Before you read this chap, there´s one thing I just wanted to say. I am NOT a doctor. Well, I´m a nursing assistant, and English is NOT my first language, which makes all these, hospital terms, so much harder.
One day went by, two days, three days, four Jamie still just laid there. Nothing seemed to change, I worked, went home every once in a while, shook my head to the others, when I did, they knew nothing had changed. On Monday I sat in the reception checking the journals for a patient when I heard moans and groans- too quiet for human ears to catch, I looked up just in time to see Tysen stumble through the door. He wore only a ragged hoodie and ragged jeans except for sneakers, but what distressed me the most was that he had obviously been beaten, his face was bruised, one of his lips was bleeding and there was blood in his hair. Tysen also moved slowly and carefully, and had one arm wrapped around his ribs.
"Tysen." I said, stood up and ran over to him. "What happened?"
"I got mugged." He groaned and grabbed my shirt not to fall over. "My… head." I could hear Tysen´s stomach heave and he started coughing and choking, I held a trashcan under his chin just as he started heaving, expelling anything and everything in his stomach.
"Oh my God, Tysen." Ariana Drake came running, as well as Liza Drake- Ariana´s sister- nursing assistant. Liza took the trashcan from my hands as soon as Tysen had stopped heaving, I scooped him up and carried him over to a room where I could examine him in private.
"Can someone call my mum?" Tysen mumbled.
"I´ll do that." Ariana disappeared while I pushed the door to examine room three open and laid Tysen down on a bed.
"Can you tell me where it hurts?"
"My head… my ribs… feel… nauseous." I got a scissor from the table next to me, and cut Tysen´s hoodie open to be able to make a better examination. Tysen moaned when I just slightly touched his ribs, and the skin over one side of the chest was almost black of bruises.
"I am pretty sure there´s a couple of broken ribs, and you have a concussion, I´m going to get X- rays of your chest face and head, just to make sure there´s nothing wrong." I pulled a hospital- gown on Tysen´s upper body and called the X- ray- apartment.
I was just checking the X- ray- pictures of Tysen when I heard someone call for me.
"DR. CARLISLE," Molly Tobin came running, one of her hands were holding onto Carter´s and the other to Luvie´s hand.
"Hello guys. Come with me Tysen´s in here." I took off the pictures from the board, and walked into Tysen´s room, holding the door open for the three of them.
"Tysen." Molly rushed to her son´s side, with tears in her eyes, she lifted a hand to stroke away Tysen´s light- brown tresses from his eyes.
"I´m okay mum."
"No you´re not. What did they do to you? Did you see who did it?"
"No mum I didn´t…. I… I wanted to keep them from taking… taking my stuff… they took my wallet, my phone…. The keys…"
"Don´t you worry…. Don´t worry dear… it doesn´t matter as long as you´re okay." Luvie sniveled, and sobbed, Tysen looked past his mum.
"Hey Luvie, come here." He lifted his arm as much as he could, let it hang over the edge of the bed. Luvie walked- during sniveling over to her brother where he could hold her.
"Will you die Tysen?" Luvie asked- her voice almost breaking.
"No, of course not. Why would you think that?"
"Because when nana went to the hospital, she didn´t come back, they said she died."
"Yeah, but you know nana was old and sick, I´m young and really healthy, just a bit bruised here and there… Hey Dr. Carlisle?" I nodded. "You´ve got some key- rings with glass- hearts right? I know they´re supposed to be for children who´s here, but could you bring some here?"
"Certainly." I laid the X- ray pictures on the bench in the room and walked to the staff lounge and got the little carton with glass- hearts. I closed my locker again and walked back to Tysen´s room, I raised the top of the bed so Tysen could sit up without hurting himself any further.
"Hop up." Tysen clapped the edge of the bed, Molly lifted Luvie up to sit there, then Tysen held the box open to his sister.
"Pick a color." He said, looking questioning to me. I nodded, while Luvie slowly stretched her hand forward and picked up a purple heart, Tysen picked a red one and then reached me the box again.
"Look," he held up the red heart. "This is my heart, the purple one´s yours, no we switch, so you´ve got my heart, and I´ve got yours." They switched. "Now, Tysen held the red one to the palm of Luvie´s hand and she clenched her hand. "Close your eyes, can you feel my heart pounding?"
"I don´t feel anything."
"Silly." Carter snorted, Molly gave him a meaning look.
"Really? Feel really, really close…" Suddenly Luvie smiled big, revealing a big glug where her front teeth should have been.
"I can feel it!"
"Well that's good, now… as long as you can feel my heart beating you know I´m okay don´t you." Luvie nodded and opened her eyes. "Good… and I know your heart´s beating too." Tysen smiled to his sister.
"Have you broken any bones?" Carter asked. Tysen looked to me.
"Have I…" I shook my head.
"No… you´re just bruised up pretty bad, and you´ve got a concussion so we´re keeping you here at least until tomorrow."
"Yeah, yeah." Tysen leaned back again. Molly walked over to him and kissed her son's forehead.
"I gotta get Luvie and Carter to school and myself to work, I´ll be back tonight okay Ty?"
"Mhm." I walked out of the room, and down the hallway to the staff's lounge again. I picked out a golden- colored heart and walked to Jamie´s room, the monitors were beeping with the rhythm of her heart just as the day before, and the day before, and the day before… I sat down by Jamie´s bed, I pulled the key ring around my finger and then lifted Jamie´s hand and held it with the hand I had the heart in.
"Can you feel it beat Jamie?" I asked her. If someone came in here now, they´d probably think I was crazy. But it was the only idea I had left.
"Can you feel it beat?" I asked once again. "It´s beating for you, it´s beating because your heart´s still beating. And it´s going to keep on beating, I´m not going to let you die do you hear me? But you need to wake up, you just need to open your eyes for me. Come on…" I waited a couple of seconds, nothing happened. I looked down at the heart again.
"There´s a reason why it´s golden, it's golden because I know you've got a heart of gold. But no one can see that because you keep on pushing them away, I know why sweetie, I know why… but I swear… if you just open your eyes for me I'll do anything to help you to make the problems go away. I swear I won't leave. Just… just open your eyes for me okay?" Nothing happened.
"Jamie… to us nothing of that you hate matters. Addy doesn´t matter, you pushing us away it doesn´t matter. And it won't matter to you either if you just let us help you. So… so we can be able to help you, you just need to wake up. Please Jamie… please." Still no reaction, but I wasn't going to give up.
"Jamie, the first time I saw you, you were a shy and so scared little girl. Remember how you jumped away from Alice that first time? Remember how you came limping from the skating hall after cutting yourself? You´ve come such a long way after that, you can't give up now so please just wake up… Jamie?" Still nothing happened. I let go of Jamie's hand, and sat down on a stool next to the bed, I lifted my empty hand to stroke Jamie's hair.
"We love you… we love you so much so please don't leave… please…" I took her hand. "If you can hear me squeeze my hand…" Nothing happened
But then… too little for any human to catch, I felt the fingers in the hand I was holding begin to move, One after one gripped just a little tighter around my fingers.
So… stopping it right there… who feels sorry for Tysen? "raising one hand." My poor little baby… Gosh I need to make myself a doll or something to hug when I want to hug my characters.
Also… I am so, so, so, so, so sorry for not updating, when I updated the last time, I was right in the end- sprint of another story, and updated it as much as I could, and then, at the same time as I uploaded the last chap of that, I uploaded the first chap of the sequel…. But here´s the chapter, no it´s mostly a filler… but it´s not that bad is it?
-Linnéa