Chapter 11.

"Kelly, wait up!" Jill shouted as she tried to keep up with Kelly's pace as they were hurrying down the pediatric ward.

"Jill, it's okay. You go ahead, let her run, I'll catch up." Sabrina yelled from behind her, leaning against the wall, totally out of breath. Jill looked back at her over sized friend.

"Sure you're okay?"

"Fine. Go ahead!"

Jill nodded and followed Kelly down the halls. Kelly had spoken to Bill for a second before hanging up the phone and hurrying down to the hospital. Jill and Sabrina had followed her in Jill's car.

Kelly, who had been jogging a second ago, was now running. She was fighting the tears, and Bill's voice was repeating itself in her head.


"It's Ella. There's been an accident."

"What? What do you mean?"

"She… She was hit by a car."

"How bad is she?"

"I don't know, but she was in shock and in a lot of pain. They just brought her down to the hospital, I'm following the ambulance, I'm keeping an eye on her. You should…"

"I'm on my way."



Now Kelly saw Bill standing in the hall, leaning against a door, which had the number that the nurse earlier in the hall had given her.

"Bill!? How is she?"

"Kelly, you need to calm down. You have to…"

Kelly opened the door and rushed in. When she found the room empty she panicked. Bill had walked in into the room, and Jill was right behind him. Kelly was scared and angry, and took it all out on the person in the room that she'd never liked. She grabbed him by his collar and shoved him into the wall.

"Where is she?!"

"Kelly!" Bill said sharply, but nothing happened.

"Where's my daughter!? They said she was here, so where is she!? I thought you would keep an eye on her!?"

He was amazed how strong she was, but understood most of her strength came from the adrenaline. She was basically lifting him by the collar, he couldn't touch the ground. He managed to grab her by the wrists and with force, and with Jill's help, they got her down into a chair.

"Sit down, and stop yelling. This is the pediatric wing. Your kid is not the only one here. You're disturbing the others." Bill demanded. He felt like he was talking to a two year old. "If you don't calm down, you'll get your ass kicked out before you have a chance of seeing Ella, and that won't help either her or yourself."

Kelly took a deep breath and put her head between her knees. Bill was right. Bill was so right. How annoying.

"I'm sorry Bill. I'm sorry." It took a lot for her to say sorry to Bill, but she knew he was very much right, and it was not his fault that her girl had been hurt. In fact, it was her fault. No one's but her fault.

"It's okay. She's doing CT, don't worry. She'll be right back here any second."

In the same time, Sabrina entered the room. The trio looked up at her as she wheezed into the room.

"I am not in shape." She said, sitting down in a chair besides Kelly. "Oh. Hi Bill."

"Hi hon. You look fantastic."

"Liar. I'm sweating my ass off. How can I possibly look fantastic?"

Bill was just about to answer when the door was opened again, this time by a nurse. Kelly was at her feet not a second later as she watched them roll her girl in on a gurney. They carefully lifted her up and put her in the bed, attached some oxygen through a nasal cannula, gave her morphine and connected an IV to her. Her left arm was placed in a big cast, and they put it on a pillow.

"Is she unconscious?" Kelly asked worried, scared that she would go the same way as Bosley.

"We've been keeping her sedated until we heard you'd gotten here, she was so scared and upset when they brought her here."

Kelly nodded quietly, swallowing hard a few times.

"How… how bad is she?"

"We're waiting for the rest of the plates, but it seems like the humerus and the ulna is broken, and the elbow was dislocated, but we've all ready put it back, while she was sleeping. The hip is bruised but x-ray didn't show anything. And I know this might sound awful, but she's very lucky. I mean, there's no need for surgery."

Kelly nodded once again.

"She should be waking up within an hour or so. If she's in pain, please come out and let us know, and we'll give her some more pain meds. It's good to let us know anyway, Dr Jacobs is going to want to look her over." One of the nurses said, and gave Kelly a sympatric smile.

"I will." Kelly said, and the nurses left the room. Kelly sat down next to the bed, and took the little pale hand in hers.

"By the way guys, were is Kris?" Bill asked, looking from Jill to Sabrina.

"Kell?" Jill asked. It was up to her to let the police in.

"She's kidnapped too. She should have been together with Ella." Kelly said, not looking away from Ella.

"Kidnapped? Ella and Kris was kidnapped?"

"Yes." Kelly said quietly, brushing the girls hair.

"Why?" Jill asked, looking over at Bill.

"Ella was crying Kris' name non stop when we got to the scene. Maybe Kris is close to where we found her?"

Jill shot up.

"We have to go there!"

"I'll call my team and make them meet us there." Bill said, nodding towards Jill.

Kelly looked up at Jill, and was just about to talk when Jill shot her off.

"No, it's okay Kelly. You and Bri stay here, Ella needs you more now than ever. And Bri's not in shape to catch crocks." Jill said, smiling to Sabrina who nodded in agreement.

Before Kelly had time to answer, Jill and Bill was out of the room. Sabrina rose from her seat and walked over to the bed, standing by Ella's feet.

