Sorry this took so long – school (7th grade homework is tougher than I remember), work and getting ready for a family reunion, not to mention writer's block. Hopefully I can get the rest of the chapters out quicker, I have finally worked out the rest of the story. Let me know what you think.
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Sabrina stood up and Bill moved behind her with his hands on her shoulders. Sabrina reached up and covered his hands with hers. Julie reached over and grabbed Bosley's hand. Kris could be heard through the speaker phone, "the good news first doctor." The doctor looked at the speaker phone for the first time.
Bosley motioned to the speaker phone as he made the introductions, "Those are Kelly's associates and friends on the phone, Charles Townsend, Tiffany Wells, Jill and Kris Munroe. I'm John Bosley, this is Julie Rodgers and Sabrina and Bill Duncan. We are also her associates and friends."
"I understood her family was in here." Doctor Janis said.
"We are her family doctor," Sabrina stated emphatically in a hoarse voice.
The doctor looked around the room for a minute, taking in that statement, "Alright, the good news is barring any complications she should be okay, I couldn't say that an hour ago." Before the group could get too loud with their celebration the Doctor quickly kept talking, "Now, I do want to caution you, we won't know the extent of her spinal cord injury until she wakes up, but it looks promising that she could make a full recovery. One bullet went through her shoulder but missed the major arteries and nerves. There is a good bit of muscle and tendon damage. It will take some time, but I think with physical therapy she has a good chance to recover fully."
You could hear everyone let out a huge sigh of relief and hugs were shared all around. After a minute Sabrina realized the doctor had said he also had bad news, "You said you also had bad news doctor, what is it?"
Everyone got quiet as they realized what Sabrina said. Each wondering what the doctor could say, everything seemed like it was looking up. You could hear Kris on the phone, "Wait, Jill be quiet, there is more."
The doctor cleared his throat and looked at Sabrina, "I'm sorry to have to tell you this but, Kelly was pregnant. She lost the baby."
"Oh my God," Sabrina moaned as she sank down in a chair, a look of devastation on her face. Bill reached over and squeezed both her shoulders comfortingly. Julie grabbed Bosley's hand in dismay.
"Kelly, was pregnant? Why didn't she tell us?" Kris' anguished voice came over the speaker phone. Jill was speechless.
"I doubt she even realized she was pregnant. She was early in her first trimester, with all the stress of her husband's assassination; she probably attributed the symptoms to stress." The Doctor let that sink in for a minute and then he cleared his throat to get their attention, "There is more."
"More?" Julie asked. Sabrina just looked up at Dr. Janis stunned. She could not imagine anything worse for Kelly right now; it just was not fair. How much did her friend have to endure? Sabrina just shook her head trying to understand what the doctor said. She looked up into the doctor's eyes and trying to sort out what she was hearing, but nothing prepared her for what came next.
"There was extensive damage to the uterus that could make it next to impossible for her to have children in the future," the doctor said quietly. "I'm sorry."
"She, she can't have any children?" Sabrina stammered.
"Doctor, are you sure? I mean won't you have to wait to be sure?" Jill asked.
"We won't know for sure until she has had time to heal, but due to the damage it could be very difficult, if not impossible," the doctor stated.
"Poor Kelly," Kris said softy, wiping tears from her eyes, squeezing Jill's hand tightly.
Sabrina got up and started pacing the room, "No! This can't be happening. Kelly wants kids more than anyone I know. This will break her heart. It can't be right! It just can't be!" The rest of them looked at Sabrina helplessly as she flung her hands out and paced the room.
"Doctor is there anything we can do?" Charlie asked.
"Time is the only answer right now. Kelly needs time to heal and then we can re-evaluate her progress. Now I would advise everyone to get some rest, one of you can stay in ICU with her, but I would advise the rest of you to get some sleep. Kelly has a very long road ahead of her and she is going to need all your help and support in the days to come. Now if you will excuse me, I will leave word at the nurse's desk that one of you can stay with her and I will be in to check on her later today. If you need anything just let the nurse know and she can page me." With that the doctor walked out the door.
