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The next morning Kaci woke early in hope of no one else being awake yet, she got out bed and went down to the student union already fully dressed. "Can I get a coffee?" She asks the guy behind the counter
"Have a bad breakup?" The guys asks
"Excuse me?"
"Did you have a bad breakup?" The guy repeated
"No not really but your not far off" Kaci says paying him and takes a seat facing away from the counter.
"Hey you look as depressed of the girl that just came here" The guy comments as Shawn appears in the union.
"Yea…can I get a coffee? To go"
"Sure, here ya go"
"Thanks" Shawn answers and turns as he does he spots Kaci, he takes a step forward then walks away.
Kaci gets up a few minutes later and goes to get more coffee
"Back already? By the way I'm Joel"
"Kaci. Yea I need it the coffee I mean" She answers
"Nice to meet you, but go easy on that stuff I've seen it do some crazy things to people" He jokes
"I'll bet, well maybe I'll see you around" Kaci turns away
"Hey Kaci, whatever is bothering you….it will eventually subside."
Kaci smiles and nods then leaves.
Back in the hallway to her room, Kaci is walking not really paying attention to where she is going as she runs into someone. "Oh! I'm so sorry, I wasn't watching, my head is…not here today."
"Don't worry about it" Shawn grumbles
"Shawn!?! Oh I-"
"I got to go" Shawn says abruptly brushing past her to the elevators
Kaci turns to go into her room, then walks across the hall and goes into Cory's room.
"Cory!" She says loudly
"Five more minutes" Cory mumbles
"Cory please wake up." Kaci pleads
"What? I'm awake I'm awake" Cory sits up "How'd you get in here."
"The door was open, I need to talk to you. I keep telling Jack and everyone it's ok, I'm ok. But I'm not, I came in here and broke up Jack and Rachel, I broke Shawn's heart and I ruined a family. Jack was all Shawn had. How could I have done that?"
"Look it wasn't your fault"
"Not my fault of course it was. Shawn wont even look at me, I'm sure Jack deep down wishes he never had done this. And well-" She looks down "I was up all night, thinking- maybe I should just leave. I thought about this before but Jack convinced me not to, but I think it may be best."
"No, don't do that, how could that make it better?"
"I- I don't know, I need to take a walk, if I'm late to Feeny's class tell him I'm sorry"
"Wait-"
"Please Cory?"
Cory sighs "Fine"
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Two hours later the group is inside Mr. Feeny's classroom waiting for class to begin.
"Good Morning class" Mr. Feeny walks in and takes notice in Kaci's absence.
"Kaci said she might be late, she went to take care of something" Cory tells Feeny
"Thank you Mr. Mattews now class please open-"
The door swings open and Eric rushes in "Mr. Feeny can I talk to you a minute?" He says worriedly
"Eric I'm in a class"
"I know but it's really important"
"Very well" Mr. Feeny follows Eric outside. The class murmurs among themselves wondering what it may be. An uneasy feeling sets over Jack.
"Class I'm Mrs. Jacobs I teach next door. Mr. Feeny had to take care of something of urgent nature. I may be taking over for tomorrow also. Please open your independent reading books and read for the remainder of class" Mrs. Jacobs says
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"Hello is there a Kaci Wood here?" Mr. Feeny asks
"Are you family?" The immediate response came
"Yes" Mr. Feeny answers
"Relation?"
"Grandfather"
"The doctor will be with you shortly" The nurse says getting up.
"Eric do you know anything that has happened?"
"No I was walking in the street and there was this huge car wreck like three cars and they were putting bodies into ambulances and some girl came over crying saying that Kaci was there. I didn't know what do to, cause they wouldn't tell me anything cause I'm not family, so I got you."
"Well done, Mr. Matthews, well done you were very smart, in handling this situation."
"Excuse me are you Kaci's grandfather?" A doctor interrupts them
"Yea, George Feeny" Mr. Feeny introduces himself "How's Kaci?"
"We don't know yet, apparently as quoted from some witnesses the driver offered Kaci a ride he was going to drive her home I believe to visit her folks, the driver dashed around the corner far to quickly and crashed head-on into a car and then another car hit them from the back. The driver of Kaci's car was apparently drunk. She's not awake as of yet there doesn't seem to be any spinal injuries time will tell all though, she's in critical condition at the moment, you can see her later." The doctor says apologetically
"Well I thank you for taking such good care of her. Eric please stay here with Kaci, I'll be back shortly" Mr. Feeny says
"Yes, sir" Eric says taking a seat in the waiting room.
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Back at the school
"Mr. Feeny!" Cory asks when Mr. Feeny walked into the room, right before the class was dismissed.
