Chapter 28 – Waking up
15 hours had passed since Kelly brought Kris in to the hospital. Kelly had been released after her fever had gone down, and her bed was now occupied by Kris who was, just like Aurore, sleeping peacefully. Kris had been in surgery and both her feet and ankles were surrounded by casts. Kelly was sitting in a chair between the two of them, her eyes moving back and forth all the time. She moved her head towards the door as it opened, and she watched how Jill walked into the room. She was walking slowly with her arm stuck into a sling, and carefully eased herself down into a chair next to Kris.
"How are you doing Jill?"
"I'll be okay. The shoulder will heal, I should know by now, how many times haven't I hurt it? I've been released with the instructions to take it easy, but I can't seem to get home. Bosley promised to live with me though until Damien recovers."
"How is Damien?"
"Stable. He's been awake on and off and he should be alright."
"Glad to hear that Jill."
"How are you doing? I heard you passed out as you arrived?"
"Yeah, it's been a hectic week and I dislocated my hip when we ran after Zeke after he attacked you. It's really sore but I'll be okay, promise."
"Good." Jill smiled slightly as she shifted awkwardly in her chair, still not taking her eyes from her sister.
"Sure you okay Jill? You look uncomfortable."
"I am but it's okay." Jill said, turning to look at Kelly with a grateful smile. "Kelly… I… I don't know what to say but… thank you doesn't feel like enough. You saved me and Damien, you saved Kris, twice. I'm not sure what I would've done without you Kelly, and you almost got yourself killed in the progress."
"Don't worry about it Jill. I just did what I had to."
"You should ask the FBI for a raise." Jill smiled.
"I don't work for the FBI Jill?" Kelly asked, suddenly feeling worry about Jill's injuries to the head.
"No I know you work for Charlie Kelly, but come on, you done the FBI's work a lot. You deserve to get a bonus or token of appreciation from them."
Kelly smiled, leaning over she put her hand onto Jill's unwounded shoulder.
"I should. But I don't care about that, I'm just happy most of us are okay." Kelly smiled, rubbing Jill's shoulder. "There's just one thing that puzzles me."
"What's that?"
"In your story… Are you Beauty or the Beast?"
Jill looked at Kelly for a second before a hurt smile broke out into her face and she shoved away Kelly who was grinning ear to ear.
"Hey, that is not nice!"
Kelly laughed out loud as she reached over and patted Jill's head.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself."
"I bet you thought of that line for several hours."
"Yeah I did actually, I've been waiting impatiently to ask." Kelly laughed.
"I thought people were supposed to get some rest in hospitals."
Both Jill and Kelly immediately turned towards the bed as they heard Kris' voice coming from it. Jill rose to her feet and put her hand onto Kris' forehead and Kelly stayed seated in the chair, but she reached over and took Kris' hand.
"Hey, sweetheart, how are you doing?" Jill asked, taking Kris' other hand.
"I hurt." Kris said in a small voice. Everything was so sore and and just the thought of trying to move made her horrified.
"I'll go and get Tara." Kelly said, grabbing the crutches she had gotten back she limped out of the room to find the doctor. Kris nodded slowly as Kelly left the room, leaving the two sisters alone. Jill smiled to her sister as she squeezed her hand, and Kris tiredly looked up at her.
"You okay?" Kris asked her big sister as she squeezed her hand.
"Better than you." Jill smiled, yet worry in her eyes. "You scared us kiddo."
"Wasn't part of my plan. Where's Zeke now?"
"No where. As far as I know, Kelly took him out."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I don't know what happened Kris, Kelly hasn't told anyone anything yet. When everyone's recovered slightly and are walking the healing path we'll all sit down and talk. I know Kelly needs to talk this through, there's been a lot things going on, and after saving you and Aurore she passed out in the waiting room. She seems to be physically okay, mentally I'm not sure."
Kris nodded slowly, closing her eyes for a second, but opened them as she heard people enter the room. She pushed open her eyelids and saw Tara and a nurse walk inside, Jill moving out of the way.
"Hey Kris, how are you feeling?" Tara asked as she administered painkilling through the IV.
"Had better days."
