yungblud imagines || d.h

nashville || pt 2

** i just want to take a moment to thank all of you who reached out through messages0 to talk ab what happened and those who are from nashville expressing their appreciation for my last chapter. nashville is a place i've called home for 19 years and it absolutely breaks my heart to know that it will never feel the same. driving by sunday, i had tears and absolute chills seeing the damage that one person could do to such a beautiful city. it reminded me of driving through after the storms in march and seeing the venue i saw first saw dom play at and it was destroyed. my heart breaks for those who've lost their homes, their jobs, and their businesses 🖤🖤

i've found it hard to focus on the steady beeps coming from the monitor at y/n's bedside. the pulse of my heart continued to ring through my ears, my hands had never been so clammy, it was so cold in the room, yet i felt so fookin' hot. i can hear her mother and riley talking to the doctor's outside; i know i should be out there with them, but i don't want to leave her here. i couldn't imagine being in her mum's shoes right now. this was her (youngest/only) daughter. y/n and i even talked about having our own kids some day; this terrified me.

as i sit in front of her medical bed in this i.c.u, i can't help but want to take a picture of her. the lights around her were almost off, leaving one to dim above her, i imagine that it's the soul of angels giving her life and strength to fight this hefty battle she's been dealt with. she looked so beautiful without all of her makeup on; to be honest, in three years, she'd never let me see her without it, even if she swore she didn't have any, i knew she'd faintly fill in her eyebrows and do a clear mascara.

i couldn't have gotten more lucky with her. she even made cuts, bruises, and surgery marks look heaven sent. i'm eager for her to wake; she's been unconscious for nearly 24 hours, none of us have had a wink of sleep. earlier a nurse insisted her mother go home for some sleep; she refused. "y/m/n," i call, standing up for a stretch, "let me find hotel room, or at least buy you something comfortable if you want to sleep here, we can alternate between visits since only one of us are allowed in at a time due to this damn virus.

"dom, i couldn't possibly let you do that," she grabs my arm, her eyes are sunken and purple underneath, she looked as if she were about to faint. "please let me, for you and riley at least. you two are running on stress, no food, and no sleep." i hug her tightly, one because we both really need one right now, and two, it's keeping her steady. "would you like some food from here or somewhere else? i can have it delivered here and i'll pick it up in the lobby." she pulls out her phone to look, but i insist on her letting me do it. "go in there for a bit, riley and i need the walk anyway," i tell her. she smiles, "i don't know how y/n got so lucky, but i'm glad she is." she pecks my mask-covered cheek.

"we'll have that pasta from panera that you like so much!" i begin ordering the food on my app, "and that weird hibiscus tea," riley throws in. we walk to the elevators, ready to see the lobby for the first time in hours. i place the order on our way down, i've ordered something for y/n in case she wakes.

"i remember the first time she came back from break," riley says from the silence. i looked to her, "yeah?" i fiddled with my thumbs. "yeah," she laughed a little, "she was going on and on about this show she went to and met him at the bar later that night, and how they danced until their feet fell like they'd fall off, and later that night he walked her up to her door, made sure she was alright, kissed her forehead goodnight, surely enough a few weeks later, she told her family and i we were finally going to meet him...and then there you were," she wiped a tear from her eye, "she found you trying to find herself, dom. and then when she did find herself, she never lost sight of what she wanted, and that was you. nobody taught her how to love herself, but the fact that you showed her everything there was to love...it's above and beyond."