"Cory, Topanga, Jack, Shawn and Rachel stay behind" Mr. Feeny says in a serious tone
"The rest of you leave in a quick and orderly fashion"
The class files out leaving the 5 of them remaining.
"Sit down all of you, there's been an accident. Kaci is in critical condition, we don't know any details as of yet, Eric is still there." Mr. Feeny says
"What- happened?" Jack asks shocked
"Kaci was offered a ride, the driver was drunk and they got into a three car accident. She was going home apparently"
"Home?" Cory asks "I knew I should of stopped her this morning! I can't believe I didn't"
"I didn't even say anything to her last time I saw her, I just brushed her off" Shawn says quietly
"Wrong. You said don't worry about it and that you had to go. Nice choice of words there" Cory cuts in angrily
"Hey this is none of your faults, I should never of left her alone" Jack says getting up.
"I could of been nicer" Shawn says facing Jack standing up
"Damn straight you could of, none of this was her fault and she keeps getting the worse end of it." Jack says through gritted teeth
"Don't even, you two both broke my heart your supposed to be family" Shawn yells
"Don't even start if you were family you would understand" Jack shouts getting in Shawn's face.
"Just try me Jack" Shawn challenges and he receives a blow to his face.
"Jack! Shawn! Stop!" Topanga screams
"Guys, guys! Stop" Cory grabs Shawn in vain and falls to the ground.
Mr. Feeny allows them to fight a while longer and then says quite loudly "If you both are done, Kaci needs to be attended to"
Jack and Shawn stop, Jack's lip is bleeding and his skin near his eye is turning a blackish color. Shawn's nose is bleeding and his face is pretty bruised as well.
"Let's go" Mr. Feeny says leaving the room.
Topanga hurries to catch Mr. Feeny "I don't get why you let them fight like that"
"Perhaps it was for the best, both of them had so much anger, they needed to express it in some way."
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"Mr. Feeny!" Eric jumps up when the group enters the hospital waiting room.
"How is she?" Mr. Feeny asks
"No change. The doctors are getting scared now, I heard them saying that this could end up being murder for the driver, if she dies"
"Well let us not think like that" Mr. Feeny consoles him
"I can't believe this" Jack sits down with his face in his hands
"Jack, she'll pull through" Cory assures him
"Yea, she's strong" Topanga adds
"They're right" Rachel adds "I really hope she is OK and I really think she will be"
"George Feeny?"
"Yes?" Mr. Feeny stands up
"Please come with us" The nurse signals to him
"What's wrong?" Mr. Feeny asks the doctor
"We had to perform emergency surgery, she had internal bleeding from the impact of the crash, she has three broken ribs and she has suffered a concussion, she was awake for a moment before and slipped out of it, she sank into a coma, we don't know if she will be able to pull out of it, because of the extent of her injuries, the best thing to do now would be to call her parents." The doctor informs him
"We just did, they're coming now, they should be here within the hour." Mr. Feeny answers
"What do we do now?"
"We can do nothing medically, we can only wait and hope for the best"
With a heavy heart Mr. Feeny walks back into the waiting room to explain the situation.
An hour later Jamie and Hank Wood burst through the doors hysterical. "Where is she?" Jamie cries
"They wont allow us to see her yet" Mr. Feeny answers
"Thank you so much for being here. And posing as her grandfather, if not for you we would have not known." Hank says shaking Mr. Feeny's hand.
"Don't thank me, I did exactly what I felt was needed to be done." Mr. Feeny says
"Are you the parents of Kaci?" A doctor walks in.
"Yes" Jamie says timidly
"Please come now with me" The words cut into everyone's hearts "We may have a problem"
Jamie and Hank disappear behind a set of doors.
"Your daughter has suffered fatal injuries, the surgery we performed before has not helped, we have one more chance to perform a more extensive and more risky surgery which the outcome may save your daughters life. It's up to you"
"Do it, do anything you can" Hank responds immediately
"Very well" The doctor answers
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Three hours later the doctor appears through the same doors he had disappeared into ages before it seemed.
Everyone stood up, wondering what news would come from his mouth "The surgery was successful, the bleeding has stopped." The doctor broke into a smile.
"Thank God" Jamie cries leaning onto Hank.
"Can we see her?" Hank asks
"Immediate family only" The doctor says
"Thank you, come on Hank, Jack, George." Jamie says
"Kaci?" Jamie asks rushing over to the bed
"Mom? Ohh I feel so empty and icky" Kaci groans
"You'll be fine honey" Hank promises
"That's what the nurse said" Kaci smiles "Hey Mr. Feeny, Jack…." She mumbles sleepily
"Sleep now, talk later" Mr. Feeny says
"Yea….." Kaci says already falling back asleep.
