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Another pretty long chapter, you get to see what happens to Laura…..
I've been writing this whole weekend, literally from 1 to 7pm non stop, but I finally (almost) finished two amazingly long chapters, which I'm really really proud of and can't wait for you guys to read
For everyone who's watching tonight's episode, enjoy! I'll be watching tomorrow
''Ross…''
And then she's gone.
''LAURA!'' Ross yells and skates toward the ice-hole rapidly. He suddenly remembers that the ice must be thin around the spot so he grabs the stick lying next to him to divide his weight over the thin ice. Once he finally reaches the hole, he looks in it to discover it's pitch black.
''Call an ambulance!'' he yells over his shoulder. Around him, all the extras stopped skating and are now coming closer to him. The camera had stopped filming as soon as they saw what happened. He kicks off his skates as quickly as he can. ''Don't come closer, the ice is weak here.''
When he turns his attention back to the hole, he sees little bubbles coming to the surface of the water. Grabbing his stick in one hand, he sticks one arm in the water, hoping she's still able to grab his hand. Suddenly, he feels her grab him tightly and pulls his arm out of the water carefully. Her head appears, letting out small, shaky breaths while she looks at him with wide eyes.
''It's gonna be okay, Laur, I got you,'' he tries to calm her down as much as he can. Quickly noticing he won't be able to pull her out of the water himself, he lowers the stick in the water and waits till her hands grab it. He stays seated on the ice while collecting all his strength to pull her out. ''Use your legs to get on the ice.
As soon as she's on the ice, he notices something is wrong. She's not moving herself up any more, her grab around the stick is loosened and her eyes are closed. He pulls her arms some more until she's on a safe distance from the hole in the ice and turns her around so she's on her back. Putting his arms under her knees and shoulders, he lifts her up to walk to the closest edge of the ice and puts her down in the grass carefully.
Her skin is paler than usual, her lips a purple kind of shade and she's, surprisingly, not shaking. He places his jacket under her head before leaning down so his ear is right above her slightly parted lips. ''She's barely breathing,'' he zips her jacket open and puts his ear on her chest, to listen to her heartbeat. ''and her heartbeat is too low.''
''Do you know CPR?'' Someone in the crowd asks him in which he nods. He lowers his head to start the procedure when a loud siren is making him look up. An ambulance with big flashing lights had arrived to the lake and two men with a stretcher are running their way.
''What happened?'' one of them asks them while the other checks her pulse.
''She fell through the ice, I pulled her out but she's unconscious,'' Ross explains him quickly. The man nods approvingly, turns to Laura and helps his colleague to pull her on the stretcher. Ross runs after them as they roll her to the ambulance.
''She needs to go to the hospital as soon as possible, her blood pressure is dangerously low,'' one man says in which the other nods. They step in after her and are about to close the doors when Ross stops them.
''No! I need to come with, I'm her… I'm-'' he stutters, not finding the right words to describe what he's trying to say.
They look at each other, silently discussing the request when they look at him with a sad smile.
''Climb in, son,'' one of them says before putting hand out to help him in the small space. Ross pulls himself in and looks down at Laura. He takes a seat on a small bench next to her lying body and grabs her hand which is hanging off the stretcher on his side with both hands. Trembling with shock, he runs his thumb over the palm, hanging his head down.
''I'm sorry, Laur, this is all my fault,'' he mumbles softly, more to himself than to her. The two men exchange a look before one puts a hand on his shoulder.
''She's not in a critical condition, she's gonna be okay.''
He couldn't even hear them.
Darkness
Nothing but darkness
The last thing she remembers was Ross's worried eyes and a cold wave splashing over her, feeling like a thousand needles piercing in her skin.
She tries to open her eyes, but the light blinds her, causing her to squeeze her eyes shut. A headache rises in her head when she forces her eyes to get used to the bright light hanging over her. She notices she's sitting straight in a bed, surrounded by white walls and a shiny floor. Trying to move all of her muscles, one at the time, she feels something holding her right hand. She quickly moves her head in the direction to reveal someone holding her hand with his left one while sitting on a chair next to her, leaning his other arm on small space next to her body and his head buried in his elbow.
His blond hair covers his eyes messily and he looks exhausted. She smiles at his sleeping form and decides to wake him up.
