A Bughead story

Chapter 33

Hours went by until they said they were going to wake him up. Everyone was up now. They followed the nurse and Betty walked by her side, needing to see jughead first. "Here we are" the nurse said walking into the room. Something in Betty sank. "That can't be right" Betty's voice broke observing the person she was looking at. Her hands went to her mouth covering her gasps as she realized it was jughead. Alice stayed behind giving fp and jellybean more room. Jellybean cried when she saw jughead and Alice pulled her aside by her so she didn't have to see. Fp didn't say anything. God knows what he's thinking and feeling. As these machines and wires hooked up to him. Tubes were everywhere. One down his throat and ones everywhere else you could think off. His body was All bruised and barely recognize able. Cuts everywhere. Betty felt the color drain out of her face. Jugheads body was a bruised purple color. It made her physically and mentally sick. And heartbroken all over again.Annoying beeps. "Betty we will need you to calm him down when we wake him. The tubes have to stay in and he's going to try and move to resist. Keep him calm." The nurse spoke. Betty nodded. They brought him out of the sedation slowly and his eyes opened looking terrified. He tried to jerk his body and pull the tube down his throat out but Betty held his hand in hers. She shuddered. "Jughead. Don't you can't move those. Stay calm please don't move those. Don't try to talk either. I'm just so glad your alive" she cried ending her sentence and you can she the confusion and tears in jugheads eyes. "Son, rest and get better. For me, for jellybean and for Betty" Fp said walking into the room. Jughead was so tired and unable to do anything. He doesn't remember any of what happened. "Explain to him what happened. It might calm him" she nurse said while checking his vitals. Betty tucked her hair behind her ears. "Uhm. Your at Riverdale general. You had a heart surgery because your heart stoped. And then they fixed something in your stomach I think. I'm not sure of all of the medical stuff but you were stabbed and obviously have a lot of damage." Betty told him and it didn't help jughead at all. He had no clue what she was talking about. She was to scared to touch him scared she would mess it up and hurt him. "Can you take that thing out of his throat?" She said pointing and her voice hoarse. The nurse shook her head. She hated seeing jughead like this. "Why the hell not? If the pacemaker is keeping his heart going why to you need this?" She said getting mad and frustrated with the whole situation. "Sweetie, it's to-" the nurse began talking. "No don't you sweetie me give me real answers" Betty chewed the nurses head off. Betty felt something touch her hand and she knew by the touch it was jugheads. It instantly calmed her. This was him trying to comfort her. "For his breathing. We don't know if he can breathe on his own and until he gets some strength back this is what will happen. He's weak. The surgery's and what happened took a lot of energy out of him. Do you know the late time he ate?" The nurse explained then asked with jugheads hand still laying in Betty's. "The night before the- what happened. So two days ago almost" Betty answered. "We will have to get him a feeding tube" the nurse announced then left. Betty sunk to the floor next to the hospital bed holding jugheads hand then laying her head on his hand. "I love you jughead, I love you and you're the only person that I will ever love in my life. I can not lose you. Ever." Betty confessed and then there was silence. He didn't say anything and neither did she. Moments later she says "jellybean tore herself apart regretting everything she said to you. She thought she'd never get to talk to you again or apologize. She'd probably be in here now if fp would let her. He doesn't want her seeing you like this." Betty answered his question knowing he was thinking about it. There was a knock on the door and it was the nurse with a feeding tube. "Okay so... you'll get a feeding tube we just have to measure it to see how much you need" the nurse said approaching jughead and taking a quick measurement then going back into the hallway. "I don't know how she's in there with him, I couldn't I would be crying and a mess. To emotional" Alice comments in the hallway. "Jughead needs her so she's there. He'd do the same for her" Fp says to Alice. The nurse comes back with the correct tube. Betty stands up and tells jughead to squeeze her hand when it hurts. The nurse explained it to jughead but he was to tired to listen. She pushed the tube up his nose it was slightly uncomfortable but not terrible but she pushed it up higher and he tried to squeeze her hand but he was to weak. She quickly pushed the rest up there and his legs shook. She taped the tube to his face and Betty praised him brushing her other hand against his swollen cheek. "You did so good I am so proud of you jug" She told him.    "You can sleep jughead and maybe you'll wake up and feel better" Betty told him and his eyes closed. The nurse put liquid foods through the tube. It was mostly supplements. Betty tried to imagine how jughead could sleep with all the beeping sounds. She blames her self. If she got the gun quicker or did something different or maybe... anything. "Betty?" A deep voice called her name. She turned her head to meet fp and quickly wiped her tears away. "What exactly happened? From the beginning." He asked her whilst he pulled Betty a chair to sit in by jughead then one for him to sit a few feet away. She put jugheads large hands in her smaller ones.