Natalie woke up finding herself on a big dark room. She searches for a light switch. She bumps into something. "Ow...what the-
"Ashley ssshhh it's me Natalie...where Courtney and Hailey?" She asked feeling for the wall trying to find the switch. "We're both right here!" They asked as the lights come on. "Oh my God are you guys alright Natalie asked as she hugs them. "We are fine we woke up alittle while,but it was so dark in here we both just sat quietly whispering to each other when we heard you and Ashley talking." Courtney said rubbing her elbow. "Where are we?" Hailey asked looking around the room. It was big an well furnished with everything. "I Don't know but we need to get out of here...wait...where is liz?" Ashley asked looking around the room. The girls checked the entire room and the washroom as well but liz was no where to be found. "She's not here." Hailey said as she comes out of the washroom. "I hope she is okay." Courtney says looking at Natalie who sits on a chair wiping the tears that rolled down her cheeks when she remembers liz getting stabbed. " I need to tell you guys something." She said as they all looked at her. "What is it?" Ashley sked looking at Natalie as she trembled. "Is something the matter...why are you trembling so much Natalie....tell us! Hailey demanded. Natalie closes her eyes and took a deep breath. "Okay the last thing I remember before I passed out was liz getting stabbed." She said opening her eyes.
"WHAT????" the girls answered in unison looking at Natalie. "It's not true!" Courtney said as tears streamed down her face. 'That can't be true!" Hailey said holding Courtney's arm.
"Natalie...are you sure that's what you saw?" Ashley said kneeling to the floor as she placed her hands on Natalie's. "Believe me...it's the truth....I saw that man push that knife into her stomach...and then I passed out...I don't know if she's alive or dead...I don't know...!" She said as they all wept.
Meanwhile Mr Cruz was outside the operation theater awaiting the news of liz and Donald San Antonio. He was about to open the door when the doctor came out. "How are they doctor?" He asked anxiously. The doctor wipes his face and looks at him "Mr Antonio will be okay...I removed the bullets and stitched him up...he just need sometime to recover....I will have to keep him under observation for now. He said as Mr Cruz grabbed his shoulders shaking him. "And what about the girl...will she be okay?" He asked as the doctor shrugged his hands away. "She has lost alot of blood... I did a blood transfusion but only time will tell if she will make it through....she is still unconscious....now if you will excuse me I'm going to get her more blood." The doctor said as he walks away. Mr Cruz clenched his fists as he looked into the room. Liz was lying on the bed hooked up to machines as the blood flowed into her slowly. He begins to walk out of the hospital when he sees Josh and Ace walking towards the entrance. He quickly hides and goes back to the room where liz was closing the door. "What are you doing in here?" the doctor shouts loudly. "Please doctor you have to help me...the people that did this are here looking for her...I need to keep her safe and you need to help me." He said as he peaked out the door looking around.
The place was vacant. Mr Cruz turns to the doctor "look I'll pay you whatever you want...juts help me save this young girl." The doctor looked at him and then to liz. "Okay I will help you...we need to move her...here help me...we will take her to the physc ward...no one will look there."
Mr Cruz nods and helps the doctor move liz.
Josh and Ace left the receptionist desk and began too search the rooms for liz. They searched the entire hospital but she was not there. Josh punched the wall as a nurse walked by. "Please don't destroy our hospital sir." She said looking at Josh as his knuckles began to bleed. "Oh your hurt...let me have a look!" she said taking his hand and wrapping it with bandages. "Thank you Josh said smiling at her. "I'm sorry I did that...I'm just frustrated...you see I'm looking for someone." Josh said as Ace showed the nurse the picture of liz. The nurse took it and looked at it carefully an then looks at both of them. "yes I've seen her...she was given a blood transfusion....she lost alot of blood. I just saw the doctor and a man taking her to the physc ward. She was still unconscious."
She said looking at Josh and Ace.
"WHAT???" They both answered.
"She is here!" Ace said looking at Josh. The nurse nods. "Please nurse we need your help...she is my girlfriend and his sister...please take us to the phsyc ward." Josh pleads. The nurse gets up and looks at them smiling. "Okay...I will help you...please follow me." She said walking out the door as they both followed her.
Mr Cruz and the doctor were about to enter the elevator when his phone began to ring. He quickly reaches into his pocket and pulls out the phone. It was a blocked number. He pushes it back into his coat as he and the doctor pulls liz into the elevator heading down to the physc ward. Josh and Ace ran with the nurse to the elevator but it was occupied.
"What do we do now?" Ace asked as he looks at Josh. "We can try the staircase the nurse said but I'm not sure we'll make in time." She said looking at Josh and Ace.
"It's worth a try." Josh said as they followed the nurse down the staircase.
