Evan stood in the palatial lobby of New Hope Plaza and checked his watch impatiently, Kate was taking her time getting to the lobby than was planned. It was busy Friday morning as people walked through the lobby heading to the elevators. He was also nervous as it was bad enough he was going to commit career suicide and probably end up being jailed on the hair brained idea from a woman who claimed to be from 134 years in the past.
"Dr Washington, no kids in tow today?"
Evan turned on his feet to face Clayton Russell, the man dressed immaculately in a black pin stripe suit. The two shook hands in greeting, it wasn't unusual for Clayton to talk with him as he was a hands on boss. He knew all of his employees by name and some personal tidbit about them.
"Olivia was struggling this morning so I thought it best to keep her indoors" Evan said, it was common knowledge his daughter had poor health due to the air quality. He gave a jovial smile at his boss Clayton, he was a good boss made sure his employees were never without. His company provided many benefits to entice the crème de la crème of scientists and professionals.
"Very wise, are you waiting for someone?" Clayton asked as he noted Evan's eyes wondering around the lobby looking for someone.
"Yes, that would be me. Mr Russell" Kate said drawing the men's attention. Evan was relieved to see her. Clayton smiled and held out his hand to her. She had a somewhat calm and professional demeanour.
"You know my name but I don't believe I had the pleasure" Clayton said to her, Evan watched as she gave a slight blush and a smile.
"Jacqueline Washburn and the pleasure is mine to be in your presence I'm a fan of your philanthropic ventures and keeping the hope of Terra Nova alive in these grim days" Kate said she looked to Evan. "I apologise for being late but traffic from central transit was shocking this morning" Kate said.
"Oh and where did you come in from?"
"Moscow Dome" Kate said.
"That's a long way to transit. I heard the air quality has been poor there since the large scale riots occurred in the southern quarter" Clayton remarked.
"The glass has finally been replaced in the south quarter but the air is still quite toxic but you know the Russians they smoke and drink so what's a little bit of pollution as long as the vodka keeps pouring?" Kate said, Clayton chuckled and gave a nod.
"Indeed" he said in agreement.
"While the work in the domes has been an experience I have been suffering quite poorly because of the air which is why I couldn't resist the jaunt to here when Evan called" Kate said, Evan was amazed Kate didn't miss a beat but then he had watched her prepare herself not missing the smallest detail as she spoke with a highly cultured Boston Brahim accent. She even had feminine gestures and the whole façade of a woman of the upper echelon of society would have down to an art as Evan was fooled even though he knew it was just an act. It was impressive.
"So you and Evan know each other how?" Clayton asked as he was wrapped into the façade of a cultured high societal woman in his presence.
"Old College alumni, he tracked me down and informed that I should check out his work place as I was thinking about applying to the engineering department here" Kate said off handily.
"We do have some openings in that department what are your qualifications?" Clayton asked, Kate rattled off her credentials and Clayton looked impressed with what he was hearing and seeing as he kept letting his eyes wander. "Impressive" he oozed.
"I do try" Kate remarked.
"You know if you are free for dinner I'd happily go into detail about the positions I could employ you in" he said the innuendo not lost on Kate. "Unless you and Evan have other plans with the children" Clayton said off the cuff.
"No, we have no plans yet and I'll be in town for a week. So I can see the children another night. I would enjoy dinner with you Mr Russell, I still have to find a hotel to check into and get settled" Kate drawled, Clayton pulled out a business card.
"I'm old fashioned" he remarked as he pulled a pen out and wrote his personal number on the back of the card before handing it to Kate. "When you have found a hotel call me and I'll take you to Alinea for dinner. Does 8pm appeal to you?" he asked.
"It sounds very appealing" Kate practically purred while inwardly rolling her eyes at how easy men melted for a pretty lady.
"Excellent, I shall leave Dr Washington to giving you a tour of the facilities" Clayton said before walking away and leaving Kate to look at Evan as she waved the business card fanning herself.
"I got a date with your boss" she told him smugly in a low voice.
