(A/N): NOW WITH A BRAND NEW SUMMARY! YAY! So, the last couple chapters have been very relationship centric, so here's a break from the drama of relationships for some of the moving the plotline along stuff. Thank you to Milkamoo97, oOo KitKat oOo (I was wondering why you haven't reviewed in a while) and Dreamer1992 for your reviews! I don't own Big Time Rush nor do I own the episode Big Time Terror which is partly in this chapter. So, enjoy!
Chapter 35: Videos Point The Way
Kendall and James walked around the hospital. James looked around curiously, but Kendall was focused on the path in front of him. He seemed to be searching for something.
Suddenly, James got a text. He looked down at it for a second before turning to Kendall, "Logan and Carlos are coming here."
"Text Katrina and tell her to go home without us," Kendall instructed, not even looking at James.
"Okay, what is going on?" James asked while he texted Katrina.
"I told you," Kendall began, "We're exploring!"
"We're doing something else and I need to know your plan," James told him as he finished the text and put away his phone.
Kendall stopped outside a door and James had to backtrack after accidently continuing on. He came back as Kendall read over the label of the room.
Smiling, Kendall mentioned, "Here it is." He opened the door and went inside. James raised his eyebrows in confusion before he read over the door's label. It was the surveillance room. James finally understood. He walked in to find Kendall looking over the disks.
"So, we're looking for the DVD from two years ago last Friday so that we can find Evan and track him down?" James assumed.
"See," Kendall turned to him with a smile, "I didn't need to tell you. You figured it out! Unlike me and these disks."
"What do you mean?" James looked over the DVDs. "Oh, that's what you mean." The disks were labeled in some sort of code that neither of them could figure out right away. It would take a long time to figure out which one they were looking for. "I'm guessing it's time to wait for Logan to get here."
"Yep," Kendall agreed. "Let's get out of here before we're caught and wait for him and Carlos."
"You do realize that Katrina's really mad at us for sticking her with Gustavo," James mentioned to Kendall as they waited outside the hospital for Carlos and Logan to show up. James had just gotten his twelfth text from Katrina in the past eight minutes. All of them described something annoying that Gustavo was doing to cheer up Katrina. He had even roped her into playing a video game with him even though she had no chance since she could only use one hand. At the end of most of the texts, she had written how much she hated James and Kendall for leaving her alone with their monster of a producer.
"She'll get over it once we find her brother," Kendall wrote it off. "Look, there's Logan and Carlos." The two boys ran up to Kendall and James, a little out of breath after having to walk the entire way. "Logan, please tell me that you're not too mad at Katrina to help us find her brother."
"Why would I be mad at Katrina?" Logan asked.
"Because she did that shoot with James," Carlos reminded him.
Logan got stiff at this and so Kendall added, "Remember that Katrina's a model. She will do stuff like that. A lot of models do."
"But Katrina's so innocent and fragile," Logan commented, "She shouldn't be doing sexy shoots like that. She's only sixteen!"
"Dude," James piped up, "You didn't see her at the shoot. She was so tense at first, not comfortable at all, until the music came on. Then it was like she was a natural. Katrina can take on anything. She was born to be famous."
"She literally was," Kendall agreed, "Don't you remember what she told us? Her parents raised her to be famous. Katrina was just doing her job. It's just a coincidence that Katrina happened to be working with one of your friends."
"That's the hard part to take in," Logan admitted. "I'm not mad at her. I'm just frustrated that she's going to be on the walls of millions of guys."
"And you're going to be on the walls of millions of girls one day," Carlos reminded him. "How do you think that makes her feel?"
"Whatever," Logan dismissed it, "I'll help. I still want to see Katrina happy, no matter what. So, what's the plan?"
Kendall took on his devious smile, "Come on." He ran inside with his three friends following him.
"So, which one is it?" Carlos asked Logan. The four boys were in the surveillance room again. Logan had a notepad in his hand and he was trying to sort out the code of the videos.
"Give me a second!" Logan told him, "I need time to figure this out!"
