Disclaimer: I own nothing OC-related. I guess I own the firemen and paramedics but they don't really count? Yeah and I wish I owned their Range Rover because I would so drive that around town and be a pimp.
A/N: If it doesn't have drama, I didn't write it. This story is filled with hospital drama. I don't know how long it's going to be. I think this will end up being the best story that I have ever written before. Yay! COMMENT PLEASE BECAUSE I LOVE YOU AND I'LL COMMENT ON YOUR STORY TOO! For clarification I kind of made my own time period. Ryan is really close to the Cohen's but Caleb is still alive and Jimmy/Julie are together.
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Hailey sat in her home after the event at her sister's house and began to watch Law and Order on TV. She had finally finished pulling her life together and bought herself a McMansion and worked as a Chanel sales representative so she could stay around her family. The boys were in the middle of their senior year and Kirsten was better. She could sit with a group of friends while they became indulged in a bottle of wine and just sip on water and be fine. Hailey was proud of her sister for getting help just as her sister was proud of her for pulling her life together. Her father was dead but the family had seemed to be getting better about the death of Caleb and were pulling themselves back together. As she found herself becoming more into the plot a breaking news alert flashed the screen, "What the hell is this?" she wondered, fixing her eyes on the screen.
"BREAKING NEWS! Tonight the home of Sandy and Kirsten Cohen was engulfed in flames after a party at their home. Investigators are trying to find the cause of this fire. At the moment it is reported that: James Cooper, Julia Cooper, Kirsten Cohen, Sandy Cohen, Marissa Cooper, Summer Roberts, Ryan Atwood-Cohen, and Seth Cohen (shows pictures of each) were all injured in this fire but none have been declared dead yet," the reporter stood in front of the burnt house as Hailey's hand flew to her mouth, "That is the Breaking News Alert for now and this is Samuel Pickens, Good-Night."
Hailey didn't know whether she should run to the hospital in her pajamas or change, look presentable, and be there for her family. She hurried to her room and found a polo and a pair of jeans and changed as quickly as she could. She couldn't let her family be alone. She knew for a fact that her family did not deserve this after all the drama that they had overcome during the summer. Hailey was scared and needed one of her parents but she was well aware that that would never be possible again.
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Seth sat up in his hospital bed and looked next to him to see a sleeping Ryan. He looked down at his heavily bandaged arm that was in a sling and felt the IV in his arm giving him morphine. For a minute, he couldn't remember why he was in the hospital in the first place. He remembered the party and hanging out with his friends, but for some reason his memory cut him short. A short nurse with a nametag that read "Sally" and blonde hair quietly walked into the room, hoping not to wake Ryan.
"He could sleep through a war going on in his room," Seth informed the nurse, still confused as of why he was in the hospital in the first place, "Why am I here?"
"Oh, Seth, you're awake. Do you not remember last night?" she asked with a concerned look on her face. He shrugged. "Do you not remember the house fire…?" Seth suddenly jumped, making his IV pull out of his arm and he looked at Ryan.
"Oh my God, my mom, the second I was leaving she wasn't breathing. Ryan saved her! Where is she? How is my dad? SUMMER! IS SHE OK? Marissa? Her leg was all bloody. Julie and Jimmy? Did they get hurt?" Seth was on the verge of tears as he waited for the little nurse to answer.
"I don't know about your parents, Jimmy, or Julie. Summer and Marissa will be OK. They are both being treated in another room," the nurse smiled, "But I am not supposed to tell you the conditions of other patients." Seth looked around the room, waiting for what came next, when there was a light knock on the door.
Hailey entered Ryan and Seth's room because she couldn't visit anyone else. Her sister was still in trauma and Sandy was in surgery. She first noticed Ryan sleeping in the first bed with oxygen flowing into his nostrils and Seth being fussed over by a way-too-blonde nurse.
"Seth!" she whisper-cried, walking over and sitting on the edge of the bed and giving him a hug, "I am so sorry." The nurse glared at Hailey.
"Are you supposed to be here?" the nurse asked impatiently.
