(A/N): Hey everyone! Sorry it took so long to get this up. I had finals this past week. It's over now, so I don't have school until the new year. Be prepared for more updates.
Anyways, thank you to these people for your reviews: Dreamer1992 (Actually, I never thought about making Katrina a person that can turn into a cat. I was debating between making her a female werewolf or a witch. And then I saw a picture of a fairy and I was like 'that's what Katrina can be!' and then made her as girly a fairy as possible, just to get a kick out of it.), Just Lyndsey (Sorry you had to wait so long! It's a long one, so I hope that makes up for it!), Derba (The voting wasn't supposed to start until this chapter… But that's okay, I'll just mark your vote in!), niki1kendra (Yes. Drama. Tons of drama.), Reinoiswriting (Okay, I've put down that you've voted for Carlos. As for the story ending, no way. This story isn't ending any time soon. The only reason I'd end this story would be to start a sequel.), Witch Demigoddess (Dear God, no internet! How did you live?! Yes, you get to see a whole lot of Logan versus Natalie in this. Glad you liked Katrina as a fairy. That was one creature that wasn't described in Big Time Halloween so I could play with it as much as I wanted.) and Leah Garcia (I really hope that your sister gets better. I'm glad to hear that her injuries have gotten better, but sad that she's still in her coma. My thoughts are with you.).
I do not own Big Time Rush nor the episode, Big Time Halloween, which is concluded in this chapter. I also have no right to the song, We're Not Gonna Fall by Daughtry. And without further ado, here's the chapter!
Chapter 75: Waking Up
Scanning the security videos, James, Logan, Evan, Jo, Camille and Brandon waited for either Carlos or Kendall to show up. Natalie bit her lip slightly as she used her laptop to run the videos on the monitors.
"Jeez, where are they?" James asked.
"Maybe they're stuck on the floor with Katrina's old room," Evan reasoned.
"We can't find that out," Natalie revealed. "All of those cameras have been killed. There's no way to access them."
"There should be back-ups though," Jo mentioned. Natalie shook her head, indicating that she couldn't get a hold of the cameras.
Logan sighed, "Let me try."
"No," Natalie insisted. "If I can't get it, then no one can."
"Maybe you just need another view point," Logan suggested. Natalie stopped her typing to glare at Logan and then concentrated on the computer. "I've always been the smartest at my school."
"Valedictorian of Oxford," Natalie reminded him. "You can't beat that."
"You've got nothing left to lose," Logan offered.
"Actually, we've got three lives to lose," Natalie retorted. "And you don't know this software."
"I'm a fast learner," Logan continued to press for it. "Come on, let me try." He reached over to try and type on her laptop, but Natalie smacked his hand away.
"I'm suddenly reminded of that love/hate relationship between James and Kat," Brandon noted. The others winced as they watched the two smart people argue.
"At least this'll give Katrina someone else to hate besides me," Camille looked at the bright side. "Then, maybe she won't be mad when she finds out about-" Before she could spill the beans, Evan covered her mouth with his hand.
James furrowed his eyebrows as he saw the interaction, "Finds out about what?"
"Oh, it's nothing," Evan insisted. "Just something that Camille caught me doing that could be harmful to my safety. You know, boy stuff." Camille raised an eyebrow as she looked at Evan.
"Wait wait wait wait wait!" Brandon exclaimed. Everyone stopped what they were doing so that they could look at Brandon. "Natalie, go back to the last set of videos. I thought I saw Carlos." Natalie typed on her laptop and the last set of videos came on the screen. Brandon pointed to one on the edge. Emily was dragging Carlos down the hallway.
"Emily?" Evan stared at the screen with a longing.
"Oh no, not this again," Natalie complained. "Just about every blonde girl he sees he thinks it's Emily."
"Uh, this time it is Emily," Logan confirmed.
Natalie raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Oh. Let me just get the video moving then." She typed on her laptop and the video started to play. The group watched as Emily dragged the unconscious Carlos to a trash chute and dumped him in. After that, she jumped in after him.
"That little bitch is working for the Zizi," James realized.
"You don't know that," Evan snapped.
Camille removed his hand from her mouth, "Evan, she threw out Carlos."
"But, she went in after him," Evan defended the girl.
"Does it really matter what happened?" Jo asked. "Right now, we should go save Carlos!" The others seemed to agree as they raced out of the room, leaving Natalie to continue working on her program.
Katrina and Brandon walked into the lobby to find Logan's head by itself on a couch. Blinking, the two best friends stopped and stared. A growl rang through the air and they looked over to find Lightning guarding the other parts of Logan.
"What do you want?" Logan asked the dog. "There's nothing left!"
Brandon mumbled something to Katrina. Waving it off, Katrina responded, "Nah, I think he's got this under control. Besides, I really need to find Evan." It took a few seconds, but once she realized what just happened, Katrina gasped. "Holy crap! I just understood you! I am so doomed unless I get out of this dream soon."
Suddenly, a hairy creature walked into the lobby holding hands with a hooded woman. Katrina looked at the creature and immediately noticed that it had Evan's eyes. At the sight of Katrina, Evan pulled the woman out of the Palm Woods. Katrina gestured towards them. Brandon nodded and the two chased after him.
"Why do I have to go down the trash chute?" Evan asked the others. He had a rope tied around his waist and was staring down the trash chute that Emily had dumped Carlos in.
"Because you'll be more prepared than the rest of us if something bad should happen," Brandon reasoned.
"James, you better not let go of the rope this time," Logan warned. James nodded, remembering the time he had let go of the rope for a lucky four leaf clover and made Kendall fall down a well with Jordan Sparks.
"Just think about your precious Emily," Camille advised with an edge to her voice. "After all, she jumped in after she dumped Carlos down there." James and Logan looked at Camille in confusion, wondering why she would seem so offended by something like that. Jo and Brandon shared grimaces since they knew what was going on.
"Alright, I'm going in," Evan announced. That was the only warning he gave them before he jumped into the trash chute. The others skidded on the hospital floor as they held onto the rope, trying to keep from making Evan fall all the way in.
As Evan was lowered down, he looked over the heaps of trash bags, searching for Carlos or Emily. Lying unconscious on a few bags further down was Carlos. Landing on the bags, Evan waded his way through to reach the Latino.
"Come on, dude," Evan patted Carlos's face, trying to get him to wake up. "We gotta get out of here so we can save Kendall and Kat." After a second's hesitation, Carlos moved, accidently punching Evan and knocking him over.
Sitting up, Carlos looked over at Evan, "Whoops. Sorry, Evan." Evan glared at him from his spot on the trash bags. "Uh, please don't kill me. I thought you were Emily or Cody."
Evan raised an eyebrow, "Neither of those two are part of the Zizi. Although, I did send Cody to be one of my insider people. He's supposed to be deep undercover though."
"Well, his cover might have been blown," Carlos admitted.
Evan narrowed his eyes, "What did you do?" Carlos gave Evan an innocent smile.
"Evan!" Katrina screamed, jumping over a headstone as she chased her werewolf brother and the secretive girl. "You can't get away from me now that I'm a normal!"
"Actually, I can since you can't fly!" Evan exclaimed.
"Damn, I should have kept the wings," Katrina cursed to herself. Looking behind her, she saw that Brandon was barely shuffling after them. "Brandon, hurry up! They're getting away!" Brandon mumbled something back to her. "What do you mean I should watch where I'm going?"