"Congratulations, maybe you could sleep with him and get me a pay rise" Evan told her, Kate laughed as they went through security. Once they passed through security with ease and Evan walked her through the motions of a tour all employers gave prospective employees in the hopes of wooing them.
She was shown through many labs and introduced to people she would never see again. They finally reached the main computer core of the building. It was a large room which was chilled to keep the super computer from overheating. There were four hubs in the room as Kate looked around casually looking impressed with it.
"This is the one of the three main core servers in the city. Beautiful isn't it?" Evan said as he watched Kate wondering how she was going to plant the data stick without anyone noticing it.
"It's amazing" Kate said as she looked at one of the hubs seeing several ports to insert the data stick. She palmed the stick and casually walked by the port and slid the data stick in and watched the stick turn green as it was activated and the information was accessed. "You really got it all set up for yourself. I want to see you labs" Kate told him with a smile.
"Well come this way" Evan said directing her out of the room.
"Do you recognise this woman?" Clayton asked Taylor, Jim and Guzman as he held up a plex showing a photo of Brunette version of Kate with glasses. "She walked through my doors this morning and charmed the pants off me. I like to vet my dates before dinner and funnily enough she looks like this woman" Clayton said as he tapped the plex putting a photo of Kate's old service record next to the brunette version.
"I don't see it" Taylor remarked with little interest.
"Could be a Doppler ganger. My wife has one but she's Japanese. It's a little creepy" Jim said before going back to lying on his bed.
"I think it's Kate Renshaw" Clayton said.
"Who is he talking about?" Jim asked Guzman and Taylor.
"Bout some chick from past. That's supposedly going to be my breeding partner if I tell him all my darkest secrets" Guzman told Jim who looked up from his bunk and gave a shrug not impressed at all.
"You have dark secrets Guzman?" Taylor asked him in a mocking tone. They could see their banter was riling Clayton up.
"Oh I can see why you didn't sell out. She isn't much to look at is she?" Jim told Guzman. He was glad Kate wasn't around to hear them as she would have probably kicked him in the family jewels for such a remark.
"If you are so suspicious about her being Kate Renshaw why are you letting her walk around? Shouldn't you be chasing her down and putting her through the same treatment as us?" Taylor asked.
"Well I wanted to share my thoughts but as we speak my men are collecting her" Clayton said, he barely finished the sentence when the lights in the room began to flicker, a second later the fire alarm sounded.
"Have you got those co-ordinates and the other information we needed?" Kate asked him.
"Downloading them now onto memory chips" he told her, his hands were shaking as he tapped at the screen he had just witnessed Kate take down five burley ex special forces security men with little to no effort. The men were sprawled on the floor unconscious in his lab. He had been in some bar fights but even he was impressed as she did it all in six inch heels without breaking the seams on the dress though his lab was looking a little worse for wear.
"Done" he said and it was lucky as the computer started to malfunction and the lights in the room flickered. A second later the fire alarm sounded. He pocketed memory chips as he had copied down all the terminus schematics and research he had spent the last few years working on the take with him to the past. If everything worked out for the best he silently reminded himself.
"Ok let's go" Kate said as she opened the door gesturing he go first.
"What's going on?" Clayton asked when he ran into the security centre of the building.
"There is no fire" a technician said.
"Of course there is no fire!" Clayton snapped he saw the smiles on his prisoners face before he turned on his feet and left them. It was that woman and Dr Washington. He wondered what they were trying to do besides break Taylor and his men out.
"But the alarm systems aren't responding, we can't shut them off, people are currently evacuating" Miss Thornton the head of security said as she stood at the large plex screen trying to get it to work but the interface was barely responding to commands.
"That's fine, we'll say it's a drill. At least tell me we have Kate Washburn in custody and if not I want extra guards on the prisoners" Clayton said as he was sure the woman was responsible for it all but to what end he didn't know.
"Comm. systems are down sir. No one is responding but they only have the orders to apprehend her if she crosses their path. There is no way we can rally more security with the building being evacuated" Miss Thornton said as she flipped through the security feeds.
