Hey!
I know it's been a long time since I released a chapter, but a new semester of uni has started and I don't have as much spare time as I used too, so I can't write chapters as quickly as I could before.
Hope you understand.
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The doors to the emergency room got slammed opened, when Joey was brought in. A lot of people were ready to treat him. Some of them grabbed the spine board and transferred him from the stretcher to a bed. The main focus was to determine if anything had happened to Joey's head or back. Mark had driven with the ambulance to the hospital and approached Joey with a light.

"Joey, I'm going to check your pupils. Just look at my forehead", Mark said.

Joey just did what he was told as he laid stiff on the board unable to move much.

"Normal pupillary light response on both eyes and the wound over the left eyebrow has stopped bleeding, but it looks like stitches might be needed", Mark yelled out into the room.

A nurse then turned to Joey.

"Is there anyone we have to call for you?" the nurse asked.
"Daniel. Call Daniel, my boyfriend", Joey responded.

The nurse left the room to phone Daniel. Meanwhile the medical staff in Joey's room where cutting Joey's clothes off to get access to examine him properly. Of course none of them oversaw Joey's belly when his shirt got cut open, and two interns started to discuss it with each other.

"He must have massive internal bleedings", one said to the other, "Or maybe just doesn't eat right".

Joey overhead them and felt very offended. He could not turn his face towards them, and just responded to the insult while he looked up at the white ceiling.

"I actually eat very healthy!" Joey said. "I have to these days, since I happen to be pregnant. And can someone please check if my baby is alright?!"

Mark looked over at the interns and told them to leave the room immediately. Mark knew Joey had hallucinations, but he wondered how Joey persistently could sound so sincerely worried about this "baby".

"Joey, listen. Right now our priority is to be sure nothing has happened to your spine. We'll check what is happening inside your stomach right after I promise", Mark said to try to calm Joey.

Just before Mark and other from the staff tilted Joey, to examine his spine, a nurse came running in. It was the same woman, who gave Joey a check every two weeks, and had found out he was pregnant.

"Stop, don't turn him!" the nurse shouted.

Mark looked confused at her, but also heard the seriousness in her voice.

"Everyone hands off", Mark commanded.

Joey was very relieved to hear her voice. Finally someone, who believed him.

"I'm so glad you're here Michelle! Can you please tell everyone that I am not crazy?" Joey said.

Michelle turned to Mark.

"Mark it's true, I could not believe it at first either. I have been checking him for more than three months now. He is about 20 weeks pregnant", Michelle explained.

Mark look turned from confused to serious as he returned to Joey's side.

"Get a scanner in here, stat!" Mark yelled out in the room. "Joey I am terribly sorry for not listening."
"A few months ago I would have thought I was crazy too. I'm just very scared anything had happened to him", Joey said.

Joey still didn't know if he was having a boy or a girl, but he felt a deeper connection, when he referred to the baby as he or she instead of just "it".
Mark quickly got some gel spread over Joey's stomach and ran the scanner over it. Mark, Michelle, Joey, and the about 10 other people left in the room stared intensely at the screen. It didn't take long before a little string of pearls appeared.

"Unbelievable. The spine is very clear", Mark said amazed. "How can this even be possible?".
"The pregnancy is still a complete mystery. I do have some theories though, but now is not the time", Michelle said.

Mark moved the scanner to the midsection of Joey's stomach and pressed down a little harder as he was still searching for a heartbeat. Immediately afterwards the sound of the baby's heartbeat filled the room with a feeling of great relief.

"Heartbeat is nice and strong, and I don't see any damaged structures in the fetus", Mark said with a big smile on his face.
"But why haven't I felt any movements since the accident?" Joey asked.
"Has the baby been moving? You didn't mentioned that at the last appointment", Michelle said.
"He just started moving this morning, quite a lot actually", Joey said.
"I think the reason for you not feeling anything is because of the accident. The baby was not harmed but you were. The feeling of movements from the baby does not exceed the pain you feel from your injuries, so they are simply being suppressed", Michelle explained.

Afterwards Joey got the rest of the checkup and everything turned out normal except for a lot of bruises in various places of his body, which would be expected after the accident. The wound over his eyebrow got stitched with only a couple of stitches, and he was then going to be transported to a private room to be observed over the night. On the way to the room Joey heard a familiar voice longer down the hall and told the porter to stop.

"I'm here for Joey Graceffa. Can you please tell me where to find him? He has been in a car accident", Daniel asked a nurse at the front desk in a concerned tone.
"Daniel I'm right here, Daniel!" Joey yelled towards where the voice came from, not caring about the other patients and hospital staff around him.

Daniel turned around a corner and immediately ran to Joey as he saw him. Daniel placed a hand on the back of Joey's head and pulled him in for a kiss. The kiss didn't last before Joey retreated and let out a small moan of pain.

"Oh sorry, am I hurting you?" Daniel asked and placed a hand on one side of Joey's head. "Omg your head".
"Yeah, but this is worth the pain", Joey said and stretched towards Daniel, who leaned back in for another kiss.

In the room Joey was placed by a window. It was a beautiful sunny day outside, and for now all he could do was to sit and look out on it. Daniel was sad on a chair beside Joey's bed holding his hand quietly. As Joey looked out at the light blue sky he got tears in eyes at the thought of, that if that car had hit him in any other way, he might never would have seen it again.

"I need to know if you're alright", Daniel said after some time.

Joey looked at Daniel and squeezed his hand.

"I'm still in shock, thinking about what could have happened", Joey said.
"And what do they say about the baby?" Daniel asked.
"They say I took all the beating and he is totally unharmed", Joey responded.
"He? You mean she, right?" Daniel teased.

They have decided to wait to find out the sex till the baby was born, but it was a frequent topic to be discussed back home. Joey always said he could feel it was going to be a boy, while Daniel could not imagine it being anything but a little baby girl.

"It's a boy and you know it", Joey responded back with a smile that quickly wore off again. "One thing worries me though".
"What sweety?" Daniel said.
"The whole freaking hospital properly knows about me at this point. How long do you think it will take before one of them spread the news outside of the hospital, that I am pregnant? I'm just not ready for everyone to know", Joey said.
"They aren't allowed to mention your name to anybody and if it gets out we'll deal with it together. Now get some sleep, I'll be right here next to you." Daniel said and drew the curtains.