Okay so I decided that I too wanted to know if Sandy dies or not so here's another chapter. Hope you like it.
Kirsten's hands were shaking she was so worried, she didn't know what to do. Sandy was looking so much paler than he had done just minutes ago. She didn't have her cell, she'd left it at home tonight of all nights! She desperately tried to find Sandy's but then it dawned on her that he had probably given it to his attacker. She had no other choice than to leave him while she went for help.
She got inside as fast as her legs would carry her. Julie came rushing to her side as soon as she saw her.
"Kirsten is everything okay? You don't look so good."
"It's Sandy he's been attacked in the car park." Julie's face dropped, she wasn't expecting that. "Please get help quickly I've got to go back to him." She rushed back outside as Julie turned to Neil. He was already on his phone requesting an ambulance so she swiftly followed Kirsten out the door.
When she spotted Kirsten she was already on the floor cradling Sandy in her arms. Julie couldn't believe the sight in front of her. Sure she had assumed they were arguing outside and when she saw Kirsten she thought the row must have been big but she just imagined the make up would be just asbig at the end of the night too. She did not expect Sandy to be lying in his wife's arms bleeding out. She had never seen him so vulnerable before.
"Kirsten, its going to be okay. He's going to be just fine." Julie got down on her knees next to her friend and put her arm around her.
"I can't lose him Julie. I can't. My life ends without him. There is no me without us. Last summer, in rehab, was just the worst time of my life. It made me realise how much I need him. I was so annoyed with him tonight why couldn't I just say nothing!" She sighed she had been glad he had followed her out before, glad even that they were arguing because at least it meant they were talking. If they were arguing then they could make up. Now she just wished the whole night hadn't happened. "The past few months have been tough, the past eighteen months even have been tough, but we've never given up on each other. On our marriage."
"Don't give up now, kiks. He needs you, he loves you." Julie turned round as she heard her name called. It was Neil.
"Kirsten the ambulance is on the way." The three of them just stared at Sandy, watching him fight to breathe, helplessly. All of them were wishing there was something, anything, that they could do.
Sandy could hear his wife's voice but he couldn't talk back to her and he knew he couldn't open his eyes. He was pretty certain he was dying because images of his life kept flashing in front of him. The day he first met Kirsten, the day of their wedding, the day Seth was born, the day Kirsten's mother had died and Newport became their home for good, Seth's Bar Mitzvah, bringing Ryan home, his mom telling him she had cancer,the boys leaving for the summer, Kirsten's intervention and finally her face tonight during her speech. He had assumed this was what happened just before you die, you see significant parts of your life, sad or happy but all of meaning to you. He was scared he didn't want his conversation with Kirsten tonight to be their last. He had a lot of making up to do, he had let her and his boys down way too much latelyand dying would be like abandoning them. That was something he wasn't prepared to do. Suddenly he could hear more voices, new voices.
"Kirsten just move a bit sweetie let the paramedics do their work." Julie gently moved Kirsten to the side letting the paramedics in.
"Please help him. Please. He can't die. We need him." The tears were tripping both women as Sandy got placed on a stretcher and then in the ambulance.
"We'll follow you straight to the hospital. Do you want me to ring Seth and Ryan? Do you want me to drive Sandy's car there for you?"
"I'm not sure if we still have Sandy's car his attacker took the keys but am not sure if he actually ended up taking the car I don't remember hearing it. As for the boys thanks but I'll ring Ryan when I get to the hospital and Seth should be on his way home from Brown so I'll leave him a message to call me."
"Okay. You're going to need to talk to the police if he's got Sandy's carthenthey can track him. Neil and I will check on the way to the car. See you soon. Don't worry he's strong. He's going to be fine." Kirsten gave Julie the best smile she could muster up and settled into the ambulance. At least she could hold Sandy's hand. It was going to be a long night.
Once they arrived at the hospital she was separated from her husband. She hadn't understood too much of what was going on in the ambulance; it didn't look good so she wasn't sure that she wanted to know. After speaking to the police, she wasn't sure she was that much help she was in shock everything was a blur, she stepped out side and rang Ryan.
"Hey Ryan it's me." Not waiting for him to reply she carried on, she needed to get it over with quick. "I'm at the hospital. Sandy's been attacked tonight at the benefit. I don't know too much he's in with the doctors now. He was stabbed." Ryan couldn't believe this. The only man he'd ever truly cared about, loved even, had been stabbed.
"I'll be right there. Does Seth know?"
"No not yet. Have you heard from him?
"Yeah I spoke to him just before, about an hour or so before his flight I think. Do you want me to leave a message on his phone?"
"Thanks but I'll do it myself but you could pick him up from the airport for me."
"Sure I'll come to the hospital first though he's not due in for a while."
"Okay thanks Ryan. I'm sure everything is going to be fine. Sandy will probably up by the time Seth is here and he'll be annoyed that I scared you."
"I'm sure he won't be annoyed just glad to see you. Anyway I'll leave now. See you soon." They both hung up, both of them scared for themselves and the other but most of all Sandy. He had to pull through, the Cohen's weren't the Cohen's without him
