It was half the reason she had chosen the four of them. She cleared her throat and said, "Do you know what you are supposed to do?"Opening her jacket ...and pointing at her gun, Nicole answered, "Protect the young woman from all and sundry that would harm her. We'll work twelve-hour shifts with shift changes at eight. I'm the night shift." I'm the day shift," said Natalie twiddling her blond hair. There was a reason they had chosen the colors of their wigs in the manner they had."Ling, do you mind. The guy followed them to the hospital. They took Bill in and got serious with him." He sighed. "That's all I know." Mom's on the road..." Ahead of us," he said."This could be bad," I said."Or not. Medicine does some miraculous things these days. People used to just lay there and die. Doctors can work miracles."At least he SOUNDED confident.I punched on the truck's sound system."Don't play a requiem, baby," he said."Friends are important," I uttered. Yeah, this has my thinking all disjointed.. I'm here to apologize... and... Don't you want to tell me... ?" I stopped, unsure of where to go.He smiled, just a little. "I see," he said, almost to himself. "Let's start like this, shall we? How are you feeling, Sean? Tell me about your injuries, and how your healing is progressing." He slipped his glasses back on again, and pulled a piece of paper over to the center of his blotter. He picked up a pen in anticipation."Oh, okay. Well, my lip was split open, and I've got four stitches in it.. A couple of months ago I was down having my six weekly dose, and as I'd forgotten I'd been slotted in at the end of the mornings appointments. I entered the room and Molly and I were talking and she seemed really upset, as I asked some more she said "I'm really fed up ***** I go out with my friends and they all have a boyfriend and I don't".As we chatted away she looked really down, I said "Am I your last appointment?", she said "Yes", I said "Can you put something on the door so no-one will.
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