Leo looked at David in shock, "Please tell me I heard you wrong. Please tell me Roger Smythe isn't still alive."
"Leo I'm sorry. When Roger came to town he sought me out. I guess a doctor told him I was the best cardiologist out there. I didn't know who he was. I don't know how but he found out about Orpheus but he wanted in. He threatened to go to the FDA if I didn't promise to use Orpheus if something were to happen to him."
"David he was shot and almost dead you could have let him die you didn't have to save him. He would have never known." Leo wanted to punch David himself.
"I know Leo. I almost didn't. But then I saw how hurt Greenlee was. I thought I was doing the right thing."
"Leo. Ryan." Angie's voice interrupted "Can I see you two over here."
"We'll continue this conversation later David." Leo walked past his brother.
David sat down and looked back at all the people staring back at him. He never wanted to tell anyone about saving Roger but Leo was the one person he couldn't lie to.
"Angie is everything ok with Greenlee?" Ryan looked down at the doctor.
"She's not doing too well Ryan. We can't maintain her vitals. Her blood pressure and heart rate are dangerously low. Her bloods not clotting the way it should be. Now that's in part because she's in desperate need of a blood and plasma donor who matches her blood type and it's also being caused by the stress to her body."
"So we just need to do a blood transfusion then? Why aren't you doing that?" Leo wasn't like David he didn't know anything about medicine.
"Well yes and no. Like I said she needs a blood transfusion. We also need to get her into the OR to repair the damage to her lungs before there's any more permanent damage."
"So why don't you take her up then Angie?" Ryan was puzzled as to what was taking so long.
Jake joined them, "In Greenlee's current condition a surgery is too risky. She wouldn't make it out of the OR. Angie and I are concerned that Greenlee's giving up and that's why she not responding to anything we've tried so far."
"What? Why would Greenlee just give up?" Ryan shook his head he didn't believe it.
"When we got Greenlee to the ER she woke up asking for Leo. When he wasn't here she started to crash. She thinks she dreamed you Leo." Jake explained his theory to them.
Leo sunk down to the ground, "Oh God. I wish she hadn't seen me. If she dies it's all my fault."
Angie got down to his level and grabbed his hand, "Look Leo none of this is your fault. The love you share with Greenlee is so strong that she wants to be with you. We're going to use that to get her to fight again."
"How are we going to do that?" Leo looked at Angie confused.
"We're taking Greenlee off the sedative we gave her. She should wake up within the next few minutes. Ryan I'd like for you to be there when she wakes up. You'll have to help keep her calm and not cause too much stress on her body. I'd like you to tell that Leo's really here with us that it wasn't a dream. I think she'll believe it coming from you. Then we'll have you come out and get Leo."
"Guys we think this will help her accept that you're really alive Leo and she's not dreaming." Jake concluded.
Both men agreed to do whatever they could to help her.
"Ok. Before you go in there Ryan, I should warn you, it looks as bad as it is. We have her on a ventilator. The bullet caused significant damage to her lungs so the vent is taking stress off her lungs. Even after the surgery she'll be on the vent for a few days. We need to get her lungs time to heal. We also have a chest tube in draining any blood from her lungs. She's got a central line in and IV's in both arms. There are monitors watching her blood pressure and heart rate. She's still extremely pale from the blood loss."
Ryan could feel the tears threatening to seep out of his eyes. He fought to hold them back. He had to be strong for her.
Leo watched Ryan walk into the room, he wanted nothing more than to be in there with her to.
Ryan held his breath as he walked in the room to be with his wife. Angie was right she looked so fragile in that bed. He pulled up a chair next to the bed. Before sitting down he kissed her gently on the top of her head. As he pulled back from her he pushed a strand of hair away from her face.
He sat down next to her and took hold to her hand. "Hey baby I'm here with you. I need you to fight for us. Don't give up there's so much here waiting for you." Not able to contain the tears anymore he put his head down next to her and sobbed.
Greenlee hear someone calling her. Telling her to stay with them. She didn't know where she was. She heard a soft peeping noise behind her. She felt someone's tears falling on her hand. She tried to call out to whoever was with her but there was something down her throat keeping her from talking to them.
