TRIXIE CHAPTER 30
Day Seven…..
Don was fuzzy when he woke up. He tried to think back what had happened and he remembered Logan coming at him and being ready for him.
He remembered the commotion and calling out for David.

Everything came back to him and he was now wondering what the time it was. He needed to talk to his team and tell them what Logan really wanted.
They were guessing that he was here to spring the other Logan.

It was wrong, all wrong; his main aim was Trixie and maybe he was after him too.
"Trixie!" he turned to his other side and he saw the little curls and his heart stopped its frantic beating.
She was here and she was safe.

He laid back his head on the pillow. He felt aches and pains all over his body.
The soreness was making itself known. His head hurt and his shoulder injury was making some 'dum dum dum' dance on the nerves on his shoulder, little tight sort of pinches on the nerves.
He wished for a scalp massage and someone to rub his body all over.
Gosh….his back hurt, he wanted to stretch to get rid of the kinks.
His fight and struggle with Logan was making itseld known. But first foremost was his bladder. He needed the washroom quick before he embarrassed himself.

He tentatively got up; so far so good, no giddiness, boy he hated getting giddy because giddiness could lead to something unpleasant, very unpleasant.

Okay, good for now, just the pain making itself known in waves that he could stand as long as no giddiness assailed him.
No, no, his neck felt like something was tied to it, he put out his good hand towards his neck.
Gosh no wonder his shoulder felt tight, they had completely covered his shoulder with a dressing and anchored it around his neck.
He could twist his neck one way; he reached out and tugged away the blanket by the foot of the bed. His one leg was caught in it.

He'd a litany in his head, 'don't think, don't think, just get up and get out of bed first.'

Success.. He sat up and slowly stood up, puttin his feet in the slip-ons brought by his dad. Now he looked at his IV line, the drip bag was almost empty, he could have just pulled the needle out of his hand but he would rather not incur the wrath of the nurses or doctor, so he just reached out and got the almost empty bag off the hook.

Ok, that's done. He took the almost empty bag and hung it over his shoulder and he walked slowly to the bathroom.

He gave a huge sigh of relief when he finally reached the bathroom.
The line of the IV bag was long enough, he dropped it in the sink and went about his business.

He flushed the toilet and he took out the IV bag from the sink, ran the tap water and washed his hands.

He got a towel from the metal rack and started cleaning his face, he even brushed his teeth. Shaving had to wait.

He slowly opened the door and he nearly had a heart attack.

"Dad!"

His father was standing at the door when he opened it.

"Donny, oh my …' Alan engulfed Don in a hug.

"Dad… dad… Ow!"

Alan suddenly let go of Don. "Oh my I'm sorry, Donny… Donny!"

Don just smiled and said, "It's alright dad. That way I got you to let go."

"Donny, that's not funny." Alan scolded him but he was glad that Don was OK, well, almost.

"Er… OK ,you were crushing me, I have injuries you know." Don complained good naturedly.

"OK, OK, then let's get you back to bed." Alan said holding on to Donny afraid that he'd fall.

"Its. OK dad, I'm alright to walk on my own."

Alan kept quiet but held on to Don all the way to the bed.

Don asked his dad to get the nurse in to take the IV out. Shortly a nurse came in and saw that the bag was empty, she pulled the IV tube out of Don's hand and put a plaster to cover the needle.

"We won't take this off until Dr. Stewart has checked you over, Okay?"

Don nodded and thanked her.

After settling Don back in his bed amidst his protests, Alan sat beside him and told him, "Dr. Stewart said you must be in bed in order for ALL your injuries to get better. No more arguments there Donny. You had high fever off and on yesterday. It did get better but only after 3.30am this morning and now you want to get out of bed. No way, even if I have to sit on you."

Giggles were heard from the other side of Don's bed.

"Aha…. Someone is eavesdropping, dad. You'd better not talk so loud."

Alan bent down his head and whispered, "She was very worried about you yesterday, she had a long talk with Amita, don't know what it was about. Very secretive."

"Pixie, good morning. Are you alright?" Don asked.

