Janine kept watch over the two exhausted Ghostbusters who had been victimized by the ghost's insatiable craving for electrical impulses. Ray was sleeping deeply, almost as if he was actually unconscious or lost in a coma rather than actually resting to regain his strength. Egon was sleeping as well but he wasn't staying asleep for longer than twenty minutes at a time. He seemed to be forcing himself to regain consciousness just long enough to ask Janine about what was happening while he was left behind to rest.

"Please Egon, try to relax!" Janine pleaded as she rested her hands lightly on his upper chest. "If you don't rest then you'll never recover!"

"I need to figure out how to trap the ghost indefinitely." Egon tried to refute with a slurred voice. "I can work-"

"No!" Janine refused to let Egon even attempt to get up. "Rest. Peter and Winston are going to track down the ghost and bring it back here. They can figure out what to do, don't worry about it."

"I..." Egon tried again to argue but he was too weak. Trailing off before he even began he fell into a deep sleep and didn't budge from where he laid.

"Trust them Egon," Janine encouraged lightly. "you have before, why is it different now? You can't take on all the responsibility yourself."

No response from Egon.

"Sleep. I'll take care of you and Ray. Don't worry."

Ecto-1 was parked along the dark, motionless street. A sudden blackout had taken the power from many small businesses and apartments in Brooklyn, which of course made the residents in the area very impatient, if not completely upset. Many of the residents decided to spend time in other parts of the city until the power came back on, while others stayed inside their apartments and kept to themselves.

"The entire block is out of power and we STILL can't find the ghost!" Peter grumbled as he and Winston checked the floors of the tall apartment complex. "Why do we have to walk up ten flights of stairs for a power draining ghost? Of course we'd get the tall buildings when the elevators go down!"

"Think of it as getting your cardio in for the day." Winston suggested as he used the PKE meter to scan the air. "Exercise is good for you."

"Yeah, good for making me sweaty and tired."

"And cranky."

"What was that?"

"Huh? Nothing." Winston lied with a cheeky smile. "I'm not getting anything. Maybe this blackout is unrelated to the ghost."

"Oh, great. If that's the case then we just wasted two hours looking for nothing!"

"We were looking for nothing," Winston corrected with his cheeky smile even wider. "we found nothing."

"Okay, you've spending WAY too much time with Egon." Peter stopped walking and crossed his arms bitterly. "Or Ray. Sounds like something Egon would say but Ray has all of his books and can be analytical of my grammar."

"Want to head back out to the street and see if we can't find a fresh lead?" Winston turned off the PKE meter and clipped it back his belt.

"Maybe we should stick around just in case the ghost turns up." Peter tried to suggest casually.

Winston wasn't buying it. "You just don't walk back down all those stairs."

"Do you?"

Janine pressed her hand down Ray's bare, cold chest; careful not to disturb the sensors attached to his chest, and felt his slow deep breathing and watched his heart rhythm on the monitor. Though still wearing his jumpsuit it was unzipped down to his waist and his t-shirt had long since been removed to hook up the cardiac monitor. Ray was still pale and didn't look like there was any life left in his body.

"I bet you're cold." Janine spoke gently as she pulled the top cover up higher over Ray's chest. "There, that should help."

She looked over at the display on the monitor and saw no change in Ray's condition; there was no response to her touch or her words. Sitting atop the cardiac monitor was the stethoscope Egon had used when he gave Ray an examination upon their return to the firehouse. Janine picked up the medical device curiously and placed the pieces in her ear.

"Hello?" She whispered as she spoke into the bell. Flinching at the sound of her own amplified voice she blushed a little and hoped she hadn't disturbed her resting friends. "This thing is pretty loud." Janine commented as she looked down at Ray and then over to Egon. "Hmm... But is it accurate?"

Placing the bell of the stethoscope on Ray's chest Janine listened curiously as she watched the monitor beeping in perfect rhythm with Ray's heart. "So that's what a doctor hears all day long."

Unable to resist the temptation Janine then approached Egon and prepared to repeat her actions. Carefully she unzipped Egon's jumpsuit down to just below his chest. Pulling aside the gray fabric she rested the bell on his chest and listened with a schoolgirl smile on her face. "Faster than Ray's heart."

The sound of heavy boot steps rushing up the staircase startled Janine causing her to remove the stethoscope from her ears and toss it across the room in embarrassed panic.

"Janine!" Peter's voice called for her as he entered the bunk room. "Any change?"

"No, they're both still asleep." She ran a hand through her red hair nervously. "Did you find the ghost?"

Peter noticed that Janine was blushing, her face was almost as red as her hair. "Not yet... Janine, is there something wrong?"

"No! Why do you ask?" She adjusted her glasses and wrapped her hands together behind her back trying to feign innocence.

"Well, you look like you just got caught peeking into the boys locker room!" Peter noted as a mischievous grin plastered itself across his smarmy face. "You weren't trying to play 'Sleeping Beauty' with Egon, were you?"

"What?!" Janine blushed even redder. "No! I'd never-"

"Just kidding Janine!" Peter raised his hands as if to surrender. "Take it easy."

Winston finally joined his colleagues in the bunk room. "I put up the PKE meter down to charge. Anything new in here?"

Peter flashed Janine a taunting smile as he answered very smoothly. "Same as before. No change." Crossing his arms he continued to study Janine's reaction with a knowing glance. "Should we try to wake them up?"

"No," Winston checked the cardiac monitor beside Ray's bed. "I think Egon's right. The best way to recover from an attack by this type of ghost is to rest."

Janine cleared her throat and excused herself from the bunk room. "I'm going to make a fresh pot of tea. Do you want me to brew some coffee?"

"That'd be great, thanks Janine." Winston was unaware of Peter toying with the receptionist as he was too focused on Ray and Egon.

Peter watched as Janine calmly crossed the room before saying anything else to the flustered receptionist. "Bye Janine!"

Janine stumbled as she walked by quickly and discreetly regained her composure without breaking stride.

"So 'Zed', what's the plan?" Peter sat down on the edge of Ray's bed and watched Winston measured Egon's pulse by his wrist. "Set up some bait and hope for the best? I bet there's some old spark plugs in the basement we could use to 'chum' the water."

"I think we should try to get the PKE meter Egon had used during the bust." Winston laid Egon's arm back down gently on the bed. "I bet that'll give us a better lead on the ghost."

"Is it in the basement?" Peter remembered that the meter they used wasn't Egon's but rather the spare stored away in Ecto-1 for back-up purposes.

"Yeah. When I went to put the other meter downstairs to charge I found the one he used. It looks like it was damaged when he was attacked this morning."

"Great. How do we use a busted meter?" Peter sounded a little irritated but not defeated.

"It's not busted Peter, it's damaged. All I can do is access its data bank and find the ghost's signature, but I can't use it to track the ghost anymore."

"Well, at least we'll get the scent for its trail."

"Exactly!" Winston was relieved to have Peter on the same page as he was. "We can transfer the recorded data from one meter to the other, then it'll be easy to pick up on the ghost's signature with a far more accurate reading than hoping we run into it on the streets."

"Or up some stairs."

...to be continued...