"NICK!" Fitz screamed for him to come. "NICK!" He looked down at Liv. Fitz had no idea what to do or even if he could do anything to help her.
Nick ran into the room within seconds. "Mom!" Nick threw the covers from under Liv and threw them to the floor.
"Nick what do we did?" Fitz asked frantically.
Tom and Daniel came into the room soon after. "Just move," Nick said. "There's a number on the fridge, call him and tell him that my mom's having a seizure. We'll meet him at the hospital soon. Call an ambulance first though."
Tom and Daniel went downstairs and called them. Fitz was more than freaked out for Olivia.
Within minutes the ambulance arrived. Nick met the paramedics downstairs at the front porch. "Hey Ryan, she's upstairs in her bed. This one seems good though. Not sure how long this one is lasting. She's still seizing," Nick told him as they walked up the stairs.
"Think this might do it?" Ryan asked.
"Possibly, we can only hope."
Fitz listened to the conversation. He wasn't sure what was going on but he made a note to ask later.
The ambulance took Olivia and Nick to the hospital while Fitz and his security team followed them. Dr. Smith met Olivia and Nick at the emergency room doors. When they go inside, Olivia was still seizing. Her whole body was shaking even more but was starting to slow down. They took her get an MRI and see if any shards shook loose. Nick waited in the waiting room with Fitz and Tom and Daniel. After a few minutes, Dr. Smith came out to talk to Nick.
They talked in private for a few minutes before Nick went back to Fitz.
"What's going on?" Fitz asked. He hoped that she would be okay and this nightmare he was living would be over soon.
"Just sit down, I need a minute," Nick said. He went down to the chapel in the hospital. Fitz followed him after a minute and stayed outside, giving Nick the time he needed. After ten minutes he went into the chapel and sat next to Nick. "I didn't mean to sound rude. It's just what I do when she comes here."
Fitz nodded before he said anything. "I understand. If you need to come down here that's what you should do. What did the doctor say?"
"Last month when she was here and they did the MRI they saw that there were only 12 pieces of glass left. After they took out what they could, they did another MRI. When she went home, there were only 7 left. Dr. Smith showed me the MRI scan they just took and it looks like there is a 97 percent possibility that they can get all seven out. The shards are at the surface and Dr. Smith thinks that he can get them all out as long as she can stay still. Mom's gone into a coma, like she usually does and they are taking her into surgery now and taking out what they can. I'm hoping they can get everything out and she can tell me other things."
"I'm sure she is going to be okay. What kind of questions are you looking for?"
"Why did she leave D.C.? Why didn't she want me to know you? I'm hoping that she will be okay. The challenge is to get her into a position where they can get into her skull without moving the shards. We've been through this for the past five years and they have never been able to get her in a position to get them. The shards move deeper into her skull when they move her and we have to go through all of this again."
Fitz and Nick sat in the front of the chapel for several hours. They waited for the doctor to come in and give an update on how Olivia was.
It was almost noon when Dr. Smith came in. "Nick! We got them. Almost. Come with me," Dr. Smith told him.
The four men got up and followed the doctor into a private consulting room. "Is she okay?" Fitz asked.
"I'm sorry, you are?" Dr. Smith wasn't sure if he could say these things in front of him.
"This is Fitz Grant, he's… a friend. Let's just go over this. This is former President Grant. He's my dad; we can ignore all that for now. How is Mom?"
"She's still in the coma. Which is really good right now," Dr. Smith told them. He held the MRI scan up to the light. "There's only one left. Out of all of them but one. Look." He handed Nick the dish that had the shards in it that they had taken out.
He took the dish and went over to Fitz. "These are what are causing her memory problems. These small little bastards are what are making her forget you. Hopefully she will remember you now."
"Nick, there's more," Dr. Smith added. Nick sat down and listened to the doctor. "The shard that's still in there moved when we got her into position. When it moved, it moved to her frontal lobe. When she wakes up, she won't be herself. Her personality is going to be different but we don't know how different. We won't know for a bit. But she will remember you, Nick. She might even remember him." Dr. Smith motioned to Fitz.
"Okay, we can see her right?"
Fitz, Nick, and the agents followed the doctor into the ICU where Liv was. They all sat down in the room and waited for her to wake up.
"Just so you know, Fitz. It's going to be a long few days."