Skylar wakes up to someone shinning a light in her eyes
"Easy." A voice says "Easy there,"
"What happened?" Skylar groans
"You were in an accident. Can you tell me your name?" the doctor says
"Skylar…my brother Lucas? And Uncle Keith." Skylar says "They were in the car with me are they okay?"
"Your uncle is fine…" the doctor says, when they don't say anything about Lucas Skylar sits up worriedly, her stomach dropping.
"What happened? Where's Lucas?" she asks panicked, her eyes beginning to water. "Where's my brother?"
"Skylar." A voice says, Skylar looks around the doctor to see Keith standing in the doorway. The blonde shakily jumps out of the bed and runs into her uncle's arms, ignoring the doctor's protests.
"What happened?" Skylar asks once she pulls away
"Lucas is going to be fine. He's in surgery right now with the best doctor there is." Keith assures, Skylar looks up at him shocked as tears pour down her face.
"I-I have to call Mom." She says her voice shaking "Sh-She needs to know what happened and-"
"I already called her." Keith says "She's on her way." Skylar nods still in shock "So is she okay?" Keith asks the doctor
"A piece of glass imbedded itself into her shoulder, luckily we were able to remove it without causing too much damage." The doctor says as he looks at his clip board "She has a concussion and received a few stitches for the cut on her head but other than that she's fine. She'll have to take it easy for the next few days though." Keith nods in understanding
"Thank you." Keith says as he wraps his arm around Skylar's shoulders "Lets go wait for your mom." He says before leading them out of the room and into the waiting area.
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Both Keith and Skylar look up when they hear someone call his name to see Karen coming towards them.
"Oh I'm so glad you're okay." Karen says as she gets closer only to freeze when she sees Skylar "Skylar…" Karen says barely holding back tears as she hugs her daughter "What are you doing here?"
"I wanted to surprise you…." Skylar says in tears "Mom…Lucas…He- we didn't see the car." She cries as her mother pulls away.
"Are you okay?" Karen asks worriedly, Skylar nods
"Just a few stitches…I'll be fine. But Lucas…"
"Where is he?" Karen asks, before anyone of them can answer she continues "Where's the operating room? I need someone to tell me what's happening."
"They asked us to wait here." Skylar says as she tires to stop another wave of tears
"They are going to let us know when he's in recovery" Keith adds
"I couldn't get a cab, and the only thing I had to pay with was euros." Karen says "He's got to be alright Keith. I wont lose him."
"I know." Keith says trying to calm her down
"I can't." Karen cries
"Excuse me doctor?" Keith says seeing the doctor from earlier "Were you in the operating room with Lucas Scott?"
"He was in a car accident. He's my son." Karen says
"Dr. Hale is an excellent surgeon." The doctor says "The kids lucky his father got him here so fast."
"His uncle." Karen says thinking that is was Keith
"No his father- he may have saved your son's life." The doctor says before walking away, Karen turns to Keith silently asking for an explanation
"Dan saw the accident and he uh….he pulled Lucas out of the car, and then he drove us here." He says
"Dan?" Karen asks surprised
"Yeah he um…Lucas was in bad shaped, so he couldn't wait" Keith says "And um Dan gave the surgeon permission to operate."
"How could he?" Karen asks
"He said he was the twins father." Keith says, Karen and Skylar look at him shocked, surprised that Dan would to that. They all look when they hear a voice calling Keith's name to see a crying brunette coming over to them.
"Keith, is he okay?" the girl asks
"Oh, honey we don't know yet." Keith says
"I was supposed to see him tonight." She cries "He was supposed to come over after the airport."
"Karen. Skylar. This is Brooke." Keith introduces
"I'm Brooke Lucas's girlfriend. Hi." She says
"Whose here for Lucas Scott?" A woman says
"I'm his mother." Karen says as the nurse walks over to them "Is my son okay?"
"He's stable and in recovery." The doctor says
"Could you just give us a second?" Keith asks Brooke, Brooke nods before walking away giving them some privacy.
"He needed a lot of work. His right lung collapsed and had to be repaired." The doctor says "I had to remove his spleen, but there shouldn't be any long-term repercussions."