"Take all the time you need," Kendall assured him, "James is still covering the door, right?"
"Right," James nodded his head. He was standing by the door that was open a crack. He was looking through the small opening, making sure that no one was heading their way.
"Okay, just keep quiet while I figure this out," Logan instructed. "Let's see, if I carry the two here. And the circle means this month. If alpha means this and beta means that, then what does gamma mean? Oh, wait. I've been looking at this wrong. The alpha, beta, gamma thing goes with this set of numbers, not that one. Now, what do these letters mean? Oh, this must be the room…"
"Can you say this in your head?" Carlos broke Logan's concentration, "You're giving me a headache."
"Sorry Carlos," Logan replied. "I need to talk this out, but I've got it now."
"Really?" Kendall looked enthusiastic, "Well, which one is it?"
"It's not here," Logan responded.
"WHAT?" James, Kendall and Carlos called out.
"See, I've figured out what the code would be, but it's not anywhere with these DVDs. It looks like someone's already taken the video. I've found the ones for the day before and after, but none for that actual day," Logan explained. "I wonder why someone would take this video."
"Maybe someone wanted to keep it from prying eyes," Came a voice from the doorway. James had forgotten to watch it after finding out about the tape being missing. The group of boys turned to look at the older man standing in the doorway, staring at them.
"So, how much trouble are we in?" Kendall cut straight to the chase.
"That depends," the man spoke to them, "Who are you, what are you doing here and what are you looking for?"
"We're friends with Katrina Wolff," Carlos told him, being completely honest. "We're looking for the video of the day of the Wolff Family Tragedy so that we can find Evan for her." Kendall, Logan and James looked at Carlos accusingly, thinking that they would get into bigger trouble because of him.
"Then you'll need to come with me," the man replied.
"Why?" Logan seemed suspicious and a little scared.
"Because I'm Dr. Samuels and I was Katrina's main doctor when she was under intensive care two years ago," the man explained. "I hid the video so that the paparazzi wouldn't find it. I was hoping that one day someone would come by to help solve this mystery."
"We'll do the best we can," Kendall responded. "Can you show us where the tape is now?"
Dr. Samuels nodded, "Follow me." The boys followed him out of the surveillance room.
"It's in here," Dr. Samuels told them. He unlocked the door to his office and led the boys inside. The guys looked around the plain room. There were no pictures of family members and no color to be found. Everything was white, grey or black. Dr. Samuels went over to a safe that was in the wall and opened it. He pulled out two disks and handed them to Logan.
"Thank you so much," Kendall shook the doctor's hand. "This will mean a lot to her."
"Just be careful around her," Dr. Samuels warned them. "Keep her occupied."
"Why?" James asked. "Is there something wrong with her?"
"You boys might want to sit down," Dr. Samuels gestured to the visitors' seats in front of his desk while he sat down in his own seat behind the desk. The boys did as they were told. Dr. Samuels sighed before he spoke again, "If you're her friends, then there are some things that you should know about Katrina. First off, she still hasn't gone through her parents' wills. She doesn't want to take up that responsibility even though the deadline for it is coming up."
"There's a deadline to read wills?" Logan looked confused, "I thought that it could be read at any time."
"Most can," Dr. Samuels went on, "But the Wolffs put a deadline on theirs so that no one could take advantage of it. The deadline is Evan's supposed to be graduation date. At that point, they would have made a new one, if they were still living. The second thing is that Katrina has a mental illness."
"PTSD," Carlos, James, Logan and Kendall all replied, "We know."
"Yes," Dr. Samuels seemed surprised that they knew this, "But her PTSD actually came with depression. A nurse once caught her in an attempt of suicide."
"WHAT?" the boys stood up in their surprise.
"And we left her alone with Gustavo," Kendall remembered.
"Oh, this is bad," James mumbled.
The guys ran for the door, but before they could leave, Dr. Samuels called out to them, "Wait! There's one more thing!" They stopped at the door to look at him. "After a lot of searching, we found a living relative of Katrina's."
"WHAT?" the boys yelled out again, "WHO?"
