*Will is in the hosptal
*JJ & Jack grasp onto a tiny
bit of hope
* Luke goes to Roxanne
"What happened" Helen asked running out of the house. "It's Will" JJ answered "He was struck by a car" ."What" Helen asked horrified "My baby. Where`s my baby". She looked around till she saw Will`s crumbled up body laying seconds away from the front of a small red car. "Will"She screamed running towards Jack,Will, The man driing the car, & Meg. "Helen, stay back" Jack warned. "I want to see me son" She cried. "JJ call 991. Tell them to get over here ASAP" Jack ordered. When JJ just stood looking shocked at his baby brother Jack yelled "NOW". JJ woke up and ran into the house "What wrong JJ" Patty asked walking down the stairs. JJ igorned her her and dailed the phone "Yes, my brother was just hit by a car. Can you get a ambulance over here. Rose street, house 13. Please hurry" he said into the phone. "What" Patty asked "Will". She fainted onto the hard brown floor. JJ picked her up and brung her up into her & Meg`s room. He put her ontop of her bed and rushed down the stairs. When he arrived out side Will hadn`t been moved and His mother was pacing the sidewalk, His father was talking to the man, & Meg was sitting beside Will stroking his head. He ran over to his mother "mom, don`t worry. There on there way. He will be fine" He said. Helen looked at her son "Thank you" she said. "Will is strong" JJ answered. Minutes later they heard the ambulance coming. Finally it came into sight. Jack waved his arms "over here". They all stood in silence as Will was loaded into the ambulance. "I want to go with him" Helen said. "i don't know" Jack said thinking it over "if you want you husband can come along to" The Ambulance driver commented "But we have to get going". "Jack" Helen asked. "JJ watch your sisters" Jack answered helping Helen into the back of the truck. "Sure" JJ answered. The he remembered Patty "Come on Meg" he said helping her up from her seat on the side walk. "Phone" Meg yelled as they pulled away. "JJ" Meg said before bursting into tears. "Come on Meg. He'll be fine" JJ said hugging his sister. He felt meg shaking inside his arms. "Come in side. Patty fainted, and i forgot about her when i came back outside" JJ told Meg. "patty" Meg asked alarmed "Is she okay". "She was just shocked" JJ explained. So him and Meg went inside. When they went up to check on Patty she was awake and sitting beside her window. When they walked inside the room Patty never looked at them. She kept staring outside "Patty are you okay" Meg asked gently. Patty never answered. "Pat a cake" JJ asked using her baby nickname "Talk to us". She looked up at them, and they saw her face was totally tear stained "is....he......is...he dead" she asked shivering "Of course not" JJ answered rushing towards her. he hugged her close, just as he had done to Meg moments ago. "Will won`t die. I promise you" he promised. "I just hope i can keep this promise" he though.
L8ter that night
Patty lay asleep on the couch. Roxanne sat beside Meg (Roxanne is staying over for the night) comforting her, & JJ sat at the kitchen table with Alison "It`s my fault" JJ admitted "i should have been watching him". "JJ you only turned your head for a second" Alison said hugging him. "Yah and because of that second Will Maybe dead. Why haven`t they called" he asked banging his hand on the table & jumping up. Meg & Roxanne looked up. Alison noted that Meg`s face was red as a beet "JJ sit down" She warned. "Alison what if i killed my own brother" he whispered sitting back down. "JJ........"Alison started but the phone cut her off. Meg & JJ ran towards the phone. "Dad" JJ asked reaching the phone frist. "Son" he said sadly. "What happened, is he alright, what`s going on.." he asked in a rush. "Well.." he started "Will just went into surgery".. "WHAT" JJ screamed into the phone. "What" Meg asked in a panick. Alison, Roxanne & now very much awake Patty ran into the hall "What has happened" Ali asked. JJ pretended not to hear them "Why dad" he asked "Why surgery". "Surgery" Meg asked horrifed. Roxanne ran to her and hugged her tight. Alison pulled {atty close to her side "If they don`t Will could be paralyzed for life" Jack answered sadly "Your mother & I won`t be home tonight so watch your sisters, & tell them everything. We will call when he gets out". "Bye Dad" JJ said in a daze. he hung up the phone and looked at the girls "Will could be paralyzed for life" he said putting his head down "His in surgery now". "NO" Patty howled "Not Will". "No God please" Meg prayed."I am so sorry" Alison said walking over to her boyfriend and hugging him.
~the next day~
"Jack Pryor" Mrs.Smallwood
asked standing in front of the class for roll call.No answer. "Jack
Pryor"
"He isn't here" A voice said.
"one of his siblings was hit by a car" Another voice said. That caught
Luke's attention. Meg was JJ`s sibling, could she have been. No not
Meg, but what if it was. It had to be serios if JJ wasn`t in school. Meg,
not Meg. Please don`t be Meg" he prayed. "Roxanne will know.
