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A woman from behind coughed, immediately getting her attention.

Casey couldn't believe who she was seeing.

"Emily?" She said. Her voice was almost at a whisper.

"Hey Casey, how are you holding up?" Casey only nodded before looking back at Derek.

"He's not going to wake up." Casey's head shot back at Emily.

"What?"

Casey couldn't believe it; was he dead? She was too late; she didn't get to say goodbye; she didn't get to marry him like they had planned; she didn't get to have kids and grow old together.

She sat there, her hand still gripped his.

"Casey, don't over react." She had forgotten that Emily was still in the room. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. How could she not over react?

"Don't over react? How could you say that Emily?" She said. Emily chuckled a little.

"He's not dead." Casey's heart dropped. He wasn't dead; he's still alive, breathing.

"Not dead? You said that he wasn't going to wake up." Casey said. She looked back at Derek. She hadn't noticed that his mouth was covered with a plastic blue covering; a pipe attachment coming out of it.

"You see Casey," Emily began. "After being brought into the ER, Derek needed to be revived twice. He also went into Cardiac arrest." Casey slightly cringed. Hearing the injuries wasn't the best thing in the world.

"He also sustained many injuries to his left leg. His tibia was broken in two places along with a sprained ankle. With his consent we tried to give him different pain killers. None of them worked well enough o get rid of the pain." Casey said nothing. She only ran her thumb over Derek's pale cold hand.

"I know this is hard for you Case, I really so. Because Derek was such a close friend in high school, I decided to suggest something that I only resort to if it's really bad. He agreed but only when I agreed to make you his medical proxy and only when I agreed to let you be the only one aloud in here." She said. Emily walked toward Casey and put her hand on her shoulder.

Flashback

"Hey Derek, how are you feeling right now?" Emily said. She was holding a silver clipboard in her hand. They had already given him 3 different doses of Morphine, trying to flush out the pain.

"I feel like shit. You know how it feels when someone runs over your legs?" Emily chuckled a little.

"No I don't actually know how that feels." She hadn't looked up from the charts.

"Well that's how I feel." He tried to laugh only to be stopped by the pain in his abdomen. He clasped his hand over the pain. Emily raced by his side.

"Don't laugh so much, its just going to make the pain worse. " She adjusted his IV bag.

"Isn't there anything else that could maybe stop this pain?" He asked. Emily was surprised at the kindness. He wasn't as cocky as he use to be in high school.

"There is one thing." She said hesitantly.

"Go on." His hand grasped the side bar as he grimaced in pain.

"It's a thing called a Chemically Induced Coma, or CIC. We put you into a coma for a certain period of time to help your body heal quicker without the hassle of putting yourself through pain." She said. He sat there and pondered the thought for a moment.

"You mean like House, after his accident." Emily laughed.

"Yes, just like House." He sat there for a moment.

"You have to promise me something if I do this." She nodded.

"Casey has to be my medical proxy. Whatever she says, goes; no matter what." Emily nodded again.

"I don't want anyone else in this room other than Casey. That means my family and who ever comes. I don't want them to see me, to influence Casey's decision." Emily was hesitant.

"Okay Derek." With that she ordered the nurse to bring in a vile and needle. With that they began to prepare him.

"Ready?" She asked.

"As ready as ill ever be." With that, she put the vile of liquid into his ivy. His eyes slowly shut.

Emily left the room, and ran down to the nurses station.

"I need you to call Casey McDonald. " The receptionist said nothing. She only nodded taking in the information Emily was feeding her.

"If anyone comes for Derek Venturi, don't let them in unless their name is Casey McDonald. If I catch that you let them in, there won't be a spot on my staff for you." Emily turned and left the nurse to wallow in her anger.

End of Flashback

"Thanks Em." Emily left the room; giving the two of them privacy. Casey turned back to Derek. His face looked pale; his lips a blue red color.

"Derek, what did you get yourself into?" She said. She began stroking his brown hair, wiping it off from in front of his face. She slightly began crying.

"You know Derek." She began

"I remember, I remember it all Derek." Tears began bleeding down her face.

"I remember the proposal; us moving in together. All those days you came into the hospital room, I heard you Derek, I heard you." She cried at him. It was as if she thought he would wake up.

"I knew you were there. I need you to get better; I need you to recover from this pain. I'm going to get Emily to get you out of CIC. I'm going to stop it. I know that you'll be in a lot of pain but ill be here with you through it all." She said. She wiped her tears before getting up and walking into the hallway.

"Em?" Emily was standing outside of the door, a clipboard in her hand; a hospital intern next to her. Emily looked up to her.

"I need you to take him out of this coma." She only nodded before rushing into the room.

She pulled a vile out of the drawer in the room and injected it into his IV. Casey stood by his side, holding his hand and praying silently to herself.

"Derek." Derek began moaning. He quickly pulled his hand out of Casey's grip. He opened his eyes to see Casey standing over him.

"Case?" He said. His eyes were squinted.

"Yeah baby, it's me." Derek seemed shock at the response.

"You-you just called me baby." She laughed a little.

"I remember." He smiled before sitting up. He cried a little in pain.

"Sit back down. We don't need you to get hurt again." She said. Emily only nodded in agreement.

"I'll be right back." Casey said, slightly kissing Derek on the cheek and leaving the room. She ran down to the waiting room where Marti, George, Nora, Edwin and Lizzie were sitting.

"He's okay." She said. It seemed like they all let out a sigh of relief.

"Well im going to go and see my son." George got up from his seat. From behind Emily spoke up.

"I'm sorry George, I cant let you see him." George looked at Casey and then at Emily; his expression went from being worried to being angry.

"I have a right to see my son; now if you excuse me, I am going to go and see him."

"George, she said you can't go in." Casey spoke up. George looked at her. Before anyone could say anything George slapped Casey, his hand coming in contact with her face.

"You will not say anything to me. This is your fault." Casey looked at him in confusion. Tears slowly dripped out of her eyes.

"George!" Emily yelled. None of the family members said anything. They all seemed shocked at the sudden change of attitude.

Casey didn't say anything. She just walked back to the hospital room, away from them, the only place they were forbidden to come to.

Two police officers were standing around Derek, a notebook in one mans hand, a radio in anothers.

"Whats going on here?" She said. All three men looked at her.

"We're here to ask Mr. Venturi a few questions."

A/N I know, I know George is OOC. O well. I needed someone to be the bad guy. Anyways. REVIEW EVEN IF YOU ARE ANONYMOUS!

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