Chapter 21- 'That wasn't a threat, buddy'

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Reagan POV

"I am burning this place to the ground.”

Louis's hand was the small of my back, and I quickly moved away. There was no point in trying to calm me down. I was pissed.

"You go ahead, Reagan. I'll get the matches.”

Both my sister and I turned in the opposite direction and were putting our plan into action when we felt hands on both of our shoulders.

"Mrs. Styles, Mrs. Tomlinson, please don't make any rash decisions.”

"We weren't", I said.

"Yeah, because arson isn't a rash decision", Niall muttered.

I shrugged the doctor's hand off my shoulder and turned around to look at him. I felt 8 pairs of eyes on me. Josh, Louis, Harry, Niall, Kadin, Avery, Liam, and the doctor's. Trinity was furiously swearing under her breath while I tried to calm myself down.

"I just don't understand", I finally said, "He's awake, but we can't go see him? How is that possible?" 

As soon as the doctor had come outside and talked to Josh and me, we rushed back inside. After everyone else had gathered around him, he proceeded to tell us that Zayn was awake from his almost-8-day coma, but that we were forbade from seeing him. Now here we were in the same place while my sister and I tried to figure out the first place to set fire to. If the building burned down, they would be forced to evacuate all of the patients, hence us being able to see Zayn. It probably wasn't the most practical plan, but right now I couldn't care less.

"You can see Zayn", the doctor cut through my thoughts.

At this, everyone perked up. Maybe there was a chance.

"What?” Louis asked, "You just said we couldn't.”

"That was before your very lovely wife cut me off and threatened to burn down my place of work.”

"That wasn't a threat, buddy", Trinity clenched, "It was a promise. I'm on her side.”

After Harry walked to Trinity's side and put a hand on her shoulder, she visibly calmed down. Both Josh and Louis stood where they were and because of that, I calmed down.

"You can see Zayn, but I have to inform you of a couple of things first.”

We remained quiet, urging him to continue.

"First, it's the matter of his bill. His insurance covered everything except for his surgery.”

"I'll cover it", Josh spoke up.

"Are you sure, sir? It's £9,000-.”

"I'm good for it. What's the other things that you need to tell us?"

The boys looked at Josh and me, but I said nothing. They didn't quite know how well off he was, and now was not the time to explain.

"Very well, then. He's completely fine, and he's recovering better than we expected. After a couple of transfusions, re-separation of his bones, and a shi-, crapload of stitches, he's fine. But, there is something else.”

I was seriously going to go off if he kept pausing. How did this guy even get a job? His patients probably offed themselves because they were sick of waiting for him to tell their results.

"Bloody hell, what is it?” Liam asked in a rather annoyed voice.

By the looks on everyone's faces, he wasn't the only one.

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