Kate and Evan walked down the fire escape stairs with everyone else until they reached the floor Taylor and the others were being held. Kate stopped at the guard, she kept her face down.
"I need to use the bathroom" she told him making motions of someone trying to keep their stomach contents down.
"Ma'am keep moving" The guard told her as he continued to waved his torch directing people.
"Oh I'm gonna be sick" she said as she clasped a hand over her mouth and made motions like she was going to be sick. The guard stepped out her way giving her access to the floor and she rushed to the bathroom with Evan right behind her.
Once the door to the ladies' closed Evan looked at her. "I can't believed that worked" he said but Kate held up her fingers and counted down from 5 when she lowered the last finger the door to the room was kicked open. Kate pulled Evan out of the way as the guard tried to shoot tazor prongs at them.
She then turned around the corner and thrusted her palm in an upward motion breaking the man's nose before she grabbed hold of his gun hand and elbowed him in the face. She then slammed the guard into the wall before allowing him to drop the ground unconscious.
The door opened and two more guards came in. Kate ducked as this time they had guns instead of tazors and scrambled for cover with Evan.
"Those are real guns" Evan said.
"No shit Sherlock" Kate said in a low voice. "Stay here" she told him.
"Come out with your hands up slowly." One of the men said, Kate raised her hands and stuck them out slowly.
"Don't shoot I'm surrendering" she told them as she put her head out the guards waved her out. She moved out into plain view and allowed one of the guards to come closer.
"Don't try anything cute lady"
"Ok" Kate said as one of the guards moved behind her.
"Hands down slowly" he told her as he pulled out plasticuffs.
"You hear that?" Jim asked as he pressed his face to the glass trying to see further into the room. He heard the voices of people fighting and gunshots and glass shattering.
"I hear the alarms" Guzman said as he and Taylor were trying to kick the door open as the glass wall was too thick to break. So far they weren't having any luck.
"Hey it's Kate! Over here!" Jim shouted, he pounded on the glass, Taylor and Guzman move to stand beside Jim and saw two figures coming towards them dodging between desks and chairs when the lights flickered on Taylor saw it was indeed Kate and a man he never thought he'd see coming to his rescue. Evan Washington. He seemed to be holding Kate up as they got closer it became apparent as to why.
"Hey guys" Kate said in a dazed tone as Evan held her up.
"What happened to you?" Taylor asked as he saw the blood trailing down the side of her face from her cheek and a busted lip.
"This? It's nothing, just a mere flesh wound." Kate said in a slightly dizzy tone as Evan helped her sink to the ground.
"She tried to catch a bullet with her head" Evan told them.
"Yeah, I missed and hit my head on the table" Kate said begrudgingly as she blinked a few times. "But I'll be fine. What about you guys? Oh Evan Washington this is…" Kate made the introductions as Evan pulled out a laser scalpel.
"Nice to meet you all but if you could move to the left of the cell that would be appreciated" Evan said, Taylor notice the man was looking a little worse for wear with a shiner of black eye forming. The men inside moved out of the way and Evan cut a large hole in the glass and pushed the piece into the room. It fell with a heavy thud and the occupants carefully moved out of the cell so as not to burn themselves on the still hot edges of the glass.
"Yeah, we need to get going otherwise we won't reach our destination in time" Kate said, Evan pulled out a memory chip and handed it to Taylor before he helped Kate off the ground.
"This chip has the location and times of the next three rifts there is another rift forming in 40 minutes and don't lose that as it has half of my research on it" Evan said as he didn't want to waste any more time than necessary he could be an asshole to Taylor later.
"You need a hand with her?" Jim asked Evan.
"Nah, she's a skinny little thing" Evan said as he held her up by the waist and her arm slung over his shoulders.
"A skinny little thing that can kick your ass" Kate told Evan who chuckled at her. The others smiled and chuckled while Kate moaned in pain they moved. "Oh I'm going vomit" She said, Evan stopped and Kate took a few breaths "No, no false alarm...I'm good" Kate told them
Her head was pounding and nausea rolled over her in waves. She still felt a little dazed from when her head hit the table when the guard who had been standing behind her fell on top of when his partner accidently shot him in the face after Kate used the gun the guard behind her to shoot him first.
