Thanks to all my reviewers and readers thus far! I didn't expect such positive feedback since I'd never written a Scrubs fic before! So here's chapter 2(which I'm crossing my fingers ya'll will like)
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Title:My Vacation from Hell
Author:MorganaJeffries(Callie)
Rating:PG13ish (for now)
Characters:Most of the Scrubs Crew
Genre:A little of everything, but mostly drama, angst, and horror
Summary: The gang venture off on a vacation together that takes a drastic turn for the worse.
My Vacation From Hell
Ch2
(Cox POV)
The crunch of metal slamming into the tree.
Glass shattering.
Screaming.
God the screaming.
These were all the sounds that Perry heard the following moments after losing control of the car.
His body was thrown painfully forward, but was pulled to a jarring stop as his seatbelt caught and his face connected with the airbag that had deployed from the steering wheel.
"Shit...son of a...damn airbag."he hissed, lifting his head slowly, trying to free himself from the clutches of the inflatable contraption that, for all the good it did in most cases, was surely designed by the devil himself.
"Jordan? Jordan? Are you alright? Are you hurt?"he asked loudly first thing, not yet able to turn around and see for himself.
"Other than the fact that, thanks to your highly inept driving skills, my leg's broken, I'm just peachy Perry.. so I hope that back of yours is feeling particularly strong."she answered crossly from where she lay lodged in the small space separating her seat from the one in front of it, which was , thanks to her own lack of seat belt wearing abilities, where she'd landed after the crash.
"What about everyone else? Anybody hurt?"he inquired about the others, feeling much better now that he'd heard the voice of that oh so evil harpy, bitchiness and sarcasm still intact. The evil harpy that he loved with all his heart.
"JD, where's JD?" Turk asked in a panicked voice in reply to the question.
His eyes widening with alarm, Perry reached into his pocket and removed the knife that he remembered he always kept there, and jabbed it forward, successfully puncturing and deflating the airbag.
Turning his head towards the passenger seat his body stiffened when he saw it was vacant except for shards of glass littered across it and dark stains of what he feared was blood.
"Oh my god! JD! W-where... is... he? Where's JD?" Elliot picked that moment to lose her shit much to Perry's chagrin, and started screaming.
"Newbie, where? Wha...?" he muttered in disbelief, his mind not wanting to accept the surreal situation taking place as the sound of breaking glass followed by a slightly girlie, yet nonetheless male scream of surprise replayed in his mind.
Windshield shattered. JD gone.
For Christ's sake, he'd been thrown through the windshield.
Turk was the first one to recover after he too realized what had happened, and jumped to action, struggling to open the door, which for some reason was not cooperating. "Dammit! Open up you bitch!" he yelled at the unyeilding barrier keeping him from going to his friends assistance, now kicking at it.
Perry snapped out of his momentary paralysis, and he too immediately started fighting for release from his seatbelt, saying calmly, which was anything but how he felt at the moment,"Everyone just calm down."
"Calm down? You want us to calm down?" Elliot yelled incredulously in the high squeaky voice that always came out when she was upset, tears streaming down her cheeks as she too reached over and tried to open the door on her side of the car. "Why want the doors open? What if the car explodes? What if JD is dead?"she rattled off hysterically as she struggled with the handle.
Painstakingly having pulled herself upright by using only her upper body strength, thank god for strong baby carrying arms, not daring to try and put any weight on her injured leg, Jordan was the one who replied to Elliot's questions, looking calmly at the blond and saying through pain gritted teeth," It's a little something called child safety locks, and if you don't shut up the yelling right now, because deep down in that little mind of yours you realize it's really not helping anything, broken leg or not, I'll shut you up myself."
Elliot's mouth opened and closed several times, looking for everything like a fish out of water, but then looked away, saying nothing else.
Perry had finally used his knife once again, this time to cut off his seatbelt, and turned around, seeing the chaos in the rear of the vehicle for the first time.
Jordan in the very back seat, a pained look on her face, leg bent at an unnatural angle.
Turk kicking and beating at the door with his left hand, the right one obviously injured due to the blood dripping from it, Carla looking disheveled but otherwise fine beside him, trying to nurse his hand.
Elliot also uninjured digging through her purse for god knew what as Keith, who had a single cut on his forehead but nothing else, sat beside her, a confused look of disbelief and shock on his face.
