In My Head (Agent Severide Book 2)

Chapter 21

Chicago MED

Everyone stood from Zoey's team sat in the waiting room of Med along with everyone from the intelligence take force along with Kelly as they waited for any update on Zoey's condition. "Any update?" Gabby asked walking into the room with the rest of the members of firehouse 51, "Nothing yet, she's still in surgery" Jay said softly clearly worried about his girlfriend and the mother of his child. 

Dr. Halstead and Dr. Manning appeared through the doorway, "Zoey Severide?" Will said causing the whole room to stand up however it was Hotch, Kelly and Jay that walked over to the doctors. "She's out of surgery, it went well we managed to stop the bleed but she is on a vent and we're waiting for her to wake up. She's not out of the woods yet, we're keeping her in the intensive care unit. She's very lucky, you got to her in time otherwise. She probably wouldn't have made it," The ginger-haired doctor said looking at Kelly. "There is something else though," Dr. Manning said sadly before explaining the news that filled the room with sorrow. 

Zoey was sitting on the sofa in Kelly's apartment with Shay sitting next to her. They were both drinking tequila straight from the bottle, something that they only did when the blonde got back to town after a hard case. "I still have no idea why you got a job tracking these sickos, is Chicago not screwed up enough for you?" Shay asked therefore handing the half bottle of tequila. Zoey laughed and took the bottle looking at Shay, "Because I'm good at it and if I don't who will catch these monsters?" she replied taking a couple of chugs of the bottle she held before handing it back to Shay before Disturbia by Rhianna started playing in the background. 

Zoey stood up walking over and smirked cranking the volume as Shay smiled and stood up and started drunkenly dancing around the apartment scream-singing the words to the song and using the tequila bottle as a microphone. 

Zoey ended up on the island in the kitchen dancing to the beat of the song before getting so into the bridge of the song she ended up tipping the bottle she was singing into too much causing the liquid to pour out half into her mouth and the other half down her face and everywhere. This sent both Shay and Zoey into a laughing fit and shortly after the music was turned down and Kelly was standing there with his duffle bag over his shoulder laughing at the sight of Zoey and Shay. "You started without me? How could you?" he asks with a mock hurt expression. 

Kelly sat next to Zoey's bed, she had a tube down her throat and wires sticking out of her whole body. The sight reminded him of what Jack did to her and his anger started to rise. "Zo, please. I don't know if you can hear me but you gotta keep fighting. I need you, you're my best friend, my baby sister, please just fight for me," Kelly choked as a few tears ran down his face as he held his sister's hand. 

Zoey had been in a coma for a little over 4 days now, the FBI and intelligence were on their way to arrest the serial bomber after spending the last 4 days straight digging to get to the bottom of this and find the monster that did this. Zoey could hear her brother's words distantly as if they were coming from the end of a hallway.

She put her energy into trying to wake up or move something to let him know she wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. Not without a fight, "Zo? was that you? if you can hear me, move your hand again," her brother said and she squeezed his hand as hard as she could. "DR. HALSTEAD!" Kelly yelled causing the ginger-haired doctor to come running into the room confused. "She squeezed my hand. I asked her to squeeze my hand and she did." Kelly said as the doctor looked at Zoey who was still unconscious. "Kelly that could just be muscle spasms" Zoey heard Will say. 

With all her force and energy the blonde forced her eyes open. Zoey's eyes fluttered open causing her to cringe at the harsh light. "Zoey? can you hear me? do you know who I am?" Dr. Halstead asked as Zoey slowly nodded going to try to speak and gagged. "Here, I'm gonna take this tube out and we're gonna see how your lungs are doing," the ginger said causing Zoey to nod. Will unhooked everything and turned the machine off before pulling the tube out of her throat causing her to gag a little and cough for a few seconds. "Nice easy deep breathes," Will said as he checked her lung sounds. 

Zoey stopped coughing and Will took the stethoscope out of his ears. "It sounds a lot better, unfortunately, you gonna be off work for a while due to your punctured lung and the serve concussion you suffered in the explosion," Will said. The baby Zoey's mind suddenly processed, "Is the baby okay?" she asked causing both Kelly and WIll's face to fall. "Zoey, you barely survived the explosion. I'm really sorry but your baby didn't make it," Will said causing what felt like a gunshot to go through her chest at the words. The baby's... gone? 

The shock had hit her like a train as she tried her best not to break down and sob. Zoey felt like her heart just got ripped from her chest, it hurt just as bad if not more than when she found out Shay died. "Hey Zo, it's gonna be okay. I promise" Kelly said as he pulled his baby sister into a hug just holding her while rocking back and forth until she snapped and started sobbing into her brother's shoulder. "It's gonna be okay Zo, I promise," Kelly said again softly as he rubbed her back. "It hurts Kells. It hurts so bad just make the pain stop please." Zoey choked out through sobs breaking her brother's heart at the sound. 

Whoever did this to her better pray they never cross paths with him; because he'd make them pay for all of it. "I wish I could Zo, I wish I could" was all Kelly said back softly as he embraced Zoey tighter while she sobbed over the loss of her unborn child, his unborn niece.