CHAPTER 24: Hospital

"Oh my God... Nic?" Chris said quietly. He brought his shaking hand up to her face. He let his hand carefully grace her cheek. He winced, feeling his hand go over the cuts she had on her face. "I got to get you to a hospital." He told himself. He focused his attention on her head, examining the huge cut on the top of it. He could tell someone had purposely hit her with some sort of blunt object.

He jumped when his cell phone rang. Out of reflex, he went to grab it, but then thought otherwise. Scooping Nicole up carefully in his arms, Chris carried her to his car, placing her in the backseat. He got in the front and sped off towards the hospital.

*~*~*~*~*

"Jeff!" Matt yelled, running into the hospital, Amy on his heels. Adam and Jay jumped up at the voices, meeting Matt and Amy.

"Hey guys." Jay greeted solemnly.

"How is he?" Amy asked quietly.

Adam shook his head. "We don't know, we're waiting for the doctors to tell us something. But, they wouldn't cuz we aren't family."

"Well I'm family, they better tell me." Matt said, walking to the front desk.

A young blonde woman smiled up at him. "Can I help you?"

Matt nodded. "My little brother was brought in here."

"And what's his name?" The woman asked.

"Jeff Hardy." Matt replied.

The woman gasped. "And your Matt Hardy?" Matt nodded and rolled his eyes.

"Wow, I'm a huge fan of you and your brother!" She squealed. "Why are you here?"

Matt sighed. "Because my brother is hurt." Matt replied, trying to keep his cool.

"Oh wow, I'm sorry." The woman answered, smiling at him.

Adam looked at Matt and realized that he was about to lose it. He walked up to the desk and looked at the nurse. "Miss, can you please give us any information on Jeff Hardy."

"Oh yeah, sure." She typed Jeff's name in the computer and watched as the results came up. "Oh I'm sorry, there's no information available yet."

Matt pounded his fists on the desk, making the woman jump. "Can you give me any information?"

"Um... just that they're checking him out now. I'll let you know when I hear anything." She said, eyeing him carefully. Matt nodded and walked over to Amy, sitting down.

"It'll be okay Matt." Amy said, grabbing his hand. Matt sighed and looked away.

Adam walked over to the doors and looked outside. "Hey guys, here come Shannon and Shane." He announced.

Seconds later, Shannon and Shane walked in the doors.

"Hey, how's Jeff?" Shannon asked.

"We don't know. They won't tell us anything." Amy said.

Jay nodded. "They're working on him now."

"Well, I guess we just have to wait then." Shane said, sitting down. Shannon followed in suit, sitting in between Amy and Jason.

*~*~*~*~*

Chris drove as fast as possible, not knowing how bad off Nicole was. He looked at the speedometer seeing that he was doing over 80 mph. He contemplated slowing down. Against his better judgment he sped up, making a sharp right turn in the direction of the hospital.

"I've got to get there. I can't slow down." Chris told himself. He cursed when he heard sirens approaching him. "I can't... I can't slow down. I need to get Nicole to the hospital."

The police car approached him.

"Fuck!" Chris cursed, pulling over.

The cop approached Chris's car and stopped. "Excuse me sir, do you know you were doing over 80 just now?"

Chris ran his hand through his hair. "Yes officer, I do. You see I..."

The officer cut him off. "Well the speed limit is 40 here. You were doing double the speed limit. May I see your license?"

Chris handed the officer his license. "Look officer, I need to go. I have to go to the hospital." He tried to reason.

"For what?" The officer questioned.

"My friend is hurt. She's in the backseat." Chris explained.

"How did she get hurt?" The officer asked.

"I don't know. I got a call when I was on my way to the hospital to see my other friend."

"Two of your friends are hurt?" The officer said, skeptically.

"Yes," Chris said, sighing. "They both got hurt. Now please, she's hurt. Let me get her to the hospital." Chris looked up at the officer, his blue eyes pleading.

"Well, I still don't think you should be breaking the law." The officer took out his ticket book and wrote Chris a ticket. "Now, go on to the hospital. But, stay in the speed limit."

Chris nodded and started the car back up, driving to the hospital.

*~*~*~*~*

"Matt Hardy?" Matt looked up when he heard his name, jumping when he saw a doctor in front of him.

"How is my brother?" Matt asked impatiently.

"Well, he's hurt. Bad." The doctor admitted. "He's still unconscious. We don't know when he'll wake up. I'm so sorry."

"Will... will he ever wake up?" Matt asked, his voice shaking.

"We hope so. There are no guarantees, but we think it is possible for him to fully recover. But he did sustain some bad damage to the head." The doctor told him.

"Do you have any idea what happened?" Adam asked, standing up.

"We think he was hit in the head with some sort of heavy, blunt object."

"But you don't know for sure?" Shane asked.

The doctor shook his head. "No, I'm sorry. Look, your brother will be here for a while; you might wanna go home. We'll call you if he changes."

"No." Matt said sternly. "I'm staying."

"Ok, well we're gonna go, you call us if anything changes." Jay demanded, standing up. Matt nodded and watched as Jay, Adam, Shannon, and Shane walked towards the door.

"Guys wait." Matt said.

They all turned around.

"What's wrong?" Shannon asked.

"I just realized, Chris never showed up. Where is he?" Matt asked.

Amy opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off.

"Guys, help me!"

They all turned around at the same time, shocked looks on their faces when they realized who'd called them.

Chris stood before them, holding a bloody Nicole in his arms. "Help me!" He repeated. "I think we're losing her."

A/N: ??? I'm getting evil! LOL R&R like alwayz! It'z not over yet... :)Nicole***