She could hear the peeping noise quicken it's pace there was something ominous about that sound that worried her. She didn't want to open her eyes she didn't want to know what was going around her. She remembered hearing a voice tell her how strong she was that she could do anything. She started to open her eyes facing what was on the other side of this darkness.
She saw a pair of piercing blue eyes staring into her own eyes. She recognized those eyes. Those were the eyes she saw before she went to bed at night and they were the first thing she saw when she woke up in the morning. She tried to call out to him but was stopped by whatever was in her throat.
She tore her eyes away from his and frantically started look at her surrounds. Becoming more and more aware of where she was. She remembered the shooting. Being brought to the hospital. Angie telling her they were going to put her on a machine that would breathe for her. The tube down her throat that kept her from calling out to him was keeping her alive. The machines she heard where telling the doctor what was going on inside her. With every breath the machine took for her she became more and more scared. She felt her heart tighten and hear the machines react to her fear.
She heard a panicked Ryan call out her name, "Greenlee! Greenlee look at me." Ryan watched as her eyes darted back towards her. She tried saying something to him but was stopped by the ventilator. He put a comforting hand on top of her forehead. "Greenlee listen to me, you're going to be ok. You're in the hospital. Angie and Jake are going to fix you up you just need to calm down."
Their eyes were locked on one another as he listen to her heart rate start to normalize. "There you go baby." He picked up her hand and placed it to his lips.
"Don't ever forget how much I love you Baby." She looked into his eyes there was something about those eyes that always brought her comfort.
"Greenlee honey do you remember what happened at the Chandlers?" she struggled to nod her head.
"Good girl do you remember who you saw before they brought you her." Ryan watched as she thought back to earlier that night and started shaking her head. He knew she remembered but noticed her heart rate was starting to become erratic again.
"Greenlee it was really him. It was Leo you saw. We all saw him because he's alive." She kept shaking her head not believing him. Ryan saw the tears forming in her eyes.
"Greenlee look at me you know I would never lie to you especially about that." He turned his head to the side and she heard him call out for Leo.
She tried turning her head towards the door but because of the vent she couldn't turn her head much. She could see the floor by the door to her room. There was a pair of men's oxford's walking towards her. She moved her eyes up with every step he took towards her. She could see the blue dress pants he was wearing. Then the dark blue coat with a matching vest. There was a white dress shirt under the vest and a blue tie. She then moved up to his face. She saw a face she never believed she would ever see again. It hadn't been a dream Leo was here with her.
Leo moved between her and Ryan. He placed a hand on her cheek wiping the tears from her eyes. "Hey Greens."
She tried to talk to him forgetting for a moment about the tube. He rubbed his finger along her cheek, "Shh don't try and talk baby. Just know I'm here and I'm not going anywhere."
Ryan stood up he placed one hand on Greenlee's leg and the other on Leo's shoulder. "I'll leave you two alone."
Ryan walked out of the room he stopped at the doorway and watched them for a moment. He turned around when he felt a hand on his shoulder. "Hey Angie."
"How's she doing Ryan?"
"I think she knows that's really him now. I'm no doctor but she seems to be doing better since Leo walked in the room." He looked longingly in to her room wishing it was him sitting there with her.
"Ryan I'm sorry. I know it must be difficult for you to see her with someone else."
"I'm used to being the only many she depended on except her father. He's been gone for so long. I know I should be happy that he's still alive. We were friends you know. But…"
"But you don't know what this will mean for you and Greenlee." She finished his sentence.
"No, I don't. I love her but I know he loves her to. They were inseparable. They were also volatile but once they got it right…man the love they shared that's the kind of love that people write songs about. I know she loves me but is it the same as her love for him?" he hung his head for just a second, "Have you heard anything from Jackson yet?"
Angie felt for the man she remembered how Jesse was gone for 20 years and when he came back he had another family. "No, not yet. We still haven't been able to get a hold of him. No one knows where he is."
Jackson ran from his car into the waiting room of PVH. He stopped when he saw the faces of the people there. He knew the second he saw their faces it was Greenlee that had been hurt.
"Jackson!" Erica called out as she stood up and pulled him into a hug.
