The boys had been married for about a week and were enjoying every minute of it. Christy and Mandy had been trying to get in touch with them since the wedding to give them their wedding gifts, but they hadn't answered so they decided they would make a surprise trip over to their apartment.
Ian's phone buzzed on the nightstand as he and his beau had just gotten hot and heavy.
"Fuck, who is it now?" Mickey spat as he rolled from on top of the redhead's lap.
"It's Chris." Ian answered, rolling his eyes and huffing as he looked at his phone. "She and Mands are down the street and coming over."
"Nosey bitches can't leave us alone for a DAMN WEEK! I'm fucking horny" the older boy huffed while rolling off the bed and putting on his t-shirt that was thrown to the floor ten minutes prior. "Come on Linc, let's go to the living room" the brunette stated to the kitten and made sure that he followed him.
"Mick, the girls are almost here so please be on your best behavior" the redhead said to his lover as he joined his husband relaxing on the couch in the living room.
"Fuck off. Their family so I am going to treat them like it" the brown haired boy huffed. He was pissed and he was going to let the girls know it. Ian shook his head in disbelief. He knew that the insults were coming.
The taller boy crept over to his shorter companion, gently grabbed his face to place a soft, but passionate kiss on his lips. As the kiss was getting a little heated, there was a knock at the door.
"Fuck!" Mickey spat turning his head towards the door. "I wanted to lay you down on this couch and tattoo my name inside you" the brunette hissed while grabbing a handful of his companion's muscular ass.
"I'll let you play inside me later" the green eyed boy exclaimed while seductively licking his lips at his husband. "I love you remember that" the freckled face boy said, smiling as he placed a soft kiss to his husband's forehead and walked to answer the door.
"Chris, Mands!" Ian Greeted as he hugged the girls.
"Hey bro" Mands replied while walking into the apartment.
"Hey Ian" Christy said as she followed her girlfriend inside.
"Hey Mick!" Mandy said as she reached out to her brother for a hug.
"Hey Mands" Mickey said as he gave his little sister a hug.
"Hey Mick" Christy retorted giving him dap.
The redhead joined his husband back on the couch while the girls removed their coats throwing them on the loveseat along with their purses then sat on the floor below the boys.
"Sooooo newlyweds, where are ya'll going for your honeymoon?" the blond asked curiouslyrubbing her hands together.
"To bed" Mickey hissed chewing on the side of his thumb and spitting the skin to the floor.
Christy raised her hands in the air and looked at the green eyed boy for an explanation.
"Me and Mick don't wanna go on a honeymoon. We would rather stay locked up in a room and fuck all week" Ian replied rubbing his lover's thigh erotically and biting his bottom lip.
The girls couldn't contest cause that actually sounded like a good idea plus they knew traveling wasn't either of the boys' "thing"
"Hmm ok so who bottoms then?" Mandy inquired with her hand resting on her chin and her eyebrow raised.
"Slut! shut the fuck up!" the brown haired boy spat without hesitation.
"It's ok Mick, I have taken it up the ass a few times too" the younger girl exclaimed smiling at her glaring older brother.
"Shit I can do some GREAT things with a strap on" the blue eyed girl replied while winking and licking her girlfriend's lips with her tongue.
The younger boy leaned off the couch, high fived his best friend and said "Chris we have something else in common!"
Everybody, but Mickey busted out in laughter. The older boy clearly wasn't amused by hearing his sister's sex life, but at this point there was nothing he could do cause after all, he is gay too.
Ian tickled his husband in his famous spot causing him to crack a smile and even laugh. The redhead was now partially on top of his lover tickling him and causing his face to turn extremely red. Mandy had never seen her brother with so much color in his pale face and it made her smile.
Ian suddenly felt his phone buzzing in his back pocket so he immediately stopped tickling his lover and reached back to retrieve his now ringing phone. "Hello?" he answered sitting back down on the couch. "Yes this is Mr. Gallagher… Oh ok great, I'm on my way!" he said excitedly to the voice on the other end.
"Who was that?" his beau asked inquisitively.
"That was the jewelry store. Our rings are finished being sized and engraved so I am going to go get em. You wanna come?" the younger boy asked his companion.
