Okay I'm on a roll, chapter 3 here for you.

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Carla was rushed to hospital and taken to emergency surgery while Leanne and Maria where treated for minor cuts and bruises. Once they had been given the all clear the pair they sat waiting for news on Carla, the minutes feeling like hours.

A nurse came up to Leanne saying that Carla's brother was here it see them. Leanne and Maria looked at each other for a second, Carla had never mentioned a brother and even if she did have one, how could he have heard what had happened so quickly?

There questions were answered when Peter came into the waiting room.

'Sorry love they wouldn't let me in otherwise, family only see.' Peter pulled Leanne into a hug.

'Are you two okay?' He asked after quickly giving Maria a hug.

'Just cuts and bruises lucky really, waiting for news on Carla, shes been taken into surgery.'

'What do they think is wrong with her?'

'They suspect that she had broken her back and she was coughing up blood and she was passed out by the time the ambulance got here.' Maria said with tears in her eyes.

'Have you rang Michelle? She needs to know whats happening.' Maria shook her head.

'She's up in Glasgow.'

'She still derserves to know.' Maria nodded and went to ring Michelle.

'What if she dies Peter? She's my best mate.' Leanne said sobbing into Peter's shoulder.

'Eh that won't happen love, she's going to be alright.' Peter's words weren't just to comfort Leanne, they were to comfort himself.

Maria came back in.

'Michelle's on her way, she should be here as soon as possible depending on the traffic but I said that I would keep her posted.'

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'I should have been here, should have been able to do something.'

Peter was awoken from his sleep by the sound of Michelle's voice. Looking at his watch he was suprised that 4 hours had past since he had arrived. He looked around the waiting room, and saw Maria pulling Michelle into a tight embrace. He looked down and saw that Leanne was leaning against him, and seemed to be asleep.

He gently untangled Leanne from his body and placed his jacket under her head as a pillow. He walked over to Michelle and Maria who had sit down.

'Hiya Chelle.' Peter placed a hand on her shoulder, Michelle turned and looked up at him, tears threating to spill from her eyes.

'Hi Peter, sorry I didn't mean to wake you.'

'No it's alright, I was begining to get a cricked neck sleeping in that position. Has there been any news?'

Michelle and Maria both shook there heads.

'They haven't said anything, so she must still be in surgery.' Michelle said, Peter sat next to her.

'She's gonna be fine 'Chelle, I promise.'

'How can you promise that Peter? She's been crushed under half a ton of rubble, under a fucking tram.' Michelle's tears spilled down her cheeks.

'I promise she is going to fine because she is a fighter. Carla is a fighter and we've got to be here to help her with the fight. If we all give up on her then she will have nothing to fight for.'

Michelle furiously wiped the tears off her face. She knew Peter was right, she couldn't give up on Carla, she had lost too many people.

She wasn't going to lose Carla as well.

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After a hour or so a nurse came into the room.

'Are you waiting for news on Carla Connor.'

'Yeah' Michelle said before turning to Peter. 'Wake Leanne up Peter, she has as much of a right as anyone to know whats going on.'

Peter gently woke Leanne up, and told her that they had news on Carla before letting the nurse speak.

'As you know Mrs Connor has been in surgery for most of the night. She had several serious injury's, one which did cause some internal bleeding. The surgeons managed to find the source of the bleeding at seal it off.'

'What about her back?' Leanne asked.

'It was discovered that there was damage to her spinal chord.'

'What does that mean?'

'Luckly the damage was incomplete so there is a good prognosis meaning there is a greater likely hood that function should return in due course.'

'Function should return? Are you saying that there is a chance that she may not be able to walk again?' Peter asked.

'Yes. The worse case seniro is that she becomes paralzyed from the waist down. But the chances of that are very slim, and I have seen people in a worse states make a full recovery.'

The imapct of the news silenced everybody. Then Michelle spoke up.

'Can we see her yet?' The nurse nodded.

'You can but she will be in a drug induced coma for the next 12 hours, so that her body can focus soley on repairing it's self.'

'I think we all still want to see her.' Michelle said, looking round the others who nodded.

'Her room's in the ICU, I'll take you to her now.'

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