Suddenly, Katrina ran into a stone mausoleum. Groaning in pain, she pulled away from it and rubbed her head, "Stupid stone structures. Popping in out of nowhere." Brandon caught up with her and grumbled. "Oh, shut up." She looked around for her brother, but he was out of sight. "Crap. Brandon, did you see where they went?" Brandon pointed at the door to the mausoleum. It was open. "Oh." Looking up at the name of the family owning the mausoleum, Katrina seemed taken aback by the word 'Wolff' at the top. Along the sides were the names of her parents and younger siblings.
"Well, let's check this out," Katrina decided. She took a deep breath and walked in, Brandon following her.
The group walked back into the surveillance room. Natalie looked up from her laptop to greet them with a smile before continuing her process of trying to decode the videos.
"You know what, Logan?" Evan talked to the smart boy. "I'm glad that you're the one dating my sister because Carlos is an idiot."
"I said I was sorry!" Carlos insisted. "I didn't know that Cody was undercover! Maybe Emily won't tell them!"
"Oh, she'll tell them," James replied.
"I still find it hard to believe that my sweet Emily would become so evil," Evan shook his head.
"Maybe she met a boy that convinced her into it," Camille snapped. "I heard that hot boys can do that." Logan, Carlos and James exchanged confused looks.
"Camille," Evan glared at her.
"Fine," Camille rolled her eyes. "I'll stop."
"Is there something that we missed?" Logan asked.
Evan and Camille shared a look before they responded, "No."
No one got a chance to press for more because Natalie groaned, "There is no freaking way to get a hold of those cameras and time is running out."
Carlos blinked as he watched the girl, "Who are you?"
Natalie held out a hand for him to shake, "Natalie Bird. Back from England to save your lives." Carlos gave her a smile as he shook her hand. "Now, your name is Carlos, right?"
Nodding, Carlos let go of her hand, "Yep, Carlos Garcia. Wanna see my helmet?" Natalie raised an eyebrow as Carlos pulled out his helmet from seemingly nowhere and placed it on his head. Logan and James facepalmed.
"Well, you're an enigma, aren't you?" Natalie reacted calmly for someone so invested in the rules of math and science. "I look forward to finding out everything I can about you and then writing a famous paper on it." She patted his helmet before turning back to her laptop.
Carlos turned to Logan and James with a giant grin on his face, "I have no idea what she just said, but it sounded good."
"She wants to study you," Logan explained.
"She can study me all she wants," Carlos decided.
"Well, maybe I wanted to get studied by her," James insisted. "I saw her before you did."
Before Carlos and James could fight for the dibs on her, Jo spoke up, "So, if you can't get a hold of that video, what are we gonna do?"
Natalie sighed, "This is the best I can do." After typing something on her laptop, a video came on one of the many monitors in the room. It showed an image of Katrina's original hospital room. They watched it intently. A head started to appear in the video and then the feed was cut off, waves of static replacing it. "Someone did some heavy duty erasing on this thing. I can't recover it." She stared at the video with interest. "I must learn this technique."
"What kind of poisonous gas are we dealing with anyways?!" Brandon exclaimed. "Because aren't some types of gas more poisonous than others or something?"
"Carbon monoxide," Natalie informed them. "That's what's been released."
"Concentration?" Logan asked.
"Heavy enough that if they're in Kat's original room, we have an hour to get oxygen to them before they're dead," Natalie revealed. Faces fell in the room. "And right now, they should be unconscious." She blinked as she remembered the reason why Katrina was still in the hospital. "Er, Kendall should be unconscious at least. Not sure what's going on with Kat. No idea what happens to a coma patient when they're exposed to carbon monoxide. Although, she must be having some funky dreams. It's been confirmed that people in medically induced comas have creepy dreams."
"And sometimes they pick up on what's around them and incorporate them into the dreams," Logan added. Natalie shot him a nod.
"So, we need to check that room, now," Evan realized.
"Which is why I talked to some of the doctors while you guys were getting Carlos," Natalie mentioned. "They've given us thirty minutes to check that floor for Kendall and Kat."
"Won't we get affected by the carbon monoxide though?" Logan pointed out.
"No," Natalie got to her feet. "Because their one condition is that we wear something that will make sure that we don't get exposed to it."
"Like what?" James asked. Natalie gave them a smile.
Katrina and Brandon crept through the crypt, searching for any sign of Evan or the mysterious woman.
"Are you sure that you don't know who she is?" Katrina asked. Brandon froze. Katrina raised her eyebrows. "Aha! You do know! So, who is she?" Brandon mumbled something. "Fine. I'll just find out for myself."
They went down a set of stairs to find themselves face-to-face with another door. It was cracked open a bit. Katrina took a deep breath before she yanked it open.
On the other side was the final resting place for the Wolff clan. Coffins housed the remains of her family members, sparing Katrina from the sight of their decomposing bodies. Two spots in the walls were left open for when Katrina and Evan would join them. Ironically, Evan was making-out with the hooded girl while sitting in his future death-spot.
"This is probably the worst spot in the world to have a make-out session," Katrina announced her presence. "Then again, this entire world is Halloweenish, so I guess it makes sense."
Evan broke away so that he could look at his sister, "Yeah, well, all the other places you seem to find me."
A smell attacked her nose and Katrina coughed at the stench, "Wow, she does smell!"
"Thank you," the woman spoke to her.
Katrina raised an eyebrow, "It kind of smells more like fish that have been left out for ages than decomposing bodies."
"Thank you again," the woman responded.
"Right," Katrina looked at the woman strangely. "Okay, let's find out who you are." Katrina stepped forward and grabbed the woman's hood.
"Wait, Kat!" Evan insisted. It was too late. Katrina had already pulled back the hood. She jumped back in shock at what she saw. Snakes came out of the woman's head instead of hair. A mask covered her face, lips cut out so that she could use them to speak, eat or, importantly to Evan, kiss.
"Snakes," Katrina noted. "Oh my God. Now, that's scary." The woman smiled. "But, you have a mask and I need a face. So, sorry about this." She grabbed hold of the mask, intending on pulling it off.
Before she could do just that, Evan knocked her out of the way. Unfortunately, it made Katrina do what he didn't want her to do: rip off the mask. Since Katrina was knocked out of the way, the woman's gaze fell upon Evan.
Suddenly, Evan turned to stone. As Katrina stared at her frozen brother, the woman covered her face and ran out of the mausoleum so she wouldn't make anyone else turn to stone. Brandon came over and helped Katrina to her feet.
Katrina looked over the stone sculpture that used to be Evan before she mumbled, "Uh oh."
James, Carlos, Logan, Evan and Natalie walked down the hallway in slow motion. The five of them were decked out in yellow hazmat suits. The plastic covering included gloves and booties for their hands and feet. Each of them had head coverings that were attached to the oxygen tanks on their back. The head coverings weren't on yet. Instead, they held them in their left arms as they strode slowly towards the stairs to the level with Katrina's original room.
Suddenly, Camille, Jo and Brandon stepped out in front of them, all three saying, "Why can't we go?" The four boys and Natalie were jerked out of their epic walk.
"Because you're girls," James responded. "This is a man's job." Brandon cleared his throat. Jo and Camille pointed to Natalie.
"I've had hazmat training," Natalie admitted. "That's why I'm going."
"And there were only five suits," Logan explained.
"Why didn't you just use the oxygen masks like the one's you're bringing to Kendall and Katrina?" Jo asked.
"Yeah," Camille agreed. "There are plenty of those."
The four boys in hazmat suits looked at each other and replied, "This is cooler."
