Wizards of Waverly Place
I've got a secret
Part Seventeen: Day Seventeen
It was Monday, October 18, at about six o'clock a.m, and each Russo was well awake dealing with their own stresses by this hour. Alex was being tortured by her kidnappers, and everybody else was waiting in the waiting room of the hospital waiting for the doctor's diagnosis on Jerry. They were all nervous, tired and agonizing, some more presently than the others.
In the hospital waiting room, from left to right sat Kramer, Justin, Max, Theresa and Juliet, and they all looked nervous. Justin was worriedly twisting in a no-knot a piece of tissue and Theresa was comforting Max as they waited for the doctor. "Oh, I hope nothing happens to Dad." Said Justin in a low voice. "I know he gets us into these weird situations, but I don't know what we'll do without him. Mom, what do you think did this to him?"
"Well, it might have had something to do with that brick that hit him when we were running out of the chamber." Answered Theresa as she held Max's head in her arms.
"Oh, I'd hate myself if my stupid complaining caused something serious to happen to Mr. Russo, I'd never be able to forget it." Said Juliet as she held her hands together in her lap. "I mean, Jerry can be clumsy, but I always looked forward to knowing what crazy thing he was planning next and following what he was doing to accomplish it."
"Ya, remember how he always used to make coffee, and he'd always put in one of his favorite foods for flavor?" Asked Justin, trying to smile.
"Ya, or how he always left his keys in the car and spent hours looking for them?" Asked Max quietly.
"Ya, he always had a way of lightening up everybody's day." Said Theresa in a sweet voice.
"How he helped me win back that necklace, ya know it's times like this that make ya see what's really important in life." Stated Kramer.
"Juliet, I'm sorry I punched you in the mouth to try to steal your fillings." Said Justin across the other people.
"Thanks, and I'm sorry I tried to sell you to slave-traders when you lost my light-blocking necklace." Said Juliet.
"Ya… what?" Said Justin.
"Never mind." Said Juliet not even looking at him. "Where is that doctor, we've been waiting for hours."
"I'm sure they're just finishing up with some tests and should be out soon." Said Theresa.
The doctor then walked out the side door and was carrying a bowl of soup. "Mm, that's some good chowder, how ya doin'?" Asked the doctor.
"Fine, what are you eating?" Asked Justin.
"Chowder, the cafeteria makes the best in the city, want some?" Asked the doctor as he put out his spoon and chowder fell on the floor.
"We've been waiting worried to death for you to tell us about my husband, and you've been in the cafeteria, eating chowder?!" Demanded Theresa.
"Ya, wish we knew there was a cafeteria, I'm starving." Said Juliet as she started for the door.
"Wait! Juliet, he's going to tell us about Jerry." Said Justin.
"Oh, I'm sorry, so what's wrong, doctor?" Asked Juliet.
"Well, he has received damage to his brain, presumably from some massive tension in his head." Said the doctor.
"When that brick fell from the ceiling and it hit him in the head." Said Max.
"Ya, that'll do it." Said the doctor. "Well, this tension has caused a major fracture in his brain, in fact, it was completely taken out a section of his brain, known as the Cerebralis Dorphus."
"I have never heard of that." Stated Justin.
"Well, it's not a part of the brain that holds memory, but it is essential for the rest of the brain to function properly. A person can survive with a half of the section, but he has had both parts of it damaged, and without it, well, his body will not be able to work properly."
"What are you saying, doctor?" Asked Kramer as he jumped to his feet.
"If he does not get this part of his brain replaced, he will remain in a coma, and eventually die." Said the doctor.
"Oh no, is there anything we can do?" Asked Theresa trying to hold back tears.
"Well, since one only needs half of the Cerebralis, it is possible for a family member to do a transplant, that is the only way." Stated the doctor.
"Can I do it?" Asked Max.
"No, nobody under fifteen can do the transplant. If a transplant is done with a Cerebralis too young, then the person may end up worse than he was without one." Said the doctor.
"Well, then we'd better leave him then." Said Max as he sat down.
"No, I'll do the transplant, doctor." Said Justin.
"Justin, are you sure?" Asked Theresa.
"Sure, he's my dad, and I'd do anything to help him." Said Justin.
"Alright, first we'll need to do some tests, to make sure your mental stability is in proper condition, then we can do the transplant as early as tomorrow." Said the doctor.
"Alright, and after that he'll be alright?" Asked Justin.
"Yes, the surgery is very simple, the only risk we have is something unusual and highly abnormal happening to ruin it, besides that, he'll be fine." Said the doctor.
"Well, that sounds like a pretty good bet, we'll do the surgery." Said Theresa.
"Good, we'll need five minutes for the tests, and I'll have the results to you tonight. I wish you the best of luck." Said the doctor.
"Oh, thank you so much, doctor." Said Juliet as she shook his hand.
"You're welcome, ha, that's a nice necklace, where'd you get it?"
"Uh, nowhere." Said Juliet.
"Alright, I'll see you in a minute, before then you are free to visit our cafeteria." Said the doctor as he left for his office.