"Not really" the older boy responded without blinking.
"Fine I'll go with you bff" Christy replied, rolling her eyes at her best friend's brown haired husband.
"Be back in a lil bit, love" the blond stated as she kissed her girlfriend before getting up off the floor.
"Don't be too long babe" Mandy replied, blowing a kiss at her gorgeous girlfriend who was putting on her coat.
Ian grabbed his keys, his wallet and his coat then grabbed his blond haired friend by the arm so they could make their way out the apartment, But not before he kissed his husband goodbye.
The two quickly made their way into the elevator and before they knew it they were already in the redhead's car.
"Chris, I didn't get a chance to tell you at the party" he started.
"Tell me what?" she asked raising her eyebrow.
"That I am so happy for you and Mandy. She told me what happened at the mall. Are you ok?" he replied sounding sincere.
"Yeah I'm ok now, but when it happened I have to admit that was the first time in my life that I was actually scared."
"That guy was lucky I wasn't there."
"Trust me you didn't need to be. Mandy knocked his ass completely out with just one punch." The blonde laughed.
"Damn, I guess she really is a Milkovich. From what Lip told me, that was how Mickey was back in the day" the redhead replied while looking and laughing with his best friend.
"Welp we're here come on let's go get the rings." Christy said, quickly jumped out the car remembering her girlfriend's request and running in the door.
"Here you are Mr. Gallagher. I mean Ian" Janet, the salesperson exclaimed with excitement. "Try em on for me to make sure they fit correctly."
The redhead did as the brown haired woman asked and they fit like a glove. "I see that they fit perfectly. I hope you come back and see us."
"Oh I will" the freckled face boy responded smiling widely. "Maybe next time it will be her turn" he said as he pointed to girl standing next to him.
"Well I hope so. My name is Janet and here is my card" the brunette replied smiling while handing the blond her business card.
"Thank you. I'll remember that" Christy retorted, smiling back at her.
"Bye Janet" the two said in unison as they were going out the door.
"Bye you two" she replied waving and grinning.
"Come on let's hurry up and get back before our mates kill us" Ian stated as the two were quickly getting in his car.
"Let's turn on some music that always makes the trip go a lot faster" Christy explained while turning the knobs on the radio. "OH MY GOD IAN! Remember this song!" she squealed as she turned up the volume. Judging by the redhead's response she could tell he remembered.
"Come on sing it with me! please?" The girl begged.
"The things I do for you" he replied shaking his head and smiling.
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends…" they sang loudly as they pointed and smiled at each other. "Make it last forever friendship never endsssssss" Christy belted out extending her arms and closing her eyes. "If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give…" the green eyed boy caroled as he extended his hand that wasn't on the wheel like he was giving something away. "Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is." The redhead puckered his lips and rolled his neck as he sang with attitude "What do you think about that? Now you know how I feel…" The blonde responded back by serenading "Say you can handle my love are you for real." Ian came back rolling his neck and eyes like a girl singing "I won't be hasty, I'll give you a try". "If you really bug me then I'll say goodbye" the blue eyed girl sang while waving her hand goodbye. Then Christy yelled "Yo I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want" as the boy next to her came back with "So tell me what you want, what you really really want." Then the blue eyed girl screamed even louder "I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ha!"
Mickey and Mandy didn't want to admit it, but while they were watching TV and playing with Linc in the living room they were watching the clock.
"Hey Mick, how far is the jewelry store from here?" the brown haired girl questioned while petting Linc, who was sleeping in her lap.
"Uhh, I think Ian said it was only about four blocks away… Why?" he asked trying to act like he wasn't concerned himself.
"It's not winter yet so I would think it wouldn't take this long for them to be back" his younger sister replied.
"Maybe they just stopped to get some pizza and beer on the way" Mickey exclaimed trying to convince himself of those words as he was saying them.
"Yeah you are prolly right. we do eat a lot" the younger girl giggled.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… Heroes in a half shell… Turtle Power!" Mickey's phone chanted as it buzzed on the side table next to the couch.
"Seriously Mick? The ringtone?" Mandy asked her brother completely amazed that her brother had that ringtone on his phone.
"What?" he shrugged as he answered it.
