AN: Hey lovely readers! It's bookworm here. I completely apologize for the long wait on this chapter. I was moving into my dorm, and then my computer decided it didn't want to have internet and it took some time to get it back. Then I hit a huge HUGE case of writers block. Can I just say that Virgo and I absolutely love the reviews? We would like to shout out to one certain anonymous review who said that they were "blown away" and "ready to be shocked and left speechless." Virgo and I loved that one, and I hope that you are shocked and speechless for this chapter. But anyways we love all reviews, and we also want you to review. So here is Chapter 3….get ready this is kind of a big set up for some stuff going down in chapter 4 which is why it took a while to get it up. I was being a perfectionist with this chapter because it is a very important chapter with important things that happen. Oh and I don't know much about hospitals, so just bear with me on it…it's probably not completely accurate of what would actually happen in a hospital.
PS…if you here us referring to the other as Ziva and Abby, it's because those are our nicknames for each other. Virgo is Ziva and I am Abby. We have an NCIS obsession as well as a PLL obsession and we decided to give each other, as well as our other friends, character names from the show.
It was nearing 4:00 in the morning, and both Aria and Ezra had yet to regain their consciousness. The doctors, though they wouldn't voice it out loud, were starting to worry slightly. They thought that they would have regained consciousness by now, since the blast wasn't as bad as it could have been. The doctors kept checking their vitals, but everything seemed fine, so why weren't they waking up yet?
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She could tell it was dark out, but the lights were blinding her. Why was she in so much pain? Where was she? She tried to remember what happened. The last thing she remembered was…"Oh my God!" Aria quietly exclaimed. But before she could fully comprehend where she was, people started swarming her. Her parents, and more people she didn't even recognize but assumed they were doctors from the way they were speaking, but she knew that there were four very important people missing; her best friends, and the love of her life. "Where's Ezra?" She asked. From the looks her parents gave her and the looks that the doctors were giving each other, she knew that it wasn't good. "Mom, tell me…where is Ezra?" Aria started to sound panicked and her heart rate started increasing, causing the doctors to attempt to calm her down.
"Aria, Ezra received more damage in the explosion and he is still unconscious. The doctor's say that he will be fine, but he will probably be here for a few days, at least, while you can go home in a few hours since you had very few cuts and bruises. They thought that Ezra would be awake by now, and they say that if he isn't awake in another hour they will claim him to be in a coma." Ella tried to explain to her daughter in a way that wouldn't be too hard to hear.
"I have to go see him." Aria exclaimed as she started to climb out of her hospital bed. But she was stopped by her doctors and her parents. They were both telling her that since she had just woken up from being unconscious for four hours she wasn't strong enough to walk down the hall to the ICU. "I'm fine. As my mom said, I only received a few cuts and bruises. I can walk I'm fine. Let me go see Ezra." She ignored their protests and stood up. She instantly felt light headed and almost fell over.
"See, Aria, you're not well enough to walk down the hall. You almost fell over just standing up." Byron told her, as he was helping Aria steady herself. "You can't go over and see Ezra."
"No, dad, I'm going to see Ezra. You just told me that my boyfriend, whom I love very much, is practically in a coma and you say that I can't go see him? What the hell! I'm going to see him." Aria yelled at her dad.
"Ms. Montgomery, being a doctor, I cannot let you walk over to the ICU when you yourself just woke up from unconsciousness." The doctor in charge told her, but seeing the insistence of Aria he added to his speech. "However, I can let you go see him. You must ride in a wheelchair over and I will let you spend some time with Mr. Fitz, but you must listen to the nurses if they say you have to leave and anything else they say. While you are in his room, you don't have to remain in the wheelchair, but you cannot stay standing for longer than five minutes. You may sit in the chairs in his room if you do not wish to remain in the wheelchair." The doctor finished telling her.
"Thank you so much Doctor…" Aria realized she didn't know her doctor's name.
"Michels, Ma'am" Doctor Michels told her.
"Thank you so much Doctor Michels. Can I go now?" Aria asked him urgency running through her voice.
"Yes, you may." He then made a call over his hospital radio "Can I have a wheelchair to room 303?"
Five minutes later, Aria was on her way over to the ICU to see Ezra. She asked to go alone, but Doctor Michels requested that a nurse go with her to make sure nothing happens to Aria while she is there. She got to the door and was shocked at the sight before her. Ezra had bandages around his head, his left arm was in a cast, and he had a breathing tube. "What is the breathing tube for?" Aria asked.
"The force of the blast combined with the force of him hitting the ground partially collapsed his left lung. The doctors have done all they can to build it up again, but we won't be able to know how well he will be able to breathe on his own until he wakes up. If all went okay, then he won't need the breathing tube longer than an hour after he wakes up." The nurse who was attending Ezra at the time answered her question before leaving the room.