"Ok lead the way" Taylor said to them. Evan took lead with Kate as they rushed to the east fire exit stairwell. It took them 20 minutes to get outside and slip through the crowds of employees who were trying to get their names checked off for the evacuation protocols.
"Mira is waiting for you guys in that parked sedan over there. Mira has a plex to access the chip but if it doesn't work you need sector 8" Kate rattled off the street location as she pressed a hand to her forehead "Evan and I will meet you there" Kate said before she and Evan disappeared into the crowds.
"This is insane" Guzman said as they walked to the car and spotted Mira in a silver car with a little girl they assumed to be Sienna, they felt the urgency to get as far away as they could from the area and to get to the rift as they didn't have rebreathers on.
"What is going on, why haven't the backup generators kicked in to stabilise the power loss?" Clayton demanded as the electrical systems were flicker and disconnect. He was glad he wasn't epileptic as he was sure he would have had a seizure from the all the flashing screens but it was definitely giving him a migraine along with the alarm.
"I don't know sir the systems aren't responding" the technician as power shut off in the room. After a few moments partial power returned and the large plex screens flickered and the pixilation of the screens were poor as computer script ran across the screen at a rapid speed.
"What is that?" Clayton said.
"It's a virus" Miss Thornton said as she looked at it in awe.
"How did it break through out defences? We have the state of the art protection against malware and viruses" Clayton asked.
"I don't know but if I'm reading this correctly it's eating up everything sir"
"Make it stop" he told the woman. Miss Thornton moved to the manual console in the room and pushed the technician out of the way and started typing at a rapid pace.
"I can't, it's adapting and spreading sir. It's breeched the firewalls it's spreading to throughout the core servers not just this building but the city's core servers" Thornton said, the emergency doors open to the room.
"What?! that's impossible, fix this now! Don't stop!" Clayton ordered her as Miss Thornton froze her expression was one of true horror.
"It's too late. I can't stop it" She said, the power went out completely. Dead silence as everything came to a halt.
"The car's stopped" Evan said it wasn't the only thing as every light and power source flickered and went dark. The city was in a complete blackout.
"I know, we have to get out the car and keep moving" Kate said as she put on rebreather unbuckled her seat belt and turned to in her seat to help Maddy put the kids rebreathers on.
Kate opened the door and moved the back of the car and lifted Olivia out of her seat and held the little girl while Evan picked up Sean and the huge backpack he had packed for himself and the kids. Maddy pulled out her sensor gear that was still functioning. It was the only source of light in the whole area as the city was completely dark. Even the constant sounds of Air filtration systems and vents had ceased, the area was quiet with exception of people talking and wondering what was going on.
"Two blocks up on the left" Maddy said as turned off the plex to not draw attention to herself as they moved quickly. They made it to the alleyway just as pandemonium broke as people thought it was the end when no backup generators kicked in, no power, no air filtration systems working it meant the end of the world with a slow death.
"How's your head?" Evan asked Kate as they hid in the side alley with the kids. Now they were just waiting for Mira and her group to join them.
"Like I just woke up from a three day bender in Vegas" Kate told him.
"Maybe I should take Olive" Evan said with concern.
"I won't drop her. Promise" Kate assured him, even so Olivia was nearly strangling Kate with her little pudgy arms as she held onto Kate. She adjusted the little girl on her hip and stood up when she saw Taylor and the other running their way. She rubbed the little girl's back in a soothing gesture.
"Hey sorry we took so long, power has gone out around the city. Soldiers are starting to flood the streets. If we are going to go back now would be an excellent time before we are rounded up" Taylor said.
The streets started to be flooded with artificial lighting and the sounds of hum vees and a booming voice start calling out Martial law and for all citizens to return their homes and wait for processing from allocated officials.
"Oh great, I take it being found lurking in a back alley won't end well?" Kate asked dryly as Mira and Sienna moved into the Alley to stand near Maddy and Jim.