The elevator stopped and Mr Cruz got out pulling the wheel chair that carried liz into the ward. There were alot of patients who were mentally unstabled and alot of noise. The doctor quickly led Mr Cruz to an empty room.they placed liz on the bed and made sure she was okay.
"They won't find us in her will they doctor?" The doctor pulled the sheet over liz covering her body and looks up at Mr Cruz. "No you will be safe here....no one gets in here without my permission." He said walking out the door.
Josh and the nurse made it to the physc ward and were about to enter in when the doctor saw them. He quickly walks to the entrance and stops them. "Nurse what are you doing here...you don't have my permission to be here...and who are these people?" He asked looking at Josh and Ace who were both breathing heavily. Josh placed his hand on the door frame as he looked at the doctor. "doctor please don't be angry with her we made her bring us here." He said looking at the nurse who was scared.
"That's right we did...we are looking for someone...my sister...his girlfriend...please let us just see if she's here...her name is Elizabeth!"
this nurse said she saw you coming this way with a patient and a man."
Ace said trying to catch his breath.
The doctor looks at the nurse angrily. "That was a patient of mine...she needs to be heavily sedated....I brought her her because her father said she was attacking innocent people....it's none of your concern...now please leave before I call security." He said looking at them angrily. "You don't understand she is-
"I said leave I'm not authorized to give out any information about my patients....and you get back to your station before I have you fired." He said looking at the nurse as he closes the door and walks back into the ward.
"What do we do now?" Ace asked looking at Josh. Who was angry and about to punch the wall. "Please dont!" The nurse said stopping him.
"I'm sorry...I thought I could help...but-"
She said stopping mid sentence as she began to walk away. Josh and Ace were about to leave but gives her their number to call incase she heard anything. They then decided to leave as well walking out of the hospital. They both walked to his car and got in as Josh turned the key starting the engine.
He looks at Ace determined. "I will find her....we will find all of them!" He said driving out of the parking lot. Ace followed him.
Mr Cruz sat on a chair and looked at liz. "I could kill you rightnow but I need you...your father was-
"Your not her father?" The doctor asked entering the room staring at him. Mr Cruz wiped his brow and stood to his feet walking over to the doctor. "I'm not...her father was a close personal friend of mine....when he died I swore to take care if this girl." He said lying to the doctor.
"I see...well you don't have to worry...I sent those people away....she won't be in any danger now....
I just have to give her a checkup when she wakes up and then you can take her home." The doctor said looking at liz. Mr Cruz smiles.
"Thank you doctor...if it wasn't for you...I might have lost her...thank you." He says holding the doctors hand and shaking it. "She will wake up in a little while." The doctor said as they both walked out the door heading down the hallway to the exit.
Meanwhile Natalie and the girls were sitting quietly in the room. All of them were sadly thinking about liz wondering if she was dead or alive. "We can't just sit here...we need to find a way out of the place." Natalie said as she stood and walked to the door. She turns the handle trying to open it but fails.
"It's locked...from the outside...We need to find another way out." She said as they all began too look for another exit.
"Check the book shelf there must be a secret passage or something that can lead us outside."
Courtney said as They turned the entire room upside down but there was no way out. "I guess we're stuck her she said as she sat next to Hailey on the bed. "Yeah but why...I mean why did they take us?" Ashley asks sitting on the bed also. They all sat in silence and pondered their situation.
A few hours had passed and liz was awake. She could hear the voices of other people talking and laughing. Some of them were even crying and screaming. She tried to raise herself of the bed but holds her stomach as she felt alot of pain.
"I wouldn't do that...your stitches will open if you move carelessly." Liz looked up at the voice to see a man in a white cloak standing at the door along with another man dressed in a black suit. "Where am I...and who are you people?" She asked as she tried to get out of the bed. "Please dont try to move just yet...I'm doctor Osborne...and I'm the one who was looking after you after this man brought you in here....you gave us quite a scare....you almost bled to death....luckily the blood transfusion worked."
He said putting a pillow behind her back from her to sit up.
"Blood transfusion....doctor what are you talki-
She stopped talking as she began to remember what happen at kings mansion and the man stabing her. "I see!"
She said looking at the doctor and the man in the black suit. "Who are you?" She asked staring at the man. The doctor turns to her. "Don't you remember him...he said he was a close personal friend of your fathers." Liz looked at the doctor then to the man. "I've never seen him before in my life...and I don't know much about my father or his friends." She says loudly.
Mr Cruz walks over to her bed and looks at her as she holds her stomach wincing in pain.
"I'm Mr Cruz I brought you here because you almost died." He said.
Liz sat silently as she began to remember hearing that name. *"he was the one Josh was talking too on the phone about a meeting...oh my God...could he be the one behind all this...could it all have been a set up...what about Josh and the others are the okay...and...oh no....the girls...where are they?"* She thought in her mind as she looked up at the man then the doctor.
