Here's the next chapter guys, the idea for what should happen in this chapter has already crossed my mind, but I wasn't sure if it would work, but when xxLady of the Darknessxx suggested the idea, I decided to go with it, so I thank her for her idea, she knows what she did. Anyway, chapter five, enjoy!

Wasn't Just an Accident

Two days ago, Troy, Lucille, Jack and Bella, had stood and watched with Ebonnie, Oscar and Anna, as Gabriella, Alex and Katie laid flowers on their Mum's grave.

Today, Troy, Lucille Jack, Alex, Bella and Katie, sat in a waiting room, with Ebonnie and Oscar, at their local hospital, waiting to hear news on Gabriella and Anna.

Troy had a meeting after school, so practice was cancelled, and Alex was able to give both Bella and Katie a lift home. Lucille and Jack were home for the day, and had offered to take Ebonnie and Oscar from Gabriella for the afternoon, so that she and Anna could go and get Anna some more school supplies, after school, and maybe get an ice cream.

It would have been a lovely afternoon out for Gabriela and Anna, but there was one thing, or one person, no one had expected to be part of the plan, Ethan Harper.

Ethan was on the run from the police for burglary and serious assault; he'd stolen a car, and wasn't stopping for anyone or anything, not even the traffic lights that were on red, allowing Gabriella and Anna to go.

Ethan sped straight through the red light and saw a car in front of him. He was going to brake, or swerve, or something, but then he saw Gabriella driving, and he did the exact opposite.

He put his foot down on the gas pedal, and accelerated as fast as he could; smashing the car he was in, straight into the side of Gabriella's.

He hit the driver's side of the car, meaning Gabriella took most of the impact, as the car spun across the road and smashed into a barrier on the other side.

Anna sat in her car seat, crying and screaming for Gabriella to wake up, to answer her, to move, but nothing worked, Gabriella wouldn't wake up.

Anna cried, and cried until the emergency services arrived, she didn't want to leave Gabriella, but the nice police lady convinced her she'd be okay, and that she would stay with her all the time, but Anna had to get out of the car so they could look at her arm, and because the only way to get Gabriella out of the car, was to cut off the roof.

Anna's side of the car had taken the impact when it had hit the barrier, and because of her car seat, the only thing the paramedics were worried about, was how swollen her wrist had become.

Gabriella had regained consciousness when they were cutting up her car, and had immediately asked for Anna. They hadn't wanted Anna to see Gabriella in this state, but Gabriella had gotten herself into such a state over it, that the best thing for everyone, was to let Anna come in the same ambulance as Gabriella.

Upon arriving at the hospital Gabriella had once again lost consciousness, and so Anna had been taken away from her, in an attempt not to scare her, and to see if she knew who they should phone for her and Gabriella. Her answer was simply Daddy, and after finding Gabriella's files on then system, the staff had established that Gabriella's next of kin; Troy, was indeed Daddy, and he was straight away contacted.

Troy had immediately contacted Jack and Lucille after he'd received the call, and they straight away said they'd meet him at the hospital. They all arrived at the same time and after telling the receptionist who they were, they were shown to a private waiting room, and told that a doctor would be notified they were here.

That was forty five minutes ago, so when the waiting room door opened they expected it to be Gabriella and Anna's doctor, it wasn't, it was the receptionist they spoken to when they arrived.

"Sorry to interrupt you guys, the doctor and his team are still with Gabriella and Anna, and all I know is that their injuries aren't life threatening. Anyway, you have a visitor, he says one of you phoned him." She said, as she stood back and Cam appeared in the doorway.

"Yeah that was me, sorry Troy but I'm worried about Katie." Alex spoke aloud for the first time since arriving at the hospital.

"Its fine Alex, don't worry. It's okay Cam you can come in, thank you." Troy said to the receptionist, as she shut the door on her way out.

"I'm sorry guys, I came as soon as you called Alex, I take it you don't know much?" Cam said, as he picked up Oscar who was tugging at his trouser leg.

"No, all we know is what the receptionist just told us." Alex said, as he moved his arm from around Bella's shoulders, so that he could pick Ebonnie up from her current sitting spot on his foot. "Listen Cam, I called you because I'm worried about Katie, ever since we got here she's sat in that corner and hasn't moved or spoken to anyone, I figured you might be able to get through to her."

Cam looked over to where Katie was sitting, to see her staring, blankly out of the window, with her knees pulled up to her chest.

"I'll go talk to her." Cam said, as he got up and gave Oscar to Bella, before making his way over to Katie.

He sat down on the chair to her left, and silently wrapped his arms around her, Katie immediately cuddled into his side, her face hiding in the crook of his neck, as she finally allowed her worried tears to fall.

Cam held her tightly and gently rubbed her back, as her tears slowly started to disperse.

"You okay, now?"

Katie lifted her head from the crook of Cam's neck and looked him in the eye. "Yeah, thanks, how do you know what happened?"

