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Not enough reviews but I couldn't let devilsspy down! so thankyou for your reviews. I am not a medical professional so I haven't gone into great detail about Sophie's injuries I'm pretty much relying on what happened to my friend when he got hit by a car.

Most of the family remained standing for a few seconds before sitting on whichever chair was nearest to them but Sian remained standing, 'Please is she -?' she couldn't bring herself to finish the question as the pain she felt was evident all over her face. The doctors face softened as he indicated that she should sit down and after searching the doctors face for any clue as to how Sophie was and not finding any she sat on the edge of the chair next to Rosie leaning towards the grey haired man in front of her.

'My name is Dr Shah and firstly I want to apologize for the length of time it has taken for me to come and give you an update,' he began, 'we had a certain amount of difficulty in treating the patient due to the amount of alcohol she had consumed before the – fall'

There was a sharp intake of breath from Sally in the corner of the room, 'But she's going to be alright isn't she?' she couldn't bear the thought of losing her youngest child before her life had even begun. 'I'm afraid I couldn't possibly say at the moment, although she is stable at the moment' He paused, and sighed, knowing that what he was about to tell them wouldn't be easy for them to hear, 'Because of the angle she landed she suffered internal bleeding, several broken bones and a fractured skull. We have had to take her straight to the operating theatre in order to remove her spleen and hopefully repair any damage to her internal organs that may have caused the bleeding.'

'This procedure is normally fairly straight forward but, again, due to her blood alcohol level it increases the likelihood that something may go wrong. I don't want you to worry, we have excellent surgeons at Weatherfield General and I am confident that Sophie will recover from the surgery.'

'So what happens next? You said she had a fractured skull, what does that mean – brain damage?' Kevin stood and asked the doctor, 'We don't know, any type of head injury could result in brain damage and after she has left surgery we will be running tests on her but unfortunately this is the kind of thing that can usually only be revealed in the long term' he replied honestly.

'We are going to keep Sophie in a medically induced coma for at least the next 24 hours to give her body a chance to recover on its own but is a question I need to ask in order to care for her in the right way.'

'Go ahead, anything' Kevin spoke quickly. 'I know that this is going to be a difficult question for you to hear and I will fully understand if you don't want to answer, but it is very important that I do get answers as soon as possible' The doctor warned them looking round the room to make sure that everyone was paying attention. When he saw that both Rosie and Sally had sat up straighter he continued, 'I must ask what the state of Sophie's mind has been recently -'

'What the hell do you mean by that?' Sally responded quickly, 'Well because there were no indications from the patients hands that she made any attempt to stop herself from falling and the fact that she landed on her back, it may be that this wasn't an accident'

'You mean you think she tried to kill herself?' Sian had shaken herself out of the stupor she had been in since the pastor left but at first she still spoke quietly, 'No, no way, not Soph, she wouldn't leave me like that' then as she got stronger she stood and her voice rose to a shout, 'She's not like that, you don't know her'

'I appreciate your opinion but if this has been a suicide attempt then we need to think about keeping a closer eye on her when she comes round to ensure she doesn't try again so I need you to be honest with me ok?' Dr Shah tried again

'No she didn't try to kill herself,' the scorn in Sian's voice would have been obvious to anyone, 'She's had a hard few months but no, no way'

'Sian, love, we all know that she hasn't been herself in a long time' Sally crossed the room to put her arm round the young girls shoulders, 'we don't know what she was thinking. Kevin and haven't paying enough attention to her lately' she was now speaking to the doctor, 'we've had – problems, it's possible that she did tr-' unable to finish because of the tears now streaming down her cheeks both Rosie and Kevin joined the two women in the centre of the room and hugged them close.

'Thank you very much for your help, please stay here and we will let you know as soon as she is in recovery', the doctor, having had his suspicions confirmed, backed out of the room quietly leaving the family to their thoughts.

Everyone in the room had seemed to age 10 years with the doctors words as they all felt the potential repercussions for Sophie's future.

'Mum you're wrong,' Rosie was the first to break the tension that had built after the doctors revelations, 'Sophie would never try anything like that ever. Do you not know her at all? I mean I know that in reality you've ignored her her whole life and that's my fault but surely you know her at least that well' Sally was stung out of her tears by Rosie's outburst, 'Of course I know her I love her!'

'Well if you did you would know that she couldn't do this to herself or to any of us!' Rosie pouted, 'maybe this isn't the right time -' Kevin tried to calm the situation down before it got out of hand but it was too little to late. Rosie and Sian were now stood apart from everyone else, holding onto each other to keep themselves upright, 'No this is the perfect time Dad,' her again now focused on Kevin, 'you started all this, you knew your actions were going to hurt her but you were still always so petty, selling the house, telling lies' she paused to kiss Sian on the head before advancing on him, 'making sure she knew that the son you always wanted was more important than her.'

Kevin had no reply, even though he hadn't meant it at the time, he knew that it would have seemed that way to Sophie and he somehow looked older yet again. 'Oh you know what? I can't stand to be around you and Mum right now, come on Jase, Sian we're going to get a drink', She began to pull the blonde girl out of the room but Sian wouldn't leave, 'We can't, what if the doctor comes back, what if something goes wrong?' she asked worriedly. 'They can ring me and they better had' and with one final scornful look back at her parents the trio left leaving Kevin, Sally and Bill on their own.

'She's right we've made so many mistakes, we've been the worst parents in the world , how can we make it right now?' Sally almost talking to herself so she was surprised when Kevin came over to her and put a hand on her shoulder, 'yes we've made mistakes but I'm pretty sure we're not the worst parents in the world, you heard what the doctor said, he's confident so we should be too. That means we'll get the chance to make it up to her and we will.' and he kissed her forehead. 'Our daughter is strong.'

Sian, Rosie and Jason were sat silently in the hospital canteen nursing a mug in front of each of them. Taking a sip Rosie pulled a face, 'Urggh, this tea is cold, how long have we been sat here?'. Jason looked at his watch, '2 hours, they can't be much longer now'. Rosie sighed, 'who knows, Grandad told me when Mum was in hospital that these things always take longer than you expect'

'Wisdom eh Rosie?,' Jason tried to cheer his girlfriend up, 'I'm not used to that!', 'Shut up Jason, I'm not in the mood for your jokes', she replied once again drifting into her own thoughts.

'I'm really sorry you know Rosie, I knew she was in a bad way but I didn't do enough to help her, then I left -' Sian was desperate to let Rosie know how she was feeling, 'Stop right there, no one blames you, I know you did everything you could, but what she needed was for her family to care and so it can't be your fault that we didn't care enough to pay attention and I remember you trying to tell us. You did more for her than the rest of us put togeth-' Rosie was interrupted by her phone, 'Come on, she's in recovery, we can see her now' and they ran out of the room