The next day, Bill knocked on the door to be greeted by Pam wearing the suit. "Bill, glad you're here, why don't you come in," she said. "You seem to be in a good mood."
"Boy, you guys won't believe this," said Bill with a chuckle on his voice. "Carlisle was beside himself when I presented him a report on Onyx and his men. That one guy, Dusty, even admitted to sideswiping the car. He was trying to kill you to make the Counselor suffer."
"What about Alexandrite and Pam," said Ralph as he entered the room with a cup of coffee. He was wearing a robe and a pair of pajamas. His arm was still in a sling.
"Well, Alexandrite had his change of heart when he realized that a lot of innocent people were going to be killed because Onyx was upset at the court system. A man was released on a technicality, but decided to turn sour again and robbed a store. Onyx's sister was in the store when the guy decided to have a standoff with the police. She was killed first when he started killing hostages. After his sister's murder, he sued the law firm and the state for negligence and lost. When Onyx's inside man told him about what was going down, Onyx ordered Alexandrite killed."
He cleared his throat before continuing, knowing this would not be easy to tell the two. "As far as the Counselor, Onyx blamed her personally because she was the creep's lawyer. He became more obsessed to exact revenge when he found out she became a junior partner. I found out today from Blake that had things gone down the way they planned, after Onyx had his way with Counselor he was going to kill the both of you. The bombs were going to be set off later in the evening when security was less intense. And, the lab found out that the virus was powerful enough to kill everyone in the state within hours."
Pam and Ralph looked at each other and shivered. "Good thing the suit let Pam wear it," said Ralph.
"Yeah, hate to admit it, but it was a good thing the Counselor had the jammies on," said Bill. "Did great work too. Now, why did the two of you ask me here?"
Ralph smiled and stood. "Well Bill, on my flight home, I noticed that my ribs didn't hurt anymore."
"That's great kid, must be that old 'Hinkley healing' something or other," said Bill.
"Well, we're not sure about that, we think it might be the suit," said Pam. When Bill opened his mouth to comment, Pam put a hand up. "Bill, I know what you're going to say, 'it can't be because it didn't work with Ralph wearing them.' But, now we think it couldn't help him when he wore it because it was an injury he had outside the suit's protection, sorta like when he hit the train with his head. His head wasn't protected, so the suit couldn't help him with his amnesia."
"And, as such, needed someone else to wear it to help me," said Ralph. "Last night, when Pam kept me from falling into the coffee table, she wrapped her hand around my ribs to steady me. When she did, I felt this tingling sensation in my ribs and it seemed the room was brighter. After that, I didn't feel any pain in them, even when I coughed or laughed. At first, we weren't sure if it was any lingering effects of the chloroform numbing the pain. Today, however, I still don't hurt, and there aren't any bruises from the impact"
Bill took in the information but still had his doubts. "All right, why don't you try it again, but this time, the shoulder."
Pam nodded and put her hand on Ralph's shoulder. When she did that, there was a warm orange-yellow glow, almost like a fire's glow, that came from the suit to her hand and encompassed the other's shoulder.
Once the glow faded, Ralph blinked and tested his arm, straightening it out to shoulder level. Bill and Pam looked at him questioningly and he smiled. "It feels great," said Ralph, "Look, I can wave my hand in the air and it doesn't hurt. Still will have to wear the sling for another week so there's no questions, but I don't have to wear it 24-7."
The two laughed at Ralph's expressions of wonder and joy, but then started to think about the suit. "Ralph, what about the jammies," asked Bill.
"Don't know," said Ralph, quieting down. "I basically said that the suit could be Pam's for the time for all it was worth. Maybe she has to do the same thing in order for me to wear them again."
"Well, Counselor, why don't you do that and everything will be back to normal," said Bill. When she didn't say anything, he frowned. "Come on Counselor, that's an order. You know that the green guys want Ralph to wear the jammies, and now that he's healed, he should have them back."
Pam leaned over to Ralph and whispered something in his ear. Ralph nodded and winked. Pam then stood and picked up Bill in a fireman's carry. "Counselor, what are you doing? Put me down," shouted Bill as Pam brought him outside. She took three steps and took flight with Bill over her shoulders.
Ralph watched from the ground and laughed at the site. After about three minutes, Pam landed and lowered Bill to the ground. "I've always wanted to do that if I had the jammies," said Pam to a grinning Ralph. "Thanks for letting me do that."
Bill, while laughing inside with the two, kept his face stern. "Well, now that the two of you had your fun, could you please give Ralph back the jammies," Bill pleaded.
Pam nodded and went inside to change. When she came out, she handed the suit to Ralph. "Ralph, the suit is yours for all its worth," she said with a smile. The suit again gave a slight glow and a moment later, Ralph was wearing them.
He looked down and smiled. "You know, for as much as I think this suit's messing up my life, I have to admit I missed them," he said.
"Well, now that you have the suit back kid, I have a scenario that will make Carlisle have kittens..." Bill started.
"Hold on there partner. I just got the suit back and I need to get used to it again. Why don't we go out and eat then we can talk about suit scenarios," said Ralph. "Or, do you want me to loan Pam the suit again?"
While Bill was pretty sure that Ralph couldn't just hand over the suit on a whim, he wasn't going to take his chances. "All right, you win. Where do you want to go?"
"How about that seafood place next to Pam's office," said Ralph heading back inside with the two. After Ralph put on his street clothes over the suit and, just in case someone saw him, sling, the three got inside Pam's VW beetle. They made sure they put on their seat belts and Pam put the car in gear, backing up. As they traveled down the road, they began sharing other stories about Pam wearing the suit, several causing the two men to laugh. The banter continued all the way to the restaurant. As they got out, Pam and Ralph looked at each other and smiled, knowing they shared more than the jammies for a while, they shared each others love.