"Hello?" he responded to the voice on the other end of the phone while getting up from the couch and heading to the kitchen. "Yes, this is Mickah Gallagher…" he hesitated. The undersized man stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to face his sister. All of a sudden the flash of complete terror took over his face and he suddenly went pale.
"Mick, what's wrong?" the younger sibling whispered as she got off the floor to greet him. All of sudden she saw her brother stumble, drop his phone and slide completely down the doorway of the kitchen…
"Mickah! TALK TO ME!" Mandy cried as she shook her brother who had a dazed look on his face.
"Hello? Hello? Anyone there?" the brown haired girl heard from her brother's phone. She noticed her brother was shaking terribly and wasn't responding so she quickly picked up the phone.
"Hello? Hello?" she answered. "This is Mandy Milkovich. I'm the younger sister of Mickah Gallagher, the guy you were just talking to" she replied sounding severely concerned.
"Yeah I know him. Ian is my brother-n-law." She said concerned. "THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND" the girl screamed. "No! Nooo! NOOOOOOO!"
Suddenly, the younger Milkovich could feel her chest tightening up. She began gasping for air, clutching her chest and tears started to fall down her pale face. She hung up the phone and slid down the wall next to her brother. Even though she wasn't touching him, she could feel her brother physically shaking next to her.
The two sat in silence for a couple of minutes until Mandy wiped the tears from her face and picked herself up off the floor.
"Mick, Mick, Mick" she cried, shaking him. His eyes were closed. "Please Mick say something" she cried louder as tears started falling extremely hard from her bright blue eyes.
"Ok ok" she responded severely petrified while patting his convulsing hands. The brunette grabbed her phone from her purse and spotted her brother's keys on the counter so she grabbed those too then quickly ran out of the apartment.
The elevator seemed like it was taking forever, so she looked around and found the door to the stairs. "Fuck it" she said to herself as she ran out of the door and down all four flights of stairs.
As soon as Mandy reached the ground floor, she busted through the door, scaring Steve the security guard. "Steve" she huffed out, completely out of breath. The older man instantly rose from his chair behind the security desk. "Call… 911… please" she exerted out in three short breaths.
"Right away Ms. Milkovich" he replied as he picked up the phone and started dialing. "Hello! Yes this is Officer McGowan over here at Oak Creek Condominium Homes. We need an ambulance" he stated sounding a bit unsure. Mandy shook her head yes to let him know that was what was needed as she still tried to catch her breath. "Yes! YES! We need an ambulance right away!" he informed the dispatcher on the other end. "Thank you!" he said as he hung up. "Ms. Milkovich do you need to call Mr. Gallagher and let him know Mr. Mickey is being rushed to the hospital?"
Steve asked, with the phone still in his hand.
"You can't" the brunette cried as the tears began forming in her already bloodshot eyes.
"Why not?" the older man asked worried, seeing the girl in front of him about to break down.
"Cause" she took a deep breath as the clear streaks fell down her already flushed red face. "Ian and Christy got into a car accident." she started sobbing harder and covered her face in her faint hands.
Steve took a deep breath and sighed as he placed his left hand on his forehead in complete shock. "Ok um let me get back up security here and then I will accompany you upstairs with your brother" he replied, picking up his keys and his cell phone. He locked up his desk and locked the front door.
Mandy raced into the elevator as the doors chimed open and held the door open for Steve. "Hi Rob can you come to the front desk immediately? There is an emergency with one of the residents and I need to help the paramedics when they get here" Steve stated in a very serious tone. "Thanks. I will be on the fourth floor in apartment 422B. Ok thank you."he finished as he hung up the phone and ran to get in the elevator with the brunette girl.
"Come on come on" the young girl cried aloud, growing extremely impatient at the moving box she was standing in. Her mind was rapidly going a hundred miles an hour at the thought of the last image of her brother made an appearance in her mind.
Once the elevator chimed and the doors opened, both she and the salt and pepper haired man dashed to the boys' apartment.