"She's ok, she was awake for a minute, she talked and everything" Jack bursts through the doors into the waiting room.
Topanga breathed a sigh of relief and gives Cory a hug. Rachel looks relieved and gives Jack and awkward hug.
"Look, man I'm sorry, I took you for granted, I never realized I could lose someone I cared about so much until this-" Shawn says to Jack
"I'm sorry too"
"I shouldn't of said all that stuff, you're my brother and I know you really do love Kaci, and while it may take a while to get used to, I will in time if you let me" Shawn says
"Yea, same goes for me" Rachel smiles
"Of course I will" Jack says happily
"I'm happy everyone is all friends again" Cory whispers to Topanga
"Yea, it's just to bad it took a tragedy to bring us all together." Topanga says
"Yea, but it had a happy ending" Eric adds
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Two weeks later.
"Honey I just don't know if we should leave already, or maybe we should bring her home with us-" Jamie says
"Jamie, Kaci is fine now, she can move around and has all these wonderful people to take care of her." Hank assures her
"Yes, Mrs. Wood I'll keep and eye on her" Jack smiles
"I know you will" Jamie sighs "OK well she would be angry if we tried to bring her back anyway"
"Right, so come on let's say our good-byes and get going" Hank says
"OK" Jamie agrees
An hour later with the help of Jack, Kaci makes her way back into her dorm room.
"It feels so good to be back here" Kaci smiles brightly
"You know I was so scared I would never see that smile again" Jack says
"I was never going to go anywhere, I should never of tried to run from my problems it just causes bigger problems, I wont ever again"
"Good cause I never want anything to ever happen to you again" Jack replies
"I'm so happy everyone is friends again." Kaci says thoughtfully
"I am too" Jack says giving her a kiss
"Mm I missed that too, you know" Kaci giggles
"Good" Jack laughs leaning in for another kiss.
"We can't leave them alone for two minutes" Shawn laughs walking into the room
"I don't know what we'll do with them" Rachel agrees jokingly
"We could make them pay for dinner tonight" Cory suggests
"Sounds good to me" Topanga laughs
Kaci smiles happily at the scene.
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The next morning Kaci woke early in hope of no one else being awake yet, she got out bed and went down to the student union already fully dressed. "Can I get a coffee?" She asks the guy behind the counter
"Have a bad breakup?" The guys asks
"Excuse me?"
"Did you have a bad breakup?" The guy repeated
"No not really but your not far off" Kaci says paying him and takes a seat facing away from the counter.
"Hey you look as depressed of the girl that just came here" The guy comments as Shawn appears in the union.
"Yea…can I get a coffee? To go"
"Sure, here ya go"
"Thanks" Shawn answers and turns as he does he spots Kaci, he takes a step forward then walks away.
Kaci gets up a few minutes later and goes to get more coffee
"Back already? By the way I'm Joel"
"Kaci. Yea I need it the coffee I mean" She answers
"Nice to meet you, but go easy on that stuff I've seen it do some crazy things to people" He jokes
"I'll bet, well maybe I'll see you around" Kaci turns away
"Hey Kaci, whatever is bothering you….it will eventually subside."
Kaci smiles and nods then leaves.
Back in the hallway to her room, Kaci is walking not really paying attention to where she is going as she runs into someone. "Oh! I'm so sorry, I wasn't watching, my head is…not here today."
"Don't worry about it" Shawn grumbles
"Shawn!?! Oh I-"
"I got to go" Shawn says abruptly brushing past her to the elevators
Kaci turns to go into her room, then walks across the hall and goes into Cory's room.
"Cory!" She says loudly
"Five more minutes" Cory mumbles
"Cory please wake up." Kaci pleads
"What? I'm awake I'm awake" Cory sits up "How'd you get in here."
"The door was open, I need to talk to you. I keep telling Jack and everyone it's ok, I'm ok. But I'm not, I came in here and broke up Jack and Rachel, I broke Shawn's heart and I ruined a family. Jack was all Shawn had. How could I have done that?"
"Look it wasn't your fault"
"Not my fault of course it was. Shawn wont even look at me, I'm sure Jack deep down wishes he never had done this. And well-" She looks down "I was up all night, thinking- maybe I should just leave. I thought about this before but Jack convinced me not to, but I think it may be best."
"No, don't do that, how could that make it better?"
"I- I don't know, I need to take a walk, if I'm late to Feeny's class tell him I'm sorry"
"Wait-"
"Please Cory?"