''Ross,'' whispering, she gives his hand a small squeeze. His eyes open lazily and he shakes his head a little bit, like he's trying to find out where the sound comes from. He shoots up when he realizes that's Laura who's calling him. When he looks at her, he, indeed, sees her looking at him with a smile on her lips.
''Laura,'' he breaths thankfully and stands up rapidly to sit next to her on the bed. Looking at her worried, he inspects her face. The colour had come back, a blush reappearing on her cheeks and her lips were the same dark pink he knew. ''How are you feeling?''
''I feel fine, don't worry about me. How about you, how long have you been sitting here?'' she asks him, nodding at the quite uncomfortable looking chair he had been sitting on for an unknown time.
''You were unconscious for a few hours, Kevin and Heath came over too but had to return to the hotel to work on the movie. Raini and Calum have been shooting so they couldn't come, but I've been waiting here so you wouldn't be alone when you woke up,'' he explains, looking at her shyly. She gapes at him with an adoring look in her eyes. ''Do you even remember what happened?''
Thinking back, her headache rises again, causing her to squeeze her eyes close and she shakes her head slowly.
''You fell through the ice,'' her eyes snap open to look Ross in the eyes. He looks at her sadly, almost apologetic. ''It was my fault, that's why I stayed with you this whole time, I felt so guilty.''
''I doubt it was your fault, Ross, nobody could've known-'' she assures him before he shakes his head and interrupts her.
''You wanted to stop but I pushed you to stay a little while longer, while we were on ice that wasn't thick enough,'' he looks at their hands, still intertwined, unable to look at her directly. Laura squeezes his hand encouragingly and tries to lean towards him, but stops when her head starts to pound painfully.
''What are you doing?'' Ross asks her laughing, in which she pouts.
''I was gonna give you a hug. You'll get that later,'' she smiles at him in which he just shakes his head while rolling his eyes. Leaning his body toward hers, he wraps his free arm around her shoulders to press her against him. He hears her giggling in his ear when she presses her head against his shoulder. She brings his hand up to rest against her neck as they linger in the hug for a few seconds.
''I see you're awake, Miss Marano.''
A sudden voice makes them both snap back to reality and they release each other, except for the intertwined hands. An older man with greying hair in a long, white coat stands in front of the bed, looking at the two while holding a clipboard.
''I'll just go get something from the cafeteria. Do you want anything?'' Ross asks her awkwardly in which she shakes his head. Their hands detach as Ross excuses himself and walks out the room. Laura turns her attention to the doctor.
''You're really lucky to have him, Miss. He hasn't let go of your hand since you got in that ambulance,'' he states while looking at him disappearing in the hallway. Laura notices how he implies it and shakes her head while smiling.
''Oh, no, he's not my-. I mean we're not together-'' she stars explaining to him but his attention is not on her anymore. Instead, he's studying the information on the clipboard.
''If it wasn't for him, you could have been in a life endangering condition. You might be in a coma, for all we know,'' he looks at her gaping and quickly excuses himself. ''I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention to scare you. You should just know that he saved your life.''
''Ross saved my life?'' she looks at him unbelievingly. He stares back, with his head tilted.
''You didn't know? Your boyfriend got you out of that ice-hole. You were unconscious when you got out and he was about to perform CPR on you when the ambulance arrived. Normally, we are only allowed to bring direct family members with us, but when he told us he was your boyfriend, we turned a blind eye.''
''He told you what?'' Laura looks down at her hand, which was still tingling from the loss of touch.
''Now, for you condition. You were diagnosed with hypothermia, which means your body temperature drops to a dangerously low level, which in your case was 72 ᵒF. We gave you a heart-lung bypass, which caused your body temperature to rise quickly. You're allowed to return home but we advise you to take a warm bath. It's normal if you still feel a little shaky, but that should do it. Is there anything we can do for you?''
''Yeah, I need to see Ross.''
They had taken a cab back to the hotel and as they remained silent the whole ride. Back in her room, Raini, Calum and the crew had visited her, hugging, crying and talking for a while. Later she excused herself to take a hot bath as the doctor had recommended. Ross hadn't shown himself anymore.
After a long phone call with her mom, filled with tears and 'I love you's', they had hang up, tired from the extremely busy day. But Laura couldn't quite fall asleep yet, feeling there was one more thing to do.
