A Jecker Story - Chapter 14 - Home Again

Jess' POV
My eyes flickered open and I seen bright lights all around me and it took me a couple moments to focus my eyes, I heard a lot of commotion around me then a face blocked out most of the brightness and the face stared at me. I started screaming in fear as I didn't know where I was, what was going on and who this person was. The face above me moved and then Becker's face was looking down at me and smiled softly "Hey... It's me. You're in hospital, do you remember what happened?" He asked me as he stroked my hair.

I shook my head "I remember going down to the truck to meet you so we could go to lunch and I got into the truck to wait for you as you wasn't there then there was a big bang and that's it. I don't remember anything after that, what happened? Where am I? What's going on?" I questioned.

"You're in the hospital. Someone planted a bomb in the car park at work and set it to go off when it did because it would be busy and full of people which is what the bombers wanted. You were in the explosion and I found you in the car so i took you out and you were brought here, you've been in a coma for three days" He explained.

Coma? I was still trying to process everything when the doctor said he wanted to speak to me and examine me so Becker left the room and the doctor sat in a chair next to my bed, he handed me a glass of water which I was thankful for and he helped me drink it and then put it back on the little bedside table for me.

The doctor explained that I had a broken leg, a broken rib which gave me a punctured lung and had a serious head injury which has had me in a come for three days. He explained to me how lucky I was to be alive and I understood how lucky I was but I didn't feel particularly lucky after the last few months me and Becker had together, he was about to leave when I called him back "This is a little embarrassing to ask you but I'm on the coil method of birth control but me and my boyfriend want to try for a baby so I was just wondering if there was any chance you could take the coil out?" I asked him.

He smiled and came and sat back down beside me and asked me questions like, how long I had been on birth control, how long had I used the coil for, what other methods of birth control I have used in the past, what I was allergic too, what my periods where like on birth control, when we made the decision to try for a baby then he said he was going to call a nurse now to come and do it for me.

Twenty minutes later a nurse came in and talked me through what they were going to do, she said to use condoms during sex for at least a month to let my body get back to normal because it could cause complications for me or if I get pregnant the baby I was carrying (not that me and Becker would be having sex anytime soon with my broken leg and rib). The procedure only took about ten minutes then she told me what to expect but explained that everyone was different I thanked her and she left.

A couple of minutes later Becker came back in the room and sat in the chair the doctor had been sitting in when he was in here, I looked at Becker and seen how exhausted he looked "Have you been here the whole three days? I hope you've been home to look after George and Bailey you know they don't like being at home on their own at night" I said to him.

"Don't worry I've been home every night and I've been going to work but I've been coming here before work, during lunch and after work until it starts to get dark which is when I go back home so don't panic they are both fine, they both miss you and have Bailey has decided that he is sleeping on your pillow now and George sleeps on the floor on his bed next to your side..." He laughed a little before looking down at our hands "Jess please don't scare me like that again, I had to ring your parents and be 'prepared for the worst' I really thought that this was it and I was going to lose you" He explained and I seen how upset he was.

I smiled softly at him "I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you... Thank you for pulling me out of the truck" I stated.

"I wasn't going to leave you there was I?" He joked.

There was something I wanted to ask but I was afraid of the answer "How many died?" I asked.

He looked down again at our hands then looked back up at my face "Nine died and fifteen including you injured" He explained and I felt the tears fall down my cheeks "I'm so sorry it's my fault that you're here... If I was there on time like I was supposed to be then you wouldn't have been anywhere near the ARC when the bomb went off and you would've been OK" He said.

I guess I should of known that he was going to blame himself for what had happened to me, it was typical Becker "Don't blame yourself it isn't your fault, you didn't put the bomb there and want to kill everyone" I told him.

"I know I didn't put the bomb there but I should have been there on time" He said.

"Let's forget this OK it's not anyone's fault but the people or person who put the bomb there, so stop blaming yourself" I told him and he nodded.

Becker's POV
It's been two weeks since the bomb incident and today Jess was allowed to come home, she had been in hospital for so long because she had been in a coma and they wanted to make sure everything was OK with her and there would be no lasting damage, she had to have a cast on her leg for another six weeks and she really had to take things easy after the surgery she had for her punctured lung and her rib hadn't healed yet either so she had to take it easy for that too and Lester had given her a few weeks off work to heal.

I was supposed to be picking her up in three hours so I cleaned the apartment up and took both the dogs out for a walk and then went on a shopping trip as I had eaten most of the food we had in the cupboards whilst Jess had been gone so I had to stock up on food. When I got back from the shopping trip and put everything away it was time to pick Jess up from the hospital so I jumped into my new truck and drove to the hospital.

Jess was dressed and had her bags packed in her room waiting for me "Let's go, I've signed all of the forms we can go now" She said. I picked her bags up and she sat in the wheelchair and the nurse wheeled her out to the truck, I helped her into the passenger seat and thanked the nurse for her help and she walked off "I'm so glad to be out of there" She said.

We got back to the apartment and I helped her out of the truck, grabbed her bags and we went to the lift and went up to our floor and I opened the door and the dogs ran over to her but they didn't jump up at her like I thought they were going to they just stood in front of her wagging their tails excitedly, she stroked them and then I helped her to the bedroom and I helped her into bed and put the covers over her "Shall I make us something to eat and put a film on?" I asked her.

"That sounds great" She answered.

When I came back in the bedroom I seen the two dogs on the bed cuddled up to her with their heads resting next to her "Well at least you wasn't lonely" I said to her and handed her some food.

For the rest of the day we watched a couple of movies, ate some food and then Jess came out with something I never expected "Becker I need to tell you something, I've been lying to you... When we said we were going to try for a baby I still had my coil in and only had it taken out two weeks ago when I was in hospital" She said.

"What? Why didn't you tell me? You know when I pulled you out of that truck a little part of me thought 'what if she's pregnant?' and all this time you had your coil in still?" I questioned.

"Becker I'm sorry... I really am. I wanted to tell you but I was scared you'd be angry with me and I didn't want that to happen so I thought you wouldn't need to know and it had three months left until I had to have it taken out anyway so I thought I could do that and you wouldn't know" She explained.

I could see her face and how scared she was that I was going to argue with her and be angry at her but. I didn't want to argue about it "Well you've told me now so... Let's forget about all of that and everything else that's happened and today we start a fresh today" I told her, she nodded and we sealed the deal with a kiss.