-Hospital room-

2 weeks have gone by since the accident, since Kari had fell into a coma.

Her once luminous skin, now ashen and colorless, her long blonde hair now singed and short.

Her body littered with cuts, bruises, and stitches

2 weeks since everyone, found out about Kari's not so loving, love life.

Leaving Caleb and Sarah to questioned their parenting skills.

Leaving Theo to wonder if he ever truely knew his sister or had her trust.

2 weeks of the boys refusel to leave the hospital.

Of the girls bring homework and visting everyday.

Of tears and barging.

2 weeks.

-Kari's room-

Everything pasted in a blur, from the ambulance ride to the surgers, his baby sister has been thru.

Currently He sat in her room, her hand held in his, willing himself not to cry.

"Hey Sis, Kind of crappy day, not missing much."

he babbled on about trivially things, before his voice cracked and tears fell. His head falling to the bed, pleading to who every was out there.

"Please don't take her, I didn't mean it , We're not finished with her, I could never hate her, please, just give me my sister back..."

His pleas soon became unreconizable, throu his sobs.

Scarlett slipped into the room unoticed and her heart broking even more at the site of the siblings.

"Theo"

She called gently as she placed a hand on his back, Theo didn't say anything just turned and wrapped his arms around her middle tears falling down his face.

Scarlett bit her lip to keep from crying,as Theo's quivering,muffled voice spoke.

"I should of been there, should of tried harder, should of been a better brother."

He held her tighter, as he added,

"It should of been me."

Scarlett wiggled out of his grasp, then droped to her knees infront of him, his face in her hands, tears she tried to hold back final falling.

"Don't say that, Theo, This isn't your fault. Kari would slap you, if she heard that coming from you. We did the best we could with what she let us know. Nothing you could of said or did, would of change that. Kari was determined to handle this alone and as a result she final got hurt. It will be ok, in the end your'll see."

Scarlett blurted out, her green eyes, never leaving his brown ones. Both with tears leaking out.

The two sat huddled together, before turning to look at the seeming sleeping Kari.

Pulling up another chair, Scarlett sat with the siblings, her right hand held tightly in Theo's.

-Meanwhile,Kari's mind-

Kari was lost, unsure of where she was or what happened. Wandering down a road in the late night , rain falls, as she came across a barn, hearing shouts and seeing flashes of light comming from with in.

As she nears she hears voices,

"You ready to say uncle? " Another voice sounds and it formilar to her.

"I'm ready for you to go to hell. "

With a shock, she reliazes its her dad.

She runs for the barn and slipps inside.

There stood her dad, an unknown man and her mom.

"Mom!"

Kari cries out as she runs towards her, only to be thrown back,powerless , forced to watch in horror as her dad battleds it out with this man .

What seems like hours, past before, her dad manages to defeat the other man and rescues her mom.

she follows them out and watches as the barn burns.

-real world, waiting room-

Theo shuffles into the private waiting room,his face clean of any signs, that he's been crying.

"Hey man."

Den says spying the younger brother first, looking up from the pizza the girls had dropped off for the boys and thier families. Theo just nodds his head at the older boy, before ploping down in an empty seat.

" was starting you got lost, Scarlett went to tell you about the pizza awhile ago." Charlie added as he passes the box over.

"I'm fine, just got caught up."

Retorted Theo, grabbing a slice and a soda.

Axel sat staring out the window, his food forgotten, his gaze locked on the setting sun. His mind wondering to happier times spent with Kari and the others.

"Ax, you got to eat, haven't seen you eat more then an apple, since we've been here."

Charlie's concerned voce filled his ears, but not really regersting in his brain. He simply stared outside.

"Come on Ax, we don't need another of us in a here."

Den added as he sipped his drink,Ax nodded his head, but didn't move to pick up his food.

Theo sighed, before walking up to Ax and forcing him to look away from the window.

"If you care at all about Kari, you will eat and not sit here and waste away to nothing, got it?"

Theo said/demand of the sulking teen. Without a word, Axel took a bit of his food, before barking out,

"happy"

"As happy as we can be, considering where we are and why."

Theo replied,sitting back in his seat and eating his own food, as they all fall in to an uneasy silance.

-with the ""-

The guys all stood out side, kari's room, watching, their wives, huddle around the injuried child's bed

"This reminds me of when they were new borns."

Caleb spoke, his voice horse

"I'm still head over heels for that girl and she could die....and theirs still not a damn thing i can do about."

All the remaining sons could do was nod at Caleb declaration.

Caleb's head rested against the glass, seperating him from his wife and daughter.

His eyes closed,as he prayed like it was the only thing he knew how to do.

All but one of the wives left the room, Caleb turned to head in the room, but was stopped by Baby boy.

"She's proved she's like you, Caleb , a fighter. She'll make it thru this."

Caleb watched them walk away, thinking,"Thanks baby boy."

He turns and joins his wife and daughter.

-Kari's mind-

Abulances and fire trucks had arrived, Kari watched, waiting for the body tobe brought out. But nothing.

She looked towards her parents, they looked worried but shrugged it off, as they turned to talk to the officer.

Kari decided to look around herself, walking into the barn.

She wondered around abit before tripping over a chared peice of wood, falling forward and onto the hard cobble floor.

"Wait cobble?"

Kari looked up and relized she was in a different place.

"Oh dear, Chase?"

A voice sounded from beside her. Looking over, their was the man her father had beaten.

"Gladice, help." Chase whimpered/raged.

A leggy blonde, came running to his side, helping him up.

Kari looked closer, he went form looking 18 to 30.

"Powers."

She thought, looking back at the blonde.

She stood about 5'6. hazel eyes and to be in her late teens early 20s.

"Barbie much."

Kari thought as she pulled herself off the ground and fallowed the pair into another room.

"Did it work?" Gladice asked easing him into the bed

"No, time for plan 2"

He rasps out, as he places a hand on Gladice's tummy and begins to mumble words, his eyes turn black.

Kari leans in trying to hear what he is saying, his eyes seeming stare into her own.

Kari is startled by this but can't look away ,as each word is said,her vison began to haze, just as she was about to pass out, she saw chase evaporate and Gladice looking at her with an errie smile on her face.

-Real world, Kari's hospitle room, middle of the night-

Kari's room fills with the sound of machines beeping as her body begins to convulse. Doctors and nurses fill the room, trying to save a life.

Heres another chapter, had to reload a lot a chapters for some reason. Hope u enjoy it.

Chase appears, Im sure some of you were expecting it and to those who werent surprise.

All my love and thanks,

Taffyrose