Chapter 3

When the scans are done, the doctors explain that there is severe swelling around her lumbar spine. They say she may never walk again, but they also tell us that when the swelling goes down there is a possibility that she may be able to walk after a surgery. I check the scans myself, Coulson and May behind me also studying them. Fitz had wondered off after the Doctor had told us about her possible paralysis.

I turn back to Coulson and May, I nod and quickly walk out of the room to follow the orderlies as they take her back to her room. I stand in the corner of the room while the reattach her heart monitor and as soon as they left the room I sit beside her bed and take her hand in mine. My other hand comes to rest on her stomach. The scars there are still fresh and I worry. I worry about if she will ever be able to live her life like this, if she can gather up the courage to make it through this. She was just shot and almost died several times and yet this had to happened, she pulled through something she wouldn't have been able to and she survived and now she has to deal with this. I cry for her, for the life I wish she could live. I wish she could live like this never happened that she never went into the basement.

Coulson comes into the room and takes the seat across from me; his entire being is filled with sadness and sorrow. His eyes are filled with unshed tears and he tells me, "Jemma, Skye will pull through this I know she can. She'll fight this. I'll make sure of this. We will never give up on her."

I can only response with a nod when the tears start to flow down my cheeks, he hands me a tissue and sits back and closes his eyes. I haven't slept since…I can't really remember; I think it was when I was doing blood tests.

Hours pass and I try to sleep but I fail when nightmares force me awake. Doctors come in and out check her vitals, they say she is stable and wake up soon. But another doctor tells us she may get worse. I kick him out and tell him to never come back.

Fitz hasn't come back, Coulson tells me he went back to his lab and is refusing to enter hospital. I want to go to him and tell him, that Skye isn't his mother. That she wasn't beaten by his father. I know that he hates hospitals because his mother almost died in one. Skye wouldn't want him to be here, if he feared it she would let him stay where he is comfortable. I want him to be safe, I don't want him to have a panic attack like the last time his mother ended up in hospital while we were in the academy. I just wish he was here by Skye's side.

Skye wakes up in the early morning at 4am; she is confused and doesn't understand much but her hand grasp mine tighter and a tear slips from her eyes. The only word she says is my name and it's filled with sadness.

May stands outside the door; protect Skye and scaring away the doctor that wanted us to give up on her. May had almost snapped him in two when she overheard him talking to another doctor about Skye being a waste of time and resources.

Sleep finally takes me as the sun begins to rise and I fall asleep. I manage to sleep for more than an hour and Coulson had gone and gotten me tea and a sandwich to eat telling me not to wear myself down.

Skye's new doctor come in and tells us that they want to put Skye in medically induced a coma and on a ventilator so she doesn't move her spine the swelling will go down fast. He also warn us that there is a possibility of infection but they are hoping the antibiotic will prevent it.

Coulson agrees and I go back to the corner of the room while they begin to put her on the ventilator, and they stabilize her spine. I worry that if they move her the wrong way she will never walk again. They leave the room as soon as they are finished and I move back to her bedside and the waiting game begins.

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