The tension within me grew as more memories of being bed ridden in the children's wing of the hospital raced across my mind. My reaction and the growing memories did nothing to help my headache. Turn it where was a pain amulet when you needed one.
"Everything is going to be fine Rachel. Now you are awake I can start working on the medical paperwork to get you out of here and put you in my care. Dr. Mape said she would sign off on it as long as you promised not to attempt another break out under her care." There was a hint of amusement in Ivy's voice which I could only smile at.
The last time I was in the hospital Dr. Mape was the one who took care of me even though I was a shunned witch. I'm sure she caught all sorts of trouble when I broke out of the hospital under her charge. My only hope for Dr. Mape at the time was the medical paperwork to get me released, without fear of the hospital being sued, got to her fast enough before she got into any real trouble. Seeing as how she was still practicing medicine at the hospital and still taking me on as a patient, though she was probably the only one who would, I guessed everything worked out fine.
"We can leave anytime you want just let me know so we can walk out the front door properly this time." Ivy's voice calmed me down as I relaxed once again into the bed and pillow, she was also probably pumping out a small amount of pheromones to help the process along.
"Thanks can we leave right away? And I could kill for a pain amulet right now."
Ivy reached under the bed and pulled out one of her small duffel bags placing it on her lap and started to rummage through it. She had pulled her hand from mine in order to open the zipper, as soon as she did I could feel the coldness in my hand where hers had been.
"Um, I hate to interrupt this family moment but if your feeling up to it rachel you mind if I ask you a few questions about what happened to you? I want to head back to the office as soon as possible and keep digging into this." Glenn moved from where he was standing by the door and moved to the foot of my bed.
I looked towards Glenn for a moment forcing my eyes to focus on him. I was able to discern the lines of his standard issue F.I.B. suit and noticed with the exception of some slight blurriness around most things around the room my eyes were quickly getting back to normal.
Sitting up in the bed for a moment and tried to think about the last thing I could remember. "I remember leaving the church and having to use a few disguise amulets to take a cab to the warehouse district. I remember getting out of the cab somewhere in the middle of the district, the were cabbie refused to go in any further for fear of his cab getting messed up by the gangs. I know I had to walk around for about twenty minutes trying to find the specific place I was looking for. Then it all goes blank... Crap! Bis and Pierce are they alright? They were both with me when..."
"Bis is just fine Rache. He is looking after the church and my kids right now. In fact if he hadn't told us where you were we would have never found you, but he wont tell any of us what happened to you. As for Pierce... well he was fine until Al found out you were in the hospital." The little smirk Jenks wore when he was explaining what had happened to Pierce left no doubt in my mind the pixie spared no pity towards Pierce at all. "What in Tink's little red thong where you doing?"
Jenks was now hovering right in front of me in his best ever Peter Pan pose, wings a blur of red, though, I didn't need the color of his wings to tell me he was angry at me for going off without him as back up, especially since I wound up in the hospital because of it.
I stole a glance towards Ivy her expression said only one thing to me, she was thinking the same thing as Jenks. Crap on toast I was going to hear more about this later. I could take on demons, elves, banshees, weres, insane demons, fairies, living vamps, humans, even the occasional undead vamp, but put me in front of my two best friends to explain to them my latest stunt... I would rather take on the whole list of people again, twice.
On top of all this I definitely did not want to explain why I was out in the middle of the warehouse district without them in the first place. And I definitely did not want to explain it in front of Glenn. "Well I had a run out there someone lost a pet familiar and were desperate enough to call me to help." LIE. LIE. LIE.
Jenks's wings sped up and let out a high pitched sound. Yep he knew I was lying. Next I dared to look over in Ivy's direction for a second. Her nostrils were flared and she was staring right at me. Well you couldn't blame me for trying.
Turning my attention towards Glenn he looked at me for a second then continued. Either he to knew I was lying and figured he would get the story later or he really did buy my excuse.
"Are you sure you don't remember anything else about what happened out at the warehouse district? Anything small which may have seemed insignificant at the time can help us."
I sighed and tried to concentrate on what had happened, turn it if I had gotten hit with another memory spell I am going to be one pissed off witch. "Nothing at all it's just blank."
"Look the I.S. is not pursuing the case at all, even with the interlander deaths, I just want to find the people responsible for putting you here." I noticed as Glenn was speaking he kept darting his eyes towards Ivy. Ivy on the other hand was had gone back to fishing around in the duffel bag. It took Ivy another second but she managed to pull out a finger stick and one of my over sized pain amulets.
"Wait, deaths? What deaths?" My question forced Glenn to take his attention off of Ivy and look at me once more. Glenn stood there for a second looking me over trying to determine if I was being genuine in my surprise or trying to lead him on. "And why are you looking at me as if I am a suspect?" I did nothing to hide the anger in my voice as Glenn continued to analyze me.
Ivy tore my attention off of Glenn when she shoved the finger stick and amulet into my hand, both of which I gladly accepted. Taking the finger stick I pricked the end of my finger and massaged three drops of blood onto the wooden surface of the amulet. I tied the string around my neck and dropped the amulet down the hospital robe I was dressed in. I felt some relief as the amulet hit my skin and the earth magic started to work. It wouldn't get rid of the headache all together but at least the massive pain in my head would subside and I could concentrate on getting out of this hospital.
Glenn waited a second for me to finish fussing with my amulet making sure it was snug against me before answering my question. "I don't think your a suspect at all Rachel, I know you. But there is something really off about this case. The I.S. didn't even bother to send out a crime scene team when we reported to them the interlander deaths. In fact when we called back they completely blew us off. We know this had nothing to do with carmilla rivalries or just a vamp party gone wrong. So there should be no reason for them not to get involved unless they already know what happened or someone scared them into not caring. I have a few contacts within the I.S. who are trying to help track down exactly what is going on but its going to take some time for them to get anything useful." I looked at Glenn and really wished I was able to do the one eyebrow thing to let him know he was going to have to explain more.
After a moment of staring at each other Glenn took a deep breath reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a small leather notebook. I had seen him use the notebook numerous time to take notes in while he was at a scene or interrogating someone. It was small leather bound with the F.I.B. logo on the front and came complete with a small silver pen with a matching logo kept in place in the spine of the book. Just like his suit everything else was standard issue at the F.I.B. He opened the little notebook and flipped to a page somewhere in the middle.
"We were able to confirm at the scene two humans, three living vamps, who were so badly cut up they were unable to become undead, and two undead vamps ashes. There were two other people who were injured and fled, and we have evidence to suggest three more people in the room. All of this does not include Bis or yourself. As far as we can tell Bis and yourself are the only two people who know what happened in that room." At this point Glenn pulled the pen out of its designated spot and gave it a click. "And you said Pierce was there with you?"
"Yes he was there..."
"Hey Rache you don't want to make this simple for us and just say he was the one who killed them all?" I turned to face Jenks glaring at all four inches of him. I knew he did not approve at all of me dating Pierce but this was getting a bit out of hand.
"Why would I say that?"
"Well its because of how they died Rache."
"How they died? What do you mean?" I was moving my head between Ivy, Jenks, and Glenn waiting for either of them to answer.
Jenks backed up a bit and looked to Glenn and taking another deep breath he responded "Well they all died in the same way. The crime scene guys were able to determine whoever killed these people was well practiced with ley-lines. I'm also willing to bet whoever killed these people are also responsible for your memory loss as well."