The room was quiet almost too quiet. The Vegas left the room and went out to buy food for everyone while Cat was laying in one of the chairs fast asleep and Jade was holding Tori's hand. Andre, Tori's best friend made his way to the hospital after he found out and has been there since with everyone else. He was now laying on the floor listening to some music lost in his own world wondering when his best friend would come back to him. The silence was almost annoying at this point. It appeared to be a constant reminder of the situation everyone is in and why they are there.

Doctor Kingston had made it perfectly clear as to not worry and that if all goes well Tori will make a full recovery. The only thing preventing this information to sink into everyone's minds is the fact that they have all been in a hospital for multiple days still waiting for Tori to wake up.

Tori's parents have finally made it back to the room with multiple bags from Chipotle in their hands. Everyone gathers around the table in the room and sets up lunch. They all take a seat and begin to eat in nothing, but silence.

Silence seems like the only thing that has actually been consistent in everyone's daily routines. Nobody talks more than a few words like 'How are you doing' or 'Okay im going to head home you should too' it is like a vacuum sucking up all the hope in the room. Know one wants to say the wrong thing especially the new visitors that come by. Its an unspoken rule, but it is driving everyone crazy. Time is standing still and the silence needs to break.

"I am sorry to interrupt lunch, but Mrs. vega may I please see you for a moment?'

the entire room looked up in surprise to see Dr. Kingston in the hallway, he appeared unnoticed just like everything else these days.

"Um yes, will you please excuse me everyone."

The room simple gave a nod of understanding while Holly got up and inched for the door on her way out of the room. The doctor motioned for her to follow him which she did. They walked for what seemed like minutes down the hall until they made their way to what appeared to be a nice little office. They stepped inside and both took a seat. The nerves in the room where enhancing no thanks to Holly's motherly instinct.

There was a broken silence in the room and now it was just an awkward tapping taking over everyone's thoughts.

"Mrs. Vega, if you can recall when we checked Tori in, I spoke of having a conversation with you about your daughters lifestyle."

"Yes"

"Okay well I have a few questions so if you could please answer them as honestly as possible that would be great."

"Of course."

"Great okay first off do you know how long your daughter has been associated with narcotics?"

"Well I have known for a while now. Tori has been getting into drugs lately and I made a deal with her that if she didn't get clean then I would send her to military school. I have not caught her after that so I was unaware that she was continuing it."

"How long ago did you catch her?"

"I would say about 4 months ago."

"Okay well it is entirely possible that the drugs in her system are still from your encounter with her, but I could be wrong."

"okay"

"Now this is not a question more of a statement. When we brought your daughter in she was bleeding internally. Now I have been frequently monitoring her, but the change is quite slim. The bleeding has stopped, but I do not know how it could of happened, which leads me to my next question of what kind of drugs has she been taking? These can be signs of long terms effects from a drug she took a year ago or yesterday it does not matter, all I know is that its a side effect that can not be ignored. The bleeding has been controlled and we gave her some medication in her IV to stop the spread of an infection, but after she recovers you need to have a serious talk with her about the drugs she has taken in the last 12 months. We can never be too careful and right now I am surprised your daughter is not in worse shape. These symptoms ca not be ignored and after this hospital visit blows over I will need you to monitor her and call me if anything is changing with her, especially if she begins to faint or lose her speech ability, the last thing I want is to find out she has leukemia which is a possibility in her condition at the moment. She has the symptoms but when we tested her blood there was no sign and I am completely lost."

"Well I can assure you that if this is the cause of a drug you will be notified of Tori's condition and anything else. This is honestly a lot to take in. how would we find out if she is in fact sick?"

"well after she recovers I want to give er and FMRI scan through her body to check if there are an cancer cells in her blood marrow or muscle tissue that the blood sample would not include."

"Sounds like a plan, but what do we do now?"

"all we can do is wait, I gave Tori a steroid to possibly pump up the energy levels in her body and if it does its job correctly she should wake up in the next few hours."

"Thank you for everything you have done doctor."

"no need to thank me, its my job, now if you will excuse me I am going to head back to the lab to check on some of Tori's blood samples again and I will talk with the one of my colleagues about a FMRI."

they both shake hands and head there ways. Holly arrives back in Tori's room and notices her food wrapped up and everything put away. She takes a seat and begins to finish the meal she missed. Her daughters skin pigment looks to be going back to its shade, she is not as pale as before so her blood must be circulating through her body at a normal rate.

Time continued to pass and Jade is awoken by a movement in her hand. She looks up to see Tori flinching her body, she is not yet awake, but her body is responding to something. Jade reaches out and grabs the emergency remote signaling for a nurse to come in and check on Tori.

A few minutes later, Dr. Kingston and 3 nurses make their way into Tori's room.

They move to her body, take her pulse, check her heart beat and pupil dilation.

"tori is in the process of waking up, her body is fighting with the steroids given to her so she is just getting her nerve responses back and in a few minutes she should wake up.

It seemed like those minutes took hours but, Jade felt a pull of her hand and looked up to see a slightly squirming Tori who's eyes continued to flinch and slowly open to her surroundings.

Tori blinked a few times and looked around the room. Her eyes lit up when she saw Jade just like Jade did when she saw Tori. The two shared a quiet moment as if they were alone, but the moment was cut short when the doctor came back.

"He.e.e..y...u.c.. .um"

"Tori here is some water your throat is going to be irritated for the next few days because of the tube in your mouth."
She just nodded and swallowed the water.

"How... long have...I been in the ho..spital?"

"About 6 days babe." Jade began to rub circle on Toris hand and received a kiss from tori who leaned over to her.

The entire room smiled at the two who had gone without each other for a while.

"Tori there are some things I need to talk to you about, but I will be back in an hour to take you to get an FMRI to make sure everything is going well. If you have any questions feel free to talk to me or your parents because they can most likely answer them. Oh and before I forget I need to give you a heart scan soon so you can receive an ideal time for when you can leave the hospital. It will most likely be in 3 to 5 days depending on how your body reacts to the medications given to you. You will need to get up every 2 hours and walk for a few minutes to make sure your body is recovering. I hope you feel better and get some rest."

"Thank you doctor"

he shook his head and made his way to the door leaving tori with her family. Hopefully she will be able to answer the questions of what exactly happened and who shot her, but for now her family and friends are just happy to see her.

I hope you all enjoyed that the next chapter will most likely be about what really went down that night. If you want an update please review I hoep you enjoyed it thank you.