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"What!" Christine yelled. "We're having a baby! I can't raise a baby with out him! He has to be okay!" Now everyone in the lobby was staring at her.
"Ma'am please settle down." Officer Fox said.
"Settle down?" She shouted back. "My best friend may never get to meet his child! And he would be a good father! A great father! Who's going to get me ginger ale?" Christine fell to the floor crying. "Who's going go and look up stuff on the computer about the baby?"
Nadir had no idea what to do, but Christine's little speech made the tears he had trying to hold back fall.
Officer Fox bent down and helped Christine off the floor to a chair.
Christine looked up and everyone in the room was looking at her. "What! What are you all looking at?" She shouted.
Everyone looked away.
"Listen I have to get back to OR now but I'll keep you posted and come get you when he's out." The doctor said.
Nadir nodded and the doctor.
"You don't have to stay." Nadir said to the cop after Dr. McCain left.
The officer nodded and walked away.
Nadir pulled out his cell phone and started dialing.
"Hello honey!" Rick's happy voice floated through the phone.
"Rick."
Rick could tell right away Nadir was crying. "Erik was in the Volvo that was in that accident?"
"Yes." Nadir chocked out. He heard Rick drop the phone.
"Your at the hospital?"
"Yes."
"I'll be there and I'll call Simon and Kathy."
"Thank you Rick." With that Nadir hung up and sat down next to Christine.
Christine put her head in Nadir's chest and cried.
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No less than 20 minutes later did a crying Rick with The Firmin's and the Gordon's show up. Christine stood up and hugged Rick. While Nadir took Simon and Kathy off to the side to tell them Christine was pregnant. He figured he would tell them before Christine went on another crazy rant. Simon smiled brightly and Kathy said she knew. That she could tell those kind things.
They were all now sitting in this small sitting room waiting for the doctor to come back with an update. Christine was fiddling with her finger nails. Rick was crying on Nadir's shoulder. They were all just one big mess.
Doctor McCain came walking towards them two hours later. "Mr. Khan, Erik's best friend." He nodded to Nadir and Christine. He wasn't sure what Christine's name was. "Erik is out. We've managed to save his lung and it will be ok after it fully heals in about two weeks."
"The bad news?" Nadir asked.
"The bad news. Erik is on a breathing machine, and we wont know till the anesthesia wears off if he is going to wake up. He is in ICU so I can only let you go in two at a time."
Everyone sat there monition less. Nadir never thought of the possibility that Erik would ever die before him.
"You can follow me now." The doctor said.
The seven of them stood up and followed after the doctor into the elevator and on the 3 floor.
They came to stop in from of a door. "So only two of you can go in."
Nadir look at Christine, "Christine you can go."
"And you Nadir." Rick said.
The doctor opened the door and followed them in.
Nadir got to the end of Erik's bed and looked away. "Oh god." he whispered.
Christine waked right up to Erik. She looked down at him. "Erik." She breathed. Tears fell from her eyes.
Erik was on a breathing machine. There was a tube down his throat and a iv in him right hand. His eyes were closed and he looked almost dead.
Christine stared at the right part of his face, his mask was missing. She bought both her hands up to his face. She put a hand on ether cheek and bent down and kissed his forehead. Christine knew why Erik wear the mask now. The right side of his face wasn't a pretty site. The flesh was mangled. There was red bumps all over and you could see a vein. He had no eyebrow. To Christine it looked like someone fit Erik in the face with a baseball bat, then set him on fire.
She wanted to look away. Personally she thought she was going to throw up, but she couldn't do that. She had to be strong. Strong not for her but Erik. Erik and his baby.
Christine looked down at his closed eyes. She was glad to see the left side wasn't to messed up. It had a few cuts here and there. She figured it was from the glass from the window.
She removed her hands from Erik's face and reached down and healed Erik's left hand in both of her's. Christine got down on her knees and leaned again the bed and laid her head next to where she was holding Erik's hand.
"Be careful with his left arm, it's broken. I'll be in later to put a hard cast on." the doctor said.
Christine loosed her grip but didn't move away.
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Nadir couldn't believe what he was seeing. There was Christine holding Erik's face in her hands. Now she was sitting on the floor, holding his hand.
Him and Christine were the only one's who hadn't thrown up when they saw his face for the first time.
