Cody returned his gaze to the hospital door,hearing signs of struggle from beyond it as he heard more yelling.

"Let me in there!" he heard the female voice scream as the door burst open.

A tattered looking woman in a long blue dress was standing in the doorway,her hair ruffled so much,she almost looked crazy.

"You!" the woman screamed,running over to her daughter's hospital bed. "Who do you think you are,getting yourself run over by a car?! Making me and your father run down here!"

"I'm surprised you're even down here at all,considering how your lips are always glued to your beer bottle!" Samantha screamed back in reply,tears streaming down her face.

Samantha's mother leaned across her hospital bed and slapped her across the face,making Samantha moan in pain as her many gashes stung from the impact.

"Don't you touch her!" Cody yelled,pulling the woman away from the bed.

"And who are you?!" she yelled,squirming to get out of Cody's grasp. "They hardly let me in here,and yet they let some hoodlum like you in?!"

Cody felt his anger boil over it's limit has he smacked her hard against the face,making her stumble and fall to the floor.

"Cody!" Zack yelled,warning his brother to stop.

"No wonder she hates your guts!" Cody screamed into the old woman's face,bending over. "I'd hate you too! And frankly,I think I do! You wanna know what she does to herself...because of you?!"

He shoved his sweater sleeves up his arm and exposed the many scars on his wrists,some just starting to scab.

Zack winced as he looked down at his brother's arms.

"She does that to herself!" Cody yelled,pointing toward his arm with his free hand. "Do you see what you do?! Do you see the pain you cause?!"

Zack grabbed Cody by the shoulders and pinned him against the wall,just as he did when Cody had previously lost his temper.

"Ok,buddy.Just calm down.It's fine." Zack said soothingly,praying that his brother would just calm down.

"It's not ok!" Cody screamed,struggling to get out of Zack's grip. "She doesn't deserve to have a daughter like Sam!"

Sam's POV

I felt my heart burst.

Cody was sticking up to my mother...defending me.He was protecting me on his own free will.

I smiled,wincing at the pain covering my face.

But I looked down to look at my hands and screamed.

My sheets were covered in crimson blood,no longer the soft white that they had originally been.

I put my hands up to my face and then pulled them away,seeing the blood now dripping from my hands.

Grim comprehension filled my mind as I figured it out.My mother had opened up my fresh wounds when she slapped me across the face.

The blood dripped onto my lap at an alarming rate,the gashes bleeding far more then they should have.

'I can't be bleeding this much just because of my mother's slap...there has to be something else wrong with me!' I screamed to myself.

A puddle of blood now sat in my lap,and I felt myself grow dizzy.I had lost too much blood,and the sight of it wasn't helping.

I felt myself start to hypervenilate as everything went black...just after I saw Cody's tear-stricken face hover over mine.

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Cody heard Samantha scream,and quickly turned his head to find out why.

He gasped and his eyes went wide,no longer fighting to get out of Zack's tight grip.

"Sam?" he whispered,trying to get the image out of his head.

Samantha was sitting in her hospital bed staring at her hands,which were covered in almost as much blood as her bed sheets.

Her deep gashes quickly oozed crimson blood over her front,dripping into her lap.

He pushed a clueless Zack onto the floor and ran over to Samantha's bedside,gently grasping her by the shoulders.

"Sam? Sam!" he screamed,tears streaming down his face.

Cody heard her breathing grow irregular,noticing that she was starting to hypervenilate.

"Sam? Don't do this to me,Sam.I can't lose you.Don't make me worry like last time!" he yelled,his shoulders shaking.

Her eyes rolled into the back of her head,and she fell limp in Cody's arms.

"Sam!" he screamed,sobbing and burying his face in her neck.

"I don't feel a pulse..." he heard Zack whisper beside him.

"Hey! We need help in here!" Zack yelled,running towards the hospital room door.

'Don't leave me again...' Cody thought to himself,wrapping his arms around Samantha,forgetting the blood and the shocked woman lying on the floor.

Ooh.I wonder what's wrong with Sam...dun dun dun.

Geez.I don't why it took so long for me to write this chapter,but here it is! i know,it sucks.But please review and tell me what you'd like to see in the next chapter.Samantha's fate rests in your hands. :o