Tomorrow Never Dies (Moonlight 3)

Chapter 18-A Torch. A Car. A Death.

The rising sun beat down on us as Ashton pulled into the hospital's car park the next morning. I let out a long yawn as we began to walk towards the main building. Little had changed since last night. After leaving the hospital we'd searched for a few hours around the nearby streets, but we hadn't found any sign of Kyle. Not even a scent to follow somewhere else. I knew right now the hunters and the hospitals security staff were busily scanning all the CCTV footage to see if there were any more clues, but we hadn't found anything yet.

Then there was the matter of the werewolf bites. I knew that the doctors had at least decided to keep Kaylee overnight. Which kind of worried me. I wondered how many of the other students had been kept in as well. They'd been talking about releasing those that had been bitten before the night was out, but I hadn't heard anything about that either. All I knew that Calum had gone back to the hospital late last night to explain how Werewolf bites worked to help them make their decision on what to do with those who had been bitten.

My shoes squeaked along the linoleum flooring as Ashton and I came to a ward on the top floor of the hospital. We came to a large room with four beds, one on each corner of the room. I scanned the room noticing that two of the beds were vacant but in the other a younger girl was sleeping, her bedside decorated by flowers and bright colourful balloons. I knew she wasn't from the werewolf attack, but my heart still panged at the appearance of the younger girl in hospital.

My eyes finally caught on Kaylee. She looked a little pale still, an IV still attached to her arm. Around her was a small assortment of flowers, cards and small balloons. I recognised the largest card was from Georgia, another from Pip, another from Lewis and her parents.

Kaylee's eyes turned to us a moment later, and she waved weakly at the two of us as we walked towards her.

"Ash. Luke." She smiled, as the two of us took the visitors seats beside her bed.

"Hey." Ashton and I echoed.

There was a silence between the three of us. Kaylee was looking at the two of us expectantly, but I found the words died in my throat. She still didn't look that well. She was rather pale, and her eyes looked slightly puffy as if she had been crying. I could see the rather large bandage on the side of her stomach that poked out slightly from underneath her hospital gown.

"How are you doing?" I asked slowly, and hesitantly.

Kaylee nodded, "Not too bad. I still feel a little unwell." She sighed, "It's bothering me that I'm the last one left from school though. They already discharged the rest of the students who were bitten last night. I think they'd all already started healing enough to go home." She frowned, before patting the side of her stomach, "I haven't so the doctors wanted to keep me in for a little bit longer. They don't think I'm well enough to go home quite yet anyway."

I could only stare at her as she talked. I didn't like that she hadn't started healing. The bite was supposed to heal someone no matter what. From what I knew about Sophie, even she had healed. I had no idea what more I could say it wasn't like I could tell her that she'd heal, or she'd be fine because we honestly didn't know.

"You haven't started healing then?" Ashton frowned in a concerned tone, he glanced across at the sleeping girl at the other bed before turning back to Kaylee. "So, we still don't know?"

Kaylee was quiet, but she nodded slowly.

"I'm not healing. I mean not like the others. The bite on my wrist has healed but that's about the end of it." Kaylee shook her head, "Lewis was in earlier in this morning with Pip, he couldn't tell what's wrong with me either."