Best Friends Whenever Fanfic: Time Travel Can't Fix This (Oneshot)

Dont Leave Me

Cyd and Shelby were walking home from school. Cyd was on her phone and Shelby was telling Cyd how much it was annoying her that Cyd was so attached to her phone.
"It's fine, Shelbs. I'm listening to everything you have to s- Oh! Another text!" Cyd said once again getting distracted by her phone.
Shelby stopped right in the middle of the crosswalk and snatched Cyd's phone out of her hand.
"Cyd, I'm serious. This is becoming a bad habit of yours." Shelby said seriously.
"Shelbs," Cyd cut in.
"Let me finish, Cyd." Shelby said, ignoring Cyd.
"Shelbs, I'm serious, you need to-"
"I'm serious too, Cyd." Just then a huge race car started zooming down the street without stopping.
"Shelby, watch out!" Cyd yelled. She jumped and pushed Shelby out of the way, ending up in her place. There was the sound of shattering glass, screeching wheels, and the smell of burning rubber at that very moment. Shelby's ears wrung as she tried processing what just happened.

She got up off the dirty road and brushed herself off. There was the sound of sirens filling the streets as Shelby's vision cleared. Then she noticed Cyd wasn't with her.
"Cyd?!" She shouted. She looked over at the car that almost crashed into her. There were glass shards on the shiny blacktop. Puddles of red liquid painted over the road as if a care-free child were holding paintbrush on a canvas. There she lied. The brunette was unconscious on top of what was left of the windshield. The glass piercing her skin and her face covered in blood and dirt.
"Cyd?" Was what Shelby last said before she fell unconscious.

Shelby woke up on a medical bed with an IV in her right arm.
"Cyd!" She shouted, jumping up from the bed but immediately being pulled down by black leather straps.
"What happened to me?" She asked herself.
"She's awake now." Said a voice just outside her door.
Her mother and father walked in with comforting eyes, saying, "Hey, Sweetie."
"What happened?" She asked her parents almost immediately.
"You almost got hit by a car. But thankfully-" Ingrid, Shelby's mom, paused.
"But, thankfully Cyd pushed you out of the way." Her mother sighed. Shelby almost started to cry.
She waited for her parents to yell, "Surprise! We're just kidding!" Like some sort of sick joke. At least that would mean she wouldn't be in this mess. But they didn't.
"Is she okay?" Shelby managed to ask.
"They're not sure, dear, but her pulse is still, um, there." She said nervously.
"So, it's not reacting the way it's supposed to but it's still there. She's still breathing so that's good."
"Well, I need to go see her, then," Shelby said.
"The doctors need to see if you're officially okay before you can leave the bed." Her mother said. Shelby nodded. It felt like eternity since her mother said that. Then the door opened.
"Mrs. Marcus, Mr. Marcus," A nurse said, taking her parents into the hall.
A few minutes later, her parents came in.
"Good news! You're all okay and you can go see Cyd!" Her mother said, relieved that her daughter was okay.

Shelby eagerly jumped out of the bed and speed-walked to Cyd's door. Shelby gasped at the sight. Cyd was bruised and had loads of medical equipment all over her upper body. Her parents walked in afterward.
"The doctor said that there's a 80% chance that she may not live but if she does, there's an indefinite chance that she will be paralyzed from the waste down." Ingrid said, placing her hand on Shelby's shoulder. Then the beeping noise stopped its pattern.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Then the doctors and nurses immediately rushed to the sound and started pumping Cyd's heart repeatedly.

That was it. It seemed as if the repetition of the same sound over and over again froze time itself. It felt like Shelby's heart stopped along with Cyd. No more time traveling. No more listening to Cyd's silly nonsense every morning. No more seeing her smile. No more hearing her laughing. No more listening to Cyd question the existence of chicken. No more anything.