Authors Note: Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter guys! It really means a lot to me. :) As always, if you have anything you would like to see in this story, even just a simple headcanon (i.e. Steve and Myka both like strong coffee, but Pete and Claudia don't. Which was curtsy of my friend.) just let me in and i'll try to incorporate it in for you. Also any suggestions or tips are always welcomed! Thanks for reading my madness.
Myka awoke with a jolt as a pounding pain quickly seeped through her entire body. She shook her head from side to side, trying to clear up her hazy vision as she scrambled to sort through the currant situation. The last thing that she remembered was yelling as a truck barreled in their direction. As her vision cleared she tried to move to the side but found herself constricted by something. She looked down to see her seatbelt, locked in it's safety feature. She lifted her free arm and tried to maneuver enough to unbuckle the belt, but failed. She remembered loosening the sling on her other arm enough so her arm would slack and not be in the way of her seatbelt, instead of opting without either one, which she was now immensely thankful for. She looked down again at her still sung arm and saw blood covering part of her slacken sling. She looked down at the rest of her body to try and find the source of the bleeding but then felt a warmth on her face that she hadn't before. She lifted her hand up and touched the stream of blood that was trickling down the left side of her face, then wiped her hand on her pants. She was about to wipe the rest when she heard a groan from beside her.
"Helena!" Myka said, as best she could when she fully realized what had happened.
"Myka?" Helena said groggily as she lifted her head from it's hung position.
"Are you alright?" Myka asked.
"I think i'm fine, aside from a few cuts and bruises, how are you?" Helena asked, slurring her words ever so slightly.
"My head's bleeding." Was all Myka said as she reached to try and unbuckle herself again, to no avail.
"What happened?" Helena asked, still confused.
"We were hit by a truck." Myka said, tilting her head back as a wave of nausea suddenly hit her.
"What?" Helena asked.
"Helena, look at me." Myka said, lifting her head out of worry.
Helena opened her eyes widely and shifted her head carefully to look at Myka.
"Helena, I think you have a concussion, I need you to stay awake okay?" Myka instructed, her own well being not even concerning her at the moment.
"But I'm tired." Helena said, closing her eyes.
"No Helena! Wake up…Stay awake!" Myka shouted, nearly in tears.
"I'll try, where are we?" Helena said, trying to keep herself awake.
"We're in the car, we were on our way home from the mall reme-TSIA! Tsia are you okay?" Myka yelled.
She heard a muffled groan from the back seat and tried to turn around to see, but was still limited by her seatbelt.
"Tsia! Wake up!" Myka shouted again.
"What, What!" Tsia shouted, jolting awake.
"Tsia, are you okay? Are you hurt?" Myka asked frantically.
Tsia looked around at her surroundings and slowly pieced together what had happened, before saying "I think I'm fine. A little banged up, but I'm fine. Are you guys okay?"
"I'm stuck, and I'm pretty sure Helena's got a concussion, we need to get her out of here and to the hospital before she falls asleep again.
"I'm awake." Helena said, half asleep.
"Barely." Myka whispered under her breath "Tsia, can you unbuckle?" She finished.
Tsia moved her hand to the side and pushed away the broken glass from around the buckle, ignoring all the cuts and unbuckled her seatbelt.
"Yeah, I got out." Tsia told her.
"Okay, can you reach up hear to unbuckle my seatbelt?" Myka asked her.
"I can try." Tsia said, before moving slightly and swiftly unbuckling Myka's seatbelt as well. "Got it."
"Okay, can you get out of the car? Go through the other side, these doors looked jammed, we need to call 911, but I don't know where my phone went." Myka told her as she shifted in her seat to face a now barely conscious Helena.
"Okay." Tsia said. She moved over to the drivers side door and tried to open it but found it locked. "The door's locked, but I think the window is broken enough that I can kick through it." Tsia said before giving the window a few swift kicks and watching the glass fall away.
"Be careful." Myka told her as she climbed through the window.
"Helena, talk to me. Don't fall asleep." Myka said, reaching over to unbuckle Helena's seatbelt too.
"Myka…" Helena breathed out.
"No Helena. No. You stay awake! Stay with me!" Myka cried.
"I wouldn't dream of leaving you my dear." Helena said, slurring again.
"Helena, Tsia's getting help, you're gonna be okay." Myka soothed, herself more than Helena.
Myka reached out, grabbing onto Helena's motionless hand and squeezed it hard, trying to keep her awake.
"Myka, what happened?" Helena asked again.
"Helena, we were hit by a truck, and I think you have a concussion. I need you to stay awake okay?" Myka said, squeezing her hand tighter.
"Okay…" She trailed off.
Suddenly Helena's door opened and a man wearing blue scrubs popped into view.
"Ma'am can you tell me what happened?" He directed at Myka as he grabbed Helena's other wrist and checked her pulse.
"Um…We were hit by a truck, I think she has a concussion, she's struggling to stay awake….Who are you?" Myka said.
"I'm Dr. Renner, I work at St. Elizabeth's, I was on my way home. An ambulance is on it's way so just sit tight, you're daughter is on the side of road with someone else who saw the crash." He said as he pulled a flashlight out of his pocket and checked Helena's eyes.
"Is she okay?" Myka asked.
"Your daughter, or her?" He asked. "You're daughter is fine, but you're correct about this one's concussion, she needs to get to the hospital. You on the other hand look like you have a nasty cut on your arm." He finished.
"It's fine, that was from before the accident." Myka told him.
"Yes, but it looks like it reopened and we need to stop the bleeding from that and your head. Is it okay if I pick her up from her seat and move her outside the vehicle. I see no further injury so she'll be fine. I need to get you both out of this car." He told her.
"Yeah, just be careful." Myka told him, letting go of Helena's hand to allow him to pick her up.
He carefully lifted Helena from her seat and moved her over to the side of the road where Tsia was sitting with another young woman.
"Young, lady." He shouted at Tsia, to get her attention. "Do you know how to find a pulse?" He asked.
Tsia nodded.
"Find her pulse and keep it, make sure it stays constant, I'm going to get your mom out of the car okay?" He told her, beckoning for her to move over to Helena.
"Okay." Tsia said, jumping up and grabbing onto Helena's wrist.
Dr. Renner then ran back over to the car where Myka was still sitting.
"Can you move?" He asked as he crawled over the drivers seat.
"Kind of. I can't really move my arm." Myka admitted.
"Okay, give me your other hand and we'll try to ease you out okay?" He said, reaching out his hand.
"Okay…" Myka said, grabbing onto his outstretched hand.
He slowly helped Myka out of the car as the heard the sounds of sirens approaching from the distance. Immediately after getting out of the car the doctor helped Myka limp her way over to Helena and Tsia and sat her down next to Helena.
"Are you okay?" Myka asked Tsia once she was near the two.
"I'm fine, how about you?" She asked in return.
"I'm good, but she needs to go to the hospital, she has a concussion." Myka said, looking down at Helena.
"I don't much like your hospitals." Helena slurred out from her lying position.
"I know, but you have to go." Myka said, grabbing onto Helena's hand once again.
"Please don't leave me then." Helena said.
"I wouldn't dream of it." Myka replied.
Just then the ambulance screeched to a stop and two paramedics jumped out with a stretcher and ran towards them.
"Dr. Renner? Whata we got?" The paramedic asked immediately after seeing the doctor there.
"A truck T-boned their SUV, This one's got a concussion, this one's got a head and arm wound but this one's fine." He said, pointing to each of them as he talked.
"Okay, get this one on a stretcher, ma'am can you walk?" The paramedic said to the other, then looked at Myka.
"Yeah." Myka replied.
"We're gonna put her on a stretcher, Doc can you help her into the ambulance. Young lady, follow us too please." He instructed, as he helped the other paramedic put Helena onto the stretcher then led the group into the ambulance.
As soon as they were in the ambulance and speeding down the road the paramedics began asking Helena various questions like what her name was and where she lived to try and determine the severity of the concussion. The paramedics also set up an IV and checked her vitals again on the way to the hospital.
Once they reached the hospital they rushed Helena into the ER and Myka and Tsia were escorted to another area to get evaluated and stitched up.
Somewhere along the line a nurse asked for information and Myka filled it all out, hoping she had all the information correct for Helena. After about an hour in the ER they directed Myka and Tsia to a waiting room down the hall where they could wait for Helena, since they technically weren't immediate family. Once in the waiting room Myka picked up the phone and called Pete.
"Hey I thought you guys were coming back with food?" Pete asked immediately after picking up.
"Pete there was an accident we're in the hospital right now, Helena's in the back with the doctors, they think she has a concussion." Myka said, her voice wavering as she spoke.
"Wait what?! Are you guys okay?" Pete yelled into the phone.
"Yeah Tsia and I had to get some stitches and Helena will most likely have some too, They haven't told us anything yet cause we're not immediate family. I tried filling out her medical history and stuff but since she doesn't really have any I didn't know what to put, with her being one hundred and fifty and all. Get Artie and Vanessa down here now please, and bring two cars otherwise there's no way for us to get home." Myka told him.
"Wow, well dude, I'm glad you guys are okay, fill me in more when we get there, where are you guys?" Pete asked.
"St. Elizabeths in Brenton." Myka said.
"Okay, we'll be there soon, hang in there." Pete said before hanging up.
"Ms. Bering?" A nurse asked as she entered the room just as Myka hung up the phone.
"Yeah, that's me." Myka said anxiously.
"Ms. Wells is going to be fine, she has a minor concussion and needs to be under observation for the night so she'll be admitted, but aside from some other minor cuts and bruises she's healthy and well." The nurse relayed.
"When can I see her?" Myka asked.
"You both can see her once we move her to a normal room. That should be in about ten minutes and I'll come and get you okay. Relax, she's fine, but she was asking for you." The nurse told them.
"Thank you." Myka said as the nurse left.
"What did you put her age as?" Tsia asked, trying to calm Myka down a bit.
"Um, thirty five, I wasn't really sure." Myka said, pacing around the small waiting room.
"Well thirty five makes sense." Tsia said.
The two waiting in silence for ten minutes until the nurse came back and directed them up to Helena's room where they found her asleep and attached to many different machines. Myka dragged a chair from the corner of the room to the side of the bed and sat down, grabbing onto Helena's hand again while Tsia sat down on the side of the room in another chair.
They sat there, just watching Helena sleep until they heard a knock at the door followed by Artie, Pete, Claudia, Steve, Vanessa, and Abigail walking into the small room.
"Hey, are you guy's okay?" Claudia asked worriedly.
"Yeah, Tsia and I are fine, Helena's got a concussion, she's stuck here overnight." Myka told them.
"What happened?" Vanessa asked as she moved over the the bed and starting examining Helena herself.
"Um, we were driving back and we were going through an intersection when a truck just slammed into us, That's all I can really remember." Myka said.
"What happened to the driver of the truck?" Steve asked.
"He was gone, he fled the scene." Tsia said, knowing Myka wouldn't know the answer.
"What about the truck? Was there any information about that?" Abigail asked.
"I don't know." Myka said.
"I got the license plate…" Tsia said.
"Tell me, I'll look this guy up." Claudia said, grabbing out her phone and moving to Tsia.
"It was a South Dakota plate VDK-737." Tsia told her.
"Claudia can you get into the hospitals records and list me as her primary care provider so I have access to her tonight. I want to be here because I don't know how these drugs will effect her given the fact that she's not from this century." Vanessa said, reading the chart from the end of Helena's bed.
"On it." Claudia said.
"I'm going to look over you two as well once I'm done with her." Vanessa said, looking at Myka and Tsia.
"We were already cleared." Myka protested.
"But to be fair, you have a previous injury, that I treated and Tsia over there isn't from this, what did you say? Reality, universe?" Vanessa said, putting the chart back.
"Fine." Myka agreed, realizing that they don't exactly have normal circumstances surrounding them, so a second opinion from someone that knows their world would probably be good.
Myka turned her attention back to Helena just in time to see her eyes flutter open.
"Hey Helena, how are you feeling?" Myka asked softly.
"As if I was bloody hit by a truck." Helena said with a cough. "Are you and Tsia alright?" She finished.
"We're fine, but you have a concussion and they're keeping you overnight for observation, Doctor Caulder is here, well, so is everyone else." Myka told her.
"Well hello everyone." Helena said, finally taking her eyes from Myka and looking around the room.
Okay, I wasn't entirely happy with this chapter, sorry for the crappily written chapter. But thanks for reading, and I will make damn sure the next chapter is better. Sorry.