Till Dark

Pulling into the parking lot of the hospital his mind still on Jordan's beautiful features, he walked past the nurse's station toward the room Jordan was in. Before he reached it he could tell something was wrong because her door was propped open and as he stepped inside he realized Jordan was nowhere to be found. He darted from the room down the hall to the nurse's station. Out of breath he stammered "The girl in room 1202 where is she?" The nurses looked at him strangely for a moment and asked him what he was talking about. "There was a girl in room 1202 I left here an hour ago and now she's either been released or has been transferred to a different room." He stared at the three nurses in exasperation. Why weren't they moving to search for her why were they just sitting around doing absolutely nothing to help him? Andy gave up on the nurses helping him he decided to go in search of Jordan himself. Perhaps he had gotten on the wrong floor I mean he was really tired last night and when he left this morning he was not exactly thinking clearly. He walked back to the room where he had left Jordan only an hour earlier. Andy was not sure what it was that he was looking for but he decided to search the room anyway. The bed was made with fresh sheets and everything seemed to have been wiped down. There were no fingerprints on anything. Andy saw a piece of egg on the floor under the table and he knew that he was in the right room.

Andy finally found his friend and pulled him aside to ask him about Jordan. "I released her about an hour ago. The nurses have all of her paperwork. We just had a shift change but I'm pretty sure that she was released. I mean all her stuff is gone and they should have her listed as released in the computer." "They do have that but I'm sure that she would have waited for me especially since we both agreed earlier that I was going to stay with her till we could get this thing solved." "What is going on anyway?" The doctor asked. Andy looked up and down the hall before he replied silently. "Someone is trying to kill her and we don't know who it is just yet but, they have managed to make three attempts on her life so far. The police are stumped and so am I. The only thing we do know is that they want her dead and frame me for it. They called me to the police station the other day and questioned me. Some bomb items had been found in one of my guestroom closets and it had my fingerprints all over it. Lucky for me I just happened to have been on a conference call with the acting CEO of my company in Chicago so I know that he can verify my whereabouts at the time that Jordan was attacked the other day and at the police station when she was abducted." "Keep me posted will you and if she gets hurt again call me even if I'm not on duty I don't want anyone else to treat her. If the nurses give you a hard time you can page me personally." Dr. Decarlo handed Andy a piece of paper with his number written on it and he stuck the paper in his pocket on his way to find Jordan. He decided to call her hotel first to see if maybe she had gone back there. The front desk said that she had not been there all morning and they had not seen her come in and when she rang Jordan's room there was no answer. Andy thanked the clerk for trying and then decided to check every hospital room on the floor. What could it hurt he thought I'll just simply say that I have the wrong room he thought to himself. With that in mind he started with the room next to where he had last seen Jordan.