Chapter 4
A longer chapter.
Words: 971
When we collide, we come together
Emma waited at Will's side as the days went by, only leaving when she went to get dressed in the mornings and, obviously, when she needed the loo. She didn't think Will was ever going to wake up. She got a few calls from Figgins, asking how Will was and asking when she was going to be back. She didn't know if anyone had told the kids in Glee what was happening, so she decided, the Monday after the accident, that she would go in and fill them in on the details.
She woke up at 6am that morning. She gave a Will a kiss on his forehead, before leaving the room to try and find Dr O'Hara. Emma was halfway down the hall when she almost walked straight into the doctor.
"Emma, you're up early." She smiled.
"Yeah, I thought that maybe I should go into work today. I know that a lot of Will's students are worried about him." Emma said quickly.
"Oh, well, will you be back this afternoon?" Emma nodded her head and smiled, walking past Dr O'Hara and down the hall, before turning back to speak.
"Dr O'Hara, do you think that maybe you could ring me if anything happens?" Emma asked shyly.
"Of course I will." She smiled. "Oh and, Emma, call me Eleanor." Emma smiled the first smile she had since the week before. She walked towards her car, parked alone in the parking lot, worrying all the way about Will. But when she climbed into the car, she told herself that Will was in capable hands and that he was going to be fine.
Emma pulled into the school parking lot at exactly 8:30am. She went straight to the choir room, wondering why everybody was staring at her when the events of the previous week came flooding back into her mind. You're a slut… Nobody's safe. She cringed as the pathetic words she had once spoken ran through her mind. The sound of yelling students hit her as she opened the glass doors of William Mckinley High School. William. Why did he have to be called William? She sighed as she made her way down the hall to the choir room, people still staring at her. She had 2 minutes until everyone got there. She was greeted by an unfamiliar voice as she slowly closed the choir room door.
"Hey, you must be Emma? Emma Pillsbury?" Emma turned round to see a tall blonde woman standing next to the piano. She slowly made her way over to Emma holding out her hand, Emma hastily shaking it in return.
"I'm Holly Holiday. I've been subbing Will's classes whilst he's been in hospital. You're a good friend of Will's, aren't you?" Emma nodded.
"You don't say much, do you?" Holly laughed, just as the bell sounded.
"Morning Guys." Holly said as twelve familiar faces piled into the room.
"Ms Pillsbury?" Finn said, adding a little emphasise on the end to make it sound like a question. Emma smiled.
"Wow." Kurt said. "Haven't seen you in a few days."
"Ms P. What's happened? No one's told us anything." A very worried Mercedes asked.
"Sit down." Emma said, gesturing to the seats in front of her before grabbing a chair for herself. "Last week, someone broke into Mr Schuester's house. Nothing was stolen, but the person… they had a gun." Looks of shock and horror flooded across the kids faces as they began to put the pieces together.
"Where was he shot?" Quinn asked, sounding as if she was going to cry.
A tear rolled down Emma's cheek before she answered with "In the head." Gasps broke out all over the room before various girls broke down into tears. Finn was the one that walked up to a shaking Emma and pulled her into a tight embrace.
The Glee club had rehearsals all day, and so Emma let the woman that had been covering to take all of her appointments that day so she could spend the rest of the day with the students in Glee.
At 2:30 Emma got a phone call from an unknown number. She answered it, recognising it as the number that had called her the other night.
"Emma." Dr O'Hara's voice sounded cheery through the phone. "I have some good news for you. William woke up about 10 minutes." Emma's face lit up at the words she had just heard. As she hung up the phone Rachel questioned "What's up?"
"Wi- Mr Schuester's woken up." Cheers spread through the once silent room. As Emma grabbed her bag to leave, she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around to see Finn standing her.
"Ms P. Can I come with you?" He asked, shyly. She just nodded, happy that Finn cared so much about his teacher.
As Emma and Finn walked in to the hospital, they were greeted by the sound of babies crying, people yelling and then a familiar (well to Emma) face.
"Ahh, Emma. Glad you came." Eleanor smiled. "And this is…?" She turned to Finn and smiled again.
"I'm Finn Hudson, one of Mr Schue's students." Finn smiled back, shaking the hand she held out to him.
"Well it's nice to know William has some supportive students."
"Well, Mr Schue is kind of a father figure to me." Finn said, blushing. Emma looked at Eleanor and asked her if they could go see Will.
"Mhmm, he's been asking for you." Eleanor smiled. For a Doctor, she always seemed to be such a cheery woman.
"He has?" Emma replied, excitement flooding over her, but she didn't show it. But as they made their way down the hall towards Will's room, the excitement turned into fear as she began to gather the thoughts of everything that had happened that past week.
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Leanne xx