"You don't want to know" Guzman told Kate. Kate looked at him oddly as he sounded like he knew exactly what would happen.
"Maddy?" Taylor asked.
"It's forming just as predicte-"
Kate and the other turned to see Maddy, Mira and Sienna had disappeared. Evan stood completely frozen as he held Sean in his arms watching Taylor and the others follow suit and disappeared into thin air.
"This is impossible" Evan said to Kate as she was waiting on him.
"You can wrap your head around all this when we get back to Terra Nova" Kate told him, she held out a hand to him "Come on" she said.
"Is it going to hurt?" he asked. Kate heard the sounds of troops on the ground and orders being shouted around. They had to go.
"You won't feel a thing unlike me who has a cranking headache now come on!" She ordered as she grabbed him by the arm and pulled him and Sean toward her while she held Olivia with her other arm. He didn't even feel the transition or see it as one second he was stepping towards Kate in the alleyway and next they were standing in the middle of a jungle in solid daylight.
Evan blinked at the glare of the sunlight. Kate continued to pull on his arm and dragged him over towards two automobiles constructed for riding through rough terrain.
"You're clear but the rift is still there" Maddy said to Kate and Evan reached the rover and rhino. Evan looked around stunned by what he was seeing he held onto Sean as he didn't want his son running off to who knew where. He pulled off his rebreather and took a slow inhale, the air was so clean and fresh not even air in the domes was of this quality. He pulled his son's rebreather off and smiled as his son was too consumed with the greenery and blue skies. It was beautiful in comparison to the world they left behind.
"Hey girl, take slow easy breaths ok?" Kate told Olivia as she slowly pulled Olivia's rebreather off. The little girl gave a wheezy cough and struggled but after a few moments her breathing improved slightly. She was still noticeably wheezing with each breath which made Kate look to Evan in concern.
"She's having trouble breathing" Kate said stating the obvious as she pulled off her rebreather. She turned her face away as she gave a nasty cough the remnants of bad air still in her lungs affecting her. She knew exactly how the little girl felt.
"You don't sound any better yourself. I'll get the oxygen tank from the med kit in the rhino" Taylor said as he moved to the back of the rhino and rummaged around a few seconds later he turned the oxygen on and passed Kate a mini oxygen tank with a face mask attached.
Kate took an inhale and exhale demonstrating and proving to Olivia it was ok before placing the mask on the little girl's face. After a few inhales the little girl was breathing with ease and staring at Kate like she was her guardian angel. Kate had a feeling it was probably the oddity of real sunlight and the noises of the jungle and the greenry.
"We need to get you two back to the Colony ASAP. You both need medical attention" Taylor said to Kate as he inspected her head wound more closely and her pupils.
Kate opened her mouth to say something more but stopped when they heard the sounds of a rover approaching. A second later the rover appeared and Carter jumped out while Reilly kept the motor running.
"Hey Kate, you gotta come with me now" Carter said as he came towards them he stopped noticing the new people and Kate's outfit. He eyed Kate's change of appearance and the little girl as it was a stark contrast to her usual appearance.
"What's going on?" Kate asked him.
"Your Fiance has been injured it doesn't look good. Lt Washington sent us to get you" Carter said, Kate looked to Taylor.
"Go, take him and the other kid with you." Taylor said gesturing to Evan and Sean. "Carter you stay with us" he said to Carter who didn't really show any qualms with the order before he turned to Kate.
"We need to stay here and finish up." he told her, Kate nodded and moved towards the rover with Evan and Sean. Reilly sat in the driver's seat waiting. Evan and Sean moved into the back seat while Kate and Olivia jumped in the front passenger seat. Taylor looked to Carter "You have a spare comm. unit" he asked the man.
"Yeah, here" he said tossing one to him "Your wife has been trying to get a hold of you for the past 48 hours." Carter told him as Taylor watched as the rover drove away. He wished he could be in that rover but he wanted to finish up the scans to save them coming back. Instead he turned on the comm. unit and called Alicia.
