Here we go, sorry about the cliff hanger every one but I need some way to make sure you come back right? Well I read Divergent by Veronica Roth, and I`m thinking about doing a Divergent!R5 story what do you guys think good idea bad idea? Tell me if you want to see i happen and don`t forget to review I post every two Reviews now.
Chapter 7- Riker`s P.O.V.
"Riker, what about you, single, dating, any hints on a crush?" Joslin said with anticipating eyes
"Well, um, I'm…" I was freaking out I didn`t know what to say, and that doesn`t come often with interviews, but I couldn`t say I was dating Curt, to anyone let alone the whole world "I'm single"
"Well I guess that makes everyone still available, there still hope for all you fans" Joslin said "And with that I guess we have to say goodbye, make sure you check out R5s new EP 'Heart Made Up on You' and we`ll see you next time" we all waved and they yelled cut, I took a deep breath and let out all the tension I was feeling.
"Okay you guys can pack up" and we darted off the couch and to the van "Hey Riker, are you okay?" Joslin said as we were going out the door
"Um… yeah why"
"You seem out of it"
"Uh was I sorry lot on the mind or just tired I don`t know" (or hung over) there was an awkward pause between us "Well bye" and I raced back to the van, god I'm a dork.
"That went well" My dad said as we got on the highway. I was praying no one mentioned anything until we got home "16 huh?" I flinched and made myself small as possible in the car seat.
"Mark we`ll talk about this when we get home" Mom said probably saving my butt, I curled up in my seat and fell asleep in the car. I didn`t want to deal with anyone I was too tired and too sore, I would deal with this when I woke up.
"Riker, wake up!" I jolted from my seat and hit my head on the roof, great another thing to add to what hurt. "Oh are you okay, we`re back at the house and Mom and Dad want you inside" Rydel said I nodded and trudged from the car to my room.
"Riker, can you sit down, this will only take a sec" yeah right with my parents it`s an hour or more with regular conversation. I sat on the bed while Mom sat down next to me and Dad and Rocky were sitting on chairs, why Rock was here I dreaded to find out.
"Okay what`s this about, because if it`s about me being too young-"
"No Riker were not talking about that right now"
"Were not?" Dad said confused I smirked at his comment Mom always waited until the last possible second to tell him stuff as a result; she forgets most things she needs to tell him.
"No, Riker, Hun" Hun, That`s a new one "Rocky told me about you drinking, a little I could understand you are 22, but every night?"
"It`s not every night and when I do it`s not even a full bottle, I know my limits Mom"
"Every night Riker, that`s not good no matter how much you drink, please just don`t do it so much"
"Alright, alright, are we done now the nap in the car was helpful, but I'm going to need a hel- heck of lot more to function so please?"
"Um, not quite about the video on that girls channel um, what was it, Tessa?" I tensed, crap they saw it, the one time she posts a video early.
"Um yeah what about it"
"What about it Riker, drunk cards against humanity"
"We were joking about the drunken part" please believe me, please believe me.
"Well still Riker that game isn`t the best choice, couldn`t you have done something more-"
"More what, Disney friendly, Mom I can`t be thinking of our 12 year old audience all the time, I just wanted to have fun"
"Okay just promise me you won`t make a habit of it" I nodded and she left the room with Dad following, Rocky stayed in the chair, big mistake
"YOU ARE SO DEAD" he rushed to the door but I slammed it and got in front he may be sportier than me (okay a lot more) but I've always been faster. "You seriously told them about this, Rocky that`s exactly what I told you NOT to do"
"You never said that, and I was worried"
"Since when do you worry about me, you don`t care about anything I do why is me drinking a little, which I hardly do by the way, any different"
"Because I don`t want you dyeing okay, what if you DWI, or get alcohol poisoning or something"
"Are you- THAT`S what your concerned about, Roc I'm fine I can take care of myself and I hardly ever am the driver, Titus doesn't drink so he usual drives us okay and I know my limits like I said I only drink a little bit, it`s not even half the bottle and when it is it's just a regular beer not whiskey or something strong like that, besides whiskey is just plain nasty" I stuck out tongue to hopefully get a laugh out of him but it didn`t work. "And you know that, so what`s this really all about?"
"I care about you Riker, were brothers for god`s sake isn`t that enough?" Oh please we may share a room and blood, but he has been far from a sibling since middle school, he knew I got bullied and he all he did was kept his distance, he didn`t even care enough to tell Mom and Dad I was crying in the bathroom when he found me.
"Care, when have you ever cared about me Rocky, name one time since middle school you ever showed it, you tolerate me as your room mate at best"
"I was giving you you`re space"
"That is a lot of bull, Rocky I was harassed and all you did was sit there and watch" I was blinking more than normal now, Rocky just stood there then locked the door.
"You know why I didn`t try huh?" he was mad, I have no idea why he was the one being a jerk "BECAUSE I DID`NT CARE"
"What"
"I didn`t care, there I said it"
Rydel`s POV
The rest of the Lynch`s and the Marano sisters all decided to leave the house for a drive around town, to give Riker some peace and quiet all of us could see he was exhausted.
