Kendall leaned on Zach as they walked toward the waiting room. Frankie had removed the bullet from her arm just a few hours ago. He recommended she spend a few days in the hospital and rest. She of course had other ideas. As soon as the drug wore off she told Zach she wanted to be with her family.
They walked in as Jackson and Angie embraced. Kendall saw her mother watching them. "Mom? What's going on?
"Kendall! Shouldn't you be in your room resting?" Erica stood up and hugged her daughter.
"Mom I was shot in the arm I'll be fine. I wanted to be here with everyone else and make sure everyone else is ok to."
They watched as Ryan placed a hand on Angie's shoulder, "Greenlee's going to be ok?" his eyes pleaded with her for assurance.
Angie asked Ryan to sit with Jackson as she told them about the surgery, "As I told you before the surgery there was substantial damage to her lungs from the bullet. Our first goal was to go in and remove the bullet and repair any damage to her lungs as well as explore the entrance wound to make sure there was no other major damage. We were able to repair the damage to her lungs. We will be keeping her on the ventilator for a few days just to let her lungs heal and take the stress off her body. The other concern of course was the bullet that hit her back. We were concerned that the bullet may have hit where she injured her back in the motorcycle accident."
David perked up when she mentioned the motorcycle accident. He had fought hard with her and for her after the accident and had called in a specialist to repair her spine. He prayed she wouldn't be paralyzed again remembering how difficult her recovery had been.
"Please excuse the pun but we dodged a bullet here. There was no damage to her spine from the bullet. She will have some weakness in her legs and back. She'll need to go through some physical therapy to regain that strength and build back up the muscle that the bullet damaged."
"Can I see her?" Jackson longed to see her for himself to know she was really going to be ok.
Angie looked at all of Greenlee's loved ones all wanting to see her.
"Of course Jack. For now I want to keep it to just a few people visiting her. Too many visitors could cause stress on her body. For now we'll limit it to you Jack, Ryan, and Leo." Angie could see Ryan gringe at her saying Leo could visit but Angie knew that Greenlee needed to know Leo was there.
As Leo, Jackson and Ryan followed Angie to Greenlee's room in the ICU the passed by Bianca sleeping next to Marissa.
Marissa had made it through a very difficult surgery but had not waken up yet. The doctors said that the stress on her heart had caused it to stop beating during surgery and it could take some time for her body to come out of the shock she had been through.
Bianca had told Marissa how much she loved her and that she needed to come back to her that had just started their lives together. Their children needed them. Bianca was careful not to mention what happened to AJ knowing that would cause undue stress on Marissa.
After an hour of talking to Marissa Bianca had laid her head down on her bed and fell asleep holding tightly to her hand.
Krystal walked into her daughter's room and saw that Bianca had finally fell asleep. She walked up to the young girl and placed her hands softly on the girls back. At the touch of her hands Bianca quickly woke up worried something was wrong.
She looked around confused for a second and saw Krystal standing next to her, "Krystal? What's wrong?"
"I'm sorry to scare you Bianca nothing's wrong. Why don't you go home to your girls and get some sleep. I'll stay here with Marissa and call you if there's any news."
Bianca shook her head, "I can't leave her Krystal. I have to be here when she wakes up she has to know how much I love her."
Krystal pulled up a chair next to Bianca and grabbed her hands, "Bianca Marissa knows how much you love her. I haven't seen this her happy in well ever and it's your love and your friendship that has done that for her. She would want you to take care of yourself and your girls. I'm sure they would like to see you as much as I know you long to see them."
Reluctantly Bianca agreed. She stood up and whispered in Marissa's ear, "Baby I'm going to go home for a little bit. I'm going to go see our girls and send them your love. I'll be back soon. I love you so much." She kissed the top of her head. She left the room and headed down the hall.
Krystal watched as Bianca left the room and turned back to her daughter. "You gave us quite a scare there honey. You only have a little more to go to come back to us. I need you, Bianca needs you, your son needs you don't you dare think about leaving us."
Krystal noticed Marissa's eyelids start to open and close. She heard as the girl tried to talk, "Bi..Bianca? Where's Bianca?" she finally managed.
Krystal quickly stood next to her bed, "Marissa your back!"
"Where's Bianca?" Marissa's frantic voice asked. The last thing she could remember was the gun going off. She remembered seeing blood on her hands. "BIANCA….BIANCA….BIANCA." Her voice carried through the hall.
Bianca had made it as far as the waiting room when she heard her name being called. Even as weak as she was Marissa's voice still sounded as sweat to Bianca as the first time she ever heard it. She turned and ran quickly back to the room. Stopping in the door way as Marissa's eyes met hers.