Chapter 20
Martha started to stir, her eyes blinked rapidly and her hands started to fidget. She slowly opened her eyes. They spun around the room as she tried to focus. She felt her hand being held tighter. She rolled her head to see who it was.
"Oh my god I'm dead." She said aloud. Jack laughed.
"No you're not, and neither am I." He smiled.
"No, you can't be! I watched you die, you died in my arms!" Martha reasoned.
"Well, obviously I didn't." He smiled. "I'm still here aren't I?" He looked into her eyes.
"Jack!" She exclaimed, her voice filled with joy. He leant over and hugged her. "I love you so much." She sighed, "I thought I'd lost you forever!" He pulled away from their hug and sat back down beside her.
"I thought I'd lost you more like." Jack smiled. "I love you Mac, and now we can make a proper go of things, you, me and the baby. Seen as though neither of us are dead." He said, touching her belly.
"Why do you think I'm pregnant?" She asked curiously.
"Well, it's a long story, but I was watching Callum, Christie and Ryan discuss it." Jack explained. Martha giggled.
"I'm guessing you didn't watch the part when they told me?" She said, Jack shook his head. "Well then you would have seen me say it wasn't possible."
"Oh." Jack said. "Damn." He hit his hand against his head. He'd made a real fool out of himself with Dave now.
"What?" Martha asked, concerned. "You wanted me to be pregnant?" She asked, shocked.
"No. No I didn't." Jack laughed.
"Then what?"
"It doesn't matter." He smiled. "Well, it'll be just you and me then, if that's okay?" He asked.
"Oh, I don't know about that.." Martha joked, slowly sitting up in her bed.
"Careful!" Jack nearly shouted, jumping up to help her.
"I'm fine!" She said. "Now you're here." He lent in for a kiss when Callum, Christie and Ryan all walked in.
"Oh, we aren't interrupting anything are we? Because we can go if you want..." Ryan asked. Jack and Martha laughed.
"No, come in guys." Martha said excitedly, reaching out to hug Christie.
"I'm so pleased you're okay Mac! You frightened me to flippin death!" Christie said.
"Yea, me too." Callum sighed, pulling a chair up on the other side of the bed.
"Well, I personally don't see what all the fuss is about.." Ryan joked. "Just kidding, it's great to see that you're okay." He smiled and stood at the foot of her bed with Christie, wrapping his arm around her.
"Hey hey, what do we have here?" Martha smiled.
"Tiny bit obvious isn't it?" Christie replied.
"Yea, I totally saw this coming! Awww! I'm glad you two came to your senses!" She laughed. "You look very cute together might I say!" The next half an hour was spent with the group all listening to Jack's story, how he worked undercover with Trevor, and then when he jumped off the cliff.
"You jumped off a cliff, for me?" Martha said, smiling.
"Yup." He grinned.
"Aww! You're so cute!" She laughed, playfully pinching his cheek. There was a knock at the door.
"Hi Martha, how are you feeling?" Dr Clayton said, holding a clipboard and some files in his hand.
"Great! Thanks doctor, so can you tell me what happened then?" Martha enquired.
"Well, your heart stopped twice, due to the stress that the drugs had on your heart." The doctor explained.
"What drugs?" Martha asked.
"It seems that you've been injected with a drug that is meant to calm you down. The dosage that you have received would be perfectly safe for people like myself, however, due to your weakened heart, your body just couldn't deal with it." He said.
"Oh. Is that why I've been feeling so poorly recently, the headaches, the tiredness, the sickness?" The doctor nodded.
"Yes, they are all side effects of this drug, I guess you must have been experiencing smaller doses then, but your recent one most have been larger to cause this to happen. If your friends hadn't rushed you in, then I'm sorry to say that you would have probably died. You are a very lucky lady." He said. Martha lay gob-smacked.
"Thank you." She said, as the doctor left the room. "I can't believe that sicko drugged me!" She exclaimed. Martha, Ryan, Christie and Callum all ranted for half an hour about how shocked they were that this had happened, and how crazy this guy must be. Jack, however, didn't pitch in on this conversation, due to his overwhelming guilt.
"Are you okay?" Martha asked, she'd noticed Jack's quietness.
"Yea, erm, I'm just going to go outside to ring Peter." He said, squeezing her hand affectionately before letting go and leaving the room.
