"Wait, what? You mean he is a vegetable?"<br/><br/>Audrey asked the doctor in shock as she talked to him privately in his office. Thanks Goodness she had told Brandis and Trenton to wait in the waiting room for her. She tried to wrap her mind around what he was telling her but it made no sense. Wesley had looked perfectly fine this morning when she and Trenton stopped by to pick Brandis for school.<br/><br/>"How did it happen? He looked fine this morning."<br/><br/>Wesley might work way too much but he never showed any health problems. Of course, he didn't always tell her everything, but she was sure if Wesley had been hiding a health problem, Brandis would have told her. He trusted her and voiced other concerns he had. Things he didn't think he could share with his father. Like how he wished his father worked less. She wasn't sure what to do, when she agreed to the next of kin deal, she never thought something bad was going to happen. It had made sense at the time but she didn't think either of them would ever have to make this type of decision for the other.<br/><br/>Audrey bit her lip. She didn't want Wesley to die and the doctor didn't think he was actually a vegetable. Just his mind was somewhere else...She ran her hand through her short dark hair.<br/><br/>"I...ummm....If I take him home, would you help me figure out how to wake him up?"<br/><br/>She wanted to make sure Doctor Stevens was serious about wanting to help Wesley. Not just signing off on home care to get him out of the hospital. She wasn't a nurse or a doctor, she wouldn't be able to take care of someone the hospital didn't know what to do with on her own.<br/><br/>----------------<br/><br/>Kiara looked up at Wesley and was surprised to see him crying when she touched his chest. Even if Suntop was right, he could still feel. It made her even more determined to help him get back home.  When he told her didn't want to know about his heartbeat, Kiara nodded her head.<br/><br/>"Okay, I will not say anything."<br/><br/>She removed her hand and tightened it into a fist. She turned her head and saw that the other elves had come out of hiding. It humbled her that Suntop believed in her. She had no idea how to help Wesley but she would. She had to. She smiled when Wesley finally agreed he needed to get home to his son. That was much better then just giving up without a fight.<br/><br/>"Come with me to the castle, Wesley. Perhaps my father will have an idea."<br/><br/>Kiara could ask King Geoffrey about the lake and admit to him what she had done. He might be angry but surely he would see she was trying to make it right. That was if his senile mind remembered why he had banned her from dropping daisy petals in the lake to begin with.