"Ladies," Evan addressed them. Brandon glared at his best friend. "And Brandon. We don't have the time to argue. Two people are dying up there. It's up to us to save them. Now, boys."
"Ahem," Natalie reminded him of her presence.
"Er, and Nats," Evan corrected himself. "Put on your headgear and let's move." The boys and Natalie put on the head pieces, locking them in so no air could get in from the outside. They turned on the oxygen tanks and, with nods to the others, headed up the stairs.
"Crap," Katrina spoke as she paced in the mausoleum. "Crap, crap, crap, crap." Brandon mumbled something. "I know that repeating that word isn't going to make Evan human again!" She stared at the statue-Evan before saying, "Er, werewolf again. So, what should we do?" Brandon stayed as blank as a mummy could be. "Wait, Doc Rocque said that he was going to turn the guys into normals. If we can get Evan to Rocque Records, I bet that the machine will change him out of this sculpture thing that that Medusa woman turned him into and he'll be a normal!" Brandon tried to respond, but all that came out was murmurs. "I know it's a long shot, but it's the best one we have! Now, help me carry him to Rocque Records." Brandon stepped forward and the two of them lifted the statue and left the mausoleum.
Logan, James, Carlos, Evan and Natalie traversed down the abandoned hallways, on their way to Katrina's old room. As they reached the spot where the video feed had cut off, Natalie looked up at where the camera should have been. A wire had been pulled out.
"See," Natalie spoke into the voice box that connected her to the others. "No one would have been able to get a hold of this camera's footage anyways." Logan rolled his eyes, mumbling something under his breath about how he should have had a chance.
"The Zizi think of everything," James realized.
"Everything, but Natalie," Carlos added. Natalie shot him a smile.
"Come on, guys," Evan got their attentions. "We have twenty more minutes to find them before we're forced out." The others followed his lead to Katrina's old room.
The windows on the doors had been painted black so none of them could see inside. Logan tried the door, "It's locked."
"Which means that I'm in," Carlos declared. He turned to Natalie with a smirk. "Why don't you study this?" Natalie jumped as Carlos screamed, racing at the door. Her eyes went wide as he knocked it down, falling on top of it.
"Oh my God," Natalie mentioned as she stared at the open doorway. "I am so going to get a Nobel Prize for studying you boys. Then they'll have to consider me a genius, regardless of my age."
"We're going in," Evan gestured in. He led James, Logan and Natalie into the room, stepping over the groaning Carlos.
As Carlos finally got to his feet, the group's eyes focused on the hospital bed. Kendall and Katrina were both in it. Sweat rolled down their skin since the toxin in the room was causing their temperatures to rise. Although they were unconscious, Kendall's hands and feet were twitching while Katrina's nose did.
"That was easy," Carlos decided.
"Too easy," Evan spoke cryptically. "There's gotta be a catch here."
"Or they didn't see Natalie coming," James reasoned.
Natalie pulled out an oxygen mask and turned to Logan, "Ready?" He nodded as he showed the others another oxygen mask in his hand. The two of them went over to the bed. Logan placed an oxygen mask on Katrina's face while Natalie did the same with Kendall.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of clapping. The group in hazmat suits looked around for the source. Their eyes landed on the TV propped up on the wall of the room. Somehow, it had turned on. A Zizi member, hood covering his head, was on the screen, clapping.
"Well done," the Zizi member began. "You've survived the Big Time Tragedy with no casualties. Bringing in another player, now that was a low blow."
"Jeez, when will these guys let up?" James asked.
"When all of you are dead," the Zizi member answered. "Oh, and Ms. Natalie Bird, you're on our hit list now."
Natalie narrowed her eyes, "How the hell are you doing this? There's no electricity on this floor."
"We have our ways," the Zizi member insisted. "I'll admit we underestimated how tough you boys were. That won't happen again, thanks to the information we got from Carlos." Heads turned to stare at Carlos. He gave them a guilty smile. "Get ready because the next time you hear from us, two people are going to be ripped from your little group." The video shut off, leaving the group watching a blank screen.
"Carlos!" James exclaimed. "What did you do this time?!"
Carlos laughed nervously, "Emily was about to kiss me and then-" Evan stiffened in his spot.
James held his hand up, "Okay, I got it. She played you to betray us."
"Which two people?" Logan brought them back to the video chat they just had. "And why not all of us?"
"They must be starting to focus on getting rid of us individually rather than as a group," Evan decided.
"Yeah, it kind of seemed like you guys were the distractions so that we couldn't get to Kendall and Kat in time," Natalie reasoned. "None of you were in any real danger that you couldn't find a way out of. Except Kendall and Kat."
"Speaking of them," James mentioned. "We should get them out of here before the oxygen masks stop working." He and Evan grabbed the hospital bed and rolled it out of the room, Carlos following closely with the IVs still attached to Katrina. Logan and Natalie held the oxygen masks to the unconscious people's faces as they walked along with the moving bed.
The elevator doors opened for Rocque Records and Katrina and Brandon stepped off, carrying the statue that used to be Evan. Grunts and groans came from the two best friends as they turned a corner.
"Okay, I have to stop," Katrina insisted. The two of them set the stone sculpture on the ground before they stretched. "Damn. Either I have to work out or Evan's gained some pounds." Brandon mumbled something. "You don't have to say it. I know. Just give me a minute."
As she placed a hand on Evan's shoulder to stop herself from falling over in exhaustion, she overheard the sound of running feet. Glancing back, Katrina watched as James ran past with something under his arm.
Katrina blinked before she mentioned, "Was that James? Carrying Logan's head?" Brandon grumbled. "Huh. Maybe he didn't have things under control." A few seconds passed and Kelly ran past with Carlos. Kendall was unconscious on Carlos's back. When they disappeared into the practice room/laboratory, Katrina raised an eyebrow, "I wonder what happened there." A muttering came from the mummy. "Yeah, it seems like all of us are in some type of trouble. Anyways, let's get Evan in there." Picking up the statue, Katrina and Brandon followed the others into the practice room/laboratory.
"Doc!" Katrina exclaimed as they walked in. "Evan's been turned into stone!" She looked over at the machine that had turned her normal to find that Big Time Rush were already in there. James and Carlos were standing, Logan's head was under James's arm and Kendall was still unconscious even though Carlos had dropped him on the floor. The boys that were awake stared at the statue in surprise.
Gustavo yelled, "Get him in there! Brandon, you too!" Katrina helped Brandon carry the Evan statue into the machine and then backed out.
"So, what happened?" Logan brought up again as Gustavo fiddled with some controls.
"His girlfriend turned him to stone after I pulled off her mask," Katrina explained.
"Oh," Carlos, James and Logan responded, not surprised at all. Gustavo stared at Katrina with raised eyebrows as he pressed the button to close the boys into the machine.
"Now," Gustavo typed on the keyboard attached to the machine. "If I recalibrate the molecular molecules to hotness, set the doohickey to schmigglesmazzle, cross the streams and add perfect hair." He finished typing and reached over for the switch to the machine.
Suddenly, Jo and a random girl ran into the room. Kelly raised her tranquilizer gun and pointed at them as a security measure.
"Where's Kendall?" Jo demanded.
"Where's James?" the random girl held up a wooden stake. Katrina furrowed her eyebrows, wondering what mess James had gotten himself into.
Griffin popped in out of nowhere, "Where's my hot boy band and rock band with a sexy female vocalist?" At the last part, Katrina waved slightly to him.
