As the night grew on nothing had changed. Jack was unconscious and will be for awhile. He was scheduled for a bypass the next morning in which Charlie will preform. Charlie made it very clear to Troy that night that he was not allowed anywhere near the OR. She was very strict on this.
Brady and Sara decided to go back to Lucille and Jacks house since nothing was happening. His dad was stable and was in good hands. Brady just also hated hospitals. He has no idea how his brother can come here day after day. The people, the smell, it gave him chills.
Lucille had not left Jacks side. She staid there holding his hand and spoke softly to him. She made it very clear to Troy and Brady when they came in to try to get her to go home with Brady and Sara that she was not leaving her husband. She was not going to leave him alone. Troy and Brady kept trying but she was not budging from her decision.
After Troy had a breakdown in the hospital room he didn't go back in. He hates when he lets himself act that way. It only happened one other time when his grandfather passed. He just fell apart. He couldn't even try to keep it together. It simply all just fell apart. Troy was exhausted and he knew Gabriella was to. There was no use for them sitting out in the waiting room all night. Troy knew that his father was in good hands and stable. And if anything happened he knew Charlie would call right away.
Troy finished up talking to Charlie and he walked over to a half asleep Gabriella who was sitting in one of the chairs in the waiting room. Troy knelt down in front of her and wiggled her knee slightly and whispered to her.
"Bell," He whispered. Gabriella stirred and woke right away.
"What? Whats wrong?" She asked a little on the groggy side.
"Everything is okay here. I think I'm ready to just head home. You ready?" He asked her. Gabriella sat up and looked at Troy. She could read him like a book. She knew that he wasn't 100% about leaving but if he was ready to go, then she would follow him.
"Yeah. Did you talk to your mom?" She asked getting up from her seat. Troy nodded.
"Of course." He said as he slipped his arm around her back. They started to walk towards the elevator which lead them to the bottom floor. They walked across to the parking garage and took the elevator up to level D. They didn't speak a word the entire ride up. They were let off at level D and walked down a few rows until they got to Troys car. They both climbed in on their sides of the car and shut the doors. Troy didn't turn the car on right away, he just started to fiddle with his keys. Gabriella pulled her seat belt over her chest and then looked at Troy.
"Whats wrong?" Her head lowered a little to try to make eye contact with him.
"Nothing." Troy said snapping back into reality. He put the keys in the ignition and the car started.
"Do you want me to drive?" She asked him. He simply shook his head.
"Can you spend the night?" Troy asked her with a lump forming in his throat. "I don't want to be alone."
Gabriella leaned across and gave him a very passionate kiss. After the kiss was broken she put her forehead to his and whispered. "Of course I will."
She flopped on her back on the very springy bed and let out a small laugh. Every time they do this he gets better and better. She cant figure out if its just because she as become a custom to it or maybe she was starting to feel something and what used to be causal sex was turning into something more.
He rolled over back on top of her and gave her a kiss. He pulled back and looked into her eyes.
"What?" She asked a little pissy. He was looking at her a way she didn't like.
"About this morning." He said to her.
"Yeah, What about it?" She snapped.
"We never got to finish the conversation. We were interrupted." Chad explained. Sharpay pushed his hot and sweaty body off of her. She sat up and turned around and pulled her underwear and bra back on.
"So?" she asked as she clipped her bra back on. Chad grabbed her arm and pulled her back on the bed making her giggle. She had never giggled before. Chad didnt even know that Sharpay had a giggle in her.
"You never gave me an answer." He said.
"Well what do you think my answer is?" She asked turned around to face him at a better angle.
"I think that you do." He said sure of himself.
"Oh really? Okay buddy lets see how it is when the tables are turned. Do you have feelings for me?" She asked starting to get a little sassy in her tone.
"Yes. I will come out and say it because Im a man." Chad stood up on his bed and looked down at Sharpay. "Sharpay Evans, I have feelings for you!" He proclaimed. Sharpay stormed off of the bed in disgust.
"Oh good lord!" She yelled as she opened the door out to the other room, but her heart nearly popped out of her mouth when she saw who was standing in the room that she walked into.
