Serena clutched the phone, her knuckles white. She was frozen
straight to her heart, which had stopped seconds ago. She was struck
speechless, and the silence of her empty home rushed in to meet her. A
trail was left by the tear that had dropped from her eye.
"Miss Tsukino?"
"I... I'm here."
"Miss Tsukino, do you need someone to come get you? We'll send someone if you don't think you can drive here."
"No, no I'm fine. I'll be there soon."
"Okay, Miss Tsukino."
Serena hung up the phone and picked up her keys. She moved robotically to slip on her coat and wrap her scarf around her neck. She turned off the lights and locked the door. Nothing would seem to be different to anyone else. Inside Serena was falling to peices.
The rain matched her mood as she made her way to the hospital. The nurse's words echoed through her mind.
"Is this Miss Serena Tsukino?"
"Yes, it is."
"Miss Tsukino, I'm calling from Angels of Hope Hospital. It's about your fiance, Darien Shields."
Stop it Serena! she thought. This won't help at all. Darien is fine, he'll be just fine. Nothing is wrong.
But she knew she was lying to herself. She started to pass Oak and Green street and slowed to a crawl. A policemen was directing traffic past a wreck. Darien's wreck.
Serena saw Darien's black car twisted into an impossible pretzel. The jaws of life had been used to cut him free. She started sobbing uncontrollably. There was another car, not nearly as smashed as Darien's, sitting by the fire truck. In the back of an ambulance set it's driver, wrapped in a blanket, with no more than what Serena guessed a concussion and broken arm. He was yet to go to the hospital.
Serena was waved through and she headed ever closer to the hospital. She heard the rest of the nurse's conversation.
"He was in a car accident, and your listed in hospital records as his only family. He's in bad shape, Miss Tsukino."
"How bad?" Serena had managed.
"Very bad. I think you need to get here Miss Tsukino, and soon."
That was the point Serena had gone silent. Too shocked, too scared, and too worried to speak. She started praying as she pulled into the hospital parking lot. When she walked into the hospital she gagged. The desperation around her was too much.
"Are you Miss Tsukino?" A short nurse asked her.
Serena nodded in a hypnotic way.
The nurse put her hand on Serena's shoulder. "This way."
Serena followed her into the Intesive Care unit of the hospital. The nurse stopped by what looked like a bed attached to millions of tubes and wires. Serena could barely see Darien under it all, but she knew it was him.
"Darien," she said, her knees buckling. The nurse slipped a chair underneath her. "Oh my God. I didn't imagine anything so bad."
A doctor came in and Serena stood up to meet him.
"My name is Dr. Morrison."
Serena shook his hand and sat back down.
"Miss Tsukino, Darien is... well he might be dying."
"Dying?"
"There was severe head trauma that has left him in a coma. All of his ribs are broken, but luckily his spinal chord was untouched. It is very possible that he'll wake up and we'll be able to set his bones and heal him right up. But it is also very possible, that he never wakes up at all."
"Oh Darien!" Serena sobbed. "You can't leave me!"
Darien
Darien was lost. There had been a crash and after that black. Now he felt like he was just falling and falling. He couldn't see a thing at all.
"You can't leave me!" A voice screamed.
He looked everywhere. "Serena?! Serena where are you?"
"Don't leave Darien," Serena's voice came again in a whisper.
"I'm not leaving!" Darien yelled.
He jerked to a stop and was lying somewhere. He couldn't feel any part of his body at all. And still only black filled his vision. Then a women's face appeared, a very familiar face, yet he couldn't quite place it.
"Who are you?"
The woman smiled. Her eyes were red and sparkling and her hair was pink. A man joined her. His hair was ebony and his eyes dark blue. They smiled down at him.
"Mom?" Darien asked. And the world spun into motion.
He stopped spinning and opened his eyes.
"Finally, sleepyhead," a gentle and smooth voice said. "Were you ever going to get up?"
"Where am I?" Darien said, but his voice was not the same deep voice of a man, but a small voice of a boy. He eyed the room with light blue walls covered in pennants and pictures of his baseball heroes. He looked up at the pink-haired woman who laughed.
"You're in your room, sweetie. You better get up, or you're dad will eat all the blueberry pancakes I made."
