J O U R N E Y
Chapter 14: Hospitalization
Written by: BeneathTheSurface
Summary: Sequel to E X T R A H E L P. Twenty nine year old Gabriella Montez and her girlfriend twenty two year old Sharpay Evans are making a new chapter in their lives. Gabpay; femslash; GabriellaxSharpay
Dedicated to the person that gives me inspiration, my baby Michelle. I love you so much! :)
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What Happened Last Time:
Sharpay frantically paced back and forth in the parking lot of the arena in San Diego. Mark hasn't called back yet and she wanted to know the hell was going on with her wife and if she was okay. She feared that something happened to her and the baby, but she didn't want to leave that. As she thought all of this her phone began causing her to answer it quickly.
"Hello Mark, tell me she's okay," she asked in a frantic tone.
He sighed. "Shar, you gotta get back here. I'm at the hospital, there…there has been an accident and Gabriella isn't okay,"
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Sharpay felt her heart stop suddenly in her chest. It ached so much that she couldn't stand it. How could this all happen within an hour and a half? She wanted to know what monster could have done this to her wife and child. She needed to go back. She had to; knowing Gabriella was hurt and may not be okay bothered her to the core. "What do you mean, Mark?" she whispered into the ear piece.
He sighed on the other line. "I walked into the apartment and saw her laying on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood. Glass was surrounding her, so I know for a fact it wasn't her fault. I think someone may have broken in, but there didn't look like much of a sign of struggling, so she may have let the person in," he explained.
"No!"
"Sharpay,"
"NO MARK! You're wrong! She wouldn't let some psychopath into our house!" She yelled making the other people on the bus look at her in concern.
"Maybe this person wasn't a psycho, maybe this person she knew from her past and they just had a fallout. Did she have any problems with anyone?" he asked her in a gentle voice, wanting her to calm down as much as possible.
Sharpay sat there in silence and thought about it for a moment. Gabriella was one of the sweetest people she knew; there wasn't anyone that didn't like her, except for…
"Troy," she whispered. "Mark I'm coming back, just hang in there. I'll be there as fast as possible," without waiting for a reply, she hung up her phone and looked at everyone on the bus, who stared at her, waiting for her to talk.
"Turn this bus back around, we're going to the hospital," she said as calmly as possible. Everyone continued to stare at her, thinking about what's going to happen with the tour. "NOW!" she yelled, making everyone move as the bus driver made a U-turn back to LA.
She got up and walked back towards her room as Martin followed behind her. "Sharpay what about the tour?" he asked her.
Her face was hard as she sat down on her bed, placing her head into her hands and running her fingers through her blonde locks. "Gabriella is seriously injured and the baby may be dead for all I know," she told him as he looked at her with sad eyes "Honestly Martin, the tour is the least of my worries right now. My family comes first and without them…I'm nothing," she told him.
He nods slowly. "I understand. I'll issue a statement that the tour is postponed until further notice," he tells her as he gets ready to walk out of the room. He turns around and looks at her "Sharpay?" she looks up at him "They'll both be okay; they're fighters just like you," he tells her before closing the door, leaving the blonde in the room.
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Mark paces the room back and forth, anticipating any new information regarding Gabriella and the baby. He wanted to know if his best friend was going to be okay and her child as well. He wanted Sharpay to come now, but he knew she was rather far out north so he knew that he was on his own for now.
"Mr. Evans?" a doctor asked him. He looked at them confused for a second and it looks like they saw that. "Aren't you Gabriella Evans' husband?" the doctor asked.
"Oh no, I'm just a really good friend of hers. Her partner will be here as soon as possible," he says pointing to the entrance, just as Ryan and Chad came running in.
"Mark is she okay?" Ryan asked.
"Who are you?" the doctor asked.
"Ryan Evans, Gabriella's brother in law," he tells the doctor.
She nods "Okay well you're considered family, so I can tell you the news. The baby is fine, she must have turned, so she didn't hurt the baby. We actually have to do a C-section in order to save the baby,"
"But I thought you just said the baby was fine," Chad said.
"It is…for now. We have to do a C-section because Gabriella is suffering from a lot of internal bleeding in her skull, but we want to save the baby before we work on Gabriella," the doctor explained.
All three men looked at each other, knowing they were all thinking the same thing. "Is she going to be okay?" Mark asked.