Dr. Samuels hesitated, "We don't know. This relative would be Katrina's aunt, but when we tried to contact her, there wasn't an answer. Recently, the number just went out of service, so I don't know what happened to her."
"Why did you search anyways?" Carlos asked, "What's in it for you?"
Dr. Samuels sighed, "It was the way I saw her brother act around her. It was the miracle that she ended up alive after all of that. Being around Katrina really gives a person the feeling of humanity. There's something about her that makes you want to be a better person. Have you felt that?"
The boys looked at each other, thinking about what they were like when they were around her. Although they mostly caused trouble for her, they did get her to open up to them. They looked back to the doctor, nodding their heads.
"Keep her around," Dr. Samuels advised, "She could use all the friends that she can get." The boys nodded again before they ran from the room, Logan still holding onto the disks.
James, Kendall, Carlos and Logan burst through the door to the apartment. They found Gustavo jumping on his bed, wearing his pajamas already even though they hadn't had dinner yet and playing a video game. Mrs. Knight and Katie were nowhere to be found. Katrina was sitting at the dining table, banging her head against the table repeatedly. The boys rushed over to stop her, Logan setting the disks on the table so he could hold Katrina's head away from the table.
"Katrina, you're going to get a concussion if you keep doing that," Logan told her.
"I DON'T CARE!" Katrina insisted. "I'D RATHER BE UNCONSCIOUS THAN DEAL WITH HIM!" The boys looked at each other, worried as Katrina went back to hitting her head against the table.
"We really need to get rid of him," Kendall spoke to them, "More for Katrina's sanity than ours." The other three nodded.
"Well, good luck then," Carlos replied as he pulled Logan towards the door.
"Wait wait wait wait wait," Kendall stopped them, "Where do you two think you're going?"
"To catch the ghost!" Carlos responded.
"There is no ghost!" Logan insisted right before Carlos pulled him out of the door, leaving it open.
"What do we do now?" James turned to Kendall.
"First, we're going to stop Katrina from damaging her brain," Kendall grabbed hold of Katrina to stop her from hitting her head. She tried to pull herself away, but Kendall had a good enough grip that she couldn't get away. So instead, she leaned into him and burst into tears. Kendall and James looked at her with wide eyes.
"I can't do anything!" Katrina whined into Kendall's shirt. "I'm a useless person! I'm not even needed at my own business anymore! Logan hates me!"
"What should we do?" James whispered to Kendall.
"Katrina," Kendall ignored James's question, "We're going to get rid of Gustavo, but we might need your help."
She stopped crying and looked up at him with a serious expression on her face, "I'm in."
"Okay, just wait right here while we try something first," Kendall pried his shirt away from Katrina's grip. Katrina nodded, a few tears still rolling down her face, but she seemed to be starting to cheer up.
Kendall and James walked away from Katrina who looked over at the DVDs on the table. Her curiosity got the better of her and she grabbed them. She looked over to watch as the guys approached Gustavo.
"Gustavo," Kendall began, "Hey, we know you need some new songs for the album."
"So," James went on, "How about this one?"
Then both boys began to sing, "Please don't stay another moment. We don't wanna hear more words spoken. Walk out through the door. Oh, look, IT'S OPEN! And you snore in the dark. And it's freaking us out!" Gustavo paused his game so he could look at the boys. Katrina leaned forward, thinking that the horrible song would have made Gustavo see sense.
"Bad right?" James commented.
"Terrible," Kendall added.
"It sucks!" Katrina called out from the table. James and Kendall gestured to her as though proving a point.
"You know, you should probably go back to the mansion and write a new song!" Kendall suggested.
"A better song for the album!" James continued. Kendall held up Gustavo's suitcase, James held up a box of fishsticks and Katrina showed up at his side leaning on her good foot, holding up the directions to Gustavo's mansion.
Gustavo looked at the items being offered to him for a second before telling them, "Nah, let's go with yours." He went back to the game. All three of the teens' faces fell as they dropped the stuff to the ground. They stared at Gustavo who then spoke to them again, "I'm skiing down the Alps!"
