Your Best Friend, Benedict Cumberbatch

Chapter 19

It was around 3am when Ben suddenly woke up. "El, have you pissed yourself?" He laughs. "My pyjama bottoms feel soaked."

You didn't reply and Ben assumed you were still asleep. However, he needed to get the sheets changed so he was going to have to wake you up.

Ben leaned over to the bedside table to turn his lamp on then threw his side of the duvet off him. But as he threw the duvet off, his heart stopped.

"Ella, wake up." He shook you a little "wake up."

When there was no movement from you, he jumped out of bed and ran round to your side. "Ella, darling. Wake up." He shook you a bit harder, but still no response.

"Ella, baby. Funny joke but you can wake up now."

"Ella?"

"Ella!"

"Shit. Shit. Shit" Ben started freaking out.  It was like time had stood still.

"Ambulance please. Now." Ben said urgently as he grabbed his phone and dialled 999, giving them his address.

"Ambulance has been despatched for you now sir. Please could explain what has happened?"The call handler replied.

"It's my girlfriend, she's pregnant. I woke up and saw that the front of my trousers were soaked in blood. Her blood." He gulped at his own words, not believing he was saying this. "I can't wake her up. Help me, please!"

He was sitting on his knees in front of you by the bed. "Ella, please." He tried shaking you again.

"Could you check if she is breathing, please sir?"

He felt your pulse and felt fucking relieved when you were.

"Yes, she is. Why won't she wake up?" He asks, completely panicked and starting to cry.

"The paramedics will be here shortly. They are roughly two minutes away. Could I take your name please sir?"

"Ben. Ben Cumberbatch."

"Ella, please darling. Please wake up. I need you, please." His cries were getting louder.

"Ok Ben, the Ambulance should be pulling up now. Could you let them in please?"

"Of course. Thank you." Ben rushes to the front door and lets the paramedics through, before running back into the bedroom while saying as quickly as humanly possible, "my girlfriend is in here. She won't wake up. She's pregnant and I woke up covered in her blood."

The two paramedics rushed over to you and were checking all your vitals, before lifting you onto a stretcher. Ben watched, anxiously running his hands through his hair, feeling utterly helpless, wishing there was something he could do. He has never been so scared in his whole fucking life.

He put on his trainers as quickly as he could, and followed the paramedics into the ambulance, not even thinking about the fact he hasn't changed out of his blood-soaked pyjamas. Not that he cared. His whole focus was you and the baby.

As soon as the ambulance pulled up, doctors ran over to you as you were put onto a bed and rushed through the hospital. Ben ran behind them.

"Sir, unfortunately you're not able to come in with us, please could you wait here?" A nurse asked.

"Why can't I be with her? Please! What if she wakes up and I'm not there!"

"Sir, I understand you are stressed but-"

"Oh, you understand do you! That's my partner and child in there. I need to be there for them. What if they're fucking dying?" His tears were spilling out again. He then takes a deep breath then says, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so rude".