Cory sighs "Fine"
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Two hours later the group is inside Mr. Feeny's classroom waiting for class to begin.
"Good Morning class" Mr. Feeny walks in and takes notice in Kaci's absence.
"Kaci said she might be late, she went to take care of something" Cory tells Feeny
"Thank you Mr. Mattews now class please open-"
The door swings open and Eric rushes in "Mr. Feeny can I talk to you a minute?" He says worriedly
"Eric I'm in a class"
"I know but it's really important"
"Very well" Mr. Feeny follows Eric outside. The class murmurs among themselves wondering what it may be. An uneasy feeling sets over Jack.
"Class I'm Mrs. Jacobs I teach next door. Mr. Feeny had to take care of something of urgent nature. I may be taking over for tomorrow also. Please open your independent reading books and read for the remainder of class" Mrs. Jacobs says
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"Hello is there a Kaci Wood here?" Mr. Feeny asks
"Are you family?" The immediate response came
"Yes" Mr. Feeny answers
"Relation?"
"Grandfather"
"The doctor will be with you shortly" The nurse says getting up.
"Eric do you know anything that has happened?"
"No I was walking in the street and there was this huge car wreck like three cars and they were putting bodies into ambulances and some girl came over crying saying that Kaci was there. I didn't know what do to, cause they wouldn't tell me anything cause I'm not family, so I got you."
"Well done, Mr. Matthews, well done you were very smart, in handling this situation."
"Excuse me are you Kaci's grandfather?" A doctor interrupts them
"Yea, George Feeny" Mr. Feeny introduces himself "How's Kaci?"
"We don't know yet, apparently as quoted from some witnesses the driver offered Kaci a ride he was going to drive her home I believe to visit her folks, the driver dashed around the corner far to quickly and crashed head-on into a car and then another car hit them from the back. The driver of Kaci's car was apparently drunk. She's not awake as of yet there doesn't seem to be any spinal injuries time will tell all though, she's in critical condition at the moment, you can see her later." The doctor says apologetically
"Well I thank you for taking such good care of her. Eric please stay here with Kaci, I'll be back shortly" Mr. Feeny says
"Yes, sir" Eric says taking a seat in the waiting room.
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Back at the school
"Mr. Feeny!" Cory asks when Mr. Feeny walked into the room, right before the class was dismissed.
"Cory, Topanga, Jack, Shawn and Rachel stay behind" Mr. Feeny says in a serious tone
"The rest of you leave in a quick and orderly fashion"
The class files out leaving the 5 of them remaining.
"Sit down all of you, there's been an accident. Kaci is in critical condition, we don't know any details as of yet, Eric is still there." Mr. Feeny says
"What- happened?" Jack asks shocked
"Kaci was offered a ride, the driver was drunk and they got into a three car accident. She was going home apparently"
"Home?" Cory asks "I knew I should of stopped her this morning! I can't believe I didn't"
"I didn't even say anything to her last time I saw her, I just brushed her off" Shawn says quietly
"Wrong. You said don't worry about it and that you had to go. Nice choice of words there" Cory cuts in angrily
"Hey this is none of your faults, I should never of left her alone" Jack says getting up.
"I could of been nicer" Shawn says facing Jack standing up
"Damn straight you could of, none of this was her fault and she keeps getting the worse end of it." Jack says through gritted teeth
"Don't even, you two both broke my heart your supposed to be family" Shawn yells
"Don't even start if you were family you would understand" Jack shouts getting in Shawn's face.
"Just try me Jack" Shawn challenges and he receives a blow to his face.
"Jack! Shawn! Stop!" Topanga screams
"Guys, guys! Stop" Cory grabs Shawn in vain and falls to the ground.
Mr. Feeny allows them to fight a while longer and then says quite loudly "If you both are done, Kaci needs to be attended to"
Jack and Shawn stop, Jack's lip is bleeding and his skin near his eye is turning a blackish color. Shawn's nose is bleeding and his face is pretty bruised as well.
"Let's go" Mr. Feeny says leaving the room.
Topanga hurries to catch Mr. Feeny "I don't get why you let them fight like that"
"Perhaps it was for the best, both of them had so much anger, they needed to express it in some way."
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"Mr. Feeny!" Eric jumps up when the group enters the hospital waiting room.
"How is she?" Mr. Feeny asks
"No change. The doctors are getting scared now, I heard them saying that this could end up being murder for the driver, if she dies"
"Well let us not think like that" Mr. Feeny consoles him
"I can't believe this" Jack sits down with his face in his hands
"Jack, she'll pull through" Cory assures him
"Yea, she's strong" Topanga adds
"They're right" Rachel adds "I really hope she is OK and I really think she will be"
"George Feeny?"