"Yeah you were in bad condition when we got you out of the well, but you responded well to treatment. Your ankles are broken so we took you into surgery to stabilize them and now they're all wrapped up. The casts will be on for about a month, and there will take a lot of training from your side to get you back onto your feet, but I know you're a strong person, and you have lots of people around to help you out." Tara smiled as support to Kris, who nodded. "Other than that you've got scrapes and abrasions over your arms and back, but there's nothing major and it has all been taken care of. I'll keep you for another night and then we can let you home along with your new best friend."
Kris raised her eyebrows in confusion as she looked at Tara, and Tara smiled as she pointed to the wheel chair in the end of the room. Kris sighed and leaned down deeply into her pillow.
"Well, if you don't have any questions, I suggest you rest as much as you can. I'll be back later and check on you and the nurses will be in regularly with pain killing, you'll be needing it. I'll prescribe some for you too and I'm sure someone can pick it up for you."
"Thanks Tara." Kris smiled, and Tara smiled to her, then her pager made a sound, and she looked down to it, before excusing herself and she ran out of the room, the nurse following her closely.
The three looked after them as they left, but they knew this was a hospital and other people needed help. Kris turned her head and looked towards the other bed in the room, realizing it was Aurore on top of it.
"How is she?" Kris asked, looking from her to Kelly.
"She's been drugged quite a lot, and she hasn't woken yet." Kelly said in a small voice.
"That's why it took so long to get to me?" Kris asked, and Kelly nodded slowly.
"I… I made a choice after we spoke in the phone. I wanted to come and get you but I didn't know where you were so I went to Aurore first. Zeke was there and we fought and as we did I found out where you were. So I got Aurore out, went here, got an ambulance and Tara with me and went to pick you up." Kelly explained in a small voice.
Kris nodded, and closed her eyes for a while. Emotions were welling up inside, Kelly had chosen Aurore first even though she knew Kris was in danger. Kris knew she was being silly but she could feel jealousy build up inside of her and she slowly bit the inside of her cheek not to say anything inappropriate.
"Kris sweetie, why don't you rest a little?" Jill asked, squeezing her sister's hand. "You need some rest."
"On one condition." Kris said, looking up at Jill.
"What's that?"
"That you get out of here and get some rest too." Kris smiled, and Jill broke out into a light smile too.
"Yeah. I'll take you up on that. Bosley promised to give me a ride home and keep me company.
"Sounds good." Kris smiled, closing her eyes.
Jill leaned down and kissed Kris' forehead, and Kelly gently squeezed Kris' shoulder slightly as their eyes met.
"I'll follow Jill out. Get some rest and I'll be back later."
Kris nodded, and then watched how Kelly walked Jill outside, usually letting Jill use her as support, but now Kelly was unsteady on her crutches. Neither of them spoke on their way out, and they found Bosley in the waiting room, where he was waiting to take Jill home. As Bosley took Jill out from the hospital, Kelly decided to take a walk towards the ICU to check on her angels. She found two of them almost immediately, both of them were pacing outside Kamili's room, both of them crying and holding hands. Kelly could feel panic rise up inside of her as she realized something had happened, and probably nothing good. She hurried up to them, and as they saw her they both pulled their arms around Kelly, and she hugged the two of them close.
"Come here, let's sit down, talk to me." Kelly said in a gentle voice as she led them over to a couch. They sat down on each side of her, and Janet was the first one who was able to talk.
"We were sitting in there with her and she seemed peaceful and calm and then the machines went nuts and the alarm went off… Tara and other doctors rushed in and they tossed us out and…"
Kelly held her two angels hard as she fought the tears herself. Every one was out of danger coming from Zeke, and everyone had started to recover nicely, but Kamili was obviously not safe yet. Kelly knew that arrow had caused a lot of damage, and she prayed for her angel to hang on. They needed Kamili, she was a great part of the team and all of them had really become close. The thoughts of losing her made Kelly feel sick. The door to Kamili's rush was shoved open, and a stretcher with Kamili on it, surrounded my nurses and doctors, were brought out. Kelly, Janet and Sandra immediately rose to her feet, and as Tara saw them she told another doctor to get her down to the OR and she'll run after in a sec.
