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Chapter Thirty-Two

Patrick and Robin follow Elizabeth back into Jason's hospital room. Elizabeth walks over to one side of the bed while the two doctors stand on the other. Leaning down, the nurse speaks softly to him, getting him to wake back up. Opening his eyes, he smiles at her, then sees the others. Turning to them, he asks, "Okay, when can I get out of here?"

Robin laughs, knowing how much her former boyfriend hates being in the hospital, "You need to stay, at least for tonight, Jason. We want to keep you for observation and run some additional tests."

"You have a concussion, but we're thankful that it's not a severe one like we originally thought it might be," Patrick starts in. "However, we found something unusual in your blood work and have a couple of questions."

"Alright," the enforcer says.

"Jason, what kind of medications are you taking?" the brunette doctor asks.

Starting to shake his head, then realizing how badly it hurt, "None."

"Other than the antibiotics and pain killers that Liz brought you, have you taken anything else in the last month or two?"

Thinking for a few moments, "Occasionally some aspirin if I get a bad headache. Oh, and a vitamin, but I haven't taken that since I was shot. Why?"

"We found minute traces of a drug called scopolamine in your blood. We didn't see any record of you receiving a prescription for sleeping pills, anti-depression medication or motion sickness pills. We're not sure where the drug is coming from, how long you've been taking it, or how long you've been off of it."

"I'm assuming this is not something that is found in aspirin or vitamins? What exactly is it?"

"No, it's not found in those. Besides, what I just mentioned, in pure form, it's like a hallucinogen and can be used as a form of mind-control drug."

Shocked and confused, "How could I have something like that in my system and not know it?"

Explaining some of the research she had done since finding it in his blood panel profile, "Basically, if it's used for mind control, the person that takes it is fully functional. The drug leaves the person in a type of zombie state, in a state of compliancy, and complete open to being controlled, without remembering being told what to do afterwards."

"So you're saying that if someone gave me this drug, I wouldn't remember taking it?"

"Yes."

The ramifications were mind-blowing. Who in the hell would give him something like that?

Stepping into the conversation, Elizabeth pulls Jason away from his thoughts, "Robin and Patrick want to run some more tests to see if they can determine how long you may have been taking the drug."

"Okay…yeah, sure. I don't get it, why would someone give me something like that?" he voiced the thought out loud.

"We're not sure, the answer may also depend on if we can figure out how long you've been on it. Would you mind if Elizabeth goes and gets everything out of your medicine cabinet? I'd like to run tests on the aspirin and vitamins, just to make sure that no one has tampered with them."

"That's fine," the enforcer stated, wanting to get to the bottom of this.

"The good thing is that the drug is almost completely out of your system. So I would suggest not taking anything that you don't get directly from the hospital, and buying brand new bottles of your aspirin and vitamins, but keeping them somewhere else, making sure that no one else has access to it. Don't leave it in your medicine cabinet. If someone is adding it to your aspirin or vitamins, that's going to narrow down your list of suspects."

Turning to Jason, "I'm going to run home and get those things for Robin before I have to pick Cam up from the daycare. Emily agreed to watch him tonight for me, so I can stay here with you."

"Oh, I forgot I was supposed to meet Emily after lunch with you at Kelly's."

"I called her and told her what happened. I'm supposed to call her and let her know how you are doing. Do you want me to tell her about the scopolamine?"

"Let's wait until we know more. I don't want to worry her just yet."

"Okay. I'll be back in a little while." Kissing his cheek, she gathers her purse and leaves to get the stuff from Jason's penthouse.

A/N: I took some creative license with the drug scopolamine. It is a hallucinogen, and does cause a zombie type state. It is also used in sleep aid, anti-depressants, motion sickness and eye drops. The Nazi's used it as a form of truth serum. It is not easily detected in a person's system, as it metabolizes quickly. Apparently there is a special test that a hospital would have to run in order to find it in someone's system. However, it was the effects of the drug that was what prompted me to use this particular drug. Hint, hint: this will come up later, and is part of one of the mysteries of the story. Anyone want to take a guess where I'm leading you all? Read on!