Katrina went back over to sit at the table, sighing in aggravation. The boys sat on either side of her, looking as depressed as she was.
"So," Katrina started, "What are these DVDs for?" She held them up, showing what she meant, "They don't have any label that I can understand." Both boys went wide eyed at this.
"Nothing!" James and Kendall insisted as Kendall pulled the disks from Katrina's hand. She raised her eyebrows at this.
"What are you guys hiding?" Katrina asked.
"Nothing!" Kendall and James repeated, giving her innocent smiles. Katrina looked confused.
"Then you wouldn't mind if I watched it with you?" Katrina told them.
James looked worried for a second, but Kendall kept his cool, "Sure, we just have to wait until Gustavo finishes up with his game! Then, we can ask him to join us too!" Katrina's eyes went wide.
"You know what?" Katrina laughed nervously, "I don't really need to watch it with you! What's the next plan to get Gustavo out?"
"Well," Kendall began, "First, we-"
Suddenly, Mrs. Knight came into the room and smiled at them, calling out, "Who wants dinner?"
"-Eat dinner," Kendall finished.
"Ooh!" Gustavo called out as he jumped on his bed, "What's for dinner?"
"Chicken sandwiches," Mrs. Knight answered as she walked into the kitchen to prepare dinner. Kendall, James and Katrina leaned in to discuss their plan for after dinner.
"Why are you leaving me alone with HIM again?" Katrina complained.
"We can't really take you with us to get what we need," James explained. "Your injuries will slow us down."
"Injuries that you and HIM caused!" Katrina reminded him.
"It doesn't matter!" Kendall insisted. "Just go relax in bed and hopefully he'll leave you alone."
"Where is he anyways?" Katrina just noticed that Gustavo was nowhere to be found.
"WOO!" Gustavo yelled out as he suddenly appeared on the balcony, holding two cans of silly string. The teens looked up just in time to get hit with the string.
Katrina turned slowly to look at the guys, "Please don't leave me alone with him."
"I guess we could take you over to Jo's," Kendall suggested.
"Perfect, let's go," Katrina limped as fast as she could towards the door. James went over to pick her up so she wouldn't be in pain. Katrina didn't even put up a fight. She leaned against him as she sighed sadly. Kendall and James exchanged a look of worry as they left the apartment to take Katrina to Jo's apartment.
After dropping Katrina off at Jo's apartment and finding Carlos and Logan, the boys went back to the hospital.
"So, why are we here again anyways?" Logan asked, "Please tell me that Katrina didn't break something else."
"No, Katrina is safe at Jo's," Kendall assured him. "We need to pick something up from here, but I thought that this would be a good opportunity to check out these DVDs." Kendall held up the disks that held the video from two years ago.
"Can't we watch them at home?" Carlos complained. "I think that we need to catch the ghost first."
"Oh, yes, we'll watch it at home where Katrina can see it and then yell at us for continuing our search for her brother," Kendall spoke sarcastically.
"When you put it like that," James mentioned.
"Plus," Kendall went on, "If something happens in it, then we can check it out right away. So, let's go." Kendall led the other three into the hospital.
Logan, Carlos, Kendall and James were in the surveillance room again. Kendall put the first disk in the player to make the video show up on the screen. He fastforwarded it throughout the first part that had nothing to do with Katrina. Then two people were being rushed into the emergency room on stretchers. They were covered in blood. The boys paused it there and had to take a good look at the woman because they thought it was Katrina at first. Then they realized that it was her mom.
"Why does she look familiar?" Kendall asked his friends.
"Because she's Katrina's mom," James explained. Kendall took a good look at her on the screen for a second, before he shook his head and then pressed play. They skipped through it until two unconscious teens were brought in. They paused it again.
"There's Katrina," Logan pointed at her on the screen. "It's a miracle she survived all of those injuries."
"Then that must be Evan," Carlos pointed at the other teen. Even though he had a piece of metal sticking through his shoulder, he seemed be otherwise in much better shape than Katrina. They studied every part of him, making them realize something.