Simon and Rick were the only other people who had seen Erik's face. Erik had taken his mask off in Nadir's office and Rick burst through the door singing. Simon right behind him. Everything got really quite when they realized Erik didn't have his mask on. Rick had run to a trash can and through up. Simon stood there, he through up but had choked it back down and turned away.
The Firmin's and Kathy had never seen it. Nadir guess that Erik would want it to stay that way.
"Dr. McCain do you have or know where Erik's mask is?" Nadir asked.
The doctor nodded and walked over to a plastic bag, he hand it to Nadir. "This is all Erik's things."
Nadir nodded and opened the bag. He fished around for the Erik's mask. Finding and pulling it out, he walked to the other side of the bed. He wasn't sure if the mask would go on with the tube down his throat.
The doctor came up behind Nadir and moved the tube a little so Nadir could put the mask in place.
"Mr. Khan I need to talk to you." He nodded towards the door.
"You can tell me whatever your going to tell him." Christine said her head still next to Erik's hand.
The doctor looked to Nadir to see if it was okay with and Nadir nodded it was fine.
"Erik has no brain damage as far as we know. His CT scan came back fine, but that doesn't mean he wakes up and will remember everything."
Christine's head snapped back to look at the doctor.
The doctor continued, "One, he could wake up and everything be okay and fine. But that's only a 20 percent chance that will happen. Two, he could wake up and his memory be temporally gone. Three he could wake and his memory could be gone for... well forever. Four he could never wake up."
Dr. McCain watched as Nadir leaned against the wall and tried to catch his breath, why Christine buried her head against Erik's leg and cried.
"Like I said before his left arm is broken and he fractured a few ribs."
When no one responded to what the doctor said, he left the room.
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Nadir and Christine did speak for 10 minutes. They simply stared at Erik. Nadir knew he should go switch places with someone outside, but he could leave his best friend.
Erik and him had been through everything together. Erik never left him and Nadir was not about to leave Erik.
Nadir was pulled from his thoughts as Christine spoke to Erik.
"Erik, I read somewhere once that if you talk to someone in a coma that they can hear you. I hope you can hear me Erik." Christine said getting off the floor. She pulled the chair that was behind her to the bed. She sat and got her face right next to Erik's. "Erik yo..you... you have to be fine." She stuttered. "You can leave me. I know that's being selfish. You can't leave your kid. I know what it's like to grow up with out a parent and not have the other one be there. Erik you can't do this to your kid. It needs you. You need to teach it everything. And who's going to worried about everything that could go wrong?" She sat back and cried into her hands. She need him.
Christine need him. Not for his money or his apartment. She need Erik. Just Erik!
It was in that moment that she knew what her mom meant. Her mom wrote about these feeling of love in her dairy's. And Christine finally realize what her mom meant when she wrote 'you'll know the moment your in love, it a feeling of something you can't explain.'
Christine got that. This feeling she had right now at this very moment, was something she never felt with Raoul.
There was so much more to their relationship then living together and having sex and a baby. Christine needs Erik to wake up so she can tell him these feeling. She has to know whether or not he feels the same.
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Nadir watched Christine closely as talked then as she cried. The crying only lasted a few minutes. Then he watched as all these emotions came over her face. Her eyes changed from the light blue they were to a dark blue, clouded with passion.
Nadir had never seen this in Christine. Realizing she need to be alone. Alone with Erik, even if he wasn't awake.
He didn't wait to leave his friend, but he knew Erik would be fine with Christine there. Nadir pushed off from the wall and looked at Erik. He then walked soundlessly to the door opening it and then closing it.
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Christine looked up when she heard the door close. She was alone. No, she thought for a minute she was with Erik. She looked to Erik. She wished he wasn't on a breathing machine because she would kiss him. Kiss him hard and passionate. Hoping to flow all her feeling and emotion from her to him. To express the love, all that she was feeling to him. She was sure words would only confuse him, but a kiss. A kiss would do so much more, like if she could sing him a love song.
Sing!
It hit Christine like a two tons of bricks. If she hadn't give him the cold shoulder, if she had just stay on the couch, he would be... He would be home. Home and breathing on his own and possibly they could be having great, wonderful sex.
