Disclaimer: Character's are not mine.


Your Silver Sobriety Chip-Chapter 2


Rayna could hear voices, but couldn't make out what they were saying. She caught words here and there as if listening to a foreign language she was only just beginning to pick up. "Tour", "Again", "Lucky". What a strange combination of words Rayna thought to herself.

"As soon as I knew they were together again I hoped we wouldn't have to go down this road again." Bucky? She was pretty sure that was her manager's voice, had to be, he was one of the few that knew she and Deacon were seeing each other again.

"To tell the truth, I thought she was still seeing Liam," replied a female voice.

"Liam", Rayna thought to herself, well that must be Tandy, only Tandy knew she had been up to anything with Liam. With that Rayna opened her eyes to see Bucky and Tandy standing one on each side of her hospital bed.

"If you guys want the deets on my relationship status, I hear the gossip rags have an exclusive," Rayna choked out. Instantly there was a straw at her lips, she gratefully took a large sip, then choked again as the liquid met her throat.

"How are you feeling?" asked Bucky. Rayna opened her eyes; she hadn't seen that look on Bucky's face since the last time she got in too deep with Deacon.

"Gah, fine," Rayna replied. "How's Deacon?" she asked.

"Rayna, don't worry about him," Tandy replied. "Focus on you." Again, she was being told to focus on herself, how poignant.

"You didn't answer my question," Rayna said through her exhale. She saw Bucky look over at Tandy before answering.

"He's in a medically induced coma, he had some swelling on his brain. He went through the windshield, he's lucky to be alive. Doctors don't know when he's going to wake up."

Rayna closed her eyes at this news and exhaled again, she didn't know what she had expected to hear about Deacon's condition but she was half hoping he was awake already. "Rayna?" Tandy questioned.

"Yah, Yah. I'm fine," Rayna replied. "Just have to get my thoughts together."

"Ok," Tandy nodded. "You've been out for a few days, the girls have been with Teddy but their anxious to come visit. Teddy and I thought it would be best to keep them away until you woke up, away from the cameras and everything."

"Camera's?" Rayna exclaimed. With that Tandy looked to Bucky.

"Yah," Bucky replied. "Needless to say this in combination with Juliette's loss, you guys are garnering a rather lot of attention right now."

"Oh," was all Rayna could get out. It was crazy to think a few months ago no one seemed to care about her or her music anymore. Suddenly she's back on the front page again, whether she liked it or not.

"You don't have to worry about that though," replied Tandy.

"I have everything taken care of Rayna," finished Bucky. "Actually speaking of that, I need to go take care of some things right now." Bucky got up to leave, "I will see you soon Rayna, Tandy."

"Bye, thanks for everything," Rayna called after him.

"Always," Bucky replied over his shoulder, and with that he was gone.

Tandy collapsed into the chair on the right side of Rayna's bed; she looked exhausted clearly something was going on with her, deeper then this whole mess.

"Are you ok?" Rayna asked Tandy with concern. Tandy looked up with a smile clearly noticing that she had momentarily let her mask slip.

"Of course Rayna, it's nothing, really," Tandy replied. Rayna was only willing to accept that answer because she was starting to feel some pain again. Tandy must have noticed through the expression on Rayna's face because she was quick to jump to her feet. "I'll go get the doctor," Tandy announced. With that she left too, and Rayna was alone in her room.

The doctor was quick to arrive, he checked her vitals, and gave her another dose of pain meds. Mean while Tandy had turned on the room's T.V., flipping through the channels with the remote in her hand. She stopped momentarily on a local news channel, which was showing a helicopter view of Rayna's accident scene from a few nights back. Tandy looked over at Rayna before quickly switching the channel, Rayna didn't object, she wasn't in any mood to hear others critiquing her decisions. She was preoccupied doing that herself, and knew Bucky had left with some unanswered questions as well. Rayna laughed to herself, "I guess this is what happens when I try to live a little," Rayna said out loud but mostly to herself. Reflecting back on the conversation she had with Liam before kissing him back at his studio, that moment felt like a lifetime ago.

"No one blames you Rayna," Tandy replied. "We're just all a little confused as to what happened that night."

"Deacon drove to the Bluebird drunk, I saw him in the doorway after having tried to contact him non-stop that day," Tandy didn't look surprised, it must have gotten out that Deacon fell off the wagon. "He saw that I saw him and went to leave, I caught up to him and pushed him over so I could drive. He continued to drink in the passenger's seat, and we fought. Next think I knew I was hanging half suspended in the air from the driver's seat of his truck." There was a moment of silence as Tandy absorbed what Rayna had to say.

"Rayna, you made the right choice. There was no way you were going to get him to stay put, and you couldn't just let him go," Tandy replied reaching for her sister's hand. Tandy had merely confirmed what Rayna had already been thinking, how could anyone criticize her choice to get in that truck? However, she didn't know if the truth about Maddie's paternity had gotten out yet.

"Is the news out about Maddie?" asked Rayna.

"No, not yet. That missing piece is what's making all the news's coverage so frustrating. They're playing it as if Deacon dragged you a stray."

"What?" Rayna replied confused. Tandy was quick to explain.

"Remember that article written about Deacon a while back?"

"Yah, of course," replied Rayna.

"Well, they're talking about this accident as if Deacon had been back drinking this whole time. Dragging you back into the lifestyle you guys lived back before the girls were born, and of course you followed because of how much you love him." Rayna was feeling a headache coming on listening to her sister's explanation. She had to admit that upon reading that article she too had doubted Deacon, but how could anyone thing she would just follow Deacon blindly back into their old lifestyle? He had the girls now to worry about, care for, and love.

If that had not been enough Tandy had more, "Oh, and they found out about you and Liam."

"WHAT!?" Rayna exclaimed her heart monitor had even started to go off.

"Yah, but don't worry Rayna. The craziest stories come out in moments like these." With that Rayna collapsed into her pillow exasperated.

This was the last time she was ever going to "live a little".


Author's Note: The amnesia stuff is going to start happening in the next chapter. I just needed to establish some things before delving in to that storyline.