Still Falling (A Hunter Hayes FanFic)

Chapter 28

Toni's POV

It's dark here. I feel trapped. Isolated. Alone. Where am I? I look around and all I see is black. Darkness. I feel broken. I feel broken like a little porcelain doll. I pat myself down to see if I'm hurt. I feel something sticking out of my leg. I touch it. I touch it again. I touch once more before I realize it's my bone. What happened? I begin to cry. My heart begins to race. My leg is broken. I don't understand how. I hit myself on the head, trying to get myself to remember, but nothing works. My head feels wet. It takes me a while to realize it's wet with blood. What happened? Where am I?

Hunter's POV

"I need Dr. Hertford in the ICU as soon as possible!" I hear a nurse call out to the medical staff from outside my room. "Why? What's happened?" A clerk responds. "A female patient. She- she's freaking out. Her heart rate is through the roof! I think she's having a heart attack!" I feel my heart beat accelerate.

Toni is in the ICU.

"We have to do something, quickly! She's going to die!"

"She's going to die." She's going to die.

"You called?" A woman, I can only assume it's the doctor, says. "Yes." The nurse flips through some paperwork on a clipboard and reads the patient's name. "Antoinette Grazen in the ICU. I don't know what happened. Her heart rate has skyrocketed. We have to act fast, doctor." I patiently wait for the doctor to say something, but she doesn't. From what I can see, she's just looking at the papers on the clipboard. I want to scream. I want to yell, "What are you waiting for?! Go! Save her! She's going to die!" But there's a lump in my throat. I can't breathe. All I can do is push this fucking doctor along. I peel the covers off of me and slowly but surely walk to the door. My body still aches, but I can't feel much of anything. I'm too worried about her. My wife. My angel in disguise. My muse. My savior. My inspiration. She could die. And I'd be to blame.

This doctor would be to blame too, as she's still standing in the middle of the goddamned hallway, staring at that fucking clipboard. "Go." I whisper. "Go. Go. Go." My voice becomes louder and clearer. "Go. Go! Go! Go!! Go save her!" The doctor looks up at me with tears in her eyes. I am full-blown screaming now.

"What are you doing? Go save my wife! Please! Go!!!" She looks down the hallway, then back at me. "Take me to her." She commands the nurse. They both head for the ICU. Dr. Hertford looks back to me before she enters Nettie's room.

I can see her lips mouth from across the hallway, "I'll save our girl."