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Continued from Chapter 12

Bryant remained in her position on the couch when she heard the door open. It had been two days and Jack still hadn't opened his eyes. She really was beginning to lose all hope. She was beginning to lose all hope in everything. The day she thought her brothers were dead from Sweet was the day that Elijah and Skylar left for West Virginia. They didn't even say goodbye, they just left. She closed her eyes as she remembered Skylar's face in the chapel. She kept thinking about him a lot. Especially while waiting on Jack. The hospital had finally let her leave. She was back in normal clothes and every now and then she would get a headache. She lifted up from the chair when she saw that her brothers had arrived with food.

"You hungry?" Bobby asked.

"Not really." She sighed looking over at Jack's body.

"How's he doing?" Angel asked.

"Same." She replied. "Nothing's changed."

"Here you need to eat something. It will make you feel better." Angel brought some food over to her.

"I will feel better when my brother is awake and alive." She snapped not taking the food.

"I know how you are feeling right now, I want him to wake up too, but you have to eat. You hardly touched your food for the last two days."

"I don't care."

"Is this really all about Jack or it there more?" Bobby asked looking over at her. She turned away from him with a look of anger on her face. "Could it be that Elijah and Skylar left?"

She didn't answer him. She knew he was right.

"You going to answer me?" Bobby asked.

"Does it matter?" she asked not looking at him.

"Yeah it does." Bobby replied.

"Sweetie, they had to go back some time. They couldn't stay here forever." Angel knelt down in the front of her.

"I guess not." She turned away from him and began staring out the window.

"How's that head of yours?" Jerry asked sitting down next to her.

"It hurts sometimes, but then it goes away."

"You know, I know we haven't exactly been here for you. I know that you have been through some….stuff. Do you want to talk about it? You know you can talk to any of us about what's going on inside that beautiful little head of yours."

"I'm fine."

Bobby rolled his eyes and turned back to Jack. "Of course you are."

"What's that supposed to mean?" she snapped.

Nothing was said. "Why don't we talk about what is going on in your head then?" She snarled. "You want to discuss that?"

Angel sighed in front of her. "No wait, lets discuss what happened when you killed Sweet. You want to talk about that?"

"Bryant!" Jerry yelled.

Then there was silence.

"I need some air." She got up from the chair.

"Don't!" Bobby yelled.

"Why? Huh? You want to keep making me feel like crap? I don't want to do this with you anymore. Yes, ok. I am pissed off because they are gone. They weren't supposed to leave. Everyone seems like they want to leave me for some reason and it's not fair."

Bobby looked down at his hands. "I just want him to wake up, but I don't see that happening. So it will yet again be another person to leave me."

"B…" Angel got up from the floor.

"Don't, just leave it alone. I need to be alone right now." She told him holding her hand in the air. She turned away to leave.

Jack's hand began to move as he heard his sister speaking. He wanted to open his eyes so bad, but his brain wouldn't let him. She thought he was going to die; he had to open his eyes and tell her he was ok. He was fighting.

"I just want him to wake up, but I don't see that happening. So it will yet again be another person to leave me." Jack could hear her voice breaking.

"B…" he heard Angel say.

Angel. He was there. They were all there, he could feel it. He moved his hand again. Does anyone see him?

"Please!" he begged himself. "Just open your eyes."

He heard the door open… "Come on Jack!" he yelled. He eyes flew open. He was gripping the side of the bed.

"BOBBY!" Jerry yelled jumping up from the chair.

Bryant stopped at the door, but didn't turn around. She could feel tears forming in her eyes. Jack continued to stare wide-eyed at everyone. He gripped hold of the sheets to rid the pain he was in.

"JACK!" Bobby yelled.

Bryant gasped and held tightly to the door.

"Jack, you alright?" Angel was to his side.

Jack didn't say a word. Was she gone? Bryant didn't move from her spot at the door. Was it real or was it just a dream? She closed her eyes and opened them again.

"Br…" Jack couldn't talk.

"Jackie, don't talk." Bobby leaned down to him.

"Br…y" he wanted to say her name.

"Jack, you have a tube in your throat man, you can't speak."

"Bryant!" he choked out as his eyes turned to a look of pain.

Bryant shot around and looked at the bed. Bobby was blocking her view of Jack. Bobby looked over at her and nodded his head.

"Its ok." He whispered.

