Wanted [5SOS pt. 2]

Hospital

"Luke calm down we can't understand you" Emma said rubbing his back. He was crying and saying words that ran together.

"Michael got shot!" He finally said.

They stared in silence.

"Is he okay?" Ashton asked "where is he?"

"I- I don't know" he stared to cry again "he's at the hospital"

"Well let's go" Calum stood up and walked to the elevator.

"Wait" Ashton grabbed his arm "as much as I hate to say it, we can't go"

"What? Why?"

"They noticed Michael and Luke, they'll notice us and we'll go back to jail. Then Michael would've died for nothing" Ashton said.

"He's going to die!?" Luke asked crying.

"Shhh Shhh it's okay Luke, everything's going to be okay" Emma soothed him.

"Em you have to go" Calum said "you have to check on him"

"Me? But I-"

"Please" Luke said looking up at her with red watery eyes "you have to"

She couldn't say no to a broken heart and before she knew it she stood at the front desk of the hospital waiting room.

"Excuse me do you have Michael Clifford here?" She asked.

"Yes, he was just brought in" the lady typing at her computer said.

"Can I visit him?" She asked.

"What relation are you to him?"

"I'm his sister" she lied.

The lady looked at her questioningly but believed her fib and gave her the room number.

Emma walked through the sad and happy halls where people cried with sorrow and joy. Life was taken and given in the same building. She finally reached room 730 and opened it. She hesitantly walked in when she saw Michael laying on the hospital bed. The electrocardiogram was beeping and she was amazed.

"Michael?" She asked.

He fluttered open his eyes "what?"

She smiled "you're okay!" She ran over to him and hugged him.

"Ow! Get off!" He said annoyed.

"Sorry..." She let go and sat down on the chair next to his bed "what did the doctor say?" She asked.

He looked down at his hands "that I'm lucky to be alive, that Gods looking out for me...but that's impossible! All I do is bad things why would be want me alive?" he asked.

Surprised by his response she thought for a reasonable answer "people get second chances, maybe this is yours"

"Maybe" he said "they're arresting me you know...I'm going back.."

"I'm sorry" she said sympathetically and reached for Michael's hand but he pulled it away.

"I never got to say goodbye to Luke- and Calum and Ashton"

"You know I'm just going to come out and ask it, do you guys like each other or something?"

"What?"

"You and Luke"

"Ew no! I have a girlfriend!" He said disgusted.

"Okay I just thought I'd ask" she laughed.

"I just..I never had any siblings...and Luke's like a little brother...don't tell him I actually have feelings okay" Michael confessed.

She smiled "that is so cute!"

"I'm not cute! I'm punk rock!" Michael wined annoyed.

A few moments of silence went by before he broke the streak.

"Emma?" He asked.

"Yeah?"

"The doctor said something else too" he looked at her.

This was the first time she had ever made complete eye contact with him. She melted in his green eyes and listened to every word he had to say "what did he say?" She asked.

"They are trying to get the bullet out"

"Well that sounds like good news to me"

"No, they said I could die during surgery.."

"What? Then no! You won't have it-"

"They said it's either that or slowly die from the infection!" He said angrily.

The door opened and a doctor walked in "it's time" he said.

Michael looked over at Emma scared "Em please don't leave, I'm scared Emma I don't want this to happen" he started to cry.

"I'm not leaving don't worry, I'll be right here" she said.

He hugged her.

They came in and wheeled him away in his bed.