COMPLETED Drugshot - Bride of Depp #Wattys2016

Chapter XVIV - Leave, Cause I Can't

Ten long hours of flight, ten long hours of fast and uneven heartbeats, ten long hour oftrying to figure out what's happening to someone you love so much...

I've never felt so weak and worried in my life except when I finally got to the airport, managed to book a flight back to London and called Helena's mother before I boarded to the plane.

"Hellie is having an emergency surgery Johnny."
"A what?!" I felt as if my brains shut down upon hearing that. What would she need a surgery for?! I thought it was just an over-fatigue. It didn't come to my mind that Helena's condition is so bad that she'll be needing to undergo an emergency surgery.
"I'm coming back now, mum... C-can I talk to her?"
"Johnny... She's in the operating room now." My heart beats faster hearing her mom's voice shaking. She's always been a calm and collective woman, but the sound of her voice now is too much different and too haunting to not notice.
"Mum, please tell me what's happening...Is my wife alright?"
"She will be... Hellie will be alright." She says and sobs silently.
Helena wasn't alright. What her mom said and how she reacted made it clear that she isn't alright at that moment.
"Have a safe trip Johnny... Please be safe. I'll have you fetched from the airport ahead of time."
She speaks again and before I can talk again, the phone went off. Same time, the boarding gates were finally opened and I headed to the business suite of the plane. Restlessly, I waited for long hours until I reached Heathrow Airport. I immediately recognized Helena's mom's driver waiting for me at the arrival area. I would've reached him quickly if the paparazzi didn't suddenly come running towards me and everything became out of control. The security personnel of the airport immediately came to help as well as two other bodyguards from my wife's previous household when the rude paparazzi started dragging me and pulling me to them.
"Johnny! Is it true you left filming to go back here for Helena?!"
"Is Helena your girlfriend Johnny?!"
"Are you guys living together?!"
Most of them were Americans, I can say by their accent, Thomas was able to halt the British paparazzi but these people are much more rude than the local paparazzi here.
"Johnny!!! Is it true that you infected Helena with a sexually transmitted disease?!"
"How bad is her condition that you had to post filming?!"
"Is it true that she has cancer?!"
"Johnny what can you say about the talks that Helena has cancer?!"

I felt as if my brain froze with their questions. No... I shook my head violently and continue walking. That can't be. They're making it up to get a reaction from me.
It took us another couple of minutes to finally reach St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington. It is the most expensive hospital in London, the same hospital where my wife was born. The family doctor as well as some of her relatives in the field of medicine are resident doctors in this hospital.
I just continue walking following the bodyguards' footsteps to Helena's room, not minding the flashes of camera blinding me from the moment I walked out of the car and entered the hospital.
"Johnny...! Oh dear...it's good you're finally here." Hellie's mom immediately wraps me in her arms the moment I step inside the private room's receiving area. I can see that her eyes are still misty.
I breathed hard trying not to give in to emotions and worry I'm feeling now.
"How is she mom?" I finally ask.
"She's resting now... The surgery was successful." There was relief in her eyes but I still can sense that she's still very worried and sad.
"I'm so sorry Johnny..." She says and sighs heavily again, a couple of tears start welling up her eyes as she looks at me with so much sympathy.
"What happened to Hellie mom? What's happening to my wife?"
"Johnny, you have to promise me that you'll never leave my daughter no matter what... No matter what she says or does...You have to promise that you'll stay strong for her, do you understand me?"
"I'll never leave her, you know that."
She looks at me with doubt and I felt belittled because of that. I would never leave my wife even if it costs me my own life.
"Please tell me what's happening..." I say almost pleading now and her mom looks at my eyes before she opens her lips to speak again.
"Helena had an abortion."
Silence... Dead long silence filled the room. All I can do was stare at the door leading to where my wife is, then I shook my head slowly.
"I don't understand...Hellie can't do that... Not to our own child."
"She...No..." She closes her eyes again and calms herself.
"We had no choice Johnny. Helena could have died if she didn't have an abortion."
I frowned and just stare at her looking for answers, she never told me she was pregnant.
"She never knew Johnny." She says as if reading what's running in my mind again.
"It was only last night that she'd found out. And there was nothing else we can do to save the child. The baby won't survive any way. It was an ectopic pregnancy. If we were a minute late, Helena... Helena would've died of hemorrhage." Her voice is broken again. Immeasurable worry and sadness were all you can sense from her voice.