed. She didn't need it much, though. Coming from out of the blue, Trudy's nurse rushed into the room with a wheelchair and insisted Trudy sat in it. Adrian eyed it, and Trudy was only allowed to sit in it only after Adrian inspected it.

Their home looked totally different. It was because of the many cars and vans parked in front of it. The yard was filled with people. The guards were blocking people of the press from going inside.

Stottlemeyer had to park 2 blocks away, and he was not very happy about it. He got out of the car and slammed it. Mumbling about how it was not good for Trudy to begin walking right away. Trudy didn't mind though. She was happy to walk. When they were finally in sight of their house, they were in sight of the press. They were immediately run at and bombarded with questions.

"Mrs. Monk? Who do you believe is out to kill you?"

"Mr. Monk? Is it true that a seven foot three armed man is after you?" That must have been tabloid.

Etc. etc.

The next voice was Captain Stottlemeyer's. "Will you all just shut up, go home and leave us alone? You're not supposed to be here!"

Still, the voices went on. Leland shoved his way thorough the crowd into the house. They all sighed in relief when they were all safe inside.

"Are they going to be out there all day?" Adrian asked as he helped his exhausted wife to the couch.

"No, they are not. As soon as I got, they go. The guards will not allow them to stay, and neither will I. So, I will leave now. Good bye."

"Bye." Adrian and Trudy said together.

Stottlemeyer quickly stepped outside and raised his arms for silence. Adrian and Trudy listened from inside.

"Okay, you parasites. You are not trespassing on private property," The cameras didn't lower. They continued to snap pictures.

Randy stepped up next to Stottlemeyer, loyally. Leland continued to threaten. "If I catch any of you back here, I swear I will shoot you for being a threat to the people inside. Now, get out."

The press reluctantly lowered their cameras and left the premises. Randy was looking smug as though he scared off the press.

Inside, Adrian and Trudy chuckled. Adrian got up and looked outside the window. Everyone was gone except the guards. Adrian walked over to his wife and sat down. He pulled the edge of the coffee table over to him and propped his legs up.

"Are you tired?"

Trudy smiled. It was her that always did this. But she nodded.

Adrian patted his legs, and Trudy scooted forward to place her head in his lap. Adrian lovingly stroked her hair until she fell asleep. He found that he didn't want to move, so he too, fell fast asleep.

A/N: Okay. I hope you enjoyed that chapter. It only took me today to type it. Please R&R…even you ones that are just lurking out there…I think I know you are there. Reviewing makes me happy, and makes me want to update more. For those of you that do review, thank you so much.:) Oh, and replies to your reviews are on my bio page, underneath the replies to Freddy 101. All you have to do is click my user name that is on the top of this page. Take care.