"Press the button for dramatic mad scientist moment!" Gustavo instructed Kelly. She gestured to him before she did as she was told. Lightning came from the ceiling and struck Gustavo's hand. He gave an evil laugh as he directed the lightning to the switch, pulling it. The lights flickered and the building shook while the machine ran, changing the molecular balance of the boys inside. Katrina held out her hands, steadying herself. Griffin calmly let Gustavo have his mad scientist moment as he glanced inside one of the goodie bags. Gustavo turned off the machine and the door opened.
Out of the machine stepped the six guys, all of them normal. They looked at their hands in amazement.
"I have a body!" Logan exclaimed. He did a dance move. "And my limbs don't fall off!"
"And I'm not a vampire anymore," James realized. Smiling, the random girl put away her wooden stake.
"And I'm not green!" Carlos brought up. He seemed shocked by his words. "Whoa. And I can use pronouns."
"I'm not a statue!" Evan moved his arms around, happy that he could. "Although, I'll miss the hairiness, I can work with this." Dramatically, he popped the collar on his leather jacket, striking a pose. Katrina rolled her eyes at her brother's actions.
"And I can talk and be understood by random people on the street!" Brandon's voice rang out loud and clear. "This is AWESOME!"
"And I'm not a were-" Kendall began. He stopped at the sight of his girlfriend. Jo stared at him expectantly. "That you are here."
"Oh," Jo started. Kendall winced at her tone of voice. "But you think you can break-up with me with a poorly written text? P.S. I know fire is bad!" Carlos looked at Kendall guiltily. Katrina facepalmed, figuring out that Carlos had sent the text.
"I did not send that text," Kendall insisted. "But I do have something to tell you."
"What?" Jo seemed sad at his words. "That you're breaking-up with me?"
Before Kendall could answer, Griffin spoke, "Is this story going to take long because I kind of have a BIG night planned here."
Ignoring Griffin, Kendall turned to his girlfriend, "Jo, I'm a werewolf." Everyone leaned in to hear Jo's response.
"Duh!" Jo exclaimed.
Completely taken aback, Kendall replied, "Come again?"
Jo began listing off the things that tipped her off, "You think I didn't notice all the hair on your clothes; chasing cars when we're on dates; sniffing your outspoken werewolf cousin, Evan, in awkward places when you two greet each other –" Kendall and Evan shared a quick glance before Kendall looked back at his girlfriend. Katrina stared at her two relatives in disbelief. "– that weird marking your territory thing."
Kendall cleared his throat as the others watched in amusement, knowing exactly what that meant, "So, you're okay with this?"
"Why do you think I always bring a Frisbee when we hang out?" Jo pointed out. The two of them smiled lovingly at each other.
Griffin sighed, waving his hands. Kendall and Jo were forced into each other's arms. Griffin brought the attention back on him, "Very touching, but the last time I checked, it's not Valentine's Day, it's Halloween. Now, you've got rich people to impress!"
"Then let's party!" Everyone yelled. Griffin waved his hands and the entire group disappeared from the room.
Logan, James, Carlos, Evan and Natalie were greeted with claps and cheers as they walked down the hallway, rolling the hospital bed with Kendall and Katrina on it. They guided it into Katrina's new room where a space had been cleared for the bed and another bed had been prepared for Kendall. Once the bed was in place, they locked the wheels and moved Kendall from it to the other one. Backing away, they watched as doctors and nurses attended to the unconscious cousins. Both of them were hooked up to monitors, IVs and some more breathing apparatuses to help get rid of the carbon monoxide in their systems. The boys and Natalie removed their headgear as they watched it all take place.
A doctor broke away from the crowd of white coats to address them, "We should be able to find out how bad they were affected by the gas in a few moments. In the meantime, please give us the room. We'll inform you when you can come back in." The five heroes were practically forced out of the room, door shutting after them.
"Well," Evan spoke first. "That was rude."
"And now we wait," Logan realized. He and the others left to go remove their hazmat suits.
The door opened to Katrina's hospital room and a doctor came out to the sight of tons of people waiting for an answer. He spoke, "Well, they're alive. I can't say more than that." When the people tried to push their way in, the doctor held up a hand to stop them. "I need to speak with family members only now." With grim faces, Evan, Katie and Mrs. Knight broke free from the crowd and followed the doctor into the room, closing the door after them.
"What is going on?" Mrs. Knight demanded. "Are my son and niece going to be okay?"
"We don't know," the doctor admitted. "They're both in a coma now and we don't see any progress. If anything, they're getting worse by the minute. I'm suddenly reminded of the time that Katrina and Evan were here on the day of the Wolff Family Tragedy. A boy and girl that are relatives, stuck in a hospital room together after an attack?" Evan shifted around uncomfortably. "We can hope that they both pull through, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. Kendall has a better chance than Katrina since she's been in a coma before."
"So, we just wait?" Katie assumed. The doctor nodded. "You're telling me that you're going to sit around and do nothing while my brother and cousin are dying?" The doctor was speechless. "Yeah, that doesn't work for me." Before anyone could ask what she meant, Katie stormed out of the room. Mrs. Knight sighed, sitting down in a chair and placing her hand on her face in frustration.
"I'll leave you alone," the doctor told them. With that, he scurried out of the room.
Evan stood in the room awkwardly. After taking a glance at his comatose sister and cousin, he sat down next to his aunt. Reaching over, he grabbed her hand in reassurance, "Don't worry, Aunt Jenn. Everything will be fine."
Mrs. Knight shook her head, "You don't know that." She pulled her hand from him. Evan caught tears starting to form in her eyes.
Sighing, Evan got up and left the room. He ignored the questions from James, Carlos, Logan, Natalie, Brandon, Camille, Jo, Gustavo, Kelly and Griffin. Waving away the media trying to push cameras in his face, Evan stalked down the hallway. He passed by Katie leaning up against a wall, arms crossed as she schemed about what she was going to do.
Once he had lost sight of everyone, Evan shut himself up in a closet. With a rage, Evan slammed his fists up against the door, letting his tears of frustration out. He sunk to the ground, putting his back up against the door, "This is all my fault. I shouldn't have come back." His head fell into his hands.
"Ready boys?" Katrina addressed her brother and best friend. Evan scowled from his spot behind the drum set as he twirled his drumsticks in his hands.
"Let's rock this party!" Brandon exclaimed. "Man, I can't get used to having a voice!"
"Remember," Griffin got their attention. "Katrina, sell sexy." Katrina stared at him blankly. "Female-led rock groups are hot right now, but only when the female singer sings sexily."
"I don't like this," Evan insisted. Brandon mumbled the words 'singer sings sexily' over and over as if it was a tongue twister he was trying to get.
"Don't worry, Griffin," Gustavo assured him. "The first song I wrote for them will cement her as a sexy rock Goddess. As for the second song, well, it's a duet with Big Time Rush, so it's more pop."
"Whatever," Griffin waved it off. As Gustavo and Kelly got off the stage, Griffin announced to the party guests from the stage, "Now, for your entertainment, give it up for the newest addition to Rocque Records, Wolff Pack!" Clapping and cheering followed his descent from the stage. Evan raised his drumsticks and counted the band in.
Logan and Natalie followed Katie down the hallway, wondering why the preteen had asked for them to come with her. No matter what they asked, she would keep quiet about their destination. Finally, outside a door, she stopped and turned to them, "Inside this room is a laboratory. Carlos, Brandon, Jo, Camille and Tim are making a distraction for the scientists that are supposed to be in there." Logan and Natalie raised their eyebrows. "I tried to get James to help, but he said that he had something else important to do. You two are the smartest people in this hospital."