Alicia and Elisabeth watched as rover drove into the main square and came to complete stop. Alicia had spoken with Taylor and told to expect Kate with three others in tow and for the infirmary to be prepared as they were injured which was why Elisabeth was at her side ready to go into action. They were however stunned when a brunette woman stepped out of the passenger seat of the rover holding a little girl with dark auburn hair who had an oxygen tank swamping her tiny face.
"Kate?" Alicia said as she recognised the brunette to be Kate, the whole look Kate was sporting made her completely unrecognisable.
"Alicia" Kate said as she walked over to her friend, tears streaked down her face and she held onto Olivia and the oxygen tank. Elisabeth stepped forward and looked at the little girl first.
"She's shy" Kate said as the little girl turned her face away from Elisabeth and Alicia and buried it in Kate's neck. "We came back from 2150 and she's been having problems breathing. She has a wheezing noise when she breathes. Her father knows more than I do" Kate said as she turned her head to gesture behind her.
Alicia looked behind Kate and felt her breath catch in her throat as she saw her brother walked up to them holding a boy who looked no more than 5 years old.
"You aren't in better shape yourself" Elisabeth said to Kate as she observed the head wound and the blood encrusted in Kate's hair and down her face. Not to mention the woman was having difficulties breathing herself.
"Ok but she gets treatment first" Kate stated.
"Come on we'll get into the infirmary" Elisabeth said ushering Kate and Olivia to the infirmary.
Alicia and Evan looked at one another in silence as they hadn't seen each other in over 10 years. He had changed so much, he had looked exactly like their father standing at 6ft 2 with dark brown hair and his father's brown eyes and olive complexion. He was holding a little boy to his hip.
"Evan" Alicia said as her eyes roved over him, he too let his eyes roam over her noting the changes in the years had made to them. His eyes landing on her pregnant swell of stomach covered in her maternity BDUs before hitting the rings on her left hand.
"Alicia, it's been a long time" he said with a smile. It eased the tension as she thought he still hated her for prying in his life. Obviously he had changed and she missed him and his presence when he wasn't a law breaking pig headed jerk.
"Too long, little bro and you have kids" She said with a small smile gracing her lips. Evan felt the familiar warmth of seeing her again, he smiled not realising how much he had missed his big sister.
"Yeah, this is Sean" Evan said as he introduced his son "Sean, this is Alicia. She is your aunt" he said, Alicia stepped forward tentatively and looked at the little boy who was carbon copy of his father except for his hazel eyes and smiled at him as he looked at her curiously.
"Hey Sean" she said. Sean smiled at her but said nothing.
"He isn't usually shy. Are you kiddo? Say hi to your aunt" he prompted Sean.
"Bonjour" Sean said making Alicia looked to her brother with an amused look.
"He does speak English, he's just being cheeky for some reason" Evan said tickling his son.
"It's probably too much time around Kate. Her cheekiness rubs off onto those around her. Come on we should see how your daughter is doing" Alicia said
"Thanks, her name is Olivia. You know it's just been a long couple of days. Kate said we could crash her house until housing becomes available. I don't know her house rules but you should come and hang out whenever you are free or whatever" Evan said awkwardly as he wasn't sure what to expect from his sister. Kate had informed him about Alicia's pregnancy and he assumed she was married from the large diamond ring and wedding ring. He didn't want to impose on her and her husband when Kate said she had the space for him and the kids. Alicia looked slightly disappointed for a moment when he said he was going to be moving in with Kate but brightened at the invitation to come over.
"I'd like that a lot, why don't we get you all checked out by the doctor and then I'll take you over there and get you settled in. I know the codes for the locks" Alicia said to him as they walked into the infirmary.
"Come on Olivia" Kate said the little girl was worse than the monkey, she was trying to coax the little girl off her so Elisabeth could take a look at her and run a scan but Olivia wouldn't let her go. Kate could not understand why the little girl was so attached to her.
