"Cory?!" Topanga screamed and dropped the phone in shock.
"No!!!!!" She quickly called Sean, told him to meet her in front of her
apartment building, and they drove to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, Topanga explained her phone call.
"They called and told me Cory was in an accident," Topanga choked out sobbing.
"They said he was unconscious!" Topanga calmed down enough to say, "He was in a
car accident, a hit and run. It was at the corner of Main and Elm. The police
are trying to find the criminal and they say the way the car was hit meant that
the criminal probably meant to hit Cory." Sean said, "How could anyone want to
hit Cory?! That's horrible!" They drove the rest of the way to the hospital in
silence, each thinking their own depressed thoughts.
They arrived at the hospital and Topanga asked to see
Cory. The receptionist was about to
respond but seeing Topanga's red puffy eyes, she told them they could see him.
"You may not like what you see though," she added. Nervously, Topanga and Sean rode the elevator to the fourth floor
– Intensive Care. "Room 507," Topanga murmured and knocked on the door.
A doctor opened the door looking grim. "Cory hasn't woken up
since we brought him here. We think he's in a coma," the doctor said. Sean
looked at the ground and Topanga did the same with tears in her eyes. Topanga and Sean went around Cory's curtain
and Topanga screamed. Cory had so many tubes attached to him it was hard to see
part of them. Topanga ran away screaming and Sean stared at the wall blankly
and then he too walked away.
Topanga was sitting in the waiting room when Sean came out.
She managed to say, "I can't believe it," in a very high voice before bursting
into tears. She went over to Sean and lay against him. At this, even Sean, who had
been calm the whole time shed a few tears. With Topanga's head against his
shoulder, they left the hospital.
When Shawn and Topanga came back, they went to find Angela.
Angela, Rachel, Jack, and Eric were sitting in Angela's apartment when they
knocked. As soon as Angela saw their faces, she knew something was wrong. "What's wrong?" she asked Topanga. Topanga
related her story between sobs and sniffles. Shawn got misty eyed too, when he
heard the story again and realized how much grief it caused Topanga. Shawn's
way of expressing his grief, everyone knew, was to stare long and hard at
something. Shawn stared in Jack's direction for a long time. When he finally
broke away, Angela was making coffee and Eric was yelling like a maniac. Rachel
was trying to comfort Topanga as Topanga called Amy and Alan Matthews. Shawn
was feeling sorry for Cory but he couldn't help noticing that Jack was
fidgeting and then made a quick excuse to leave.
* * *
Meanwhile,
the doctors at the hospital, were looking over Cory. They were watching his
heart monitor, when suddenly, it stopped beeping. The doctors rushed to do
everything they could, but Cory was dead.
* * *
When Topanga went back to her apartment that she had shared
with Cory, she saw a message on her machine. She called Shawn and Angela,
thinking that the message was from the hospital saying Cory was okay. Her eyes
were bright with joy as she walked over to play the message. "You have one
message:," the machine chirped. "This is the hospital. We are calling to say
that we are very sorry, but your husband Cory is dead." Topanga stood still for a moment. Then she screamed
and cried her head off, even more hysterical than before. For once Shawn showed
some emotion though. He got all teary and started to cry, hugging Topanga and
Angela. Then he wiped his eyes and started off to the Police Station to see if
they found any leads.