Jay walked down the hall of the hospital. He really needed to speak to Cole alone. He had been trying for the past week, ever since Cole woke up, but he could never get Cole alone. That morning, he told the others he had an errand to run and left right after breakfast. It wasn't that he didn't trust the others, but he knew Cole would sympathize with him more than anyone else would. He didn't even know if Cole would be free to talk at this hour since the doctors usually did all their testing in the morning. Jay was excited when the receptionist told him he could go down.

When he got to Cole's room, he saw Cole and Lou, but also a redheaded man. They had been talking but stopped when Jay entered. Lou glared at Jay.

"Ah, speak of the devil. I got something for ya." The redheaded man with the Celtic accent got up and handed Jay an envelope.

"Uh, what's this?" Jay asked as he opened it.

"A subpoena. I have one for the rest of your friends as well. I'll be by the monastery later to drop them off. Now, I'm meeting Mam for lunch, so until then, Lou, you're mine. I need your focus. We have a lot to discuss. Let's go somewhere quiet." The redheaded man grabbed Lou's arm and dragged him out of the room.

"Who was that?" Jay asked.

"Michael… Only lawyer Dad trusts," Cole whispered.

"Oh. I didn't mean to interrupt, although your dad looked really mad at me."

"Yes… Where's Nya?"

"Huh? Oh, back at the monastery. They don't know I'm here, but I really needed to talk to you alone. See, when we took down Morgen, we found out that she was holding a lot of people prisoner, including this woman who Hermes says is my real mom. And I asked Master Wu about it, but he was cryptic as usual. But I think Hermes is right and I'm adopted. I can't explain it, but I've had suspicions for a while now. But how am I supposed to tell my parents that I know I'm adopted? I mean, I didn't-can't come out and say it, right?" Jay stopped before he started blabbing about stuff Cole didn't know about since he erased it from existence.

"Uh… Who's Hermes?"

"Your grandfather. Morgen's dad? Old Master of Earth? Acts a little crazy at times? Ring a bell?" Jay looked at the confused expression on Cole's face.

"No."

"Really? Huh. Anyway, what am I supposed to do? Libby wants to see me, but I don't know if I should. I mean, what am I supposed to say to her? The woman abandoned me when I was a baby. Do you have any idea what that's like?"

Cole just stared at Jay. A nurse came in just then. She made small talk while she replaced Cole's IV bag and did her tests.

"Seriously, Cole, I don't know what to do," Jay said once the nurse had left.

"Talk to… parents," Cole yawned.

"How can you be tired? You just had a three-month-long nap and you do nothing but lay in bed all day," Jay said.

Cole's eyes went wide. He stared at Jay.

"Three… months?" Cole asked.

"Oh, you didn't know that, did you? And your dad didn't want me to tell you. Uh…"

"Three… months?"

"… Yeah. We weren't sure you were going to make it."

Cole said nothing as he stared at the wall. Jay was rambling, but Cole wasn't paying attention. His breathing became shaky. Cole gasped for breath, but he couldn't get anything in. He put his hands near his throat. His right arm was swelling, especially around the IV site.

"Cole?" Jay asked.

"Can't…" Cole eyed the IV. He cried out as much as he could as he forced his left arm to move and rip the IV line out.

"Woah! What are you doing?" Jay demanded.

"… Mo… Mor…" Cole started to turn blue. Jay pushed the nurse call button as alarms started going off. Nurses rushed in.

"He's coding! Bag him! He's not responding! We need to do a tracheotomy! No, this looks like anaphylaxis, is he allergic to anything? Someone grab an EpiPen!" The nurses scrambled to get Cole breathing again. They were still yelling at each other when Lou and Michael came running in. A nurse ran past them out of the room.

"What happened?" Lou yelled.

"I don't know! We were talking and all of a sudden he couldn't breathe!" Jay explained.

The nurse ran back in with an EpiPen. She quickly prepped it and jabbed it into Cole's leg. It was only a moment or two later when Cole gasped and inhaled a large breath. A few minutes later and his breathing was steady. They gave him an antihistamine and continued to monitor him.

"How did this happen?" Lou demanded.

"I don't know. We were talking, then I accidentally told him he was in a three-month coma, and he looked like he was in shock or something. Then he couldn't breathe and ripped his IV out," Jay stammered.

"Was he given morphine?"

A nurse grabbed the IV bag and examined it.

"We need to test this. Who gave this to him?"

"She did." Jay pointed to the blonde nurse in the pink scrubs with smiley faces.

"I gave him exactly what was prescribed. I went to the pharmacy and asked for meperidine. I followed the procedure to the letter. And it clearly says meperidine on the label. This was not my fault." The nurse crossed her arms. Lou started to say something, but Michael stopped him.

"I want to speak to the hospital director now. I'm a lawyer, and that's my nephew you could have killed. Someone is going to pay for this."

A few of the nurses led Michael out of the room.

"Is Cole going to be alright?" Jay asked after a while.

"He'll be fine, though I am going to recommend canceling his physical therapy today."

"Okay," Lou sighed. He sat down in the chair and put his head in his hands. After several deep breaths, he sat up and pulled out his cell phone.

"Uh, I think I'm just going to go now…" Jay said. He didn't know what else to do. No one looked at him as he backed out of the room.