CHAPTER EIGHT- finding trouble

The next morning Christopher's alarm went off at 8:30 am. He began to respond and wake up with a stretch. His cat jumped up on the bed purring and meowing waiting to eat. Christopher opened his eyes and lifted his cell phone and glanced at it to see if he had any messages. He sighed and placed it back down on the small table when he did not see anything received by Asha. He sat up then went to the restroom to freshen up. Moments later he walked out and walked to the kitchen and fed his cat first before cooking himself some breakfast. Asha was on his mind all morning worrying himself sick. When his food got done cooking he sat down and began to eat. Glancing at his phone every few minutes.

*ding* a sudden message arrived and Christopher lifted his phone immediately, unfortunately sighing when he read the message was from Sasha. He opened the text and read it. Sasha asked how he was doing and if Asha had returned yet. He replied that he hasn't received anything and he's still at home, He will be in at 10:00 am. He placed the phone down and walked to the restroom to take a shower. Sasha replied, "see you at 11, oh and I need to talk to you."

15 minutes passed and Christopher had walked out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist and walked to the kitchen, he lifted his phone to check once more for Asha. He sighed in disappointment and didn't bother opening Sasha's text. He placed the phone down, walked to his room to get dressed.

After he had gotten ready he grabbed his keys and grabbed his phone and left. He began walking to the hospital and decided to call Asha once more. He dialed her number and listened to 5 rings before going to her answering machine. He hung up the phone and kept silent. He began believing it was his fault and began regretting how he came off and most likely scared her. Not knowing where she is he still kept an eye out for her as he walked to work.

His phone began to ring and he immediately answered. "Hello? oh hey, alright, that's great to hear. I'm going to stop by and check on things then. ." He replied. He hung up and placed the phone back into his pocket. The manager from the mental hospital called informing him sakashi had arrived safely and currently on her way to her new room. Christopher arrived at the hospital shortly before 10 and walked into his office. He looked at reports and read nothing but reports on patients but nothing of Asha's missing report. He stood up and walked out of his office and grabbed keys to a hospital vehicle and left the hospital, got into the vehicle and went on his way to the mental hospital.

11:00 am has arrived and Sasha clocked on and walked to her office. She gathered her papers she took from Asha and went over them to make sure there wouldn't be obvious hints to show she stole these ideas. And smiled and walked to Christopher's office and noticed he wasn't there. She sighed and got slightly irritated. She placed the papers in an envelope, wrote her name on the envelope and slide it under his door. She then turned around and continued to work and care for her patients. shortly she continued to try and find reports on Asha. She walked around asked other employees and only received nothing of good report. She walked back into her office and began rewatching the security cameras.

Meanwhile, back at the mental hospital, a nurse named Chloe had come out prepared with a transfer bed and lowered sakashi's unconscious body from the van over to the small bed, she gently strapped sakashi tightly to prevent her from moving and greeted the driver. She thanked him before pushing sakashi into the mental hospital. She pushed sakashi through the lobby and through the halls. Pushed a button to enter the coma section of the hospital and pushed her through. Eventually arriving in her new room. Chloe unstrapped sakashi and gently guided her onto her new bed. She hooked sakashi up to some equipment and left the Room with the transfer bed and closed the door. Sakashi laid unconsciously in the bed not responding to anything as the clock on the wall ticked.

Chloe walked to her manager's office and knocked before entering. "Sir we have a new patient. Her name is...." she spoke directly to him before getting interrupted. "Sakashi, I know." He replied. This man's name is Joel. He had blue hair and wore a white doctor jacket with a Red Cross on his right shoulder. He had bandages wrapped around his forehead under his hair and wore black pants. His personality was serious and strict. He had high expectations and pushed his workers to perform the best. Yet he also knew how to properly lead without making everyone miserable. "Call for leemodo and tell him to come to my office.." he told Chloe as he began typing on his computer keyboard.

Chloe nodded and silently left his office and went to the intercom and paged for leemodo.

Leemodo was the councilor of the hospital and worked well with patients that experienced memory loss and dementia, he also handled those who had a mental disorder with depression and anxiety. He had black hair with silver highlights and black glasses. His personality can be sweet but also challenging to fight against. He can be very defensive when it comes to protecting family and friends. He gained a lot of knowledge through the years through helping people with mental illnesses he can easily grow attached.

Leemodo had heard the message to report to Joel so he immediately finished his lunch and left his lunch break and walked to the office. Christopher by that time had arrived and went to meet up with Joel. Christopher walked into Joel's office and began talking about updates on sakashi and about her best friend.

