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Derek took the keys and
smiled wearily glancing at the folders she held.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but
didn't we do that already?" He started towards the house, "It's before
10:00am, I'm Nick stilll has coffee."
"I'm just going to send them off." Julia assured him with a half teasing
'aww, poor Derek' expression before Alex opened the door.
"Rachel's awake... and it's
not good." she said by way of explanation as she backed into the house and
turned to go upstairs.
Julia gave Derek a quick look before setting
her things on a nearby table and following them both up.
Derek followed her up the stairs, immediately
changing gears. "How bad is it," he asked quite seriously his tone
concerned. He still needed to call Dr. North. The man had just moved
to town and he hated to impose on him like this, but there seemed little else he
could do. North was a trusted colleague when he had resided in London.
Though Derek had a few people he
knew he could trust in San Francisco, he wanted to make certain Rachel had the best care and if that was the case, North was it. Damn.
She entered right after her friend and saw
Rachel tossing from side to side, crying and shrinking from Nick's touch.
When she saw Julia she stopped, eyes wide as she tried to sit up and talk to
her.
"Kat.. where's Kat.. Nick won't let me see
Kat." Rachel tried pulling the covers off of herself "Help me find Kat,
Julia."
Julia gave Alex and Nick an apologetic look as
she came around and sat on the edge of Rachel's bed, reaching out and stilling
the woman by her shoulders, keeping her voice and gaze steady and repeating
herself until it finallly pierced Rachel's haze.
"Kat's okay, Rachel. She's safe.
We've been watching her." She said, making her tone a kind of rhythm she
remembered had helped her a time or two with actual drug abusers "Rachel, Kat's
safe. She's going to the zoo to see the animals."
Rachel looked at her, stilling and allowing
Julia to guide her back into a laying position "Zoo? Kat loves the monkeys...
they make her laugh..."
Julia managed a slight smile and stroked the
hair from Rachel's face "I bet she immitates them sometimes, doesn't
she?"
Rachel smiled and nodded, unconsciouslessly
taking Julia's hand in her own "She looks even funnier than the monke-
UGH."
A cramp suddenly hit and she flinched into a
half fetal position, squeezing Julia's wrist as the wave of pain hit
her.
Oh god that hurt. Julia barely kept from
gasping in pain as she shifted and tried to hold her to ride the wave out with
her.
"Call the doctor." she mouthed to Derek, even
as she took the opprotunity to check for track marks without being
obvious.
None.
Of course.....
"It hurts..." Rachel cried into Julia's shirt,
shaking "Make it stop, please... what's making me.. " she groaned again as
another wave of cramping hit.
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