Kit sat on Robyn's bedside and talked to her. He'd read somewhere that talking to coma patients could help them, he also guessed she needed some company. Talking to her also helped him, he'd missed her and the fear that she'd never wake up haunted him constantly. Being here and seeing that she was alive reassured him. She was somewhere in that mind of hers and he hoped that the sound of his voice might guide her out. He longed to see those sky blue eyes light up when they saw him and those luscious lips to smile at him. He missed her smile, he loved the way it wrinkled her nose and made her whole face light up.
"You know, you're a terrible conversationalist. I never took you for the strong silent type." Kit smiled trying to keep his spirits up.
"Neither did I." A voice replied.
Kit looked round and saw Robbie walking towards him, "I wondered where you'd got to. The last thing I expected was to find the room empty."
"I went to take a shower."
Smiling slightly Kit leaned over and sniffed Robbie, "I can tell. You smell a lot fresher than you did yesterday. I know you're dead but do you really have to smell like it?"
Robbie stared at Kit with a look of mock outrage before slapping him on the arm. He slapped him again when Kit just laughed. Before he knew it a 'girly slap fight' had broken out. There was no clear winner or loser and the fight came to an abrupt halt when the two combatants heard someone clear their throat. Both looked in the direction of the sound and they saw Doctor Cole leaning against the door.
When he'd been noticed Doctor Cole came fully into the room and shook his head, "I really don't get you two sometimes. Here you are in a hospital sitting on the same bed where your daughter or fiancée, respectively, is in a coma and you're messing around."
"We've got to find some way to keep our spirits up Doc. Look at him, he's not been this happy in ages." Kit said pointing at Robbie.
"Yes, well. I suppose I can't expect you to do nothing more than mope around but be careful of the machines, it won't do to have them compromised. I'll get an extra chair in here and you can continue your hanky flapping at a safe distance from the bed."
This said Doctor Cole left the room and two very confused looking men. He walked down the corridor in search of a spare chair. As a result of the hospital enforcing its one visitor per patient rule all spare chairs had been hidden and hidden well. Inspiration struck him and he headed back the way he had come to the staff room, there were lots of chairs in there and he was sure no one would notice if one or two went missing. About a minute later he was standing outside the door which was locked to bar access to any unauthorised guests. Luckily for him he had been reinstated as a member of the board and could go anywhere he liked.
Pulling his key chain from his pocket he flicked through his substantial collection of keys trying to find the right one. Having access to every single locked door in the hospital had its advantages but the disadvantage of it was walking around with a pocket that looked like a stuffed porcupine. Finding the right key was also time consuming and it took a lot of patience. Unfortunately patience wasn't what the doctor had a lot of right now, he was tired. He was about to give up when a hand on his shoulder made him jump.
Whirling round he came face to face with the nurse he'd kicked out of Robyn's room earlier. He'd not really been listening when she'd told him her name and he struggled to remember it. He was quite surprised when the nurse took his keys from his hands but his confusion soon passed when she flicked through the collection and found the key he needed. Before she handed the keys back to him she even went to the bother of unlocking the door for him. He nodded his thanks and walked past her into the room. When he heard the door close behind him he thought nothing of it but when the sound of someone locking the door reached his ears fear gripped him.
Forgetting his mission to find a chair he ran to the door and tried to open it. It had been locked from the outside and he couldn't find the right key to unlock it. The more he panicked the more his hands became sweaty and he couldn't grip his keys. They kept slipping from his hands as he tried frantically to remember which key the nurse had used. With his memory working against him he decided to bang on the door until someone came to let him out. Raising both his hands he was about to land both of them on the door when someone startled him by calling his name, turning round he saw just who he was stuck in the room with.
Robbie stuck his head out of the door and tried to spot Doctor Cole. He had no idea what was taking him so long and was beginning to get a little impatient. Kit was quite happy sitting on the bed which stilled his impatience slightly but he also wanted to ask the doctor about Robyn. He had half a mind to search for the doctor and a chair himself when a nurse passed by, he recognised her as the nurse that had been in the room earlier and he went after her.
"I was wondering if you could help me." Robbie asked when he caught up with the nurse at the nurses' station.
The nurse turned to look at him and smiled, "That's what I'm here for. You look a lot better Mr Rotten. If I didn't give you my name already it's Ellen. How can I help you?"
"This might sound silly but we've lost Doctor Cole. He went to go and find an extra chair for the room but he hasn't come back yet. Do you know if anyone's seen him?"
"I saw him earlier but not recently. I can page him for you if you like; wherever he is he's sure to respond."
"That would be a great help, thank you."
Ellen nodded and picked up the receiver of the nurses' station phone. Pressing down a button she spoke into it, "Doctor Cole to the nurses' station please, that's Doctor Cole to the neurosurgery department nurses' station. Thank you."
Doctor Cole looked deeply into the eyes of the man standing just a few feet in front him. A man he had hoped never to see again but as it turned out today hadn't been his lucky day. When he heard his name being called over the tannoy he bristled at the cheek of the nurse that locked him in here and was calling him as if she didn't know where he was. He made a point to make sure that that nurse would never set foot in another hospital as long as she lived.
"Gerald, calm down. You'll not do yourself any good getting worked up like this." The man said stepping forward.
"What the hell do you want Dominic? Whatever games you're playing now I'll not have a part in. You might have coerced me before to hand Robyn's care over to you several years ago but it won't happen again."
Dominic shook his head, "Of course it wouldn't. I got struck off the medical register for what happened, if you didn't already know it means I can't practice medicine anymore."
"Then what is it you want? What connection do you have to that idiot nurse?"
"Ellen? She works for me. What I want is to pay you back for the service you did me by making sure that Doctor Dominic Trent would never be able to work in the profession he had chosen to set his life to. Because you couldn't keep your mouth shut you ruined my career, you ruined my life and now its pay back time."
Opening his eyes wide open in shock Doctor Cole backed towards the door. This was just the reason that he didn't want to see Dominic Trent ever again. Now he was locked in a room with him and no one knew where he was. All he could was hope that a member of staff would come on their lunch break in time to save his skin.