Darien scooted out of his bed and found out he was wearing superman pajamas. He followed his mother into kitchen filled with the smell of blueberries and and sunlight. His father was sitting at the table with coffee.
"It's about time you got up, you lazy kid," he said merrily. He motioned towards a pile of pancakes. "Now whaddaya say we demolish this nice stack of pancakes you're Mom made?"
Darien smiled and jumped into his seat. He ate every single of the light feathery pancakes his mother put in front of him.
"You want to go for a drive later?" His father asked.
Darien nodded, mouth covered in syrup.
"Maybe we'll see all those horses, Darien," his mother said. She brushed back his hair. "But we've got to clean you up first."
She took him into the bathroom and helped him get all the sticky syrup from his hands and face. Then shooed him into his room to get dressed. He slipped on his blue cudoroy overalls, and red baseball t-shirt. He put on his blue baseball cap and smiled big as he scooted into his car seat.
"Are you ready?" His dad said.
"Yeah!" Darien yelled back. The car lurched into motion and the countryside starting streaking by. The trees were multi-colored golden, orange, and red. He did get to see the horses. The ones his father called thorough breeds.
"You see all the horses, Dare?"
"Yeah, mommy!"
His mother smiled and turned back around. Darien watched in horror as her face changed. Her eyes grew wide and her mouth formed an O and let out a scream.
"Watch out!"
His father grew tense and swerved. The went out of control and his mother's peircing scream filled Darien's ears. They broke through the guardrail and went over the side of the hill. When the car finally stopped falling, his mother and father's heads hit the front of the car. Glass broke and flames came from the engine.
Darien watched through the fumes as his mother and father bled.
"Mommy! Daddy!" They didn't move. Darien coughed and coughed until the blackness started to return.
"Darien!" A voice called. There was a silver light that broke through the darkness and someone warm scooped him from the car. They laid him far away from the flames and brushed his hair back.
"I'm so sorry, sweetie," a far away voice said. "We didn't want to leave you alone, but fate had it's own plans."
Darien squinted and saw long pink hair slowly vanish.
"Mommy!" he coughed. "Mommy!" And the blackness overwhelmed him again.
Author's Note: Not your average Darien-in-a-coma fic is it? I try to be original. Please review. I've got so many ideas for this fic, it's amazing!
"Miss Tsukino?"
"I... I'm here."
"Miss Tsukino, do you need someone to come get you? We'll send someone if you don't think you can drive here."
"No, no I'm fine. I'll be there soon."
"Okay, Miss Tsukino."
Serena hung up the phone and picked up her keys. She moved robotically to slip on her coat and wrap her scarf around her neck. She turned off the lights and locked the door. Nothing would seem to be different to anyone else. Inside Serena was falling to peices.
The rain matched her mood as she made her way to the hospital. The nurse's words echoed through her mind.
"Is this Miss Serena Tsukino?"
"Yes, it is."
"Miss Tsukino, I'm calling from Angels of Hope Hospital. It's about your fiance, Darien Shields."
Stop it Serena! she thought. This won't help at all. Darien is fine, he'll be just fine. Nothing is wrong.
But she knew she was lying to herself. She started to pass Oak and Green street and slowed to a crawl. A policemen was directing traffic past a wreck. Darien's wreck.
Serena saw Darien's black car twisted into an impossible pretzel. The jaws of life had been used to cut him free. She started sobbing uncontrollably. There was another car, not nearly as smashed as Darien's, sitting by the fire truck. In the back of an ambulance set it's driver, wrapped in a blanket, with no more than what Serena guessed a concussion and broken arm. He was yet to go to the hospital.
Serena was waved through and she headed ever closer to the hospital. She heard the rest of the nurse's conversation.
"He was in a car accident, and your listed in hospital records as his only family. He's in bad shape, Miss Tsukino."
"How bad?" Serena had managed.
"Very bad. I think you need to get here Miss Tsukino, and soon."
That was the point Serena had gone silent. Too shocked, too scared, and too worried to speak. She started praying as she pulled into the hospital parking lot. When she walked into the hospital she gagged. The desperation around her was too much.
"Are you Miss Tsukino?" A short nurse asked her.
Serena nodded in a hypnotic way.
The nurse put her hand on Serena's shoulder. "This way."
