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If I could rewind time-Chapter 7
"Clear!" The doctor shouted as he used the defibrillator on Grace. Emily looked away, not wanting to see her child get zapped with electricity. Emily hid her face into her wife's chest as Naomi tensed up every time the doctor would call 'clear' then press down the two metal pads against Grace's chest, Grace would fly up a few centre metres in the air as the electricity shot through her.
Naomi pressed her palm against the glass window, before scrunching it and hitting her fist against the cold, transparent wall, the only thing stopping her from running towards Grace and wrapping her up in her arms.
Cook heard the clock ticking loudly as every second counted, he backed away from the window as he pulled his t-shirt right over his face, hiding his tears. He couldn't watch anymore it was all too much; she was a little girl for Christ sake! Cooks little angel, she didn't deserve to have to go through all this.
The doctor called once more "Clear!" before the sudden noise of beeping was heard from Grace's room. The beeping was frequent. Cook rushed over to the glass to check he wasn't just hearing things. He saw the heart rate monitor as a red flicker would appear every beat; he let out a sigh of relief. Grace was okay, for now.
The doctor came out as he quietly shut the door and calmly walked over to Cook, Katie, Emily and Naomi.
"We were able to stabilise Grace, but we don't know when she might have another attack like that. We need to find out what she has taken, we have to be precise with this otherwise we might give her the wrong treatment and she might not be strong enough to handle it" The doctor informed them.
No one replied as they all stood thinking what Grace could have taken, no one knew or had a clue. They couldn't just guess because like the doctor said they needed to be precise
"You can go see Grace now" The nurse said, breaking the silence as she appeared suddenly.
"Thank you" Naomi gratefully said. Naomi slid her hand into Emily's hand next to her and entwined their fingers together. She let out a breath of relief that they were able to see their little girl.
"You ready?" Naomi whispered to the red head as she nodded.
Cook, Katie, Naomi and Emily all walked into the room as they saw a weak and pale three year old lying in the bed. Emily sat down next to the bed and took a hold of Grace's hand, lifting it up and kissing it gently.
Naomi froze by the door, she looked at her daughter and thought how broken she looked; Grace was so fragile as if she was a porcelain doll. The little girl laid her head against the puffy pillow, twitching every so often in her sleep.
"Come on Naomikins you can do this" Cook encouraged his friend as he patted her on the back and gave her a small, reassuring smile.
Naomi walked over to the bed, kissing the top of Grace's head before sitting down next to her wife.
"I am just so…so proud of her, she's so strong" Emily sobbed as she pressed Grace's hand against her cheek.
"I know" Naomi agreed as she rubbed Emily's back "She gets that off you" Naomi stated. It was true Emily had always been the strong one in the relationship, always able to keep it together but then brave enough to show her emotion, it was inspiring.
"This is my fault! if we brought her to the doctors when you suggested last night then Grace wouldn't have to be fighting for her life right now, if only we brought her in sooner, I am such a crappy parent!" Emily scolded herself.
"Hey don't say that, it wouldn't of made a difference we still wouldn't of known what Grace has eaten or drank that's made her so ill" Naomi responded as she kissed Emily's cheek tenderly " You're a great mother and Grace loves you so much, Grace is going to get through this, we are going to get through this. We just have to stay together" Naomi said confidently as she gently touched Grace's cheek with the back of her hand. Naomi felt the intense heat of her daughter's cheek that would normally be rosy red and full of joy.
"Grace we love you so, so, so much and we are so proud of you, keep going you're doing a great job baby girl" Naomi whispered loud enough for everyone to hear it. Emily smiled at her wife as she rested her head on Naomi's shoulder and sniffled back a few tears. Emily never let go of Grace's hand as she used her thumb to draw soothing circles on it.
They sat in the room for a couple of hours; different people came in, from doctors and nurses to Naomi and Emily's close friends and family. Katie and Cook went out to make phone calls telling people the news and to keep people updated with Grace's state as well as going for coffee trips. Emily and Naomi never left Grace's side, not wanting to leave their sleeping angel.
Gina and Kieran had been sitting in the room with them for about half an hour. Jenna and Rob walked into the room carrying flowers, balloons and presents. They greeted everyone with a kiss and hug except for Emily who didn't get up but instead stayed by Grace.
"How's she doing?" Jenna concerned as Rob place down the showering gifts and Naomi gave him a grateful smile.
"The doctors are saying she's doing good, keeping stable and her blood pressure isn't too high so that's a good sign" Naomi replied as she sat back down after greeting Jenna and Rob.
"Oh well that is very good" Jenna replied as she sat down next to Gina.
They all sat and chatted for a while as they all tried to cheer up Emily and Naomi. Emily didn't pay much attention to the conversations; she just concentrated on her daughter. Cook and Katie came into the room as they both greeted Katie's parents.
Emily noticed Grace's sudden movement as her lips began to move.
"Naomi" Emily said attracted Naomi's attention to their daughter.
"Mama…Mummy…" Grace mumbled as everyone watched the little girl. Grace's eyes remained firmly shut as her mouth began to stutter out more words.
"I took some of Mummy's sweets…" Grace babbled.