He moved away from the bed and she saw it. She saw her brother, her best friend staring at her. He was awake! He was alive! Tears began streaming down her face and she rushed over to him. "JACK!" she yelled. He reached up and grabbed her hand and squeezed. She began to sob as she brought his hand to her face. "Don't ever leave me again." She told him. "Please, I love you so much Jack. Please don't do it." She begged. Bobby's hand began rubbing her back.

"Welcome back." Jerry replied hitting his foot at the edge of the bed.

He tried to talk. "Jack, don't talk okay. Everything is going to be alright. You are going to be alright." Bryant smiled. "Everything's okay now."

"I'm going to go get someone." Jerry replied rushing to get to the door nearly knocking Angel over.

"Jack…" she whispered as she kissed his hand as tears streamed down her face.

"Shhh." She heard. She looked up and saw him half smiling but staring at her.

Suddenly a nurse and doctor came rushing into the room. Bobby pulled Bryant back causing her to let go of Jack's hand. She hesitated but Bobby held so tightly onto her shoulders, she couldn't move.

"Now Jack, I am going to remove the tube from your mouth now. It's going to hurt just a little bit but it will be quick. I need to you take a deep breath in and do no move until the tube is completely out. Ok, go ahead take a deep breath."

Bryant heard him take in a deep breath. She saw by the look on his face that it was painful. He began coughing as the tube, removed from his throat, came out. "Okay, let me check you out before you get excited." The doctor began looking down his throat, in his eyes, he looked at his stats on the screen. He rolled down his gown and looked at the bullet wounds in his shoulder and lower arm before rolling down the sheet more to look at the wounds on his legs. He kept his eyes on his sister the whole time. "Okay, you seem to be doing fine. You gave us a scare there for a little while. Welcome back. I will back with some medicine to give you. The nurse will also bring you some food if you like some."

Jack nodded his head. "Okay, I'll be right back."

"What happened?" Jack asked as he saw the door close. His voice was raspy. She could hardly hear him.

Everyone turned away from him. Bryant walked over to him and grabbed his hand again. "Jack…" she whispered.

"Bryant!" Bobby snarled.

"He deserves to know." She snapped looking at her older brother.

Bobby put his hands on top of his head and walked over to the window.

"Go on." Jack told her.

"I don't know exactly what happened, but Kade and Elijah were walking me back home from the hotel when I heard gunshots ring out. They sounded close so I ran to the house. You had gotten shot and they were still shooting. I tried to help you but they were going to shoot me too. So Kade threw me on the ground to protect me." The grip on his hand became tight around hers. "You were bleeding a lot but we couldn't get the ambulance to come any faster. Everyone was dying all around us, Bobby and Angel tried to protect you. They got everyone but it looked like it was too late, but you came back to us. We rushed you to the hospital and they kept telling us that you needed blood really bad. They had some flown in from Boston. Jack, we thought we were going to lose you because you weren't waking up and your stats weren't changing."

"Sweet?"

"He's gone." Bobby replied. "We took care of him."

"Everything is fine now." Bryant whispered.

"What's going to happen?" Jack asked.

"What do you mean?"

"With this?" he coughed. "Ya'll going to prison?"

"No." Angel replied.

"You need to be more excited to see us Jackie-poo." Bobby laughed slapping his foot at the bottom of the bed. "We got them. We got the bastards. You should be happy."

Jack turned away and closed his eyes. "Are you hurting?" Bryant asked.

"Just a little. It will past, just give it a sec." he replied squeezing his eyes shut.

Bryant looked over at Bobby who was preparing to go get the doctor.

"Jack…" Bryant let go of his hand. "Jack talk to me." She began to panic. "Go get help!" she yelled to Bobby who was already half way out the door. "Jack!" she yelled. His eyes had rolled into the back of head. "Please!" Angel came over to her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders and held her as the doctor came running in. "Save him!" she begged. Angel put his face in her head. "God…" she sobbed in his arms. Bobby came back in and grabbed her from Angel's arm and embraced her.

"I need a syringe now!" the doctor yelled. "Something is blocking his airway."

Bobby held tightly to his sister as he watched them stick the needle is his throat to open his airway. Bryant sobbed into Bobby's jacket as she held tightly, squeezing the back of his hood.

"Come on Jack, I need you to breathe for me." The doctor told him. "Breathe!" he yelled. It didn't seem like anything was helping.

"JACK!" she screamed. She tried to get over to him but Bobby held tightly onto her "Please…." She begged.

"This isn't working, I need some help. I need two ounces of morphine, I need…" Bryant looked over at Jack as she began screaming. Bobby wouldn't let her go as she fought to get to her brother. "Nooo!" she yelled. Doctors and nurse were coming into the room to see if they could help.