"Alex called me, he was worried about you, apparently you haven't talked since you arrived here, and let's face it, you're always talking." Cam joked, earning him a poke in the side, and a smile from Katie.

"That's more like it, now why don't we go sit with everyone else, rather than over here where it's kinda lonely."

Katie nodded and wiped away her tears, as she allowed Cam to pull her up and back to the other end of the room, so that they could get through this together as a family.

TGTGTGTG

Half an hour later they still hadn't anything about Gabriela or Anna, and Troy was starting to get restless.

"Troy honey, you need to calm down, I'm sure they're both fine." Lucille said, trying to reassure her son.

Troy was about to answer her, when the waiting room door opened.

"Daddy look, I got pink one, look Daddy, look!" Anna exclaimed, as she ran over to Troy.

"Wow, Anna banana, look at that, a pink one, does it hurt?" Troy asked, as he pulled Anna on to his lap.

"Uh uh, they gave me special medicine, right Nicki?" Anna said, turning towards the police lady, who was with her, for confirmation.

"They certainly did, sorry guys, my name's Nicki Smith, I'm the sergeant in charge of this investigation, and I've been with Anna here the whole time, is it okay for us to have a chat?"

"Yeah sure, Anna why don't you go and play with the others, just watch your arm, okay?"

Anna nodded, as she jumped off of Troy's lap, to go and play with; Alex, Katie, Bella, Cam, Ebonnie and Oscar.

Sergeant Smith took a seat next to Troy, as Jack and Lucille pulled up seats to listen as well. "Okay guys, basically Gabriella did nothing wrong today, at all, she was completely in the right, it was the guy who jumped the red light who all of the blame will fall upon."

"Wait, can you back up a bit, all we know is that they were in a car accident, no one has told us anything else." Jack said, obviously noticing Troy's confused expression.

"Okay, that's not a problem. Basically we were chasing a guy who was wanted, and he wasn't stopping for anyone or anything. He drove straight through a red light, the red light which was allowing Gabriella's to be green and go. He hit the driver's side of the car, causing it to spin across the road, and hit the barriers on the other, Anna's side of the car took that impact. Anna has only suffered a broken wrist, and has been conscious throughout the whole thing, Gabriella wasn't so lucky which is why they have taken so long working on her, although I am reliably informed their doctor will be here any minute."

"So Gabriella wasn't conscious?" Jack asked, once again speaking for his shocked son.

"No, on impact Gabriella lost consciousness, and she didn't regain it until they were trying to get here out of the car, at which point she got in a right state because she wanted Anna, we let them come here in the same ambulance, but on arrival she once again became unconscious, I'm not sure what state she's in now." Nicki said, just as a doctor entered the room.

"Sorry for the wait guys, we're a bit short on staff today. I'm Dr Smith, I've been treating Anna and Gabriella this afternoon, and yes we're related, she's my wife." Dr Smith said, as he took a seat next to his wife.

"Please feel for me." Nicki said making even Troy laugh. "Anyway dearest, we were just going over Gabriella's injuries, last thing I knew she was unconscious."

"Not anymore she's not, she just regained consciousness. Her injuries are quiet severe, which doesn't surprise me considering they had to cut the roof off of the car to get her out."

"They did? Anna didn't see that, did she?" Troy asked.

"No, I'd taken her away by then, she was in the back of the ambulance the whole time, she was very insistent that we get her shopping out of the car first through."

Troy laughed. "That sounds like Anna. What injuries does Gabriella have?"

"She was jolted forward and banged her head on the steering wheel, which is why she kept loosing consciousness, it isn't a big bruise, but it's enough to give her mild concussion. Okay, now I have to ask, do you know about her attack when she was a teenager?" Dr Smith asked.

"Yes, we were at the hospital with her." Jack answered for them all.

"Okay, that's all I need to know, because of the injuries she sustained during that attack, the bones that were broken were always going to be weak, which is why today's crash caused her to break two of them again, one on each side. She also sustained another injury today, one that has been causing us the most trouble. The impact of the other car into Gabriella's caused her to be trapped, which is why she was cut out. She was trapped by her knee, which had been impaled on something caught up in the crash. The knee isn't broken or dislocated, but the impalement caused her to lose a lot of blood, which not only caused a lot of damage to her knee, but also made her incredibly weak."

"Is she okay? Does she need surgery?" Jack asked, knowing about knee injuries himself.

"No, she won't need surgery, but she'll need a lot of physiotherapy, her knee was damaged because it was impaled, and because she now can't use it for a while, it will be come weak, and she'll need to build up the strength in it. But, we can't start with physio until her ribs are healed, because as I'm sure you know, any exercise will cause her immense pain."

"She's okay though? She's conscious now and everything?" Troy asked, anxious to see his wife.

"Yeah, she's fine, very shaken but awake and asking for you, but I think Nicki needs to speak you more before you go and see her, I on the other hand am going to speak to Uncle Alex and Aunt Katie, who are apparently very god at looking after Anna." Dr Smith said, as he got up and made his way over to the youngsters in the room.

