Chapter 18 Accidents Happen

"So Jess, what do you think of Peter?" Andy and Jessie were on their way home.

"Peter…" Jessie thought for a second. "Oh yeah! That hot blonde nurse."

Andy couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah… Well how would you feel if he and I were to start… dating?"

For a moment, Jessie was silent. "That's cool." She sort of gave a shrug. "So what-"

She and her mother's screams cut Jessie off. A truck had veered into their lane and was speeding towards them at such a fast rate that Andy didn't have time to try and veer away. Within mere seconds their screams were barely audible above the screeching of metal on metal.

Slowly, Andy's eyes flickered open. At first, things seemed normal enough. She was in her car, looking up at the ground. Wait, what? Then it hit her. The car had been flipped over.

Andy looked over to see her daughter barely conscious. "Jessie? Jessie!" Even though she was screaming, Jessie was unresponsive. Andy knew that wasn't a good sign.

Her instincts taking over, she braced herself as she prepared to unbuckle her seat belt that was suspending her. "Ow!" She winced as she landed on her elbow.

She quickly ignored her pain as she focused on getting Jessie down. She tried to hold Jessie up and unbuckle her seatbelt at the same time. She wasn't having any luck due to her hindered arm.

"Ma'am!" Andy heard a man's voice as a bright light was shone in her eyes. "Are you alright?"

"I'm okay," Andy yelled back. "But I don't know about my dau-" Andy was cut off as she went into a coughing fit.

Through her coughs, she heard the man yelling something.

"Ma'am, can you try and come towards me?"

Just as Andy was about to say yes and begin crawling, she realized she couldn't move her leg. She tried to look back and see why, but it was too dark. All she could tell was that it had been pinned under something.

"Ma'am? Can you answer me?" The man spoke louder.

"No!" Andy tried pulling her leg free, but it was to no avail. "My leg, I'm stuck!" Suddenly, Andy went into another coughing fit.

"Ma'am?" The man's voice sounded worried.

"Please…" Andy tried to speak between coughs. She was getting light-headed. "My… daughter." Slowly, everything became dark. Andy had passed out.

"Peter! Peter!" Lana rushed into the exam room searching for the blonde nurse.

"Lana?" Peter was holding needle in mid-air. "What is it?" He didn't like being bothered while he was with a patient.

"It's Andy and Jessie. They were in a car accident. They were just brought into the ER."

It took a second for Peter to realize what Lana had just said. Once he processed it though, he ran out of the room without bothering to say a thing to his patient.

As Peter dashed into the emergency room, he saw Lu standing over Andy's unconscious body.

"Lu! What's going on?" He ran over next to Lu and looked over Andy.

"I'm not sure." Lu called out the tests she needed done on Andy to the nurses around her. "The paramedics said she went into a coughing fit before passing out. So I'm assuming major smoke inhalation. Her leg's pretty shattered and I think she has a dislocated shoulder." Lu looked up at Peter who was, for lack of a better term, freaking out. "Peter, why don't you go wait in the waiting room?"

"Lu I can't, I have to-"

"Peter…" Lu put her hands on her shoulders and looked him straight in the eye. "It's the only thing you can do for Andy right now."

"Okay." Peter nodded.

Lu had one of the nurses escort him out into the waiting room while she went back to Andy.