Mandy quickly unlocked the door and was horrified to find her brother unconscious on the floor. She screamed which caused the older man to dash around the corner to where she was. He flew to the young man's side to check to see if he was still breathing because he noticed the body in front of him was eerily lifeless. He laid his head on the brunette's chest and heard his heart rate was not steady. "You need to contact all of your family RIGHT NOW Ms. Milkovich and tell them to meet you at the hospital. If you are able to drive, I will escort you with my police car to the hospital behind the ambulance."
"Ok" the brown haired girl said, sounding like a scared young child. She pulled out her phone from her pocket and quickly texted everyone she could think of.
Mandy: 911! MEET ME ST. LUKE'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASAP! CHRISTY & IAN WERE IN A SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT AND MICKEY PASSED OUT. HE IS ON HIS WAY UP THERE VIA AMBULANCE.
Fiona read her phone and instantly called Lip to see if he knew what was going on. He told her that he got the same text from Mandy so he would meet her at the front entrance of the hospital. She ran quickly to Carl, Debbie and Liam's bedrooms and told them to get dressed and be ready to go in five minutes. Two minutes later there was a hard pounding knock at her door. She quickly threw her coat on with her hat and scarf then opened the door. It was Veronica and Kev standing on the other side with their coats on.
"You two got the text from Mandy too?" Fiona asked with a distraught look on her face.
"Yeah! We are going to the hospital with you" Veronica responded hugging her best friend.
"Debbie, Carl, Liam let's go NOW!" the older girl shouted up the stairs. All three of her siblings raced down the stairs and out the door with the other three adults. Once everyone was in Kev's truck, he quickly sped off with no regard.
"What's going on?" Carl asked nonchalantly. Veronica and Fiona looked at each other both displaying a scared look on their faces.
"What is it?" the redheaded girl asked, noticing both women's faces.
Veronica saw that her best friend was trying to get the right words out, but she just couldn't so she took a deep breath and said it. "Ian and Christy were in serious car accident."
Hearing the sound of his wife's voice, Kev stepped on the gas even harder to get them to the hospital.
"Are...are.. are they ok?" Debbie stuttered trying not to cry as her voice cracked.
"We don't know Debs" Fiona answered looking distraught.
Twenty minutes later, they pulled up to the hospital and all of them jumped out of the truck simultaneously. Fiona was the first one out and once she spotted Lip and his girlfriend Lauren standing at the entrance, a slight sigh of relief came over her.
As they were running up they saw Amira and Josh walking up from the other direction. The whole group rushed into see Landon sitting in a chair and Mandy frantically pacing back and forth in the waiting room.
"Mandy!" Fiona spoke as she pulled the startled girl in a deep hug. "How's Ian and Christy doing?"
"Both of them are still in surgery so we don't know anything yet" the brown haired girl replied signaling to Landon.
"Where's Mickey?" the older girl asked looking around noticing he wasn't with them.
The younger began rubbing her hands together nervously as she sat down next to her best friend. "He's…" she hesitated trying not to cry. "He's in room 212."
"Is he ok? What happened?" the taller girl asked sounding and looking confused.
"I don't know." Mandy started. "Mick and I were at his house waiting for Ian and Chris to come back when we got the call. Mick didn't take it well at all. I don't know what happened, but he looked like he was having some kind of like, panic attack because he wasn't responding. I went to get help and when I came back with his building's security he was unconscious on the floor."
"OH MY GOD!" Veronica blurted out gasping and covering her mouth.
"We are going to go see him" Fiona replied, already heading towards the room with the rest of the group.
"NO! Don't" Landon cried as he grabbed the brunette's arm. "He's heavily sedated right now and completely out of it. We were told to let him rest" the muscular boy answered.
"Well what the hell are we supposed to do?" Veronica asked impatiently while putting her hands on her hips.
"We just have to wait" Mandy responded softly.
As everyone sat quietly in the waiting room, they heard running come from down the tile hallway. It was Jason, a beautiful blond with blue eyes and an older gentleman who was as tall and bulky as Jason. The three of them immediately went to the nurse's desk to find out what was going on. Mandy spotted them as they were walking up to the desk nervously, but she couldn't get a word out before they spoke.
"Christy Lenay Davis and Ian Clayton Gallagher please?" Jason said with urgency in his tone.
"JASON!" Mandy cried walking up to him reaching her arms out for a hug.