As he turned back around and was removing his coat to use for breaking out the remainder of the windshield to allow an escape route from the car, Perry almost had a heart attack, along with everyone else in the car, when suddenly the interior light flicked on by itself, followed by the turn signal, headlights, and lastly the stereo, which started flipping through the stations by itself before stopping on one that was playing the song"Brown Eyed Girl."
"What the..?"Perry said aloud, listening to the blaring music, then raised his head and saw the still figure of JD laying against the tree he'd been propelled into maybe 30 ft. from them, plainly illuminated by the headlights.
Simultaneously he and Turk, who must have also seen his friends body, broke out the windows of the cardoors where they were sitting and climbed through, falling to the ground outside seconds later.
Perry stopped momentarily to stick his head back inside and say to Keith,"I'm trusting you to take care of Jordan,"he stopped briefly to meet her eyes to make sure she was okay with this, and when she nodded continued," and get her out of here while I go see about JD. So... if you want to continue being a doctor who has both arms intact you will not let me down."then walked away without awaiting a reply from the younger doctor.
Knowing that Dr. Cox had been in no way joking around, Keith turned to look at Jordan, and after releasing a nervous little titter said to the woman he'd always found to be a rather imposing, somewhat scary figure," It's important when you're a doctor to have both arms, so I'm going to take a look at your leg now if you don't mind."
Elliot at the time, had finally located the object that she'd been digging through her purse for, and as her boyfriend tended to the injured woman, she dialed 911 on her cell phone.
A whimper of disbelief escaped from her lips when she realized there was no signal...
(JD POV)
JD was in the midst of having a rather strange dream where he was driving a car with no doors at a very fast speed straight towards a wall.
Looking down he saw that he wore a jumpsuit and had on no seatbelt, but felt unbothered by this. Smiling, he glanced over at the passenger seat and saw that Turk was seated there wearing a matching suit, also seatbeltless, the word Dummy etched where his name should be on his outfit.
Giving one another a high-five they yelled simultaneously as they slammed into the brick wall" Yeah baby, easy money!"
It was at this point that JD was pulled back into consciousness by a bright light suddenly shining directly in his face and loud music blaring from an unknown source.
Then came the pain that ripped through his abdomen as he tried to do something very stupid...sit up.
He fell back with a yelp and closed his eyes, gasping as he tried to will the pain away...which needless to say did not work.
"JD, hey you're gonna be fine. Just don't try and move buddy."he heard Turk's voice say from above him, feeling someone grab the hand that he hadn't even realized was flailing around in the air.
Opening his eyes once more, he was met with the sight of Turk and Dr. Cox's faces both hovering over him, and smiled, saying slowly to his best friend,"I...get...it now...Dummies, we...were..crash test dummies." as the ridiculous dream popped back into his head, then asked seriously."Is everybody...else...hurt?"
"Look man, you lost me with the whole crash test dummies thing, but no, everybody's okay. Well...Jordan broke her leg but she'll live. Hey!..."Turk said raising his voice mid-sentence when he saw his friends eyes slowly closing once more,"Keep your eyes open man! Look at me!"
"Go away mommy...just...5...more..minutes..."was JD's muttered reply, which was followed by another yelp as Perry, having successfully removed the younger doctors blood covered shirt, probed at his abdomen.
"What is that? Glass?" he heard Turk ask through the haze in his mind.
"Yeah."was Perry's reply as he inspected the area around the large piece of said object that was sticking from his abdomen.
"Should we pull it out? Did it hit any major organs?" Turk questioned.
"I don't know, what do you think? Because I'm not seeing anymore here than you are Shaq."Perry snapped in reply.
"Well damn, excuse me for asking the doctor, who in the past always acts like he knows everything, his opinion."Turk retorted angrily.
"Hey..don't I...have a say?"JD spoke up softly, and both of the men looked down at him as he continued on, trying to put his next words lightly he swallowed deeply and said."Pull...it..out because...it...h-hurts."
"I don't know. Maybe we should wait for the ambulance."Turk said to Perry, both once again acting as if JD wasn't even there." We don't have the proper equipment on hand to handle this."
"If anyone ever asks I won't admit to it, but I think you're right."Perry said in agreement to this.
JD momentarily closed his eyes once more as he turned his head to the side, trying his best not to cry from the white hot fire piercing through his stomach. That just wouldn't be manly, and the last thing he wanted to do was to give Perry, who thrived on making fun of him, some ammo to use at a later date.
