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Disclaimer: - I don�t own any of the characters of The Shield, they all belong to Shawn Ryan and FX.

Adam Chapter 9

Claudette had emerged from the woman�s rest room after rinsing the taste of bile from her mouth and splashing some cold water onto her face to find Captain Aceveda waiting for her in the corridor outside. He looked at her red rimmed eyes but had the good grace not to mention them, for which Claudette was eternally grateful to him.
"Doctor Kim�s gone in to sedate Dutch. He suggested we go back to the ground floor waiting room, and he�ll speak to us as soon as he can." Aceveda told her.
Claudette glanced back towards the closed door of Dutch�s hospital room and felt guilty that she was following Aceveda away from there, feeling as if she were abandoning him. Of course she�d known deep down that Dutch would be different, that whatever horrors he�d experienced over the past year would have changed him. But the person she�d seen in that room had been a complete stranger to her. His eyes had shown none of the warmth she was used to seeing within them when he looked at her and which she�d missed over the past year; instead they had been filled with fear. His horrified reaction when she�d reached out for him and said his name had rocked her to her very core.
Neither she nor Captain Aceveda spoke as they made their way back to the waiting room, and though the two FBI Special Agents from San Francisco were still there, they had the good sense to keep quiet. They probably guessed by the expressions on Claudette and Aceveda�s faces that things hadn�t gone well.
Claudette finally sat down in one of the less then comfortable green plastic waiting room chairs and couldn�t stop herself from staring dejectedly down at the tiled floor. She only looked up when the strong aroma of coffee entered her nostrils and she heard Aceveda�s softly spoken,
"Here drink this."
The Captain held out a steaming cup of coffee he�d purchased from the vending machine in the corridor outside the waiting room. Reaching out and taking hold of the Styrofoam cup Claudette wrapped her hands around it feeling the heat bleeding through the well insulated material warming her flesh and making her shiver slightly. After taking a careful sip she looked up at him and murmured,
"Thanks."
Nodding Aceveda sat down next to her and then turned his attention to the two quiet FBI agents who were sitting together several seats away from him and Claudette.
"When you saw Detective Wagenbach in San Francisco how was he? How was he�reacting to the situation?"
The two men glanced at each other for a moment before one of them looked across at the Captain and replied,
"He�um�didn�t seem to be reacting very well to be honest."
"What do you mean?" Claudette asked.
"We weren�t at the initial raid on Fitzgerald�s house. We only met Detective Wagenbach at the hospital, but the agents who brought him from the house into St. Luke�s said he didn�t�well he didn�t seem to want to be rescued." The agent looked at Aceveda and Claudette anxiously for a moment before continuing. "They said he refused to answer to his name and insisted his name was Adam. He refused to answer any of their questions, and just kept asking for Fitzgerald.
When we saw him at the hospital he was pretty much freaking out and the docs there had to give him an injection to knock him out."
The man sounded apologetic as he told them what little he knew.
"And you didn�t think that any of that might just be important enough for you to tell us before?" Claudette fumed at him.
She saw both agents wince at her tone and felt guilty for taking some of the anger she felt towards Fitzgerald and the universe in general out on them.
The other agent finally spoke up his tone sounding rather defensive,
"Look we didn�t see what happened at the house for ourselves we just heard about it, and as to what happened at St. Luke�s�well the guy freaked out, but who could blame him after what�s he�s been through. For all we knew he could�ve got his shit together and we�d have just been worrying you for nothing."
Claudette understood where the man was coming from she really did, and so she tried to give him a small smile, although she knew she�d failed miserably and felt as though it was more of a grimace then a genuine smile and she said,
"I know�I know, I�m sorry. It�s just�it�s hard�"
Her voice broke a little on the last word, but she didn�t really care and both men accepted her apology, one of them muttering,
"It�s okay."
The group sat in silence for a while longer each lost in their own melancholy thoughts until finally the waiting room door opened and Doctor Kim stepped into the room closing the door behind him. Claudette didn�t like the concerned look on the doctor�s face, and the fear for her partner and friend that was gnawing away steadily at her gripped her a little tighter, and felt a little sharper.
"How is he?" Aceveda asked from her left, leaving Claudette relieved that he�d done so since she wasn�t sure she was brave enough to have voice the question herself.
"I�ve given him a sedative and he�s sleeping right now. However, as you saw for yourselves he was displaying definite self harming behaviour, and so he�s also been placed in restraints for his own safety."
A small gasp escaped from Claudette at those words, and she wondered just how far this whole God damned mess was going to spin out of control. The doctor noted her reaction with a sympathetic glance in her direction before he continued,
"Detective Wagenbach�s strong reaction to your presence showed a level of disassociation from his past that quite frankly took me somewhat by surprise. The report from St. Luke�s did seem to indicate the fact that over his year of captivity Detective Wagenbach had constructed a kind of alternate reality for himself. No doubt it�s a defense mechanism from his mind to help him cope with the extreme stress of the situation he found himself in. However, I�d been hoping that seeing familiar faces from his past would help to jolt him out of this self deluded state, but unfortunately it seems Detective Wagenbach is going to need some intensive therapy to help him over his trauma."
"But is he going to get better? Recognise us?" Captain Aceveda asked.
"It�s really far too early to be trying to give you an accurate prognosis, but hopefully his removal from the environment that was causing his stress will facilitate his beginning to heal."
"Can we see him again?" Claudette forced herself to ask, and was ashamed with herself at the relief she felt when Doctor Kim shook his head before replying,
"No�no I�m sorry, but Detective Wagenbach is in a far too delicate mental state to risk his being further upset at the moment." Then as an after thought he added. "But perhaps it will be possible later, when he�s feeling�calmer, more settled. Then we�ll see."
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