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you for coming
out to see me.”
    “That’s no
problem Miss?”
    “Oh. I’m
sorry I’m Mrs Tipton and this hear is Robbie.”
    Lena bent
down and smiled at the screaming child. Reaching out she placed her palm on his
forehead and frowned. The little guy was burning up.
    “What seems
to be the problem with little Robbie here?”
    “He’s been
crying like this for the past 8 hrs. Finally when nothing, tylenol or a cool
bath, would calm him down I decided to bring him in and I’ve been waiting and
waiting and he gets louder and,”
    Lena grinned
quickly then it fell away, “Yes I can see he has a loud voice, don’t you little
man. Anyway lets get him into a room right away and see what it is he’s trying
to tell us.”
    Mrs Tipton
had tears welling in here eyes and Lena felt her heart clench.  “It’s ok.
We’ll find out what’s wrong with your little guy.”
    “Thank you.”
she whispered clutching him tighter.
    Lena turned
around and faced Brandy, “Put them in Exam 2. I’ll be in there in just a
second.”
     
    Mason was in
the process of interviewing a new dining room Hostess. Cindy, his main girl up
the front, had told him her boyfriend was moving to London and had asked her to
go and hey presto, he was down a hostess. He was seated in his office, or as he
now referred to it, the scene of the crime and his mind kept wandering back to
Lena. Had he done the right thing kicking her out? He’d gone into the
date knowing up front she was prickly and grouchy and more guarded than a
castle under a full blown attack. However, somewhere in the middle of flinging
insults he’d started feel the need to make her smile. He’d recognized from the
beginning she was smart. The fact she was a doctor was the first clue but the
way she hadn’t acted like a besotted groupie around him was the second. She’d
been mean and completely insulting but she fascinated him more than anyone he
could think of and he wanted under that pants suit so bad he could feel it. What
would it be like to have her melt for him? There was a small knock on the
door and a petite redhead poked her head around the door.
    “Mr.
Langely?”
    Mason
motioned for her to come in and decided, then and there, that before the day
was over he would know Lena’s last name and he would hear her
call him Langley again.
     
    Twelve long hours later Robert
Tipton had been admitted to the hospital. They couldn’t get young Robbie’s
fever down and after running all the blood work and labs under the sun some
answers had finally appeared. Lena gritted her teeth hating this part of her
job. She walked into the small room that had Mrs. Tipton next to a window and
Robbie finally asleep, and stopped at the foot of the cot. Mrs. Tipton looked
over at her and Lena could see the dark rings around her eyes and knew they
were only going to get worse in the following weeks and months.
    “Mrs. Tipton.”
    “Please call me Becky.” she replied
as she stood and moved closer.
    Lena nodded then made a move toward
her. She stopped and looked back at little Robbie then turned to his mother.
“Is there someone who can come down here and be with you?”
    Automatically she saw Becky’s body
tense up and she bit her lip to keep it from trembling.
    “His father. He’s been at work
today and was going to come by if he needed to. I just thought he had an ear
infection,” she said then sniffled as a tear leaked down her eye, “So I told
him not to bo-th-ther.” pausing she looked from Robbie then back to Lena.
“Should I call him?”
    Lena reached out and took her hand.
“Yes, you really should.”
    Becky gasped softly and sat down on
the chair almost as though her legs wouldn’t hold her, dropping Lena’s hand.
Lena squatted down and reached out squeezing Becky’s fingers tightly because
she knew the news she was about to deliver was going to be like a knife to the
gut.
    “Robbie’s blood tests came back and
he has a very high white blood cell count and he’s also