Chapter 35

Frank, Martha, Sami, Eric, Greta, Carrie, Caroline, Shawn, Maggie, Mickey, Laura, Alice, and Hope are all at the hospital waiting on news of the condition of John and Marlena. Lexie is watching Belle, Brady and the twins at the Carver house. Abe, Roman and Bo are still at the Black's residence; going over the crime scene. Frank and Martha promised Lexie that they would call her and let her know when they knew something of John and Marlena's condition so she could tell the kids. The entire group is distraught and worried sick about John and Marlena.

Meanwhile in the operating room...

John and Marlena are both being operated on to remove the bullets that hit them. Marlena is in worse shape than John. She has some internal bleeding that the surgeons can't seem to get under control. They are afraid she's not going to make it. Unfortuately, the bullet hit some major organs and they will have to be replaced or removed. She can't have anymore children, either because the one bullet caused so much internal damage.

John faired a little better, the bullet just seemed to get lodged inside his skin but didn't get all the way in his body. The surgeons removed the bullet and sewed him back up. He had a blood transfusion to replace all the lost blood.

While the surgeons operate on Marlena, she flatlines.

"Come on, Marlena. You can't die now, you have your children to think about. They need you. Please come back to us." Mike tells Marlena as he tries to help revive her.

"Charge it again." Mike tells the nurse.

As they are doing this Marlena has an out of body experience.

Marlena looks at where she is and can't believe it.

"Where am I?" She asks herself.

She looks around at the beautiful scenery around her.

"Am I in heaven?"

"Marlena?"

Marlena turns toward the voice saying her name. She sees who it is and she can't believe it.

"Isabella?"

"Yes, it's me. I am here to tell you that it's not your time yet. Your children need you. Brady lost me, he can't lose you too. He needs a mother."

"Oh, my children. My babies. I don't want to leave them. I don't want to leave Brady without a mother."

"No. You can't Marlena. I just want to thank you for raising my little boy and loving him so much."

"I love that little boy, Isabella. It's been wonderful raising him. He is a wonderful boy."

"I know. I am always watching him from up here. There are a couple of other people who want to say hi to you that you haven't seen in a long time."

Marlena gives Isabella a questioning look.

"Oh? Who?"

"Come on out you two." Isabella says.

A blond haired woman who resembled Marlena and an adorable, sweet little boy came from out of nowhere and approached Marlena and Isabella.

"Hello, Marlena."

"Sam?"

"Yes, sis. It's me."

"Oh, my gosh. I can't believe it!"

Marlena grabs her twin sister and hugs her tight. Samantha hugs her back as they both cry.

"I have missed you so much, Sam. You have no idea."

They pull out of the hug.

"Yes, I do Marlena. I watch you all the time and I am so proud of you."

Marlena just looks at her twin sister with tears in her eyes. The little boy tugs on Samantha's arm.

"Aunt Sam? Is this my momma?"

After hearing this Marlena looks down at the little boy.

"DJ?"

DJ looks up at Marlena; his eyes full of wonderment and questions.

"Are you my momma?"

Marlena chokes up.

"Yes I am your mama. You are so beautiful."

As she says this she picks him up and squeezes him so hard. DJ wraps his arms around Marlena's neck.

"I can't believe it, my boy."

Then Isabella speaks up.

"Marlena, it's time for you to go back now. I will take good care of DJ, just like you are taking good care of Brady. I think it's an even trade. Don't worry about a thing."

Marlena sets DJ down as she continues crying.

"Thank you Isabella for taking care of DJ and Sam and DJ, I will always love you."

They wave at her as she comes out of the out of body experience and the surgeons are able to stabilize her.

"Thank God, we got her back." Mike says.

Marlena is still not out of the woods yet.

John is already in recovery but is in a coma from all the blood loss.

Meanwhile in the waiting room...

The other surgeon who worked on John comes out to talk to everyone.

Martha sees him and approaches him.

"Doctor, how are my daughter and son-in-law?"

"Call me Dr. Harris. Dr. Horton is operating on your daughter as we speak so I will have him tell you when he comes out. Now as for your son-in-law, he was lucky. The bullet got lodged in his skin and didn't get inside his body. He lost a lot of blood and we are transfusing him as we speak. We were able to get the bullet out with no problem. Right now he is in recovery but in a coma. If you want to go see him you can, but only one person at a time for now."

"Thank you, doctor."

"No problem."

They all take turns seeing John in recovery, glad that he is doing good but still worried sick about Marlena.

Martha decides to go call Lexie and let her know what is going on.

Meanwhile at the Carver's...

The twins are screaming up a storm missing their mom terribly. Belle and Brady are both sad and all they have been doing is laying on the couch curled up in a little ball, crying. They are so worried about their parents.

(ring)

Lexie runs to the phone and picks it up on the second ring.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Lexie. It's Martha. I am just calling you to let you know what's going on."

"Hi, Martha. How are John and Marlena doing?"

"Well, John is out of surgery and is in recovery. The bullet just got lodged in his skin. The surgeons were able to get it out. He lost a lot of blood though and is in a coma now. The doctors are saying that he should be okay as long as they continue to tranfuse blood."

"That's good news. What about Marlena?"

"I don't know anything yet. Mike hasn't came out and told us anything yet so I assume she's still in surgery. I just hope she's okay. I don't want to lose another daughter."

"I understand, Martha. I will be praying for them both and please call me the minute you find out anything else okay?"

"Sure. I will talk to you later."

"Yeah. Bye."

Martha goes back to where everyone is still taking turns seeing John and waiting on news of Marlena's condition.

Let's hope Marlena makes it...

Chapter 36 coming soon...Will Marlena make it? Stay tuned!