What's up? It's been awhile, hasn't it? I've had this written for awhile, but I wanted to finish the story before I published it. It's almost done, roughly two chapters left, but I decided to update anyway.

Disclaimer: No. Just, no.

Beck's POV

The doctors pushed me aside. "Get out of the fucking way!" one of them shouted, while nurses starting poking Jade with various metal medical instruments. They quickly set her on a gurney and I caught a glimpse of the back of her head. Her hair was caked with dried blood, and a nasty looking gash could clearly be seen underneath. A doctor pulled out a flashlight and shined it in Jade's eyes, but all I could see was the gash as they pushed her through a set of doors at the back of the room.

When I moved to go after them, a small nurse stepped in the way. She wore light green scrubs, her brown hair pulled into a tight and high ponytail. "I'm sorry sir, you can't go back there."

I ignored her and kept walking.

"Sir!" This time she yelled it, pulling me out of my haze and back to the real world, where things were a hell of a lot scarier. For the first time, I noticed the other people in the Emergency Room. Some looked the picture of health, but others could barely walk. In the corner, a baby hacked into a potted plant over their mother's shoulder; the girl next to them discreetly shied away, her arm clearly in need of stitches. A little boy sat with his parents on the other side of the room, all of them as scared as a two-year-old that just watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre from the top of the stairs. The boy stared straight ahead in shock, but my eyes were immediately drawn to the pen sticking out of his knee. Various people around the room sobbed, because of both pain and loved ones' unknown fates.

Turning away from this gruesome picture, I begged the nurse in a jumble of words that came out of my mouth like a flood through a dike. "Please! Jade'sdeadbutshe'snotandIneedtoseeher-Tori'shurtto obutIneedtoseeJadeandIwish-butI-pleaseyouhavetohel pme'causeifyoudon'tIdon'tknowwhatwill happenandIneedtoseeJade!"

The nurse blinked a few times. "First of all, who are you?"

"I-I'm Beck," I whispered hoarsely, barely able to get the words out.

She nodded and spoke slowly, like you would to a child. "Okay Beck. My name is Tiffany. I know you want to see your friend-"

"Jade!" I cut her off, "her name is Jade." I finished weakly.

"I know you want to see Jade," she empashized her name, "but you need to wait until we have her all sorted out."

"But you don't know who she is! You didn't even know her name until a minute ago! I need to see her!" I shouted furiously. The nurse took a few steps back, frightened by my explosion. By this time, all eyes were on us, and a security guard made his way towards us. He was just a few yards away when a warm hand touched my shoulder and spun me around. Tori's mother smiled at me.

"Beck! Here to see Tori?"

"Um… Yeah?"

She turned to the security guard and the stunned nurse. "It's okay. I got it. I'll take him."

The guard, whose nametag read Brogan, screamed, "Who the hell are you to tell me what to do! This bastard is a menace to society! He practically attacked this nurse and obviously has some mental defect. He's staying here where I can keep an eye on him until we lock him up in the loonie bin!" His face turned a deep red as he screamed.

Tori's mom frowned and said "I think you're scaring everyone in here. Perhaps you should make an appointment in the mental ward instead of threatening this young man."

He opened his mouth to start yelling again, but Tori's mom reached into her bag and pulled out a hospital badge. Brogan scanned it. "But-but… I apologize Mrs. Vega. Please, forgive me."

She smiled a strained smile and guided me towards the doors Jade had gone through a mere two minutes earlier. A quick glance over my shoulder, and I saw the security guard glaring at me, and a nurse behind the reception desk stifling a laugh.

As we passed through the double doors, I whispered to Mrs. Vega, "What was that? How did you get that guard to stop yelling?"

She whispered back in a somewhat cheeky tone, "I'm on the board of directors."

I was still a little puzzled, but I decided to cut my losses and move on. "So… Tori. I haven't been to see her, but she's supposed to be doing okay. And-"

"I know you're not going to see Tori." She interrupted me. "Judging by what I heard, I assume you're going after Jade, who, and I'm making another assumption here, is also hurt."

I scratched the back of my head, "Yeah. But, uh, I don't know where she went. They wouldn't let me through before." She nodded and walked to a desk. After a few moments of talking, she motioned for me to follow her. She led me through the twists and turns of the once-white corridors to a waiting room.

This waiting room was much smaller than the one I had spent the night in. There was a worn couch on one side, a coffee table with a few magazines spread across it in front of it. There was a tacky blue counter, the kind you find in 7-11s or in teachers lounges, in one corner of the room. It had a sink and a coffee machine. A few Styrofoam cups sat beside the coffee machine. It was completely deserted.

"When Jade is stabilized, a doctor will come get you," Tori's mom said before turning to briskly walk away. She was almost out of sight when I called "Wait! Mrs. Vega…Thanks."

"You're welcome Beck. Just be careful. It seems like someone is out to get you and your friends," she chuckled, having no idea that it might very well be the case.

I sighed and sat down for what I suspected to be a very, very long wait.

I was woken by a loud, ringing phone. Annoyed, I searched the room for whose it was before realizing I was alone and that the phone ringing was mine. Groaning, I pulled it out and answered it. "What?" I snapped.

Andre's familiar voice replied "Well, good morning to you too."

"What the hell do you want?"

"What I want to know is where you are? You disappeared man. You went to find Jade and never came back. And it sounds like you just woke up. Did ya find her or what?"

I sighed. "I found her. I saw Jade for like 3 seconds, and then she collapsed. I'm waiting for an update right now."

"Shit! Where are you?" Man, do you think those guys are attacking them?"

"I dunno. But I swear to god that if they are I-" An old doctor walked through the doors across from me. He started towards me, and I stood up. "Hang on man. Doctor's here. Call you back."

"Beck, right?" the doctor asked. I nodded. "I'm Dr. Roberts, one of Jade's doctors."

"Is-is she alright?"

"She's going to be fine. She has a severe concussion caused by blunt force trauma to the head."

"Can I see her now?"

"In a little while. First, we need to contact her parents, and they need to authorize you to see her."

"You're fucking kidding me! I sat here for hours waiting for her, and now I can't even see her!"

"Relax son. It shouldn't be long."

"Um… Well, her parents are divorced, and her dad's outta town."

"Yes. We know that they're divorced. It's all in her file."

A moment of awkward silence passed before I nodded and sat down again.

Review, my pretties! *cue evil cackle* And since I already have the next chapter written, it won't be too long, I promise!