"Ya!" Yelled the Russo's as they ran for the cafeteria. Then a sign went up that read 'closed'. "Ah."
"What kind of cafeteria closes at six a.m?" Asked Justin.
"This one." Said Theresa.
At the warehouse, Alex was sitting, tied to a chair, and was breathing heavily. "Hu, hu, I'm starving, can't you give me something to eat?!" Demanded Alex.
"No! The less mercy the mob shows you, the closer we get to catching Jerry Russo!" Yelled the mobster.
"Okay, can you at least turn the heat down, it must be like a hundred and fifteen degrees in here." Stated Alex.
"One hundred and twenty six, to be exact." Said de Havilland. "Mm, this is some good bratwurst." Said de Havilland as he ate a giant bratwurst on a bun.
"Ya, and this is some good sherbet." Said the mobster as he ate some sherbet. "Bluh!" He yelled as he spat it out.
"Ya, I don't eat, but look how cool I am with this ice water." Said Susan as she poured it all over her head. "Ah," Said Susan, whose hair was all messed up, and her makeup and lipstick were running. "That's refreshing."
"Uh, you think all this insanity is going to make my dad come faster, it's not. He probably doesn't even know where I am, let alone what you're doing to me." Stated Alex.
"Well, shut up! We work how we feel will work, and doing that has kept us a functioning mob, for over eighty years!" Yelled the mobster.
"Ya, remember the mobs in Gangs of New York, they were both based on us." Said de Havilland.
"No they weren't, those were real mobs from the fifties, I've read about them." Said Alex.
"Those mobs were ripped off of us, they get all the glory because they actually have names, well if we had a name, we'd have movies being made out of us like no muggle's business." Said de Havilland.
"What, muggle?" Asked Alex.
"A muggle is somebody who is not a member of our mob." Stated the mobster.
"In other words all but five people on earth?" Asked Alex.
"Well, yes, but still, we are very powerful, and we know what we're doing! Don't contradict us anymore!" Yelled the mobster.
"Ya, you better watch yourself, or we'll kill you and use your body as a human shield!" Yelled Susan.
"That's from The Departed." Said Alex in a mad voice.
"They stole that from us too, so many people are so desperate for ideas." Said de Havilland.
"Gangs of New York and The Departed were made by the same person." Said Alex.
"No they weren't!" Yelled the mobster.
"Ya, and Goodfellas." Stated de Havilland. "I'm sorry."
"Ya, I know my mob stuff, I even ran Ray Liotta out of my house when he wanted to kill my brother." Stated Alex.
"He's not a real mobster, he just played one in a movie!" Yelled the mobster.
"What about Daniel Day-Louis?" Asked Alex.
"Now him, he's a real mobster, that just happened to be in a mob movie." Said de Havilland. "Like if I was in a mob movie, like that."
"You guys are insane." Said Alex.
"-No comment." Said Susan.
Back at the house, the Russos had been back from the tests for some time and were getting back to their normal lives. "Ha, once Mr. Russo is better, and we find that watch, we're pretty much out of problems right?" Asked Juliet.
"Ya, unless somebody sends another crazy guy to kill us!" Yelled Theresa.
"Well, now that we don't have any weird stuff to get in our way, we can start to do normal things, for example, now Justin and I can start a serious relationship. Right, Justin?" Asked Juliet.
"Actually, I was thinking that after this is all over that I should get back to wizard training, the Wizard Competition is in a few months, maybe after that." Said Justin.
"I can't wait that long, what am I supposed to do in the mean time?" Asked Juliet.
"I don't know, isn't there something you always wanted to do, always dreamed of doing it?" Asked Justin.
"Well, I always wanted to be a hiker, you know, like on canyons and stuff, rock climbing, maybe that's what I'll do." Said Juliet.
"Ya bet they have a ton of rock climbing courses in New York City." Said Theresa sarcastically.
"I'll find some way of doing it, we always find a way to achieve our dreams." Said Juliet.
"Sure." Said Max as he stacked spoons on the table. "Yes!" Justin then pushed it over. "Ah."
"Ha, what am I going to do once Jerry's all better?" Asked Kramer.
"The mob still wants to kill you." Stated Theresa.
"You're right, as long as I've got that going for me, I don't have to do anything." Said Kramer as he leaned back on the couch and drank hot bean juice.
"Well, I'm going to work on finding that watch, once I do that, I'll be able to live off accomplishing my life goal at 35 for years! Wow, we're all making breakthroughs, me with my life's purpose, Juliet with her rock climbing, Kramer with, people wanting to kill him, what about you Justin?" Asked Theresa.
"Well, I'm helping dad to not die, there's something, and after I win the Wizard Competition I'll be able to do more than I ever imagined."
"Ha, what makes you think you're going to win? What if I win?" Asked Max.
"What?" Asked Justin.
"Ya, I know." Said Max as he sat back on the couch.
"So, what do we do until Jerry's better?" Asked Theresa. "Well, I've got the watch thing, so you're all on your own." Said Theresa as she went under the stairs.
"Ha, what about Alex, we should find her, you know until we have free time to do something else." Said Justin. "So, if we could only remember what she said right before we left, then we could find her like that, anybody?" Asked Justin.
