A/N: Please bear in mind this chapter is a bit gory and has mentions of injuries and blood, definely a M rated chapter so beware.
Just Hold Me
Chapter Nine
Luke was just reaching up to get another blanket when he heard a loud thud from the next room, it sounded like something was falling so he instantly rushed to the door to speak through it.
"Lorelai are you okay, I heard something fall," he said panicking already as he had no idea if she was trapped or she had fallen. He waited a few seconds but heard no response.
"Lorelai?" Luke said again hearing nothing but silence behind the door. He threw the blankets down and rushed into the room next door looking around for what had happened and it didn't take him long to notice the woman lying on the floor in a dead faint a little way in front of him. He rushed over and kneeled next to her.
"Lorelai? Lorelai" he said shaking her to see if she was conscious. When he saw she wasn't he gently took her arm and pressed on her wrist, checking her pulse, feeling it was strong, as he checked her pulse he felt his abdomen was wet and looked down to see what was going on and stared horrified.
When he found her she still had her arms around her stomach, as that was the way she had fallen, so he had not noticed the blood, but when he had moved her arm to check for signs of life he had accidentally brushed against it, staining his top. He looked and saw her trousers were bloody and she was bleeding a lot, he saw the bleeding was getting worse as the blood dripped onto the floor.
"Oh god," he said just staring at it
He sat there for a few moments horrified, thinking this must be a horrible nightmare, then when he was back to reality he jumped up, not stopping to think why she was bleeding so much or how it had happened but rushed to the other end of the room, grabbing the phone, knowing she was in a way to bad a state to take her to hospital in his truck.
He dialled the emergency services and put the phone to his ear, cupping it with his shoulder as he rushed into the bathroom, grabbing a towel, knowing he should try to stop the blood flow.
"Hello, what is your emergency?" a woman asked as Luke got the towel and rushed back to Lorelai speaking fast.
"I need an ambulance now it's my wife she's bleeding," Luke said saying wife automatically but also cause he knew they won't let him stay with her if he doesn't, family only after all. Luke grabbed the towel wrapping it around the bottom half of her body as well as he could.
"Okay is she conscious?" the operator asked him.
"No," Luke said still fiddling with the towel
"Is she breathing?" the woman now asked
"Yes" Luke went on hating all these questions
"Okay, and where is she bleeding, did she get injured?" the woman asked trying to get as much information as possible.
"She woke up and had a pain in her side and she was cold so I went to get more blankets and heard something fall when I heard it I rushed in and found her collapsed, she's bleeding from the private area, please hurry it's not stopping," he said panicking more than ever as he saw the white towel was already filling with blood. He wasn't even sure that was where the blood was coming from but he didn't know where else it could be.
"The ambulance is already on its way, what is the address?" she asked him calmly. Luke told her.
"Okay, they should be there very soon, try to keep her in one position and not move her," the woman told her before the call cut.
"Luke" he heard a voice so quietly he almost didn't hear it. He looked up and saw she had her eyes closed, he wasn't sure if he had dreamed it or not.
"Luke...Luke..." she said again this time telling him she was awake, she half-opened her blue eyes, too weak to open them fully.
"I am here," he said grabbing her hand gently and holding it "Try not to talk," Luke said. If this had been any other time saying them words to Lorelai Gilmore would be enough to make him fall about laughing, but this situation was too serious to do that.
She closed her eyes again and started making a low soft groaning noise from the back of her throat, Luke though of course having been in a relationship with her could tell she wasn't making it through pleasure but from pain.
"I know, I know you are in pain, don't worry help is on its way," Luke told her stroking her cheek before jumping up to grab another towel as the other one was filling with blood. As he did so he heard sirens and rushed to the window to see the paramedics, he rushed to the top of the stairs shouting at the paramedics to come up. A woman and a man rushed up. Luke was just grateful it was such a funny time as they had arrived within eight minutes. The woman got in first and rushed to Lorelai, the woman started to tend to her straight away as the man started asking questions.
"Name and age?" the man asked. Luke tried to keep his vision anywhere but at Lorelai as she was checked out.
"Lorelai Victoria Gilmore-Danes, 38," he told the man with a gulp
"And has she been injured or hurt in any way that you know?" the man now asked
"No, she has been fine...I don't know what could have happened" Luke said seeing the woman was cutting off her trousers and looking at a spot on the wall.
"Bleeding is persistent, we need to get her in," the woman said as they lifted her onto a stretcher, putting the towel back under her and rushing out the door. Luke followed then.
"Please let me come, she's my wife" Luke lied but knowing he couldn't let her go alone.
"Okay sit down," the woman said as he got in the ambulance next to her, he grabbed her hand, feeling sick with worry in a way he never had before especially as he could tell her pulse was not as strong as before.