"Well," Natalie spoke up. "I know I am, but Logan here hasn't even been to college yet."
"I've done my research," Logan insisted. "If you gave me a chance, I could probably tell you something that you don't know."
Smirking, Natalie leaned over to get right in his face, whispering, "Try me." Logan narrowed his eyes.
"It sounds like you two can work together then!" Katie broke up their argument before it could escalate. Logan and Natalie looked at Katie in disbelief. "Look. My brother and cousin are upstairs, dying. The doctors aren't helping. The scientists aren't helping. Talking to them isn't working. They need two people to find something to wake them up. They need you two to discover something in there. And only you two can do this."
"Fine," Natalie crossed her arms. "I could use an assistant."
"Please," Logan glared at Natalie. "I'm no assistant. But I'll work with you as a partner. An equal partner."
Sighing, Natalie held out her hand, "Fine. To save Kendall and Kat, I'll overlook your lack of intelligence." Rolling his eyes, Logan reached over and shook her hand. "Now, let's do this." They walked into the laboratory.
Katie stared at the closing door for a second before saying, "This might have been a bad idea."
Evan glanced around the room as he headed towards the exit doors to the hospital. Even though there was press littered around, none seemed to notice the older Wolff leaving the hospital. Reaching the doors with no issues, Evan breathed a sigh of relief as he went outside. Night had fallen and the rain was still pouring down. After a quick look up at the hospital, Evan started out into the rain.
"Going somewhere?" A voice stopped him. Evan turned around to see a figure standing in the shadows of the hospital. The blonde didn't even get a chance to ask what was going on before James stepped into the light. "Kendall and Katrina aren't going to be happy with you."
"By the time they wake up, I'll be long gone anyway," Evan insisted. "I bring too much trouble to stick around."
James strode up to Evan and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, growling. "Listen, you. I will not stand by and let you leave your family again. Katrina would be devastated and, first chance she got, would leave. And you know what Kendall, my best friend, would do? He would leave too, believing that it was the right thing to do to save his family, just like what you're doing. Cause if you think about it, now the Zizi are targeting Kendall just as much as you and Katrina. Once the three of you are separated, it would be only a matter of time before we get news of your deaths. I can't allow you to start all of that."
Evan scoffed, "You knew I'd try and leave." James nodded his head. "You really do care about her, don't you?"
James chose to ignore Evan's words as he threatened, "So, are you going to walk back to the hospital room or do I have to drag you there myself?"
"I can walk," Evan responded. James let go of the blonde's shirt collar and led the way back into the hospital.
As soon as the two of them were inside, a commotion could be heard. They turned their heads to see a variety of dogs, cats, mice, birds and even a pig run through the room. A crowd of doctors chased after them. Right after the doctors, Carlos, Brandon, Camille, Jo and Tim ran in.
"Be free, lab animals!" Carlos yelled. "Be free!" James and Evan blinked as they watched the crowd disappear down a hallway.
"I really don't wanna know what happened there," Evan shook his head.
"Yeah, let's go," James guided Evan towards a hallway, heading back to Kendall's and Katrina's hospital room.
Katrina strummed her guitar with one last resonating chord to the thunderous applause of the crowd. She smiled out to the people gathered around, "Okay everyone. We have a surprise for you. We're going to do a duet with the one and only Big Time Rush!" Pointing to the back, she and the screaming crowd watched as Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan ran in from backstage. "And, I'm going to be dancing with them." Katrina handed her guitar over to someone that came onto the stage to take it. The boys gave her smiles as she stood in the middle of them. "Hit it!" The music started and the people began their singing.
Natalie bit her lip slightly as she counted the drops of a chemical fall into a beaker of liquid. Logan had a book in his hands, flipping through it as he checked for anything that might help their efforts. Whenever he would flip a page, he would glance up at Natalie with a scowl before going back to the book.
Putting her pipette down, Natalie turned to Logan, "I don't know why you're looking for a controversial method like talking to the coma patient or acupuncture. They don't work and give too much hope to the patient's family. What works is medicine."
Sighing, Logan glared at her, "We'll just find out the truth when my method works." Rolling her eyes, Natalie went back to her work. She picked up a new pipette. Using it, she took some bubbling, orange chemical out of a flask. With careful precision, she counted the number of drops she put into the beaker.
Suddenly, Carlos popped up next to her, asking, "Whatcha doing?" Natalie jumped and lost control of her pipette, dropping it into the beaker. The plastic pipette melted in the liquid. Carlos looked down at it and watched as the liquid changed from a light yellow to a deep red. "Oh, is it not supposed to do that?" Natalie turned a glare on Carlos. As instant as the color change, the liquid exploded in the beaker, covering Carlos and Natalie. Carlos reached over and wiped some of the liquid off Natalie's face. A second later, an alarm sounded and the sprinklers above Carlos and Natalie turned on, drenching them. Logan had to stifle back a laugh at their misfortune.
"Carlos?" Natalie addressed the helmet-clad boy.
"Yeah?" Carlos responded.
"You realize that I hate you right now," Natalie revealed.
"Yeah," Carlos spoke sheepishly.
Logan shut his book and got to his feet, "As entertaining as this has been, I have to go save Kendall and Katrina." Without another word, Logan left the room.
Natalie gave Carlos a smile, "You know how you can get me to like you again?" Carlos stared at her expectantly. Natalie shoved a beaker in his hands. "Be my assistant."
"What should I do first?" Carlos asked.
Pointing over to a lab bench on the other side of the room, Natalie directed, "Put that beaker over there and get me one that's labeled ACTH." Carlos nodded and ran over to do as she asked.
The boys and Katrina finished their performance with a pose for the crowd. Cheering erupted from the people as the music faded out.
"Give it up for Wolff Pack!" Kendall spoke into the microphone. Katrina, Evan and Brandon waved to the audience to even more cheers. Evan got up from the drum set and Brandon handed his bass over to someone who would be taking over for the next Big Time Rush song. The three Wolff Pack band members went over to greet the executives while Big Time Rush went into their song, Big Night.
"I say that our first performance for the executives went well," Brandon decided.
"Which means we'll definitely get our first album out there with no troubles," Evan added.
"Aw, band hug!" Katrina extended her arms so that Evan and Brandon on either side of her could give her a hug. They smiled happily as they hugged, a few fans capturing the scene with a picture. Once they broke apart, they still had smiles on their faces. "And thank God we're normals for this." The boys chimed in their agreement.
Suddenly, a poof of smoke enveloped Katrina. Once the fog had passed, it was revealed that Katrina had turned back into a fairy. Sparkles fell from her body. She couldn't stop herself from giving off a high pitched giggle.
"Uh oh," Evan and Brandon mentioned.
"Damn it," Katrina mumbled.
Logan walked into Kendall's and Katrina's hospital room, radio in hand. Mrs. Knight looked up from her book to watch him. She wiped away a tear that had run down her face while Logan placed the radio on the end table between the two hospital beds. He turned it on and music from Big Time Rush rang from the speakers. With a confident smile, Logan sat down next to Mrs. Knight on the couch.
"What are you doing?" Mrs. Knight asked.
"I read somewhere that if you play music that's important to the coma patient, they have a better chance of pulling out of it," Logan informed her. "Kendall sang on this song so it makes sense that he would wake up with it."
"And what about Katrina?" Mrs. Knight pointed out.
"I put in some songs from Wolff Pack and All Time Low in there for her," Logan continued. Mrs. Knight nodded her head and went back to her book. With a sigh, Logan pulled out one of his own. "And now, we wait."