"How long are we going let him sleep?" Ross asked
"Give him an hour or so and we`ll just bring him some in-and-out burger or something until then, let`s explore shall we?" we all explored our own little part of the town the boys went to something sports related while the we went to the spa.
"Hello and welcome to Olympic Spa how can we serve you today?" the hostess asked and we headed off to what I thought was going to be the best day ever; we were treated like queens for an hour straight, hot rocks, facials and all. When it was over we reluctantly put our regular cloths back on and Mom checked her phone to text Dad we were ready to go home, that`s when she got the message
"Oh my god, we need to get to the boys now"
"What Mom what`s wrong?" she turned pail as a ghost and she didn`t answer she lead us out to the door were Dad, Ross, Ryland, and Ratliff were all waiting in the car we scrambled in.
"Dad what happened?" I yelled
"Riker`s in the hospital we need to go"
"What? How?" I got so many questions flowing through my mind
"I don`t know what happened, I got a call a few minutes ago from a doctor saying your son`s in E.R. they didn`t give me more than that" the whole car was silent as we drove as fast as we could, we were all holding our breath until we got to the Emergency room.
"Excuse me were here for Riker Lynch" Dad said to the nurse behind the desk.
"He`s not ready for visitors yet but he`s up on level 2 if you want to wait there"
"Thank you" when we got to level 2 waiting room it was only a few people near the door and Rocky was on the other he looked pail almost traumatized. "Rocky what happened?"
"I-I'm I don`t know he and I were arguing and- there was blood and-" he couldn`t continue he just stood there staring into nothing.
"When will we be able to see him?" Ross asked
"I- I'm not sure" so we waited, and waited. I don`t know how long, the room didn`t have any clocks
"Riker Lynch" my head shot up to the nurse that walked in
"Yes that`s us"
"How is he?"
"Is he okay?" I couldn`t even decipher who was asking what questions, and the nurse probably didn`t either
"He`s stable, with mild head trauma and cuts, other than that a bit of bruising on his chest and stomach, he`s still not conscious, but at least he bandaged up now"
"Can we see him?" Mom asked shakily
"Yes he`s in room 210, follow me" we all hurried to follow the nurse to the room number with Rocky lagging behind us. My heart dropped when I got to the door, there Riker was, unconscious on the hospital bed with bandages on his head and hooked up to a bunch of machines, one wire taking his pulse, one giving him fluid into his system, and a couple went below his hospital cloths so I couldn`t see where there were hooked up to. Mom broke down and Dad comforted her and the rest of us were just staring at Riker`s almost lifeless body, if it wasn`t for the constant beep, beep of the heart monitor I would start crying too.
He was alive, that`s all I needed, but what I needed and what I wanted were two very different things. I wanted to know what happened for one, but I'll guess we're just going to have to wait for Rocky to calm down or Riker to wake up, whichever came first.
The room was an eerie quiet all I could hear was Mom crying and Riker`s monitors. "When will he wake up?" I asked the nurse there was a slight pause like she was trying to think of an answer that didn`t make my Mom cry more.
"He`s experienced quite a bit of blows to the head so we`ll be doing an M.R.I. to see how much damage, if any, this caused his brain, we will know then. Until then just sit tight okay? Mr. and Mrs. Lynch we need his information are you okay to do that?" my Dad nodded while my Mom sat down and tried to pull it together the nurse opened her laptop and asked them questions and they filled out most it, say for the 'how did this happen' bit. "okay that`s all for now" and she just left, she had other patients in this section to take care of.
We sat there in silence, no one said anything, we didn't know WHAT to say. I just starred at Riker. his usual smile gone and his pail bangs still had some red in them. Rocky stopped shaking and now was having an intense staring contest with white floor. His shock now replaced with a calm, yet ashamed expression. His stammering words replayed in my mind "I-I'm I don`t know he and I were arguing and- there was blood and-" it hit me like a wrecking ball. "Rocky can I talk to you now" he looked up with his pail green eyes and nodded following me out to the hallway once out of site, and hopefully, hearing range of the rest of them I looked at him straight in the eye and said "You beat him didn`t you?"
"You can`t prove that" he said flat out
"You had an argument with Riker you got mad and lost your temper, like always, and you beat him. Don`t lie to me Rocky, I heard what you and the nurse said 'multiple blows to the head', come on Rocky."
"That`s not what happened"
"Then what did happened then enlighten me, by you or Riker either way I'll get an answer"
"You don`t know that he`s going to wake up soon, could be months I-"
"What, you what?"
"I- I need some air" and he headed for the elevator I was stemming, but I wasn`t getting the story from him, I just had to wait until them first priority was making sure everyone was okay, I was the oldest of the group now and I had to do my job while Riker was out. I stomped back to the room only to see him being rolled out of the room by some nurses.
"Is he going to the M.R.I.?" I asked and my Mom nodded
"We have an about an hour" Ratliff said which is the first time I heard anyone talk for the half an hour we`ve been here. My stomach growled and it occurred to me that I was hungry, we missed dinner. "What to down stairs for food" I looked over at my parents to see how they were.
