Effys story (a skins fanfic)

Safe (20)

As the police and ambulances finally arrived, we were immediately taken into the ambulance.

Once we arrived at the hospital I was taken to a room to get checked over. A nurse came to wrap my burns and wounds in bandages and gave me 2 pots of pills to take for the smoke inhalation. I had some tests but I was recovering well.

2 weeks later

I was told that I would be free to go soon, so I got up to see how the Freddie was doing. I wandered through the corridors until I reached Freddie's room. He laid there, his arm completely wrapped in a cast, but other than that, he seemed fine.

"Effy"
"Freddie" I replied happily as I walked round to the side of his bed. I sat on his bed and kissed his cheek.
"How's cook?" I asked.
"I think his surgery went well" he replied hopefully.
"When can we see him?"
"Let's see now" I nodded in agreement as he swung his legs over his bed carefully.

Once we reached his room, I listened for noise, but there wasn't any. I pushed open the door carefully to see him sprawled across his bed asleep.
"Cook?" I whispered as his eyes fluttered open. I had never seen him this vulnerable. Freddie took my hand and we walked over to his bed.
"Effy, fredster I see you two are all patched up" he spoke smiling.
"Yep and we are going to be discharged today" Freddie spoke.
"That's great, I dunno when I'm getting out of this place"
"I'm sure soon" I replied.

2 weeks later

I grabbed my coat and threw it on quickly buttoning it up.
"FREDDIEEEE COME ON" I shouted to him from the other side of the hotel room we had been staying in while we waited for Cook to recover. The doctor told us that he would be released today so that we could all finally get on a plane and leave New York for good. Freddie finally emerged from our room grabbing a coat off the hook.
"Okay okay, I'm here, let's go get our best friend back" he smiled as he entwined our fingers. I smiled back and we left closing the door behind us.
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We had been waiting for ages in the waiting area and I was just about to ask a doctor when we spotted cook walking around the corner with his famous grin plastered on his face.

He signed some papers and then was free to leave. We were finally ready to go back home and nothing could stop us now.
"Ready?" I asked cook.
"Yes I'm so fucking ready to go home" he answered.
"Good". We made our way back to the hotel to grab our things and then set off to catch the next flight back to Bristol.

I slept on Freddie's shoulder for most of the flight thinking about if we'd ever get over what happened  in New York or if it'll haunt us for the rest of our lives.

When the plane came to a stop everyone piled out and the rainy weather greeted us. We checked out through the airport but i could just about see two figures running towards us.
"Cook, Freddie look!" I shouted as I instantly recognised then. It was JJ and Katy. I was instantly greeted with a hug from Katy which almost knocked me over.

"Effy, it's so good to see you I've missed you like soo much, we heard what had happened and we rushed straight here, are you okay?"
"Yeah we're pretty much patched up" I smiled at the girl who I was proud to call my best friend. There was a time when I hated her more than anything, and I'm sure she wasn't too happy about me hitting her over the head with a rock either but she had helped me through one of my  hardest times and that made her a good friend and I had missed her so much.

I was next greeting by a hug from JJ. He was warm and had a goofy smile on his face.
"What do you say we go home?" JJ  asked.
"I say fuck yes" I replied smiling as we left the airport together and started on the way home. Home sweet home, time to face the demons.