"I was too busy thinking about rock climbing." Said Juliet.
"You just brought it up today!" Yelled Justin.
"I know, but I've been thinking of it ever since I was a young girl and saw my first rock." Said Juliet.
"Ya, I've been thinking about finding that watch since Justin said we needed to find it." Said Theresa from under the stairs.
"Back to looking!" Yelled Kramer.
"Sorry!" Yelled Theresa.
"Well, I'll help her look for the watch, this Alex thing is a lost cause, and then I'll be able to go out without the police chasing me all the time." Said Justin.
"Why don't they put out a warrant for your arrest, that's what I'd do if I wanted to arrest somebody." Said Juliet.
"No, the police don't want the public to know that security measures at a museum with a million dollar watch are so weak that a teenager could break in and steal something." Said Justin. "I'll be under the stairs." Said Justin as he went under the stairs. Juliet, Kramer and Max just stood there, then they ran into the under of the stairs.
At the warehouse, the mobster was staring at the window, looking weary. "Any minute now, I see him coming, I can smell him." Said the mobster.
"I think you're a little tired, I know I start seeing and smelling people who aren't there when I get tired, want some coffee?" Asked de Havilland as he poured a cup of hot bean juice.
"No, I don't want to be under the control of anything when I meet Jerry Russo face to face, I'm going out." Said the mobster as he grabbed his bag and started for the door.
"To buy a ton of guns and ammo?" Asked Alex in an assured voice.
"How would you know?!" Demanded Susan.
"That's what Ray did when he had waited long for my brother, pretty soon you'll be running all over town, buying out their gun stores, tearing apart houses to find him, only to have me fool you into traveling the world in search of the only gun and bullet that can kill Jerry." Stated Alex.
"What, what is this gun, where can I find it!" Demanded the mobster.
"That's how it went." Said Alex. "Well, you can starve me, boil me, and do whatever you want, sooner or later you'll go insane and I'll just trick you like I did with Ray." Stated Alex.
"Oh no, no I'm not, not again, we are going to step up our game!" Yelled the mobster. "de Havilland, get me my berating stick!"
"Okay, here." Said de Havilland as he handed him the stick.
"I wanted to get it." Whined Susan.
"What do you think you are going to do, with some stupid..." Started Alex as the mobster pulled his arm back and slashed Alex across the face with the whip. "Ah, ah, oh!" Groaned Alex as she shook her head in pain.
"Now you see, the mob always gets its man, one way or another." Said the mobster.
"Uh, hu, hu." Breathed Alex as she looked up fearfully at the mobster and the whip.
That night at the house, they were all sitting around bored as Theresa looked all over the closet. "Ah, there it is, no, just a rat, there, ah." Said Theresa as she kept on.
"This is boring, I wish something would..." Started Justin as there was a loud knock at the door.
Juliet went to answer it. "Mason, you're back!" Yelled Juliet as she went to hug him.
"Hi." Said Mason as he shoved her on the ground and went up to Justin. "Justin, Alex and I met in the forest, she was taken, by three men, and I can't find her anywhere, I need your help."
"What? Taken? Who would want to take Alex?" Asked Theresa from the closet.
"Watch!" Yelled Max.
"Sorry!" Yelled Theresa.
"Ha, I know you, you're Alex's twin brother who she was dating, ya I still say that's just wrong." Said Kramer.
"Mr. Kramer, we're not really twins, we just said that to fool Ray, remember?" Asked Mason.
"-No."
"Well, I'd love to help you, but I have prior engagements right now, maybe later." Said Justin.
"But Justin..." Started Mason as he followed Justin.
"Well I give up, ha, Mason." Said Theresa.
"Hello, Mrs. Russo."
"Ha!" Yelled the doctor as he busted through the door.
"Doctor, what are you doing here?" Asked Theresa.
"I had to rush here to tell you some very serious news! Ha, want some chowder?" Asked the doctor.
"Serious, what is it? Does it have to do with my brain?" Asked Justin.
"Well yes and no, ya see, ha, that's one nice necklace, where'd you get that?" Asked the doctor.
"We went through this already." Said Juliet.
"Well, I didn't hear it." Said Mason. Everybody stared. Sorry."
"Doctor, what's the matter with my brain?!" Demanded Justin.
"Oh nothing, lovely mind, nice activity." Said the doctor. He stood there while they stared.
"Well, what was your news?!" Yelled Theresa.
"Oh, well your mind is fine, but the problem is that only a family member can do the transplant." Said the doctor.
"What are you talking about, I'm his son, what's this all about?" Asked Justin.
"Well you're not according to these tests." Said the doctor.
"What, that can't be r..." Started Justin.
"Justin, these tests don't make mistakes, they're 100% accurate, Justin, you are not Jerry Russo's son." Justin just stood there in disbelief. The whole group did the same.
What will the mob do to Alex to get to Jerry? Will Mason find her in time? Is Justin really not Jerry's son? If not, whose is he? Who will do the transplant? You'll know if you read the other 356 days in the year in the life of the Russo's, "I've got a secret."