"We're losing him!" the doctor screamed.

"Get a room ready! We have to get him to the OR. Something is blocking his airway, we have to work together on this people. We have to save his life. Let's go!"

"JACK!!!" Bryant fell to the ground with Bobby still holding onto her.

Bryant was standing outside of her house as the cold wind began to blow. She looked over at Bobby who was beginning to saw wood. The boys were repairing the house. She looked over at Angel who was helping Jerry put in a window. She smiled as she wrapped her arms around her body.

"What you thinking about?" Bobby asked removing his gloves and walking over to her.

"What's going to happen?" she asked. "We can't go back to the way things were."

"You're right, but we can always start over."

"Start over?"

"Yeah, you know get a fresh start."

She turned away from him and walked over to the pole where Jack was shot. "What about him?"

"What about him?"

"Hey you ready?" a voice came from the door way. Bryant quickly turned around and sniffed back the tears that were daring to escape from her eyes. She nodded her head as she put her arms around her body.

"Hey Jack, man you sure you want to do this?" Bobby asked. "It's cold as hell out here."

"The doctor said I need exercise." Jack replied with a smile on his face. "So what better way to exercise than to walk to the school to help my baby sister graduate."

"Right." Bryant replied walking over to him.

"You better just not drop me." Jack replied putting his arm around her shoulders.

"If you get cocky, I might have to." Bryant smiled.

He smiled back at her before rubbing her head. "We'll be back soon. You guys are doing a great job on the house. Keep up the good work."

"You better watch it fairy, you going to be working yourself." Bobby pointed his finger at him.

"Its cold, can we go?" Bryant asked.

Jack laughed as he hopped down the stairs onto the sidewalk. "We'll be back soon. I'm sure he can't walk too far." Bryant replied. They began walking slowly down the sidewalk towards the high school.

"You better be glad your school is close." Jack replied.

She smiled at him but didn't say anything. "Hey." Jack whispered. "What is it?" he asked when she didn't look at him.

"It's been two weeks Jack. I just can't believe we are finally at this point in our lives."

"What are you talking about?"

"I never thought we get to this point. The point where our lives were okay for a change."

"Everything is okay now." He told her.

"Is it? Are you sure that something isn't right around the corner waiting to sneak up on us?"

"What could possibly happen? Sweet is dead. His goons are on our side now."

"I just feel like life is so fragile. I almost lost you once, I don't know if I can do it again."

"That is over with. Nothing is going to happen to me. You are watching me like a freakin hawk. How can anything happen to me?" he smiled.

She couldn't help but laugh. "Is this about Ma and Kade too?"

She nodded her head. "I just can't get over that I lost two very important people in my life in a blink of an eye. I think about them both all the time. Time has flown by since Ma's death and since the shooting."

"It has flown by."

"It should have for you. You were in the hospital for most of it."

Jack laughed. "You have to understand that you can't take what happened back. But look what happened. It brought our family back together. I heard Angel talking to Jerry just yesterday saying that he was going to stay for good this time. He wanted to watch you graduate. Bobby, well you know Bobby, nobody knows what's going on in that head of his."

"All we do is fight now."

"Well you two are about the same people."

"We are not."

"Yes you are. Don't argue."

Bryant laughed. "I heard you two arguing in the hospital. It was so sad to hear it but I know everyone was just aggravated because I wasn't awake yet. He is just looking out for you. He mostly blames himself for what happened. He almost lost both of us, you know."

She nodded her head. "Don't be sad anymore."

"I want Skylar to come back."

Jack closed his eyes and stopped. "You really like this boy don't you?"

She slowly nodded her head. "He was with me the whole time. He even came with me to check on you right after he found out his own brother was dead. Jack, he was with me through everything. I don't know if the guys told you this, but when Kade tackled me to the ground, I hit my head. I didn't tell anyone until it was too late. I was in the hospital as well. I had lost a lot of blood in my head and they had to keep me for two days. Skylar never left my side during that time. He was with me the whole time until the guys came back from killing Sweet. I turned around and they were gone."

"I know you don't want to hear it, but…"

"If you are about to tell me that I am too young to even know what love is then I don't want to hear it."

"Will you shut up?" he snapped. "I was saying that it might be for the best right now. You need some time with your family. You have like what three days until school starts again. Then you will be out for Christmas break. I want to spend time with you."

She smiled at him. "I love you Jack Mercer." She wrapped her arms around him.

