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Still and silent

Carla was confused, it was like she was awake but she wasn't. She could just about hear what was going on around her but she couldn't open her eyes for more than a few seconds before they closed again.

She could hear lots of yelling, by both Rob and Frank, and she could hear Michelle next to her, saying something, but she couldn't quite make out exactly what it was.

Everything went quiet and Carla forced her eyes open to see what was going on. Rob was standing over Frank, who was lying in a bloody mess on the floor.

"Carla, Carla!" She heard Michelle shout, "You need to stay awake till the ambulance gets here, stay awake!"

Carla tried to stay awake, she really did, but she knew it was no use, her eyes flickered and closed.

"Carla, Carla!" Michelle yelled before turning to Rob with tears in her eyes. "She won't wake up, Rob, she won't wake up!"

Rob was at her side in an instance, "Come on Car, wake up." He whispered. He heard a movement behind him and shot his head round to see Frank pulling himself up off the floor.

Rob grabbed his collar and pushed him up against the wall, "Not such a big man now, are you?" He spat as Frank struggled in his grip, "If anything else happens to her, you are dead, you hear me? You are dead!" Rob dropped him to the ground when he heard sirens coming towards the factory.

"Chelle, go get them quick." Rob ordered. Michelle nodded and rushed outside. The paramedics had jumped out of the ambulance with their equipment.

"Where?" One of them asked.

"In the office." Michelle said, showing them the way, hoping that they had got there in time.

Carla had been rushed straight to hospital, the paramedics hadn't said much, only that she had been put straight inot intensive care so that the doctors could run some tests.

Frank was also in the hospital, recovering from the injuries that Rob had inflicted onto him. He was also under 24 hour supervision from the police, and when he was allowed out of hospital he would be hoing straight up to the police station.

That was one bit of good news for Michelle and Rob, who had been waiting all night for news on Carla but had found out nothing. Michelle had told Ciaran to tell the factory workers that Carla was in hospital but not why, and definitely not what Frank had done to her, she would hate that.

A doctor walked towards them, "Are you here for Carla Connor?" He asked.

"Yeah, is she alright?" Rob asked.

"I'm afraid that the injuries that have been inflicted to Carla are severe, she has 3 broken ribs and her left arm had been broken and was starting to heal wrong so we had to rebreak it and put it in a cast, there were also some injuries to her head which are especially bad and have caused her to fall into a coma." The doctor explained.

"What are her chances, of waking up?" Rob asked.

"I'm afraid we don't know yet, the next 24 hours will be crucial. Carla also has some swelling to the brain, so even if she does wake up, we don't know if she'll have any permanent damage." The doctor answered.

"Can we see her?" Michelle asked.

"Yes, she may be able to hear you if you talk to her, it might help." The doctor said.

"Ok, come on Rob." Michelle said walking to Carla's room. Both of them were shocked by what they saw.

Carla's cheek was covered in a bruise, black bags were clearly visible underneath her eyes and her left arm was in a cast. Her bare right arm was covered in bruises all shapes and sizes. She was hooked up to all sorts of machines that were making loads of weird sounds and showing weird pictures. She looked, weak, broken, the opposite of the normal, fiesty Carla they knew.

"Hey Carla." Michelle said, choking on her words.

"Yeah, hey." Rob said, it felt weird, talking to Carla when she was like this, when she wasn't responding, when she wasn't showing any signs of hearing them.

Michelle went and sat down next to the hospital bed and Rob followed. "We have good news, don't we Rob." Michelle said.

"Yeah, we do, guess what? Frank's been arrested, well he's in hospital at the moment but he's under police supervision." Rob said.

"It's great Carla, he's gonna be gone and you'll never have to see him again." Michelle said, smiling even though a tear was rolling down her cheek, she hated seeing her best friend like this.

Carla stayed totally still, totally silent. Suddenly one of the machines started beeping and a bunch of nurses rushed into the room.

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