"So your saying he gonna be fine?" Skylar asks, the doctor nods
"He'll need physical therapy to his shoulder. It separated in the crash, but we were able to reset it." The doctor says "Other than that, he has a concussion and some bruising." She says "But there was a complication during surgery."
"What?" Karen asks hoping its nothing serious
"Your son lost a lot of blood, which caused his heart rate to drop we lost him for a few seconds." The doctor says, Skylar stares at her eyes wide, feeling like she just got the wind knocked out of her when she hears what the doctor said. "But as I said, he's table now. And all of his vitals looks good. So we just have to wait for him to wake up."
"When will that be?" Karen asks
"Could be a couple of hours, could be a couple days. That's up to him."
"Thank you." Keith says, the doctor nods before walking away. Skylar sits back down in a chair, still in shock about what she heard. Karen hugs Keith in both fear and relief at hearing Lucas is okay. A few minutes later a nurse walks over to them and gives Karen some insurance forms before taking them to Lucas's room. Karen sighs as she finished the forms, she tells Keith and Skylar she'll be back before walking to the front desk.
"Uh they took my son out of recovery, and the nurse had me fill out these insurance forms." Karen says to the woman at the front desk, interrupting her and the police officer's conversation.
"What's your son's name?" the woman asks
"Lucas Scott."
"Scott from the car accident?" the officer asks, Karen nods "Yeah, I need to uh get a statement from that driver Keith Scott." He says "He's a lucky guy."
"Yeah a couple of stitches." Karen says
"Well that's not exactly what I meant." The officer says "See your husbands blood alcohol level was just shy of the legal limit. Another hundredth of a point, and he'd be in big trouble right now." Karen looks at the officer in shock, before she can say anything the nurse hands her back the papers and she goes back to Lucas's room. Planning on talking to Keith about what she just learned.
Karen walks into the room to see Lucas unconscious in the bed with Skylar and Keith on either side of him. Keith looks up when she comes in while Skylar keeps staring at her brother, like her will alone can make him wake up. Karen silently walks over to her son and kisses his forehead.
"I'll never forgive myself if he's not okay." Keith says breaking the silence
"Skylar…honey can you give us a minute?" Karen asks looking at her daughter, Skylar looks between Keith and her mom before nodding her head. She stands up from her chair, giving her brother one last glance before walking out.
She stops just outside the doorway wanting to know what's going on, fearing it has to do with something about Lucas. Her eyebrows furrow when she hears her mom ask if Keith was drinking tonight.
"Karen…" Keith says
"Were you?"
"I wasn't drunk." Skylar's eyes widen in shock when he doesn't deny it.
"That's not what I asked you." Karen says "Were you drinking before you drove Lucas and Skylar?"
"Yes but- "
"-I trusted you." Karen interrupts "I want you to leave." Hearing the sound of someone getting up Skylar speed walks down the hallway not wanting to get caught spying.
Skylar walks into the bathroom and leans against the sink, trying to stop the tears from running down her face. Looking up at herself in the mirror, she sees a mixture of dirt and blood all over her along with mascara that is now ruined from crying. Taking a deep breath, she shakily wets a paper towel and cleans off the mascara and what she can of the dirt and blood. She winces when she accidently touches the wound on her forehead which is now stitched up. Skylar pulls her jacket back silently to see the wound on her shoulder, that is also stitched up, from where a piece of glass went into her. She grimaces at the mark knowing its going to leave a scar. Skylar quickly covers the wound back up when someone walks in, only to realize that its Lucas's girlfriend.
"Hey…its uh Brooke right?" Skylar asks awkwardly, Brooke nods trying to hold back tears "I'm Skylar. Lucas's sister."
"Hey…he never mentioned he had a sister?" Brooke says, Skylar shrugs
"Yeah…So I've been told." She says with a dry chuckle
"How is he?" Brooke asks "I'm sorry its just that no one has told me anything and-"
"-He's okay." Skylar interrupts "He ummm unconscious right now…in a coma." She says trying to hold back tears "But I'm sure he'll be up soon…. He's a fighter." Brooke nods "I uh…I should get back. My mom's probably worried…"
"Yeah. Yeah go ahead…" Brooke says understandingly, Skylar gives her a small smile before walking out of the bathroom and back to her brother's room.