"Yes?" Mr. Feeny stands up
"Please come with us" The nurse signals to him
"What's wrong?" Mr. Feeny asks the doctor
"We had to perform emergency surgery, she had internal bleeding from the impact of the crash, she has three broken ribs and she has suffered a concussion, she was awake for a moment before and slipped out of it, she sank into a coma, we don't know if she will be able to pull out of it, because of the extent of her injuries, the best thing to do now would be to call her parents." The doctor informs him
"We just did, they're coming now, they should be here within the hour." Mr. Feeny answers
"What do we do now?"
"We can do nothing medically, we can only wait and hope for the best"
With a heavy heart Mr. Feeny walks back into the waiting room to explain the situation.
An hour later Jamie and Hank Wood burst through the doors hysterical. "Where is she?" Jamie cries
"They wont allow us to see her yet" Mr. Feeny answers
"Thank you so much for being here. And posing as her grandfather, if not for you we would have not known." Hank says shaking Mr. Feeny's hand.
"Don't thank me, I did exactly what I felt was needed to be done." Mr. Feeny says
"Are you the parents of Kaci?" A doctor walks in.
"Yes" Jamie says timidly
"Please come now with me" The words cut into everyone's hearts "We may have a problem"
Jamie and Hank disappear behind a set of doors.
"Your daughter has suffered fatal injuries, the surgery we performed before has not helped, we have one more chance to perform a more extensive and more risky surgery which the outcome may save your daughters life. It's up to you"
"Do it, do anything you can" Hank responds immediately
"Very well" The doctor answers
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Three hours later the doctor appears through the same doors he had disappeared into ages before it seemed.
Everyone stood up, wondering what news would come from his mouth "The surgery was successful, the bleeding has stopped." The doctor broke into a smile.
"Thank God" Jamie cries leaning onto Hank.
"Can we see her?" Hank asks
"Immediate family only" The doctor says
"Thank you, come on Hank, Jack, George." Jamie says
"Kaci?" Jamie asks rushing over to the bed
"Mom? Ohh I feel so empty and icky" Kaci groans
"You'll be fine honey" Hank promises
"That's what the nurse said" Kaci smiles "Hey Mr. Feeny, Jack…." She mumbles sleepily
"Sleep now, talk later" Mr. Feeny says
"Yea….." Kaci says already falling back asleep.
"She's ok, she was awake for a minute, she talked and everything" Jack bursts through the doors into the waiting room.
Topanga breathed a sigh of relief and gives Cory a hug. Rachel looks relieved and gives Jack and awkward hug.
"Look, man I'm sorry, I took you for granted, I never realized I could lose someone I cared about so much until this-" Shawn says to Jack
"I'm sorry too"
"I shouldn't of said all that stuff, you're my brother and I know you really do love Kaci, and while it may take a while to get used to, I will in time if you let me" Shawn says
"Yea, same goes for me" Rachel smiles
"Of course I will" Jack says happily
"I'm happy everyone is all friends again" Cory whispers to Topanga
"Yea, it's just to bad it took a tragedy to bring us all together." Topanga says
"Yea, but it had a happy ending" Eric adds
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Two weeks later.
"Honey I just don't know if we should leave already, or maybe we should bring her home with us-" Jamie says
"Jamie, Kaci is fine now, she can move around and has all these wonderful people to take care of her." Hank assures her
"Yes, Mrs. Wood I'll keep and eye on her" Jack smiles
"I know you will" Jamie sighs "OK well she would be angry if we tried to bring her back anyway"
"Right, so come on let's say our good-byes and get going" Hank says
"OK" Jamie agrees
An hour later with the help of Jack, Kaci makes her way back into her dorm room.
"It feels so good to be back here" Kaci smiles brightly
"You know I was so scared I would never see that smile again" Jack says
"I was never going to go anywhere, I should never of tried to run from my problems it just causes bigger problems, I wont ever again"
"Good cause I never want anything to ever happen to you again" Jack replies
"I'm so happy everyone is friends again." Kaci says thoughtfully
"I am too" Jack says giving her a kiss
"Mm I missed that too, you know" Kaci giggles
"Good" Jack laughs leaning in for another kiss.
"We can't leave them alone for two minutes" Shawn laughs walking into the room
"I don't know what we'll do with them" Rachel agrees jokingly
"We could make them pay for dinner tonight" Cory suggests
"Sounds good to me" Topanga laughs
Kaci smiles happily at the scene.
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