hey guys. here is a quick a quite short update. i wanted to single out what was happening in this chapter, so it was the main focus. i might put the next one up later on tonight. enjoy!

25. Trying to Pull Through

Brooke walked back to the hospital room to see Haley. Hopefully she would be awake. She walked into the room, putting a fake smile on her face in case she was awake.

The bed was empty. At first Brooke thought she was in the wrong room and then she got excited. Haley might have woken up and be in the toilet. Neither Haley nor Brooke respected the others privacy so Brooke walked straight into the toilet. Haley wasn't there.

Brooke started to get slightly nervous and walked outside to find a nurse.

'Hey pretty girl.'

'Oh hey Luke. Come with me, I just need to find the nurse.'

Lucas' face brightened. 'Is Haley awake?'

'No she's gone.' Lucas gave a questioning look. 'Her bed is empty and she isn't in her room.'

Brooke walked up to a passing nurse. 'Excuse me. I was wondering where I could see Haley James? She isn't in her room.'

'Oh, you haven't heard?' Brooke shook her head nervously. 'Well I can't say if you aren't family.'

'Oh no, I am. We are sisters.' The words slipped off Brooke's tongue so quickly the felt real. They were basically sisters anyway.

The nurse signalled to Lucas.

'He's um, a cousin. He lives with us.'

'Well, we found her crashing 10 minutes ago.'

'What's crashing?'

'Her heart had stopped.'

Brooke felt her world fall apart with those four words. Her heart!

'But she's ok isn't she? She has to be ok?' Brooke whimpered.

'Well, we have been lead to believe that her heart had actually stopped 5 minutes before we found her.'

'Her heart stopped for 15 minutes?' the words barely came out of Brooke's mouth.

'Well, her heart was stopping and starting. She's a fighter. She is currently in intensive care being resuscitated.'

'But she'll make it of course.' Brooke felt her hand link into Lucas'.

'Well her heart has been through a lot of stress recently. We are doing everything we can.'

Brooke stood outside the intensive care room. They were allowed to stand in a special closed off area that overlooked the intensive care room. But Brooke couldn't go in. she didn't want to see her friend dying.

She took a large breath and walked in. Haley was stable. Brooke let out her breath. She leaned her head against the glass window and stared into the room. Brooke was in such a state of shock that she couldn't cry anymore. Haley still looked so peaceful, as if nothing bad had happened at all. Brooke wondered if Haley knew what was going on, how much pain she had been through recently. She watched the doctors finish up and breathed a large sigh a relief when she heard them say Haley could be taken back to her room.

Just as they were finishing up Haley's heartbeat monitor flat lined. Brooke gripped Lucas' hand tighter. The doctors waited and Brooke heard their discussion.

'We've done all we can… should maybe have one last go…so much pressure on her heart… maybe best to let go… think of her family…we should just try…'

Brooke slammed hard against the glass. She wanted to be in that room. 'SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SAVE HER! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOCTORS!' she screamed at the top of her lungs. 'DON'T GIVE UP ON HER!'

Brooke had lost the sense of shock she had been in and tears sped out of her eyes and ran off her face and she watched them try to save Haley. Nothing seemed to be working. Brooke watched for what seemed like hours as they tried to resuscitate her but Brooke couldn't take it anymore. She ran out of the room.

Nathan came out of Haley's room and looked around. She wasn't there. He wad filled with hope at the thought that she may be awake.

Suddenly he saw Brooke running up to him in tears. All hope he had flew out the window. Haley couldn't have… she hadn't... she hadn't died?

'Nathan! Nathan…her heart's stopped. It won't start. They keep trying, it's not working…she was stable and then she crashed…they don't think she'll make it.'

'Where…?'

Brooke pointed to the room and Nathan was there like a shot. He swung open the door and ran in, closely followed by Brooke who hid into Lucas.

Nathan walked right up to the glass. He looked in at the beautiful girl fighting for her life. It eventually hit him that he might see her die.

'HALEY!!' Nathan shouted and shouted and hit the glass as hard as he could. The doctors were obviously used to this reaction, as they didn't flinch. Nathan couldn't control the tears as he watched Haley. He watched the heartbeat monitor beep, and then go flat, and beep, and then go flat. He shouted in frustration.

'We've got her back!' one doctor shouted, as the heartbeat monitor returned to its steady beat, and stayed there.

So much relief swam over Nathan. He was feeling so many mixed feelings as he watched the doctors tidy away their things. He looked back at Haley and smiled slightly. He had never felt this feeling before, all of this relief, and want, and lust, and need, and care towards a person. Yip, that's right. Nathan was falling in love with Haley. And he was falling fast.

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