"YES!" She could hear Chad yell from the other room. "The lord is good!" She heard him step off the bed and walk towards the door. She knew when he was behind her because he let out a, "Holy shit!"
Standing on the other side of the room was the other exhausted couple. The couple of Troy and Gabriella. They were both standing there shocked.
"What is going on here?" Gabriella asked a little curious. The last she heard Sharpay couldn't stand him and now she found them in bed together.
"Nothing. I was just leaving." Sharpay said walked in between Troy and Gabriella. She grabbed her shoes and was about to open the door.
"Are you really going to go outside in your leopard bra and panties?" Gabriella asked with a little smirk. Troy turned around to see Chad who was pelvic thrusting towards Sharpay. Chad wanted to make it clear to his friend that he just got some.
"What is going on?" Troy asked.
Sharpay was on the verge of shitting her pants.
"Nothing is going on. I was just leaving." Sharpay tried to cover it up.
"Leaving after just getting lucky?" Gabriella asked. Gabriella was loving every minute of this because she thought it was the funniest thing ever. Her friend preached to her all the time about how childish and gross Chad was and now Gabriella has witnessed Sharpay leaving after having sex, with Chad!
"Shut up!" Sharpay yelled. "Its just sex. Nothing else. Nooooo strings attached."
"Thats not what I signed up for!" Chad chirped in.
"Fuck!" Sharpay yelled.
"Yes, we just did that." Chad said trying to keep a straight face.
"I don't have time for this Im going to bed." Troy said walked back towards his room. "You love birds need to keep it down." Troy disappeared and Gabriella followed him back.
"Use condoms!" Gabriella closed the door and Chad and Sharpays voices came into play in the other room. "I can not believe what we just walked in on." Gabriella said laying on the bed next to Troy. He looked so worn out. Physically and emotionally. Gabriella ran her hand through his hair and kissed him softly.
"Thank you for being here." Troy whispered to her. Gabriella kissed him once more.
"Thank you for letting me." Gabriella returned and Troy leaned down and kissed her. His day had been so unexpected. What they were supposed to have today was a romantic day on the beach and then a romantic night of making love over and over again. But instead it was filled with heartache, un answered questions, and frustration.
Troy rolled on top of her as the kiss deepened. Their tongues danced until Troy broke it off and sat up and took his shirt off. He reached down and did the same for Gabriella. They continued to make out until Troy broke the kiss and pulled Gabriella close to his body. What they did was just something small, but that night it meant the world to the both of them.
A few hours passed and Gabriella was awaken by the sound of the bedroom door closing. She turned to her left and Troy was out of bed. Gabriella quickly threw the covers off thinking something was wrong. She pulled on a zipper up jacket and walked out into the living room. The kitchen light was turned on and there, with their head deep in the fridge, was Troy.
"Babe?" Gabriella asked quiet as a mouse. Troys head came up. He looked like hell. Gabriella knew that he didn't sleep at all. "You okay?" She asked concerned about him. Troy cleared his throat and closed the fridge.
"I'm fine. I just wanted something to eat." Troy said opening the cabinet where him and Chad usually keep chips and such.
"At 430?" Gabriella asked him. Troy nodded slowly. Gabriella walked over to him and wrapped his arms around his chest and kissed his bare back.
"I'm waiting for the call." Troy whispered to her. Gabriella removed her lips from his back and turned him around to face her.
"What call sweetie?" She asked him. Troy looked away from her. He could feel the tears burning in his eyes. He couldn't let himself fall apart in front of her again. But then again, she was the only person he wanted seeing him like this.
"The call that he died." Troy said as tears slid down his face. "I haven slept because as soon as I close my eyes something is going to happen." Gabriella moved her fingers to touch his face to push the tears away.
"Troy, you need to push that thought out of your head. You know that he is okay. You are a doctor, you have seen cases like your fathers every single day." Gabriella explained to him.
"I'm just a resident. What the hell do I know?" He asked her getting more upset. Gabriella put her hands on his shoulders to try and calm him.
