"I
don't want you two to have unrealistic expectations. Kaiden should
wake up soon but there was massive blood loss and one of the bullets
even lodged her spine. I need you to realize that she might never
walk again."
There was pacing, I couldn't figure out who was
moving and I didn't recognize the voice that had been
speaking.
"Listen Doc, she's tough as nails. She's going to
walk again."
"Let's hope." Said the person who the strange
voice belonged to as I heard them leave the room.
My eyes
fluttered open and I saw Dean pacing in the room, his arm in a sling
and Sam was sitting in one of those uncomfortable hospital chairs. He
looked over at me,
"Dean! She's awake!" Sam rushed to the
door, "I'll get a doctor!"
The eldest Winchester came
quickly to my side and leaned over me. He had enough beard that told
me it had been a long while since he had even touched a razor,
"Hey
Kaiden." He brushed the hair back from my forehead,
"Hey" I
whispered, my throat was raw from not being used.
Sam returned
with the doctor and he proceeded to shine a flashlight in my eyes and
take my blood pressure. After he did that he poked and prodded some
more until he was certain I was in working condition,
"So, when
do I get to go home?"
The doctor sighed and put his stethoscope
back around his neck,
"Mrs. Sanderson, your injuries are very
serious. We had to go in a remove all three of the bullets, one of
which was lodged in your spine. I've said this to your husband
already, you were in a coma for two weeks, we want to make sure there
are not underlying injuries that haven't presented themselves yet,
and we need to keep you around for observation, just to make sure
that there is no permanent damage to your spine."
I nodded my
head, I figured there was no point in arguing with the doctor. Sam
and Dean on the other hand were a completely different story. The
doctor walked out of the room and left the three of us,
"Let's
shag ass guys!"
I swung my legs over the bed and slid down onto
the ground. But instead of walking out of the hospital like I had
planned on doing, my legs gave out and I fell, Sam caught me, Dean
couldn't with his arm in a sling, and placed me back on the
hospital bed,
"There's no way you're going anywhere. We've
had to watch you lay unconscious for weeks, now we're making sure
you're one hundred percent okay before you set a toe outside this
hospital. Got it?" Dean said in a dangerously low voice, I nodded
my head, "Good. I'm going to get coffee."
Dean left the room
and I was left staring at Sam in shock,
"What's got his
panties in such a twist?"
Sam shrugged,
"He was truly
terrified that you would never wake up. I think he's trying to deal
with his emotions, and you know Dean, feelings freak him out 99
percent of the time."
I nodded my head. I could only imagine how
I would feel if it had been Dean in the coma. I would have gone crazy
with worry and probably would have ended up acting like a bitch to
keep my fears in check.
I turned to Sam,
"So. Mrs. Sanderson
eh?"
He laughed,
"Yea, sorry we didn't have time to warn
you before he came back in. It was just the name on the insurance we
gave them."
I didn't do much for the next couple of hours,
the only thing that made me happy was that Sam brought me a pair of
pajamas so I wouldn't have to wear that hideous hospital gown
anymore.
Dean didn't come back until much later, when the sun
had already set.
He stood in the doorway of my room,
"Come to
yell at me some more?"
He ran his hands through his hair and
walked into the room, sitting on the side of my bed,
"I didn't
mean to freak out on you. I just, I honestly didn't know if you
would wake up. And if you hadn't, it would have been my fault."
I
shook my head,
"Dean you didn't shoot me."
"Yea, but I
didn't protect you. I just fell to the ground like a pansy ass."
I
looked at him with complete shock,
"Dean, you had a bullet in
your shoulder!" He looked away from me. I placed my hand on his
chin and gently turned his face towards mine. I kissed him gently and
pulled him into a tight embrace, "What happened to me wasn't your
fault."
I yawned at that moment so wide that it practically
unhinged my jaw. Dean ran his hand down my cheek,
"You need some
sleep."
"That makes no sense. Wasn't I just asleep for two
weeks?" I said through another yawn. I realized my argument was
completely ridiculous and I allowed Dean to pull the covers over
me.
"Dean?" I asked,
"Yea?"
"Well, uh, you know
how much hospitals scare the crap out of me. Would you by any chance
stay with me tonight?" I slid over on the bed to make room for
him,
He took off his leather jacket, tossing it on the chair as he
climbed onto the bed beside me and wrapped his good arm around me and
slid his other arm out of the sling that was holding it.
I was
going to say something about how he should probably keep the sling on
his arm, but we were having a nice moment so I thought better of it
and kept my trap shut, for once.
Now you might be thinking that I
was just putting all that stuff out about being scared of hospitals
just so that I could get a cuddle in with my boyfriend. But I can
honestly say that they give me the wiggans, seriously, they're so
clean, and dark, and there are lots of dying people soon to become
spirits. Scary spirits, well some of them become scary. Sorry I'll
stop babbling and get back to what I was saying,
"Comfortable?"
he murmured into my ear
I snuggled closer into him,
"Yea.
Thanks. So doc says I can go home in a couple days. Good news."
"He
told me, don't push yourself though. Sam and I will be on the look
out for a good hunt."
We talking about different things for a
little while until my exhaustion took me over and I fell asleep in
Dean's arms.
