"Kay, you okay?" Zed asked when Kay and Aileen finally rejoined them, nearly an hour later.
"For now. We're going to have to do something about Sam, getting some sort of training for him, though." Kay said, letting Zed know without coming out and saying it, that he wasn't going to do what he did before, cutting the link with his twin again. "Elle been out yet?"
"Not yet. I'm sure she will be soon, though. Even just replacing the blood that kid lost, you know that takes awhile."
Kay did know it, but it didn't mean he had to like the time it was taking. The sooner he had good news to pass along to his brother the better. Even with Aileen's help, it had taken an impossibly long time to get Sam halfway calm, using their connection. Honestly, he wasn't sure if his brother had actually finally accepted what he was trying to show him, that the kid was going to be fine, or if the stress had finally gotten to be too much, and he had completely blacked out. Sam was out like a light, though, for whatever reason, which was about the only decent thing he could see at the moment. "Beruga secure?"
"Jay and Edie handled it. Kay, is there anything else that you can tell me about what happened up there?" Zed asked.
"Not much." Kay said. "Zara definitely knows more. She said the shooter was this weaselly looking human, whoever that is."
"Weaselly looking, see, I told you it was that one, not the other one, no matter what the news said about him being some sort of a fugitive." Jay said.
"Not like it's the first time something like that's happened." Kay muttered. Really, what were they doing, over in Illinois, just grabbing the first person they found and accusing them of a crime, figuring his little brother could sort the situation out later if they had made a mistake? "Got him somewhere where Sam's team isn't going to run into him, until I can have a talk with my brother?"
"Guest quarters, and speaking of your brother's team..." Zed started to say.
"Yeah, Slick, you might want to avoid Marshal Renfro. Went to clown college for a semester. Wouldn't want your clown issue to be a problem." Kay said.
"Earth clowns dress like that?" Aileen asked.
"No, but people who got kicked out of clown collage for being too strange do. Elle?" Kay jumped to his feet as he spotted the doctor coming down the hall, still in her scrubs jacket, with Zara right behind her, fastening the ribbons she wore looped around her ears as she walked.
"He's fine." Elle said before Kay could ask. "When the bullet that hit the lung exited, it pretty much splintered a rib. I wanted to make sure we had all of the fragments so we have to potentially go back in later."
Kay nodded. "So, what's the other damage?"
"Pneumothorax, hemothorax, second bullet that clipped the heart and was causing the tamponade. He ended up losing thirty-five, forty percent blood volume total. Shattered posterior rib, a couple of fractures in the front. We got those put back together, got the damage fixed. We're still replacing the blood. He's going to need bed rest for awhile. That level of trauma, even with MIB tech, it's going to take some time for him to get his strength back, but he's going to be fine. Won't even have scars."
Kay nodded, and closed his eyes for a moment, sending a message to his brother that he hoped that Sam would pick up, no matter how deeply unconscious he was, that his boy was going to be fine. "Where is he?" Until his brother woke up, and could get down there, the kid was going to have someone with him.
"They're moving him to room three. I want to keep an eye on him for awhile, at least until the blood finishes running, and I'm sure about that rib. We might be able to get him moved to guest quarters to finis"h recovering in a day or so." Elle said. She paused, debating how to bring up the other issue they had ran into before deciding to just go with the direct approach. "Kay, there's something you need to know."
"What?" Kay felt a bit of fear, left over from his brother's earlier panic, but he was able to easily force it away this time. Elle said the kid was going to be fine. Whatever she had to tell him couldn't be serious.
"When we were cloning the red blood cells for transfusing, the system got a DNA match." Elle said. "A father-son match. For you."
"Kay? Is there something you need to tell me?" Aileen said, half joking.
"Not father-son, uncle-nephew." Kay whispered, going deathly pale for a moment before anger washed over him. "Zed..."
"He's your brother's son? Do you mean the one who... How's that possible?" Zed asked.
"He's adopted, has the same birthdate as their baby." Kay said as he struggled to keep from hitting something. "Catherine's family hated him, didn't think he was good enough for her. Take the baby away, they probably thought there was no reason for them to stay together. Zed..."
"I'll handle it." Zed said as he pulled out his communicator. "U, need you in research now. I want all the records you can find on a Noah Newman and..."
"Patrick Samuel Gerard and Catherine Walsh." Kay give him the additional names.
"Right. Did you hear that, Agent U? I want everything you can find, medical records, legal records, I want it all. Whatever agents you need, get them on it now!" He had made a mistake before, keeping Kay from his brother. Maybe if he had let him go, he would have made a difference. Zed couldn't change the past, but he could do something now, to uncover the truth. "Pull agents from the field or the incoming passengers if you have to, but I want those records pronto! Kay?"
"I'll be with him." Kay said, even though he felt like going out to tear apart something. Sam's son, and his brother had lost so much time with him, had lost time with Catherine due to what happened. When he found out how her family had stolen that baby... "I'll be with him."
"And I'll be with you." Aileen said as she took his arm, and steered him down the hall to Noah's room.
Kay let out a sigh as he stepped in and looked over the boy. Readings on the monitors he was attached to were strong and steady, and he was breathing well on his own, the only visible signs of injury a cartoon bandaid on his chest, and the lingering pallor from the blood loss. "Son, when my brother wakes up..." Kay said as he moved over to the bed and settled into a chair, with Aileen pulling up another chair to join him. "Listen, I know you didn't do so well in the parent department before, but when you wake up, you're going to have a mother and father that love you right here, I promise, so you just get well for them.