Chapter 9

At the hospital

Kevin paces back and forth in the hallway waiting for news about Lucy while Ethan sits in a chair crying. The doctor walks up to Kevin and Ethan.

"How's Lucy?"

"How's Sara?" Ethan and Kevin ask at the same time.

"Mrs. Scott suffered head trauma but is now conscious. She has a badly bruised lung but we expect a quick recovery from her. She should be able to go home in two to three days. We want to keep her for observation." The doctor turns to Kevin, "Mrs. Kinkirks is still unconscious. She was hit more forcibly than Mrs. Scott."

"Will Lucy be O.K.?" Kevin asks.

"We are hopeful that she will wake up in the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours. She has significant head trauma but she will recover in time. She needs to wake up before we can really tell what will happen." The doctor explains.

"Can we see them?" Ethan asks.

"Yes. Mrs. Scott is down on the right, her room is the second door." The doctor points Ethan in the direction of Sara's room. "And Mrs. Kinkirk is over in the ICU. Her door is the fifth one on the right."

Kevin and Ethan go their separate ways leaving the doctor to attend to his other patients.

Camden Residance

Slowly Annie hangs up the phone, "that was Ethan. Sara's O.K. but Lucy's in the ICU." She tell Eric.

"Should we go to the hospital with the girls?" Eric asks.

"Ethan said it looks like Kevin needs to be alone with Lucy. At least till Kevin thinks Lucys O.K. We'll go visit when Kevin wants us too." Annie says. Eric raises an eyebrow at Annie. "all right we'll visit tomorrow."

Sara's hospital room

Ethan sits on the bed facing Sara.

"It was Dylan wasn't it?" Sara asks him.

"I don't know." Ethan answers truthfully.

"Where are the girls? Are they O.K.?" She asks worridly.

"They are with Annie and Eric. They're O.K." Ethan says smoothing some of Sara's hair.

"How's Lucy?"

"She's in the ICU." Ethan tells Sara.

"Oh my gosh." Sara sighs. Sara starts to cry. "It's all my fault if I didn't come here Dylan would have never went after her." Ethan moves closer to Sara and puts his arms around her.

"It's O.K. everything will work out." Ethan consoles Sara. Sara leans into Ethan's chest.

"I love you." She says to him.

Ethan looks down at her, "I love you." He says.

Lucy's hospital room

Kevin sits beside Lucy's bedside holding her hand. He brushes some stray hair out of her face. 'What if she doesn't wake up....what if something happens....I can't loose her...I can't live without her...' Thoughts run rapidly through Kevin's head. Kevin squeezes Lucy's hand lightly. He starts to cry, puts his head down on the bed and eventually falls into a restless sleep.