Criminal

Chapter 16

Sirens. 

All I could hear were blaring sirens. I tried to get up and look around but my body felt so heavy and I couldn't lift myself. I winced in pain if I tried to. 

I opened my eyes but my vision was blurred. I could see the red and blue lights flashing and ambulance trucks were pulling up to me. After that I blacked out. 

Pain.

Unearthly pain was shooting through my body. But the most unbearable pain was in my head. Throbbing pain, like my brain was swelling up. I've been in conditions like this before, even worse maybe. Like that one time I had to jump off a burning helicopter into the ocean and belly flopped on a mission in England. Or the time when I had swung from a grappling hook a bumped right into the a building with glass shattered all over my body. 

So you would thing that I'm immune to these kinds of accidents. 

Not really. 

It still hurts. 

I looked around and I wasn't on the highway anymore, I couldn't hear the sirens either. I was in the hospital.

I sat up on the reclined hospital bed, "Nurse?" I called out. I looked down and there were IV fluids connected to my wrist and another needle that had a line of dark red travelling from my arm to a blood bag. "Nurse?" I called again. 

Then a women in light blue scrubs hurried in, "Oh, I'm sorry Miss Mallory. How are you feeling?" She asked checking a monitor. She looked around the same age as my mom, maybe even younger. She has the sweetest smile and a petite but plump body. 

"I'm feeling ok, but a little light headed." I said holding the big bush of hair that was on my head.

She smiled at me, "Well, dear, can you remember anything?" She asked. 

"I was on the highway," I furrowed my eyebrows, trying harder to think of what had happened. "And I think a truck hit me when I was merging into the highway." 

"Ok, I will get the doctor. He said to get him once you wake." She said. I watched her walk away in a hurried fashion and within 2 minutes a doctor had appeared. 

"Hello Ms. Mallory." He came in. "I'm doctor Parks. I just want to check something." He came closer and flashed a light in both my eyes. "Hmm, we're going to keep a close eye on you and have the nurses check your monitors frequently for any spikes. If anything odd shows up you may need to go in for surgery." He explained. "How are you feeling otherwise?" He asked. 

"Well, I was just saying to the nurse that I felt a little light headed but otherwise I think I'm ok." I replied. "What happened to me?"

He sat down on a black stool next to my bed, "When you came in the Emergency Room, you had a lot of bleeding internally. That's probably because of the impact from all the weight on your body in the accident. You were stuck underneath your car. You also had a deep cut behind your head. We were worried for hemmoraging. So we took you into surgery immediately." He explained. 

"I can't feel a-" I lifted my hand to feel the back of my head. "Ouch!" I hissed. Then I laughed at myself and Dr. Parks joined me. 

"Yah, it's going to be sore." He laughed. "You have some visitors here to see you." He added. 

"Really?" Then I remembered, I was calling Evan just before the accident. I was just so full of hate at that time, I was rushing to get to him.After the way my dad spoke to him, which was unacceptable.  

"Did you want them to wait or would you like to see them?" He asked. 

"You can let them in." I said nodding my head.