The doctor sighed "We don't know,"
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Gabriella opened her eyes. Everything was blurry and she didn't know what happened or what was going on, but she knew her head was hurting a great deal. She noticed she was no longer in her home, but in a hospital of some sort. Doctors and nurses were running around everywhere and she didn't understand why. All these nurses were crowded around her and checking everything, but she couldn't hear anything. Suddenly slowly sound was becoming audible and suddenly she was being pulled into another room.
"What…what's going on? Where you taking me?" she asked to one of them.
The nurse explained. "We're taking you to the delivery room to do a C-section, so we can get your baby out,"
"But I'm not due for another month and my…my wife isn't here. No please don't take it out," she begged in a frantic tone.
"Gabriella, we have to. If we don't, your baby could die and you don't want that," the nurse told her in a soothing tone of voice.
"But I want Sharpay, please. Please can we wait at least?" she asked as tears threatened to spill from her brown eyes.
"I'm sorry, but we can't wait much longer,"
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As the bus came to a stop at the hospital after an hour of speeding, Sharpay quickly stepped out of the bus and ran into the entrance and noticed Ryan, Chad, and Mark sitting in the waiting room. She took a deep breath as redness from her crying was visible in her eyes.
"How is she?" They looked at her for a second, then at each other. "TELL ME DAMN IT!" she yelled.
"They're doing an emergency C-section to get the baby out before they work on Gabriella. They say she has internal bleeding and could be fatal to the baby if they let her continue to carry it to full term," Ryan explained to his sister.
"I'm going into that room," she said, walking down the hall and into the doors without the office person's consent. She stalked her way down there, searching every delivery room until she heard frantic sounds that sounded like her wife. She stopped and listened carefully.
"No please Sharpay!!" she heard and that's when she knew, where she was. She ran down the hall faster and finally got closer to the yelling. She pushed her way through the door and saw Gabriella with a bandage around her head to stop the bleeding for the time being and her crying hysterically. She ran to her and scooped her into her arms as Gabriella cried into her chest.
"Shhh, it's okay baby, it's okay I'm here…I'm here," she said in a soothing tone, rubbing circles on her back.
Gabriella's cries slowly died down and turned into soft whimpers against Sharpay's chest. "I didn't want them to take our baby out without you," she told her through her tiny cries.
"It's okay, I'm here now," she tells her, causing Gabriella to look up at her "What do you say we get this baby out and let it meet its parents?"
Gabriella smiles at her blonde wife. "I say let's do it," she replies, kissing her deeply. They pull away and look at the nurse, who is smiling at them. "Okay I'm ready,"
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After what felt like hours, Mark, Ryan, and Chad sat in the waiting room now with Gabriella's mother and father as well as Sharpay's parents. Taylor and Kelsi said they'll be there tomorrow, due to the fact that they live on the other side of the United States. They were waiting patiently for some answers, hoping that the baby and Gabriella were going to be okay.
Sharpay slowly walked out of the room and down the hall to the waiting room, to tell them the big news. As she got closer she noticed her parents and her in law's there as well, so she gave them all a small smile as they looked up at her.
"Congratulations to my lovely in law's and parents as well as Ryan, you guys have a new little girl in your life," They all smiled brightly at her as everyone gets up to give her a hug and congratulate her. After that all their smiles slowly faded away.
"So when can we see Gabriella?" Gabriella's mom asked her.
"Um…she's in surgery right now. There was internal bleeding where she was hit. She was able to wake up long enough to see our daughter, but she looks like she's gonna be okay. I feel it; she has to be," Sharpay told everyone with a positive tone of voice.
Gabriella's mother took Sharpay into her arms for a soft embrace "She will be. My Gabi is a fighter," she told her as Gabriella's father brought her into his arms as well. He definitely got more accepting towards their union after discovering just how powerful their love truly was. He wanted what was best for his daughter and he knew Troy wasn't it, but Sharpay was, even if she wasn't Mexican or a man; she's given her more love then any Mexican man could ever give her and he knew that.
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Back and forth. Back and forth, Sharpay went pacing across the tiled floor as all her family and friends sat in the chairs waiting patiently. It's been over two hours and still no word; Sharpay also yet to take a seat. She was worried that her wife wouldn't make it out alive, but like her parents said; Gabriella's a fighter and she has to make it out.
