Taking My Shot- Adopted by Hamilton

Chapter 9-Hold Her Hand

Lin's POV:

"Good night homeboy," I say, kissing Sebastian on his forehead, he was asleep when I got home from the show but I wanted to say good night to him, he looked so peaceful when he was sleeping. I don't know why but I decide to start talking to him about Riley.

"Hey buddy guess what, you're gonna have a sister soon, she's so nice and really funny and smart. She's older than you but I have no doubt she'll still want to watch chuggington with us," I chuckle to myself, Chugginton was Sebastian's favorite show, and yes I guess you could say it was my favorite too, "She's so amazing Seb you'll love her, I promise." I smile down at my beautiful son, I walk out of his room and my wife Vanessa runs over to me worry on her face.

"Lin your phone has been ringing for the past five minutes," I pick it up without even looking at who it is, I'm expecting it to be Riley but I'm surprised to hear a guy's voice.

"Hi Mr Miranda, it's Alex, Riley's friend, her foster dad showed up and took her back to his house, I called the police they're headed there right now, she said to call you." He explained, I suddenly became panicked.

"What's the address?" I ask, grabbing paper and a pen. I write it down and thank him. "V, I gotta go, Riley's in trouble." I kiss her on the cheek and run out the door, jumping in my car and driving to her house as fast as I could, hoping that I wasn't too late.

When I arrive there are police and an ambulance, I get out of my car and start walking towards the house when they wheel out a gurney with Riley on it and what looks like a knife, sticking out of her leg.

"RILEY!" I yell, running towards her. She looks in my direction and her eyes widen when she sees me.

"LIN!" She yells, I can tell she's been crying. I run towards her and some officers stop me.

"I'M HER DAD!" I yell, and they move out of they way. I'm not sure why I say it, I guess I knew they would let me through if I was family. And all I wanted to do was hold her in my arms and make all the pain stop. I run up to her and she reaches her hand out for mine, I grab it and jump into the ambulance with her. The whole way there she's crying and I try to calm her down, I never loosen my grip on her hand. I start studying her injuries; she has a bloody nose and her face had various bruises, there's also a lot of blood considering there's a knife in her thigh. We finally got to the hospital and rush inside, I still don't let go of her hand while we're running down the hall but once we reach a certain door a bunch of doctors and nurses separate our hands. I try to run after her but they all hold me back. I see her freaking out, looking for me.

"RILEY!" I yell after her. She looks back at me with tears in her eyes.

"DAD!" She yells. The breath hitches in my throat and I collapse onto the floor crying, she called me dad. She's my daughter, and I need to be by her side. But the doctors make me go to the waiting room and they tell me what's happening moving forward. They're going to take the knife out and make sure the wound isn't infected and then they're gonna check out her other injuries. They said they put her under so she won't feel anything while they're examining her and I feel a little relived, at least she won't alone, terrified and in pain. She's sleeping and when she wakes up I'll be there to hold her hand again.
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Hey guys sorry this is short but I felt like it was a good place to stop. I'll be uploading 10 soon! I hope you enjoyed and thanks for reading :)