Truths to be Faced

ASHLEY'S POV

So much has happened in the last twenty four hours, I'm unsure where to start. Quinn is sleeping a cot provided by one of the nurses. I'm scared for Quinn. Every woman that looks her way I'm worried is looking at her in a relationship-seeking way. Why? Why my Quinn? Why'd we get another issue to deal with. . .why now? It's as if the world is on fire and none of us have anywhere to run. Craig . . . Craig do you realize what you've done to us? What you created by attempting a failed revenge? You simply created a legacy that will never fail.

"Ms. Kerwin?" I shoot my head up and stare into the jade eyes of the nurse, nurse I think her name was Linda, Ms. Linda.

"Yes?" I ask, wringing my hands. I can feel tears that are unexplainably appearing.

"Your daughter Kay, she miscarried." The nurse says to me slowly. I can feel my world tilting, wirling, sliding. Everything I built up is crashing down around me. Voices filling my head screaming it all back at me making sure I can comprehend all that is being thrust upon my small family.

"Oh. . .and her boyfriend Tim?" I croak, Kay can't lose a baby and Tim all at once, it'll kill her. Which in turn would kill Quinn and me. Soon we'll all be dead if we lose Tim I can see it now.

"He'll be fine, I'm not at liberty to discuss all with you but he'll live. The doctor did have to amputate his legs and they're going to discuss prosthetics with his family, but that is all that I am allowed to disclose at this time." I nod, I understand the importance of privacy in a matter such as this.

"May I," I glance at Quinn who is stirring, "May we see Kay?" I ask. The nurse nods and I walk to Quinn, shaking her from the nightmare I can see she's having. "Quinnlynn," I whisper her nickname to her. "Quinn wake up sweety, lets go see Kay." Quinn shoots up. Her eyes blood shot and for a moment I am transported back to the garage, back to when Kay and I had almost escaped. Back to Craig searching, Manny's death, the rat poison. For a moment my mind reals and I almost cannot look at my daughter, but that would crush for she'd think it was over her sexuality. I stare into those hurt, scared, bloodshot eyes and push away thoughts of Craig and all that he has created.

KAY'S POV

I'm sitting in a wheelchair, they say it's best if I sit for a while before walking again. My baby. . .mine and Tim's baby . . .gone. . .dead, like my father, like my mother, like my life.I stare at Tim through the thin plate glass that seperates his room from the hallway. His mother has parted the curtains so that I may watch the talk with doctor. Tim's alive. I want to cry as I stare at him with no legs, knowing that he has lost so many of his dreams with the swipe of a car. Jay is in the corner, his eyes puffy and red from tears that he'd rather say he was drunk than admit he'd been crying. Emma's hair is ratted, she's stressed. I recognize that look on her face. It's the look she gives me when she worries, when she wonders about the garage.

that damn garage.

I slam my fists into the wheels of my chair before rolling into the room as the doctor exits. I stare at Tim, life in his beautiful eyes and take his hands.

"Tim, we have to end this, me and you." I say quickly without a breath. His parents stop breathing and the smile on his face fades as does the light in his eyes that had been there when I entered.

"Kay . .. wy. . .why?" He asks with a stutter. I look down at my stomach and cover it with my hand before staring around the room. At anything and everything but him and his parents.

"I los. . .when I found about the accident . .. I freaked and drove to the garage . . .and I miscarried. . ." I finish slowly, rolling out of the room and ignoring the cries of his parents and him to come back, its' taking all my power not to go back. To believe that it's all real. Because if I'm not careful . . .I'll start to believe I'm lying to myself and that this is all a dream, if I'm not careful with myself I'll lose grip on reality. And I roll, I keep going.

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an: I hope you guys liked it. I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to update. I've been crazy busy n' then I lost my ffn notebook with all my outlines and yeah massive disaster. I need six reviews before I post the next chapter, which yes I do have written already so review!!!! XD

Mriss