A/N: hey all! I'm gunna try to finish this before I go on vacation this summer cause idk if my dad has internet yet or not over there. If not, when I come baq you'll have a lot of chapters that I've written while there..if that made ne sense. But don't worry, I'm not leaving til the end of june I think. The earliest I'm leaving is June 12.

Disclaimer- wish I owned them but I don't. I'm learning to move on…

Chapter 5- You Have To Keep Hope

"Cordy? Cordelia…Hang on, you'll be okay. I'll get you help, I promise."

"Angel," she whispered his name as she slipped out of consciousness.

"Cordelia! Stay awake! Please!" Angel shook her, trying to keep get to stay conscious but to no avail. He picked her up gently, trying not cause any further harm to his friend. He flinched when he heard her groan. He took off down the road towards his car, holding her against him, protecting her.

Once he reached his car, he placed her lying down in the front seat, with her head resting in his lap. He started the engine and took off down the street with one hand holding Cordelia. Angel began to absently stroke her hair and whisper reassuring words.

He sharply rounded the corner, almost hitting another car. He cussed under his breath as he swerved through all the cars, surprised by how many there were this time of night or morning rather. He arrived outside the hospital. He carefully picked her up once again, sprinting toward the E.R. entrance.

"Someone! Help us! Please," Angel yelled out.

"Please wait a minute, sir," a nurse told him.

He wasn't going to take any of this crap right now, not when his best friend was dying in his arms. He walked past the receptionist and into the Emergency Room.

"Sir! Stop! You can't go in there!"

He didn't hear the lady calling to him. A doctor came over and immediately aided them.

"It's okay, let me have her, she's in good hands." The doctor tried to persuade the vampire. Angel merely nodded and laid her down on the stretcher. Everything was happening in a daze. It was all so surreal. This shouldn't, this couldn't be happening. He watched as they rolled her off to a private section after applying pressure to her wounds. He tried to follow but they wouldn't let him. Fighting his way through, more doctors held him back until they could drag off him off to the waiting room.

He sat there, staring into space. Just thinking about everything, replaying the whole fight in his mind. A thought popped into his head and he jumped straight up. He found a payphone near the restrooms. Fumbling with the coin in his pocket, he picked out two quarters, dropping a few pennies which he could care less about at the moment. He punched in a few numbers and waited for the ring.

The other line picked up. "Hello? Angel Investigations, We help-"

"Wes, its me"

"Angel? Where have you been?" Hearing the sad tone of his, "What's wrong?"

There was only silence from Angel.

In a firmer voice, Wesley commanded, "Angel, what happened?"

"Wes, get Gunn and Fred. I'm…I'm at the hospital."

"Dear Lord. Is it Cordelia?"

Angel nodded and then answered yeah after realizing his friend couldn't see him. "Please just get here and then I'll explain the rest."

"Of course, We'll be there soon."

Angel heard the click of the phone on the other end and slowly hung up himself.

He walked over to the desk. "Can you please check on a patient for me?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't check on anyone when they are in the E.R.," the receptionist politely answered.

Angel went back over to his seat, and to his thoughts.

Wesley hung up the phone, realization dawning on him. Cordelia, one of his first and only true friends, was in the emergency room this very moment. He took a deep breath and turned around to find Fred looking at him sadly.

"Something is wrong, isn't it Wes," she asked. He could only nod his head. "What happened? What's wrong?"

"It's Cordelia," he answered distantly. "She's in the emergency room."

Fred's eyes instantly teared up. "Is she goin to be okay?"

"I'm not sure Fred, I'm really not sure." He held Fred while she cried.

Gunn came up the stairs and saw the two, immediately getting protective over Fred, but it was quickly erased when he realized she was crying. "Fred, what's wrong?"

She looked up to Wesley for him to tell Charles. The two men looked each to each other, "Cordelia is in the hospital, something happened and she's in the emergency room. We have to get there now." Gunn nodded and the tree walked outside into the cold of the dark morning.

Angel looked up when he heard his name called to him. He turned to see his friends walking in through the door. He got up to greet them. They all hugged each other and then took a seat in the waiting room. Angel began to tell his story…

After he was done, they all had tears in there eyes. "Is she gunna be okay?" Gunn asked.

"I'm really not sure, she didn't look too good and they won't tell me anything." Angel clenched his fists, a sudden burst of anger shooting through him. "I should of done something, I should have been able to stop them. I should've saved her."

"Don't talk like that!" Fred yelled at him, surprising everyone. "She's not dead so stop talking like she is!" She burst out in tears as she leaned on Gunn. He held her.

Angel stared down at the ground, "I'm sorry, it's just, at one point during the fight I thought she was dead, and it scared me, hurt me. I don't want that, to feel that again." A tear slid down his cheek.

Fred lowered her head in apology. Gunn whispered, "It's okay, we're all a little high strung."

They all stayed like that for hours, huddled together, worried, scared, nervous, upset and everything else that could be expected in a moment like this one. A door was heard opening and closing. All four heads looked up at the same time to see a doctor walking towards them. Angel recognized him from earlier, the doctor he had given Cordelia over to. They all rose and walked over to where the man dressed in white was standing…

A/N: Sorry but this has to be the best cliffhanger I've ever written (that doesn't tell ya much bout me huh?). Anyways, read and review! The more reviews, the sooner my chappies go up!

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