One Maniac at a Time

Glass hearts breaking

Tara's POV

I saw him hanging there with blood. I ran and got him down, he was barely breathing, I put pressure on the wounds to try and stop the bleeding.

"NO!! JAMES NO PLEASE NO!" I screamed. Nurses came rushing in, calling doctors I was being pried from him as I shrieked. My hands were covered in blood, his blood. Things were being shouted. The redhead nurses looked up.

"It should have been you, not him, you worthless bitch." She said. she was right, I needed ti find what he used. I needed to die or feel pain. I was going back to where I came from: Pain. I tried to run, but arms started grabbing me.

"TARA! CALM DOWN LOVE, PLEASE!" I heard Oli yell. Patients had now crowded into the hallway to witness the scene I had created. Dr. Gillings came over as I screamed in Oli's arms. I was crying until I had nothing left to cry. Oli held me the whole time. I just whimpered now, my voice was almost gone. I felt so broken.

"Is he gone?" I asked.

"I don't know." Oli said. I felt nothing, I was nothing, there was nothing inside me. I felt empty. I didn't know what to do. I didn't speak. Dr. Gillings knelt down.

"Tara, can you tell me what you feel?" He asked. I didn't speak. I didn't even blink.

"Tara, did you hear me?" He asked. He sounded distant. I ignored it.

"Love, come on." Oli said pulling me up. Dr. Gillings and Oli lead me to the bathroom. Oli turned on the faucet and Dr. Gillings put my hands under the water. I saw blood washing off my skin, it belonged to James, it was his blood. I started hyperventilating. I heard shouting I felt dizzy and things were blurry. I started screaming, "PLEASE STOP SHOUTING!" I yelled.

"Love, no one is shouting, calm down." Oli said, I shook my head, there was most definitely shouting. Dr. Gillings lead me out of the bathroom. I was still screaming and fighting him. People were moving my body. I was disoriented it was very confusing. Eventually the lights went out, I was left in my shell of a body.

~time lapse~

The next morning I saw Oli starting to wake I cleaned myself up from last night. I looked better, but felt awful. I guess looks really aren't everything. I went into the TV room, they were quick to clean up the blood.but no more long shirts for us or shaving ourselves. It was gonna be tough. No one had told me anything about James yet. I felt scared, not knowing. A nurse walked in with Jaime and Tony behind her. I hugged them, they smiled back. I felt goosebumps crawling up my arms, I shivered.

"Why don't you have a jacket chica?" Jaime asked.

"We aren't allowed things with long sleeves, someone attempted last night." I told them.

"Well, come here, I can hug you while we sit and talk." Jaime suggested. I nodded. We talked about little things, they were kind and spoke in soft voices.

"I'm dating this girl Erin, I think you would like her." Tony said.

"What's she like?" I asked.

"She bakes and loves star wars and embraces my inner dork." He said blushing violently.

"She sounds like the perfect girl for you." I told him, he nodded smiling.

"When I get out tell Vic to make me some tacos, I have been craving those." I said.

"I'm sure he will happily make you tacos." Jaime said smiling.

Eventually the guys had to leave which sucked. They were a distraction for me, kept me from thinking about the bad stuff. But I couldn't hide forever. Once they left I was dragged to group therapy where I was told we were all spending the day together because of "recent events that potentially had upset us". I rolled my eyes, no one would tell us what was happening to James which was counter productive and three people had to be sedated. It was a bit of a mess. Julian had a split lip and a black eye props to David on those. He was sitting next to me gripping his fists tightly, I could tell his rage was in full blast. Oli was comforting Sydney in attempts to get her to eat. She had barfed her breakfast, it was not going well. Dr. Gillings came in. I was surprised Ethan hadn't shown up, he usually loved this kind of thing. The nurse was gone too.

"Tara, come with me." He said. We went down to the part of the hospital that had labs and fancy medical equipment, he led me into the MRI room.

"Lay down and hold still." He ordered. I nodded. I felt the board I was laying on move into the white light tube. I held still, I heard someone murmur.

"That's not possible."

"It's right here though." I was getting nervous, I was taken out.

"What happened?" I asked. Dr. Gillings looked to the other doctor who had helped do the MRI.

"You had schizophrenia when your brain had a depletion of gray matter." He said. I nodded.

"And I've never seen this but the levels of gray matter in your brain are back to normal, I've never seen it before. My eyes widened.

"Am I cured?" I asked.

"Well it doesn't work that way exactly, and I've never seen anything like this so we do need to keep you as well as the fact you have depression which could spur the hallucinations on again, but I think possibly." He said, I nodded.

"How is James?" I asked.

"would you like to go seem him?" He asked. I nodded. We walked into a hospital room, I saw bruises around his neck and bandages on his arms.

"Is he in a coma?" I asked.

"No, just asleep, he hasn't woken up yet, but he will soon." Dr. Gillings explained. I nodded. A nurse came in and whispered in Dr. Gillings ear, he looked serious.

"We need to go back up." He said. I nodded. I had been on such a roller coaster today, but somehow I didn't think Ethan was gone, he was never really gone. He was going to come back.

Pete's POV

My phone started ringing, it was the hospital. I picked it up nervously.

"Hello, Pete Wentz speaking?" I asked.

"Hello Mr. Wentz, it's Dr. Gillings, Tara has shown vast improvement and we believe she may be released early." He said. My mouth dropped open.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yes, but I don't know how stable she is, so please be careful, her hallucinations could hit at any moment because her recovery is medically speaking incredibly rare." He said. I nodded excitedly before remembering he couldn't see me.

"I understand, I'll keep a close eye on her." I said.

"Alright, have a nice day." He said. I looked at Meagan, tears in my eyes.

"What happened babe?" She asked.

"My Big birds coming home." I said, crying happily as I kissed her.

A/n

crappy chapter sorry guys, I have finals and other shiz so I don't know when the next update is so sorry. STAY AWESOME AND VOTE AND COMMENT PLEASE LOVE YOU GUYS :)))))!!!!!!!!