I'm in Love...with a Rockstar (MCR)

Chapter Thirty-One: Dead or Alive?

Gerard's POV

~Recap~

"What?" I can hear Mikey gasp in the background. "Gee and Lyn-z...they're having another kid?"

"Yeah." I hear Pierce say.

"Wow. Tell them congrats for me." I turn around and grin at my wife. I listen closely, waiting for Pierce to return and pass on Mikey's message. But the only sounds I hear are screeching car tires and a large crash, glass breaking and the soft thud as the phone must have dropped. My heart stops.

"Pierce!" I say, my voice desperate. "Mikey! Pierce! Answer me! Pierce! What happened?" I am yelling into the phone, but no one answers.

~Present~

My hand begins to shake and the phone falls to the floor. Bandit waddles into the room and looks up at me.

"Daddy." She says. "Daddy?"

I raise my hands to my mouth. Oh god. Oh god. Then the tears fall. I don't mean for Lyn-z and Bandit to see them, so before they can flow and harder, I sprint from the room. I wrench open the front door and run. I don't know where. I think I'm trying to find my brother and sister-in-law, but in my heart, I know I have to call 911. I have to get to them. Lyn-z runs out of the house.

"Gee! Gee come back. Tell me what happened." I stop and turn to face her, my eyes wide. My wife. My beautiful wife. My baby inside her. My baby padding after her out of the house. I shake my head. She walks up to me and hugs me. "Baby? What happened?"

"Mi-Mikey and Pie-Pierce." I gasp, trying to catch my breath. "They...I think they-cra-crashed." She hugs me tighter.

"Have you located them?"

"N-n-no."

"I'll call 911, baby. Hold on." She pushes away and pulls out her phone. She dials. I block everything out. The world around me slows. Everything is slow motion. I spin around and fall, without meaning to. My knees just buckle. I crumple to the floor. Lyn-z rushes to my side, still talking frantically into the receiver of her cell phone. After she hangs up, she pulls me to my feet and helps me into the passenger seat of our car. She straps Bandit into her car-seat and we are off. I don't know where, probably the hospital where Pierce and Mikey are being taken.

I don't know how long it is.

Seconds.

Minutes.

Hours.

Days.

Weeks.

Months.

Years.

Decades.

Millennial.

I can't tell. But at one point, we turn into a parking lot and I come out of my trance. Sound floods my ears and time speeds up again. As soon as Lyn-z parks I am out of the car and running to the entrance of the hospital. I slam through the doors and sprint up to the counter. My hands clench the side of the counter, ghostly white. I stare into the eyes of the nurse

"Where. Are. They?" I ask, my voice a whisper.

"Who?" She asks, her fingers scaling the keys. "Sir? Who are you looking for?"

"My. My brother. My brother. My...My sister-in-law." I gasp. Lyn-z arrives by my side, Bandit in her arms. "My....my....my...my...." I can't finish. I gasp, my airways suddenly blocked.

"Mikey Way...uh...Micheal James Way and Pierce Lizbeth Rogent. I mean Way. Pierce Lizbeth Way." She says for me. The nurse searches through her records.