Leemodo arrived at the office door and knocked before he walked inside. Leemodo immediately noticed Christopher and stopped, "oh I'm sorry so I need to come back in a few minutes?" He asked Joel. Joel smiled and looked at Leemodo. "Oh no no no, come meet the manager over at the other hospital." Joel introduced Leemodo to Christopher. "This is Christopher, he's giving me details about your new patient sakashi."

Leemodo looked at Christopher and reached for a handshake before shaking his hand. "I see, nice to meet you.

Christopher smiled at Leemodo and shook his hand and replied, "nice to meet you too." Christopher told him about sakashi and kalebize relation to each other then told him how kalebize plans on visiting her once he's released from prison. but in the meantime, try and help her remember who she is. Joel listened and kept silent. Leemodo, nodded and took the papers about sakashi and continued to talk to Christopher. Joel's computer and received a random e-mail and caused Joel to glance at it. He immediately minimized it.

Christopher glanced at the email slightly from the notification sound and noticed one word "Asha" he kept silent but looked at Joel then back at Leemodo, "well it was very nice to meet you leemodo, Joel I must return back to work. I have currently lost an employee and I need to find her." Christopher spoke began walking to the door. Joel smiled, "alright have a safe trip back." he told him. As Christopher saw his way out. Leemodo and Joel began discussing information on sakashi.

Christopher walked and glanced at his phone. He called Sasha and told her to look up a man named Joel who works at the mental hospital. He wanted to know why he saw ashas name in that email. He shortly hung up the phone and arrived at his vehicle then headed back to the hospital.

Leemodo left the office and walked down the hall to meet his new patient. He walked into sakashi's room and saw her and closed the door, sat down on the chair and attached a brain monitor to her forehead and read her thoughts. With nothing reading, he stopped and sighed. This girl has got some bad dementia." He took some notes and some blood samples. "hmmm lets at least learn your heritage." He told himself softly after. He finished collecting his samples and sealed everything in small bags then opened the door and walked out of the room.

Shortly after that short visit, sakashi's fingers twitched. Sakashi was gradually regaining her conscious causing her body to which.

During that time, kalebize had already been placed in his jail cell, he had been concealed at the end of the prison. His chains here not taken off his wrist but rather attached to the wall. Kalebize sat on the hard bed and leaned against the wall and closed his eyes. He began to think about sakashi. how he will bear his punishment and hurry up and return to her and help her remember him.

Hours had passed and Christopher had been researching on his computer everything possible about the mental hospital and the manager of the building. He wasn't able to find anything about Joel and began getting frustrated. Moments later he received an email message from Sasha titled "Is this him?" he clicked on the email and saw the picture of Joel. He immediately clicked on the article and began reading up on his sudden higher into management to the mental hospital just this morning. The original manager was fired due to stealing drugs. However, the article stated how there was never a single problem until Joel applied for the position, Then mysteriously found guilty for stealing.

Christopher kept reading and learned Joel became manager shortly after and changed how the mental hospital would run. Christopher then looked up the three magic stealers and read about them and thought Joel resembled Wesley a lot in his appearance and became slightly confused. He wondered if Wesley had been truly murdered or if he was still alive. He saved a photo of Joel and Wesley to his phone and exited out of everything before standing up and walking out his office.

He informed the receptionist he was going to leave early for personal business and grabbed keys to a smaller 11:00 pm at night. He left the hospital and walked to the car. He began to drive back to the mental hospital and arrived around 9:00 pm at night. He was originally going to leave his work at 10:00 pm but felt as if he needed to leave two hours before. He was skeptical about this new manager and wanted to learn anything about his that could lead him to the evidence he properly needed before he accused Joel.

Christopher sat in the car for another hour waiting for Joel to leave the mental hospital.

Finally, 10:23 pm he noticed Joel walking out with a briefcase and opened a van. Christopher glared and noticed the van was his van that had been stolen and he became highly frustrated. "so you're the one who atole my van. But why?" he asked himself and silently turned on his car.

Joel pulled out the parking lot with the van and turned left and made his way down the street. Christopher made sure to keep his distance and followed Joel. He followed Joel for an hour and a half before being lead to a road in the middle of nowhere. He lost the sight of Joel because he couldn't keep up with the number of dirt paths taken without being obvious he had been following. So Christopher pulled off to the side and parked his car behind a giant sign and stepped out. He then began walking around, walking down dirt paths and abandoned areas trying to spot anything that seemed unnatural. Christopher walked and searched for two and a half hours before stumbling acrossed his van parked behind this broken-down car inside of a closed-off fence.

