Chapter twenty-three

I stayed with him, of course I did, I could hardly just leave him there to chase after his dad, which is probably what he would have wanted me to do, but I just couldn't leave him. Not even if I wanted to. George was taken to Locksdale hospital and ended up in the bed next to Wendy, when his farther had come to visit (with many questions as to how George ended up in hospital) he had offered to get him a private room but George had declined the offer. Baxter couldn't stay long and had to go away on business, which suited the other visitors on the ward, namely the entire Spencer family, a few Hudson's, a Johnson and a Walker, just fine. Needless to say my family had plenty of questions for me as well, like for instance where I was last night when all that with Baxter was going down, I had no choice but to say I was out looking for Wendy with Will (which wasn't a lie exactly), I was hardly going to say I was right in the middle of the fray fighting for my family, and then crying my heart out for the boy in the bed next to Wendy's. I can't imagine they'd react all that well to that.

"Shhhh!" scolded the nurse for the third time during our visit; the five of us were crowded around Wendy and George's beds. Will had really brightened Wendy's mood and she could hardly stop laughing, her cute bubbly laugh had the rest of us in stitches and the nurse seemed to be of the impression that laughter was not good for the patients.

I sat on the end of the sleeping Georges Bed watching the others clowning around to put a smile on Wendy's face, we were watching her while Will's mum and dad took a break. Wendy let out another bubbly laugh as Jack tickled her sides; she had also taken a shine to Jack which seemed to please Will, not implying anything here, lol.

"Hey." Came a croaky voice from the bed I sat on.

"Hey." I replied smiling at George, who looked up at me from his pillows, this was the first time I'd seen him awake since the incident.

"How are you?" I asked he looked so cute in those bandages.

"Headache," He said and I laughed, something's never change.

"I'm sorry," He said looking away.

"What for?" I asked softly, but I was confused, what was this about?

"If I scared you back there, it was stupid I know, but I was so mad! I had to do something, get him back for what he was going to do to your family!" He said still looking away from me.

I shook my head and smiled.

"I wasn't scared" down right lie "I know what your like; you just won't leave me alone."

This time he laughed and turned back to face me grinning, his grin vanished and his cheeks redden as he looked over my shoulder, I followed his gaze and saw the others watching us with raised eyebrows and smirks.

"Yes?" I asked smiling at them. They just shook their heads and laughed.

"Denial," Will commented

"Excuse me?!" I said raising my eyebrows at him.

"Did I say anything?" he said with a grin.

"For your sake I hope not." I said and the others laughed, Will parents walked back onto the ward followed by the nurse.

"Can everyone but family members leave please? Visiting hours are over." She said and we all stood up to leave.

"Bye Wendy." Everyone coursed and then gave George a "see ya mate."

Will told his parents he was coming with us, now his secret was out in the open we had work to do.

"See you tomorrow Wendy." I said softly waving at her, she smiled back in response.

"Bye." I said to George pausing at the end of his bed.

"Bye." He replied settling back down.

I smiled at him and took my leave, the others and I left the hospital discussing plans for Will and his family, centring on weather or not we could ask George to steal the copies from his father. But also on how to improve the security at the farm, as well as how to pay Baxter back for what he did to Wendy and George, but my mind was only half in it. I couldn't concentrate; I knew that this battle we were fighting was far from over, the problems we and our town faced were far from solved, but we had time. These rebels were far from finished in their quest for justice, if our ancestors' could do this, so could we. But for today, villous noblemen and crippling taxes could wait; we had some serious planning to do and some friends to be visiting tomorrow. As I walked from the hospital on that day I was sure of one thing, this was only the beginning.

The End