I have to get down to see her" he though. "Mrs. Smallwood. I need
to go to the bathroom" Luke asked standing up. "Go ahead Luke. Today
we will learn about........" She answered as Luke left the room. he
fastly ran down to Mrs. Grace`s 10th grade class room. he knocked on the
door. Mrs. Grace opened the door "Yes Luke , what may i do for
you" she asked. "Can I see Roxanne Debouja" Luke asked. "She
isn`t here today" Mrs. Grace answered. Luke`s heart skipped a beat
"Then
i guess Meg Pryor wouldn`t be in, either would she". "No she isn`t i am
sorry". "That`s okay" Luke said running down the hall. He had to get
to Meg.
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Will ran after the dog. It felt so good to run with out his brace. He wondered why he could run without it. But when the puppy darted his way he forgot about it."This is fun" he said falling to the ground.
~*~*~"We are loseing him" the doctor yelled. "Please Will, come back" Jack prayed outside the room~*~*~
"But I wish JJ or Dad were here to see me run". "But i am here son".Will looked up to see his father walk towards him "Dad" Will yelled running to his father. "Willy boy you got to come back to us" His father informed him "Put Dad i can run here. I am normal, just like JJ , I can run, I can play football" Will explained."Please son come back to us" His father asked agian.Before Wll could responded his father was gone. Will sat down on a patch of grass and though.
"JJ, when will they call" Meg asked leaning against her brother. JJ rubbed his sisters head "I don`t know, Meggie" JJ said calling her, her childhood nickname. "But J, what if....what could happen...he could" she mumbled on. "Don`t talk like that" JJ ordered his sister "Don`t ever talk like that".
Luke banged on Roxanne`s door "Roxanne, it`s Luke open up" he yelled. After what seemed like years the door swung open "Geez ba, whatta trying to do. Know down my door" Roxanne laughed. "How can you laugh at a time like this" Luke asked in disbelief. Suddenly Roxanne`s face turned serious "Thanks Luke, I had just forgotten about it after like hours of worrying" she said whipping away a tear. "Yah" she sniffled. "Ohmigod Meg" he said pacing in front of the door. "Yah she took it horrible. I stayed with her all night" Roxanne told him. "You saw her" Luke asked. "Well yah. When she phoned I rushed over" she said leaning against the door frame. 'She phoned you" Luke asked suprised "I though she was dead". "DEAD" Roxannne exclaimed "Will was hit by the car, not her"."Will" Luke asked "I though....". Luke mumbled on while he ran from Roxanne building. "He though she was dead" Roxanne said shakeing her head "If Meg was dead i dunno what I would do".
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"Please God, Save my son"
Helen prayed sitting down in the hospital chapel "I don't what we will
do without my baby". She took out a tissue and ran it over her wet
cheeks "Will is only a baby, he has got to live through this". She
looked up at the statue of Mary "You took Megan when she was 10, why"
she asked "Why. How could you take my sister. She was my hero, you
destroyed my life" Helen cried remembering the small blond. "She
was just like Meg, Meg could have been her twin when she was that age"
she said picturing her daughter at the tender age of 10 "Pease, Megan
save my son" she begged.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*flash
back~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Helen honey, your sister was in an accident" her father said sitting across from a 7 year old Helen sitting on her bed swinging her short legs. She sat and blowed a bubble with her grape gum. She blocked her father out and remember how Megan had gave her the gum when she had left to go to Jessica`s party "Here Helly, you can have my last pieace of gum. you dersrive it for getting a 100 on your test" her sister smiled and ran out to the car. Leaveing a little Helen awe struck. She was never aloud to have gum. She watched as her big sister twriled on the pavement, her new party dress swishing in the wind. Helen watched as she stopped and looked up at her "Helly, you gave try it on when i get back". Helen was so excited about trying on the pretty pink dress. "Helen, Helen are you listing" her father asked. "What did you say Daddy" Helen asked twisting her long blond braid. "I said, sweet heart. Megan was in a accident. She was hit by a drunk driver walking home from Katie`s party. Do you understand what I am saying" her asked. She shook her head 'no' "Where is Meggie" she asked. "Hon, Megan won`t be comeing home. She is gone to heaven" her father said fighting back tears. "Why?" Helen asked alarmed "Was I bad". "NO" her father answered hugging her close "Sweetie you were perfect. But Meggie was hurting and now she is safe and happy".
Helen sat perfectly still. She sat in a big pew with her father & mother. She watched as her sister`s body was closed into a coffin. "Daddy why are they closing the box, Meggie will die" she asked. "On hun she is already is" Helen`s mother said putting her youngest daughter on her lap. "No Daddy said she was gone to heaven" Helen explained. "He was right. Meggie is in heaven but her body is here" Helen`s mother said trying not to break down. "No, I won`t let them bury her" she cried jumping out of her mothers arms "Helen" her mother and father cried. But she ran to the front of the church. She felt tears spill over her face."Meggie, i am coming" she cried. She came to a dead stop in front of the casket. She saw Megan laying there in a long white flowing dress & white flowers in her long blond curly hair. "Meggie is an angel" she exclaimed. She had forgotten all her attempted ideas to save Megan. She soon felt her father pick her up and walked back to there pew "I love you Meggie" she called to her sister.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* end flash
back~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"hey hun" she heard Jack come
in. When he saw her face he new his theory was true. She had been thinking
about Megan. "Honey, Will, will make it" he said hugging her tight.
"He
has two. By baby boy cannot die".