The loud bangs echoed through the church, Kylianna and Stefano in a severe state of shock as EJ fell to his knees… but Stefano then saw blood trailing down Kylianna's neck and pulled his jacket off, pressing it to his daughter's neck as her legs started to lose their strength.
"Kylianna…" Stefano said tearfully, his voice becoming fainter to Kylianna as she struggled to stay awake… but it was of little use, darkness overwhelming her senses.
The next thing Kylianna remembered clearly was waking up in a hospital bed, seventeen stitches in the right side of her neck and covered by a bandage, EJ on one side of her hospital bed and Stefano on the other… but Kylianna knew something was wrong from the fact that EJ wasn't moving his legs.
"Don't… don't worry, little sis. We'll both heal, we'll get stronger…" EJ says as he lightly stroked Kylianna's hair but despite the comforting tone in his voice, Kylianna was traumatized. The shooting brought back memories of the night her long lost half brother Benjy shot the coffin at Stefano's fake funeral.
Kylianna never blamed Benjy though, he felt the same hatred she felt towards Andre… and Kylianna was harbouring a secret about the night Andre's life support machine was turned off, trapping her in that room for nearly two months and torturing her when all she tried to do was find Lexie had sent the teen into madness.
Madness that ended with the life support plug from Andre's machine tightly gripped in Kylianna's right hand...
The second her bedroom door had been closed and locked, Kylianna pulled her hair into a messy bun and stared at the box in her right hand, the one containing the morning after pill. Kylianna opened the box and the foil in the pack, holding the pill in her right hand before putting it in her mouth and swallowing it.
The youngest Dimera sibling would look into getting some birth control pills in the near future… right now, she felt like taking a shower and sleeping in her bed. Kylianna set out some pajamas and then headed off towards the bathroom.
With the water running down on her after Kylianna scrubbed her makeup off and pulled her hair out of its bun, she began to clean herself off as the steam surrounded her.
Downstairs, EJ had walked in and slammed the door out of frustration. He had no intentions of sleeping with Nicole tonight, much less in an elevator… as he walked upstairs, he heard the shower running and decided to wait until tomorrow morning to check on Kylianna.
The night seemed to drag on endlessly but EJ was awake at 6am, checking on his son, Johnny. Once the little boy was content, EJ heard a knock at the door and stood up.
"Hey, Tony." EJ says, Johnny reaching out to Tony and Tony holding him, EJ smiling as Johnny laughed when Tony tickled him.
"Rough night?" Tony asks after looking back at EJ.
"Yeah, the… blackout almost drove me mad. Can you… watch him for a few minutes?" EJ says, Tony nodding and EJ walking down the hallway.
EJ quietly opened the door to Kylianna's room to find her still asleep, which was normal at this hour unless she heard Johnny or Allie crying and checked on them, considering both children family despite Johnny being the only one biologically related to her. Quietly closing the door and walking across the dark red carpet, EJ sat down on the edge of Kylianna's full sized bed and lightly stroked her hair when her facial expression changed to a tense one and she hugged the purple comforter and red bedsheets closer to her.
"Shh… it's okay, kiddo. It's okay, it's just a bad dream." EJ whispered, Kylianna settling back into a more peaceful sleep and EJ kissing her on her forehead before standing up and heading towards the door.
Looking in the mini red trashcan, EJ could clearly see the box with Plan B One Step printed on it, the torn open foil package next to it… it wasn't long before he put it together, grabbed the box and left Kylianna's room, closing the door.
'Don't worry, kiddo… time for me to do what any older brother would do.' EJ thought before returning back to Tony.
"Sami's with the twins now." Tony says, EJ looking down the hallway and seeing Sami's blue eyes glaring at him before the door to Johnny and Allie's room closed. "What's-" He starts to ask, seeing the box in EJ's right hand.
"Morning after pill… I found it in Kylianna's room, she was with someone last night." EJ says in a low, angered tone and Tony knowing that the thought of Kylianna being intimate with anyone and not being careful beforehand really made EJ's blood starting to boil.
Lucas quietly closed the door to his own room. He had dropped Kylianna off at home last night and then went up to his own room, slipped his ankle monitor on and fell asleep. Last he remembered, Kylianna was in the living room, watching a rerun of The Cosby Show.
"She must've snuck back out and gotten the pill… so much for waiting til morning to talk this out." Lucas mutters.
He couldn't really blame Kylianna for thinking about the repercussions that last night could've brought, Kylianna was too young for kids and Lucas was sure he didn't have any diseases… although he wasn't sure how long his ex wife and the mother of his children had been sleeping with EJ Dimera.
