Chapter number 3. The heartbroken mother
"Is she ok?" Maddie asked racing in the hospital doors to where her mother who was sitting on a blue plastic chair of the waiting room of the hospital, Tony and Lucas were right behind her.
"We don't know yet sweet" she explained, "the doctors only took her in ten minutes ago".
"But she's still alive isn't she?" Lucas asked.
"Well they haven't came out and told me otherwise" Beth told them.
"Hey" Rose greeted a very lost Martha who was walking towards the couch she was sitting on reading a magazine.
"Hey" Martha said softly.
"What's wrong?"
Martha sighed, "before Dylan asked me why his daddy didn't live with us like his friend's dad's live with them".
"Martha I thought you'd already realized that it was going to happen one day".
"Yeah, but, I never thought it was going to happen soon. I got such a shock when he asked me, and then I came to realize that one day he's going to sit in the car on the way home from visiting Jack and ask why his dad's in jail, what am I supposed to do then, am I supposed to just say, 'oh he just killed someone that's all, no big deal'".
"Look we'll take it as it comes, ok?".
"Ok".
"It's more than just Dylan isn't it?" Rose said after watching Martha for a second.
"You know me too well" Martha answered, with most other people she would of just said nothing else was wrong, but over all the years she had known Rose one thing she'd learned was never to lie to her, she could see right through you.
"It's Jack isn't it?"
"Why do you know everything?"
"I don't, I just couldn't help noticing that you've been a bit on edge ever since you came back from visiting him.
Martha sighed, "while I was there, just out of nowhere Jack asked me if I ever wondered what things would be like if we'd both known what we were doing on the night of my coming up party, and then some how he got me started on wondering how things could have been if I'd done things differently".
"Oh, I see".
"Then I said something about what would it be like if I had never run away from Summer bay in the first place" she told her, "then he said a few things I can't remember, but the last thing he said was-" she paused for a moment, "he said we might of still been together".
"And how do you feel about that?" Rose asked not knowing whether to take it as a good thing or a bad thing.
"I don't know, after that I just asked why this was bing brought back up, and asked if we were still just friends. He had this look in his eyes like he was trying to tell me that he still loved me, but it came out completely different".
"Oh Martha".
"The weird thing was that he still seemed like he wanted to say we weren't just friends, but that it was too complicated".
"Serena?"
"Yeah, Serena" Martha answered, "I mean, I like the girl, shes not the person I first thought she was, but, I don't know..."
"Look things will work out" Rose comforted her.
"Yeah maybe one day, but that's what everyone has tried to tell me for years, but not much has changed".
"Don't say that Martha, have you forgotten what life was like for both of us just over three years ago? We were in slavery, you can't honestly tell me that not much has changed".
Martha looked back up at Rose, taking her eyes away from her hands that she'd been stairing at before, "Rose the circumstances might of changed, but life just a complicated, maybe even more complicated".
"Look, it might be complicated, bu Martha, you have so many people around you that love and care for you that you didn't have in slavery".
"I know" she whispered, "I know".
Back at the hospital in the emergency room Serena was being operated on. "Pulse rate?" the doctor asked.
"Normal" the assistant nurse answered.
"Heart rate?"
"Normal too, everything seems to be normal on this chart" the nurse told him.
"Then why the hell isn't she waking up?"
"Look, we should probably run some more tests, there's probably a logical explanation for all this" the nurse told the doctor.
"Yeah, where to start is the question, can you go check her medical history again for me, I'm just going to do another blood test".
"Ok, I'll be back in a minute then" the nurse said picking up her clipboard and leaving the room. As soon as she'd left the doctor put down the syringe that was in his hand and lent over.
"You better not wake up Serena, cause if they find out that I spiked your drink, or that I ran you over then I'm going to come after you, and your never going to know what hit you, you might have been lucky to get away from Sean, but your not going to get away from me" he threatened.
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