Finding My Voice

~25~

//A/N//: what's cooking good looking? i fear it is crash out season for me, literally didn't go to school today cuz i am over it. 2025 has already been the hardest year of my life and it's only the beginning :/ pray for me.

mwah! x - s

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Immediately my entire brain shuts down. My heart drops into my stomach and I quickly find it is becoming harder to breathe. I stumble and I would have fallen if it weren't for someone holding me up from behind.

I feel someone shaking me. I look up, and see Claire speaking to me looking concerned. My vision blurs.

What is she saying? I can't hear her. Oh my God what happened to my sister? Is she alive? What about Tom? Is he okay? Why didn't Chad say something sooner? I need to see her. I need to go to the hospital now. Fuck, I can't breathe.

"Pyper!" I hear.

I see Jamie's face come into view. "Hey, breathe. Can you hear me? Pyper, we're going to take you to a car so you can go to the hospital." He looks at someone behind me, "I don't know if she can hear me, I'll go with her." Jamie turns back to me, his face worried. "I'm going to carry you okay?", as he moves behind me I can hear him mutter, "God I hope she's okay with this."

Jamie picks me up and walks outside where a car is waiting for us. He sets me down in the backseat and buckles me up, as he starts to leave I grab his arm. "What? I will stay with you, let me just walk around the car okay?" He says as he gently takes my hand off of his arm. As he shuts the door, I close my eyes and try my best to take deep breaths.

I hear the car door shut and I feel a body come close to me. "You feeling better?" Jamie asks gently. I turn to him and I nod, "Yeah, I'm sorry about that." I feel him cup my face with his hand, "Don't you dare apologize for that Pyper Williams. You have every right to feel scared right now, okay? Please don't ever feel bad for having a panic attack. Your emotions are valid and nobody should ever make you think that you shouldn't be able to express them. I know that this is scary, but I'm here with you. I'll be with you through this entire thing." His green eyes are full of concern and maybe a little anger.

"Are we ready to go?" Another voice asks. We both turn and see Chad in the driver's seat, "Yes, and if possible can you hurry?" Jamie asks. Chad just nods as he starts driving towards the hospital.

"Wait what are we going to do about the show?" I ask.

Chad looks at me in the rear view mirror, "You don't have to worry about that right now, the whole production team and the judges know about the situation now. This is more important."

Jamie brings his arm around me and pulls me closer, "Pyper at this point, I don't even care about moving on in the show. You and your family are my main priority."

<TiMe JuMp> (just a lil)

Chad pulls up in front of the hospital and turns to us, "You guys get out right here, I'll go park the car and meet you inside."

I turn to him as Jamie opens the door, "Thank you so much." I now regret every time I called him Ginger.

Jamie calls my attention and I scooch out of the car. "Come on, let's go." He says as he grabs my hand and leads me inside the building.

We walk right up to a lady at the main desk, "Hi we're looking for my sister, Casey Williams?" I say urgently. She smiles at me before typing something on her computer. "Looks like your sister is in surgery right now over at Urgent Care. Just to your left, sweetie." Oh God. What about Tom? "Okay, and what about her boyfriend? Thomas Baker?" The nurse types something else in her computer, "Looks like he's not in our database, so I don't think he's a patient." I sigh in relief before turning to go find my sister. I vaguely hear Jamie thanking the woman before he walks next to me.

We walk towards the doors with the bright red words above it screaming 'URGENT CARE' and I practically shove it open. At the end of the very long hallway, the only person I can see is a slumped figure on a chair. "Tom?" I say. The person turns his head before jumping out of his chair. "Pyper?" He says. We quickly run towards each other and crash into a hug. Immediately, Tom bursts into tears.

"What happened? Where is she?" I ask him as we let go.

He wipes his tears off of his face, "We were just driving to your performance, and one second I looked over at her as she was chattering away about how excited and proud of you she was. Then the next she's screaming as a car jumps the barrier and is driving into us. It should have hit my side, but the driver was drunk and swerving everywhere so she took most of the impact. There was blood everywhere, and she wouldn't wake up. Once the ambulance got here, they immediately rushed her into surgery. I'm so sorry Pyper, I should have protected her."

I hug him once more as I start crying, "It's okay Tommy, there was nothing you could have done. It's not your fault."

"Excuse me? Are you here for Casey Williams?" A voice interrupts.

We immediately turn towards the man in scrubs. I feel Jamie come up behind me and gently grab my waist.

"Yes, we are." Tom says frantically.

The man smiles apologetically. "Well the good news is she is stable, but unfortunately she is now in a coma. We do not know when she could wake up, could be hours or it could be days. She lost a lot of blood so we had to give her a blood transfusion, she broke many of her ribs and there will be much scarring on her face and upper body."

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