LEFT BEHIND | Scarlett Johansson x Daughter.

CHAPTER 23 - I WANT TO GO HOME*

Scarlett's POV

My ears are ringing, they don't seem to stop.

I watch as they move JJ from the gurney to a hospital bed and attach wires to her body.

None of this feels real.

I feel like I'm living in a nightmare and I just want to wake up right now. But it's not a nightmare, it's real and it's happening right in front of me.

Everything seems to blur together as doctors work around her, she is still unconscious.

What happened? Where was she?! Who would do something so horrible? So many questions run through my head but I can't answer them, I can't even bring myself to try and answer them myself, JJ is the only one who knows. 

She needs to wake up so they can help her. 

The doctors speak amongst themselves trying to decide what to do in the meantime but they don't know if she has been given anything, they can't risk giving her anything in case it reacts with something that's already in her system. 

And just as I start to give up hope, I watch as JJs eyes flutter and her hand moves to shield her eyes from the harsh lights.

"JJ, baby, can you hear me?" My fingers try to stroke through her hair but it's all knotted together.

"Mommm, my head hurts, make it stop" JJ mumbles as she tries to roll over, her voice is all disoriented and her words are all slurring.

"JJ, I need you to wake up or tell me what you've taken" I try to speak gently to her as I lay a kiss on her forehead.

"Vodka, lots of vodka, I'm sorry" she slurs again, tears falling from her eyes in the process.

"Okay baby that's okay, anything else"

"Drugs, I didn't want too but I needed it to stop" she cries even harder. Her body is trying to sit up. I watch as her face starts to turn from pale to green, panic fills my body as I try and grab a bowl they have on the side and just as I pull it in front of her, she empties her stomach.

A nurse moves her bed to sit up right and JJ collapses back into the bed realising a huff.

"What drugs bug I need to know so the doctors can help you" Her eyes open wide, well one of them does, her right eye being too swollen to even open, my heart breaks but I can't break in front of her.

"Cocaine" I can't even seem to find any words to reply to her answer, I never expected this from my little girl.

"How much, bug?"

Her hand lifts off the bed as she tries to show me a width of the amount before I can get another word out. She replies with "3 lines, thissss long but it's okay, I'm okay mom, just tired." Her eyes close again until someone touches her arm and she jerks away from them.

"NO DON'T TOUCH ME" her sudden mood change is shocking, everyone seems to still as they watch her heart rate spike on the monitor. The nurse moved their hands away from JJ and put them into view so she could see them.

"Mom, I want to go home, I'll be okay. I-I just needs to sleeps okay?" She turns to look at me as her head rolls to find my gaze. I nod to her words as everything in me just trusts her, she isn't going to let anyone touch her. I know she won't, we don't know what's happened and I can't let anyone make it worse. If that was her reaction from someone touching her arm then god knows how else she will react.

My thoughts go back to what Becca said earlier, "possible sexual assault" I don't want to believe it, I can't believe it- I can't even imagine that happening to anyone especially my little girl but the blood on her thighs and her reaction to someone touching her just makes me believe it.