Bonnie Sveen Fan: i was actually thinking that would be a good storyline cuz it would be something Brax wouldn't be able to forgive Casey for. But I don't think i'd be able to write that cuz in the series Casey lost it killing Danny, imagine his reaction to killing his brother.
Thank you for the reviews.
Brax walked in to see Kyle sitting up with his hand on the back of his head and wincing, Heath stood at the body of Danny wide eyed and Casey, as well, was wide eyed and possibly in shock. His hands were shaking and he still had the gun in his hand.
"Casey, Casey mate put the gun down" Casey looked down and looked like he just noticed he had the gun in his hand. He slowly laid it on the floor before going into a coughing fit. This brought Heath out of his shock but instead of going to Casey because Brax had it handled he checked for a pulse on Danny. He felt a really faint one but knew Danny wouldn't make it.
Heath stood up and went to Kyle. He helped Kyle stand up and the paramedics and police raided the place not a minute later.
Two paramedics rushed straight to Casey after pushing Brax aside. "What's his name" the paramedic asked Brax. "Casey" he answered.
"Casey were going to have to lay you down to get you out of here" the woman paramedic said. They knew moving him was dangerous but it was the only way they could treat him. Once they had a brace around his neck and an oxygen mark on his face they slowly laid him down.
Casey cried out at the movement, his jaw was clenched tightly and tears came down from his shut eyes and blood streamed down from his mouth around his jaw and neck.
Brax couldn't handle seeing Casey like this and had turned away for the time being. After one of the paramedics attached an IV to his hand the woman shouted to him "we need to get him to a hospital before it gets worst." Brax turned around and saw that together they lifted Casey onto a gurney.
"I'm coming with you." Brax demanded. The woman nodded as they rushed out of there.
"I'll meet you at the hospital" he shouted at Heath and Kyle before leaving with the paramedics. Heath and Kyle were driven to the hospital by Ricky. Phoebe and Denny were told to meet them at the hospital.
Brax felt that the ambulance ride took forever. Although everything was happening so fast they still hadn't reached the hospital. Brax was told to sit in the corner and just watch as the paramedics shouted different sentences at each other. He tried concentrating on what they were saying and differentiating if it was positive or negative towards Casey's condition but he couldn't think straight.
Suddenly their tone changed and he looked over to see blood splattering out of Casey's mouth against the oxygen mask. Once the paramedic moved the mask they turned his head and let him finish choking.
Brax's heart stopped when he saw Casey's eyes roll to the back of his head and a deafening loud beep.
"Were losing him" the paramedic shouted. "Defib" the woman replied while sticking white pads on to Casey's chest.
She started doing compressions while the other was pumping air into Casey's mouth. "Charge to 200" "Clear" and Casey's body jerked upwards and fell back.
His body was completely limp and with every jerk his body just went flailing in the air
"charge to 250" "clear" "last time" she whispered "charge to 300"
"No, no, no, no" Brax whispered to himself "Clear" she shouted one last time.
"we have a pulse" she shouted in delight before getting another mask around Casey's face.
Brax's hands were in his hair and he realised he had stopped breathing until Casey's heart started again. They soon reached the hospital and Casey was rushed straight to an operation theatre.
Brax sat in the waiting room until Heath and Kyle showed up with Phoebe Denny and Ricky.
"How is he?" Kyle asked "Dunno they just rushed him to surgery but his heart stopped in the ambulance" Brax hesitated on the last bit and rubbed his palm on his forehead from the growing headache of stress.
Nate walked out a while later "Casey's still in surgery. There's not much I can tell you now it all depends on how surgery goes. I'm going to send someone to check Kyle and Heath and I'll let you know as soon as he's out" Nate walked away before the Braxton's could react or demand information.
Kyle was told he had a mild concussion and Heath had a bruised eye, jaw and cheekbone.
Ricky had forced the brothers to change out of their bloody clothes and the girls had something to eat. It had been two hours when Nate came out and walked straight to Brax. "Well?" Brax asked
"I'm afraid it's not good news. Your brothers in the intensive care unit and the next few days will be critical. He lost a large amount of blood and his ribs had severely damaged his lungs which caused the internal bleeding. We were able to save his lung however they're weak and so he will need to breathe through a ventilator for now. He'll have to wear bandages around his abdomen for the next few weeks. He already had a fever and high BP when he came in and we found out he had an intense infection in his bullet wound. We have given him antibiotics for it but it seems to have gone too far and I believe that you should acknowledge that an amputation of his arm is a very real possibility-"
"you wanna cut my brothers hand off" Heath shouted. Brax pulled Heath back
"Nate there's gotta be another way" Brax pleaded
"The infection would have spread across his arm and killed the nerves - paralysing it anyways. However not amputating it may cause the possibility of the infection spreading to the rest of the body and I'd recommend that he'd rather lose an arm than paralysis from the neck down permanently. However this is all on the basis that the antibiotics don't affect him and his fever doesn't keep rising"
"You better hope they do doc" Heath threatened Nate.
Kyle put his hands in his hair "this is all Danny's fault" he said standing up.
Nate ignored all this and continued. "He's got stitches above his eye and a concussion. He's asleep right now from the anaesthetic and pain medications but you can see him" they all followed Nate to Casey's room. "Try not wake him. He needs the rest" they all looked at Casey in shock.
He had a tube down his throat and his arms were all jabbed with IV ports; one for blood, saline, antibiotics, pain medication. Machines beeped around them. He was shirtless and several little white circles that were monitoring his chest stuck on him, right under it was a thick layer of bandages for his ribs and the bandage on his shoulder was back. He had two strips stuck to the top of his eye where the stitches were and a purple bruise was forming around it.
It was like déjà vu when the three brothers placed themselves close to Casey's bed like they did just a while back.
It had been 2 days since the hostage incident and Casey still hadn't woken up yet. Nate said that if he doesn't wake up soon there a high chance of him falling into a deeper coma. And that it's all up to whether Casey wants to wake up or not.
Heath obviously didn't take this well. He was angry that it was Danny who hurt them, that it was Casey who was hurt the most and that there was nothing he could to help. He couldn't threaten to kill Danny because after everything the hospital could do Danny had died on arrival.
Kyle didn't know how to handle what was going on. All brothers hated Danny they knew what abuse he had caused them but none of them imagined he would hold his own sons hostage and toy with their lives like he did.
They wanted him dead for justice for Casey however at the end of the day he was their father and losing him was meant to hurt.
Brax felt nothing for the man, out of all of them he knew most of how Danny really was; he refused to go for the funeral. Heath and Kyle had grown up pleading for his approval and both had several questions to why they were so insignificant to Danny. However he hurt Casey greatly and were more than ready to forget him for what he did, but they felt that small piece of anxiety and curiosity in them that brought some hurt of losing their father.
The next day was Danny's funeral and nobody was ready to go.
Phoebe tried to convince Kyle to go because he would regret it whether he hated Danny or not but he ended up shouting at her because she didn't understand.
Brax hadn't even thought going was an option and Heath had decided not to be the only one to go.
Mr. Palmer however had come to convince Heath and Kyle that without them two going there would be no one there, and they both replied that it served him right for what he had done.
However when it came to the time of the funeral even Brax was dragged there by Ricky.
All three brothers stood around the coffin six feet under. Brax stared and walked away after scoffing "good riddance" Heath followed him, leaving Kyle alone at the grave.
"I hope you rot in hell. I'm nothing like you" he spat, he didn't need Danny anymore he had his brothers now he thought as he walked to his brother and together they left