Christopher was determined to find Asha and strongly felt Joel had something to do with her missing. He grabbed ahold of the fence firmly and began to climb up and swung his whole body over the top and leaped forward to the other side. Landing on his two feet and regained his balance fast by using his right arm to stretch out and slam his hand into the ground to stop him from tumbling over. He stood up straight and slapped his two hands together back and forth fast to brush off some dirt. He slowly walked over to the van and snuck around it to glance inside noticing nobody inside. He noticed a building with a faint light and tiptoed over to the small window. silently and gradually glanced into the window. His eyes had become troubled and immediately angered. But he knew he couldn't do anything.

He had noticed Asha stripped down to just her undergarments standing weakly with her arms above her head in chains. Asha looked sick and beaten With multiple bruises all over her body. Joel was spotted taking off his uniform and forehead bandages revealing himself as Westley from the wanted magic stealers. He shortly placed the reports about sakashi on the table and began reading everything about sakashi. There were other men spotted but Christopher couldn't see who they were. They both had their backs facing the window feeling asha's body up. Asha trembled and kept her eyes closed and moved here and there is a struggle. She couldn't make a sound because she had ducktape over her mouth. grabbed his phone clicked on his camera, he lifted his phone up and snapped a few pictures and realized his flash was not turned off. Christopher quickly put the phone down and hid knelt down and slowly walked around the building and found a small escape open place in the fence and slid his body through the hole and ran for some bushes and hid immediately.

The two men turned around and noticed a sudden flash in the window and began warning Joel. Shortly after Joel stood up, grabbed his gun and walked to the door. Joel cracked the door open and walked and looked around with a gun glaring. "hmmm who's out here?" he shouted and continued to walk around. " I saw a flash. I will find you and you will die," he shouted out again.

Christopher stayed hidden in thick bushes and closed his eyes, his heart began to beat faster the closer Westley got to him.

Wesley looked up seeing a flash of lightning and he placed his weapon down and sighed. He turned around and walked to the door and went back inside immediately closing the door and explained to his friends he believes the flash was just from the sky.

Christopher fell backward's on his arce and began breathing hard in relief. He looked at his phone and pulled up his gallery and began looking at the pictures and closed his eyes in pure anger. He clenched his fist and stood up silently tiptoeing away from the site and walked back to his car. Once he arrived he opened the can and turned the car on and began calling Sasha.

"Hello?" Sasha answered, "Sasha, I located Asha, inform authorities Wesley isn't dead. From the magic stealers. He's still alive and I found them. I also need you to call asha's husband and inform him she's found but not safe." he told her before he began to pull forward and drive back towards the hospital.

"oh my God! I'm on it!" she replied then immediately hung up. She first went into the system and tried to search for asha's information to find her husbands contact information. Unfortunately, Asha didn't have any emergency contact number. Her status read as "single." Sasha sighed and began to look up the number for authority.

Christopher sped down the street fast and began to utter profanity knowing the girl he's been searching for is in danger. He began to drive straight to the mental hospital and arrived early in the morning around 5:00 am. He ran out of his car and into the building and asked the receptionist to speak with leemodo. The receptionist agreed and paged leemodo to come down. Christopher waited patiently pacing back and forth.

Leemodo walked into the waiting room to be greeted by this panicked and frantic man. "um Christopher you um, " Leemodo began speaking before being interrupted.

" I need you to get sakashi out of here immediately, trust me. Do not let Joel near her," he told leemodo firmly and seriously.

Leemodo was confused but didn't ask why. He believed Christopher must have a good reason for this sudden panic and sudden request. "oh um ok I uh, where should I take her, she did recently wake up.." he replied in a confused unsure reply.

Christopher looked at leemodo and wrote down his address and phone number on a piece of paper, folded it then handed it to him. "meet me there in an hour or two and I'll explain everything." He turned around and left immediately, rushingly walked to his car and left. Leemodo was highly confused and shook his head adjusting his eyes before he sighed. Leemodo faced the hallway doors leading to sakashi and began walking to her room. leemodo stopped at the small best and told them he's checking sakashi out for something special. The nurse at first questioned why and would refuse. Leemodo eventually convinced the nurse and she approved the leave and gave him the card to take her. He thanked the nurse and took the card and walked down the hall.

Once he arrived he gently knocked on her door, then walked inside. "sakashi? Are you awake?" he asked her before pausing and widening his eyes.