Okay so there's a lot of drama coming up. And you're gonna hate me for some of the ideas, but you'll love me for some of the others I promise! Although it may take a little while to get to the happy ideas…..Anyway Enjoy This Chapter!
Michelle had managed to divert the Police away from Ryan for the time-being, claiming that he had 'gone-home a while back.' She knew that Ryan deserved every punishment that he got if he was found to be guilty. But she just had to talk to him before all of that even began to take-any-shape. She just had too! Ryan was her son, her one and only son, and no matter what kind-of troublesome mess he had gotten himself into this time, she would always love him, no matter what.
She caught Ryan's attention, as she spotted-him whilst she was walking through the hospital. "What the HELL have you done Ryan?!" She asked Ryan angrily, but he just burst into floods of tears, and that was very unlike the poor-lad, so Michelle softened her tone a little-bit. "I'm Sorry Okay?! I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt Mum I promise-ya! Especially not my Aunty Carla! Is she okay?!" Ryan asked his Mother tearfully. "I don't know yet. Peter's in with her at the moment. She's conscious though. What were you playing at Ryan?!" Michelle asked her son calmly, although there was still plenty of anger in her tone of voice. "It was just meant to be a gig…..The deal was that I got rid of some drugs for Cam in return for a spot on the main-stage tonight. But then when I tried to back-out of it he refused-to back-down and then went crazy and spiked a load-of drinks at the club with the drugs that I'd given back to him…..Man I'm so glad that I listened to Kieron, Mum…..Cam's a psycho and he's a dangerous person to be around….." Ryan trailed-off, still crying over everything that had happened as Michelle kicked-off again. "KIERON KNEW?!" Michelle shouted. "Mum Ssshhh! Kieron has been a good-mate to me recently." Ryan replied. "Argh well mate or not. I'm gonna kill-him when we get home from this place! Kieron should have told-me Ryan! I could have helped-ya!" She told her son furiously as she paced-up and down the hospital-corridors in pure-anger at Ryan and Kieron. It was either take-out on the hospital-floor, or take-it out on Ryan & Kieron, so the hospital-floor it was.
Over-in Carla's hospital-room, Peter had now moved-to lie on the bed with Carla as she snuggled-into his chest. "Peter….." She weakly called-him. "Yes Sweetheart?!" He replied softly as his fingers made soothing-patterned-shapes on Carla's back. "When I get out of this place…..We should complete our little set-up….." She told Peter with a small-smile, but it was the biggest-smile that she could managed without causing herself any pain at that precise moment. "What do you mean darlin'?!" Peter asked-her softly. "Well we're Married…..You said that Leanne was getting better which means that Simon will be happy again…..So I just thought it'd be nice if we had a Baby our own….." Carla told Peter quietly and Peter just smiled at her. "Our very own Baby Barlow ey?! Who'd have thought it?! Us two actually wanting to have a baby together….." Peter said as he kissed Carla on the lips, but gently because he knew that she was still very-fragile. "Peter…..My stomach-hurts….." She trailed-off as she began to cry in pure-pain. Peter sat himself-up and then he just looked-at Carla worriedly. "Should I call for the Doctor?!" He asked-her calmly as she then cried-out in pain. "Carla look-at me. I'm just going-to get a Doctor okay?! I won't be long. Try to breathe Baby. Just stay calm-for-me okay?!"" Peter said tearfully as he rushed-out of the room to then go and fetch the Doctor that was treating Carla.
Various Doctors and Nurses, and a tearful Peter also collected-into the room as they tried to relieve the pain that Carla was-in. Suddenly, the Doctor who was in-charge of Carla's treatment turned to face Peter. "I'm sorry Mr Barlow but I'm gonna have to ask you to leave the room." The Doctor told Peter sadly, and he did as he was told. He didn't want to leave Carla all by herself with all of those Doctors and Nurses in there, but he knew that it would probably be best for Carla's sake if he did. And he wasn't going to do anything that could compromise her recovery back to full-health.