A few minutes later, James and Evan walked into the room. Upon the sight of Kendall and Katrina still comatose in their beds, Evan tried to turn around and leave, but James stopped him.
"So, this is your brilliant finding?" James pointed to the radio. "Music?"
"It's been proven to help," Logan insisted. James opened his mouth to say something, but he froze at the sound of a groan. Eyes went wide as Logan, James, Evan and Mrs. Knight stared over at the comatose people. Kendall lifted a hand to his face as he repeated the groan.
"My head," Kendall complained. His voice was hoarse since it hadn't been used in the past few hours. "What happened?"
Mrs. Knight quickly went over to her son's bedside, "You were in a coma, sweetheart."
"How long?" Kendall could barely keep his eyes open.
"Six hours," Logan revealed. He looked at Mrs. Knight, "I'm gonna go get a doctor to check him out." Mrs. Knight nodded so Logan left the hospital room.
"And Kat?" Kendall checked.
"Still in a coma," Evan mentioned. He looked over at his unmoving sister with a sudden hope.
"Don't worry," James told the others. "She'll wake up. She just needs time."
Kendall nodded slowly. His eyes started to close and he mumbled, "Sleep." Just like that, Kendall fell asleep.
"Is he supposed to do that?" Evan seemed worried again. "Isn't he supposed to stay awake once he does wake up?"
Logan came in with a doctor following him to answer the question, "Actually, it's completely normal. It would be weird if he had woken up without any repercussions. Although, he'll have a speedy recovery because his coma was so short." The doctor came over to Kendall's beside and checked the machines attached to him. "And things are looking good. Let me just give him a quick physical to be sure." Right then, the doctor began to examine Kendall.
By the time that Big Time Rush had finished their song, Evan and Brandon had dragged Katrina over towards Gustavo. Griffin was talking to the 'doctor'.
"Oh, you did it again, Gustavo," Griffin acknowledged. "The boys were amazing, Katrina showed off her sexy side and the board members and investors loved the goodie bags." He was interrupted by a man running past, tackling a big yellow snake that was trying to eat him. "Except for that guy." He patted Gustavo and walked off.
Gustavo checked his watch which caused Kelly to ask, "Why do you keep looking at your watch?"
This made Evan and Brandon drag the fairy Katrina up to them. Evan pointed at his sister, demanding, "Why is Kat a fairy again?"
"I only had enough power in my hot boy band machine for a temporary transformation," Gustavo revealed.
"Uh oh," Katrina, Evan and Brandon mumbled, looking over at the stage that Big Time Rush was standing on.
"What does that mean?" Kelly asked.
"Well," Gustavo pointed at the boys.
Suddenly, in a puff of smoke, the four boys on stage and the two boys by Katrina all changed back into their monster forms.
"Yikes," Gustavo commented. Katrina couldn't help but to give off a high pitched giggle.
"This isn't funny, Kat," Evan insisted. Brandon mumbled his agreement.
"I can't stop it!" Katrina insisted. She watched as vampire James ran past with the random girl following him, a stake held out. Katrina raised an eyebrow. "Huh. Why have I never tried a stake to ward him off?" She giggled again. Brandon mumbled something and then shuffled off to mingle in the party.
Evan noticed something so he told his sister, "Gotta go." And ran off. Katrina watched him leave. He met up with the woman he had been making-out with earlier. Together, the two of them disappeared into the crowd.
"Who are you?" Katrina muttered to herself.
"Who is who?" Logan's voice made Katrina jump.
She turned to the zombie with a smile, "Oh, no one. I see you're whole again."
"I am," Logan nodded. "And would the pretty fairy like to dance?"
Katrina gave off a giggle, "That's fairy talk for yes." Logan grabbed her hand and, without a word, led her onto the dance floor.
The couple danced together, happy to be in each other's company. Logan leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek, leading to a giggle from Katrina. Of course, because of her sparkly skin, Logan had to spit out glitter that had gotten into his mouth.
"Sorry about that," Katrina told him. "If I could stop sparkling, I would."
"It's my fault," Logan insisted. "That's what I get for kissing a fairy."
"Can you help me out with something?" Katrina asked. Logan nodded. "Evan's dating someone and I want to find out who. Can we go find him?"
"Sure," Logan agreed. "Let's go." That said, he led her off the dance floor and into the crowd.
"Okay," Natalie announced, walking into the hospital room. "I think I-" She stopped talking at the sight of Kendall sitting up in his bed. "Oh. You're awake."
Kendall blinked as he stared at the girl, "Who are you?"
Before anyone else in the room could introduce her, Natalie stepped forward to shake his hand, "Natalie Bird. Saved your life. You're welcome."
Confused, Kendall shook her hand, "Uh, thank you?"
"You better be thankful," Natalie insisted. Releasing his hand, she turned to Logan, "How's Kat doing?"
Logan shook his head, "No change."
Natalie nodded before calling out, "Carlos!" Carlos came into the room holding a rack of test tubes. "Which one was the one that I told you to keep an eye on?" Carlos handed her a test tube. "And which one is the labeled one?" Carlos handed her another one. "Okay, if I pour the first one down Kat's throat and then follow it with the second one, she should be up in an hour."
"Whoa, what does that do?" Evan blocked the way to Katrina.
"It'll cause her to have hyperthermia which has been proven to help coma patients that went into a coma based on cardiac arrest," Natalie spouted off. Carlos nodded, having heard the statement earlier when he was helping her make the concoction.
Before Natalie could step around Evan, Logan stopped her, "Wait. Cardiac arrest is a completely different cause than overdose of anesthesia. I know my science. It could cause more harm than good."
"I know my science too," Natalie insisted. "Don't tell me that I don't know what I'm doing."
"Just wait for that as a last resort," Logan tried. "Let me try my methods."
"She could die with your methods of just waiting around!"
"Kendall woke up."
"Kendall was in a coma based on carbon monoxide. This is a different cause! He would have woken up by waiting anyways!"
"Exactly what I said before. Katrina's in a different type of coma than Kendall was and than those people that went through cardiac arrest. Don't treat her the same way."
"Fine," Natalie put the test tubes back in the rack. "I'll just get this supported by her doctor instead." She stormed out of the room. When Carlos didn't follow her, she called out, "Carlos!" With a quick wave to his friends, Carlos left too.
"What was that?" Kendall asked.
"That was a girl that's valedictorian of her class at Oxford after being there for only two and a half years on a full ride scholarship," James gave Kendall the quick explanation.
"Ooh," Kendall winced. "Katrina's going to be pissed when she wakes up." James nodded, having to hold back the smile that almost spread across his face.
"Why would she be pissed?" Logan asked.
"Seriously?" James responded. "You don't know?" Logan shook his head. "Come on. She's a genius, you're a genius, put the pieces together."
"I don't see the issue," Logan shrugged.
"I just woke up from a coma and I could see how much your relationship is like James's and Kat's," Kendall revealed.
"I don't see it," Logan insisted. He went over to Katrina's bedside and grabbed her hand. Kissing it, he whispered to her, "Please wake up soon." Kendall, James and Evan shared looks before they watched Logan and Katrina, hoping for the best.
Logan and Katrina peeked out from behind a tree to watch Evan and his mysterious girl run into the Wolff Family Mausoleum again. Katrina groaned in annoyance as she sat down on the ground, "Why do they have to always go down there? I still don't get the romantic side of it."
"She must be weird or something," Logan deduced, sitting down next to her. "So, now we wait for them to come up and ambush them?"