The brunette must have looked like death warmed over because the taller boy instantly pulled her into a bear hug and she cried into his chest. He knew by her collapsing reaction that she was completely devastated. He let the younger girl sob while he caressed her long flowing brown locks. After a few minutes she pulled her head away from his chest and began to wipe the clear streaks from her crimson visage.
"I'm sorry" the blue eyed girl cried out.
"No, don't be. It's ok. We understand" the older boy replied.
She then noticed that there were two other people standing beside Jason. "Mandy these are my parents. Robert and Ellen Davis."
"Oh" the brunette sighed quickly trying to fix her face.
"Dad, Mom, this is Mandy Milkovich, Christy's girlfriend." Mr. Davis swiftly extended his broad hand to greet the brunette while the beautiful blond woman beside him had a piercing expression on her face.
"Hi Mandy, I'm Robert nice to meet you."
Mandy wasn't sure if it was because she was Christy's girlfriend or because she was just finding out that her daughter was a lesbian as to why the older woman had a disgusted look on her face. The older woman tried to wipe the scowl off her face before speaking to the young girl in front her, but it was too late because the young Milkovich already saw the look.
"Hello. I'm Mrs. Davis" the blond said without blinking as she stuck her hand out to shake the pale hand before her. Mandy could feel the immense tension coming from the older woman as she shook her hand, but she did her best to shake it off.
It seemed like it was perfect timing because Dr. Crosby was walking up behind the brunette to give her an update.
"Ms. Milkovich" he started.
All of a sudden the whole group got up from their seats and immediately ran over to where they were standing.
"How are they?" the brunette asked eagerly.
"Well they suffered some extremely serious injuries. Ian endured a ruptured spleen, fractured wrist, broken arm, some contusions, bruises, cuts as well a sprained neck and back. We have him sustained. He is recovering in ICU.
"FUCK!" Lip screamed as he kicked a chair while walking away. His girlfriend, Lauren turned to look at Fiona to see if she should go after him. Fiona looked at the blonde in front of her and shook her head no.
"What about Christy?" Mandy asked, terrified of the answer she was about to get.
"When the tree fell on the car, it dropped more on the passenger side which was where Christy was sitting" the doctor replied rubbing his face nervously. "We lost her…" he replied.
Everyone around heaved in desperation and almost everyone started crying as those words poured out of his mouth. When the brunette heard the doctor say a tree fell on the car she couldn't breathe, but when she heard him say they lost her she couldn't take it. She could feel herself getting warm and dizzy. "I can't breathe!" the blue eyed girl whispered. All of a sudden her body went numb, her vision went blurry then black.
"MANDY!" Jason and Fiona screamed at the same time both reaching out to try to catch her, but were too late.
Dr. Crosby dropped to the floor to make sure Mandy was still breathing. "NURSES! I NEED ASSISTANCE!" he yelled as he turned his head to the nurse's station.
Three nurses dashed over to where the brunette's lifeless body was with a stretcher.
"Let's lift her on the count of three" the doctor stated. "One, two, three" the muscular man yelped cradling her head while helping the nurses lift her body on to the stretcher. "Take her to room 218 right away, get an IV hooked up, run a CBC , get her vitals then report back to me as soon as you get the results" the muscular man informed.
"Yes sir!" the ladies responded in unison rushing, the pale young girl to the hospital room.
Jason was standing in awe with his hand over his mouth. "My sister?" he asked looking at the doctor.
"Like I was saying. we did lose her, but we were able to revive her. She sustained a life threatening head injury therefore her brain is swollen, several broken bones, contusions, a couple of sprains, cuts and several bruises. She also suffered some internal bleeding. We were able to find where it was coming from and were able to stop it." The doctor took a deep breath then said "The tree caused her vertebrae to separate in two spots so she is currently paralyzed, but we won't really know until she wakes up. We had to put her into a medically induced coma and she is currently on life support."
"OH MY GOD! MY BABY! NOOOOOOO!" the blonde's mother cried out, collapsing into her husband's arms, crying hysterically.
"She is in critical condition at this point, but she is out of surgery. We are going to watch her for 48 hours to make sure she doesn't have any other internal injuries then we are going to move her to ICU. If you like, we can put her in the same room with Ian so that you don't have to go to four different rooms" the doctor said questionably.
