Alix is happy to see Adrien and Marinette get along so well. She hopes they will become a couple really soon!  She smiles at the very thought.

       "I think the security guard likes me!"  Alix remarks.

       "Oh, and what makes you think so?"  Marinette ask.

      "Well, he did rescue me from Lila and he asked me for my phone number!"  Alix remarks.

        "I would say it sounds like he does like you."  Marinette says.

        "Cool, Alix you have yourself a man!"  Adrien says.

         "Do you know who poisoned Marinette?" Adrien ask

         "Adrien, how could she possibly know this?"  Marinette remarks.

       "Oh my goodness!"  Alix remarks.

        "P-poisoned?"  Alix says.  She trembles at the word.

         Alix's  POV:

        Something is not right.  Something is terribly wrong, but what could it be?  Perhaps, I have been infected as well.  Oh, no!  It is true!  I am in trouble.  In very much trouble indeed.  I might even die.   Oh,dear!  What will become of him?  What shall happen to the handsome guard who cares for me and I care for in return?

       "I uh, feel s-sick!"  Alix says.  She feels funny all of a sudden.  Without warning she throws up and then faints on the floor to the room where Marinette stays there in the hospital.

       "Adrien, call for the nurse!  Quick, Alix needs help!"  Marinette calls out.

      Adrien picks up the phone to find to call the nurse.  The nurse Josie is outside the room because she makes her rounds. She slips past the security guard to check on Marinette.

       "Oh, my !  What has happened here?"  Nurse Josie ask

      "My best friend just threw up and passed out all of a sudden!"  Marinette says

      "Oh, dear I will be back with the doctor right away!" Nurse Josie says.

           Nurse Josie leaves the room to see if she can find the doctor.  She sees the doctor. 

       "Oh, how is our patient?" the doctor ask.

        "  Marinette is fine.  Doctor, hurry!  Alix needs you right away!"  Nurse Josie says.

      The security guard hears her and wonders what is wrong with Alix.

        "Alix Kubel, as in the patient's  friend?"  The doctor remarks.

      "Yes, she is in trouble!  She has fainted!"  Nurse Josie says.

        "I shall find the other doctor at once!"  Doctor Jones says.

         "Find me for what?   I  believe Alix needs me is that it?"  The other doctor remarks.

         "Yes, sir!"   Doctor Jones says.

         The other doctor goes past the security guard into the room where Marinette stays and Adrien sits nearby.  He sees Alix out cold on the floor.  He checks her vitals. He can tell her breathing is very unstable.  He runs some tests at once.

        He shakes his head when he sees the results.  He gets to work at once.  He pours some funny liquid down her thoart as soon as he can.  He places her on the spare bed in the same room.  He exits the room to go inform the others.

       "Well?   What is it that bothers Alix?"  Nurse Josie, Doctor Jones and the security guard remarks.

      "Yes, is Miss Alix, alright?"  The guard ask.  He shows his concern for her at once.

        "I am sorry to say this, but  Alix has been poisoned as well!"  The doctor remarks.

       "Wh-what?  No!  Alix!" The security guard looks upset.

       "I gave her the antidote and put her in the extra bed in the room."  The other doctor remarks.

       Nurse Josie remarks, "I see, well hopefully she will recover soon."  

       "I am awfully sorry."  The doctor says.

        The security guard frowns.  He worries for Alix.  He can not believe it!  How could she be poisoned too?     He wonders if she was already like this before he saw her and if so for how long?

         Meanwhile, in the room with Marinette...

           Marinette sobs. She is upset.  First, she finds out she was poisoned and now Alex was as well?   How?  When?   Who could done this?  She is even more afraid than before even with Chloe and Sabrina being in prison, and Lila being arrested by the police recently.  She is not sure what to do about it though. She thinks, wait!  The security guard likes my friend, oh dear!  He will be sad if anything shall happen to her.

          Marinette's  POV:

          I thought it was bad enough that I was poisoned, but now it turns out my best friend was as well.  Oh, dear me!  Dear me indeed!  Why the whole thing is just awful!  I do hope she will be alright.

        Adrien's  POV:
        Some one hurt my love!  They put toxic stuff inside my Marinette "Bluebell Gal"  and apparently her friend Alix has this  within her too.  Who?  When?  Where?   Why did it take so long for it to take effect?  Oh, dear me!

     Security guard's  POV:

      Alix!  No, she is sick due to someone trying to kill her!  I thought it was bad enough some one did this to her friend.  Now, the woman I care for, no love is in danger.  I  can not bare it if she shall die.  What am I to do?  What will happen to her?   All this not knowing is rather dreadful to me.

    to be continued in Chapter 24  The Secret Lab?