Kit had drawn a small audience when he unicycled around the sports field. Everyone knew he could unicycle but had never seen him do it before. Sportacus had joined the group also and deciding to test Kit's skill called for some apples from the airship and tossed them to Kit. With expert skill Kit juggled the apples whilst still riding his unicycle and drew applause. Kit's performance soon came to an end when his concentration was affected by a familiar man riding a motor bike into town with a strange hat on his head. With his concentration gone Kit fell off the unicycle.
Doctor Cole had seen Kit fall from his unicycle and dismounting his motor bike ran over to see if everything was ok. When he arrived at the scene he realised he needn't have rushed over, Kit was laughing hysterically. Everyone turned to look at the doctor and knew what the cause of Kit's laughter was. They struggled to contain laughter of their own.
"I'm sure you find this funny but I can assure you it's not. This stupid Cardinal's hat is super glued to my head." Doctor Cole snapped.
Stephanie swallowed her laughter and asked, "What happened? Why is it super glued?"
"I was doing rounds at the Crazytown safe house. They have their own doctors but I had to stand in and inspect the medium security patients. In the social room I was ambushed. They seemed to think I was Cardinal Bouchet, whoever he is, and that I'd lost my hat. That's what happened and why I have a cardinal's hat super glued to my head."
"That's terrible." Sportacus sympathised still battling his laughter.
Doctor Cole shook his head, "its better than the last time I got ambushed there. The last time they thought I was some kind of human sacrifice and tried to kill me by means of 'death of a thousand knives'. I was quite unharmed; they were using spoons to try to stab me."
"Aren't the medium security patients meant to be supervised?" Bessie asked.
"Yes they are. The man that took over from Doctor Cranium, god rest his soul, is a fool. He changed the rules and allowed medium security patients to roam free in their own area. Patrols run every half an hour now which is completely ridiculous. Things should very rightly be changed back to how they were under Doctor Cranium. If the stupid idiot that runs it now doesn't improve things and budget properly they're going to close the place down." Doctor Cole explained.
This little bit of information halted everyone's laughter. They all knew that if the Crazytown safe house got closed down it would mean that all of the patients would be released back into society. This included the maximum security patients and any number of them could make their way to Lazytown.
Seeing the worry he'd caused Doctor Cole put on his best reassuring face, "Procedures are being put into place to prevent it from happening. The board of directors at the Greentown hospital are meeting to discuss what is to happen. An injunction may be pushed through to prevent closing the place down and the hospital will take full control of the safe house. Doctor Hold who took over from Doctor Cranium will be fired and investigated."
Doctor Cole's attempt at reassurance worked and everyone calmed. There was still an edge of worry for some as it seemed that of late the Greentown hospital were taking on too many things at once.
Remembering what he'd come for Doctor Cole looked at Kit to assess this possible patient before heading over to see Robbie. After asking a few questions and giving Kit a cursory check over the Doctor was satisfied that the young man was fine. He then got up and walked to Robbie's house.
It wasn't long before Doctor Cole came running out of the house looking extremely harassed. Without a word to anyone the Doctor started up his motor bike and left. The Doctor's behaviour struck everyone as odd and no one was sure as to what could have prompted it.
Ché walked over to the crowd and it was obvious he'd been laughing.
"I take it that the Doctor has left?" Ché asked after giving Greta a quick hello kiss.
Robyn nodded. "What did daddy do to him?"
"Well, he laughed at him first of all and poor Doctor Cole couldn't get a word in. When Robbie managed to calm himself down Doctor Cole asked him how the new diet was going."
Kit smiled, "I bet he said not good."
"Something along those lines. It was only when he was told what he'd have for lunch that Robbie let him have it. I can't say I blame him, he's been given a specific menu for things he has to eat." Ché winced remembering Robbie's reaction.
At first Robbie had seemed calm and collected but in a split second he'd turned that around and had had some very un-gentlemanly words with the good doctor. Quite remarkably Doctor Cole had stood up for himself which only made things worse. Before storming out of the house Doctor Cole threatened to hand over Robbie's care to Doctor Palley but quickly realised he couldn't. He was the only one that knew Robbie had come back from the dead.
Robyn went back home to check on her father and Kit resumed his unicycling. Sportacus was half tempted to go with Robyn but assured himself that she could deal with Robbie on her own.
Kit quickly got back to juggling and doing numerous tricks on his unicycle. Unlike all the other clowns in the world he'd never performed under a big top and it had been something of a dream for him to do something like it one day. Now he had Robyn his dream had been pushed to the background. She was much more important and even though Kit was rather skilled for someone who had taught himself most of his tricks he wasn't a professional.
Everyone was startled when Doctor Cole came racing back into town on his motor bike and stopped dead outside of Robbie's house. No one laughed at him this time and knew that something bad was going on.
Within a minute of Doctor Cole arriving at the house another on call doctor arrived and ran into the house. The arrival of the second doctor was all that Kit needed to run back to the house to see what was happening. He emerged from the house thirty seconds later pulling Robyn out with him. She was struggling against him and was crying.
Concerned, everyone ran over to see what they could do. If Robyn was fine then it meant that the doctors were there to help Robbie.
Kit eventually managed to calm Robyn and took her off somewhere more quiet.
No one knew what to do or what had happened. It was only when the second doctor retuned that they couldget anexplanation. It wasn't long before the second doctor came out and looked at the small crowd gathered outside.
It was Doctor Palley.
"Robbie will be fine. He hyperventilated very badly as a result of his argument with Doctor Cole. Itlooked much worse than it wasand he'll be out of bed tomorrow. No one needs to worry," Doctor Palley explained.
Everyone nodded understanding what they'd been told. They all felt relieved. Things could have been much worse.
