Lost Time

Crushing news

Mama T's POV

"Hello, my name is Dr. Michelle Williams. Are you all Mrs. Carter's family?"

"Yes, I'm her mother. Please tell me my daughter is okay." I was pleading with her.

"Why don't we all take a seat and talk?" She said with this expression on her face that already told me everything I needed to know.

"NOOO, please don't tell me she didn't make it, please don't tell me." I was starting to get worked up.

"Come on T, let's sit down and let her talk." Gloria said as she came over to comfort me. I nodded and took a seat because I don't think I could take this news. I looked over at Shawn, who seemed to be in a trance. I reached my hand over and held his. Dr. Williams brought a chair closer to us and sat down as well. She took a big sigh before she started.

"Well, let me start by introducing myself again. I'm Dr. Michelle Williams, and I'm actually great friends with Beyoncé so from now on please feel free to call me Michelle or whatever you like."

"Oh you're talking about her in the present time, that's a good sign." I said interrupting her and not giving a fuck about anything else she was saying.

"Now T, don't be rude." Gloria said to me then turned to Dr. Williams. "Please continue sweety."

I apologized because G was right. The girl seems sweet and I shouldn't have done that.

"It's okay, I understand." She said with a reassuring, but half smile. "So, I was the doctor who performed the surgery on Beyoncé. I'm gonna start with the easy part. She has 5 broken ribs, one of her legs is also broken and some body parts were badly burnt as well. Now on to worse news. We had to stop the internal bleeding, and she suffered a head injury, not that big, but it still sent her body into shock. During the surgery, we lost her at one point, but she's definitely a fighter." She said as her voice cracked a little. "Umm, this is not gonna be easy to hear, but she slipped into a coma. Now it all depends on her when or if she wakes up." We all gasped. I looked at her in total horror with tears streaming down my face. Gloria was also crying. I felt Shawn squeezing my hand so tight, I think he almost broke it. After a long silence, I finally mustered up enough courage to ask what I wanted.

"How long can it take for her to wake up? Judging by the condition that she's in."

"It could be a couple of days, weeks, months, even years." She paused for a moment, then bowed her head and quietly said something we were all dreading to hear. "Or she might not wake up at all." You could hear a pin drop. My body just couldn't hold me up anymore, so I dropped to my knees as Gloria came down on my level and we cried in each other's arms. We could hear Shawn mumbling about the children and how she just couldn't leave them. The machine that he was on started beeping rapidly and we had to get out of the room so the nurses could sedate him before something worse happens.

Shortly after, Michelle came out of the room and over to us. 

"The hospital offers all the help you may require to get through this hard time. If you have any questions feel free to come to me or call me." She said as she handed me a note with her phone number. "Since she's one of our best doctors we gave her our best private room. It's room 444 on the 5th floor. You can now visit her if you want to, but be prepared that she might not look like she did before." We thanked her for everything and then she had to get back to work.

We decided to visit Beyoncé, while we're waiting for Shawn to wake up. We got to the 5th floor and started searching for her room. We stopped right in front of it, just to prepare ourselves for the worst. I slowly opened the door, and there she was, my baby, my firstborn, my first true love. She was hooked to all these machines, the constant beeping, her being covered with all these bandages, and I could see even her neck and face got a little burnt. She was pale, all the color left her face. I don't know how to stay strong or cope with this. This is just too fucking much.

Gloria decided to come in, while I was still frozen at the entrance. She stopped for a second to just take it all in with tears in her eyes, but she didn't let them fall. She looked at me and took my face into her hands, but I just couldn't look into her eyes right now.

"Look at me Tina! That's your baby and she needs you. You can't give up on her. It's not gonna be easy, but Shawn and our grandchildren will need us now more than ever. I'm here for you and we're gonna get through this. God got the rest." I nodded and got myself together for like the hundredth time today.

I slowly walked up to my daughter's bed and touched her hand. It was so cold. Then I gently touched her face where it wasn't burnt. I planted a kiss on her forehead then sat back and continued to caress her face as I talked to her.

"Hey Bumblebee! Don't you worry, we won't give up on you. I'm gonna protect your family and help that husband of yours as much as I can. You just focus on waking up and getting better. You're probably confused what's going on. Well, there was a bomb planted in your home and now you're in a coma. We all probably know that behind all of this is your bitch ass father and he will get what he deserves. Shawn will probably tell you more details. You know he was trying to give me the whole story as well, but next time you better tell him I don't want to hear all the dirty details. I guess I raised you right though...a woman in the streets and a freak in the you know what." I talked to her for a good 20 minutes. Before we left, Gloria also said some words and then we prayed.

"Alright baby, we gotta go now. I hope to see you awake when I come back. I love you so so much." And on that note, we left.

When we got back to Shawn's room he was still asleep, so we decided to go home, take a shower, and contact some of the important people.

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