Disclaimer: I don't own anything but this plot.
Note: I'm back! Now I've decided to give Marco an older brother in the story b/c they have to make a decision about the life support. For the record Marco's folks went to Italy so that's why they aren't here.
2 am
Craig sat there for about 10 minutes in shock at what had become of his best friend. "How can some one do such a terrible thing to someone so innocent?" he wondered.
To him Marco was as good as dead now. He was barely breathing on his own and in a state of vegetation. For some reason he felt guilty about the whole thing, like if they had met up earlier or went to an early show this wouldn't have happened. At that moment Spin came in.
"Um…dude Marco's brother is here".
A young man around 24 came in. "Somebody called me from college telling me to come down here what's going on?" Craig started the story again for the 4th time tonight.
"….So now he's on a breathing machine and it looks pretty bad" he said.
Palo took a look at his little brother for a minute and asked, "How long has he been this way?" "About seven hours" Craig responded.
Just then Dr Stevens came in and spoke to Palo. "I need to talk to you in private for a minute" he said as he took him out in the hall. It was another 15 minutes before. Palo told Craig and Spin to come back in the waiting room with the rest of the crew.
When they were all seated Palo began. "Okay I've just been told that at this point it's very unlikely that Marco will recover. If he does wake up he won't ever be the same person again due the massive brain damage. Dr S. thinks it would be better to take him off of life support. Normally this would left up to our parents and me but since you all were so close I want you all to have a say too."
At this moment the room was dead silent. No one said a word or even breathed. After 5 minutes, Ellie couldn't take it anymore and just left the room. Craig went after her while the others stayed in the room.
"Okay I need to go call our parents and tell them what's going on, but I need one of you to tell the news outside." Palo said as he left the room.
3:30 am
By this time the news was dying down outside. Since Marco's family was devoutly Catholic, Palo had their priest come in to do the Last Anointing. It was basically a final blessing before death and the forgiveness of sins. (1) By the end of the night it was time to make the decision. The crew were still undecided by now. Palo was still waiting for his parents to call back. It all came down to this.
Okay guys it's almost over! I'm coming up with the ending but it won't be ready until next week. Now in real life this would be left up to Marco's brother and parents but I wanted to have a feud between the crew. R&R please!
1. I think this is the last rites but I'm not sure (pretty stupid that I don't know since I go to catholic school).