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"Mommy's here Zack, you're going to be fine" Carey Martin was wailing as paramedics desperately worked on Zack, his limp, pale body laid out on a stretcher in the bathroom covered in blood. Zack had been removed from the shower he had gone through the glass into, the shower being stained with his blood and a great pool of it having formed in the tub and on the bathroom floor. The scene in Zack's room was currently nothing short of chaotic 2 paramedics were in the bathroom treating Zack, trying to move him out of the room and get him to the hospital. In the lounge room amongst all the smashed glass and trails of blood Carey Martin stood by the door into the bathroom desperately pleading for Zack to be alright, Marion Moesby having just been informed of the events had rushed to be by her side.
The paramedics were desperately trying to stop Zack's bleeding and to replace some of the blood he had lost. Their work however seemed like a lost cause, Zack had been conscious when Carey had found him but he had since slipped into unconsciousness. One paramedic was bandaging wounds whilst the other pumped a hand held respirator trying desperately to keep air in Zack's lungs, at this point weather Zack was even alive was unknown. A second crew of two paramedics arrived not long after and they assisted in stabilising Zack, in particular the shards of glass penetrating deep into his abdomen could not be removed but the bleeding around them needed to be stopped and air was needed to be pumped into Zacks lungs.
"Is he going to be alright?" Carey asked desperately
"We don't know Ma'am" A paramedic responded before returning to taking Zack's vitals.
"There's still a pulse, a weak one" he said, there was hope it seemed.
"Alright, I think we've gotten this bleeding, get some more blood bags ready and let's get him to the hospital STAT" The lead paramedic replied.
Before leaving a pulse rate monitor was attached to Zack's now naked chest and its slow beeps gave Carey hope, but Zack didn't look alive, and he had lost an incredible amount of blood.
"Where are you taking him?" Carey asked desperately as the paramedics began to wheel Zack out of the room
"Boston General, you can come in the ambulance" A paramedic responded Carey immediately began heading out of the room.
At this point however Kurt Martin was returning from a walk around the park opposite the hotel, as he stepped out of the lift he was confronted with the commotion coming from Zacks room. Kurt then saw what he feared, Paramedics, "Oh god" he said to himself and he began to run down the hallway.
"Carey, what happened?" He said in an extremely agitated and worried voice
"It's Zack, I don't know, he smashed everything...there's so much blood" She replied in her desperate worried voice.
Kurt was speechless as he watched Zack's white and limp figure be wheeled past, a pulse monitor suspended above his chest and with IV bags of blood attached to his arm.
"Go Kurt, Carey, I'll meet you at the hospital" It was Marion Moesby who followed the entourage of persons out of the room. Kurt and Carey then followed the paramedics toward the front of the hotel where the ambulance awaited to rush Zack to the hospital.
"Have housekeeping clean the room as soon as possible please" Moesby said to a Tipton employee in the hallway.
"Certainly Mr. Moesby, I'll have that attended to right away" The worker replied before running off to organise the cleaning. The visibly concerned Moesby then headed straight for his car to rush to meet Carey at the hospital.
Meanwhile Carey and Kurt sat in the rear of the ambulance with Zack and 2 Paramedics who continued the work to keep Zack alive.
"What are his vitals?" One paramedic asked
"He's not breathing on his own, and there's a faint pulse, BP 80 over 50" The paramedic monitoring Zack's vital signs replied. His Blood pressure was dangerously low and Zack was not breathing on his own, both were dangerous signs that perhaps Zack's life was close to ending.
After what seemed like the longest ride of their lives the ambulance carrying Zack finally arrived at the emergency room of Boston General Hospital where it was met by a team of trauma specialists. Paramedics shared their assessments and Zack's vitals with the doctors as he was quickly removed from the ambulance and taken into the ER.
"Take him into Bay 5" The lead doctor ordered and Zack was taken to the fifth resuscitation bay in the ER, equipped with many tools that would be needed to save his life.
