Saving Grace

Alive

*Kelseys P.O.V*

I slowly open my eyes to the scene I have been forced to face for the past 2 weeks, a white hospital room. Nothing on the walls, just plain boring white.

The screams of other children fill the air, they are terrified of what's happening to them.. I don't blame them, I was the same too when I first got here.

--flashback--

"Get away for me! GET AWAY!" I scream at the paramedics.. I'm burnt, I've broken bones, and I'm hurt, both physically and mentally.

"Don't touch me, please." I beg them as they rush me through the emergency doors of the Local Children's Hospital. Unfamiliar faces surround me, yelling words I don't understand. My eyes are getting heavy and it's getting harder to breathe. I grab onto the female paramedics arm not wanting her to go now, but wanting her to help me.

I give up on trying to keep my eyes open, the last words I hear them yell before I black out is "she's going into cardiac arrest"

--flashblack over--

Then I didn't know what those words mean, but now I know. I've learnt all of their hospital speak about me, and I have a very lovely nurse that looks after me. Sometimes the young girl in the next room, Morgan, comes and sees me.

Morgan is a 9 year old girl with leukaemia, I've known her since she was 4, I use to go to church with her. She's a strong fighter and she hasn't lost her cheeky self despite everything. I get lost in a daydream, thinking about the time before everything went wrong.

I'm pulled out of the daydream shortly after by my nurse, Emily, walking in, followed by Morgan.

"Hey Em, hey Morgs." Morgan gives me the biggest smile and jumps onto my bed, giving me the biggest hug she can. She's still weak from chemo, and I'm still badly burnt.

"Guess what Gracie." I pull out of the hug and look into her big blue eyes. She still has that sparkle in her eyes.

"What missy?" I say acting surprised, I know she's allowed to go home when she's not having chemo now, Emily told me last night." Emily stands behind next to us with my phone in her hands and pointing it at us. I assume she's taking a photo of us two.

"I get to go home." She gives me an even bigger smile than she did when she saw me. "But mum says I can come see you when I come back if you are still in here. You need visitors."

She's right, the only people that come see me, are her, her mum, her sister and brother, and the police. There's days when I see no one apart from Emily and my doctor, Nate.

I give Morgan a hug, "thank you bug" she's always had the nickname bug, because she likes to collect bugs then normally throw them on me. I sit there cuddling her for a while until she falls asleep in my arms. I hear a click of a camera, I look up and see Emily standing there still.

"Oh Kelsey, I have some news for you. We got in contact with your brother finally. He's on his way to see you."

"Are you sure you mean my brother? You might have gotten the wrong person."

I carefully sit up abit more trying not to wake Morgan up. "Your brother is Luke Hemmings right?" I nod my head. "Yeah, he called your phone last night, and we told him a bit of what had happened."

I slowly turn myself so my legs are hanging off the bed, slowly standing with Morgan in my arms. Emily grabs the machine I am hooked onto and follows me out the room, into Morgans room. Andrew is the only one in her room.

"She always falls asleep in your arms." Andrew takes the machine from Emily and wheels it to the seat next to him. Emily walks out but before she fully leaves she mentions that he should be here in the next few days. He, being my brother.

I place Morgan on her bed and cover her in the scratchy hospital blanket. I take a seat next to Andrew. "When do you get to go home?" he asks me.

Andrew is Morgans older brother, he's two years older than me.

"I don't have a home.. Remember?"

He sits there quietly, unsure of what to say, but nods his head.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked." He mumbles to me. "It's fine Andrew, don't worry about it."

There's a moment of silence, not an awkward one, just a "I don't know what to say" one.

After a few minutes of us just sitting there, he breaks the silence "I'll verse you in a game of FIFA in the games area." I nod my head in agreement and slowly walk towards the door.

Walking is still hard, and still very painful. When I arrived here, my whole body was burnt, I had organ damaged, and a swelling on the brain. Originally they thought I broke a few bones, but luckily they were only either badly bruised or badly sprained. They are surprised I didn't die.. I'm surprised too, I mean I should have died, I'm lucky to be alive

--Lukes P.O.V--

2 more hours until I'm off this stupid plane. Even though Paul understood, we weren't allowed to take the private plane. So Ashton, Louis and I are now sitting on a crowded plane on the way to Sydney. Louis is here because if they say no to both me and Ashton taking Grace, Louis could take her seeing that he is an adult. Well hopefully anyway. I'm surprised no one has recognised us, but then again the plane is full of mainly old people and little kids. Little as in under the age of 5. One girl, who looks about 16 keeps looking at us, so I think she's realised who we are but hasn't said anything.

I give her a small wave, and she gives me one back. Mouthing the words "are you Luke?" I nod and she's gives me the biggest smile.

I decide to sit in the empty seat next to her, I'm bored and both the other boys are asleep.

"Hey." I say to her as I stand next to her. "Is this seat taken?" She shakes her head as I sit down beside her.

"I can't believe this, I'm on a plane with THE Luke Hemmings." She says in almost a whisper. "I can't believe I'm on this plane." I say back to her.

"Wait, shouldn't you be in a different county on tour, not heading back to Sydney?"

"I should be yeah, but things have happened down here so we had to come back."

She glances over to where I was originally sitting and grabs my arm "wait, that's Ashton and Louis. Oh my gosh." She says loudly. I see Louis turn towards where I was sitting and looks very confused. He starts to look around for me and the girl next to me starts giggling. "Good job on waking him up." I say to her. "Oi Toms, over here you idiot." He looks behind him and then looks to where I am now. He gives me the finger and the girl next to me starts to crack up laughing, causing a few heads to turn our way.

I put my head in my lap so I'm not recognised. I hear louis shout my name. "Hey look it's Luke Hemmings!" he yells in a really bad Australian accent. I look at the girl next to me and she stands up and let's off a girly scream "oh my gosh! It's Louis Tomlinson from One Direction!" She points to where he is, well was, by the time heads are turned to him he is bolting into the bathroom. I can't help but laugh at this.

"I'm Alison by the way."

"Luke, but you already know that" she goes to shake my hand, but instead I give her a hug. "Thank you" she says quietly to me.

"Anytime."