I'm sorry about the last chapter! I know I left it on a cliffhanger!
"Tom?! Tom stop please you're scaring me! TOM!"
"Step back Miss Nicholls! Can we have some help in here please?!"
The nurse virtually screamed out the door to try and get some attention while Sam tried to stand and hop back into the corner.
Tom was violently fitting on the hospital bed.
A flood of nurses, doctors and staff came rushing in, virtually pinning him down so he didn't disturb the ventilator and cause himself further injury.
Sam stood in the corner, helpless, watching her boyfriend aggressively shake, when there was nothing she could do. One hand was leaning against the wall for balance and the other curled protectively around her stomach. Tears filled her face as heart wrenching sobs, shouts of staff and clashing of metal flooded and echoed around the room.
Finally, the fitting ceased and Tom was left on the hospital bed, twitching every now and then. Sam limped back over to the chair with the help of a nurse, and buried her face deep into Tom's sheets, holding his hand to her forehead.
The door swung open slowly, and Mr Hansen stood gravely behind it.
"Miss Nicholls, may I come in?"
Sam sat up and wiped the droplets from her face with her jumper sleeve before nodding.
"Miss Nicholls, we need to discuss Tom's treatment."
"Okay... go ahead."
"We have tried everything. We reserved the best medication for Tom because you are such a good colleagues in the ED downstairs. As you can see, he isn't showing any signs of improvement, in fact, I think today shows that he could've taken a turn for the worse."
Hansen gestured to the figure on the bed whose muscles every so often were racked by spasms.
By the look on Sam's face, she knew what was coming.
"There is no easy way of saying this, but we need to think about turning the ventilator off. Being a doctor yourself, you should know that there is little chance of recovery, even if he does wake up he will most likely have damage to the brain."
Sam's face looked horrified... unprepared. Her eyes showed a glint of pain and anger.
"You can't give up hope! He moved! I could see it in him, he was nearly there, he was so close to waking up!"
"Miss Nicholls, you know full well that sometimes comatose patients will have spasms and twitches. It means nothing!"
Sam grimaced as this man practically told her off for not being a good doctor.
"Just until our baby is born then. Tom wanted to be a father more than anything. Let him have that wish, even if it is his final one."
Hansen looked down, seemingly ashamed, considering it. Finally he looked up at Sam again.
"Doctor Nicholls, I wouldn't do this for any other relative or patient. You are both such well respected doctors that I feel obliged to give your boyfriend his last moments with his baby. I'm sorry."
Hansen looked her in the eyes which were clouding up, before standing up to leave.
"I wish you the best of luck Miss Nicholls, and I hope you raise a wonderful family with Tom. He's very lucky to have you."