"I would like to go home now!" She said demanding. Mr Cruz looked at the doctor then to her. "You need rest...you shou-
"Don't tell me to rest...I need to go home rightnow she said as she raises of the bed pushing Mr Cruz away. She steps back away from them holding her stomach.
"I don't know who this man is doctor but I'm pretty sure he is the one who sent people after me and wanted me dead." The doctor looks at Mr Cruz as he grins wickedly walking up to liz as she continued to back away.
"Your pretty smart...just like your mother was...it's a pity she had to die." He said trying to grab her but she slips away to the door but it was locked. "Your the one who set this up...what did you do to Mr king and Josh....and my brother?" She asked. The doctor listened to her then remembers what happened earlier.
FLASHBACK-
"I'm looking for someone....my sister...
His girlfriend....her name is Elizabeth....please help us...let us see if she's here."
"Are you Elizabeth?" The doctor asked looking at liz as she tried to stand still.
"Y-e-ss I'm Elizabeth...and I don't know this man...please help me doctor...my friends are probably worried sick about me....let me get out of here please I'm begging you...help me." She said as tears streamed down her cheeks. The doctor looked at Mr Cruz and then to liz.
"Is this true?" He asked looking at Mr Cruz. Who grabbed liz's hand.
"Yes its true...everything she said is true."
He said as liz raised her head staring into his eyes. "What did you do to them...where are they?" Sh asked as he squeezed her wrists. "They are all fine...I let them go but in return you must do as I say."
Liz struggled to break free from his grip.
"No...I will not!" She says looking at the doctor As he grabbed Mr Cruz's hand trying to help her.
Mr Cruz pushes Him aside and calls his men.
"Very well then you leave me no choice...take her!" The men enters the room and grabbed liz. She tries to get away but fails as they began to drag her outside to the back of the hospital to their car. "And as for you doctor...keep your mouth shut or I will have to come back and kill you myself." He said patting the doctors head as he got up and left the room. The doctor stands to his feet and wipes his glasses putting them on.
He then walks out if the room and heads to his office. He picks up his phone and calls the receptionist." Get me nurse Helen...send her here immediately." He said placing the phone on the table.
The nurse was with a patient when she heard her name over the p.a system. She quickly finished up and headed to the doctors office. She knocks on the door. "Come in!" The doctor said as she opened the door and enters the room. "Have a seat." The doctor said as he took off his glasses and looked at her sitting quietly trying not to look at him. "I would like to apologise for my behavior earlier...and also to say that I'm proud of you!" The nurse looked at him in surprise. "Proud sir?" She asked as he smiled. "What you did was very brave...you tried to help those young men but I thought it was wrong and I supported the wrong person....I'm sorry for my outburst Helen."
He said as she stayed silent. I now realized that...those two boys were telling the truth....I didn't believe it at first but when I heard the girl say it with her own mouth I knew I was wrong....
I only wish there was someway I could help her." He says sadly.
Nurse Helen looks at him and stands to her feet. "She's awake already....Maybe there is sir...you see just after you left us they gave me their number to call incase I heard anything....I guess now is a good time to do that." She says smiling. The doctor looks up at her shocked. "You have their number?" He asked as she nods. "Then call it quickly." He said handing her the phone.
She takes out the paper from her pocket and dials Josh's number. As soon as it started to ring she gave the phone to the doctor.
"Hello!" Josh answered. "Hello I'm doctor Osborne...the doctor you met earlier...I'm calling about Elizabeth." Josh stopped his car abruptly as Ace stopped his too getting out and walking towards him. "Where is she doctor?" Josh asked as Ace joined him. The doctor took a deep breath and told them everything that happened earlier with Mr Cruz. He then hung up the phone. "What's goin on...what did he say?" Ace asked shaking Josh who looked at him in anger.
"Mr Cruz has her!" He said as Ace let's go of his shoulders. Josh gets into his car turning to Ace.
"Call the others tell them to meet us back at the mansion...well make a plan then execute it."
Ace got into his car and nods as they both headed to kings mansion.
Back at the hospital
Mr Cruz got into the front seat of his car as the men sat holding liz as they drove off. She kept on struggling but couldn't get away. "Stop fighting well be home soon enough." He said laughing.
Josh was driving over the speed limit when his phone rang. He picks it up and sees Ace name. He quickly answered it putting it on loudspeaker.
'Did you call them?" He asked Ace as he turns the corner. "Yes the are all on their way back now!" He said as he also turns the corner following Josh. "Okay good!" Josh says hanging up the call. And crossing the bridge. "Hold on my love...I will find you soon!" He whispered to himself as he drove past the cherry blossoms.