Little Mix / Y/N Imagines and Preference (Gender-neutral)

Injury Before Showtime (Female Y/N X Jade) (Requested)

Summary: Jade tears her ligament whilst backstage during the Confetti tour getting ready with the other two so she can't perform with Leigh-Anne and Perrie as she gets treated backstage, the team get Y/N and the two of them head to the hospital as Jade's injury is quite serious, Jade ends up on crutches with everyone worrying that she won't be able to perform...

Y/N's Pronouns: She/Her

Perrie's POV

After 2 years of cancellation of the exact same tour, tonight commences the long-awaited Confetti Tour, we have all been waiting for this since the album came out in 2022 but it's also quite emotional since it's our last tour before our hiatus. The screams of the fans down the halls nearly makes me tear up all of a sudden.

"Alright, let's go over the dance routine for Salute one last time before the show starts in 20 minutes." Claude tells us after Aaron finishes up with Leigh's make-up.

Half-way through, Jade suddenly grabs onto my arm before she falls backwards, holding onto her right knee.

"Stop, Jade's injured!" I shout, bending down next to Jade who's in tears. "Babe, what happened?!"

"I-I went for the move and my knee just suddenly gave out..." She responds through the tears.

"I'll go and get the medical team!" Randall yells, rushing out of the room as me and Leigh-Anne carefully remove her boot and we can just see her knee swelling up really quickly.

The medical team quickly come in and me and Leigh-Anne quickly get out of the way as they begin to assess Jade's condition.

Her right knee looks bruised and swollen which makes me and Leigh-Anne extremely worried about her being able to perform...

The tensions are high as all of us fear what's just happened to Jade, one of the medics try to stabilise her knee but it just is not working so we have to conclude that she needs to go to the hospital.

Claude heads out the room to go and get Jade's girlfriend who's in the crowd tonight to support her girlfriend.

Y/N's POV

I'm just waiting for the show to start when Claude, one of their dancers rushes over to me with a worried expression on his face.

"Y/N, Jade has sustained a serious knee injury and needs to go to the hospital." He tells me in a hushed tone so we quickly head backstage to find my girlfriend in agony on the dressing room floor being attended by the medical team.

"What happened?!" I exclaim, looking at Perrie and Leigh-Anne.
"We were just having a quick rehearsal when Jade's knee suddenly buckled and she collapsed onto the floor in major agony and now we're all worried about her." Perrie explains to me with a very concerned expression on her face before the paramedics quickly arrive and take me and Jade off to the emergency room.

Jade got assessed properly at the hospital and we updated the fans and Perrie and Leigh-Anne about Jade's condition since they were probably worried sick about her, we receive load of supportive comments and wishes that she will get better soon which just brings a smile to my face.

Jade has torn her medial collateral ligament or MCL in the grade 3 severity and she's been taken into surgery where they will hopefully reattach the torn part of her ligament so she's gonna be off for a while, probably for the rest of the tour which will bring her mood down to the lowest as she has been missing tour more than anything in the world.

As they ride her out of the surgery, I can see the large amount of stitching on the side of her right knee which makes me cringe at the sight but as Jade's tired eyes open, she gives me a very weak smile.

"Hi there, beautiful..." I greet her, kissing her forehead. "How are you feeling?"
"Like shit if I'm being honest, that's 100% gonna turn into another fucking scar and I'm gonna hate it." She complains, referring her stitching.

"All of your scars show that you're my brave girl, darling." I inform her while caressing her cheek gently. "I love you..."

"I love you more."

Then suddenly the head surgeon wanders into the room, reading a clipboard.
"Good news, the surgery was a success! We were able to reconnect your ligaments, Miss Thirlwall but we are still gonna need you to rest your knee and so we are going to provide you with crutches to help get around." The surgeon tells us, with a bright smile on his face "We are gonna need to have you in for rehabilitation on a weekly basis to keep a eye and make sure that there isn't any complications arising."

They quickly teach Jade how to use the crutches and also how to get up and down the stairs before carefully fitting a brace onto her knee and prescribing her medication before we sign the papers and heading out to the car that was driven here by Alex, one of my best mates and Jades bandmate Perrie's boyfriend.

I help her into the car before driving to the arena and getting backstage where we wait until the end of the show as the girls come off.

Jade heads inside the tour bus to rest as the rest of us stay outside for a chat about what's going to happen over these next few weeks that we are on tour.

"So what's gonna happen? Jade's out injured and can't perform." Claude sighs, everyone's eyes immediately snapping towards me.
"I have a idea!" Perrie pipes up "We could just roll her around in a wheelchair so she can still perform, we've done it before!"
"Great idea!" Sam, their manager, smiles happily. "I'll get in contact with the arenas to make sure that they have wheelchairs available!"

I clamber into the bus -as the rest of them decided to head out for dinner at this restaurant- where I find my girlfriend on the couch, inspecting her new stitches.

"Are you alright, darling?" I ask her, taking my seat next to her and giving her a smile.
"Not really, I'm upset about everything that happened earlier..." She tells me, a adorable frown appearing on her face.
"None of this is your fault, sweetheart." I assure her, rubbing her shoulder. "We just need to get you back to 100% and everything is going to be fine."

"Do you wanna watch a Disney film to get your mind off of it?" I continue, looking at my girlfriend who smiles, brightly and nods at me.

"Could you also get me some of those paracetamol?" She asks me and I nod, kissing her forehead before grabbing the prescribed medication from the counter along with a cold bottle of water from the fridge, handing it to her before putting on a Disney film for the two of us.

Half-way through the second film, I feel Jade's breathing against my shoulder before I realise that she has fallen asleep while we were cuddling, I kiss her temple before I eventually fall asleep along with us...

Even after she got severely injured, we all still had the best time during the tour before they all went out separate ways at the end, staring a new chapter for all of their lives as the group begins the dreaded hiatus.