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Chapter Eight

Robin had not slept since getting up to meet Miho out on the bar row. She felt the heaviness if fatigue settling in her body, but she refused to sleep one second. Her husband was missing, and she needed to find him.

Michael had done a search of records from the night before, seeing if there was any reports on the car, or Amon in anything. To there frustration, the record was empty and they came up with nothing.

Robin sat at her desk, as the others did the normal routines of checking the witch lists, and trying to locate the elusive one that Amon had gone out to find. Robin half heartedly worked the case, trying to see if finding this Orti fellow would result in finding her man. She was trying, but her mind was racing too fast to really concentrate on it. Stoically, she pressed herself on in the search.

Miho was on the terminal next to her, also trying to drum up any leads on this witch. By the faces she was making to herself, she was having about as much luck as Robin was with this angle.
“ I found the tip that Amon must have gotten here in back records on this man...” She said with a tightness to her speech. “ But it is based on interpretation of his lifestyle. I am trying to figure out just what your husband was seeing.”

Robin just nodded. She had found the same thing a while back, but only an experienced hunter like Amon would know just what to do with it. Miho had been with the STN-J for a very long time herself, but she knew that her man’s thinking had went somewhere that the information lightly pointed too. She could not see it either, as Miho couldn’t, but she knew that Amon had seen something and went for it last night.

Tired of just sitting there, Robin stood up and went to get some tea made for herself. Her stomach was really acting up right then, and she knew it was not just being pregnant. Stress was one thing she could usually handle, but with everything that seemed to be piling up on her one after another, was getting way too much for her. She just hoped that a soothing blend of tea would calm her stomach a little.

She was heading back to the desk when she saw Michael jump to his feet. He was looking right at her, a wild look in his eyes.
“ I just got a call from one of the local police detachments...” He said, his words flying out of his mouth like a auctioneer in action. “ They have just taken a man matching Amon’s description to the Tokyo General Hospital. The man was reported to been severely beaten up.”

A shattering sound broke the second long silence that followed the lad’s words, as Robin had dropped the tea cup she carried. She bolted for the elevator at a dead run, not even stopping to clean up the mess that was on the floor. Miho grabbed her coat off the back of her desk chair and gave chase to the girl.
“ Wait up!!!” She yelled out to the quick moving teen. “ I’ll drive you there.”

Robin stopped, and waited for the lady to get to her side. Once Miho was there, the two run into the elevator. The door closed, and they were gone.

Michael took his seat again, as Dojima walked up.
“ Is it Amon?” She asked softly.
“ Seems to be...” The lad said, his face ashen in color. “ They have taken him in to surgery... his lung has collapsed.”
“ Is that serious?” Innocently asked the blonde lady, looking into the hacker lad’s face.
“ Very!” Was the one word answer the lad give, his voice monotone.

Robin burst into the hospital on the dead run, heading to the information desk as fast as she could go. Karasuma was following behind the girl, amazed at how fast this young lady was despite being pregnant. She hurried herself as fast as she could, seeing that the girl was over twenty feet in front of her.

Robin pounded on the desk furiously, her politeness set aside as she desperately wanted to get the nurse’s attention.

The nurse looked up at the girl, shocked at the suddenness the young girl had appeared.
“ May I help you?” The middle aged nurse asked.
“ You had a man brought in to emergency by the police about a hour ago?” She rattled off. “ I believe that is my husband that was brought in.”

Robin described Amon as quickly as she could, while the woman listened to the young woman.
“ It does sound like the man that was brought in earlier..” She said. “ I will check, please wait.”

The woman got on the phone, while Robin waited. Miho had finally caught up to the fleet footed Hunter girl, and stood gasping to catch her breath.
“ Is.. Is it him?” Miho asked, puffing.
“ I described him, and the lady thinks so.” Said a very concerned Robin.

The nurse covered the bottom end of the phone and looked at the younger women of the two.
“ They have found identification on him... the name is Amon Syunji.” Informed the nurse.
“ That is my husband!!” She said, pulling out her identification and showing it quickly to the lady. “ I’m his wife!!”


The lady looked at the identification and nodded.
“ Go to the fourth floor then, he’s in surgery right now.. Three of the five broken ribs have punctured his lung and they are trying to fix them right now.”

Robin froze at the woman’s information.
“ Surgery?” She echoed, her heart dropping in her chest. “ Is he going to be alright?”
“ We don’t know yet, Mrs. Syunji.” Said the woman, looking into her face. “ You have to go up and wait until they hear something.”

Robin turned to her friend, tears flowing down her face in torrents. She could not believe what she had just heard, but there it was.
“ A... Amon.” She said, her jaw quivering.

Miho just looked at the young woman, seeing her despair flooding over her face. She knew this news was not at all good.

Before she could say a word, Robin’s eyes rolled back into her head and her body pitched forward. With a sickening thud, Robin crashed face first to the ground.
“ ROBIN!!!” Called out Miho, seeing the girl fall.

The nurse raced out of the small cubical she worked in and found Miho kneeling on the ground tending to the girl. The hunter woman looked at the nurse with a state of panic on her face.
“ Get help quick!” She demanded of the nurse. “ She’s pregnant!”
“ Pregnant?” The woman said, realizing the situation that faced her.
“ That is what I fucking said.” Miho yelled, swearing loudly at the woman. “ Move it and get some help!!!”

The middle aged woman got up from the floor and hit the panic button that was located on the counter top of her cubical. As it rang out with a loud bell sound, Doctors and nurses came running from every direction.

Miho cradled the young girl’s head in her lap, and could hear the shallow breathing of the girl. She stroked Robin’s cheek softly, and found herself crying.