Afire Love

Chapter 1

Voices, noises made by unknown people and various machines. Lights, too bright for her to open her eyes. Felicity frowned and tried to speak but words came out more like a hoarse. Now someone was holding her hand and she heard a a voice, more gentle than the others.

"Miss, you are in an ambulance. It's been an accident but you are fine, the baby is fine. Please, stay still. We'll reach the hospital soon."

The words were to comfort her but it made everything worse. Accident? What accident? Where was Oliver? Everything was in a fog and in that fog she felt she couldn't breath. And then she started shaking and she felt hands holding her. Someone screamed something and then everything returned to darkness and silence.

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The next time she opened her eyes, she was in less pain. She stood up and realised she was in a hospital room and with her clothes on. That was a good sign. An IV wasconnected to her right arm and nothing more. That was a good thing too. She tried to remember what happened that got her there. She was about to tell Oliver she was pregnant and he proposed and then-

That car came and it was supposed to hit her but he was the one hit instead.

She jumped from her bed, disconnecting herself from the IV, and run to the door. She opened it and was about to get on the hallway but then someone bumped into her and gripped her by the arms. She tried to escape but it was useless, whoever he was, he was too strong.

"Felicity!" he screamed and she rose her head to look at him.

"John." It sounded more like a sigh than a word. She stopped fighting him and John left her from his grip. "Where is he?" She said still looking at him. 

His expression changed from concern to sadness and she felt her heart stopping and her stomach dropped. 

"No... it can't-" she started more for herself, tears forming in her eyes.

"He's in surgery. But it's bad, Felicity. The doctor said he will send for us as soon as the surgery ends" he tried to calm her down.

She breathed out hard, as if her lungs tried to give up on her but then changed their mind.

"For how long?"

"What?"

"For how long was I unconscious? For how long has he been in surgery?"

"You were out for 5 hours. And he's been in surgery since you arrived here, so the same time" he told her putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Where are we?"

"Angels' Memorial Hospital. Los Angeles. I've came as fast as I could. They called me. Apparently you both have my name as your emergency person."

"That's my doing."

"Why?"

"When we left, I thought this will be another life and death mission and if anything would happen to us, you should have been the one having the last word... in everything. But then it wasn't and I-" she couldn't tell him. But if the doctors knew, he must've known too, right? "Everything was perfect. And then that car appeared out of nowhere and now he... he might not make it" she could barely say that. And it was devastating. 

"He'll be fine, Felicity. He's survived so many things. Awful things. He will survive this too. You have to believe in him."

"How could this happen, John?" She asked but he shake his head and then he looked away. "A man that survived so many, being hit by a damn car. Do they, the police, know who did it?"