Crash Chapter 14

"On This Sweet Up and Down"

Jill's POV

This can't be good. Randy was supposed to have been out of surgery an hour and a half ago, and still no word from anyone on what's going on.

After another five minutes, a doctor comes walking out into the waiting room. She walks over to Tim and me.

'Mr. and Mrs. Taylor? Hi, I'm Dr. Angie Elessedil' she introduces herself. 'Your son is out of surgery now. It took longer than planned because we discovered his gallbladder was also bleeding, so we had to perform an emergency cholecystectomy on Randy to stop the bleeding. He will have to stay in the hospital for about three weeks to recover from the cuts, the hemopneumothorax, and the cholecystectomy. He's back in recovery right now. You should be able to see him in about an hour's time. Do you have any questions about anything?'

'Will he need some sort of special dog now?' Tim asks. Dr. Elessedil looks at Tim like he's lost his mind. Then she shakes her head.

'Okay, I'll be back in an hour to take you and your husband back to the post-op area' she says. Then adds 'Oh, and he was kidding about the dog, wasn't he?'

'It's hard to tell' I answer. She laughs at that.

As the doctor walks away, something occurs to me.

'We never told Mark, Brad, or Lauren about any of this!' I tell Tim.

'I'll go and get them up to date' I say.

About an Hour Later

Randy's POV

'I know you just woke up, but…what exactly happened between you and the mirror?' mom asks after I've woken up, had a couple of ice chips, and the nurse has taken care of the routine post-op things.

'I was looking at my reflection when…it's like something…pulled me into the mirror. That's the last thing I can remember' I explain.

'Why was you looking at your reflection?' dad asks.

'It's kind of a long story. There's this guy that owns a restaurant downtown that came by to return a ring to me. See, before the car accident, I'd planned to take Lauren there and propose to her, but that obviously didn't work out. When he came by, he didn't recognize me at all, so I decided to go upstairs and see just how different I really looked. Then, I don't know why, but I decided to look at the scar where Dr. Weiss had made the incision to do my almost autopsy. Then that's when I fell in' I say.

'Does anybody else know what happened to me?' I ask.

'Yeah, Brad, Mark, Lauren, and Wilson all do' mom replies.

I can't believe that this kind of stuff keeps happening to me. What was it I told Wilson a few days ago? Lightning may only strike the same place once, but all it takes is one bolt to start a raging wild fire. I hope that's not what's happening now. I hope this isn't that wild fire spreading.

A/N: Is this the wild fire spreading?

You'll have to R&R (please!) to find out.

Sorry about the long wait between updates, but it just took me a while to really decide what I wanted to do with this chapter. I'll try to have the next one up much quicker. (I won't make any promises, but maybe by Saturday or Sunday).

Thanks for reading, and thanks for not complaining to me about not having updated in almost a month. (Though maybe that's what I needed to get motivated). :P

-Yours truly, Randy Taylor