Trixie Chapter 10

Around twelve thirty, the lunch cart came.

They looked at each other's food and decided to swap.,

"Had the same thing yesterday."

"Me too." Trixie laughed and said, "so now you take mine and I take yours."

Don smiled and said, "It's a deal."

They both ate in silence, suddenly Trixie asked Don.

"Don, you have many girlfriends?"

"No, you should ask 'do you have any girlfriend?' No I don't have anyone now, last time yes."

"You're so good looking, how come no girls come after you, I would, you know."

Don nearly choked on his food, wiped his mouth with a napkin and looked at Trixie.

" Please no more talk about girlfriends. OK?"

"OK, I'm sorry."

Don looked at her and said,

"No, it's OK, its just that I have girlfriends and it just didn't work out due to some reason or other and now I am treading lightly."
'Oh geez why am I telling her all this?' Don was amused.

Trixie looked at Don and said, "It's Ok, someday you'll find someone that you'll really, really like and you'll go all the way out to get her, you'll see."

"Thank you O Wise One."

"You're funny."

They smiled at each other and continued with their lunch.

Trixie asked to used the bathroom and Don said he'll send in a nurse to help her.

"No, no, I can do it myself."

"OK, scream when you're stuck."

After a while she came out and sheepishly said, "I think I need a nurse."

Don nodded and pressed the bell by his bed and Clara came in.

"Clara, Trixie needs some assistance, if you please."

"Sure, no problem. Come Trixie."

Soon Don was accompanying Trixie back to her room and the nurse helped her to change as she was still in her PJs.

Don let her lead the way to her mother's ward which was intensive care on two floors above.

Don spoke to the nurse in charge and he went into the room with her.
He told her that he will wait for her outside.

In a little while, Trixie came out and pulled at Don's hand and Don bend down , she whispered in his ear, "I like you to meet my mommy."

"OK." And Don followed her inside.

The lights were dimmed and the woman on the bed looked very pale, and had tubes and wires running from her body. She was on a breathing apparatus.

Her eyes were opened but could not talk, Trixie held her hand and said,
"Mommy, this is my friend Don. I told you about him. He's FBI, so you need not worried." Then she whispered to her mother, "He is a very good man."
Trixie's mother whispered with some difficulty, 'ood…'

Don came nearer and told Trixie's mother, "Mrs. Cameron, my name is Don Eppes and I'm FBI. I'll be here for her until your husband comes back. You don't have to worry; you just concentrate on getting better."

Trixie's mother blinked her eyes and raised her hand a bit.

Don nodded and then he told Trixie, "you stay a bit more with your mom, I'll be waiting for you outside."

Don went out and left the mother and daughter.

Don didn't know why but at the moment on he felt very protective towards this little curly haired girl named Trixie.
He couldn't understand why the father had the heart to leave the mother and daughter alone in this hospital.

He waited for almost twenty minutes then Trixie came out teary eyed.

"Hello, you OK?"

"Um hm.. thank you Don."

"No problem, let's go back and see if my dad came back."

It was almost four in the afternoon that Alan came back and found Don sleeping on the long sofa and Trixie was sleeping on his bed.

Clara came in to give Don his medication but when she saw him asleep on the sofa, she told Alan to get him to take it as soon as he wakes up.
She then told him that she will be going off in a little while and Jenny will be on.
She also said that Dr. Stewart will coming round to have a talk with Don later in the evening.

Alan nodded and Clara went off, he suddenly heard a little voice called out ,"Don."

He came to the bed, "Hi there little miss, you're OK?"

"Hi Alan, where is Don?"

"He's sleeping over there," pointing at the sofa.

"OK,"

"You want some cookies and milk? I brought some for you."

"OK, thank you."

They sat down companionably, Alan in the chair next to the bed and Trixie having her cookies and milk on the movable table, sitting on the bed.

Alan decided to take Trixie outside the garden for a walk, he looked at Don and saw that he was still sleeping, so he wrote on a pad and put it leaning against the phone on the table next to the sofa so that Don can see it.