Kelly, Janet and Sandra could tell Tara was nervous, something was definitely not right, and Sandra put her hand on Tara's shoulder.
"What's going on?"
"There's tearing to her heart, and we need to go in a fix it. It's not strong enough to heal by itself and we need to open up and take care of it, it seems to be leaking. I… I'll get back to you as soon as I can."
All three of them nodded as Tara took a deep breath before she ran down after her sister and coworkers. Kelly, Janet and Sandra all sat down in the couch again, none of them speaking since no one of them knew what could be said at the moment.
Several hours had passed since Kamili had been taken into surgery, and as Kelly looked at her watch on her wrist she realized it was close to 9 pm. Kelly knew Sandra and Janet were out in the waiting room, probably resting in a couch towards each other. Kelly was sitting in Kris and Aurore's room, Kris had been given painkillers that had knocked her out, and Aurore had yet to wake up. Kelly was now waiting for Aurore, sitting next to her in her bed, holding onto her hand.
Kelly wondered how long it would take for all of them to get back to where they used to be. She knew she had to talk to the police and the head of the FBI and Charlie to explain everything that had happened, and she knew everyone had a lot of healing to do – both emotionally and physically. She knew Charlie and the head of the FBI were all ready making arrangements for funerals and Kelly knew Sabrina, Julie and Tiffany were helping them with everything.
Kelly's head jerked to look at Aurore as she suddenly felt fingers grip around her hand, and she smiled as she noticed Aurore stirring slightly. Kelly licked her lips before she leaned down and placed a gentle kiss onto Aurore's dry and cracked lips. As Kelly moved her head away, she met Aurore's tired eyes. They were looking at her with confusion in them.
"Welcome back sweetie." Kelly smiled as she carefully stroke Aurore's hair away from her forehead.
"You slayed the dragon." Aurore cracked out, her voice being hoarse and raspy. Kelly took the cup of cold water with a straw, and help Aurore to drink. Kelly then put her head to her side as she let her hand rest gently towards Aurore's cheek.
"The dragon?"
"…. Oh it must've been a dream." Aurore smiled weakly. "I had this dream about you slaying a dragon to save me. Janet, Kam and Sandra were the three fairies and… It felt so real."
Kelly giggled slightly as she looked Aurore into her eyes. She had missed her eyes so much and she was so happy that her woman was safe and recovering.
"I might not be a Prince Charming but damn I saved your ass." Kelly smiled, observing Aurore with gentle eyes. Aurore smiled before closing her eyes.
"How are you feeling?" Kelly asked carefully.
"Weak."
"You in pain?"
"No, just tired. What happened anyway?"
"Zeke Mount kidnapped you, and kept you drugged. I found out where you were, he cut me off and tried to kill me. But I killed him instead."
"You killed him?"
"Yes."
"Kell…" Aurore said weakly, she tried to read the emotions inside of Kelly's eyes, and she usually knew how to do it well. But now they were so far away, filled with way too many emotions than Aurore could keep track of for the moment.
"We'll talk about it later. You should get back to sleep."
"Can't you lie down next to me?" Aurore asked, and Kelly nodded as she smiled and slid down next to Aurore in the small hospital bed. They cuddled together, both of them had missed each other even if Aurore had been out of it, and now they couldn't get enough of the other person. Both of them were exhausted, and it didn't take many minutes before both of them fell into a peaceful sleep.
"Kelly?"
Kelly pushed her eyes open as she felt someone gently shake her awake, and she blinked around as she tried to comprehend where she was. She turned her head and saw Tara standing leaning over her.
"Tara… How's Kam?" Kelly asked quietly not to wake the two patients in the room.
"Critical but the surgery went well. We did open heart surgery and repaired the wall of the heart that was tearing. She's fallen into a coma, but she's reacting well to lights and sounds so… Well, she should wake up… She's in bad shape, but I think she will be alright. She… she has to."
"She will be okay." Kelly nodded, pulling Tara into a hug. "She has the best care here, I'm sure you can help her."
"I hope so." Tara said, trying to make a smile. She wasn't sure herself and she feared for her sister's life.
