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"Let me through! I'm her boyfriend!" I hear a voice shout. Jack's voice. My eyes flicker open slowly and blinding light is all I can see. I try to open my mouth to say something but nothing comes out and my throat feels dry. Hoping to make an advance on my previous attempt at talking, I swallow and wince a tiny bit.
"J-Jack..." I wheeze. The people crowding around me all look down into my eyes.
"She's awake," I hear one person to my right say. I try to sit up but a searing pain shoots through my right arm and I fall back down onto... wait, what am I on?
I open my eyes a little further. The first thing I notice is the ceiling, panel after panel of cream foam it looks like with small grey worm-like patterns on it. I take a moment to notice the people crowding around me. The people are all wearing light blue shirts except one man who is dressed in white and has a stethoscope hung around his neck.
"Jack...?" I wheeze again, looking from person to person. No one answers me but I can still hear the calls from Jack slowly getting softer.
"Don't talk miss..." One of the people tells me. My head snaps from side to side as the people pick up a conversation about something and I finally realise where I am.
Hospital.
My eyes open suddenly and more light flashes into my eyes, I gasp slowly as I wince from trying to pull my right hand up to shield my eyes. I give up and close my eyes again but someone must have noticed my small movement because within a few seconds, a person stands by my side, blocking the sun for me. I look up to see green eyes and messy brown hair.
"Belle?" He whispers, taking hold of my hand. I wince slightly and he releases my hand but I shake my head and wrap a finger around one of his. Jack pulls up a chair and sits next to me.
"Jack." I mutter, my voice slowly finding its way out.
"Are you okay? What's wrong?" Jack says and holds my hand fully again.
"Why am I here?" I croak, gulping as my throat still hurts.
"Y-You... They... Eppie s-shot you," He stutters, his voice cracks slightly and he takes a deep breath, looking down into his hands. My mouth falls open and I'm at a loss for words, my mouth twitching. "Belle, do you need something?" He asks, panic in his voice.
"W-water," I gasp quietly. "Water." I say a bit louder, making sure Jack hears me. He gets up quickly and spins around in a circle before realising there's no water in the room and he jogs out the door to find some.
Jack strides back into the room a few minutes later holding a jug of water and two cups on a tray and sets them down beside me. Before pouring me a glass, he pulls the curtain shut and I make a mental note to thank him for that later. He pours some water into one of the cups and hands it to me. I hold my head up slightly to drink and end up finishing the cup within a couple of seconds.
"Thank you." I say to Jack, my throat being soothed slightly by the water. Jack just nods and takes the cup back from me and putting it on the tray again. "What happened?" I ask, feeling my eyelids droop.
"Everyone's out, Bella. Eppie was shot back after he..." Jack pauses and gulps. "After he shot you. Wyatt and Marty surrendered to the police and Pere-I mean, Stephen was reunited with his wife and children."
"They shot Eppie?" I groan as a pain goes through my arm. Jack leans next to me and presses a button next to my head and my arm doesn't hurt anymore. I don't know what he did exactly but it helps.
"Yeah, I don't know what happened after that. I was all confused and you were... Losing a lot of blood," Jack looks down at his hands again. "You're going to be fine, the doctors say nothing major, just that you have to stay in here for a while until it gets better and you can't write down things for a while either, good thing I'm here."