"I can't look at her face though," Katrina reasoned. "She turns people to stone when she looks at them." She let off one of her high-pitched giggles.
"So, she's a gorgon?" Logan assumed.
"Sure," Katrina waved it off. "What am I supposed to do?"
Suddenly, James came over and sat down next to them. Upon their inquisitive stares, James told them, "I'm hiding from Buffy. She's a vampire slayer."
"I'll slay you unless you come up with an answer to my question or leave," Katrina insisted. Her giggle afterwards made it sound like less than the threat it actually was.
James stared at her for a few seconds before asking, "This is about your brother and that Medusa chick, right?"
"Gorgon," Logan corrected. "Medusa is in apartment 3E and has a horrible temper. Turned the Jennifer witches into stone when they walked past her. Took ages to find the right warlock to change them back. This chick might be related to Medusa though."
"This is not answering my question on what to do!" Katrina exclaimed.
A second later, Franken-Carlos sat down among the group. He told Katrina right away, "Kat kill Medusa. Save Evan."
"Gorgon," Logan corrected again. Franken-Carlos glared at the zombie before ripping off one of his arms and throwing it across the graveyard. Logan gasped in offense, "Not Lefty! I just got done with losing Righty and now this!" Logan got to his feet and ran over to get his arm. Katrina couldn't stop a giggle fit.
"Franken-Carlos might have a point," James decided. "What if this chick is using Evan for something and then going to turn him to stone again?"
"Oh, she's definitely using him for something," Katrina responded. "A make-out partner."
Kendall came over to tell her, "And if you kill her, Evan will be pissed."
"Why do you guys keep appearing out of nowhere?!" Katrina asked the one question that had been on her mind since James showed up. "I asked Logan for help, not the rest of you."
"I can feel the love, cuz," Kendall replied.
"Why don't you just do your fairy pissed off thing because Evan won't tell you about this and then rip her head off?" James suggested.
"Carlos kill Medusa for Kat?" Franken-Carlos suggested. "Kat fly Carlos after."
Katrina blinked as she stared at him. A second later, she finally was able to get what he was saying, "So, in return for you killing this Medusa character, I'll carry you around while I fly in the sky?" Franken-Carlos nodded. "I can fly? Cool." She giggled at the thought.
"If you kill this girl, then the real Medusa will get angry with you," Logan reasoned as he came back to the group. "Because they're obviously related. Then you'll be turned to stone and we'll have to find that warlock again."
"Is there a way I can see this chick's face without getting turned to stone or killing her?!" Katrina brought up the real problem.
"Why don't you just ask Evan who she is?" Kendall came up with the obvious answer.
"Nah, that'll never work," Katrina shook her head. "He won't tell me because I'm his sister."
"Then, we'll ask him," Logan decided. "Come on, Kendall." Kendall and Logan left their hiding spot and went over to the mausoleum to go confront Evan.
After the two of them were out of earshot, Katrina turned to Franken-Carlos and James, "Okay, how do we kill that Medusa-like woman?"
Carlos came back into the room and sat down on the couch with a smile on his face. His friends and Evan watched him with eyebrows raised.
"So, what was up with you following Natalie around?" James asked
"She needed help," Carlos replied. "I helped her out. You know she's always right." Logan scoffed.
Evan came over to place a hand on Carlos's shoulder, "Don't look now, but you've just been friend-zoned."
Carlos's face dropped, "Wait, no. That can't have happened." Slowly, James, Kendall and Evan nodded their heads. "Aw, man."
The door opened and Katie walked in. At the sight of Kendall awake, a smile grew on her face, "Big brother. You're awake!"
Kendall held out his arms, "Come here, baby sister." Katie ran over to give him a hug. The others watched the scene with smiles on their faces. Evan sighed as he turned away to look at his own sister, wishing that she would wake up right then.
Pulling away, Katie announced, "I should go. I have to stop a plan from happening now. The doctors won't be very happy with me if it continues." Without another word on the subject, Katie ran out of the room.
"That's my baby sister," Kendall spoke proudly. "Although, I do not want to know what would have happened." The others agreed.
Suddenly, the entire hospital shook and the boys looked at each other, knowing that Katie was somehow responsible.
"Yep, don't wanna know," Logan shook his head.
Katrina stared at the two boys in front of her in disbelief. James and Franken-Carlos had somehow found some armor, reflective shields and swords. The two of them looked like they had stepped out of the medieval times.
"Seriously?" Katrina spoke, letting off one of her giggles. "What's with the armor?"
"You never know what's going to happen when we attack," James defended.
"Carlos kill!" Franken-Carlos exclaimed. Katrina facepalmed.
A noise from the mausoleum caught their attention. They watched as the hooded woman raced out followed by Kendall and Logan, demanding to know who she was. Franken-Carlos and James gave off a war cry and ran after them.
Katrina watched the scene for a second before mumbling, "Okay, this is ridiculous."
"Agreed," Evan's voice reached her ear. Katrina looked over to find her brother standing next to her, somehow normal again. Before Katrina could ask what was going on, Evan grabbed her arm, "Come on, this dream is done." He pulled her into the mausoleum.
"This music isn't working," Evan complained to Logan.
"Give it time," Logan insisted. Evan turned to Natalie who was sulking in one of the seats.
"Don't look at me," Natalie snapped. "The doctors vetoed my medicine. Something about not using unproven medicine on people without the permission of them or their family. Stupid patient laws."
"There's also the fact that you're not a doctor," James added.
"Oh, who asked you?" Natalie glared at him. She crossed her arms, continuing to sulk.
The door opened making the group look up. Katie, Jo, Camille and Brandon filed into the room. Upon the sight of Kendall awake, Jo ran over to him, embracing him tightly. The others in the room smiled as they watched Jo break away only to plant a kiss on Kendall's lips instead. When she pulled away, she spoke, "I thought I lost you."
"It's going to take a lot of work to get rid of me," Kendall responded.
Before Jo could lean in and give him another kiss, Gustavo, Kelly and Griffin walked in. Upon the sight of Kendall awake, Kelly seemed happy, Griffin groaned under his breath and Gustavo kept his stoic appearance.
"Dang," Griffin mumbled. "Now the lawyers will have to spin this differently so that I can still win the lawsuit." He pulled out his phone and stepped back into the hallway.
"Thank God you're awake," Kelly spoke. "We've been hoping you'd pull out of this quickly."
"Kat's still not awake though," Brandon chimed in, sitting down next to Katrina's bedside.
"Now that Kendall's awake, can we get back to practicing?" Gustavo brought up. The others glared at him. "Okay, just checking."
Being back in the dark filled space, Evan let go of Katrina to go sit down next to Kendall.
"Hey, I thought we agreed that I'd go get her," Kendall brought up.
"That was when you were talking to her in the real world," Evan retorted. "Now, you're not. Actually, nobody is since you woke up."
"Wait, what?" Katrina seemed confused. "What's happening in the real world?"
"Believe me, you don't wanna know," Kendall insisted. "So, take your guess."
"How am I supposed to guess who Evan's dating when I didn't see the girl?" Katrina asked.
"That's not the truth," Evan revealed.
"What?" Katrina scratched her head. "But that was the only thing that I picked up. Evan is dating someone behind my back."
"Close," Kendall advised. "Come on, Kat. Add a little more to it. Why is he dating someone behind your back?"
"I don't know!" Katrina shrugged. "Because he knows I'd hate her?" The sound of trumpet fanfare echoed in the room as the door disappeared. "Seriously, that's why he hasn't told me? That's why I couldn't figure it out? Because I really don't know who she is?"
