A/N: Okay so this chapter's wording might be a little confusing but I figure that Seth rambles a lot and if he can't verbalize it out loud he probably does it ten times more in his head. So this is me trying to get inside Seth's head which I hope I do okay... Also it is unbetaed so the grammer is probably extremely off but I wanted to get this out so ignore that and we will all be okay.


A bright light shines through as I begin to open my eyes. I fight to realize where I am. The first thing that comes to mind would be a hospital, but why a hospital, oh Trey right. Where's Summer? Is she hurt? Oh what the hell. There's a huge pain running through my neck. Make it stop.

"Seth?" I try to turn toward the voice but realize that I can't move.

"Dad… Help," I say but he just looks at me. "Dad," I state but again he is just looking at me with a look in his eyes that is scaring me. It looks like a mix of worry and pain.

"Listen Seth you can't talk right now because there is a tube in your throat to help you breathe," Someone else says coming into my line of view. What the hell a tube. Okay someone needs to tell me what is wrong now. At this cue the strange man continues, "I'm Dr. Hubbard, I was your surgeon," Note to self surgeon not a good word, "When you came in we found a gunshot wound in your mid-back." A gunshot wound, in my back, god damn Trey. It is all his fault that I'm lying here with a tube in my throat. "Seth are you listening?" Yeah, yeah I'm listening, but I can't talk anyway, so I can't tell you that, so what point is there for me to listen. "Seth?" I roll my eyes and I'm guessing this is enough to let them know that I'm listening because he continues. "We were able to remove the bullet." That's good so everything will be okay again. "However, because of it's location in your spine we are worried about paralysis." Paralysis? Like not being able to move paralysis. "We won't know anything until the swelling goes down." Paralyzed, I'm going to be paralyzed probably for the rest of my life. "We should be able to take the tube out in a day or so." Damn I want it out now. Why can't they take it out now?

"Seth?" My dad says coming back into the line of view. The doctor must have left because I don't see or hear him. "I'm going to go talk to the doctor for a little bit are you okay in here by yourself." Yeah not like I can do anything, I mean I have a damn tube down my throat, and I can't feel anything let alone move it, must be the swelling, which he said would go down. "Seth?" Dad says again and I roll my eyes since that worked the last time, he takes this as his cue and leaves the room. God I want out of here.

"Seth?" A different, much more vulnerable voice says. Summer, she's alright. She is in my line of view now and nothing seems to be wrong, well except the tears in her voice and eyes. She's trying hard to smile at me but I can tell that she's scared. She's scared of me, but who wouldn't be? I'm lying in a hospital bed with a tube coming out of my throat, with the thought of being paralyzed forever. I wonder if she was in here when the doctor was explaining it, cause then she already knows, and that might be why she's crying, because I'm going to be paralyzed forever, and she doesn't want to be with me anymore. "Seth its okay, I'm here." Okay so she might still want me or she's just putting on a show. "What is going on in that head of yours Cohen?" She says with a small smile. At least she still calls me Cohen. She sits down next to me and I can't see her anymore. Her hand on my head brushes my hair out of my face while her voice tells me what I need to know, "Sorry you're stuck with me, because I'm not going anywhere Cohen."