Prompt: cover
Word Count: 249
Disclaimer: Ryan Murphy created them. I just like playing with the moulds.
Everyone always asks her "how?", like she knows the secret to cheating death. The doctors didn't help, claming she was "a walking miracle". Others, less tactful, saying "she should be dead right now". Whatever the reason, she isn't.
Nicole had hit her, her body became barely recognisable under the cover of blood. Bones she didn't know she had had been broken, she'd been in a coma. Doctors had told her parents about the 10% chance she'd wake up, 20% chance she'd ever walk or talk again if she did, and Brooke had proved them wrong. Her parents just stare at her in wonder sometimes and she knows they're thinking it. Even Sam will get that look in her eyes every so often, but Brooke says nothing, even though she has, maybe not the exact answer they're looking for, but the answer she believes is right. She has a cover story about being "just lucky, I guess" for when they do ask.
Because she hasn't yet found the right words to tell anyone that Sam is the reason for her miracle. That Sam is the reason she held on. Memories of the other girl's face, the sound of her voice; audible over the beeping of her heart. The thought she might never get to tell Sam how she feels, after only realising it herself when Harrison had said Sam's name. She held on because of Sam. And as soon as Brooke found the words, she was going to tell her.