"I'm gonna get straight to the point, we were chasing Ethan Harper when he ran through the red light a crashed into Gabriella and Anna. He looked like he was about to swerve around them, he even started to break, but one of our eye witnesses told us he took one look at the driver of the other car and sped up, he didn't once try to swerve or avoid them, he just drove straight at them."

"So he did this on purpose?" Jack was once again speaking for his family.

"It looks that way, but he hasn't gotten away with it, while I stopped to attend to Gabriella and Anna, and call for assistance, my colleagues carried on chasing him and stopped him, not to far away from the accident, not only did they arrest him for the things we were chasing him for, but also for deliberately smashing into Gabriella's car, he won't be seeing the outside world again for a very long time."

Jack, Troy and Lucille sat in shock, they were told Ethan would never be near Gabriella again, now that he'd caused her pain and had hurt Anna, Gabriella would go back into her shell. She'd have horrible memories of the attack and of the terrifying crash.

"Does Gabriella know what happened?" Troy was now even more anxious to see Gabriella.

"Yes she does, we spoke in the ambulance on the way here, she knows it was Ethan who crashed into her, and she pretty much knew he sped up and did it on purpose."

Troy had now had enough. "I want to see her."

Nicki nodded, she'd just put Troy through so much, she wasn't about to keep him from his wife any longer.

"Keith." Dr Smith turned to look at his wife. "I'm done here, can you take Troy to see Gabriella now?"

Keith said something to the children, before getting up and making his way over to the door, gesturing for Troy to follow him.

TGTGTGTG

Gabriella was asleep when Troy entered her room. Dr Smith had explained to him that they needed to try and keep her awake because of the concussion, but that the pain medication she was on would make her very sleep, so he wasn't to worry to much, if she kept drifting in and out.

He didn't try to wake her at first, he just sat in the chair at the side of the bed and held her hand, his thumbing stroking her knuckles.

"Troy?" Gabriella's groggy voice broke the silence in the room.

"Yeah sweetie it's me, can you open your beautiful eyes for me?"

Slowly Gabriella opened her eyes, and that's when it hit her. She started to shake uncontrollably, as tears came from her eyes, and she instinctively reached out for Troy.

"It's alright honey, I'm here, I've got you." Troy said, as he got up and sat next to Gabriella on her bed, pulling her into his arms, and simply allowing her to cry.

"I-I'm sorry, i-is Anna o-okay?"

"You have nothing to be sorry for Brie, so don't you dare say that again. Anna is fine, she's very excited over the fact that she has a pink cast on her arm for the next four weeks. How are you feeling?"

"Sore, I-I can't r-really feel much though, t-the meds they h-have me o-on are r-really strong. Does A-Anna just h-have a broken a-arm?"

"Yep, she's already got Alex and Katie doing everything for her, you know it was Ethan, don't you?"

"Yeah, he looked me s-straight in the eye and s-sped up, there w-was nothing I c-could do, I was s-so scared a-and frightened, a-and Anna was in the c-car, I just froze."

"It wasn't your fault honey, the police caught him though, he's in a lot of trouble, especially since I'm gonna have to buy you a new car now."

"Yeah, they h-had this neck c-collar on me and t-they said the o-only way t-to get me out o-of the c-car was t-to make it into a convertible, a-at the t-time I didn't r-really care, I was j-just w-worried about A-Anna." Gabriella said, as her eyes started to droop.

"Brie listen, you rest, and I'm gonna go and tell the others that you're okay, I'll come back straight after, I swear."

"You a-aren't gonna g-go home are y-you?"

"No, I'll ask Mum and Dad to take the children, I'm gonna stay here with you all night, even if they don't want me here, I don't car, I'm staying."

Gabriella nodded, as her eyes once again started to close, and Troy gently laid her back down on her bed, and made his was out of the room, to update the rest of the family.

TGTGTGTG

"Brie, close your eyes and go to sleep sweet lady, you need to rest." Troy spoke softly to Gabriella that evening, as they laid cuddled up in her hospital bed.

"I can't, every time I do, I see him."

"Brie baby, look at me; he can't get you anymore he's gone, and this time he won't be able to get to you again, the police are making sure of that. We got through this before sweetheart, so we'll do it again, step by step, you and me together, just this time we have four very willing teenagers to baby sit the children."

"Cam was here today then?"

"Yep, Alex called him, Katie completely shut off when we got here, and he figured if Cam could come and offer her comfort she might come round, she did. Now please Brie, go to sleep."

"You'll be here all night, right?"

"You know I will, I'm not leaving you, I told you that earlier, I'm gonna hold you in my arms, like we are now, and you're gonna sleep, do understand Mrs Bolton?"

Gabriella nodded, and snuggled against Troy as much as she could, just being in his arms made it feel better already, but she still knew there was a long way to go.

TGTGTGTG

There it is guys, chapter five, hope you liked it!

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