"When you get out of here Erik I promise you the best make up sex ever... That's if you ever want anything to do with me ever again." She whispered out loud.
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Christine heard the door open.
Kathy came to stand right behind her as Rick snuck into the room to and stood where Nadir had stood. Kathy put a hand on Christine's shoulder.
Christine looked up to see Kathy praying. She looked over to Rick to see he was doing to same thing.
It was silent in the room for a good while.
Rick finally broke the silence. "Boss man?" He whispered.
Christine swore that Rick could be Simba. When there was that part on the Lion King where his father had been killed and he went of to him and nudged him with his head and called out dad. And the laid down next to him.
"Boss man?" Rick repeated. "Your going to be okay, because I..." Rick couldn't finish. He walked off towards the door.
Kathy reached out to grabbed his arm but Rick shook her hand loose and left.
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Simon came in. He walked to stand next to his wife.
"He'll be okay." He said to Christine and Kathy. "You'll be okay." He said turning to Erik.
Christine watched as he said a prayer too.
Kathy and Simon stay for a few minutes before leaving to let the Firmin's in.
Christine looked up to see Mary in tears.
Mary held her arms out for Christine to give her a hug. Christine got up and they hug.
"He'll be okay." Mary whispered into Christine's ear.
For some reason Christine felt that when Mary said he was going to be okay, that he was really going to be okay.
Richard walked over and patted Erik's hair. "The boy wears to much hair product."
Christine laughed a little. She remember the few times she had been in Erik's bathroom there were a lot of hair produces. From moose to spray to lots of other things.
Richard continued talking, "Erik you will wake. Because you will take care of this woman and your baby." he stated in a firm voice. He gave Erik's shoulder a slight squeeze and stepped back so his wife could get closer.
"Erik you're a strong boy, you'll be okay. And just remember you have a ton of people who love you. Visiting hours are almost over and the doctor said that only two people could stay the night. So we will back tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, until you wake up." She kissed Erik's forehead and gave Christine one last hug before leaving with her husband.
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Christine was still sitting in the chair when Nadir reentered the room. Christine looked over at him. He had a chair in one hand and was a tray with two coffee's in the other.
Nadir put his chair over where he had been standing when they first came in.
He pulled a coffee out and handed it to Christine.
"It's a vanilla cappuccino."
"Thanks."
"The doctor said if you and I wanted we could stay in his room tonight."
Christine nodded her head yes.
"How are you doing Christine?" Nadir asked sitting in the chair he bought in.
"Okay." she paused, "I don't know."
Nadir looked at her. She was looking at Erik's face, but she looked confused and lost.
"How are you doing Nadir?" She asked back.
"Truth?" Nadir asked.
Christine shook her head yes.
"I'm scared... He's my best friend. When Erik came into my life.." He paused. "I cleaned up. I stopped wasting my life. He gave me hope, a great life. He always says I saved his life. And if you want to be serous, I did really save his life. But... he saved me. He saved me from a... sad life."
Nadir looked down at his hands. He shook his head and then wiped angrily at tear the escaped his eyes.
The room settled into awkward silence. Nadir became lost in thoughts about the first time he met Erik. Why Christine tried to think what Erik's life was like before she met him and why did Nadir have to save Erik's life.
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The two didn't speak the rest of the night. Soon after their talk Christine fell asleep and the doctor came into do Erik's arm cast. After that was done, Nadir didn't get to sleep till 1 in the morning.
There sleep didn't last long. Dr. McCain came in at 7 in check on Erik. He said that by now the anesthesia has wear off and now it was up to Erik to wake up. Christine had broke out in tears again and got right up to Erik's ear saying 'please wake up', then ran to the bathroom in his room to throw up because of morning sickness.
The doctor looked at Erik for a good 35 minutes. He wrote on his chart and after that he left.
At 9 Simon, Kathy, Rick, Mary, and Richard came in. Rick brought a balloon that said 'Get Well Honey'. The Gordon's bought some flowers and Kathy insisted on a leaving a small brown bear that read 'Feel Well soon' on it's stomach. The Firmin's bought flowers too and a card.
They all sat in the room in silence. All eyes on Erik. A nurse had bought in more chairs, so everyone could sit. The only thing that had been said was when Nadir in formed everyone of what the doctor said. It was at 2:30 when someone had finally said something. The Firmin's had to leave to go out the restaurant. The Gordon's left 10 minutes later, they had to spend some time with their kids and grand kids. Rick had left at 4 to go get everyone something to eat from McDonald's.
