Chapter Nine
The Hospital
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While the girls were on their way to school, they decided to go over to Serena's to see if she wanted help carrying her books to school.
"Sorry, girls, she already left, thinking that it would take her some time." Mrs. Tsukino notified the girls.
"Okay," Raye said.
"Thank you." Mina said.
"Have a good day." Lita said.
"Bye." Amy said.
About halfway to school, Amy noticed something red on the sidewalk..
"What's that?" Amy asked after stopping to look.
"I don't know, I almost looks like ketchup." Mina joked.
"No, I looks more like...blood." Lita said starting to panic.
"It is, it is blood!" Raye shouted.
The girls followed the trail to an alley.
"OH MY GOD, WHAT HAPPENED!?!?!?!" Lita shouted when she saw Serena in Darien's arms, both laying unconscious on the ground.
Mina pulled out her phone to call an ambulance while Amy ran to check their pulses.
"They're still alive, but Serena's pulse is very weak, when will the ambulance get here?" Amy asked.
"Two minutes, there was one right around the corner." Mina informed, putting her phone back in her purse.
"Wait, you should call Serena's parents, and Darien's friends." Lita suggested.
"Good idea, I'll call-" Mina was cut off.
"No, I'll call her parents, you call Darien's friends." Raye said, stepping away from her best friend.
"You sure?" Mina asked.
"Yah, I'll be waiting for the ambulance." She walked away and picked up her phone and dialed Serena's house. "Hello, Mrs. Tsukino?"
"Yes, may I ask who's calling?" Irene said over the phone.
"Yah, it's Raye."
"Oh, hi honey, what's wrong, you sound sad."
"You need to go to the hospital."
"What, why, what happened?" She asked, starting to sound worried.
"Well on our way to school today, we saw some blood. When we followed the trail, we found Serena, she got hurt. We called 911, and the ambulance will be here any second."
"OH MY GOD, WHAT HAPPENED?" She started to shout and then quickly turned to tears. "What happened?"
"We're not completely sure, just head to the hospital, we'll meet you there."
"Okay, we'll be there soon, thank you so much for calling."
"Bye." As soon as Raye hung up the phone, the ambulance arrived. It took Serena and Darien to the hospital.
The girls had to walk because there wasn't enough room in the ambulance. They started to run when Kevin pulled up in Darien's car.
"Get in, I'll drive you."
"Thanks" they all said and got in. They sped behind the ambulance until they got to the hospital.
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When they arrived at the hospital, they saw that Josh, Zac, and Stephen were already there waiting.
"What's going on?" Kevin asked.
"Well Darien is still in the trauma room, he's stable and whatnot." Zac paused. "And they said they had to operate on Serena."
"Will she be okay," Everyone turned around, seeing a panicked Irene and Ken, Serena's parents.
"They didn't say, they just said they needed to get her to the operating room." Stephen informed.
"I'll be right back, I need some air." With that, Raye ran outside.
"I should go see if she's okay." Kevin said, following her out.
The others just sat in the waiting room, no one saying a word.
"Raye, you okay?" Kevin asked, placing a hand on her sholder.
She turned around, face full of tears and planted her head in Kevin's chest. He just wrapped her in a comforting hug. "Yah, no, I don't know, my best friend was hurt, by the looks of it, they wanted her to die a slow and painful death. How could someone do this to an innocent girl like her. She needs someone who can protect her, CUZ I ODVIOUSILY CAN'T!!" She quieted her voice. "She needs someone like Darien. I'm so sorry he got hurt."
"It's okay, she'll be fine. They'll find the person that hurt her, as soon as she wakes up, she'll be able to tell the police who did it. Then they'll arrest the person. It's not your fault Darien got hurt, he was just trying to protect the girl he loves." He said, trying to make her feel better.
"Yah, thanks a lot, Kevin. You really know how to make a girl feel better." She paused. She took his hand and headed towards the hospital. "I really like you Kevin." She blushed.
"I like you too, Raye." He said wrapping his arm around her sholder while they walked in.
As the two walked in, a doctor came in with news.
"Okay, we have some news. Serena is out of sergury, she'll be fine, but she is in a coma. We think when she fell, she banged her head against a wall which caused the coma. We aren't sure when she'll come out of it, but she is breathing on her own, and she is expected to come out of it. And as for Darien, he'll be fine, he's resting right now, you can go in, but don't wake him. Serena is in the same room, you can go see her too." The doctor notified.
"Thank you, doctor." They all say.
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They all decided to go into the room, not that it was much good. Darien never woke up, but they decided to stay and talk.
"So do you guys have any idea who could've done this to my daughter?" Asked Ken, her dad, sitting beside his daughter.
"No, she doesn't know anyone, just us, and Jarr-" Zac started to answer when Jarrett walked through the door.
"What happened? I was just talking to her this morning!!" Jarrett rushed to her side.
"What, that's when she was attacked. Did she say anything about a person who was annoying her or something?" Irene asked.
"She mumbled something about Darien, I couldn't quite make it out. Our conversation was mainly about us, I asked her to be my girlfriend and she said yes." Jarrett lied of course.
"What are you-" Mina started, but Josh stopped her.
"If she is now your girlfriend, then why didn't you walk her to school." Josh asked.
"Well...she told me she wanted to go stop by the Crown." He lied again.
They updated Jarrett on what was going on.
"I wish I could stay, but I have a load of homework to do, I'll be back tomorrow." Jarrett said as he left.
After he left, Serena's parents needed to get home to their son, so they left, leaving the girls and guys to talk.
"Serena would never date that guy, he's an ass." Mina said.
"That's why I stopped you, the Crown isn't open that early, I wanted to know what he was gonna say." Josh said.
"I have a bad feeling about that guy, the only thing that Serena would've said about Darien is that she's fallen for him." Raye said. "She doesn't show it that much, but she doesn't tell just anyone her incident from freshmen year."
"That's true, the only people who know are us four, you guys, and her parents...and she didn't even want to tell her parents, she just had to cuz of the bruses." Lita noticed.
"We'll have to watch him closely." Zac said.
"There's no way that that fungus is Serena's boyfriend." Amy said.
The doctor walked into the room where they were, "I'm sorry, but we need to check the two. You can go to the cafeteria and get some food, Darien should be awake by the time you guys come back. We're hoping that Serena will be too." The doctor said, "And I should let you know, the police interviewed that young man that left not too long ago, and he provided information that lead the police to believe Darien was the cause of this whole thing. He'll be arrested when he wakes."
"WHAT," Raye yelled, remembering Darien was sleeping she quieted her voice. "He has stab wounds too, how do you explain that?"
"He is right handed?" They nodded, "the stab wounds are on his lower left back, they could have been inflicted to throw the police off." The doctor pointed out. A nurse came in and handed her the charts for Serena and Darien
"You're wrong, and Serena will tell you that when she wakes up." Lita snarled.
"Well after doing more tests, we'll know for sure, we have reason to believe that she won't wake up. Her chart shows further information that points to her not waking up." The doctor informed.
"What, this is my worst nightmare!" Raye exclaimed, bursting into tears.
They all got up and left, the four girls in tears.
A/N:I had to change a few things at the end of this chapter for it to make since in the next chapter, plus I noticed that I said two sepereate things, lol, sorry for any confusion I may have caused.
-SailorMoonForever