Serena followed her into the Intesive Care unit of the hospital. The nurse stopped by what looked like a bed attached to millions of tubes and wires. Serena could barely see Darien under it all, but she knew it was him.
"Darien," she said, her knees buckling. The nurse slipped a chair underneath her. "Oh my God. I didn't imagine anything so bad."
A doctor came in and Serena stood up to meet him.
"My name is Dr. Morrison."
Serena shook his hand and sat back down.
"Miss Tsukino, Darien is... well he might be dying."
"Dying?"
"There was severe head trauma that has left him in a coma. All of his ribs are broken, but luckily his spinal chord was untouched. It is very possible that he'll wake up and we'll be able to set his bones and heal him right up. But it is also very possible, that he never wakes up at all."
"Oh Darien!" Serena sobbed. "You can't leave me!"
Darien
Darien was lost. There had been a crash and after that black. Now he felt like he was just falling and falling. He couldn't see a thing at all.
"You can't leave me!" A voice screamed.
He looked everywhere. "Serena?! Serena where are you?"
"Don't leave Darien," Serena's voice came again in a whisper.
"I'm not leaving!" Darien yelled.
He jerked to a stop and was lying somewhere. He couldn't feel any part of his body at all. And still only black filled his vision. Then a women's face appeared, a very familiar face, yet he couldn't quite place it.
"Who are you?"
The woman smiled. Her eyes were red and sparkling and her hair was pink. A man joined her. His hair was ebony and his eyes dark blue. They smiled down at him.
"Mom?" Darien asked. And the world spun into motion.
He stopped spinning and opened his eyes.
"Finally, sleepyhead," a gentle and smooth voice said. "Were you ever going to get up?"
"Where am I?" Darien said, but his voice was not the same deep voice of a man, but a small voice of a boy. He eyed the room with light blue walls covered in pennants and pictures of his baseball heroes. He looked up at the pink-haired woman who laughed.
"You're in your room, sweetie. You better get up, or you're dad will eat all the blueberry pancakes I made."
Darien scooted out of his bed and found out he was wearing superman pajamas. He followed his mother into kitchen filled with the smell of blueberries and and sunlight. His father was sitting at the table with coffee.
"It's about time you got up, you lazy kid," he said merrily. He motioned towards a pile of pancakes. "Now whaddaya say we demolish this nice stack of pancakes you're Mom made?"
Darien smiled and jumped into his seat. He ate every single of the light feathery pancakes his mother put in front of him.
"You want to go for a drive later?" His father asked.
Darien nodded, mouth covered in syrup.
"Maybe we'll see all those horses, Darien," his mother said. She brushed back his hair. "But we've got to clean you up first."
She took him into the bathroom and helped him get all the sticky syrup from his hands and face. Then shooed him into his room to get dressed. He slipped on his blue cudoroy overalls, and red baseball t-shirt. He put on his blue baseball cap and smiled big as he scooted into his car seat.
"Are you ready?" His dad said.
"Yeah!" Darien yelled back. The car lurched into motion and the countryside starting streaking by. The trees were multi-colored golden, orange, and red. He did get to see the horses. The ones his father called thorough breeds.
"You see all the horses, Dare?"
"Yeah, mommy!"
His mother smiled and turned back around. Darien watched in horror as her face changed. Her eyes grew wide and her mouth formed an O and let out a scream.
"Watch out!"
His father grew tense and swerved. The went out of control and his mother's peircing scream filled Darien's ears. They broke through the guardrail and went over the side of the hill. When the car finally stopped falling, his mother and father's heads hit the front of the car. Glass broke and flames came from the engine.
Darien watched through the fumes as his mother and father bled.
"Mommy! Daddy!" They didn't move. Darien coughed and coughed until the blackness started to return.
"Darien!" A voice called. There was a silver light that broke through the darkness and someone warm scooped him from the car. They laid him far away from the flames and brushed his hair back.
"I'm so sorry, sweetie," a far away voice said. "We didn't want to leave you alone, but fate had it's own plans."
Darien squinted and saw long pink hair slowly vanish.
"Mommy!" he coughed. "Mommy!" And the blackness overwhelmed him again.
Author's Note: Not your average Darien-in-a-coma fic is it? I try to be original. Please review. I've got so many ideas for this fic, it's amazing!