He finally left around 7:30 when a nurse kicked him out, saying 'visiting hours ended at 7.'
Nadir and Christine only spoke when a nurse would come in or when Christine would tell Erik 'he had to be okay', Nadir would agree and say 'yeah buddy you better be okay'.
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Today was the 28 and Nadir had to leave for 2 hours to go to work and inform everyone of what happened.
He left Rick in charge of everything and Simon in charge of making sure Rick stayed on task.
When Nadir got back to the hospital, he found Christine sitting on the floor again whispering to Erik. He stopped in the doorway listening. Christine spoke of getting better and having the baby and being together.
Nadir up in till yesterday had his doubts about Christine really liking, loving Erik. He cleared his throat and Christine sat back in her chair.
At 6:30 some people from their work came by with cards, flowers, balloons and such.
The night past much like the night before. Rick bought them food and didn't leave till he got kicked out.
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The weekend past much like the day after the accident. The Firmin's and Gordon's were there till about 3 and rick was there till 7. Other people who had worked or just knew Erik would come by and give there words of I hope you wake up.
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It was Monday, it had been 6 since the accident and nothing about Erik's condition had changed. Nadir was staring at Erik, when Christine walked out of the bathroom. Nadir had changed during the week due to he had to go into the office once a day. But this morning Rick had dropped off some clothes for Christine. Apparently he had a key to.
Christine was really getting tired of the morning sickness. She was happy though that it was as bad as it was when she first got pregnant.
"What are you staring at Nadir?" She asked.
"His head moved."
Christine stared at him like he was crazy. Erik's head was in the same place it had been when she went to the bathroom.
"Not a lot but it moved." Nadir wouldn't move his eyes Erik's head.
Christine just nodded her head even though she knew Nadir wouldn't see it.
When Rick arrived at 6:40 with there dinner, Nadir was still in the same position.
"You okay Nadir?" Rick asked handing Christine a salad.
Christine turned towards Rick. "He swears he saw Erik move his head why I was in the bathroom this morning, but I think it still in the same place."
Rick nodded his head and blinked a few times. He sat next to Christine and stared at Erik.
The doctor came in at seven. "I'm sorry you have to leave sir." He said to Rick.
Rick kissed the top of Christine's head. "Bye guys, call me if he moves." with that Rick took his leave.
"He moved?" the doctor asked after Rick had left.
"I swear his head moved a little." Nadir looked up at the doctor.
"But I say it's in the same place it was before. I didn't see it happen." Christine said not tearing her eyes from Erik.
"He isn't dead. So moving his head very lightly doesn't mean anything except that well he's not dead." Dr. McCain said check some the machines that are hooked up to Erik.
He wrote some things down and left the room.
"Who would of thought?" Nadir said aloud not realizing.
"Thought what?" Christine asked looking up at Nadir.
"Oh sorry I thought I was thinking that."
"Oh it's okay. So thought what?" Christine pushed.
"Just that a year ago. Erik, Rick and I sat Richard and Mary's restaurant cheering in the new year. But we had this talk. It was serous, well as serous as you can be with Rick around. We all said what we would be doing in a year from now. Erik said we should go snow boarding. Did you know that Erik's favorite sport is snow boarding?"
Christine shook her head no to Nadir's question.
"Well he's super good at it and he'll stay out on the slopes for hours on end. Usually Rick or I will have to go out and retrieve him. ...Anyway, Erik said for New Years we'll go snow boarding. We all agreed that's what we'll do. But it turned serous and Rick asked 'do you any of us getting married.' The question was directed at me. I said no... I told him that even at my age I wasn't ready for that kind of commitment. Erik snorted and I turned and said and that's why you wont be married. Erik raised an eyebrow at me and smirk. He said I'll be married and I replied really to who. He nodded towards Rick and said to my boy friend. I think that was the only time Erik ever really joked about Rick like that in public."
Nadir paused and gazed out the window, so his back was to Erik.
"Who would have thought a year later I would be spending New Years with my best friend's pregnant girlfriend in hospital, why he's fighting for his life."
