♥ Secrets to Hide ♥
Chapter 15 – Just What the Doctor Has Been Looking For
ADJL-Freakazoid
"Fu, are you sure this is going to work?" Jake asked, holding the tube with the potion. He looked at it as if it was poison that he was puzzlingly staring at.
"I'm sure, kid. It's the only thing that'll cure your friend." Fu said.
"Well then, we better get going then." Kellen suggested, getting up.
"Yeah, thanks Gramps! Thanks Fu!" Jake called out with a wave, closing the door.
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Later on, Jake and Kellen had finally made their way back to the hospital.
They went up the elevator up to the twenty-third floor and made their way through the quiet, ominous hospital.
Somehow, it was strangely quiet…
There were no running nurses… beeping sounds from—even machines—were faint… there was no one outside the hallway, not even a visitor… all there was there a shadow…
Jake gave an awkward stare and the shadow went away.
He and Kellen shrugged and kept walking, looking around as they went…
They couldn't help but wonder if something strange was going on in the hospital…
Finally, they reached the area where Cat was…
As Jake was about to open the door to the intensive care room, he felt a sudden touch on his shoulder and shrieked.
He turned around and saw that it was just Kellen, giving a laugh. Jake sighed and maintained his composure.
"Hey dude, it's just me."
"Haha, don't ever scare me like that again!"
"Whatever you say…"
Kellen rolled his eyes, a smirking smile in his face. Jake chuckled nervously and shrugged.
The two laughed it off for another second and opened the door.
When Jake and Kellen looked around and saw something unusual. Cat was actually awake… but she seemed too dizzy to pay close attention to the faces that approached her bedside.
"Um, Cat? Are you okay?" Kellen asked.
"I don't know… At one moment, I wake up bleakly and find my mom and dad by my bedside, talking. Then when I try to say something, I suddenly fall asleep while in the middle of their conversation… hearing the doctor saying that I have this… coma or something… But then, I woke up again and they were gone. A doctor never came to my room to check on me since a few minutes before I strangely went to sleep," explained the confused Cat.
"I think something's up with this hospital." Jake said.
"Yeah, but what?" Kel asked.
"I don't know… but I think this isn't even a hospital at all." Cat thought out loud.
"Maybe not." Jake pondered.
Suddenly, a doctor finally came back to the room.
"Erm, Catherine, right?" asked the man.
Cat nodded nervously.
He also turned at Jake and Kellen with a slight frown.
"I'm sorry. Guests aren't aloud at this time." He said.
"Right, we're sorry… we'll just… uh, be right outside." Kellen said, nervously clutching Jake by the hand and dragging both of them out of the door.
"I swear, dude, something is going on in there!" He then said.
"We got to find out!" Jake said.
Kellen slowly opened the door and peeked at the tiny gap.
Cat gulped, staring at the doctor with a nervous look.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Um, yes." Cat replied, shakily.
"Are you sure? You don't seem okay." The doctor said.
"Really, I'm… I'm… I'm okay." She stammered, sinking on her bed.
"Well then," he paused and stared at a clipboard, "Catherine… I have told your parents that you must stay in the hospital for at least a day or two… any problems?" He asked, with a somehow evil look on his face.
Cat had obviously noticed. She turned away and put her head on her pillow.
"What are you doing here anyway?" She asked, panicking.
"I'm a doctor, dear little Catherine. I'm here to help you…" The doctor said.
"Then why does it seem like that you're not helping me?" Cat asked, turning around and facing him with a glare.
"Maybe I am… Maybe a way to help you get through this coma I promised your family!" He said.
"NO! What are you going to do to me?" Cat yelped.
"Oh, this will hurt only for a second…" smirked the doctor.
Kellen couldn't believe his eyes…
"JAKE!" He gasped, grasping Jake by his sweater and peeping his head in the room.
"Oh no!" Jake said.
There, lying in her bed, was Cat… No longer conscious again…
"HEY! What are you two doing here?" asked the doctor angrily.
Jake and Kellen immediately pulled back from behind the outside.
"What are we going to do now?" panicked Jake.
"I know one thing…" Kel said, pointing at the evil glaring doctor.
"RUN!"
Kellen and Jake ran as fast they could and hid behind a second hallway going down to another place.
"Aw man, what about Cat?" Kel asked.
"I don't know. We have to find a way to get her and us out of here!" Jake replied.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" yelled the voice of the doctor running after them.
The two startled and ran out again.
When the coast was clear, Kel pushed a button for an elevator and the two scurried inside.
Closing the door quickly, the two breathed a sigh of relief.
"Now we got to think up of a plan. Cat might be in real danger there." Kellen said with worry.