Twisted • e.d •

Shut The Hell Up!!!

I rush out of the bathroom going to put clothes on. I see a pile of clothes and a note on it saying, "the wife thought you may like these more than her. - Butcher"
Then next to it Ethan's clothes. Ethan's phone goes off and it says,
WHEN YOU FIND REAPER TELL HER HE IS AT THE BANNER HEALTH HOSPITAL!

I throw them on over my regular clothing and put my shoes on. Ethan was rushing as well. I grab the room key, and our motorcycle keys and Ethan grabs our helmets.

Spamming the elevator button it was taking such a long time.
"It's taking to long!! FUCK IT!" I turn and head for the stairs. Ethan follow behind me lost i slide down the side poles and Ethan jumps following close behind. We finally get to the bottom in 10 seconds flat as we head to the exit.
Ethan throws me my helmet and we jump on our bikes. I lead the way while Ethan follows.
Speeding down the streets on Cali trying to get to the hospital.
Yes every gang member knows that you should NEVER go to the hospital, most gangs have a doctor of some sort. So that means something must've happened in front of people or he called them himself, which I know he wouldn't do.

We got to a red light and as impatient as I was I go on the sidewalk and then drive back onto the road loosing Ethan. I continue to speed down getting closer and closer to the hospital. My eyes begin to water thinking about loosing Smokey.

As I see it in my sights I accelerate and go as fast as I possibly could. I pulled in and parked my bike and got to the front and went into the emergency side of the hospital. Still having my helmet on.
I rush in and see Grayson in the main room.
He saw me and jumped up saying, "REAPER THEY CALLED ME! I don't know what happened. I just see my phone and Smokey starts callin me we were talking and then I hear loud sounds. All of the sudden they picked up the phone and said he was being taken to the hospital and that was it!"
I rip off my helmet and go to the front desk lady cutting the line for about 5 people.
"Where the hell is Thomas James being held!"
The lady jumps back by my tone and says, "Ma'am please calm down. I will look after I help these other people."
All of the sudden Ethan grabs my waist and Grayson stands to the right of me. We look all determined to know and she looks up at us and you hear her breath hitch.
"Ac-actually I can help you guys right now. Just to get you out of the way.... Thomas Jackson right?"
Grayson says with his deep and husky voice, "it's fucking Thomas James. What's his room." Putting his hand on the table forcefully making me jump even.
"Let me seeee.." she says scrolling through the page.
"He is in room 213. But you can't go in there right now..."
Grayson stares her down and we see the doors open to the emergency room. They are usually locked to that you can't enter unless they let you but we all got the same idea to rush for the door. We all make it in and have a ton of doctors stare at us. Grayson then hands us little stickers that say, 'visitor'. And we throw them on and rush so the front desk lady doesn't find us.
We looked super sketchy and were stared down as we walked down the halls of the hospital.

We finally reached the 200's and I started running. I was yelled at to not run in the halls but I didn't listen. My eyes begun to swell up and tears started running down my face. I reach room 213 and enter.
I open the door to see a doctor and three nurses by his bedside. A nurse runs up to me and tried to push me out but I was a lot stronger than her so it didn't take much for me to hold my ground.
The doctor then comes up to me and says, "ma'am I need you to leave. He can't be visited right now."
He puts his hand Me and I jerk back.
"He is my father! I am allowed to see him!"
The doctor looks at me and sighs saying, "honey he has no recorded children."
I then say without thinking, "MY FUCKING PARENTS WERE KILLED AND HE HAS BEEN TAKING CARE OF ME FOR THE PAST FUCKING 14 YEARS, HE IS MY GOD DAMN FATHER!" I crash my hands into my face and start crying.
I then feel a hand rest on my shoulder and I look back to see Ethan standing there.
"April it's ok..." he says quietly
I push myself into him and continue crying. He holds me and we make our way out of the room. We stand in the hallway as I ball my eyes out in his chest.
I whisper lightly with my tears, "I just want to see him." As Ethan begins to rub circles on my back.
"It's ok, I know you do April. But we have to wait."

**
We ended up sitting on the floor and I fell asleep on Ethan while Grayson went home to get some new clothes and sleep.

I was sleeping until I was interrupted by someone lightly pushing me and saying my name.
"April... April wake up." Ethan says to me while pushing against my shoulder.
I woke up and rubbed my eyes. I felt how puffy they were from my crying. I look at Ethan and he says, "hey we can see Smokey now." He says with a slight smile.
I jump up and rush into the room.
I walk in to see Smokeys helpless body laying there. It was as if he was dead and I couldn't do anything about it.
I stare at him and I look at the monitor next to him as it beeps following his heart rate.
I then I look back at Smokey to see him trying to sit himself up and he was struggling.
I rush to him and help him out.
Smokey wasn't that old but his movements made him seem like a 80 year old man.
"W-what happened Smokey.." I run my eyes over his body. Seeing cuts and bruises all over his body.

"I.... April are you sure you want to know..."
I stare at him and say with no hesitation, "yes. Tell me now."
"I had a tried to call Grayson and tell him what was going on and I was in the elevator when I started having a really bad cough and all of the sudden I couldn't breath. I had Grayson on the phone so that's why he was notified first."
I look at him and was about to say something when he continued.
"They took me to the hospital and ran some test on me. They said it was abnormal for something like that to happen to someone as young as me. Even though 58 isn't very young to me." He says laughing and starts coughing harshly. I try to reach out and help him when he waves me away. Then slowly stops coughing.
He continues, " After waiting an hour I had the doctor come back in and tell me some devastating news. And right after they told me you ran in. And so this is making my choice a lot easier."
"What do you mean they told you some devastating! And what choice!! Smokey I need to know these things!"
He reaches out so Me and holds my hand tightly. He then says, "I have lung cancer. "

I stare at him as he gives me a shy smile. I squeeze his hand tighter and tried to fight off the tears.
"Can you get surgery for it?" I ask slowly trying not to go crazy.
"I can but I'm not going to."
I look at him and my expression dropped. I wanted to just say on the ground and cry but I needed to stay strong.
"Why won't you get surgery!"
"I don't want to deal with it. Because if I get surgery I can't do all the things I loved doing." He says and looks down.
"But I need you here!"
He moves his hand from mine and puts in on my face and smiles.
"April, you have become such a beautiful girl... and you have so much going for you! You can't let some oldie hold you down! And I am going to die sooner or later... why not make it sooner to get it over with."
"SMOKEY YOU CANT JUST DIE ON ME!"
"Baby girl, I know this is selfish of me to do but I think it's for the best. I have 4 months to live... I can watch your fight with Ethan, go on raids, and then drink till I die off."
I begin to cry a lot. I was crying so much I begun choking on my own breath.
I couldn't loose Smokey, he was all I had left.
"Please just don't leave me Smokey!"
I crash to my knees and put my face in his lap crying away. I never knew I could cry so much in one day...