Aria asked for help standing up and she walked over to Ezra's right side and took hold of his hand. "Ezra, please wake up soon. I need you here. Oh, God, it should have been me. The car was at my house, it was my house that was destroyed, why did someone have to go after you and your car?" Aria knew that it was A that did this, but with a nurse being in the room she knew that she couldn't say it. Aria had tears coming down from her eyes. Seeing Ezra like this made it really hard for Aria to feel safe. She felt more exposed to A this way. "Ezra, wake up, I want you to protect me." Aria nearly whispered before going over to a chair to sit down, as she had reached her five minute standing time. "May I move the chair over here?" She asked the nurse. "I want to be able to stay by his side."
"I don't see why that would be an issue. Of course, I'll move it for you." The nurse told her kindly.
"Thank you." Aria told her as she sat down in the chair that the nurse moved over for her.
"It's no problem, Aria." The nurse told her as she went over to the other side of the room to the other chair and sat down.
After Aria sat down, she grabbed Ezra's hand once again and began to rub circles on the back of it. "I need you, Ezra. Please wake up." Aria would repeat every few minutes.
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It was nearing 7:30 in the morning and Ezra had been declared to be in a coma an hour and a half earlier. Upon hearing this, Aria went into a panic attack and passed out from the shock. She was certain that he would wake up. Aria still hadn't left his side since the time she got there and soon Doctor Michels came in and told her that she had to return back to her own room for some rest if she wanted to be discharged from the hospital by ten that morning. "May I walk back, please, Doctor Michels. I feel much better and I can stand and walk without feeling light headed."
"I suppose so, but the nurse has to walk back with you with the wheelchair there, just in case." He responded to her request.
"I guess I can live with that." Aria said as she stood up. "Ezra, I will be back as soon as I can. Please, wake up for me." She whispered as she leaned over and kissed his cheek. "I love you, Ezra."
As Aria was starting to walk away something stopped her. She could have sworn she just felt his fingers move against her. No, he's in a coma; he can't have moved his fingers…could he? She figured it was just her imagination playing a joke on her and she shook her head and reluctantly pulled her hand off of his and started towards the door. Though, once again something stopped her. But it wasn't her imagination that time. Ezra's hand and grabbed hers. "A-Aria?" She heard his voice faintly speak.
"Ezra? Oh my God! Doctor Michels! Doctor Michels! Ezra! He's awake!" She yelled out the door and right after this happened, Doctor Michels, along with a few other hospital workers, came rushing in and gathered around Ezra, making sure he was okay. Asking him questions about how he was feeling, if he felt any pain at certain prodding movements they gave him and other various questions. Though throughout the entire time his gaze never left Aria.
"Aria, I know that you want to stay in here, but if you want to be able to go home today, then I'm going to have to have you go back to your room now. I'll let you come back and visit Mr. Fitz before you check out though." Doctor Michels told Aria with a sympathetic tone in his voice.
"Okay. I'll go now then." Aria told the doctor. She then walked back to Ezra. "I'll be back soon. I'm so glad you're awake. I love you." Since Ezra could barely talk because of the breathing tube, he just nodded and let out an extremely faint 'I love you.' Aria then walked out of the room and went back to hers.
When she got back, she was met by her parents and her three best friends. "Is Ezra awake yet? You're parents said that he wasn't when we got here twenty minutes ago. " Emily asked as soon as Aria was settled back into her bed and they had talked about how Aria was doing.
"He woke up just as Doctor Michels told me I had to come back here. Seriously, I was leaving his side and he woke up. It kind of reminded me of Snow White or Sleeping Beauty. I kissed him and just after that he woke up, except I only kissed his cheek since he has a breathing tube and-" Aria was interrupted by exclamations of surprise to Ezra have a breathing tube.
"Wait! Why does Fitz have a breathing tube?" Spencer asked first. "What happened to him that it was bad enough for a breathing tube?"
"Between the force of the explosion that blew us backwards and the force of him hitting the ground, his lung partially collapsed. They were able to repair most of it, but they put a breathing tube in case something went wrong. But if all is alright, they should be able to take it out with in an hour." Aria explained to her friends. "He also has burns on his body, he got a pretty deep cut on his forehead, and his left arm is broken. I hate this. I should have just as many injuries as he does. But no, I only have a few cuts and bruises from the fall."
"Aria, you aren't seriously going to blame yourself for his injuries are you?" Emily asked her, shocked that Aria would feel bad for this. "No one could have known what was going to happen. It's not your fault that A person is bored with their lives and decided to make other people's lives a living hell with blowing up a car and destroying your home." She told Aria, making sure to put some emphasis on the fact that they all knew A was the person who did this.
Luckily at that precise moment, Aria's parents decided that they wanted to grab something to eat. "Do you want anything, Aria?" Ella asked.