"What?" Emily said gently.
"Mummy's sweets in her box, I took some red sweetie's but they didn't taste very nice" Grace murmured as everyone had confused expressions on their faces.
"What is she on about?" Emily turned to her wife.
"Probably just the anaesthetics they make you babble" Rob grinned as Naomi thought about it.
Naomi's face turned white as she suddenly realise what grace was on about, Emily noticed this.
"What…what is she on about?" Emily asked as Naomi shook her head.
Naomi's throat suddenly became dry, stopping her from speaking. Her head felt dizzy and light as something slowly slipped to the pit of her stomach, guilt. She knew what Grace was on about, it all made sense now why she had a high blood pressure and became easily dehydrated. Grace had eaten the ecstasy tablets Naomi had been looking after for Cook. She had caused this, put this on her daughter, it was all her fault.
"Naomi what is it?" Emily ordered frustrated that for once in her life she didn't know what Naomi was thinking.
"Did you move that box on our shelf?" Naomi blurted out in panicked.
"What?" Emily asked in a confused tone.
"The little wooden box that sits on our shelf, in our bedroom, the one we got from Goa years ago" Naomi explained as everyone still in the room gave each other weird, confused looks.
"Ermm…. Yeah I did I was polishing the shelf and took everything off it, including the wooden box" Emily replied. That wasn't the answer Naomi wanted to hear, she wanted it to be where she was just jumping to conclusion about Grace taking the drugs and that Grace was just mumbling random words because of the anaesthetics.
"Where did you put it?" Naomi blurted out as everything began to unravel.
"Just left all the stuff off the shelf on our bed till I was finished" Emily shrugged her shoulders because she didn't see how any of this was important.
"Shit!" Naomi said under her breath as more and more likeliness of Grace being able to get a hold of the drugs appeared. "Okay…" Naomi huffed out as she put her head into her hands, before looking at Cook. Cook still didn't understand what his blonde friend was trying to get at and was even more confused to why Naomi was looking at him so intensely.
"I think…" Naomi tried as tears began to run down her face that she would have to admit to causing all this. "I think Grace has taken ecstasy" Naomi stuttered as everyone let out a shocked 'what?'
"I had some tablets of ecstasy in the box, Grace must have got a hold of it and found the tablets inside and taken them thinking they were sweets" Naomi said wishing that it wasn't true, that she was just making it up.
"What the fuck!" Emily roared as everyone drew their attention to her. "Why the hell did you have ecstasy?" Emily questioned viciously.
Cook was about to interject and admit that they were his but Naomi stopped him.
"I just did…" Naomi stated.
"Oh great you just happened to have drugs in our house, where our three year old daughter could easily get them" Emily spat out.
"They were on the shelf I didn't think that she would get to them" Naomi mumbled, trying to hold in the tears.
"So this is my fault for moving the box" Emily snapped as she stood up and threw her hands in the air in frustration.
"No! Course it's not" Naomi said, shocked that Emily would think of such a thing.
"Why don't I go get the doctor and tell him we know what Grace has taken to make her so ill" Rob suggested as he stood up to walk out of the room.
Rob couldn't stand the tension when people argued that's why he would always back down to a fight; give in quickly before the shouting began. That was probably one reason Jenna loved Rob because he was so easy to win over, she could control him as if he was some kind of lap dog.
"No tell the doctors Naomi gave Grace the drugs!" Emily spitefully said.
"Emily!" Katie shrieked "stop being like this I am sure Naomi didn't mean for Grace to found the tablets" Katie understandably stated.
"No, I will not stop because she has put our daughter in danger, the stupid fucking cow" Emily bowled out as she turned to Naomi "I can't believe you did this to Grace, your little baby girl, what on earth were you thinking?" Emily expressed as tears began to gush down her cheeks.
Naomi tried to reply but Emily interrupted her before she could.
"Actually don't answer that, I don't even want to know what was going through your fucking head" Emily sobbed as she looked deeply into the hurt, defeated blue eyes of her wife's.
Naomi looked away from Emily; she couldn't handle seeing her wife so destroyed, she felt Emily's stare, her eyes piercing into Naomi as if making a hole.
Naomi focused her attention to her mother who was sat next to Grace still. Gina shook her head; she wasn't angry or frustrated with her daughter. Naomi could see the sheer disappointment written all over her mother's face and it cut into her deep, her mother was always proud of her, she had never seen Gina like this before.
Next to Gina sat Jenna as her eye's flickered with mini flames of anger inside, Jenna knew Naomi would do something stupid like this, hurt Emily and Grace. She warned Emily but did she listen? No.
"Just go please" Emily mumbled as Naomi quickly turned her head to look at the red head.
"But…" Naomi started before being interrupted.
"Go!" Emily demanded, pointing towards the door. Naomi looked around the room at the different faces; all their eyes looked away only Cook gave her a sympathetic look.
"Naomi just leave" Katie pleaded as she walked over and stood next to her sister and wrapped a comforting arm around her.
Naomi did what she was told and left the room, and walked out to the entrance of the hospital. She wasn't going to leave she just knew she had to stay away till things cooled down.