The room was quiet for a minute; everyone was lost in their thoughts. Sabrina kept pacing the room while Bill and Bosley looked on helplessly. Sabrina kept mumbling to herself, 'there is a way around this, doctors aren't always right. She is alive and that is the important thing.'
Julie looked over at Sabrina annoyed, she felt like Sabrina was being overly dramatic. "Look, guys we don't know anything for certain yet, and we won't until Kelly wakes up. We need to stop over reacting!" Julie looked at Sabrina pointedly. Sabrina glared over at Julie.
Sabrina was thinking – who does this chick that she is? She worked with Kelly one year, never went to the academy and as far as she could see Julie was irrational and jumped into things way too quick without thinking. She would never understand what Charlie had been thinking. With a force of will Sabrina turned away from Julie and turned to the speaker phone when she heard Kris' voice.
Kris squeezed Jill's hand and then started pacing around the phone. She swallowed hard, wanting to cut off the fight brewing on the other end of the phone and also to try to encourage everyone but especially herself, "Look guys, fighting won't help Kelly, we need to focus on the fact Kelly is alive and she will walk again. We just need to focus on the bright side. And guys listen, doctors can be wrong. Kelly has beaten the odds before and she can do it again. Hell, we have all helped our clients beat the odds; we just have to keep good thoughts. Okay guys."
"Good thoughts." Tiffany, Julie, Bosley and Jill repeated.
"Bri?" Kris prompted.
"Kelly will beat the odds," Sabrina said strongly as she glared at Julie. Bill continued to squeeze Sabrina's shoulders comfortingly. Julie pushed her chair back and walked to the window.
"Sabrina, I think you should stay with Kelly, and the rest of you should stick to the plan we talked about. The best thing we can do for Kelly right now is find out who is behind this. Alright everyone let's get this case closed so we can help Kelly. She is going to need all of us." Charlie spoke into the silence.
"Yeah, ok Charlie." Tiffany and Julie said quietly.
"Jill? Kris?"
"Yeah, Charlie, we will get to work on it right now," Jill replied for both of them. Kris sat holding Jill's hand and nodded.
"Now everyone, I know this will be hard to do, but you need to go home and get a good night's sleep. Tomorrow, Bosley will make arrangements for Tiffany to fly back to LA and plan for them to fly on to Mexico. Jill, you and Kris have a meeting set up with Karazna for tomorrow. Bill, can you arrange for 24 hour protection on Kelly's room?"
"Already working on it, Charlie."
"Alright I will leave Kelly and Sabrina in your hands. Angels I want all of you to be careful, we are dealing with some very dangerous men. Jill, they know you and Kris so I want both of you to be extremely careful. Hire help if you need it, but I don't want anyone else hurt. Set up times to check in with Bosley so we can stay in touch."
"We understand Charlie. We'll be careful and I will set up a schedule with Bosley tonight." Jill replied as she looked at Kris and nodded. "We just want to get this over with and get back to LA."
"We'll be careful, Charlie." Julie and Tiffany said.
"Well, goodnight Angels and remember to be careful and stay in touch."
"Good night Charlie," the angels said as everyone hung up.
Bosley looked at Sabrina pacing up and down the room "Sabrina, are you alright? Would you rather I stayed tonight? I know you are probably exhausted."
"No, Bos. I want to stay." Sabrina walked over to Bosley and gave him a kiss on the cheek, "Thanks, but no. I need to do this."
"Okay, honey, but get some rest if you can. I don't need any more of my girls in the hospital." Bosley said as he headed to the door with Julie. Bill had already gone to check the protection detail and set up some additional units around the hospital.
Sabrina said good bye to Bosley and Julie and walked to Kelly's door. She put her hand out to open the door, but her hand was shaking so bad she couldn't push the door open. Sabrina took a deep breath, laid her head against the door said a little prayer. Then she reached her hand out again to slowly open the door and peek inside. She walked inside and sat down beside Kelly's bed, took a hold of her hand. She looked at the IV, the bandages covering Kelly's shoulder, her pale face and finally let the tears roll down her face as she stroked her best friends hair.
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