A tearful Peter turned-his-eyes to face front-ways again and spotted Michelle, Ryan, and Rob, who had just arrived at the hospital. "YOU!" Peter shouted angrily, making a bee-line for Ryan as he did-so. He grabbed Ryan by the t-shirt and had him pinned-up against the nearest-wall within seconds. "My wife is in that room over there being treated by Doctors and Nurses in loads of pain! They asked-me to leave so that they could treat-her properly! I can't even-see my own-Wife when she's sick. And it's all because of YOU that she is here in the first-place! This is your fault, you worthless druggie!" Peter told Ryan menacingly with a look to kill as he put his hands around Ryan's throat, but that was when Rob intervened. He grabbed Peter and forced-him to let-go of Ryan by shoving-Peter away from the poor-kid. Ryan may have been rebellious, but he was frightened and absolutely petrified all the same.
"Says the raging alcoholic!" Rob told Peter firmly, defending the kid who was kind-of his Nephew, through Carla he was anyway. "Yeah well at-least I haven't nearly killed my Aunty!" Peter shouted at Rob as Michelle stepped-forward to speak to Peter. "Yeah but ya nearly killed your own son though didn't ya Peter?!" Michelle intervened between the three-men, knowing how to hit Peter where it hurt, and it stung Peter's heart as he was taken back to the night that he drunkenly managed to set the flat on fire with himself and Simon inside-of-it. "That was an accident and you know it Michelle!" Peter defended-himself. "Yeah well so was this and you know it!" Michelle snapped a Peter. "Yeah but Michelle. – Alcoholism is an Illness! I didn't choose to be addicted to the horrible-stuff! But when Ryan took those drugs, when YOUR SON took those drugs, he knew exactly what the consequences were! I was ILL Michelle. He's just a stupid drugged-up University Drop-Out!" Peter said, referring to Ryan as Rob grabbed Peter by the shirt and yanked-Peter towards-him, so that their faces were just inches away from each-other.
"You're here to support Carla, as am I. Have you got that Pal?!" Rob threatened Peter with. "I know that Rob….." Peter trailed-off. "Then stop picking-fights and start worrying about your Wife and My Sister!" Rob told Peter firmly as he released his grip on him, shoving-him away as he did-so. Peter sighed to himself as he tiredly rubbed his temples with his thumb and fingers. It had been a long-old night for all who were involved with all of this mess-up. or once-in Rob's sad little-life, he was right, and Peter knew-that deep-down. "You're Right Pal. I'm sorry Rob. And you Michelle okay?!" Peter apologised as Michelle also sighed, but just in pure-sympathy for Peter. She walked-over to the man and put her arm around-him, rubbing his back comfortingly. "That's Okay Peter. We know this can't be easy for ya. And don't you think for a second that Ryan is gonna get-away with this, because he isn't okay?! Ryan will get what he deserves when the Police come-back looking for-him. But in the mean-time, why don't we just all focus on Carla. Alright?!" Michelle told Peter softly and he nodded-at Michelle tearfully in reply to her. "Okay….." Peter trailed-off as the Doctor re-appeared.
"What's happened?! Is Carla gonna be alright?! Please tell-me she's gonna be okay?!" Peter basically cried to the Doctor as he sighed in sadness for the poor-man. "We've had to sedate Miss Barlow, as she simply was in too much pain to treat." The Doctor began. "Call her Carla, please. She'll want you to call-her Carla around-us….." Peter told the Doctor softly. "Okay. Well We've run some tests on Carla, and if it's what we think Mr Barlow, then I'm afraid that there's worse to come for you both….." The Doctor trailed-off. "For us both?! What do you mean for us both?!" Peter asked the Doctor tearfully as Michelle put her arm around Peter's shoulders again, knowing that there was possibly some bad-news coming the poor-man's way. "Well we can't be certain yet but….."