"Please, Mr. And Mrs. Martin, we have a room where you can wait" A nurse said to Kurt and Carey rather insistently
"I want to stay with my son" Carey demanded
"I'm sorry but that's not possible, please come with me" The nurse again insisted and with some nudging from Kurt Carey moved into the family room set up in the OR and sat down. Carey broke into tears as she sat down and Kurt hugged her, and he also began to cry. They both silently prayed for Zack's survival, to lose both Zack and Cody within just over a week would be too much to bear; a more horrible thing could not be imagined.
While Kurt and Carey despaired and hoped in one room outside Zack lay on a bed surrounded by trauma doctors.
"Get an X-ray in here now, we've got to see where these shards are going" A doctor ordered and an orderly ran off to organise the X-Ray
"Call the Operating rooms and have one prepped, we'll be up there as soon as we know what we're dealing with" The doctor continued and another orderly went to make the call.
Whilst this was going on several other doctors and nurses were attaching Zack to various machines and monitors in order to see he true state.
"His blood pressure staying low, he must be bleeding internally" One doctor announced "We need to get him into surgery STAT" he continued.
"Intubate him" the lead doctor ordered, Zack wasn't breathing on his own and a tube was to be inserted into his lungs and attached to a ventilator.
Several minutes passed as the doctors removed some bandages now soaked in blood and tried to close the wounds while they pumped more and more blood into Zack in a desperate attempt to raise his blood pressure. X-Rays were also being taken of his abdomen to see what the glass shards had punctured.
"He's going to tachycardia" came a horrid scream from a nurse; Zack's pulse rate began beeping rapidly.
"Get the defibrillators" A doctor yelled
"Charge 300...Clear" yelled another before delivering a shock into Zack's chest.
"Nothing, go again, charge 360"
"Clear" again there was no change
"Once more, charge 400"
"Clear" Zack jolted and the pulse rate momentarily changed but then returned to is abnormal rate before he flat lined.
"He's flat lining, start CPR" the doctor finally yelled and another doctor jumped on Zack's chest and began pumping away as more blood was forced into Zack.
The doctors took turns pumping on Zack's chest and shocking him for the next 40 minutes but it was no use, his heart just refused to beat, he was simply loosing blood too fast and there was nothing that could be done.
"It's over...he's gone" The lead doctor said in a defeated tone before checking his watch "time of death 7:30pm...I'll go tell the parents" he continued and then composed himself enough to speak to Kurt and Carey.
Since Zack had taken his turn toward death Carey and Kurt hadn't been given many updates, only being told that the doctors were doing everything they could. Now they were to learn the horrible truth, that both their sons were dead.
"Mr. And Mrs. Martin" the doctor began after entering the room, Kurt and Carey standing up as he entered "I am very sorry to tell you this but unfortunately we were unable to save your son, I can't tell you how sorry I am" he said in his defeated tone.
"NOOOOOOOOO" Carey screamed "Noooooooo Zack" she screamed on bursting into tears. Kurt just fell back into his chair tears welling in his eyes.
Kurt and Carey just sat together for the next few minutes, too overwhelmed with grief to do anything.
The doctor remained in the room while Kurt and Carey cried, trying to comfort them as best he could.
"Can we...see him" Carey finally asked
"Of course" the doctor replied and Kurt and Carey then followed him to bay 5 in the ER where Zack's body laid, the glass shards having been removed and his ventilator having been disconnected.
"Oh god" Carey said, crying as she saw her dead son on the bad. Zack was pale, white, gone. Kurt just stood and watched his dead son, and just like when he had seen Cody a part of him died inside.
I know it's sad but Zack is dead. This chapter took a long time to write in part because I was agonising over Zack's fate and at the end there really wasn't any other choice that would work. We are sadly coming to the end of the story though, I think there will only be 2 more chapters of this story and it should all tie up in a bow. I am certainly going to keep writing after this though, its such a wonderful thing. So please, review and all that.