"I don't think we are going to be making it to school at the pace we are going."

Bryant laughed. "You know I really didn't want to go anyway. I just wanted to get you out of the house and off your butt for a change."

"You want to go back."

"We can if you want."

"I am kind of hungry." He smiled.

"Lazy ass!" she replied turning around. "Come on lets go."

They began walking back towards the house. "Now that you've said it, you probably are too young to know what love is."

"Shut up!" she yelled with a smile. "Like you could ever know what it is either."

"Trust me I have plenty of girls who love me."

Bryant laughed. "I'm sure you do. You're Jack Mercer."

"Exactly my point! I'm glad someone understands."

"You are unbelievable."

Jack smiled before kissing the top of her head. "You know seriously, I'm glad you found someone this time that loves you for you. You deserve it. I just hope he doesn't break your heart, but I will definitely be breaking someone's neck."

She smiled at him. "I just want him to come back. We were in the chapel and he had promised to come and live here. I just don't understand why they left you know. They didn't say goodbye or anything. They just left."

"Have you talked to them?"

"I haven't wanted to. Elijah called a couple of times and Skylar as well. I am so pissed off at them, that I don't have anything to say. I just feel like I was abandoned you know, definitely during a time when I needed them most."

Jack turned away. "I just miss them, I feel like I am twelve again. I don't know, I just want this all to go away. Become something of the past you know."

"It will, I promise."

"I know."

Snow began falling as they stood on the sidewalk. "We better go before you sir get pneumonia."

He nodded his head. They walked back to the house in silence.

"You guys back so soon?" Jerry asked.

"Yeah, its snowing and we didn't get very far. Mr. Jack here is hungry and would like to sit on his ass some more." Bryant replied. Jack pushed her away from him. She laughed as she looked down at the ground. Her head shot up like something was telling her too.

"Bry!" she heard her name. She looked over at the house, all the boys were looking down the street. Tears filled her eyes as she took off running.

"Sky!" she yelled running to him. Skylar was already in a sprint, running towards her with arms open wide. She jumped in his arms as he embraced her.

"Oh, I've missed you!" he told her in her hair.

"I've missed you too!" she told him. "Why did you leave?" she asked as he put her down back on the ground.

"We had some unfinished business to take care of. We didn't want you to be away from your family anymore, so we just decided to leave."

"Without telling someone?"

"Yeah, we thought it would be ok."

"Was it ok?" Elijah asked coming up behind them. He had his hands in his pocket and grin on his face.

"No, it wasn't. We almost lost Jack. I needed you guys and you left, without saying goodbye. I thought I was twelve again being taken away from you, but this time you left."

"Bry…" Elijah started

"No, I really needed you more than anything and you left."

"Bryant, will you just listen." Elijah told her.

"We left to go bury Kade." Skylar told her. "We didn't want you to go through anymore. So we thought we would do that, pack our stuff, and head back here."

"What?" Bryant was dumbfounded.

"Oh, so you listen to him." Elijah replied throwing his arms in the air.

Bryant couldn't help but laugh as she wrapped her arms around Elijah and dug her head into his chest. "It's going to be ok." He whispered. "We're here now and we aren't going anywhere."

"Come on lets go inside. Its freezing and you can meet Jack." She replied with a smile grabbing Skylars hand. They began walking towards the house just as Camille and Sofi came out to get everyone to come eat. They walked up into the porch when Bryant noticed Bobby stayed outside.

"You coming?" she asked stopping at the door.

"Yeah." He replied with a smile. "You go on ahead, I will be in in a few."

She smiled back at him before nodding her head. She turned back around and saw Skylar waiting on her. He held out his hand with a smile on his face. She smiled before wrapping her arms around his and leaning up to kiss him. She looked outside once more when she saw a bright light disappearing outside and Bobby appearing in the doorway.

"You ok?" he asked.

"Yeah, I thought I just saw…." She laughed a little. "Yeah never mind."

He laughed her. "You are a strange girl."

"Yeah, well I have to be to be your little sister."

"I guess that's for damn sure." He wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"So you staying this time?" she asked.

"Yeah….I think so." He smiled down at her.

"Good." She smiled.

He leaned down and kissed the top of her head as they walked inside the house with the rest of her family.

Author: Sorry it took so long, I have had the hardest semester of my life. But I hope you guys enjoyed this story! Thank sto everyone who has stayed with it!! It means a lot!

PS If you haven't seen Twilight, you should definitely go do that! I absolutely loved that movie and the books are amazing!!

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