"We`re fine kids go eat, it`s better than sitting here" we nodded and went to the cafeteria. It was less plain that the hospital room, but still pretty boring. We ate our food in, yet even more silence I looked around there were all sorts of people in the room from families that looked down right depressed (Like us), to the kids that were living in the hospital and just treated it like a school cafeteria.
I heard a beep of my phone I looked at it, it was a text from dad "Guys he`s done testing, there waiting for us to give the results let`s go" I hadn`t even realized it had been 40 minutes since we got our food. We quickly went up to the room and sat down, with Mom, Dad and Rocky.
"Okay now that you`re all here His M.R.I. shows that there wasn`t any permanent damage to his brain, so he should be conscious in a few weeks if not sooner, but we can never be sure. I have to warn you though if he does wake up that soon he`ll still need to recover from the damage done to his stomach and other bruised areas, and he might experience some memory lose with the trauma"
She let the information sink in, and there was a lot of it. I did not want to focus on what would happen after he woke up, I just wanted to get there. I sat down next to Ness and crashed there was so much going on my mind just died, I was feeling like I was forgetting something major
"Wonder how Curt`s going to handle this" Ness whispered, she might as well just smack me in the forehead, I forgot to contact my own brother`s BOYFRIEND. I texted Curt to meet me in the hospital lobby as soon as possible. One beep on my phone and I was out the door to the elevator.
Riker`s P.O.V.
Am I dead?
It`s a ligament question to ask, no but seriously were am I, it`s not exactly a room but I'm on some kind of floor, or else I would be floating
"Riker" I spun around and looked right into his eyes. He looked exactly how I pictured he would look like grown up, same blue eyes same hair that wasn`t brown, but wasn't exactly blond colored, sand maybe? He was taller than me by a quite a few inches, he always was.
"Ell?" he nodded and smiled "Wait does that mean I'm…"
"No Ri you're not dead, sort of in between at the moment" I let go of the breath I didn`t realize I was holding "You can sit if you want to, you`re still solid" I slowly took a seat on whatever the floor was, now I knew I wasn`t dead because I could feel how chilly the floor was.
"Is this glass?"
"Close but no, it is very similar feeling though I will give you that, now come on we don`t have all the time in world"
"O-okay" why did I have such a blank mind in here
"Riker if you're ever going to love him, like truly, you are going to have to let me go"
"W-what, no, I- I can`t"
"Riker you have a chance with him, but unless you except I'm not there anymore. You`re never going to fall in love with him, you can say it to him a million times, but you are never going to mean it"
"Elliot" I it was all I could say, he was right I was still hung up on him even after all this time
"It doesn't mean you have to forget about me, you will always have the memories, but you have to open this up" he pointed at my heart and touched the "glass", it wasn`t just the floor it was everywhere, I was in a box of glass…stuff. I felt like I was 10 again, he was 12 when I met him so I always felt dumbfounded the first few weeks of him actually talking to me. "You think you can do that?" I took a deep breath and nodded. I felt a tingle in my hand I sensed it was Curt, I couldn`t tell how I just knew.
"Where is my body exactly?"
"Hospital bed, Rocky did quite the number on you" at first I was confused then it all flashed I front of me. Us fighting, Rocky locking the door, losing his temper and pinning me down, me feeling helpless as I blacked out from the pain and the blood loss. I started to hyperventilate, and I was shaking. How could he? I was the one that was mad at him and he lost his temper. "Riker calm down you`re safe and healing just fine" that did not do me any good I was still shaking as the tingling in my hand faded "Riker you`re never going to wake up if you don`t calm down okay, so STOP IT"
"I'm trying it just, how could he, I was he one that was mad why… Ell I'm scared"
"I know Riker but after this you won`t be roommates with him remember, the house with Curt, a house just the two of you, he`ll protect you until then. You know he will. Come on deep breaths" I calmed myself down, I shut my eyes and blocked the memory out.
"Okay I'm good, I think." He smiled and the tingling in my hand returned "How long do we have exactly? A few days, weeks, please don`t say months or years"
"No, few days maybe a week, all up to you"
"Up to me, well then let me out"
"Riker if you go now, then you`ll feel everything. I told you your damaged and you`re in a coma for a reason. You wake up now you will not heal as fast"
"How much pain am I in?"
"I'll show you but brace yourself okay" I nodded and pain surged through my head and stomach tears formed without hesitation
"Stop please" it instantly faded "That was horrible"
"I warned you, might want to wait. At least until your cuts and bruises heal, but i would not recommend waiting out your headache though, I'm afraid that would take a lot longer"
"Alright, when did you become a doctor anyways?"
"What, you don`t think I could`ve become a doctor if I grew up?"
"Considering you`re attention span and you faint every time you see blood, no" he laughed and my mind became blank again.
Disclaimer- I really doubt this is what happens when you are in a coma, this is from my imagination- don`t forget to review i post every two reviews i get and tell me what you think about the Divergent! R5 idea
