Chapter 6: The Ambulance and The Waiting Room

Beast Boy's knee's hit the ground hard he quickly grabbed her wrist and checked for a pulse. Slowly and surely he found one on her wrist. He let out a sigh of relief as he heard people pulling off in the distance yelling and laughing. He pulled out his communicator and yelled in it "HELLO!! IS ANYONE THERE?? PLEASE PICK UP!! SOMEONE PICK UP!! IT'S A EMERGENCY!!"

Back at the Tower Cyborg lay on the couch flicking through the channels wondering when Beast Boy and Raven would ever want to come home. Then Beast Boy appeared on the screen with tear stroked cheeks calling out in distress from the communicator "HELLO!! IS ANYONE THERE?? PLEASE PICK UP!! SOMEONE PICK UP!! IT'S A EMERGENCY!!" Cyborg grabbed his communicator and spoke into it "Yo, Cy here. What's wrong B.B?" he asked into the communicator.

Beast Boy let out another sigh of relief when he heard Cyborgs voice "Listen I just went to the bathroom and when I got back Raven was laying on the ground unconscious and bleeding!! Please call 911!!" he slowly moved his communicator over to where Raven lay on the ground. There was complete silence from the other end Beast Boy could just see Cyborgs jaw dropping to the floor. "Okay. I'll get right on it. I'll let the others and we'll meet you at the Hospital ER." Then there was silence. Beast Boy nodded at the communicator and switched it off. He then crawled closer to Raven to see how she was doing.

She looked terrible. Her right cheek was drenched with blood and her blouse looked as though it had been put in a bucket filled with blood. He then started to put the puzzle together as he waited for the ambulance. There must have been people who drove up and startled her then beat her up. 'But who? Slade? No he's always after Robin.' Then he thought back to that group he had RAN into earlier and what that girl had said before she went to catch up with her friends. "I'll finish you and your little girlfriend off later." Could it have been her and her group of friends? Suddenly the radio was changed to a different song half way through another 'The Reason- Hoobastank' just started to play. He listened as he applied pressure to Raven left leg, that had a huge cut in it.

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I that I could do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know...

He couldn't quite make out all of what the lead singer had said but it sounded familiar... like... oh he didn't know but it clicked something in the back of his mind... like... a light bulb had turned on or something. Suddenly he heard a siren off in the distance growing closer and closer to the area he was in. He slowly took his hand off but then put it back on just in case. Suddenly he saw flashlights on the sand. "Over Here!" Beast Boy yelled to the people. Suddenly the lights came rushing towards him. Two paramedics appeared with a stretcher. They carefully laid Raven down on it and rushed back up to the ambulance. Beast Boy quickly picked up their stuff and ran up to the ambulance and hopped in the back with Raven. "Sit over there." one of the paramedics said pointing to a small seat in the corner. The other Paramedic sat up front in the drivers seat and started driving towards the hospital lights flashing and Raven still bleeding.

The First Paramedic worked quickly applying gauze and wiping blood from Raven. Beast Boy looked down at his hand where it was stained with Ravens blood. After about a 10-minute ride they arrived at the hospital and parked in front of the Emergency Room. The paramedic up front jumped out of the truck and opened the back doors and lowered Raven from the truck and disappeared as she was rushed in through the doors. Beast Boy jumped out of the ambulance and rushed in through the doors by the time he got there she was already gone. He looked around the room and spotted the other Titans in the corner of the room pounding on a door. He rushed over to the group. "Where did she go??" Everyone turned around and Starfire hugged him "You are unharmed!!!"

"Yeah I'm fine. Where is she?" Cyborg pointed at the door that they were pounding on seconds ago.

Starfire was still hugging him when he noticed the tears in her eyes.

"Star, What's wrong?"

"Raven is hurt very badly and when we were driving to the hospital we tried to communicate with you using the communicator's but you didn't pick up and we were worried that something may have happened to you as well." The tears were streaming down her cheeks now more often then the right eye then in the left for some odd reason.

Beast Boy's jaw dropped. "Oh my god! I'm so sorry guys... I didn't know... The sirens were really loud and I didn't hear it. I'm so sorry. I didn't hear it. I'm so..."

"It's all right we know your sorry. The main thing is your not hurt." He turned slightly to Star "He's not hurt Star. So no need to worry." Robin said as he placed a hand on Starfire's shoulder. She pulled away from Beast Boy and ran into the waiting room. Robin followed her knowing that she still wasn't okay. Then again no one was. Starfire was crying, Robin was trying to cheer her up even though deep down inside he needed a little cheering up himself. Cyborg was upset by the whole matter (and the fact that on the way here he got a speeding ticket.) Beast Boy was so worried you could tell he wasn't thinking straight, or maybe it was the other way around he was thinking straight for once, and Raven ... Raven was possibly dieing, The only thing that would make things worse was if Someone descided to wreck havoc on the city.

"Well we better get settled in it's going to be a long night." Cyborg said sighing

"Yeah. I'm going to go ask the nurse if she knows anything about what's happening to Raven." He spun around and headed towards the nurse's desk. Cyborg went in the other direction walking towards the waiting room.

At the front desk a lady in her mid 20's sat cross legged reading People Magazine. She looked up and placed the magazine on the desk when she heard Beast Boy stop close to her. "May I help you, Sir?"

"My friend came in here about 15 minutes ago in a ambulance do you happen to know what's happening to her at the moment?"

The nurse looked down at the scattered papers on her desk. "I don't believe I do. But I should have a report in about." She looked down at the watch on her left wrist. "Ohhh... I'd say in about 15 minutes or so." She smiled "Come back then and I'll let you know."

"Okay. Thank You." He said as he turned around and made his way to the waiting room where three of the 4 other Titans were.

He opened the door and stepped inside the waiting room. As soon as the door shut it felt like he was trapped in a room filled with depression. It lingered in the air like a disease that struck every person who entered. Like a venomous snake waiting for it's prey to enter it's domain. The only way for the disease to be cured was for there loved one to be okay. The people in the room all had red eyes, from days of crying, and under them they had bags, from lack of sleep. Beast Boy stood looking at all the sad faces. It was as though everyone in the room was going to die. It was as though it was their last day of life... there last breathe.

Beast Boy looked around and spotted Cyborg sitting in the corner of the room reading a car magazine. But he wasn't really reading his eyes weren't moving across the page he was thinking... of Raven no doubt. Starfire sat next to him weeping head buried in her hands with Robin's who was, you guessed it, right next to her, arm wrapped round her back, hand resting on her shoulder on the other side of her and his head levelled down to her face. You could tell Robin was whispering reassuring words to her but you couldn't tell if she was believing him or not.

Beast Boy slowly made the long walk through the room past all the sad faces and set next to Robin.

He sat there for what seemed like eternity. Glancing at the clock every few seconds just waiting for that 15 minutes to be up. So that he would know how Raven was and what had happened.

He sat there wondering if her injury's would be fatal... or not. If she'd be paralysed... or if she wouldn't. If she'd lose her memory or if she'd ever be able to fight again. He thought about all the possible things that could happened then realized... that he had already caught the disease that lurked in this room.

Happy, Happy, Happy !! Isn't this such a HAPPY story? LoL! Just Joking! I know it's not. Quite depressing really. But don't worry it'll all be over soon. Or will it? (( Sorry I just saw that episode of FOP and I HAD to add it.))