A/N: Tissue warning!
SM owns all things Twilight. Everything else is mine.
Chapter 17
"Seth!" I hear on my left from a scared and very worried Bella.
I get to the road first, but barely, and run to where Seth is lying. Bella gets to him at the same time I do. The driver of the car gets out and comes over to us.
"I am so sorry! He just came out of nowhere!" The male driver says and kneels down between Bella and me at Seth's hind legs.
"He's never just run off like this and not stopped at my voice." Bella says in-between sniffles. She wipes the tears that have spilled over off her cheek. "He's a good dog. You're a good dog, the perfect dog." She's chokes out, petting a dazed and bloodied Seth on the head where blood hasn't touched.
This can't be happening. "We have to get him to the vet… Now!" I say and scoop him up as carefully as I can. The man slips a piece of paper into my coat pocket saying to give him a call in regards to the vet bill. We make our way to Bella's truck as fast as possible without jostling him too much.
When we get there, I tell Bella to give me her keys. "You're too emotional right now to drive." She sniffles and nods as she pulls them out of her pocket before handing them over. I have her sit in the passenger seat and get Seth situated with her. I run around and jump in.
Due to the weather, it takes a little longer to get to the vet than normal. Bella tries to stay calm and talks to him the whole way. Thirty minutes from the time he was hit, we have arrived and are rushing him inside. Thankfully there's no else there with their pets. Lauren, the receptionist, gets him in a room in no time and Doctor Gerandy is in just as quickly. After telling him what happened as he's looking over our friend, it's determined that Seth needs surgery.
"He needs it now, but with each injury, you need to prepare for the worst. He has a few broken ribs and fractures in three of the four legs, but those are not life threatening. It's the bleeding from the head and his spine feels to be out of alignment. There might be too much swelling in the brain and the spinal cord might be pinched, making him basically paralyzed or, at the very least, causing severe pain."
With Bella's go ahead, we are sent to the waiting room while the good doctor does what is needed, but not before Bella kisses the dry spot on his head. I sit in one of the given chairs and pull her down onto my lap. She wraps her arms around my neck and buries her face. I just hold her tightly as she lets her sobs fill the empty room.
A/N: By the way, I don't know anything about being a vet. I'm just winging it.
