Chapter 7
Marshall started to slip into unconsciousness and felt something warm and wet on his right paw. He also heard
Everest screaming.
"E-Everest, p-please c-calm d-down. I-If I d-don't m-make i-it, I l-love y-you s-so much."
"Marshall...don't talk to me like that...you have to survive...please."
Marshall then fell into a complete coma state. Katie came running in and saw Marshall lying in a pool of blood.
Katie immediately hooked Marshall up to an EKG and his vitals were very low.
"How is Marshall doing?"
"I don't know if he will survive. He has major internal bleeding of the liver and pancreas."
Everest started crying again, but Marshall gathered enough energy to wipe off Everest's eyes.
"I-it's okay..." Marshall passed out immediately after. Everest was crying that she could lose Marshall.
"Marshall, please come back!" Everest was crying as hard as she could, but there was nothing she could do. Ryder
grabbed Everest and the 8 pups and took her back to the lookout.
"Everest, Marshall is strong. He can survive this. He will be back here very soon."
Unfortunately, this was not true as Marshall was suffering from kidney failure on his left side and had bursted
the left side as well. Marshall's right kidney was still fully functioning, but the kidney failure sent his body
into shock, which caused Marshall to collapse. Marshall will be able to live through this, but he will be at
Katie's for another month or two. A couple hours later, Marshall was out of surgery and his left kidney was
removed. Ryder got the call that Marshall was in a medically induced coma, but he is recovering well. Ryder didn't
want to tell Everest because she was with the pups and she was sleeping. When Ryder started up his ATV, Everest
woke up and called him on his pup pad.
"Hey, Ryder, where are you going?"
"I just want to go out for a drive, clear my head." Ryder said this, obviously lying to Everest.
"Ryder...you and I both know well that you are terrible at lying. Where are you going?"
"I didn't want to tell you because I don't want you to come." Ryder let out a big sigh and then continued.
"I'm going to see Marshall. I got a call from Katie that surgery was successful and that he is in a medically-
induced coma. I know you don't need the stress of seeing Marshall right now. You just sleep and I will tell you
how he is doing."
"Ryder...Thank you for caring for me, but I want to see Marshall."
"No, Everest. That is an order. You are not allowed to leave the Lookout. Rocky, come in Rocky."
Rocky and Sylvia turned off their pup tags and were in Rocky's dog house, sleeping.
"Rubble, are you there?"
"I'm here, Ryder."
"I want you to look after Everest and make sure that she doesn't leave the Lookout."
"Ryder...She kinda...well...just...left."
"WHAT!"
Ryder tried to call Everest, but she turned off her pup tag. Ryder just got to Katie's and saw that the door to
Marshall's room was wide open.
"Hey, Ryder. What's up?"
"I wanted to take a look at Marshall."
"Okay, just go in quietly. Everest is..."
"EVEREST!"
Katie saw how mad Ryder was and gave him a hug, which made both blush.
"I know you didn't want her to come down here because of the stress, but they love each other."
"I guess, I am going to talk to Everest."
Ryder walked into the room and saw Everest hugging Marshall's body, tears flowing from her eyes.
*sniffling* "Ryder...I'm sorry for..."
Everest was interrupted by a hug from Ryder.
"I understand that you love him so much, but I want you to take care of your pups. They need their mom right now
when their dad is in the hospital."
*crying* "I know Ryder, it-its just that I need to be with Marshall." Ryder was petting Marshall and Everest's
tears falling on Marshall.
"It is just really hard with Marshall in the hospital, the eight pups, and deciding if I should go and live with
Jake or live with you."
"Well, Marshall is recovering well, you just need to be there for your pups, and about living, where do you want
to live?"
"I don't know, that's the thing. Marshall said anywhere as long as he is with me, but if this happens again, we
won't be near a hospital."
"This shouldn't happen again. I talked to Katie about what happened and she told me that Marshall's left kidney
was punctured and that it got infected from a cut. This shouldn't happen and Katie told me that she did a scan and
found no more stray parts in his body."
Ryder talked to Everest a bit more and left with Everest back to the lookout. Ryder gave Katie a kiss on the
cheek, which made Katie blush, and left with Everest. A few weeks have passed and Marshall was still in a
medically-induced coma. Everest and Ryder came everyday for that three weeks, with no changes to Marshall other
than the gauze and stitches being replaced. Everest was falling asleep on the bed with Marshall and Ryder was
sitting on the chair and sleeping. Suddenly, Everest felt a hug across her body and startled her.
"Miss me?"
Thank you for reading and I hoped you enjoyed. I would like to say that I am doing a joint writing with Wattpad, but I will NOT be moving completely. If I decide to move, I will be creating a website that will be used. Thank you and I am sorry for the delay with the next Chapter.