"Yes, Good morning Alan, good morning Don." Trixie called out.

Alan went to ring the bell and a nurse came in. Alan told her that Trixie was awake and needed some help.

"Hi there, good morning, Trixie, er Mr. Eppes, Mr. Don." Kassie shyly called out.

Alan rolled his eyes; all the nurses were like that with Don.

"Kassie, good morning, you're on day shift?" Don asked.

"Yes, just completed my night duty rotation. I'll be on day shift for a month. Excuse me. Come Trixie; let's get you all cleaned up."

Trixie climbed out of bed and she called out, "See you later, Alan, Don." she went out with Kassie.

Then she changed her mind, she ran to Don and she stood on tiptoe and kissed Don on his cheek, nearly getting his chin instead.

Don was caught by surprise. He then bent down and received a kiss on the cheek from her again.

She smiled the cute little smile for him," I am so glad that you're going to get better. See you later."

She ran out with Kassie, who was waiting at the door.

Don started to get out of bed, "Where do you think you're going?"
"Trixie….."

"There's no need to worry, Trixie has her own bodyguard.

"I know, I want to see that the bodyguard is following her."

"Geez Don , hold it. I'll go and check."

Breakfast came shortly and Alan helped Don to sit up. Don wanted to eat his breakfast by the sofa but this was not allowed by his father.

After a short argument, Don gave up and said he would wait for Trixie.

"Tantrums, I thought you've gotten past that." muttered Alan.

"Not a tantrum, just wanted to wait for Trixie," he muttered back.

Alan went to sit by the chair near the sofa and took out the newspaper that was delivered to this room.
He started reading when there was a knock on the door.

"Hello?" It was Megan with Colby and David.

"Hi Megan, boys come on in, Don's awake."

"Hi, good morning all." Megan nodded to Alan and she went to Don,
"Hi Boss, everything OK?"

"Alright, getting there. Can we all have a talk?"

"Err Yes." Megan said and she saw that Don eyed his father.

She pursed her lips and went over to Alan, "Alan, can you please excuse us, we need to go over something with Don. Merrick has some instructions too."

"Well, OK, I'll go out and look for Trixie. Don. We'll be in the gardens; send someone for us when you're done?"

"Yes, thanks Dad."

Don waited until his father was out of the room; he slowly got out of bed. Colby rushed to help his boss.

"Thanks, I'm feeling like I had at least 3 rounds in the boxing ring. No joke, I am sore and I ache all over but don't tell my dad."

The three of them laughed and Don was helped over to the sofa. They let him sit alone and they brought chairs and sat in front of him.

"Oh. Come on guys, I'm not contagious!" Don complained.

David laughed and sat beside him.

They got down to business and Megan brought up her file, telling Don what they had so far on Logan 2.
Colby told about him and Steve searching the grounds for his hideout. They had agreed that he was hiding out in the hospital grounds or the field nearby in order to get into the hospital so quickly both times he attacked Don.

David also mentioned Logan was in the vicinity both times, Charlie found a name tag to one Mark Shamuels which was used by Logan. Megan confirmed that he had hurt his leg, a bad sprain according to the notes of Dr. Chandra. It seemed that the doctor had treated him in the clinic just before Charlie came to see him.
Charlie could have passed him on his way in.

David also mentioned that when he came yesterday morning, Logan was there as a window cleaner, but nobody paid him any attention. Then there was the distraction and Don was attacked.

It was Don's turn to clue them in on the latest. He told them about what Trixie told him. She said that she wished here father was here, then he could catch the bad man for him.
Don also said that he told her he would not come back.

She said like he'd done it before but she assured him that her father would come back.

And now she had a bodyguard? This was very suspicious. She behaved like it was the norm, meaning she had bodyguards before and they had faced threats before.
Don told Megan to check their family background and see if Logan fit in any where in the Cameron family. See if he was a suspect in the kidnapping case Trixie told him about.

Don also mentioned to them that Logan knew the he was the one that caught his cousin.

"You mean to say, he was after you?" Colby asked.

"Yea, something like that, he said

TBC

Thanks to Mikiss.