Dressed in her improvised pyjama, Ross's oversized sweater that was still lying in her room, she knocks on his door. Checking the time, she sees it's almost midnight and she's about to turn around, figuring he must already be sleeping when she hears his voice on the other side of the door. She listens closely to find a second voice, belonging to another person but she can't hear it. The sound comes closer as his door suddenly swings open.
''Hey,'' he silently mouths to her, holding his phone to his ear and hold the door open for her to enter. She shuffles inside on her bare feet as she looks at him, dressed in sweatpants and an old shirt. She walks to the window to look outside, the dark city being lit up by the nightlife lights.
''She's okay now,'' Ross looks at Laura as she's standing with her back turned to him. She looks extremely vulnerable in his oversized sweater, bare legs, damp hair falling over her shoulders in strings and her big brown eyes looking into the night. ''No, she's here actually. Mom, I don't think she feels like talking about it again, it's late. ''…'' Yeah, I love you too. Bye.''
She feels him walking up behind her as she turns around and looks up.
''Why didn't you tell me you were the one that got me out?'' she tilts her head as she looks at him questioning. ''And that you told them you were my boyfriend,'' he looks at her speechless before answering her slowly.
''I didn't want you to feel obligated to be thankful, I mean, they made it seem like a bigger thing than it was,'' Ross admits while rubbing his neck. ''And the second thing, it was the only way they would let me go in the ambulance with you. I couldn't let you go there on your own, besides-'' his sentence was cut short by the small figure attacking him by running up to him and wrapping her short arms around his waist. He felt like this was a request to stop talking so he didn't speak any more. Instead, he wrapped his arms around her as they swayed a little, her cheek resting on the base of his neck and his face in her hair.
''I told you I really needed you. Who would've thought you'd actually save my life a few days later?'' she jokingly asks him as he chuckles in her hair. After a few seconds of silence she gets serious again. ''I never really got the chance to thank you. So, thank you.''
''Don't mention it,'' he tells her as he loosens his grip around her shoulders to look at her smiling. She looks up for a second before lifting herself up her toes and grabbing his shoulders to press a kiss on his cheek.
''Night, Ross,'' she looks at his frozen form before walking out of the room and entering hers. Ross stays in the same position for a few seconds after she leaves, wide eyes, gaping mouth, cheeks red and his mind replaying the last few seconds of their meeting.
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Okay before you all start throwing stuff at me, let me explain
I know I've made a pretty big deal about not writing clichés and stuff, but c'mon
Ross being the hero, holding her hand, I couldn't pass up that opportunity
So yea, I included a hospital in this story. Let's just forget about it and move on with our lives
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chapter 16
i really love it, i saw this on Tumblr and i thought why not give it a chance, and because of that it turned out that i love it, congrats from Spain, i really love it, i read it all in a few hours, keep going you're amazing. And Love all the Raura interactions, as i Raura shipper i'm freaking out with this. love you - YAY A NEW NAME WHICH MEANS A NEW FRIEND HEY NEW FRIEND! Go tumblr for spreading my story ahahah, thanks for giving it a chance! A Spanish mate, huh? Means we're not that far apart. And that you're probably sleeping when I upload it. In that case, good morning! I'm wandering…. Anyhow, welcome!
missmia10 chapter 16
This chapter was great! It kinda sounds roughly like a oneshot I wrote on Wikia but of course yours is way better! On mine Ally broke her leg. You did a great job at writing the Austin and Ally scenes (well also the whole fanfic but especially A&A). You really are a great writer. Please update soon I can't wait! I hope Laura ends up ok... You're kidding omg twinsies! If you want, you can send me the link, I'd love to read it! Thanks so much sweetie, well you read it, Laura ends up fine, thanks to hero Ross
sicklscaler chapter 16 . Feb 14
That was an awesome chapter! Loved the end not for Ally though, gotta have that next update soon! Have you come up with what to do about the two villians yet? When is he letting Ally know? Loved to see this update and would love to see the continuation. - Yeah, poor Ally, right? I actually have not yet… I have more important stuff on my mind right now, like Raura. Nah, just kidding, that's important too, but I'm focussing on Raura at the moment. Gotta give it some thought!
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