"What'd I say man? Keep your eyes open!"Turk demanded, hating to talk so harshly to his friend but knowing it would be the most effective course of action.
JD complied once more and gasped in surprise when he saw the form of a child, the long hair leaving no doubt that it was the girl who'd been in the road earlier, standing motionless in the shadows behind some bushes in the direction that both Perry and Turks backs were to.
"Hey, are..you..okay?"he asked slowly in a voice not loud enough, despite his efforts, to possibly reach her ears from the distance.
She just continued standing there in the darkness, her features indiscernable.
"Don't worry about us JD, I said everyone was fine, so just relax okay?" Turk said in reply to the question he thought to be aimed at him and Perry.
Turning his head to look at his friend JD said, "Not talking..to you..talking to...her."
"Her who?"Turk asked out of confusion.
"Her.."JD replied after turning his head in the child's direction once more."The little...girl."
Even as he spoke, said little girl raised a hand, and though JD couldn't see her clearly was able to make out the fact she was putting a finger to her lips, making the age old gesture for him to be quiet before she stepped backwards and disappeared fully into the shadows.
"There's no one there."Turk said after swiveling his head in the direction which JD was staring.
"She..was..."he started to argue, but was cut off by Turk, who gripped his hand tighter and said vehemently,
"No she wasn't. You're just imagining things, but thats okay."
"Where is the damn ambulance?"Perry asked, though not really addressing any one person, as he continued putting pressure on the young doctors abdomen around where the glass was lodged in an attempt to slow the flow of blood.
"Hey Bambie."Carla, who had at that moment joined then, said, kneeling down to smooth the hair from his forehead affectionately for a second before addressing her next statement at Turk and Perry,
"We have a problem."she said hesitantly, still petting her injured friend as she spoke.
"Really? I'd say we've got a whole lot of problems."Perry said, his voice sarcastic.
"No, this is different."she said, narrowing her eyes at him.
"Well then, by all means spit it out."
"We can't get a signal on any of our cells. Not even a single bar."
"What? Have you tried them all?"Perry questioned, his head jerking up from his minstrations to stare at her in disbelief.
"I said any of them didn't I?"
"That's impossible."
"If you don't believe you're more than welcome to try them again yourself."she said with a scowl.
A sniffling Elliot then joined them also and bursted out in tears once more when she saw JD laying there with his shirt torn open, blood covering his abdomen.
"Oh god...he's hurt bad..What are we going to do?"she asked.
"No, I..I'm fine."JD said, hating nothing more than seeing her upset."It's just..a scratch."
At least he'd wreaked in the vehicle with doctors, which, all things considered, was definitely a plus.
"Look." Carla spoke up, pointing her hand in the direction which the girl had disappeared to."Is that lights?"
"A house, thank god."Perry said in relief. "If there's a house theres a phone, so lets get moving."
"Uh, I hate to ruin your happiness, but what about JD? Are we going to leave someone here also, or take him with us?"
After a thoughtful pause Perry replied,"I don't think its safe out here, so we'll take him with us. Carla, go get my bag from the car." and with this said he without warning gripped the fragment of glass and yanked it free from JD's stomach causing him to release another howl of pain.
For some reason or other Perry felt very uneasy about the whole situation and thought it best that the whole group stick together.
Doing as requested, Carla returned moments later carrying his doctors bag, which though he didn't use at work, always kept handy in case of emergency.
After the three of them did the task of putting a bandage over the wound then wrapping his torso with gauze, Perry asked JD,
"You ready to take a little trip?"
He nodded in reply, biting his lip against screaming out the protest that he really wanted to voice.
"Let me do that baby."Carla said to Turk who was planning on, along with Dr. Cox, helping JD to the intended destination.
His hand was hurting pretty badly though, so he agreed, knowing his little fireball was much stronger than she looked. Feeling much pride when he saw her aid Perry effortlessly in pulling JD to his feet.
So gathering up Keith who volunteered to carry Jordan, they all started the trek through the dark woods to the house.
Had they known what was awaiting them within its doors, they would have stayed at the car, waiting for another vehicle to pass by, but they didn't.
An unseen figure of a woman stood at the window of the 3rd floor of the huge house, smiling in anticipation of her guests, while the girl observed from the shadows.
These were just 2 of the evils though, and yet very dangerous themselves, were nothing compared to the 3rd.
TBC
Okay, its starting off slowly, but now the fun really starts so hope you continue reading!