Chapter 25

3rd Person POV

As tears began to form on Max's face Iggy ran around her and into the room, shaking Ella's shoulders.

"Ella! Ella please be ok; please be ok." Max pulled Iggy back away from Ella.

"Iggy get off, you're hurting her." Iggy had a grim look on his face and he stood there, staring at Ella.

"Almost every rib in her ribcage is broken; almost every bone in her body is either broken or sprained. She suffered from a head concussion and has a cracked skull." Rebecca stopped talking and everyone just stared at Ella's limp body.

She had bruises all over her face and two black eyes which were swelled up to the limit. She had braces on her arms and legs and needles going into her arms, which connected to a little TV that showed her pulse on the screen.

"She would have most likely died if we haven't found her; from what we can tell she had been laying on the ground for roughly an hour to an hour and a half. She was unconscious then and still is now; she hasn't woken up the whole time she's been here." They stood there for a second longer until Rebecca tapped Max on the shoulder.

"Can I talk to you outside for a minute?"

"Sure."

Max POV
Rebecca and I walked into the hallway; she turned to me when the door has closed.

"Ella's injuries are far worse than any car accident injuries I have ever seen in my medical career." My eyebrows scrunched together in confusion.

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that a car crash alone couldn't do all that to her." She paused, as if deciding whether to do something or not.

"I didn't want to show you this in front of your friends, but" She took a clipboard out of the holder on the door.

"I took this when we first brought her in." She held up a picture of Ella lying on a hospital bed, her back facing the camera. Running down the length of it were 5 vertical claw marks, already bloodied and turning purple on the edges.

"We were able to stitch up her torso, but I don't know anything with claw marks like that; except for maybe a bear, but bears aren't native here." My jaw clenched and my breathing slowed down.

"Nothing from the car crash could have done this to her; the only thing I think could have done this is an animal, but like I said we don't have any animals that violent that are native here." My eyes were still bulging and looking at the picture.

"Max? Are you ok?" I blink a few times and looked back at her.

"Yea, I'm fine. You said she hasn't woken up yet?" She shook her head.

"No, not yet; though she should be waking up any minute." I nodded and walked back inside, followed by Rebecca. Iggy was sitting next to Ella, holding her hand while Fang leaned against a wall, watching them. His head snapped up and turned towards me as I walked in.

"Fang, look at this." I held up the picture for him to see. His face remained passive, but I saw recognition and anger flare in his eyes. He raised his eyebrows and nodded towards Iggy. I bit my lip for a minute, until I grabbed the picture back.

"Iggy, there's mor-" I was interrupted as someone started coughing. Rebecca rushed up to Ella, examining here charts. It took me a minute to realize that Ella was the one coughing. I rushed forward to the other side of the bed.

"Ella? Ella!" She coughed again and took a deep breath. She slowly blinked and opened her eyes (as much as a person with swollen black eyes can open them) Iggy leaned over and gingerly hugged her.

"Iggy, what happened?" Iggy came back up and looked at Rebecca.

She bit her lip and looked at Ella. "O no, I was afraid of this."

"Afraid of what?"

"Remember when I told you that Ella had a concussion?" I nodded. "Well, the force of the concussion must have given her temporary memory loss." I breathed heavily and looked back at Ella, who was talking quietly to Iggy.

"Ella, do you remember anything that happened yesterday?" She sat for a second, think. Every time she talked she sounded out of breath.

"I remember a little; Me and Poppy were" she took a deep breath "We were going back" she took another deep breath "To your house," deep breath "and she was laughing and talking about" deep breath "someone. Then everything goes blank." Talking about someone? Who was she talking about?

"If Ella's here, then where's Poppy?" I turned towards Fang. "Erasers probably got her." Iggy looked startled. "Erasers? How do you know there were erasers?" O right, I didn't show him the picture yet. I showed it to him and he looked from the picture to Ella.

"El? Is this on your back?" She looked at the picture and a startled look came across her face.

