Chapter 29. What the heart knows.
The professor was looking at his patients. All vital functions worked, they just didn't wake. He was monitoring the EEG when "The Shrink" entered.
"Hello Dan," the psychotherapist greeted the professor, "how are you're patients doing?"
"Hello Albert, they're doing fine. They just don't wake up." the professor tiredly answered.
"You know what I think about it Dan. Why don't you try it?" Albert volunteered.
"Come on Albert, you can't believe it yourself. That's so far fetched."
"We're talking about the human brain, Dan. Sometimes it needs an incentive. And friendship is something we all crave for." Albert defended his ideas.
"I still think it's far fetched." The professor ended the conversation.
David and Donna were sitting with a cup of coffee in the cafeteria. Their eyes red from crying. The Shrink walked in to have a drink. He sure loved being in Belgium. At least you could get decent beer, even in a hospitals cafeteria. After he had served himself a Duvel, he walked up to Donna and David.
"Aren't you the friends of Samantha and Alexandra?" He addressed them. They looked up at the man. "Let me introduce myself, Albert 'The Shrink' DuBois psychotherapist. I'm following Samantha and Alexandra."
David stood up and gave the man a hand, "I'm David, Sam's friend and this is Donna, Alex's fiancée." Donna blushed, it was the first time she was called that way, she stretched out her hand. Albert gave her a hand kiss.
"Doctor, have you an idea how they could wake up?" Donna asked in concern.
"I have a theory, but Dan, the professor calls it wacky. " Albert ventured.
Donna had her arms round his neck, before he could say another word. "Please tell us? I don't want to marry a plant!"
"I proposed to let them have a strong psychological shock to wake them, a positive shock I want to stress!" Albert stated.
"Such as, Alex I want our wedding to be on the 11th of April this year?" Donna asked.
"Yes, that seems startling enough to me." Albert concluded. "But I'll have to get you inside her room somehow."
"Leave that to us, Doctor, we'll find a way" David confidentially said.
The three of them went to the professor. Albert was carrying two glasses of beer. He was the first to enter the monitoring room next to Alex and Sam's room.
"Here Dan I brought you a Duvel, as you won't leave your post." Albert proposed.
The professor turned to Albert, his eyes bloodshot from the lack of sleep. "Thanks Albert, I can use a drink. I'm starting to come around to your wacky idea. I've run out of logical possibilities."
Meanwhile, Donna and David had sneaked into the other room. Donna was at Alex's side in no time. She took Alex's hand and whispered in her ear: " Alex I want our wedding to be on the 11th of April this year and I want you present!"
Alex's head bumped into Donna's nose. "Ouch!" she cried out!
"I'll be there!" she heard Alex say between the stars she saw.
From the other bed came a same reaction as Sam answered David, "Of course we will attend the wedding, I still have to catch it, you know!"
"And what makes you think you'll catch it this time Sammy?" sounded the stringent voice of Mandy.