Chapter 2
The next morning Rory gets up and Jessie is still asleep in bed. She has a shower then gets changed into work clothes, and eats some breakfast before
her roommate woke up. Jessie has breakfast and a shower then gets dressed. They both meet the other reporters on the campaign trail and they're boss Josie.
"Good morning everyone, let's get going, busy day a head" Josie says to the awaiting team of reports, all egging to go onwards, so they could all begin their tasks.
"Morning Boss" everyone says in union, and is dismissed to their respected roles.
They all head out to begin their assignments, and they take a twenty minute break at lunch time before they head to a press conference, which Obama is holding at 1:30pm.
They all head towards the press conference, and Rory has a feeling that she is being watched all the time, not so sure why. They had reporter's coming in going all through the trail, so a new face was expected all the time. But one particular face, she remembers the most, almost like a creepy feeling that she can't shake away. She remembers seeing him awhile back in New York and also Iowa. Her mind twisting and turning, wondering if she should enquire with one of her fellow reports or see where it heads. A shiver ran through her spine.
Half way through the press conference and also while Obama's making his speech, Obama gets shot in the shoulder. A couple of other reporters are also shot as well. Including her, getting shot in the abdomen, and falls straight to the ground. The man, who had been following her, also gets shot in the chest.
The shooter escapes through the crowd, while Josie and Jessie are on the phone to the police and ambulance, which arrive in a hurry to help out.
Once the ambulance gets there the people who were shot, they get taken straight to the hospital.
Rory is in surgery for many hours on end, and finally out and sent to recovery, before being taken to her hospital room.
The doctor won't tell Josie or Jessie anything except that Rory will be in there for about a week.
Jessie goes and visits Jamie, her boyfriend who was also one of the reporters that had been shot.
While Josie heads towards Rory's room, and sits by her bed, but Rory is still under sedation and sound asleep.
Rory eventually wakes up to find Josie sitting by her bed.
"Hey there, you're going to be in okay, but you will have to stay here for a week" Josie informs Rory, hoping that all will be well with her soon.
"How are the others going?" Rory asks weakly, still groggy from all the anaesthetic that she had been given while she was in having surgery.
"Well Jessie is in with Jamie, he's ok. He has a wound on his shoulder, which should heal just fine as well. Joan is also fine, the bullet had actually just missed her, and so that is a relief." Josie tells Rory, making sure that she is settled okay, before making her leave.
Obama comes in, just as Josie is leaving and he stays for a few minutes.
Jessie and Jamie, pop into Rory's room for a short visit before a doctor comes in and asks them to leave so he can talk to Rory alone.
"See you tomorrow Rory" Jessie and Jamie said in union, knowing that something serious must be up, by the look on the doctor's face.
"Bye Jessie, Jamie" Rory says, shifting uncomfortably in her bed.
Jessie and Jamie leave, and head back to their hotel.
The Doctor closes the door and stands facing Rory. Not quite sure how the woman in front of him will take the bad news he was about to deliver to her.
"Hi Rory, I'm Dr. Pete Wilder" he introduces himself, with a handshake. I have some bad news to tell you. "We had to do emergency surgery to remove the bullet that had been lodged into your abdomen, which had caused you to have a miscarriage. I'm sorry to say that due to the umbilical cord having been ruptured, which we couldn't repair, causing the baby to suffocate; dying immediately. There was nothing we could do to save the baby. I'm am so sorry for your lose Miss Gilmore-Hayden"
"Thank you for telling me" Rory says sadly, looking at her hands, tears streaming down her face.
"I also have more bad news for you. Due to the extent of your injury it had cause you, you may not be able to have kids again." he tells her sadly.
"I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news Rory"
Dr Pete Wilder leaves Rory's room and Rory crys and ends up crying herself to sleep.
Rory is in Hospital for a week and all her friends and her boss comes to visit her while she is in hospital.
She doesn't tell Josie or Jessie that she lost the baby.
Finally Rory gets released and it is 2 weeks before Christmas.
"Rory, you will need to see a doctor and get checked out in eight weeks' time, to see how you're healing is going" Dr Wilder says, handing Rory some pain killers.
"Also take these pain killers when you are in pain, but don't take them too often and feel free to call if you need" handing her a white bottle of pills,
that she reluctantly takes.
"Thanks Dr Wilder" Rory says, and she watches him leave the room, and brings her hands to her face once more, and cries till she had no more tears to cry.
Rory is wheeled out of the hospital in a wheelchair because that was hospital regulations in Wisconsin.
She catches a taxi to her hotel room, where she walks up to her suite and goes to be, lying down on her bed deciding to read her book. She orders room service instead of going out to dinner with the rest of the reporters.
After she had dinner she decides to go to sleep but she can't, all she could think about was what had happened. She eventually gets to sleep and decides that she can't stay on the campaign trail anymore because she is so depressed from losing the baby.
Flashback to the press conference
President Obama is speaking when the shooter comes up in front of Rory, he starts talking on his phone and she can't hear Obama talking so she taps the guy on the shoulder.
"Excuse me, can you take that somewhere else, I'm trying to listen to the speech" Rory says
The shooter doesn't care and he shoots her in the abdomen and she collapses to the ground holding her stomach.
Jamie hears the shot and comes over to Rory, who is lying on the ground and the he gets shot in the shoulder.
Jessie and Josie are on the phone to the police and ambulance so the shooter runs of randomly shooting and hits several other reporters and snips Obama's shoulder.
End Flashback
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