"Erica. What happened? I saw the news and then heard your message. Where's my daughter." His eyes darted around the room praying his suspicions were wrong.
Erica held tight to him not wanting to tell him. Bianca stood up, "Uncle Jack…there was a shooting at Adam's…"
"I saw that Bianca they said six people had been shot. Who was it?"
"One of the bullets grazed Angie's arm. She's fine. Kendall was shot in the arm, Scott got shot in the knee." Bianca paused for a second trying to keep the tears at bay, "Uncle Jack Brooke was hit in the shoulder they think the bullet might have moved in to her heart. Cara and Griff have her in the OR now."
"Oh God Brooke?"
"She's in good hands Uncle Jack."
Jack didn't want to ask the next question but he had to know the answer. "Who else Bianca?"
Bianca took a deep breath in, "Marissa."
Jack pulled her into his chest, "Oh Bianca I'm so sorry how is she?"
Bianca felt the fresh tears leak from her eyes, "last we heard she was holding on. She was shot in the abdomen. They have her in surgery right now."
Jack held tight to Bianca and whispered, "Who else?"
She laid her head on his chest he could feel his shirt dampen with her tears, "Uncle Jack…I'm so sorry…Greenlee was shot."
Still clinging to Bianca he dropped down to his knees. Deep down he knew she had been hurt but hearing Bianca say those words made it true, "How's my daughter?"
Jake walked in and saw Jackson on his knees clinging to Bianca. He sat down next to them. He placed a hand on Jackson's shoulder, "I can answer that."
"Jake…" Jack looked up at him.
Jake helped the older man sit in a chair. As Jake explained everything he noticed Jack clung to Bianca's hand. "Jackson Greenlee was shot twice. Once in the back and once in the side. The bullet that hit her side punctured her lung. She's lost a lot of blood. We have her in a trauma room right now."
"Why isn't she in surgery?"
"Her bodies in distress Jack. Her heart rate and blood pressure are dangerously low. We can't take her up until her vitals have stabilized. There's one other problem. As you know Greenlee has a rare blood phenotype."
"Sure it's how we found out she was my daughter."
"We don't have any blood in the bank that matches her phenotype so we had to wait until we had a donor."
"You had to wait for me?" Jack realized what Jake was saying. He watched as Jake nodded his head.
"So my daughter's had to sit and wait for me to get here? Damn it! I should have picked up my phone. Is it too late?" Jack's eyes pleaded with Jake.
"We need to get you to the bank quick. While you're donating we can start prepping her for surgery."
"Thank God. Let's do it Jake."
Jack followed Jake to the nurses' station. They saw Ryan and Angie standing in front of one of the trauma rooms. Jack walked over to Ryan and the two men embraced.
"Jackson thank God you're here." Angie also pulled Jack into a hug. "Where have you been?"
"I'm sorry guys I was at ConFusion. I was ignoring my phone." Jackson had never been so ashamed of something in his entire life his daughter could have died because of his Erica issues.
"ConFusion? Jack did you drink?" Angie was concerned if he had a single drink they wouldn't be able to use his blood.
"No. I went there to get drunk but something stopped me." Jack looked in the room at his daughter. "Who's that man in there with my daughter?"
"Jackson that's Leo." Ryan told him while watching Leo with his wife.
"Leo? As in Leo du Pres? Don't tell me David saved him and never told her." Jack looked pissed.
"No, Leo says David didn't save him. He hasn't told us how he's still alive I think he wants to tell Greenlee first. David did tell us who his other patient was." Ryan braced himself for Jack's reaction. "Apparently David saved Roger Smythe."
Jack's eyes shot up at Ryan, "Please tell me that's a joke."
"Not according to David. He says he didn't know who Roger was when he asked for his help. We haven't got all the details yet but I'm sure Leo's going to get the info once Greenlee's ok."
"Yeah I'll be in on that conversation. Ok Jake let's go get my blood so you guys can take care of my daughter."
After Jackson donated blood he, Leo, and Ryan watched as Angie and Jake prepared to take Greenlee to the OR. As the wheeled her out of the room Leo and Ryan left Jackson alone with her for a moment.
Jack bent down next to her. He kissed her on the top of the head, "Hang in there sweetheart you're going to be ok. I love you."