kind of a badass//Carl Gallagher

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I woke up to an empty feeling and my stomach. When I became more conscious I felt the tubes down my throat and I started gagging. I heard some loud shouting and then the tubes were being pulled out and someone pushed me to the side. I threw up once the tubes were out. There was a bucket where I was throwing up. When I was done I rolled back over and I stared at the bright hospital lights. "Hey, Delilah? Can you talk, Honey?" A woman's voice came from the side. I spoke softly, my throat was dry, "yeah." I tried to sit up but failed. The doctor pulled the hospital bed to help me sit up. "Thank you." the Doctor was a woman probably in her early 40's and had a kind face. "You have visitors are you up for that?" She asked, genuinely concerned. "Can I get out of here, actually?" She shook her head slowly. "Have to keep you under 72 hour surveillance in case you try to harm yourself again." I rolled my eyes and nodded. "Go ahead let them in."

I was expecting just my uncle and Veronica, but in came Kev, V, and all of the Gallaghers. My uncle wrapped his arms around me for a hug. "I am going to fucking kill your mother." I scrunched my brows in confusion. "hey! Don't ever scare me like that again. The next time you die, i'll kill you." V hugged me extremely tight and for a long time. "Die? So I succeeded?" I turned to the doctor. "For ten minutes. I'll leave you to your visitors." She smiled and left the room. Fiona walked up and hugged me. "Alright can we skip the hugs there are too many of you." I laughed and kind of felt bad for saying it. They all nodded. "Well, what happened?" Ian asked sitting on the counter. "Can I tell them?" Uncle K asked. I nodded. I trusted the people in this room more than I trusted anyone in the world, But how does he know? "You don't even know-" He cut me off nodding. "I know. Your mom called back." My eyes went wide and I nodded.

"Her mother called her and was complaining and making Delilah feel guilty about leaving. When Delilah wasn't giving in, she called back later and had her friend pretend he was a cop saying she overdosed. I guess Delilah felt so guilty well... here we are." My blood was now boiling. "what the fuck did you say? She faked it?" Kev nodded. I closed my eyes and counted to ten trying to calm myself down. I tried to off myself because I felt so bad. I should have expected it though, she always does this. "That's beyond fucked." Lip was shocked. "Even monica wouldn't do that." Carl finally spoke. He looked uncomfortable being in the room. "Well that's my mom for you." I tried to joke about it.

"Well, we will keep her from calling you from here on out." My uncle gave me my phone. "So we have to go, V's mom is watching the kids. Will you be okay? Do you need anything? we can bring you food." I shook my head at my uncle. "I'll be fine." then kev and v left me with the Gallaghers. "are you sure you don't want to eat anything?" Fiona asked, pulling one of the chairs closer to the hospital bed. I hate pity and that's the vibe I'm getting from all of them. "I'm fine. Really. I mean you guys don't have to stay here. I mean we all know you guys have better things to do." I laughed, trying to liven up the mood. "Listen, you are like family, you tried to die. We aren't going anywhere." I huffed out a sigh. "hey, D, Trevor wants to know if he could come up here." I had met Trevor once and he was really cool so I had no problem. even though I was already slightly embarrassed. "Yeah. He's cool. I just.. i'm kind of embarrassed but extremely grateful you all helped me today." I meant every word, with great passion.

"Well we care about you. We weren't just going to let you die." Lip stated towards the door. "I have to get to a job interview but i'll come back tomorrow." He opened the door and left. Now it was just Carl, Fiona, Ian, and Liam. Debby didn't come because she didn't know me that well and was busy with her baby. "i think they have cable, want to watch mtv or something?" I asked the gallgher's breaking the science. "Yeah works for us." When we turned the tv on Teen Wolf was playing, one of my favorite episodes at that.

When the episode had just ended, Trevor walked in with starbucks and some of Daniels burgers, a.k.a. the best burger shop on the south side. "Hey there Delilah!" He smiled at me handing me a bag and a butterbeer frappe. "Nice joke, but you didn't have to get me food." I tried handing him everything back. He set the stuff on the table next to me and pulled a chair from outside of the door. "You have to eat, plus we are friends. What is this teen wolf? Scott McCall is hot as hell." Ian nudged Trevor as he passed out food to everyone in the room. "Styles is pretty too." I flicked my brows and bit into my burger. "Scott is pretty damn attractive though." Fiona laughed, taking a bite of her burger and kicking her feet up on the bed. "So You guys can leave whenever you feel like it." I assured them all. They all just looked at me and laughed. "We know." Fiona smiled. When Tyler Posey took his shirt off in the show, everyone in the room except Carl, 'whooed' considering Carl was the only one not into dick.

"babe really?" Carl laughed, totally judging me. "What? Tyler posey gets me all hot and bothered. Not like i'm the only one." I motioned to Ian and Trevor who had an arm placed on one another, also at Fiona who had her eyes glued to the screen. He rolled his eyes and threw away his now finished food and drink. Then he walked over to me and asked me to scoot over, and I did. He placed his legs under the blanket and sat next to me. He wrapped an arm around me. "So, who gets you more hot and bothered, huh?" He said in a whisper, letting his other hand find its way to grab my breast. I pushed his hand away. "Not here. But you win." I said back. We continued to watch the show and I fell asleep.

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Author's Note

I know this chapter was shit but the next will be better. I promise. I had a bit of writers block. Please don't stop reading and omg THANK YOU FOR 12.2K I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

Delilah