"Just Tell Me Please?!" Peter begged the Doctor as he cried. "Sshh." Michelle soothed-him gently. "Well, I won't go into details…..But the damage that the drugs did to Carla's systems, basically means that there is a chance that your Wife could be infertile Mr Barlow…..I'm so sorry….." The Doctor revealed before he then disappeared-off. Peter just stared-on infront of him in pure-shock at this news after the conversation about having a baby that he had not-long had with Carla before they had run all of the tests on her. How was he gonna tell Carla about that bombshell bit of news?!
That night Peter slept through what was left of the night at Carla's bedside as she remained sedated, and Michelle headed-back to Kieron, whilst Rob took Ryan off with him. Placing-him into hiding from the Police…..Well, for-now, anyway. "Hey Love where have you been all night?! I mean, I expected ya back late…..But not THIS Late?!" Kieron asked Michelle softly as he felt her climb-into bed next to him. "At the hospital…..Carla collapsed at the club…..Someone spiked her drink…..The thing is…..Was that Ryan was involved in the whole thing!" Michelle told Kieron sadly to see how he would react to this news that he already knew-about. "Oh…..Really?! Oh I'm sorry my Love….." Kieron lied to Michelle, playing innocently. But Michelle wasn't thick, she believed what Ryan had said at the hospital, that Kieron had known about the drugs all along…..Even-if he was only trying to help the poor-kid out. "Oh No. Don't you go playing all dumb and innocent with me Kieron! Don't you dare! I know that you knew-about what Ryan was getting-himself into. You should have told-me Kieron! I could have stopped-him, and then Carla wouldn't have collapsed, and Ryan wouldn't have to be hiding from the Police right-now you complete and utter IDIOT!" Michelle shouted at Kieron. "I'm sorry. Okay?! I just thought I could help Ryan out a little-bit…..Stop-him from getting-into any more trouble than he already has been in the past…..But he's a growing-kid Michelle! He's not gonna do what his Mother or what his Mum's boyfriend tells him to do. Is He?! He's been to Uni, he has experienced that freedom that you get when you leave-home! Telling-You would have made no-difference whatsoever. So don't blame this on ME Michelle! I'm going to sleep on the sofa!" Kieron told Michelle angrily before he then stood-up and walked-into the Living-Room, where he lay himself down on the sofa and then tried to uncomfortably get to sleep just there.
Carla came-around from the sedation early the next morning and woke-up to find Peter sleeping in the chair next to her bed. She noticed the tear-stains on his cheeks and her heart just melted for her gorgeous husband. The thought of him crying made Carla upset, especially because it was probably because of what had happened to her. Little did Carla know the bad-news that Peter would have to give to her tomorrow. She heard Peter mumble uncomfortably in his sleep and it sounded-like he was having some kind-of nightmare. He gently called-out Carla's name in a panic so Carla reached-her arm across from the bed and gently stroked Peter's cheek soothingly as he remained asleep in the chair. "It's okay Baby. I'm here." She whispered to him with a sweet but tearful smile on her face. All of a sudden Peter came-to and his eyes shot wide-open. It took a while for him to register Carla's hand which was still softly stroking his cheek, but then he looked-up and saw Carla's pale face smiling at him sweetly. "Baby! You're awake." He whispered happily as he got-up from the chair that he had been asleep in and hugged her tightly. "I thought I'd lost you." He told-her emotionally. "Well you haven't Baby. I'm here. I'm right here. I may still be a little-bit poorly but I'm here okay?!" Carla told Peter re-assuringly as they released each-other from the hug. Carla gently ran her fingers over Peter's tear-stained cheeks. "Have you been crying?!" She asked with a concerned-look crossing-over her face as she did-so. Peter just sighed and then frowned-at Carla, becoming tearful once-again as he took both of Carla's hands into his own. "Carla. Baby. I've got some-new that I need to tell-you…..And I don't think you're going to like-it….." Peter trailed-off sadly as Carla looked-at Peter worriedly. How was the poor-man going to break this terrible news to his beautiful-wife, the love of Peter's life…..His Everything…..
Sorry for a slightly depressing chapter! No-One's out of the woods just yet but I promise that there is a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of an unexpected new-character….. (: