Chapter 8
The doctor was just coming out to talk to Dona, when Nick and Howie were coming in.
The doctor started out saying, "Hi! My name is Dr. Carlson. I helped out on you friend earlier. Now A.J. here, from what we can tell, has been poisoned and strangled. His heart stopped earlier, but we go that up and pumping again. His oesophagus and trachea got squeezed a little to tight, but we got that all figured out. Luckily none of the major veins or arteries got harmed to bad."
"Will he be alright?" Nick asked, making very clear that that's all he really wanted to know.
"Well, he is stable now, and he seems to be improving, but right now we can't really tell if he'll even live or not," the doctor said sympathetically.
"Is he awake?" Howie asked.
"No, not yet."
Donna, who had not said anything since leaving Kevin's room, was just standing there very still, very silently with a very worried look on her face.
"Are you alright miss?" the doctor asked.
"Yeah, I will be as soon as this night is over." Howie walked over to her and put his arm around her.
Then he said, "Donna, Nick and I are going to go inform Kevin on what's going on. Do you want to come with us?"
"No thanks, I'll just stay here," Donna replied.
Dr. Carlson then came in saying that they will need to have tracking devises if they want to go wander around now because of A.J. and Brian disappearing, and then A.J. coming out like this.
They both got hooked up, and then started on their way to Kev's room.