"He does look like Kendall," James observed.
"Yeah, it's kind of creepy," Kendall commented, shivering at the thought. "Let's just go on." He fastforwarded it through till it was almost midnight on the video where they saw Evan walk out of the hospital. At the midnight mark, the video ended.
"Is that it?" Carlos asked. "He could be anywhere."
"There's another video," Logan reminded him, "This one is for a hallway rather than the entrance."
"Let's watch it then," Kendall took the first disk out and put in the next one. "It's too bad that these videos don't have sound."
"There would be tons of different sounds that would interfere with finding the right one anyways," Logan told him. He got shushed by his friends as Kendall fastforwarded though it. They watched as Katrina and Evan were brought into two different rooms, one right next to the other. After some more fastforwarding, Evan was brought out, brought back in without the metal piece and then later walked out and into Katrina's room. They continued though it, watching Brandon show up and then leave. They also saw Dr. Samuels come and go periodically. Then suddenly, a whole bunch of doctors and nurses ran into the room. The boys watched with their breath held. Soon after, Evan walked out.
Evan stopped for a second, facing the door across from Katrina's room. He then turned to the side and headed down the hallway. He didn't go long until he stopped, turned and faced the wall. Suddenly, he banged his fist on the wall in anger. He pressed his forehead against it for a second. Then, he pulled away, determination evident on his face. To the boys' surprise, he didn't continue to head down the hallway, but went into another room. As soon as that door closed, the doctors and nurses ran from Katrina's room, looking around for Evan. They were long gone by the time that Evan did come out. He made eye contact with the security camera, smirked and walked down the hallway.
Nothing else of interest came from the video, but Evan's actions did leave the boys stunned.
"He knew someone was going to watch this," Logan figured out. "He might have left something in that room."
"Well, go back and find out what the room is," Kendall instructed. The boys watched carefully to find out what room it was. As soon as they got the room number, they ran out of the surveillance room to find the right room.
Searching hallway after hallway, getting weird looks from both the patients and the medical personnel, they finally found the room. Rushing inside, they found themselves in someone's office. They didn't wait long, worried that they would get caught, as they searched the room. Then they remembered that it had been two years and if something was there, it was probably gone by now.
Carlos fell to the floor, tired. Somehow his head ended up underneath the desk.
"What do we do now?" James asked.
"We could go back and find the video for this room," Kendall suggested.
"I think that disk was there," Logan tried to remember.
"Uh, guys," Carlos piped up.
"Not now, Carlos," James, Kendall and Logan told him.
"But-" Carlos started.
"We're trying to figure out what to do next," James interrupted him, "And we don't have the time to listen to one of your crazy ideas!"
Suddenly, there was the sound of tape being pulled off something. Logan, Kendall and James looked down at Carlos to find him holding a cell phone with a camera and a folded piece of paper.
"Where did you get those?" Logan asked.
"They were taped to the bottom of the desk," Carlos explained as he got to his feet. He opened the sheet of paper and read the only line on it, "'Watch the video on the phone.'" Carlos shrugged as he flipped open the phone and tried to turn it on. The screen never lit up.
"The battery's probably dead," Logan commented. "We'll have to find a charger for it." The other three groaned.
"Come on, James," Kendall turned to James, "We have to find a stretcher and then go get Katrina."
"And we have to get back to ghost hunting!" Carlos announced.
"There's no such thing as ghosts!" Logan told him as the four boys left the room, Carlos still holding the cell phone.
(A/N): Uh oh. Looks like they'll need to find a charger. How hard can that be? What do you think is on that video? And poor Katrina! Stuck with Gustavo! That must not be fun! And who is Katrina's aunt? Where could she be? What about Katrina's parents' wills? Is Katrina going to face them or let them reach the deadline? Tomorrow, my classes pick up again, so I probably won't be able to post. Plus I've got a meeting for my organization. I'll try to get something up sometime this week, but I can't promise when. Anyways, review! Until next time, happy reading!