"Yes, yes please do that!" Veronica spoke up. "Doctor Crosby…" Fiona started, "Can you tell us what exactly happened with the accident?"
The doctor sighed then asked "Are you sure you really want to know?"
"Yes sir! Please?" Mr. Davis replied sounding distressed.
"Well…" the doctor hesitated, "Witnesses told police that Ian's car was going through a green light when another car ran the red light in the opposite direction. The other car t-boned Ian's vehicle causing Ian and Christy to do three complete 360's, jump a curb and then smash into a tree backwards. Then the tree snapped and fell on the car smashing the front of it."
The older girl couldn't hold it together any longer. The image of that in her mind happening to anyone let alone her baby brother and his best friend was horrific. Fiona wrapped her arms around her tiny body, bent over and began screaming in agony. Veronica instantly ran up and grabbed her best friend to walk away. She then quietly asked Kev to stay so that he could tell her the other information later. After the two young women were down the hall of the sterile emergency room, the doctor resorted to speaking with Jason.
"I'm going to go and check on Mickey. Hopefully when I get back they will have Mandy's results so I can give you an update. Please stick around because Mandy is going to wake up soon and she is going to need all of you to get through this."
"Thank you so much Dr. Crosby" Jason replied shaking his hand.
"No problem Mr. Davis. I will be back as soon as I have more information." the doctor answered, nodding his head as he was walking away.
"I'm going to go and take your mom to get some coffee" Jason's father said as he was still cradling his broken wife. The tall boy didn't say anything. He just nodded as his father and mother walked away.
Kev patted the younger guy on his shoulder and headed to the waiting room with Carl and Liam. Lauren put her arm around a weeping Debbie and led her back to the waiting room as well. Josh shrouded Amira as she broke down in tears. He kissed her forehead then rubbed her back as she desperately cried in his arms. Jason was trying to be the strong one, but this was just too much for him. He lifted his arms, putting them behind his head and interlocked his fingers as the clear streaks began descending down his chiseled face. A soft whimper came from the blond as he bit his bottom lip and paced up and down the hallway.
Twenty minutes later Dr. Crosby came back to see Jason sitting alone with his parents in a daze. "Mr. Davis?" the doctor said, causing the young man to look up at him and stand up immediately.
They walked away from his parents because he felt like his mother couldn't handle any more bad news.
"Mickey is still sedated, but he's sleeping. According to what Mandy told us when she got here, it sounds like he had another panic attack."
"Another?" Jason asked questionably with his eyebrows furrowed.
"Yeah I thought you knew about that. He was here a few months back."
"No I didn't. Well… what about Mandy?" the blue eyed boy asked sincerely raising his hands in the air.
"Mandy is awake now and we managed to get her blood pressure and heart rate under control. She suffered an anxiety attack brought on by the obvious stress. She has a slight bump on the head, but will be ok. We gave her some pain medication so she might be a little out of it, but you can go see her if you like."
"Sure ok. thanks, doc" Jason sighed.
Jason turned to his parents who were looking directly at him now and sat back down next to them. "Mom I know this isn't the ideal time, but you really need to try and get to know Mandy. You would love her. She and her brother are from the Southside like us, plus she loves Chris."
"Honey this is not the time" his mother answered, removing the blond strands out of her face looking completely exhausted.
"Mom STOP! Christy almost died! No I take that back she did, but they were able to bring her back!" Jason screamed.
"Hey hey hey son, don't talk to your mother that way!" his father interjected.
"Dad, I'm sorry, but Christy's sexuality and HER relationship should be the LAST thing on mom's mind" the young man spat with venom in his voice. "Do we have to go through this AGAIN?! My sister is lying up right now on life support and the one person who loves her more than life itself had to witness her brother, who by the way, suffered a severe panic attack and is being hospitalized here too right now, got a call that his husband and her girlfriend were in a almost fatal car accident. Then have to come here, face all of us while getting the news that her girlfriend basically died and her brother-n-law is in the ICU with HORRIBLE injuries. So excuse me but, I'm going to do the right thing, what Chris would want us to do and go check on her girlfriend!" Jason yelled as he knocked over a chair.