"No, I'm good." She answered. "Before you come back, could you go check up on Ezra?" Her parent's responded saying that they would and they then left for the cafeteria. Once Aria knew that her parents were out of ear shot, and she knew that the door was closed and no one could hear the conversation Aria responded to Emily. "Em, why would A do something to Ezra though? It's because of A that Ezra and I are here in the first place. They could have just stuck to us four, but no. A has now, in the last twelve hours, contacted my parents, destroyed my house without getting caught, planted a bomb, set off said bomb, put Ezra and I in the hospital, and Ezra was in a coma. I'm sorry but A has gone too far this time."
"Aria, don't you get it? This is what A wants to happen. She wants you to crack under all this shit she is putting you through. You need to keep it together, not only for yourself and us, but for Ezra as well. If you fall apart because of A Ezra is going to wonder about whom A is even more and we all know that if anyone finds out about A,we will all regret it. So please, Aria, don't do anything that will make A do something even worse." Spencer countered back to Aria, hoping to knock some sense into her.
"Spencer, what could A possibly do to make things even worse than putting Ezra and I in the hospital, blowing up his car, and vandalizing my home?" Aria countered back at her friend.
"She could actually kill you, break you and Ezra up, she could do so much worse." Spencer fought. "Aria, you need to relax about this or A will make things ten times worse than it already is, and you know it."
"I know Spencer, but it's hard. I just want A to back off and let Ezra and I stay in peace." Aria replied. "I just feel so helpless. I couldn't protect Ezra from the wrath of A and now he's in the hospital for probably a week. I should have seen this coming." Aria was going to continue on, but a knock at the door stopped her. "Jason, what are you doing here?" Aria asked, with much shock in her voice. Jason was the last person that she expected to see here.
"I heard about what happened, I just wanted to make sure that you're okay." He told her, walking in and setting a bouquet of flowers by her bed.
"Well, thank you, I'm fine. I should get to go home in a few hours. Though, Ezra is in worse shape, he is stuck here for a while." Aria told him, with sadness filling her words. When Aria told Jason that Ezra was stuck at the hospital, Jason smirked almost a triumphant smirk, and all of Aria's friends caught it, though Aria did not.
"I'm sorry to hear that, Aria. I hope he gets better soon." Jason told her, sounding sympathetic, when in reality, he was bouncing for joy on the inside. It was no secret that he hated Ezra and the fact that he had Aria.
"Thank you again, Jason. And not to sound rude, but I really need to rest if I want to get out of here today, so would you mind leaving now? The girls were just leaving when you walked in." Aria told him, so she could get rid of, not only Jason, but her friends. She didn't want to continue the talk about A.
"Yes, I understand. I hope things get better quickly, Aria." Jason told her then left the room, followed quickly by her friends." Aria, then laid her head back and fell asleep.
An hour later, Aria woke up to see Doctor Michels standing above her, checking his charts. "Oh, Aria, good to see that you're awake, everything is looking good, and I think that you could get out of here in the next hour." He told her, smiling.
"Thank you doctor. Uh, Doctor Michels? You told me that I could go visit Ezra before I check out of here, may I do that now?" Aria asked him.
"I don't see why not. Just walk slowly, we don't need you passing out on us again." He responded.
"Thank you, I will." Aria told him, as he helped her out of the hospital bed.
"You're welcome, Aria. Just make sure that you are back here in a half hour so we can start your check out process." The doctor reminded her.
Aria was just walking up to Ezra's door when she heard voices coming from inside. "Why are you here? I haven't talked to you in over a month, and then you randomly show up to the hospital to see if I'm okay? You can't do that. I'm in love with Aria not you." Aria heard Ezra say, and she knew that there was only one person he would say that too.
Aria walked into the room to see the one person she didn't want to see more than Jason. "Jackie, I suggest you leave, now." Aria told her, emphasizing now. "You heard Ezra, he doesn't want you here."
"Aria, I was just bringing by a plate of brownies for the two of you, hoping that you guys get better soon. I didn't mean any harm. But, I'll leave anyways. I was only stopping by for a second." Jackie told her. "Goodbye Ezra, Aria." She finished walking by Aria giving her a death glare.
When Jackie was out of earshot, Ezra spoke. "Aria, I swear, I didn't know she was going to be here. She just showed up with this plate of brownies." He told her, pointing the brownies sitting on his bedside table.
"I know, I heard you tell her that. I believe and trust you. It's her I don't trust. Can we throw those brownies away, they give me a bad feeling."
"Of course, I was going to throw them away as well." He told her, handing them to Aria. Aria then walked over to the trash and threw the brownies, along with the plate, into the garbage can.
"Oh my God!" Aria exclaimed, as she looked down at the plate. On the bottom was a huge, bolded A.
AN: So once again, I'm sorry for the extremely long wait. I hope you liked this chapter please review. Next chapter will be done by the wonderful Ziva.