"Sit down Bri, you need to rest." Kelly said, still not removing her eyes from Ella. She was not going to miss when she woke up. She was afraid to even blink.

"Need to stand a little. The kid is bouncing around so much."

For the first time since Ella came in, Kelly moved her eyes to Sabrina, and gave her a smile. It had been so hard trying to picture Sabrina as a mother, but now with the belly, she looked better than ever. The woman she'd known for such a long time, a woman who always had been very very slim, was now carrying around a lot of extra weight, and she needed those extra pounds. Kelly hadn't even commented it. Well, it was not the first time she'd seen Sabrina pregnant, but she definitely didn't have that stomach the last time they met. As Kelly watched Sabrina, she noticed her wincing slightly again, gently rubbing the stomach with one hand, holding on to the bed with a firm grip with her other hand.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"You're wincing again."

"My alien's kicking."

Kelly was just so close that she could feel Sabrina's belly with the right hand. Sabrina moved closer, and Kelly put both her hands on the big stomach. It didn't take long before she felt the kicks too.

"Oh!" She smiled, and Sabrina smiled weakly too.

"It's quite a weird feeling." Sabrina said, leaning slightly against the bed's rail.

"I believe you." Kelly said. "And I'm sorry about not checking on you. I feel like all I've talked about lately is me, me, me or me and Kris. There's been so much going on lately. You know, with Barrows and Bill Cord and the car crash and now all of this. And before that… You know."

"It's okay Kelly. I understand, and you don't have to apologize. I'm fine. But I am going to call in those babysitting points soon." She said, smiling.

"I would love to baby-sit."

"You better." Sabrina said, smiling widely.


It only took about half an hour before the little girl tossed in the bed, shifting uncomfortably and letting out a small moan.

"Mum?" She whispered, turning towards Kelly.

"Hey, I'm here." Kelly said, leaning forward and kissed her forehead.

"Mum?"

"Yes?"

"I hurt." She whispered.

The tears that Kelly had been able to fight off finally let go, and they begun streaming down her cheeks, just as they did on the little girl in the bed.

"I'll get out and tell the nurse that she's awake."

"Bri, you don't have to do that, I can do it."

"I need to wake around a little. It's okay."

Sabrina smiled and left the room, and Kelly looked back at the little girl. She looked so vulnerable on the bed. Kelly looked at the girl, and she wondered how someone could bring out so much emotions of her. Kelly was not a cry baby. Before Ella came into her life, she could hardly remember when the last time she cried was. The others cried. Kelly comforted. That's just how it was. But since Ella came into her life, she had unconsciously softened up. A lot. She could be so mad and so angry one minute, and then her girl smiled, and she was all love and happy again. Or the other way around. Seeing the pain in the eyes of the girl in the bed, she felt her heart, once again, being ripped into pieces.

"Mum…"

"Ssch, don't worry. I'm here. Aunt Sabrina is getting your doctor, they will help you with the pain. And I'm here all the time. It's all right. You're safe now."

"Aunt Kris?"

Kelly was just about to answer when the doctor and a nurse came into the room. Kelly moved slightly out of the way, but she kept close to Ella's head, constantly stroking her hair.

"Hello Ella." The female doctor said as she leaned over her. "My name is Anna, and I've been taking care of you since you got here. The nurse here, Martha, is giving you something to help with your pain, and I'm just going to feel your hip a little, okay?"

"Okay."

"Don't worry. You mother is here with you all the time, and I'll try to be gentle."

Ella nodded, and looked up at Kelly. Kelly gave her a reassuring smile before meeting the doctor's eyes.

"We haven't met I think." Dr Anna Jacobs said, and they shock hands.

"No, I don't think so. I'm Kelly Garrett."

"Dr Jacobs."

Now it was Anna's turn to give Kelly an reassuring smile, before she turned her attention to Ella. She moved down the sheet to Ella's knees, and put her hands on her hip, carefully probing the area. At one place, Ella let out a gasp. Kelly leaned closer to Ella, comforting her, but her eyes were attached to the doctor. Dr Jacobs removed her hands and pulled the sheet back up.

"It feels okay, but it is sore as you noticed. The x-ray didn't show anything, and neither did the tomography plates. If the CT is okay, you can bring her home. I'll write out a prescription for some painkilling, and a good idea is to buy some ice gel at the pharmacy and put a layer here at the hip. There's quite a bruise here, you'll know where to put it."

"For how long does she need to have the cast?"

"About a month. We'll book an appointment for her before I sign her out."

"Great."

Dr Jacobs and the nurse left the room, and they told Kelly to get them if anything was needed. Kelly moved over so she was by Ella's side instead of by her head. Sabrina was sitting in a chair next to her.

"Mum?"

"Yes?"

"Is aunt Kris okay?"

"I hope so. Aunt Jill and Bill is going to find her."

"You have to find her cause she was screaming and they hurt her when they took her but she told me to get out of there and call the police from a store and I saw a store but I didn't see the car and I didn't even look and now maybe it's too late to help aunt Kris." Ella said in one breath.

"Hey, hey, honey, calm down. Don't worry. We'll find Kris, and she'll be okay. Calm down."