The blond boy's face was crimson with fury, his hands were balled into fists and he stormed loudly away walking past Fiona and the rest of the group as they were walking back to the waiting room.
As the group were taking their seats, Robert looked over at his slightly embarrassed wife. He faced her, grabbed her hands to get her attention then said "Baby I know this hard right now, but Jason has a point. We almost lost our daughter and right now we don't have her back. Her girlfriend is the small piece of her that we have right now and we need to hold on tight ok?"
The beautiful blond woman nodded her head and looked away from her husband in shame. The older man knew his wife too well because he knew she was cursing herself for treating Mandy the way she did before. He let go of one of her hands and cupped her chin. "Baby I know that you feel terrible about before, but we have to make this right for Chris. We don't want her to wake up and find out that we totally mistreated the person who could be the love of her life right?"
"Yes…" the older woman replied getting up from her chair and adjusting her clothes. The couple quietly made their way over to the nurse's station and asked what room Mandy was in again.
Jason felt the anger leaving his body the closer he got to his sister's girlfriend's room. He stopped at her door, shook himself to get the nerves out then quietly walked into her hospital room.
"Hey Mands, how you feeling" he asked with a smile on his face and pulling a chair up to her bed.
"I'm ok J, my head just kinda hurts, that's all."
"Thankfully it's nothing serious" the blonde replied as he smiled while rubbing her legs that were under the white linen covers.
"Yeah, but how's Mick?" the brunette asked sinking further into her hospital bed.
"He's doing ok. He's still sedated, but now he's sleeping so that's a good sign. He had a panic attack, but apparently this was his second one in a few months. Did you know about this?"
"No I didn't" the brunette replied looking confused and concerned. The two heard a knock at her door as they were talking.
"Hey Mandy, how are you feeling dear?" Jason's mother asked the young girl as she and her husband were walking in the room. Jason turned around surprised at his mother's sudden behavioral change.
"I'm ok, but my head hurts pretty badly" the blue eyed girl answered while rubbing her forehead and scrunching her face in pain.
"Should we call a nurse and have them get you some pain medication?" the blond woman asked as she was walking backwards toward the door.
"Mom, they already gave her some medication. It should be kicking in any time now" the younger man interjected while rubbing the brunette's leg again and smiling.
"Ok great" the older woman exclaimed smiling.
Mandy thought to herself that she knew where her gorgeous girlfriend got her looks from because the woman in front of her was just as beautiful.
"Well if there is anything we can get you dear, please let us know, ok?" Ellen replied, signaling to her husband as they both pulled chairs up next to her bed on the other side.
The four laughed and made occasional small talk as they were watching some show on TV. As the pale girl started to fall asleep, Jason's parents got up to go home so that they could be back up to the hospital first thing in the morning.
"Mom and Dad, I am going to stay here with Mands so that I can be here when she wakes up. Plus I want to be here when Mickey wakes up and be here to get the updates on Chris and Ian."
"Sure son, we will bring you some clothes, some food and stuff when we come here at 8. Is there anything else you need?"His father asked.
"No dad, that's fine thanks."
"No problem see you later" the older man replied.
"Bye sweetie" the older woman whispered as she kissed on her son on the forehead.
The younger man got up from the chair and hugged his mother. "Honey I am so sorry for how I acted earlier and how I treated you when you came out to us."
"It is ok mom..." he said before he was cut off. She put her hand up to silence her handsome son.
"No, it's not ok. You were right honey and I'm sorry. I want you to know that I love you and that I didn't mean to hurt you" the blond woman said as the tears started welling up in her bright blue eyes. "I just didn't expect to have to have two gay children that's all."
"Mom, Chris isn't gay she is bi-sexual. She still likes men A LOT, but she just happened to fall in love with a woman. Mandy is VERY special, she's hot and if I were straight I would be all over her too so I can't blame Chris."
The beautiful woman laughed at her son's response and shook her head in agreement. "Well son, we are going to head home so we can get some rest." His father said.
"Alright dad see you later" the younger boy said as he hugged his father.
Once his parents left, a nurse walked in and offered Jason a pillow and a blanket.