"Donnie,Trixie with me. Take your milk with cookies, then take your pills. Dad." He then put down the time.

"Don, help me! Help me!" Don was trying his best to reach Trixie, she fell from the side of the cliff and Don reached for her but could not get her. He panic and tried to crawl towards her. She was caught by a branch sticking out, it had snagged her sling and her poor hand was dragged upwards by the sling. Don crawled and he caught hold of her good hand and he slowly tried to pull her up. The branch broke and he quickly grabbed her to him and they both started falling down the cliff.

"Arrh!" Don was jerked awake and he nearly fell off the sofa. He quickly put his right hand over his left shoulder. His sudden movement had caused him pain.

He got up and looked around, he saw the empty bed, he quickly search the bathroom,"Trixie!" then his eyes fell on the pad propped by the telephone on the table.
He sighed in relief.

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He had parked his car a distance away but he made sure that he had curly hair's car in his view.
He was very patient; he waited with a packet of biscuits and bottles of water.
Mother Nature called out to him and he stepped out to relieve himself, he was nearly spotted by curly hair and girlfriend.
He quickly ducked and went back to his car.

He started thinking of what had happened, he thought that what they were doing was going to be easy.
Well, it was up to a certain stage.
It all had gone downhill when that stupid sod had to go out without telling him. And now he's lying in a hospital waiting to be sent to prison. Stupid sod.
He got angry thinking about his cousin Logan who had botched up everything.

He thought that bringing him in would have helped. His first cousin Logan who looked exactly like him.
Their motto was to kidnap any girl but must be rich and get the ransom and leave the girl in the police station and run. Easy money…. Like the last few times.
The largest amount of money was kidnapping that little girl...
No harm done, they paid and she was left near the police station.

And now the road to easy money was gone.

What he didn't know was the FBI had LAPD stalking that area and it was his luck that he managed to sneak out without them being wiser.

Logan who was inside with the captive, was desperate, he had no more medication and he was getting his usual symptoms, he had no way of contacting his cousin.

He couldn't wait anymore and making sure that the girl was still drugged, Logon took the gun and put in his pocket Just in case he ran into trouble, went out the back way and was at a distance away, he was almost caught.
There was a chase and he went round the corner and a girl was getting out of the Lexus, he dragged her away and pushed her onto the road, he jumped into the car and drove off. The police took care of the girl and there was a slight delay in catching up with him.
The rest was history, it ended in the highway chase and he was not feeling too good, he crashed into two oncoming cars before finally crashed into a railing. In desperation to escape he shot the FBI who was telling him to back out of the car.

When he got back from taking some money from the ATM machine, without being known he was temporarily stalked, he noticed the FBI had surrounded the place and getting ready to storm the house where they had held the girl.

He laid back in the shadows and watched as they rescued the girl.
"shit! shit!, where's that stupid Logan?"

He hung around a bit and went off.

He later came to know about what happened through the news coming from the TV in the pub where he was having a beer.
The car that Logon took to getaway from the police had crashed into 2 cars before he himself crashed into the railing.

Logon being led away by the police in handcuffs, he was handed in a very rough manner even though he was battered and bleeding. The news continued that he had shot an FBI agent.
That stupid sod crashed the car but was still stupid enough to shoot the FBI man.
But he was his cousin and he could not, not do anything about it.

'Man, he thought this would be a quick job before they move on to his original idea...'
He regretted about the earlier killing…….

He had to get his cousin back, he had an idea and he hoped that it would work.

He thought again, 'stupid sod, stupid sod. 'Now he could tie all this to him.

He and his stupid condition. He needed to get to him, get him out. He knew of a way. He found out that curly hair was the brother of the FBI who was shot.
He knew Logan was in the same hospital and that he had gotten worse. He was following everything closely from the news update and now he needed to get to the hospital but he didn't know which one.

It was almost 6pm that the curly haired man came out.
He just needed to follow curly hair to the hospital.

He was patient, he waited at a distance when curly hair stopped at a delicatessen and followed when he got back into his car.
His car was blue and it was easily noticeable.

Tbc..