At the base life was going on.
"Who's joining me at the pub for lunch?" Jackie asked.
"I will meet Kate and Penny over there so I will come with you," Geoff said.
"I'll come, too" said Clare, and Guy, who was still acting a little mysterious said: "No, I can't come. I have something else to do".
They all laughed at him. "Always important business, eh?" Clare teased him.
Guy just laughed and left with the package, which was much smaller than it had been that morning.
Jackie, Clare, Penny, Geoff and Kate were talking over lunch at the pub.
"Didn't Guy want to come over, too?" Kate asked.
"Oh," Jackie said, "he is in such an arrogant mood today. I'm glad he isn't here."
"Something very important to do probably," Penny said.
xxx
When Hannah and Len had caught their breath again they were asking themselves what to do now.
"We don't know anything about him, not even his name," Hannah said.
"The man who brought him here mentioned that he told him he had been ill," Len said.
They looked at Joss. He was so unaware of everything surrounding him, and when Hannah touched him, wiping some hair from his forehead, she noticed he probably had a fever.
"Shouldn't we call the doctors?" Hannah asked Len.
"Well, we must call anyway to tell he is here. Then we can confer further," Len said.
"Victor Charlie Charlie, this is Robson station, over."
"Hello, Hannah", Clare replied. "How are you? Is something wrong?"
"No, no, we are both fine, but someone brought in a man who..." She looked at Joss, lying there, looking so much like David... She couldn't go on anymore.
"Hannah? Are you still there?"
"Yes, I am... This man, he slept from the moment he was picked up and I think he has a fever. The man who brought him in here told Len that he had said he had been ill for over a month and he was totally exhausted."
"One moment, Hannah. I'll ask dr. Standish."
"Hello Hannah, dr. Standish here, did he not wake up at all? Not even when he was carried inside?"
"Yes, for a very short moment. We don't think you need to come urgently, but maybe one of you is in the neighbourhood tomorrow?"
"Actually we are," Geoff said, "we are going to Minobry. Let´s see... we can drop in at your place in the afternoon, is that okay with you?"
"Yes, it is. Thank you doctor, over and out."
When she put down the microphone she turned to Len. "I couldn't tell yet... you know..."
"It's okay," Len said. "Why should we? We know nothing yet; let's just take good care of him."
xxx
Since Guy was living at the Majestic, he didn't have a garden, so he went looking for a quiet place with trees to fasten his hammock.
Every place he tried he couldn't get it up. The trees were too far apart, or the ropes were too short, depending on how you looked at it. After a while he got rather sulky and concluded: "That frame in the box must have been there for a reason. I will try that tomorrow."
He went to the pub, using the back entrance, knowing some of his acquaintances would be there and ask questions he didn't want to answer at this moment. There, he ran into Nancy who had to pick up something.
"What are you sneaking around?" she asked him.
"Oh, nothing," he said.
xxx
The next morning when Hannah and Len came into the living-room, Joss was still asleep. But it didn't look like a healthy sleep.
When they started to walk around he woke up. He tried to get up and find out where he was and what had happened, but he felt very miserable. He had a headache and his whole body felt like he had been run over by a roadtrain.
At that moment Hannah came in and saw that he was awake. "Good morning," she said. "Please don't try to get up. I'll bring you something to drink first."
He lay back down, not protesting.
When Hannah came in again she brought Len, too.
'Can a glass be this heavy,' Joss thought when she passed it to him. He emptied it slowly before asking: "Where am I and how come... you..." He fixed his eyes on Hannah. "I remember you calling me David. Or was it a dream?"
"No, it wasn't. I did call you David." Hannah swallowed.
His face brightened a little by a weak smile. "Well, I reacted to that name, too, you know, because people used to switch me and my twin brother all the time. But my name is Joss."
Len and Hannah looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
"My name is Hannah and this is Len," she introduced herself and Len. "Yesterday someone brought you in here. He told us you had slept since he picked you up and you slept all night, too."
"You would think that after all that sleep I would feel better, but I still don't feel well." Joss sighed.
"We asked the doctors to come and see you. One of them will be here this afternoon," Len said.
Joss nodded.
"But... since you called me David... I assume you know my brother then? When I left the city he was studying medicine, his last year," he said with a smile on his face.
"Yes, we know him," Len said, "He saved my life..."
"And mine, too," Hannah interrupted him. And they started telling about Len´s leg and how David did a very difficult operation on Hannah...
"That was a day to remember," Len said to end the talking. "But right now we have some work on the property to do. You take your rest, okay? By lunchtime we'll be back." He motioned Hannah to come with him. And when they were outside, they looked at each other with a mutual sigh. "How are we going to tell him...?" they said simultaneously.
"When we told him about David he looked so proud... So... happy," Hannah said.
"This is going to be very difficult," Len sighed.
xxx
Geoff, Kate and Johnno were up in the air that same morning. They had to visit some patients, go to Minobry and after that they would go to the Robson´s.
"I'm a little worried about Hannah," Geoff said. "Clare told me she suddenly stopped talking yesterday."
Johnno and Kate looked at him; they knew Hannah had had heart problems some time ago.
"So we are not going there to see this stranger but we are going there for Hannah?" Kate asked.
"Just between the three of us," Geoff said.
xxx
When Hannah and Len came in for lunch they found Joss still sleeping on the couch. However, there were signs of him getting up during the time they had been outside.
"Robson station, this is Mike Sierra Foxtrot."
Len walked towards the radio. "Here Robson station, go ahead, Mike Sierra Foxtrot."
"Len, our E.T.A. is 15.00h. Will you come and pick us up then?" Johnno said. "Oh, and hold on, the doc wants a word with you, too."
"How is your patient doing, Len?" Geoff asked.
"He has been awake, but most of the time he's asleep. But... we'll talk about things when I pick you up..."
"And you? And Hannah?" Geoff asked because he noticed the hesitation.
"Never better," Len answered. "See you at 15.00h, doc, over and out."
In the plane Geoff looked at Johnno and Kate with a enquiring face.
"We'll see," Kate said.
"But something is wrong, I can hear it in both their voices. Yesterday in Hannah's voice, and now in Len's!" Geoff worried.