"Is that on my back?!" She reached her hands behind her and started to feel her back. Rebecca walked over to her and gently pulled her hands back.

"There are stitches in your back right now, and if you violently handle them, they might get messed up." Ella sank back into the bed.

"Do you know when she'll get her memory back?" She shrugged.

"There isn't a definite date; her memory could come back anytime." I thought for a moment.

"Could I like jog her memory or something?" Rebecca thought for a moment before responding.

"Yea, I guess so. We found her by a car crash, so maybe if you showed her the car crash, it would jog her, memory." My face brightened up but she shook her head. "Though she isn't in any condition to leave the hospital right now; she has to stay here, in the intensive care." I sighed and bit my lip.

"Could we take pictures of the crash and show the pictures to her?"

"Yea, that would work. We haven't had the crash cleaned up yet, so it should be just like it was last night. Once you get the pictures, just bring them back here and I'll let you give them to Ella." I smiled.

"Thanks." I glanced over at Fang. "Are you staying here or coming with me?"

"Of course I'm coming with you." I smiled and glanced at Iggy. "Can he stay here with her? I don't think Iggy's really ready to leave Ella right now." Rebecca glanced over at them as Iggy told Ella something and she laughed.

"Of course he can stay here. Let's leave them and go back to the desk so I can give you the address of the crash."

*Time Skip To Later*

Well, after Rebecca gave us the directions, Fang and I set off. It was only a few miles from the beach, so now I know that Poppy was with her. O god, if anything happens to her, I'll rip the heads off of every single eraser and whitecoat wherever she is.

Even though Fang's be quiet, I can tell he's furious; I can see it in his eyes. I may be bad-ass, but Fang is hell-on-earth when you mess with him.

We started coming towards the crash, and I can tell from up here that it's terrible. One of the doors of the jeep was thrown about 50 feet away, and another one was hanging off the hinges. It was rammed right in a tree, and the tree cam almost to the windshield, which happened to be missing all the glass, along with the back windshield. One of the trees beside the crash had a huge dent in it, like something had been thrown incredibly hard against it. About 100 feet back there were 3 separate skid marks from cars, all starting and stopping at one point.

"O god, Fang. Look at it." We landed and I walked over to it, taking a video for Ella with my phone. I inspected the back seat, where the door had been missing. There was nothing back there, just a dark red mark on the painting around the door frame.

"Is that blood?" Fang nodded. "Yep."

"But whose blood is it?"

"No idea; but there's more blood on the hood and the steering wheel." I went to the driver's seat and examined the red spot on the wheel, then went to the hood and looked at the huge red mark on the hood, streaking down the front. It was just a long streak of red going down the hood; like something from a horror movie.

O wait, this is a horror movie.

I turned to Fang. "It looks like there were 3 people in the car, not just Poppy and Ella." We stared at the car for a minute.

"Well, Poppy wasn't driving, because I could tell from her phone call that she was obviously drunk."

"True; and Ella wasn't driving, because she doesn't have her license yet and doesn't know how to drive." I nodded.

"So, who was driving?" Fang shrugged.

"Well whoever it was is gone now, along with Poppy." I sighed and turned off the video. "Maybe we can show Ella the footage and she'll remember."

"Good plan." WE took off back in the direction of the hospital as I put the phone in my pocket.

*Time Skip*

Once we got there Rebecca let us go back to the room, apologizing because she had to leave, and then leaving us alone.

Once we got in it had already gotten dark, so the blinds were drawn and the lights off while Iggy and Ella were watching a movie. She already was looking better.

"Hey Ella, I got the footage."

"O good! Lemme see." I gave her the phone and clicked play. Her eyes grew wide when it got to what I assumed was the part when it showed the blood on the steering wheel.

"O, my god. I remember." Tears filled her eyes and she looked at me.

"O my god, Max, it was terrible." She looked at the wall opposite her. "O my GOD! They took them! O my god!" Iggy leaned over and hugged her.

"Shh, it's ok; just tell us what happened." She sniffed and then looked back up at us.

"Well…"

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