Christine could hear him choke back a sob.
"Maybe in 2008 everything will be better?" Christine suggested.
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Nadir and Christine watched the ball drop of the tiny TV in Erik's room. They didn't yell or clap. Christine didn't even watch the ball drop. She held Erik's hand or fingers because the his cast got in the way. She counted down and when it was over she kissed Erik's cheek.
She prayed that next year they would be in Erik's apartment with their baby, Nadir, and Rick.
Nadir hoped 2008 would bring good not worse.
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The first week of 2008 passed much like the past few days of 2007. Christine would never leave the room, only to throw up in the morning or go to the bathroom. She was counting down the weeks till morning sickness was a post to be over.
Nadir would go to work for 2 or 3 hours come back and sit in his chair. He wouldn't talk. Not to Rick, the doctor, the Gordon's, the Firmin's, or Christine. He would simply sit there and stare at Erik or the ceiling.
Rick would come by after work everyday and bring dinner and a change of clothes for Christine.
Christine was getting worried about Erik and the baby. She wasn't eating as enough as she should be and she knew that. But she didn't want to ask anyone else for help because it should be Erik she's asking for help.
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It was Wednesday the 9, 2 weeks since the accident. There was no new news about Erik and the doctor seemed to be getting worried.
Nadir was now not talking to anyone. He came to the conclusion if Christine hadn't come in to the picture Erik would be okay right now. That instead of being in New York, they would have been out of town snow boarding. So he was not talking to Christine at all. He only talked to everyone else when he had to tell them how to run the business.
The doctor walked in Erik's room at 7. Rick moved to get up when Dr. McCain put a hand on his shoulder and told him to sit.
He stood at the end of Erik's bed. "Erik's not getting better." He stated, "In my hand," He held up a brown folder, "I hold Erik's wishes."
Nadir knew what Erik's wishes were but refused to think that this was that bad.
"In here is written statement by Erik that if should go longer then a week in a half in a coma, that the doctor should take him off life support." Dr. McCain looked at the 3 people sitting in front of him.
Nadir looked mad, Christine had tears running down herm face, and rick sat frozen.
"Isn there anything we can do?" Rick finally asked staring up at the doctor.
"No. The only thing I can do is give you till the end of this week then I take him off. Even then I could get in trouble. Well even right now, because I'm not following the patience wishes." He paused, "If and I'm if Erik wakes up before then there could be things wrong."
"You said his lung and ribs were healing fine." Rick interrupted.
"They are. There healing nicely. IF he should wake up, there could be problems that are scans and machines can't pick up."
"Like what?" Christine spoke up voice cracking.
"He could not remember things or things he once could do is now gone. He can't remember how do them. Things like that could be wrong."
The doctor went on for 20 minutes telling them what is going to happen if Erik doesn't wake up.
After the doctor left, Nadir got up left to. Rick was loud to stay the night now because of what was going on. Christine broke out in tears. And Rick worried about Nadir, Erik, the Gallery, the baby, and Christine.
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On Thursday everyone came to see Erik. There wasn't a minute when Erik was alone or there were less then 2 people in the room. Lots of people who worked for him started to cry when they finally saw if.
Christine thought she was finally alone and got up to go sit on the side of Erik's bed. She put his hand in her lap.
"Christine?"
Christine knew who was standing behind her just by his voice.
"Raoul."
"How are you?" Raoul asked and moved to stand beside her.
"How do you think I am?" She snapped. "I'm sorry. I'm...fine."
"No I'm sorry. I shouldn't of asked."
Christine stilled didn't look up at Raoul she stared at Erik.
"Came to see Erik. I figured that no one would want me here, but now I... I figured I would come wish him well and check on you."
"I don't need checking up on."
"Fine I came to see you."
"Whatever."
"Get well Erik." Raoul said, he patted Christine's shoulder and turned around to leave.
Rick was standing there looking at Raoul nastily.
Raoul walked by without a word.
So there was chapter 26. The chapter everyone has been waiting for.
I hope a captured how Christine was feeling and her emotion good. This was my first time trying to write something with that kind of emotion.
Also I would like to say I'm sorry if I mess up on any of the doctor terms. I have chapter 27 done and I'm working on chapter 28. I'm just not sure when I'll post them. Thanks again for all the reviews.
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