"You're a doctor and you know a hell of a lot more then most people do about these situations." Gabriella said to him. Troy quickly sniffled and looked down at his beautiful girlfriend.
"But those people that I see every day, the ones that you are talking about, they arnt my father." Troy explained. "Its so much different when its someone you know and care about. And I didn't know that until I got that call today. When you see a patient you know nothing about them. You have no attachments which makes it so much easier to be around them. And you know that they will be fine. But not being in the situation that I'm in, when its someone this close to you it drives you crazy. You don't think straight." Troy explained to her.
"But only you can over come that." Gabriella said. "Troy you have to break down and treat your father like you would a patient you have never met before they came into the doors of the hospital. Because you know the case and you know that they will be okay. When a patient comes in you think positive about their recovery. This entire time you are thinking negatively about your dad. Treat him like a patient and it will help you out so much better. I can guarantee it. Because honey, you're making me worry about you." Gabriella explained as Troy pulled her into his arms and kiss her head.
"I'm sorry." Troy whispered through her hair. "I am, I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to apologize for." Gabriella mumbled into his chest. "I just hate seeing you like this and I want to help you." Troy leaned down and placed a soft kiss on her lips. Gabriella was going to find a way to help the man she loves. She was sure of it.
Troy still didn't sleep the rest of the night, neither did Gabriella. They just stayed up holding each other, not saying a word. At 8, when visiting hours started Troy and Gabriella returned to the hospital to be with Jack and Lucille. Troy found his mother out like a light next to his dad. He woke his mother and insisted that she needed something in her stomach. Lucille this time didnt argue. Troy led her to the cafeteria. Gabriella told them that she had to use the bathroom and would meet up with them shortly. Although she didn't need to use the bathroom.
When she opened the door to the hospital room it was quiet. She walked in and stood in the door way and looked at Jack. He looked so much smaller then he had last night. Gabriella walked over to the chair Lucille had been sitting in the night before. Gabriella sat down and stared at Jack for a few moments before she began to speak.
"Mr. Bolton, sir." She started out. "This thing between me and Troy is something that doesn't come along very often." She started out. "I am very much in love with your son. He is caring, loving, thoughtful." She stopped. "Stronger then he thinks." Gabriella swallowed the lump in the back of her throat. "Sir, I'm not sure why you don't like me. You have every right to have your opinion about me that's fine, but stop taking it out on Troy."
"He loves you very much. And these past 24 hours have been very hard on him. And all he wants is for you to wake up and forgive him for whatever happened between the two of you." Gabriella choked. "I know that he forgives you for things that were said. But Mr. Bolton, all your son wants is your forgiveness. He wants to over come this and move he needs you to wake up first. All he wants you to do is wake up."
Gabriella let a few tears slide down her face before quickly pushing them away. She looked back at a unconscious Mr. Bolton and started to cry a little harder. She knew that he couldn't hear her, but she felt that he could. She just had a feeling that he knew that she was there and talking to him. She knew that he forgave Troy weather he has said it yet or not.
Gabriella stood up from her chair deciding that she should get back to Troy and Lucille. They were waiting for her.
"Bye Mr. Bolton." Gabriella whispered and quietly closed the door.
Gabriella was greeted with a soft kiss on the cheek by her boyfriend as she sat down with him and his mother. Lucille just had a granola bar and a cup of black coffee. This concerned Gabriella because she knew that she hasnt had a full meal in over 24 hours.
"Mrs. Bolton are you sure that's all that you want to eat?" Gabriella asked rolling her sweater off of her shoulder. She pulled her hair back in a soft low bun.
"I'm fine dear." Gabriella smiled softly and looked over at Troy who was just in a daze. Gabriella slowly rubbed his back.
"Troy, you want me to get you anything?" Gabriella asked. Troy shook his head no. "Babe you have to eat something."
"Shes right Troy." Lucille chirped in. "You need to eat." Troy smiled at his mother.
"Mom, I'm fine." Troy said to them. "Look I'm going to go and talk to Charlie okay?" He asked standing up and placing a kiss on the cheek to both of them.
