Scorpion: A New Member

Chapter 61: What the Hell?

TOBYS POV
"Toby!"
"Toby!!"
"Tobias Curtis!" I wake up in the middle of the night to hear Happy calling my name.
"Yes?" I ask confused to why we are up at 3am.
"The garage just called there's something wrong with Meghan." She replies. I'm still really confused, it's pitch black in here so I turn on the light. Happy is sitting at the end of the bed with the phone in her hands.
"What are you talking about?"
"They didn't go into details, let's go." She says walking out the door, she's still in her pajamas and so am I but we don't bother to get changed. I grab the keys on our way out and throw them to Happy, I pick up Jesse and hold her in the passengers seat. We speed down to the garage as fast as possible. When we get there we run into the living room. Walter is crouched down next to Meghan who is in her wheel chair and Paige is standing on the other side. Meghan's face is pail with pain and she's still in her pajamas.
"What happened?" I ask urgently.
"I don't know." Meghan says wincing. She coughs up some blood.
"Your coughing up blood, that's not a good sign." I tell her.
"I've noticed." She responds knowingly yet weak.
"She woke me up and told me she had a a serious pain in left side, I don't know what's wrong, that's why we called you." Walter says looking at her sympathetically.
"Is it your spleen?" I ask her, she shakes her head.
"Let me see." I say and Paige moves out of the way I crouch down and she pulls up her shirt just enough so I could see where the pain is. There is a large bloody bruised wound right below the spleen.
"Shit." I say not realizing I said it out loud.
"Shit? What do you mean shit?" Meghan asks nervously.
"On a scale from 1-10 how bad does it hurt when I touch here." I say touching the wound gently.
"12." She responds wincing at my gentle touch.
"Tell me if it hurts here." I say moving down to her lower leg near her ankle.
"I can't even feel anything below my waist." She says putting her head in her hands.
"Shit." I say again this time purposely out loud.
"Again with the shit. What the hell is wrong with her?" Happy asks getting annoyed.
"Ok so, it looks like you we're shot twice, and for some idiotic reason the doctors didn't find the second bullet because they didn't know there was a second bullet." I say biting my bottom lip.
"I was only shot once." Meghan respond looking up from her hands.
"Doesn't look that way." I respond.
"So your saying there is still a bullet inside of me?" She asks confused. I nod in response.
"Fucking shit." Meghan says her face getting red with anxiety.
"We need you to get your to the hospital." I inform her.
"I'm not going back to the hospital." She says her voice serious.
"Why not?"
"Because I've been there at least 4 times this year, I'm not going back, its too embarrassing."
"Please, I can't fix this I don't have the supplies." There's a moment of silence. Meghan winces again.
"Fine." She says holding her side.
"Leave the wheel chair here and carry her." Walter instructs. I pick her up as gentle as possible and carry her to the van putting her into the passengers seat. Happy drives to the hospital fast but it's kind of hard because it's still dark out and pouring. We get there in less then fifteen minutes. I carry her into the hospital and place her into a wheel chair by the entrance of the hospital. I explain to one off the doctors what is happening and he wheels her away, we try to follow but he just pushes us into the waiting area. I sit down on one of the chairs and wait. Happy is pacing back and fourth in the middle of the waiting area, I walk over to her.
"What's wrong?" I ask her quietly.
"I don't trust this hospital." She says looking at the doctors as they walk by.
"Why not?"
"This is the same hospital that told me I could never have kids and guess who got pregnant? Me. This is also the same hospital that didn't find a bullet in somebody, I mean how the fuck do you miss a bullet?" Happy says getting really pissed off. She rocks Jesse back and fourth in her arms.
"This is the only hospital for miles, we have to trust them." I tell her taking her hand but she pulls away still upset. A nurse holding a clip board walks out.
"Um... Team Scorpion?" The nurse calls out and we all stand up.
"How is she?" Paige asks the nurse.
"The doctor hasn't come in yet but now that she is stable you can come in." The nurse informs us. We walk down to the room, when we walk in Meghan is sitting in the bed, she kind of looks mad. We all sit down in the chairs on the sides of the bed.
"How do we end up in situations like this?" Meghan says. I shake my head.
"Hell if I know." Happy says shrugging her shoulders. There is a file on her bed I take it off and read it. Right when I start reading it the doctor walks in.
"Meghan Jacobs?" The doctor asks. Meghan nods.
"God stop using my last name." Meghan mumbles to herself. We explain to the doctor what happened and he examines her hip area.
"Yep there's definitely still a bullet in there it looks like it fractured a plate in your hip which is why you can't walk or feel anything below your waist." The doctor informs us.
"And?" Happy says getting annoyed.
"And you are going to be needing 2 surgeries." The doctor says.
"Get out." Meghan says the doctor tries to argue but obviously Meghan wins and he leaves the room.
"Another 2 surgeries." Paige says looking defeated.
"Yep another two surgeries because they couldn't get their job right the first time." Meghan says with a lot of annoyance in her voice.
"Anybody want coffee?" I ask getting up from my seat. The team nods.
"Want any breakfast or something?" I ask Meghan.
"No." She responds.
"Come on you have to eat." I insist.
"I'm not hungry." She responds quickly. I get the three cups of coffee and some applesauce for Jess. I walk back into the room, everybody is talking, trying to lighten the mood.
"I should probably call Sly, Cab and Shawn and update them on the situation." Walter says leaving the room.
"So Toby, I've always wondered, what's your middle name? I know it starts with an M but what is it?" Meghan asks me.
"Morris." I respond.
"Your kidding right?" Meghan asks not believing what I just said. I shake my head. Walter walks back in.
"Your name is Tobias Morris Curtis?" She asks laughing a bit. The rest of the team laughs a bit too. I nod and this makes her smile a bit, it's good to see her smile again.
"You shouldn't be talking Meghan Maria Patricia Jacobs!" I reply.
"What's wrong with my name? And how do you know my full name?" She asks laughing.
"Oh, I guess I just have my ways." I respond smirking.
"Cabe told you didn't he?"
"Yep." I respond letting out a chuckle. Shawn walks in a second later.
"Hi Shawn." Meghan says giving him a slight smile.
"Hi baby, how are you feeling?"
"It hurts, the pain killers haven't kicked in yet." Meghan responds gesturing to the IV stuck in her wrist.
"Aw Meg." He says taking her hand.
"Well it's great to see you smiling again." Shawn says smiling at her.
"What's your middle name?" Meghan asks Shawn.
"Terryn. Shawn Terryn Mathews." He responds.
"I love that name." Meghan says giving him a small smile. We continue to talk for a while, I'm even able to get a few laughs out of Meghan. Later the nurse informs us that Meghan will go into surgery tomorrow but the second surgery will be about a week after the first one. About an hour later Meghan's sound asleep, eventually we all end up asleep in Meghan's hospital room.