A/N: Ok I just want to say is that it is 2 in the morning and I have yet to go to sleep. Plus that whole Randy in the casket thing on Smackdown freaked me out. I don't care if it was a wax figure it looked too real. Anyways on with the story. By the way I wrote this Thursday night but my computer was broken so I couldn't update till todaybut I fixed it so it's all good.
John was sitting on a cot that the hospital had provided him. He looked at his watch it was way past midnight and John should have been asleep but he probably wouldn't till Ashley woke up. Nurses and doctors had been checking on Ashley all night but none of them told John anything different. He did however discover that the doctor on call right now was one of his good friends in high school. He had roomed with him and another friend in the boarding school he went to. If John was going to trust anyone with Ashley's life it would be Jake Morrison.
"No progress?" Jake asked checking Ashley charts.
"Not even a little" John replied.
"It says here Ashley was in a coma when she was younger is that true?" Jake asked.
"Yeah for a month" John said.
"That's not good" Jake said.
"Why does it matter?" John asked.
"Each time a person is in a coma it takes them longer to wake up" Jake said.
"So it could be years before she wakes up if she even wakes up at all?" John asked.
"We tend not to think like that but yes it could be" Jake replied.
"Man I have 6 children I need her to wake up" John said.
"We are doing everything to help her but she needs to wake up on her own and the longer she is in a coma the more brain damage she might have" he replied.
"But you said her vitals are good" John said.
"They are but as of right now they are slow because she is asleep after a while if she doesn't wake up her vitals could deteriorate" Jake said.
"So basically there is no guarantee that she will ever wake up again?" John asked running a hand through his hair, he had found himself doing that more and more lately.
"Praying wouldn't hurt" Jake said.
"Isn't there some one we could bring in like an expert in this kind of field?" John asked.
"Like I said it's up to her" Jake said.
"Well thanks for telling me" John said.
Jake gave him a sympathetic look before leaving. John took hold of Ashley's hand.
"For someone who hates hospitals you sure are in them a lot" John quipped. "but seriously you need to wake up soon baby because I need you and the kids need you".
John had called the whole family together to discuss a very important topic. The whole family means Randy and Trish, John's parents and brothers, Chris and Lilian and the kids of course.
"John what is going on and why did you need everybody here?" Randy asked.
"I've decided something" he simply said.
"You gonna share?" Trish asked.
"I talked to Vince the other day that I need some time off and he said it was ok" John said. "but I also told him if Ashley doesn't wake up soon I'm taking her off life support and quitting the business"
"You're what?" Trish asked.
"I'm leaving the business so I can take care of the kids" John replied.
"But you said you were going to take Ashley off of life support" Lilian said.
"So basically you are going to kill my daughter" Chris said.
"What do you want me to do Chris I can't bare to sit there and see her hooked up to all those machines and I know that is what she would want" John replied in a clearly irritated tone.
"How long?" Chris asked.
"3 months" John said.
Gracie had remained silent listening to what her father had to say but she couldn't take it anymore and ran out of the room. John sighed and followed her, it didn't take him long to find her she was sitting on a swing in the back yard.
"This swing taken?" John asked.
"No" Gracie replied.
John sat down on the swing next to Gracie and waited for her to speak again.
"Why do you have to kill mommy?" she asked.
She looked him in the eyes and he could see the tears falling from her chocolate brown eyes.
"Mommy might never wake up and don't you think it is unfair to keep her alive when she could go to heaven" John said.
"But I don't want mommy to die" she said.
"I don't want her to either but if it does happen we need to be strong" he said.
"What if I can't be strong?" she asked.
"Just remember the good time you and your mom had like that time you guys made that triple layer chocolate chocolate chip cake" John said.
"I remember that and we all had stomach aches for like a week because that was way too much chocolate" she said.
"Yeah we should have known better" John added.
"But what about my hockey games mom said she would go to everyone" Gracie said.
"She might not be there physically but she'll be watching you" he said.
"Why did that man have to take her if he hadn't she'd be ok and my sister's wouldn't be so small?" Gracie asked bitterly.
"Some people are sick baby and they do things that are really wrong" he said.
"Like my biological mother?" Gracie asked.
"Yeah like your biological mother" John replied.
"I still don't want her to die" Gracie said.
"I know you don't but we still have 3 months and who knows maybe she will wake up anything is possible if you want it hard enough" John said.
"I pray for her to get better every night why doesn't God answer my prayers?" she asked.
"God is a very busy guy sometimes it takes him a little longer to listen to everybody's prayers" John said.
"It's still not fair we have been through enough" Gracie said.
"But we are a family and we always make it through the bad stuff" John said.
"But mommy is part of this family too" she said.
"The doctor's are doing everything they can for her but she has to wake up on her own" John said.
"Doesn't she want to wake up and be ok?" Gracie asked.
"I'm sure she does but maybe she can't just yet" John said.
"You should go and see her" Gracie said.
"I will in a while but I want to know you are ok first" he replied.
"I'll be ok" she said.
"Are you lying to me?" he asked.
"No sir I'll be fine" she said.
"Ok then because your brothers need you" John said.
"But we all need mom" she said. "Avery and Isabella and Uncle Owen won't even know her" Gracie pointed out.
"We'll tell them about her and there's pictures" John said.
"It's still not the same" Gracie said.
"But you'll always have me" John said.
"What if something happens to you too and then me and the boys and Isabella and Avery have no one?" Gracie asked.
"You'll still have Grandpa and Lilian and my parents and Uncle Randy and Aunt Trish but nothing is going to happen to me so stop worrying" he said.
"I love you dad" Gracie said.
"I love you too baby but when you turn into a teenager I want nothing to do with you ok" he joked.
"No you are stuck with me forever" Gracie said.
"Oh am I?" John asked.
"Yep" Gracie said.
"Come on I'll give you a piggy back inside" John said.
John knelt down and Gracie jumped on his back wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.
Lilian and Carol had been watching John and Gracie from the kitchen window.
"He is so good with them" Lilian said.
"They are lucky to have him" Carol said. "Ashley too"
"I just hope she wakes up" Lilian said "they have been through so much"
"I know" Carol replied.
John and Gracie walked into the kitchen.
"Well I should be going to the hospital now" John said putting Gracie down on the floor.
"The kids will be fine while you are gone" Carol said.
"Thanks, really I don't know what I would do without all of you" John said.
"We're family, it's our job to help out" Lilian said.
"I know but I still feel bad for asking so much" John said.
"Don't you need to make sure Ashley and those girls are able to come home soon" Carol said.
John sighed and then grabbed his keys. He really didn't have a response, he hoped everything would be ok. But what hope enough? Where was the divine intervention everyone was talking about? John wasn't sure he believed in miracles anymore.