They watched as Troy walked out of the cafeteria. Gabriella turned back to a exhausted Mrs. Bolton.
"How is he?" Lucille asked her. Gabriella wasn't sure what to tell her. She knew if she said that he was doing fine, Mrs. Bolton would know that she was lying. If she said that he was awful, it would upset her.
"I'm not sure." Gabriella told her honestly. "I think that them not talking for that period of time has made it so much harder for him." Gabriella explained.
"Jack may not come out and say it but he does love Troy. He loves him very much. Troy and Jack have always butted heads with everything that they do. Weather it was school, basketball, anything. But Jack just wanted the best for him. He still does." Lucille explains. "You know they are both just so stubborn that they weren't going to reach out first. Neither of them were going to call a truce first."
Gabriella listened to the sincerity of Mrs. Bolton's voice when she said those things to Gabriella. Gabriella did not have one doubt in her mind that Jack loved his son. She knew that Mr. Bolton was going to make it through for them to make up.
"Troy just wants to be able to say I'm sorry. He wants his father to know." Gabriella said.
"I know that Jack wants the same."
Doctors ran around Troy as he made his way back to his fathers room. If this wasn't going on that would be Troy. Running around in the craziness people like to call a hospital. But right now he wasn't focused on that. He was focused on his father getting better.
Troy turned the door knob that led him into his fathers room. It was still quiet. Troy wanted to know when this silence would end. Troy walked over to the chair next to the bed and sat down. He rubbed his hands together as he looked at his father. Troy put his head down and ran his hands through his hair.
On the bed Jack began to stir a little. He slowly opened his eyes and all they saw were white walls. His throat was as dry as a desert. He couldn't even open his mouth. He turned his head towards his son who was sitting there with his head down. Jack moved his hand to the edge of the bed and Troy looked up.
"Dad." He shot up out of his chair. Jacks eyes bugged out of his head as he looked around. Troy quickly picked up a glass of water that was sitting on the stand next to the bed and put it to his fathers lips. Jack took the water by a few sips and swallowed.
"Ah." He said hoarsely. Troy couldn't help but smile. Troys medical instincts kicked in right away. He was taking Gabriella's advice to treat him just like a regular patient. Then be the son next.
"Dad, how you feeling?" Troy asked as he lead over the bed to look at his father.
"Like shit." Jack answered which made Troy laugh a little.
"Do you know what happened to you?" Troy asked testing his memory.
"I, I," Jack couldn't figure it out. "Chest pains." Was all he could say.
"Dad, you had a severe heart attack. You had a clogged artery in your heart. Now they put a stint in to keep the blood moving through. They scheduled a bypass for this afternoon. Also since the attack was so severe there is a minor tear. I looked at the scans and everything and it is very minor. Nothing they cant fix." Troy said with a friendly smile. Troy checked his fathers heart rate, it was a little slower then it should. Normal for patients under these circumstances. He checked the IV which should be refilled.
"Now dad, my mentor Charlie is your doctor. You have heard me talk about her before I'm sure. Now she is the best heart surgeon around. She is going to take great care of you okay?" He said taking the IV down from the stand. He quickly examined the numbers on the bag so he knew which one to get for his father.
Jack reached over and touched Troys arm and looked up at him. His eyes were tired and bloodshot. Troy blinked back tears as he looked at his father. "Im sorry." Jack said. You could hear the weakness in his voice.
"You have no idea how it feels to hear you say that." Troy said leaning down and giving him a hug. Jack patted him on the back and Troy stood back up.
"I know that I am going to be under the best care with you looking out for me." Jack said to his son. Troy sniffled and laughed.
"Thank you dad." He said. "I'm going to get Charlie I will be right back okay?" Troy quickly dashed out of the room.
Lucille and Gabriella were making their way back to the room when they saw Troy dash out. When he ran out that fast they both automatically thought something was wrong. Lucille and Gabriella jogged down to the room and were yelling his name.
"Troy!" Troy turned around when heard his mothers voice. "What is going on?" She was in a panic.
