Chapter 7 – hospital

Kim was sat in the hospital waiting room with her mum, Ron's parents and also Dr. Betty Director. They were waiting for the news of Ron's conditions and hoping they would find out soon so they could visit him.

The doctor walked out of the room Ron was in and headed toward the family and friends and so called employer.

"Hello, is this the family and friends of Ronald Stoppable?" The doctor asked.

"Yes" His mother answered.

"I'm doctor smith I've been treating Mr Stoppable and I'm afraid to say we hand some bad news" he paused to let the family process the new information "Mr Stoppable has 2 broken ribs and one fractured rib. He dislocated his shoulder and broke his leg. The damage done to his skull could leave him brain damaged and he may suffer concussion. The damage caused to his lower back has left him in a state of paralysis. I'm sorry but Mr Stoppable is paralysed. At the moment he is at a critical stage, he might not make it through the night. "He paused once again before carrying on "you may go see him now"

The doctor left the visitors and carried on toward another patient. Ron's mum, dad and Kim burst into tears before they even entered the room. Kim's mother Anne could do what only a mother could do in these situations, she went over to her daughter and gave her a hug and reassured her Ron was going to be ok.

Ron's parents left the mother and daughter and went to see their son first. They had been there a few hours before Kim went in and persuaded them to go home and get some rest and assured the blond's parents that Ron would be ok. It would give Kim some time alone with her best friend.

She pulled the chair toward the left Side of the bed and held the blond boy's hand. After a few moments she began to speak "hey Ron, it's me now. Your parents left to get some rest and I said I would stay with you till they came back" she started to tear up "you better wake up or ... Or when I die I will personally beat you up in afterlife." She chuckled for a moment then burst into tears once again. Suddenly Kim heard a noise from the direction of the window. She turned and got into her fighting stance.

Shego was climbing through the window, trying to be as quiet as a cat but failing miserably, as she forgot how good Kim's hearing was.

"Hey pumpkin, chill it just me, how's he doing?" Shego said with discomfort. She hated to admit but she actually cared for the blond boy as he was her girlfriend's best friend.

"He's in a coma and paralysed and loads of broken bones but apart from that he's in top shape" She replied coldly and sarcastically she didn't mean to sound harsh but the only thing on her mind right now was Ron

"Hey, don't get stressy with me. At least I had the decency to come and see him unlike other people" Shego said. The last part was aimed at a certain blue skinned mad scientist whom she knew as 'the asshole'. He told her he didn't want to go because he didn't want the chance of getting arrested. Which Shego thought was rude and left him alone in the lair to visit Ron herself.

"Why were you even there? It's all your fault he's lying in a hospital bed fighting for his life"

"Harsh and isn't my fault at all. I wasn't the idiot who hit the self-destruct button"

"That's true it's all Drakkens fault" Kim said. She turned toward Shego with a murderous glint in her eye.

"Kimmie don't look at me like that, it's creepy." Shego said "Kimmie, are you ok?"

All of a sudden the life support machine attached to Ron started to beep faster and faster. Kim turned toward the machine and saw the last thing she wanted to see...

A flat line on the screen. She ran out of the room screaming for help leaving Shego in there. Kim ran in with a group of doctors trailing behind. All the doctors huddled over Ron's dying body. One doctor noticed the distressed redhead and the green skinned woman holding her close. He walked toward them with speed and asked them to leave the room which Kim rejected with force and by that I mean actual force; she broke his arm in two different places because she didn't want to leave the room and she wouldn't leave Ron alone. By that time they had Ron's shirt open and orange rubber mats on each side of his chest.

One doctor activated the defibrillator, while another was preforming CPR on him. Once the machine was charged and ready the doctors moved out the way. The machine was placed on his chest sending an electric pulse charging through his body making his body bounce in the bed. Kim started crying and Shego hugged her more and comforted her telling her Ron would be ok any minute soon. Once the doctor left the machine to charge again, they performed CPR again. The machine, once again charged, was placed on Ron's body making him bounce in the bed again but there was still no response. They charged the machine once more and once charged and ready to go, placed the machine on his exposed chest letting the electricity ripple through his chest with no success.

"Time of death 4:37 pm" One of the doctors called as the other doctors where switching the machines off.

"You can't just stop, carry on. Save him" Kim shouted as she tried ran to his side, Screaming and shouting at him to wake up.

"Come on pumpkin, leave him. I'm sorry but he's gone" Shego said with a tear in her eye. She tried to pull Kim away from the pale but still warm body. She finally left his side and embraced Shego, crying. The doctor walked in and placed a sheet over Ron's body and whisked him out of the room.

5 Minutes later, Ron's parents walked into the room.

"Where's Ronald" his mother asked the depressed redhead.

"I'm sorry he's gone"

"What do you mean he's gone? Tell me young lady" the Mother asked in a rude tone. She never liked Kim for some reason and she only 'put up with' her for her son's sake.

"Hey don't speak to her like that. She has just watched her best friend die" Shego said protecting her princess.

Kim collapsed on the floor sobbing. She was suffering hard already, but to hear someone say he actually died was the icing on the cake. To her it was no longer a bad dream. The word finalised his death. She would never see her best Friend again.

The doctor heard the commotion in the room and rushed in to see the red head on the floor crying being comforted by Shego and Ron's parents in the middle of the room bewildered. They didn't believe it, they couldn't, that was until the doctor came over to tell them the bad news that there son was dead.

Ron's mother had to visit his body in the morgue. she had to identify the body. "My poor baby" his mother said as she went over to the body of her son on a slab. She turned to her husband and cried till she had no tears left to shed. After a few minutes she kissed her son's head and left the morgue with her husband.