"Sharpay dear, you're going to scratch the tile if you continue doing that. Honey, please sit. We know you're worried, we are as well," her mother spoke as she stood still and look at them.
"Mother I'm worried, okay? I just want her to be alright," she tells her, sitting down next to the older blonde woman "This is my entire fault," she whispered.
"Oh honey, this is nowhere near your fault. How were you to know someone was going to do that to her?" Violet Evans told her daughter, putting her arm around her.
"But I felt that something was going to happen. If I just listened to my instincts, none of this would have happened," Sharpay said, spreading her arms out, showing her mom the hospital.
Violet sighs looking at her daughter. She looked miserable and it was terrible that she blamed herself for Gabriella being stuck in here, fighting for her life. She knew that Sharpay would trade places with her if she had the chance, but she knew she, of course didn't want her in the same position that Gabriella's in; heck she didn't like the position Gabriella's in either. She wished neither of them were stuck in that.
Violet got up from her chair and leaned down in front of Sharpay to look into her eyes. "Now listen here Sharpay Anne Evans, Gabriella would not want you blaming yourself for this. She knows this isn't your fault and we know that too. You have to stay strong for that little girl that you two have now and for Gabriella. She's going to be alright and I'll promise you that,"
Sharpay took a deep breath and let it out, looking at her mother with glassy eyes. "Don't make promises you can't keep," she told her, getting up out of her chair and storming away down the hall towards the nursery.
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Sharpay stood in front of the window, looking in at all the newborns. She spotted one that had the last name Evans on the plastic bed and a little baby wearing pink inside. She kept staring at it when the nurse that helped do the C-section came towards her.
"That is one beautiful baby," she commented. Sharpay looked over at her and nodded in agreement. "How's your wife?"
She looked up at her "I don't know yet. They haven't said anything," she replied sadly.
"I'm sorry," she told her. "You know, we get a ton of lesbian couples here and the partners actually don't get in to see their child,"
Sharpay looked at her confused "Well how come I did?"
"Well it's simple, some of the doctors and nurses don't approve of the union, so they don't let them in since gays don't have that right, even if they are married," Sharpay continued to look at her, waiting for an answer from the nurse. "I'm not one of those people,"
"Well thank you. I appreciate it…a lot," the blonde said, turning back to the window to look in at her daughter.
"It's no problem, I think that were all human and all Americans, why not be treated like equals?"
Sharpay smiled at her. "Yeah I've been thinking that my whole life, but I've just been wondering when that will happen,"
"Beats the hell out of me," she shrugged, making Sharpay giggle slightly. The nurse smiled at her "So you want to see your daughter?" she asked.
"More then anything," Sharpay said through the new tears that were being shed. The nurse smiled at her and told her to follow her into the room. The nurse brought Sharpay near her daughter and pulled her out of her bed, placing her into Sharpay's arms. She looked like a cross between both her and Gabriella, like it should be.
"She's so beautiful," Sharpay whispers as the nurse nods in agreement.
"Did you find a name for her yet?" Sharpay thought for a second. They really didn't think about names at all throughout the pregnancy; you'd think they would have. That's supposedly one of the best parts about having a child, trying to find a name for it.
"No," she simply said. Knowing Sharpay probably wanted to be alone with her daughter the nurse decided to give her sometime alone and walked out. Sharpay just sat there holding her. She had blonde hair, even though Sharpay wasn't naturally blonde her brother and mother were, so that explained it, Gabriella's little nose and definitely Sharpay's lungs; she could tell from when she was delivered.
But she was apart of her and apart of Gabriella. She couldn't lose either one of them; she didn't know how she was going to live if Gabriella didn't make it out of this surgery. She couldn't function without the brunette she loved more than anything in this world. They fought for their love and they deserved to make it and be happy; be a family with their daughter. She needed Gabriella to survive. They both needed her; their baby and her. And if Gabriella didn't make it…will she ever be able to live with herself? Will she ever be able to love again? That last question, she knew would be virtually impossible…
Okay so I know this was pretty sad and emotional and I probably didn't write it that great, but I'm hoping you're all enjoying it still. I kind of have been getting lazy and haven't been writing and I apologize about that, but I'm hoping to finish the story out in like one more chapter. Some people are probably thinking 'How is that possible, unless I cliffhanger it?' well let's just say, I have my ways. Anyway, thank you for the reviews I really appreciate them and I hope you guys review