"I'm his aunt and I was told by a doctor that I could visit my nephews," she retaliated, hoping not to pick a fight with the nurse.
"Alright, you can spend some time with him," the nurse gave in, checking on Ryan and then leaving the room.
"Do you know how everyone else is?" Hailey asked nervously. She knew that the family didn't deserve to lose everything that they had.
"Marissa and Summer are OK and so is Ryan, we all got hurt though. The nurse didn't know about any of the adults," Seth sighed, "My mom was really bad. Ryan carried her out after everyone else was out and she was unconscious and I don't think that she was breathing." Seth let a tear escape.
"Mmph," a sound came from Ryan's bed, Seth and Hailey both looked over.
"Are you there, man?" Seth asked, sitting up and clutching his hurt arm, "Ryan?"
"What?" he asked, sitting up, "How's Kirsten?" He obviously remembered quicker than Seth.
"Shh," Hailey told him, "No one knows. I think she is still in the trauma section."
"Bu…but she wasn't breathing and I…" he took a deep breath and lay back down on the bed, "What's wrong with me anyway?" He obviously didn't notice the bandage around the burns on his arm from where he had to touch the flaming metal and he could feel his broken ribs. "How's Sandy?" he asked, completely forgetting to ask about his girlfriend.
"We don't know about him either," Hailey shrugged, looking at Seth for the answer, even though he was completely helpless.
"I know that he completely passed out on the front lawn while trying to run and see mom," Seth told him, lifting up his hurt arm, "Look at my battle wound."
"Nice," Ryan grinned at him, lifting his bandaged but not broken arm, "Oh my God! What about Marissa!"
"Thought you'd never ask," Seth shrugged, "I don't know what exactly is wrong with her but they said that she is going to be OK." The door opened again and in came Jimmy Cooper, tip-toeing and not realizing that the two were awake.
"Oh you guys are awake!" he seemed surprised and the two smiled. The realization that they had lost virtually everything hadn't hit them yet and they were excited to be alive, "I'm so terribly sorry about everything. I heard that your mom is in pretty rough shape." Seth and Ryan exchanged glances.
"How so?" Hailey asked, biting her nails.
"I heard that she is in the ICU or something, but that might just be a rumor or something," he shrugged, not wanting to worry the two; "Marissa and Summer send their love."
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Sandy had been knocked out with some drugs and was finally waking up in the morning. His head hurt really badly and so did his leg. He couldn't really remember why he was in the hospital and did the best to remember. Suddenly it all came back to him. The flames, the fury, the screams, and especially Ryan running out of the house holding Kirsten in his arms and bleeding from a cut on his arm. Sandy couldn't believe that he had actually left Kirsten like she had requested. He was a bad husband. She knew that she really didn't want him to leave but he did anyways. She was going to be so mad at him.
"I see someone is finally awake," a brunette nurse smiled from the doorway and entered the room.
"Hi," Sandy looked at her, "How is my family?" Sandy was mostly worried about his wife since he had seen the rest of his family walking around and had even heard Seth complain. Ryan was his hero right now and he hoped that he was OK.
"I know that Jimmy Cooper was dispatched with some scratches and a burn or two and that his wife has more burns and a shattered collarbone. Your sons are with a different nurse but we exchanged information and they are both awake and talking with their aunt Hailey. Seth has a broken arm and Ryan has some broken ribs and a badly burned and cut up arm which we could tell he touched to something melting," the nurse began, "The two girls are going to be OK but Summer Roberts broke her leg because she jumped out of a window to escape, Marissa Cooper has a laceration to her head and a hurt arm."
"What about my wife. Kirsten Cohen?" he wanted to know about her more than anyone else because he had talked to everyone else. He wanted to make sure she was going to be OK.
"I don't know about her sir, I'm sorry," the nurse gave him a look of sincerity; he sighed and leaned back against the pillows. "Sir, you have a large cut on your head and you broke your ankle. Let me know if your pain increases and I will up the morphine in your IV."
"Thanks," he gave her a half-smile, "And you don't have to call me 'sir'." The nurse felt a tear form in her eye as she exited the room. Did he say Kirsten Cohen? She had to get information on the patient before this man had a heart-attack. She wished she could fall in love that deeply.
