I closed my eyes until we got to the hospital. I hissed in pain as they lowered the bed out of the ambulance. I coughed again, and the paramedics pulled the oxygen mask away. They rolled me inside the building.

"Mom!" I heard Julia.

"Stop." They kept rolling me, "I need to see my daughter." I looked at the paramedics. They knew that this would be the only chance she would see me for a few hours. They also knew what it was like waiting to hear of any news about someone you loved.

"Fine. She can be in the room for two minutes."

They waved her over as they rolled me into the room. "Mom," she whimpered.

I hissed in pain, "I'm fine baby." I coughed again and moved the oxygen mask myself, "I'll be okay."

"But you couldn't walk."

I rolled a little to look at her and closed my eyes at the pain, "I'm fine. I'm talking aren't I?"

She nodded. "What happened?"

"The floor collapsed. I'll be fine. Now go wait outside, I'll see you in a few hours."

"Ok." She kissed my cheek and left the room.

I turned back to the doctors, "I'm an addict, and I've been clean for a decade. Use minimal amounts of pain medication, I can take it."

"We need to give you some."

"Not that much. I can handle pain better than others. I won't scream; you'll be fine."

"What drugs?"

"I never took drugs often enough to become addicted. I mostly used alcohol with recreational consumption of meth and oxy."

The doctor nodded, "Ok. We're going to use an IV." She rolled up my sleeve and saw my faded track marks. "Will we even be able to find a vein here? I'm not going to give you oxy; I'll give you something else."

I glared at her, "Like I said, it's been over a decade. You'll be able to find a vein, or else I will."

She stuck the needle in, and set the IV bag up. Within minutes I could feel the effects of the drugs. I became drowsy, and the pain was muted. "How much did you put in there?"

They kept working on me, "Enough."

I closed my eyes. I think they put enough in there to make me fall asleep. Shit. This much made me puke. Thankfully I fell asleep before I could.

Jamie POV

Julia came out of Emily's room and sat next to me. We were on a couch in the waiting room. I pulled her to me and kissed the top of her head, "She'll be okay sweetie."

I could feel her nod her head, "I know. But she's not going to take pain meds, and they'll have to force her. Then they'll give her the wrong kind."

"What do you mean Hun?"

"She's allergic to most of the types of pain meds that she didn't abuse. The others make her sick. Basically it's a bad idea for her to take pain meds anyways."

"Should we tell the doctors?"

It was then that Nick walked over, "Nope. She needs to learn to tell them right away. She probably is trying, but being really evasive about it. Eventually the doctors get sick of her talking so they put her to sleep anyway, and that's if she doesn't pass out from the pain."

I nodded, "So there's nothing we can do."

He nodded, "There's nothing we can do." He took out his phone and I could hear him talking to the fire station. He hung up after a few minutes, "Everyone's going to go see their families and then come here. I'll go see if they have a better waiting room."

I had Jewls lay her head on my lap to see if she could get some more sleep. About twenty minutes later Emily's crew came in. They all rushed in. "Where is she?"

Nick stood up, "Quiet." He pointed to Julia, she had fallen asleep. "She's fine. They're working on her now. Besides Julia going in for a few minutes before they started working on her, we haven't had any word. My guess is they have to stitch her side up. Then they'll bring a throat doctor in to look at her throat."

They all nodded. A nurse walked in and told us she had a better waiting room for us. I picked Julia up, and she led us up two flights of stairs, and to the opposite side of the building. "When they bring Ms. Reynolds back from X-Rays, she'll be a few doors down from here."

I looked over at her, "If anyone comes in asking for her, can you send them up here?"

She nodded, "I can do that. Now relax, you may not get word for a while yet." She left and we settled in to wait.