Blown Apart

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Chloe POV

We made a mistake. We shouldn't have rushed Brontë to see her siblings and we should've warned the others in more detail. Beca was so desperate and the kids were eager at the time but now I see it's too much. I'm worried to see how Brontë reacts to everything but maybe she does need some time to calm down. She does find comfort in being alone at least that is the same. She always preferred to be alone rather than in a big group. The kids all calm down and we decide that enough excitement for one day. We focus on getting Cece out of the hospital and then Brontë getting better. It's definitely not worth bringing grandparents or Katy into the room. Even though I question sending Katy in because it may bring back our girl and have someone with her all the time we will wait until at least tomorrow now to give everyone a chance to cool down.

Brontë POV

The sigh of relief when everyone goes I nearly feel bad about it. But I don't I'm the one who is sick. I get to be selfish. I would obviously never say this to their face I can't, anything I do seems to never be enough so I suck it up. They can just leave me here in this room until I get better or if I don't then that's it leave me here. Even though it hurts everything I curl up on my side and face the window. My stomach hurt more but I'm the more comfortable than I have been for a while and I just needed to move.

I don't know how long I have been staring out the window when Dr Grey walked in.

"Good Evening Tiger," Lexie says as chipper as always and I don't move. I grumble back in response. Half from the pain as I should have moved a long time ago (but I didn't have the energy) and half to just tell her I was alive.

"Hey I understand that may be more of a comfortable place to sleep but I can't let you stay curled up on your side like that." Thank you, Lexie! I act as if I don't want to move but she helps me reposition myself in the middle of the bed. My face spends the whole time scrunched in pain as she helps me move and I know she is taking that all in.

"I'm gonna get some food in a minute and bring it up. Do you want me to bring you some too? And then we can talk about how it was seeing your family?" Lexie says stepping back and looking at all my vitals.
"I ate earlier, my mom brought me some." I moved to itch my head and forgetting my lack of hair and stopped touching it was a weird feeling as I slowly move my hand down. I wasn't hungry so really hope she would believe me.
"No problem. Do you want anything else while I'm gone?" Lexie starts moving towards the door as I look to my window for answers. There are many things I want just none that she can get.
"You don't have to but can you get me a hat." I mumble.
"A hat?" Lexie questions and now I feel dumb.
"My head, it's just cold. Sorry I asked. Don't worry about it."
"No no I can get you a hat no problem. I'll be back soon okay?" Lexie says looking at me I can feel her eyes on me. I just nod and learn my head back again the pillow keeping my eye line out the window.

Lexie POV

I found it sweet she asked me to get her a hat, I think it was more of a self-conscious thing than the fact her head was cold but I wasn't going to question it. What I was going to question was if she had eaten or not. She has avoided every meal so far so I was going to check on her family and then see if she had truly eaten. By the time I had got to Bronte's sister's room, it was a lot quieter then it had normally been. I knocked on the door and was surprised to see it was just the sister, Chloe and a woman I hadn't met before.

"Hi Doctor Grey, is everything okay?" Mrs Beale- Mitchell started coming towards me, I then realised then most times I have entered the room is because something is wrong with Bronte.

"No no everything is okay. I was just checking to see if Bronte had eaten tonight. She said she has but considering her lack of appetite recently I thought I would check." I say as Chloe stands by me. I can see the other women in the room looking at me quite sternly.