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Summer's leg was in the air and she sighed. She couldn't believe that the perfect night had been completely shattered. Everything was so screwed up now. She clutched onto Captain Oats. No one had noticed her grab Captain Oats before she jumped. No one understood why she jumped. No one in the room knew of her extreme fear of fire. She didn't think that she would ever have to face a situation of that extremity. She wanted to surprise Cohen with Oats but the nurses didn't want her to leave the room. She looked over at her best friend who had a bandaged head and her arm was in a sling. She didn't even want to know the pain that Cohen and Chino were feeling. "Coop?" she looked over at her friend.
"Yeah Sum?" she responded, sitting up in bed but flinching.
"I can't even imagine what the Cohen's will have to go through," Summer sighed, grabbing the remote from the bedside table and flicking on the TV. The morning news was on and by coincidence the fire was on the TV.
"Last night the Cohen residence in a gated community of Newport Beach was engulfed in a rage of flames injuring eight. No one died in the flames but hospital representatives have told us that one victim of the flames is greatly suffering. All eight suffered smoke inhalation and some burns and some even more. There will be a drive for clothing, toiletries and more for the family at the Harbor School all week. The house is just being put out and it is not safe to enter the grounds yet. That's the news for now keep watching Fox WGFV Newport Beach," the reporter announced. Summer angrily flipped off the television and leaned back in her bed. She had to talk to Cohen.
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After begging and pleading, Summer was placed into a wheelchair and taken to visit Ryan and Seth. Marissa asked to come to.
"Please get into this wheelchair," the nurse asked Marissa.
"Why, my legs are fine," she protested.
"Hospital policy and you might have suffered shock and you might collapse unexpectedly, besides you cut your leg pretty badly and you don't want to mess up your stitches," the nurse replied.
"Fine," Marissa rolled her eyes and slid into the wheelchair. The two took off towards Ryan and Seth's room.
"Seth! Ryan!" Marissa cried, flinging herself from the wheelchair and giving Ryan a one-armed hug.
"Hey guys," Ryan sounded beat, but he sat up. Seth noticed a paper bag in Summer's hand and became curious.
"What's that Summer?" he asked, pointing at the bag suspiciously.
"A surprise for you," she cheered, handing him the bag in his good arm. He began to open the bag and suddenly froze.
"How'd you, oh my God, thank you so much!" tears started steadily streaming down his face, "Thank you so much!" Ryan and Marissa looked over to see Captain Oats in Seth's arms and a Cheshire-cat like grin on his face. The two joined in the smiling.
"Wait, Coop, you were complaining about the wheelchair but didn't you cut your leg or something?" Summer asked.
"Yeah, but I think it's OK," she smiled; she hugged Ryan and slid onto his bed, hoping to ease his pain.
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Kirsten's room was deathly quiet. You could hear the quiet beeping of the heart monitor/crash system. She couldn't breathe on her own and nurses were constantly watching her. The ICU was a dismal place and the nurses all seemed to have a deathly white complexion from dealing with death too often. Kirsten looked dead. She wasn't, at least not officially. The doctors buzzed all around her as she unconsciously slept. Who knows when she would wake up? All they knew was that she had a long time until she was back to normal again. The nurse in charge of her sighed and finished filling up the IV.
Good morning day
Sorry im not there
But all my favorite friends vanished in the air
It's hard to fly when you cant even run
Once I had the world and now I've got no one
If I needed someone to control me,
If I needed someone to hold me down,
I would change my direction and save myself before I
Drown.
Good morning day
Sorry your not here
But all those times before, your never this unclear
Its hard to walk when you cant even crawl
Once I had this world, now I've lost it all
Three Days GraceDrown
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A/N: Yes so that was the 2nd chapter. To some of my reviewers, to try to clear some stuff up, this isn't an AU but you can find in here sometime that Kirsten wasn't drinking the wine but she was OK with people around her drinking it. Jimmy and Julie live in the house on Haunted Hill and Sandy left Kirsten because he was about to pass out and she told him to. Expect Chapter 3 soon!