"Laurie?" Rose whispered as she reached with a shaking handtowards the daughter she had reluctantly considered lost for years. "Laurie?" Her daughter was ice cold to the touch, even with all of the blankets wrapped around her, and she was deathly still, but thank goodness, she was still breathing. "George, that odd nephew of yours, who keeps saying that Laurie was kidnapped by aliens? Maybe he doesn't need to be locked up after all."
Laurie? X looked at the woman hovering by his partner's side in puzzlement before turning a shade of pale green under his human mask as something hit him. Elle's real name was Laurel, and hadn't she said something about her father being a doctor, once when they were discussing relatives? He bit back a groan. Somehow, out of all of the doctors in New York, he had managed to kidnap his partner's father, with her mother along for the ride. She would have his ears for sure when she woke up.
"Rose what are you talking about?" her husband asked without looking up from where he was working over Kay. The oxygen was helping a bit, but the man still wasn't reacting nearly as much as they needed him to. If that blood pressure and heart rate didn't settle down, he was either going to have a stroke or go into cardiac arrest.
"Never mind, George. You just take care of that poor man. I'll handle this." Rose said after a look up and catching sight of the trouble her husband was having with his current patient. Being a doctor's wife as long as she had been, she knew about triage, and treating the sickest patients first, even if one of the other patients was their own missing child.
George nodded absently. "When did you say help is going to be here?" Part of him thought that they ought to try getting the man he was treating to a hospital if they could get him tothe point where the trip wouldn't kill him. Having IV access and oxygen was better than nothing ,but the way his current patient was looking, he needed more, and soon. And with the number of other victims... "How many of the others are this bad?"
"Kay's the worst." X said as he looked around the room. A few of the humans were moaning again, but at least there wasn't anymore throwing up, at least not yet. "Some of the others are pretty sick. Zed, U, a couple of the little paperpushers that people step on from time to time when they aren't looking down. Kay's the worst, though." Kay was the only one that he was seriously worried might not make it, even though he didn't dear speak that fear out loud. Losing Kay, he didn't want to think of the damage that would do to the MIB, losing their top agent and one of the founding fathers. When he got his hands on the person responsible for this... He needed to start investigating the attack, who knows what evidence could get lost with a delay, but until there were more people there to tend to the sick agents, he had to focus on that. Zara had drummed into him more than a few times when he had the misfortune to work crime scenes where his cousin was providing care, that saving lives came before solving crimes. Zara had been firm enough about that, that Urexal, the idiot who made U look competent, still cringed and dove for cover when he saw her coming. "What else do you need? I'm sure I could grab another human or two if you need more help."
"None of the others are this bad?"
"Not even close." X said. The security footage. He needed to pull that. It didn't make sense for someone in as good a shape as he knew that Kay was in to end up that sick. Something else had to be going on. Maybe if he could figure out what, then it would help Elle's father figure out how to fix Kay?
"And your cousin told you how to make something to neutralize the poison? Does she know what she's doing?" The fact that this was an alien toxin was the one thing that was causing him to hesitate about moving his patient to the hospital. An unknown poison, who knows if traditional treatments could make it worse. If the man could last until someone with experience got there, though. That was the problem.
"Someone asked her that once. I think their bones finally healed. I trust Zara way more than I trust the loon Zed hired as a doctor, and he's supposed to be some sort of genius. If she says the the mix she had me get into them will take care of the poison, it's going to do it. The only thing she seemed worried about was how long it would take, to take affect with Kay."
George nodded as he thought. From the brief glance he had had of the room, the other victims were sick and fairly miserable looking, but hopefully not in immediate danger. If he could just get this one to stabilize, they might be okay until more and apparently alien help arrived. "Let's give the drugs a little more time. I honestly don't know why this isn't doing the trick."
X looked at Kay for a moment before realizing there was nothing else he could do, and he slowly drifted over to his partner and her hovering mother.
"I can't believe that crazy nephew of yours was right about aliens kidnapping her." Rose murmured as she stroked Elle's forehead, "The boy has major problems, after all. He pronounces everyone who darkens the door of his ambulance dead. I'm surprised that little head of the hospital hasn't killed him. Who would ever think that he was right about something like that?"
"Aliens did not kidnap her!" X exclaimed.
"What about Edgar the Bug?" one of the worms asked.
"She escaped from him on her own. That doesn't count. And I wasn't on this planet at the time. I have an alibi!"
"So, you're an alien? What do you really look like?" Rose asked.
X hesitated. Zed wouldn't be happy about humans finding out more about aliens, but after a moment, he tugged the mask off, letting out a slight sigh as he got his full range of vision and hearing back.
Rose studied him carefully, green skin, big, pointed ears, large, three pupilled eyes, but even with that, the alien wasn't hard on the eyes at all, certainly worlds nice than her son George's last date before he became Georgianna. Pointy eared grandchildren. That would be absolutely adorable.
X gulped as he saw how Elle's mother was looking at him, like she was sizing him up for the altar. If she was, and then when his mother got there... Elle was going to have his ears for sure over this.
"Come on." He snagged the closest worm. "The rest of you help them. We need to alert the resident aliens to stay in their houses until help gets here." And he needed out of the range of matrimonially minded mothers fast