"Steph come on let's go. The boys are waiting outside." Gia says coming to the door to get Steph. The boys they and met earlier that day were waiting in their car outside the house, ready to go out on another wild journey.

"Don't do it Steph." DJ says trying to protest her from going. "I'll tell dad what you are doing?" She walks closer to the living room door where the rest of the family are all playing on Michelle's console game.

"You wouldn't dare." Steph says testing her, she moves closer to Gia, grabs her jacket so she was ready to go out as DJ walks to the swinging door and pushes it open slightly.

"Dad." She says whilst the door was open.

"Yeah DJ" he says back but wasn't really paying attention, his head still forward watching the game before him. DJ turned to start telling her dad what Stephanie was doing and hears the back door slam shut behind her. Stephanie had gone out anyway.

-xxxx-

Stephanie was laying in a hospital bed, wires connected all through her arms, machines beeping around her. She was unable to move from the position she was in and she could feel pain throughout her head. She was confused as she opened her eyes, her sight and mind all fogged up.

"Stephanie, can you tell me where you are?" A doctor says before her seeing her slowly coming round.

"N..n..no." She says confused seeing everything in a haze before her. Every thing was blending In and just causing a huge blur.

"You were in an accident, you are in the hospital. Do you remember anything at all?" He says looking directly at her, trying to see into her eyes.

"N..n..no I..I..I don't remember anything." She says feeling scared she had no memory of how she got there.

"Oh Stephanie honey, you are okay. I was so worried." Danny says coming to his daughters side and places himself on the bed next to her. He had tears showing around his puffy eyes. Stephanie could hear that he had gotten so emotional, it was evident in his chocked up voice.

"Dad, what's wrong?" She asks confused why he had been crying.

"I had no idea what happened to you Steph. You could have died. I was so worried." He says his voice still wavering over all his worries for her.

"What happened?" She asks wanting an answer, one her mind was not giving her.

"You were in a car accident with Gia and two boys." Her dad shares with her, but has a grave look on his face, showing he had more to share but wasn't confident in doing so.

"You hit your head really hard." He says and stops unable to say anymore to her. He looks over to Jesse, Joey and the doctor who were at the sides of the bed.

"Steph, your injuries were really serious." Joey says himself struggling to get the words out.

She was looking round at them, still unable to see clearly but saw the blurry figures of her family. She herself was getting worried, if they were getting this worked up she knew something had happened.

The three of them look over at the doctor, clearly unable to tell her themselves. None of them had the courage, it was hard enough for them to accept what was wrong and they couldn't do it, they couldn't share it.

"Your accident was really serious Stephanie. When you were brought in we didn't think you were going to make it through. But you are a fighter and came back to us. However the blow to your head has caused some further damage." He says pausing before he says anything more to her. "You have been left paralysed." He says getting a panicked look from Stephanie.

"That's not true, dad tell him that's not true." She says frantically tears starting to come out streaming down her cheeks. Making her dad cry all over again.

"It's true Steph, the doctors have done all the tests and scans. You have no movement in your legs." Uncle Jesse says speaking for Danny, he takes Steph's other hand in his, getting her looking directly at him.

"I don't believe you, you're lying to me. All of you." She says shaking her head in complete disbelief.

The doctor moves over to her feet and moves the blanket off just slightly and takes a metal rod from his pocket and does his test once more to show Stephanie the unfortunately he was serious. This was also a check once more for himself getting to see her reaction. He strokes it up and down her bare foot and gets no response.

"Can you feel this at all Steph?" He asks having had no responses from her nerves, wanting to get her clarification that she was unable to move her feet and legs.

"No, why can't I feel it? She says frantically, getting more alarmed each second. It was starting to feel like her world was crashing around her.

"You can't feel it as you are paralysed, I know this is a shock Stephanie. But we will offer you the best care and help to get you adjusted to living with this." The doctor says putting her blanket back over her legs. His check completed, he also knew he had to give Stephanie and her family some alone time for her to let it sink in.

-xxxx-

A while later Stephanie had been released from the hospital, her injuries recovered enough that the doctors thought she was well enough to go back home. They all knew everything was going to be different for her now. Things wouldn't be easy, and it would take her time to adjust.

Stephanie gets carried through the door in uncle Jesse's arms. Danny is behind them with a folded up wheel chair I'm his hands. Joey had gone ahead with bags of things they had taken to the hospital for Stephanie whilst she had been there.

"Steffy you're home." Michelle says getting up excitedly from the floor where she was playing a game with her cousins. She had only seen Stephanie a few times at the hospital and had been waiting for her to come home.

Jesse comes down the steps before the door and places Steph down onto the couch. Her face is solid a look shown as though she wasn't really there with them. She was physically in the room but mentally she wasn't.

"I made this at school for you Steph." Michelle says picking up a card she had made for her, holding it before her sister waiting for her to take it and thank her for it. But it gets ignored. Stephanie doesn't give her any sort of response at all. "I'm sure she will look at it later munchkin she's still in a bit of shock right now." Jesse says bending down to Michelle's height, trying to assure her Stephanie will be normal again later. He places the hand made card on Steph's lap so she would have no choice but to look at it at some point.

"Oh okay." Michelle says but looks sad, just wanting to be able to talk with her sister again.

The atmosphere in the house felt awkward, it was hard to be happy anymore. Stephanie was unhappy, she was mute, withdrawn in herself and no one knew what to say or do around her. Anytime anyone tried to speak to her or get her to join in with something they were doing she just stayed there sat on the sofa frozen within herself.

Days went by where all Stephanie was doing was going between laying on her newly set up bed in the alcove and sitting on the couch when she was moved and just watching whatever was on TV. She wasn't eating, she wasn't speaking and she wasn't the bubbly outgoing girl she once was.

I'm sure stories similar to this have been done, as that episode with Stephanie going with the boys who drive insanely clearly leaves lots of room for personal interpretation and so this is what I wanted to go Into the story that I wanted to share of it. It is multi-chaptered so will have many more chapters coming soon.