it's you, it's always been you

chapter 58

"Sam! Stay with us, don't close your eyes." One of Deena's hands went to hold the side of Sam's face.

"Out of the way!" The medics yelled as they approached Sam with the gurney.

"Sam!" Deena yelled. Kate and Simon found them, and had to pull Deena back from Sam so the medics could get to her.

Deena ran with the medics as they loaded Sam into the ambulance. They didn't stop Deena from getting into it with them.

The medic was working on Sam's stomach and Deena held Sam's face.

"Sam, don't do this. I love you, Sam you can't leave! You have to stay. Sam please," Deena begged and leaned forward to kiss Sam's forehead.

Deena followed them as far as she could when they reached the hospital but nurses stopped her as they took her further into the emergency room.

She stood there, just staring at the doors they took Sam through. Sam's blood was all over Deena's suit and hands.

Kate and Simon drove behind the ambulance. As soon as they got there, Simon grabbed Deena's arm and pulled her back to the waiting room.

Deena stared at her hands, her whole body trembling, realizing that she was covered in Sam's blood.

Her heart was beating faster than it ever has. She was in shock, she didn't say a word while Kate grabbed towels and cleaned off the blood on Deena the best she could.

Sam's dad busted through the ER doors and went to the desk asking for Sam and they said she was being taken into surgery.

He turned to find Deena, Simon and Kate and joined them. "What the fuck happened?"

He was looking towards Deena but she wouldn't look up from her hands.

"Caleb crashed prom and had a gun. It was him," Simon said as he put his arm on Deena's back to try to comfort her.

They sat there for hours, not saying a word.

Josh and Deena's dad both joined them, her dad tried to get Deena to speak but she wouldn't.

All she could think about was the moment she saw Sam moved from the bathroom towards Caleb.

Sam's dad went to the desk multiple times to ask about her but they said each time that she was in surgery.

"Samantha Fraser?" After six hours of sitting in silence, Deena jumped up the second the doctor called Sam's name.

"She's out of surgery. She was lucky that the bullet only grazed her right hip, but she lost a lot of blood. She's in a room in the ICU getting a blood transfusion to give her more blood she needs. She didn't develop a fever, as I read in her chart she had in her last surgery. But she can still get very sick if she catches even just a cold, so only a couple people visit her. As soon as she is done with the transfusion, she can be moved out of ICU."

Deena almost sprinted out of the waiting room to the ICU. She was so sick of hospitals now. But after all the time she spent here with Sam before, she remembered exactly where to go.

She was stopped before she could get through to the ICU, but Sam's dad was behind her and lied and said Deena was Sam's step sister, since only immediate family could visit in the ICU, so Deena was allowed through.

Deena ran through the ICU, looking at each room before she finally found Sam's. A nurse was hooking up an IV to Sam as Deena walked into Sam's room.

Deena went immediately to hold Sam's face as soon as she saw that Sam was awake.

"Sam! I love you, Sam, why did you do that?!" Deena had tears falling as she leaned in before Sam could reply and kissed her.

"I had to Deena. I couldn't just let him do it," Sam brought her free hand to Deena's face, she didn't remember much besides seeing Caleb, the gun and Deena.

"Are you hurt?" Sam asked frantically as she saw the blood on Deena.

"No, no I'm not, it's... yours..Sam, that was so stupid, I can't believe you did that. Sam, I love you," Deena kissed Sam again then hugged her, not caring about the nurses in the room also.

Deena didn't let go of Sam until she heard Sam's dad behind her.

Sam winced as Deena hugged her, the wound would still hurt and be sore for awhile before it felt better.

Her dad hugged Sam once Deena pulled away, "ouch," Sam groaned when her dad hugged her tightly.

"Sorry!" He pulled back from Sam. "Samantha, you don't ever go after a person with a gun. What were you thinking?!"

Sam sighed, "I can't take being yelled at by the both of you right now." The image of Caleb pulling out the gun ran through her mind again.

Sam felt as tired as she was when she was last in here, all the blood she lost exhausted her and made her feel dizzy.

Sam reached for Deena's hand, to pull her closer. Her heart ached as she saw Deena cry next to her. She couldn't imagine how she would feel if it was Deena who was shot.

Deena moved close to Sam as she pulled her closer. She tried to calm herself as she rested her forehead against Sam's.