"Dads awake." He said breathless.
"Oh my god." Lucille turned on her heels and went to the room as quickly as she could. Gabriella still kept her eyes on Troy. Tears filling her eyes at the news she just heard.
Gabriella just ran up to Troy and hugged him as tears escaped both of their eyes. Troy dug his head into Gabriella's shoulder and wept. He was so grateful that he father woke up on his own. He was relieved that he was able to talk to him and things between the two of them were back to where they should. It was how it was supposed to be.
Everyone was called when Jack woke up. Troy called Brady and Sara and Gabriella called Sharpay. And just to let Sharpay know that she didnt forget about last night, she told her to tell Chad the news. Gabriella finished the calls and saw that Troy was still talking, she walked back into the hospital. Gabriella decided that she would go and see Jack. She got to the room and knocked softly she entered and just found Jack watching TV. They had flat screens up on the walls.
Jack turned his head when he saw that Gabriella had entered the room.
"You know, its amazing how much sports you miss when being out cold for only 24 hours." Jack joked with her. Gabriella smiled at his attempt to break the ice. "Come and sit." He said as he turned the TV off. "I was finally able to go and get Lucille out of her for a while." Jack explained.
"Where did she go?" Gabriella asked.
"For a little stroll. She needed it." Jack said. "I'm glad you came in." He said. "I wanted to talk to you alone."
"Why?" Gabriella asked.
"Gabriella, I heard." Jack said to her. Gabriella was no confused on what he was trying to get at.
"I'm sorry sir, I don't follow you." Gabriella said confused.
"I heard what you said to me." Jack said. Gabriella was kind of shocked. That's not possible.
"But," Jack put his weak hand up slowly.
"I heard." He said once more. "And I wanted to say that I am sorry." Gabriella smiled softly at this. "The reason I acted the way I did that night at dinner was because I was scared for Troy. He has gotten burned so many times in the past and he deserves someone who is going to love and take care of him. That my dear, is you." Jack explained making Gabriella well up.
"Mr. Bolton, the reason me and Troy click the way we do is because we have come from same situations." Gabriella explained. "I love your son so so much. And I would do anything for him."
"You coming and talking to me after what I did to you proved to me that you would do anything for him."
Gabriella opened her mouth to respond but was interrupted when Troy walked in.
"What are you guys doing?" Troy asked.
"Just talking." Jack told him. The door opened once more and Charlie walked right in and took charge.
"Alright Mr. Bolton, you ready to be feeling better then ever?" She asked standing at the foot of his bed.
"Yes ma'am." He said with a weak smile. Charlie laughed.
"Nancy is going to come in and prep you for surgery in a few minutes. In a few hours you will be as good as new." Charlie said to him. "Ill be back." As she walked passed Troy she quickly mumbled. "Dont you dare ask me because you know the answer will be no." Charlie said as she walked passed Troy. She knew Troy was going to ask to scrub in sooner or later. She figured she would kill two birds with one stone.
Lucille came back into the room and took Gabriella's place next to Jack. Nancy came in and ran through everything with Jack and started to prep him. Troy and Gabriella stepped outside the room. Gabriella backed up against the one wall and sighed as she looked at Troy. She could tell he was in thinking about something.
"What?" She asked looking at him. Troy crossed his arms and looked at her.
"Did you go and talk to him?" Troy asked. Gabriella nodded.
"I did. When you and your mom went to the cafeteria." Gabriella said. "I'm sorry but I just wanted to tell him somethings that I thought he should know and I," She was cut off when Troys lips met hers in a deep, romantic kiss.
"I love you." Troy whispered to her. Troy caught the middle of their conversation. He walked in quietly neither of them knowing he was standing in the doorway. He doesn't know all the things that she said to his father, but he knew that what she said changed something. He knew it took a lot for Gabriella to go in and talk to him and he knew that she did it for him. It made him love her ten times more.
"Kid, you have no idea how much I love you." Gabriella said pulling him in for one more kiss.
I am very iffy about this chapter. I hope you all liked it though. REVIEW FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!