Living After Abortion (Adopted by Jennifer Lawrence Fanfic)

(23) Someone Knows

••Maddie's POV••

I hear the sound of quiet voices and beeping machines all around me.

I flutter open my eyes and see Jen in the corner of the room with a lady, I'd say twice her age, that looks somewhat familiar.

"Jen?" I croak.

She immediately runs over to the bed I was in, "Maddie," She kisses my forehead, "Your're awake." She smiles, but tears run down her face, happy tears.

"Where am I?" I try to sit up, but pain shoots down my spine.

"Don't--sit up." She bites her lip.

"Jen?" The lady standing to the side asks, she has blonde shoulder length hair and blue eyes--just like Jen's. "Do you want me to get the doctor?"

"Please." Jen replied quietly, not wanting me to hear, I guess.

I must've had a confused look on my face, because when the lady went out of the room Jen explained, "That's my mom--your grandmother--well, Karen." She struggled.

I looked down and saw that I was in a hospital gown and I had different machines and tubes hooked up to me. This is not how I wanted to meet Jen's mother.

After a minute, a man in a white doctors coat came in and smiled at me. "Nice to see that you're up Madison." Karen came in right after him. "My name is Dr. Nala."

He leaned forward with a bright light and told me to follow it with my eyes, after a few seconds he nodded his head and put it back in his pocket.

He looked around the room and then at Jen, "Is it alright if I speak with the patient alone?"

Jen looked uneasy, but I gave her a small smile and she walked out of the room, Karen close behind.

"I understand that you don't remember much of what happened?" He questioned, taking a seat at the chair beside the bed.

I nodded my head, it was all a blur.

"Madison, what happened is normal, for your medical history--as in the circumstances in which you were born." He didn't meet my eyes. "You had a psychogenic seizure, sometimes called pseudoseizures."

"We did a CT scan and it showed us that you have had many--well tons of these in the past and even recently." He finally made eye contact with me, "And then we did an MRI and another CT scan. They all showed the same thing."

"That can't be--I mean, this has never happened before." I say wide eyed, looking intently at him.

"You were probably asleep, these types of seizures can be triggered by stress." He paused and lets that sink in, "Do you have nightmares frequently?"

I close my eyes, feeling tears coming on, "Almost every night." My voice cracks.

I don't know how to feel--how are you supposed to feel when you get told that you've had seizures almost all your life and you never knew?

Shocked, confused, maybe scared?

"Nightmares stress people out and they probably stress you out, on top of the stress you have on a daily basis. Most likely that's what causes your seizures. And the reason there's never really been a problem is probably because they were smaller than the one you had three days ago."

"Three days!?" I yell unintentionally.

"We gave you medicine so you would sleep and we could run tests, plus seizures are tiring." That last part sounded like a joke, but he wasn't laughing.