An Alternate Heartland

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Two day's Later it was Jordans Funeral and Amy was struggling, Lou was helping her but she'd asked Lou Not to say anything about her being Pregnant as she'd let them know herself when she's three months and back at Heartland, otherwise they may try to persuade her to stay in Colorado.
The Funeral was hard, and Lou and Vera were either side helping Amy stay upright.
Back at the house after the Funeral Amy was under a large tree leaning against the Trunk, she was being watched but Amy was in a world of her own. She only had Lou and John n Vera that she really knew.
Lou was in the Kitchen watching her but Amy couldn't see her.
Someone who was at the wake had come in the Kitchen and started talking to Lou, after about 10 minutes they went back to the others and Lou turned around to find no Amy.
She looked around from Just outside the kitchen door, then ran in to see if she'd walked inside and she'd missed her.
"Vera , did Amy come inside because I can't see her".
"What happened",
"I don't know, this bloke came in quite drunk and distracted me talking rubbish, when I looked round she was gone".
John got half a dozen people he knew well to help search the property, Vera and Lou went together to the Tree. They started to look around, Lou was looking for foot prints, anything.
"Vera, do you have any water around the Ranch".
"What, you think she'd, OMG the pond, it's the other side of the Barn".
"Phone John quickly".
Lou ran as fast as she could go and saw John running towards her to her right. They both got to the side of the Barn and saw what looked like rags floating in the water, they both dived in and reached the clothes not far out, it was Amy.
John turned her over and Lou was pushing her Sister's legs while kicking her own so John could start breathing into Amy's Lungs, they got to the edge of the pond and the others were there to help drag her out.
An Ambulance was on it's way and John was doing CPR while Lou Did the breathing for her sister.
"Cough, cough cough".
"Come on Amy Breath".
John put Amy into the recovery position.
"What happened 'cough".
"What do you remember Amy".
"Cough', I was bending down to drop some wild flowers on to the pond for Jordan that I picked, 'cough' then I started getting up and the next thing I know  I was here with you all,'cough 'cough".
Lou heard the Sirens thankfully as Amy was coughing more.
The Ambulance was told to drive over to the Barn.
The Paramedics came over and John explained that Amy passed out as she was getting up after laying some flowers in the pond for her husband".
John also expanded on the reasons.

The Paramedics were checking Amy over when she passed out again.
They put her on oxygen and loaded her into the Ambulance,  Lou went with her, when they were on the way Lou informed them that Amy was pregnant but wanted to keep it quiet until she was back home otherwise they may try to convince her to stay in Colorado.
Eventually they put her passing out down to Blood pressure problems   possibly caused by ptsd or Anxiety due to what she saw at the Rodeo. They also did a scan and found out that Amy was 9 weeks pregnant and everything was fine.

A couple of hours later they got back to The Ranch House with medication for Amy's blood pressure.
Vera was in tears being held by John and he had red eye's too.
"What's wrong John".
"We Just received a phone call about the horses autopsy,  it should never have been in the Rodeo, the horse was very sick, so we will be suing them for us and you Amy, there was no need for Jordan to die the way he did".
Just then Jordans Big Sister walked in, she'd been out of touch in the Amazon
Until she got to a Radio Station to let her parents know she was okay. She'd missed the wedding and unfortunately her brother's Funeral.
The Horse died from Gastrointestinal Ruptures caused by severe Colic and not feeding it properly. The owner was arrested, and one of the stable hands told the police that he was responsible for the Horses and phoned a Vet as he suspected the horse had Colic, he took it off the Rota for that day's Rodeo and the vet was coming to pick the horse up. The next thing he knew he heard over the Tannoy was that Jordan Morris was riding that horse. The owner changed the Rota.
Amy explained that she would be driving back to Canada at the end of the week as she needs her family to help her come to terms with her loss.

To be continued