"Yep," Kendall got to his feet. "And now I gotta go. Good luck finding the door out."
"Wait, what?!" Katrina exclaimed as she watched Kendall run off. "That wasn't part of the agreement!" She turned a glare upon her brother. "You. You're going to help me out of here so I can confront you in real life."
Evan got to his feet, "I can't help you find it, but I can walk with you." Katrina glared at him. "Don't look at me! I don't know where your mind put the exit!" He walked off in a random direction. When Katrina didn't follow, he turned to her, "Well? Coming?" Katrina sighed and followed her brother into the darkness.
"It's still not helping," Evan complained.
"Fine," Logan turned off the music. "If you think that this isn't helping, then why don't you sing to her?"
Gustavo suddenly appeared next to Evan, "I do have a new song for Wolff Pack that I wanted you on lead vocal for." He slowly handed a lyric sheet to Evan. The older Wolff looked it over, glanced at his sister and opened his mouth to sing.
Katrina jumped in shock as Evan suddenly started singing, music playing in the background.
It's a world full of heartbreak drive-bys
We've seen our fair share of hard nights
Looked right into the face of a goodbye
While we walked on the edge of the dark side
After all this time, yeah
We're not gonna fall now
We're not gonna bleed out
Never gonna break down
No, whoa
Images appeared around them, showing scenes that Katrina remembered from the time before she met the guys. The model suddenly seemed nervous as the images ran past.
Just when these four walls try to cave in
And the ground underneath starts shaking
It's the hope in your eyes that I cling to
And I hope to God it never leaves you
After all this time, yeah
We're not gonna fall now
We're not gonna bleed out
Never gonna break down
No, whoa
We're not gonna fall now
We're not gonna bleed out
Never gonna break down
No, whoa
The next events that showed up were the ones that Katrina found herself smiling at. They were the ones where Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan had dragged her into something crazy.
Even if they come for us
Everything can turn to dust
You and I are never going down
The bullets and the bombs of love
Go ahead and fire at us
We will never give it up
Oh, whoa, oh, whoa
Katrina watched as images of her and the others got through tough times. From the time she and the guys had been kidnapped to Gustavo insisting that she date James to all the injuries Katrina sustained, every event ran past her eyes.
We're not gonna fall now
We're not gonna bleed out
Never gonna break down
No, whoa
We're not gonna fall now
We're not gonna bleed out
Never gonna break down
No, whoa
We're not gonna fall now
We're not gonna bleed out
Never gonna break down
No, whoa
As the song ended, Katrina turned to Evan, "I'm dying, aren't I?"
"No," Evan shook his head. "I'm just singing in real life and your brain is absorbing it and putting it into your dream. Let's get back to our search." Evan continued walked. Katrina stopped, staring after her brother with her eye twitching. It took a second, but eventually, she followed him.
Evan finished the song and looked down at his sister expectantly. When she didn't move, he glared at Logan, "It didn't work."
"I'm not surprised," Natalie mumbled.
"Evan, you have to give it time," Logan insisted. "It's not an instant thing."
"Kendall woke up instantly," Evan pointed out.
"Don't drag me into this!" Kendall exclaimed.
"Kendall was only in a coma for six hours," Logan retorted, ignoring Kendall. "And it was because of a gas."
"They used a gas form of anesthesia," Evan continued.
"Which means that Katrina was exposed to two different types of gas," Natalie added, backing up Logan for once. "Who knows how they reacted together? She might never wake up." She suddenly looked out into the distance at nothing as she thought about it. "I could do an experiment as to how the gases react and see if I can find a way to counteract their effects. Carlos, come on. You're going to help me."
"But we can't get into the lab," Carlos reminded her.
Natalie bit her lip slightly before she pulled out her laptop, "Maybe I can do a virtual simulation or something. This singing thing is never going to work so I might as well try something else."
"Logan, if you don't come up with something quick, then I'm going to take back my acceptance of you dating her," Evan threatened.
"Does that mean that I can date her?" James asked.
"No," Evan insisted.
"Darn," James groaned.
"Well, uh, um," Logan began.
"Why don't you just kiss her awake?" Natalie suggested. "That's got as much of a chance of working as any of the other nonmedical procedures you've tried."
Logan looked at Natalie for a second before he said, "Oh, what the heck." He grabbed Katrina's head, leaned in and took Katrina's lips with his.
Katrina suddenly stopped in the middle of the darkness, muttering, "Oh." She placed a hand on her chest, wondering what was going on.
Evan turned around to look at her, "What?"
"A warm feeling just grew in my chest," Katrina explained. "Right where my heart is supposed to be."
"Good," Evan nodded. "Now, think of a door."
"What?"
"Just think of the door," Evan insisted. "Quickly." Katrina stared at her brother strangely, but the image of a door appeared in her head. Not long after, the door materialized in front of her. It was the door to her hospital room. Interested, Katrina looked in the window. Her body was lying in the hospital bed and everyone was watching Logan kiss her. For some reason, Kendall was in his own hospital bed in the room.
"What the?" Katrina mumbled.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Evan asked. "Go join up with your body. And try not to go back in a coma. The third strike might kick you out of the game."
Katrina nodded before turning the doorknob. As soon as she stepped into the room, her entire body went transparent. She looked at her see-through arm for a second. Deciding to test something out, she turned to James and tried to slap him across the face. Her hand went straight through. Shrugging it off, Katrina went over to her bedside and jumped on it, merging with her physical self.
Gasps went through the room as Katrina's hand twitched. Logan pulled away to watch as Katrina slowly opened her eyes. Gradually, a smile formed on her face, "Hey."
Logan placed a hand on her cheek, smiling down at her, "Hey." Happiness spread across the room as the group finally realized that they had won the battle versus the Zizi.
(A/N): Woo! Everyone's safe! And this is the end of the Hospital of Horrors! So, Katrina knows that Evan's dating someone, but doesn't know that it's Camille. What's she going to do when she DOES find out? Or will Evan and Camille break up their sort of relationship before she can? So, none of the Zizi have been captured, but in good news, they lost a battle! Kendall and Katrina are awake now, but are there going to be any problems after this? What's life going to be like once they all return to the Palm Woods? You'll have to wait to find out! Hopefully, not too long now that finals are over.
Now, to the voting contest guidelines. Which Big Time Rush boy will end up with Natalie? Will it be Kendall, James, Carlos or Logan? I'll give the lowdown on what will happen if each one is picked.
Kendall: Natalie did save his life more than the others' lives. James wasn't in danger once he fell off the conveyor belt, someone would have found Logan if they went into the morgue and if Emily got out of the trash bin then Carlos could have. Maybe Kendall realizes that and is grateful enough that, when Jo leaves on her trip to New Zealand, he might consider going out with her.
James: He kind of got the short stick when it came to Katrina. So, here's his chance to finally get the girl. But first, he's gotta prove that he's no longer the player that everyone knows him as and sway the practical side of Natalie.
Carlos: This helmet-head has already been put into the dreaded friend-zone. Carlos kind of screams friend-zone. But, can he escape it with Natalie? She does seem interested in studying him. Maybe she'll find something she really likes about him that makes him fall out of the friend-zone.
Logan: They have something in common: their intellect. Them dating would make sense, practically. Their minds would challenge each other. Plus, they've already developed a relationship that's Jamina like… Note: If Logan is picked for Natalie, then Katrina will end up with James.
Like the first voting contest, you can vote through reviews, PMs or the poll that I'll put up on my author page right after this post. Let the voting begin! Until next time, happy reading!