Part 39
Zander looked up to see Carly, holding Ginny, with Michael standing beside her. He smiled.
"I hope you don't mind me bringing Michael," she said. "But he asks about you."
"No, of course not, come in, policeman."
"Hi Zanner," Michael said. He came up to Zander. "How's your heart?" he asked.
Zander laughed. Carly was laughing, too. "I explained to him that the doctors were fixing your heart," she said.
"It's good," Zander said. "It's almost fixed. Maybe they will let you listen to it – if one of the doctors comes in with a stethoscope." He lifted Michael up. "But in the meantime you can listen with your ears," he said. "Here, put your ear up to my chest, like this."
"It's working," Michael said, listening.
"That's good," Zander said.
Michael got down after awhile and started playing. Zander held Ginny, and shook a little rattle for her.
"Thank you for telling me about her," he said. "I can't say it enough now. I can only imagine how David feels. I'm just glad you told me."
"Yeah," she said. "Me too."
Bobbie Spencer went down to the floor Zander was on. She was head nurse at the hospital; she'd heard that her daughter and grandchildren had come in. She thought she'd run to Zander's room for a few minutes to say hello to them.
"Hi!" she said to Donna and David who were standing in the doorway. "Are you the guard dogs today?"
"Yes," Donna said. "This is a friend of ours, Dr. Hayward. David, this is Bobbie Spencer, Carly's mother."
"Her birth mother anyway," Bobbie said. "She found me a few years ago, then her adopted mother died. I'm full time grandmother, after all, though."
"Carly's adopted mother is the one Ginny is named after," Donna told David.
"Carly told me Zander was having a run-in with his father at the time of his attack," Bobbie said. "And I guess that he saved Zander's life, too. I thought Carly might have been exaggerating a little; she dislikes Dr. Lewis so much. How is Zander?"
"Good," Donna said. "Complaining about still being here. The medication seems to be working. I'm not ready for an more run-ins with Cam, though."
"Yeah," Bobbie said. "I know. I don't like him much, either. I know I can say that to you, because an ex-husband is - well, I have a couple of those, and nobody ever offends me by discussing their bad points."
Donna laughed. "That's for sure," she said.
Carly and Michael came to the door. "Grandma!" Michael said. "Can I have your doctorscope? I wanna listen to Zanner's heart."
Bobbie took the stethoscope from around her neck. "OK, Michael, I'll show you how." She went back into the room with him.
"Any sign of him?" Carly asked, coming to the door.
"Not so far," Donna said.
"I'm stalking him," David said. "He went to the airport. Doesn't mean he won't come back. He flies back and forth quite easily."
"From Florida?" Carly asked.
"Yes. He went to Pine Valley this time, though."
"He did?" Donna exclaimed. "Why would he do that, David?"
"Obviously to dig up dirt," Carly said.
"He already started on that," David said. "He told me he had talked to the head of staff there and mentioned him by name."
"I'm amazed he even cares," said Carly. "Why doesn't he go home to Florida and stay there?"
"I think he cares about Zander's condition," David said.
"Then what's he doing in Pine Valley?" Carly demanded.
"Maybe he's really afraid of my treatment theories," David said.
"That's been pretty much decided on, and as a conventional treatment," Donna said. "He's got Dr. Quartermaine."
"Maybe he doesn't trust her not to listen to David," Carly said. "And he thinks he can get around not being Ginny's grandfather. As far as I'm concerned, you're the grandfather," she said to David.
"It's similar to you and your mother, I see, Carly," David said. "But it's different in a couple ways. That's up to Zander. Cam's his father, and he's still alive, and Zander may want to treat that the same way he would without this issue."
"I know he doesn't want Cam around Ginny. He said, because Cam is toxic," Carly said. "He's too toxic. That's what he said. Since the day she was born."
"Did you two ever talk to that lawyer again?" Donna asked Carly.
"Not yet. This happened. But we'll go."
"Good idea," said Donna. "You've got to know as much as you can. You can lose a lot assuming you know things. Everybody thinks they know the rules, but they aren't always what everybody thinks they are."