ANGEL IN DISGUISE , MILEVEN AU

23.

"poison?" mike asked for confirmation for the fourth time. "what— what poison!?"

"it's a small type of poison that could be placed into her food or drink without knowing. it was given to her slowly so she couldn't feel it," the nurse explained as mike watched the heartbeat monitor whilst still caressing el's hand.

"is she going to be okay then? you guys treated her already right?"

"yes but.. her body is already very weak." the nurse said then glanced at the monitor that showed how she had less than 50 bmp.

"but she'll be fine? she'll wake up?"

"we hope so, yes. she is malnutritioned so even if she does wake up, she needs to stay and to be watched." she explained and mike nodded. "yes, of course."

"you can stay with her for now but do allow her to rest." the nurse gave a little smile before walking out of the room to give them privacy.

poison.. who the hell would poison her?

he was pretty sure el wouldn't just poison herself considering how she probably didn't know that some types of foods could do that.

it might be possible but he was sure she wouldn't pick such way to torture herself.

"can i come in?" lucas knocked on the door and mike answered on his seat.

"is she okay? what happened?" he asked. he rushed here from the club.

"someone poisoned her."

"what!?"

"i need you to find out where she has been the last few days. who she interacted with. anything." mike demanded as lucas nodded. "definitely. who the fuck would do that?"

mike turned to el. "i'm not sure.. but perhaps she might know." he whispered as lucas watched her heartbeats. "she'll be fine," he breathed out, "she's one tough girl."

"oh, yes she is." mike agreed, fixing the blanket over el's body before smiling gently.

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"hey, honey," mike whispered as he saw el's eyes slowly open.

she stirred, groaning at the light that hit her eyes.

seeing her try to sit up, he went to help her, "hey, careful. you just woke up,"

"hospital?" she asked in a quiet voice as he nodded. "yeah, el, the hospital. you blacked out,"

"i know. i was there,"

he smiled softly, "how you feeling?" he went to place a pillow behind her back which made her flinch lightly at the sudden movement.

"tired,"

he hummed, going to call in a nurse by the bell. "you should be. don't move, okay? we need to get you checked out," he said in a soft tone which made her look at him and follow his body as he went over to move his chair to be closer.

when the nurse walked in, she gave el a sweet smile before walking over to the bed. "how are you, sweetheart?"

"okay," el answered vaguely as mike continued to caress her hand.

her eyes wandered down to their connected hands, wondering what he was doing and how long has he been doing this. when she looked up and met his eyes, he only offered her a small smile before turning to the nurse.

"now el," the nurse started, "your heart stopped and the reason it did is because you were poisoned. can you tell me what you ate these pass couple of days?"