"No" Olivia said burying her face in Kate's neck, Kate looked to Evan for help as he and Alicia came into the infirmary. Evan placed Sean on the floor when they moved to bio bed Kate was sitting on. He could see Olivia was exhausted and extremely fussy.
"Come on Olive, come to daddy" Evan said as he reached for Olivia but the 2 year old was stubborn and made a wailing noise and started cry as she buried her head into Kate's neck and holding onto Kate tighter.
"Here might as well get the face mask on her if she won't move. It will help with her breathing." Elisabeth offered in a friendly tone to Evan.
"Thanks, Olive is allergic to the combination of pollution and mould spores in 2150" Evan said as he brushed his hand gently over the back Olivia's hair feeling his heart clench as he didn't like his daughter crying. He was amazed at Kate's patience as she gently held the girl in her arms if their roles were reversed he would have been incredibly impatient wanting to know about his wife instead of putting up with fussy sick child that wasn't even his. Luckily they weren't reversed in this regard.
"It's quite a common malady from our time. An hour on the nebuliser will help clear her lungs." Elisabeth said as Evan managed to wrangle the kiddie sized face mask onto Olivia's face as the little girl was used to it and knew she had to wear it.
"Sorry about this" Evan said to Kate apologising for Olivia.
"It's fine" Kate said as she was given her own mask.
"Once the little cranky monkey falls asleep I'll come and release you" Evan said with humour. Kate half hearted chuckled and refrained from telling him that she wasn't a stranger to waiting for a monkey to fall asleep but kept her mouth shut as she felt her heart twist as she thought of Malcolm. She looked around the room but his body was nowhere to be seen as the other beds were empty.
"Ok" Kate said offering a weak smile as she wanted to know about Malcolm.
"How about I run you boys through our systems and start new medical files while the women get comfortable. I'm Dr Elisabeth Shannon I didn't catch your names" Elisabeth said, she directed them to the bed next to Kate's. Evan nodded as he picked his son up and followed Elisabeth answering all her questions about the children's health and medical history.
Kate looked to Alicia who stayed with her. She moved to Kate and looked at her head wound and clicked her tongue. "Can't let you out of the house for one day without you getting hurt now can I?" Alicia asked.
"Where's Malcolm?" Kate asked lowering the mask from her face to speak. Alicia pushed it back up.
"He's in the surgical bay, he needs a sterile environment at the moment. He's alive but his condition is critical. Elisabeth will be able to answer all your questions after she is finished checking you all over" Alicia said as she opened a draw on a trolley by the bed and pulled out antiseptic and gauze and started to clean up the gore and dirt from Kate's face.
"Ok" Kate said feeling overwhelmed with exhaustion.
"I need to lie down" Kate said, she awkwardly shuffled onto the bed and lowered herself down as Alicia made sure the lines of the nebulisers didn't get twisted up. Within moments Kate passed out of lying down. Alicia checked on Olivia finding the little girl was also fast asleep.
Evan turned around from watching Sean making sure the kid behaved himself to watch his sister clean Kate's face and tend to the woman's wounds without disturbing her.
"Ok we are finished. You can wriggle and jive all you want Monsieur" Elisabeth told Sean who jumped off the bed with glee. Evan turned to Elisabeth.
"Everything looking alright?" he asked.
"Yes nothing a little bit fresh air, exercise and sunlight can't fix" She assured him.
"Good to know, now onto the problem child" Evan joked as he moved to Kate and Olivia who was passed out. He carefully lifted Olivia off Kate and moved his daughter to the Bio bed for Elisabeth to do her scans.
"Is she going to be alright?" Evan asked gesturing to Kate.
"Oh yeah I nixed her nebuliser with sedatives" Elisabeth said dismissively, Evan looked at the doctor oddly but she just smiled. "Kate is a problematic patient herself. I need her to be well rested before I talk with her about her Fiancé. She'll be unconscious for an hour" Elisabeth told him.
"Is it bad? Her fiancé I mean" Evan asked he was wanted to know what kind of minefield he was about to walk into in staying at her place with the kids though it wasn't like he had anywhere else to stay.