Under the mask

Chapter 26

Rachel eventually fell asleep as nobody had come in to tell her about finn, it was around half last 7 and still no word about him

She shot up out of her sleep, she had a nightmare about finn dying. Her heart was pounding, it was still really quiet. She had enough, she couldn't sit and wait

She got up and left the waiting room and went to the front desk to ask about finn

The receptionist looked up from his computer and looked at Rachel. Rachel began asking if he had heard anything about him as she had been waiting for almost 3 hours and had not been informed about anything

"I'll go and ask miss, just wait here ok?" He smiles softly and got up to see if he could find anything out for her

This made Rachel tense up a lot, what if wasn't ok? About 3 minutes later a doctor and the receptionist came back

The receptionist smiled at her and then sat back down at his computer. The doctor asked her to follow him into a little room

Rachel looked at him with pure fear in her eyes, for her being a nurse she knew the possibilities of anything like this

"Hello...?" He asked looking for her name

Rachel softly said "Rachel"

The doctor smiled and began to talk about finn and his health

"Ok... well finn was self harming and that is a very big no no. He lost a lot of blood, since he cut in so deeply, he could have hit an artery but luckily he hadn't. As I'm saying about the blood loss, we got him in just in time, he is just out of surgery, I strongly suggest you remove all sharp or harmful objects in your household, incase your husband tries again. We have arranged a help group for him for cutting, but it's up to him if he wants to attend, but I would send him just to be open about it and try not to do it again.... anyway you can see your husband, he's in room...." he stopped to look at is clipboard to see what room he was in

She noticed that he called finn her husband, she got a feeling of warmth and love from that title. She thought back to him kissing the other woman but that didn't matter right now

"Room 188 Rachel, I hope he gets better" the doctor smiled as he showed her the directions to Finns room, which she almost ran to

She walked down the corridor and looked at all the numbers on the plaques

"187...188! Here we are" she said before opening the door slowly

She saw him sitting there asleep with tubes and bandages and a lot of equipment that she had used as a nurse

She closed the door quietly and went over beside him and held his hand softly. She kneeled beside his bed and sobbed into his hand

She felt a light squeeze and shot her head up to see him blinking awake. He groaned because of the pain he was feeling in his arms and head

He eventually got used to the bright light in his room, he then looked to his left to see Rachel kneeled down, holding his hand

"Rach?" He barely choked out of his very dry mouth

Rachel was crying very hysterically

"Why? Why did you have to do this to yourself finn?" She bawled into his arm, constantly sniffling. Not daring to look at him whatsoever

"I- I was- I hated myself for what I had d-done to you" he stuttered also in tears

"I thought you had stopped all of that" she cried yet again, he felt really bad now, she was in so much pain

"I'm s-sorry baby" he held his arms out for her and she immediately entered his embrace, she cried into his neck, he rested his head on top of hers and just lay there

It was now 8pm and they were still sitting with each other

"Finn you could have died" she said out of the blue which startled finn back to reality

"I'm sorry, I was just so distraught, I thought I lost you and I would never get you back and I just couldn't have lived with myself" he whispered into her temple

"The doctor.... he signed you up for a support group" she trailed off not knowing his reaction

He widened his eyes

"Hell no! I'm not going there!" He said in a huff

Rachel rolled her eyes as she knew deep down this would've been his reaction after all, she knew he didn't like being in a spotlight and being cared for

She pulled his face down to hers to make him look at her sincerely and very seriously

"Finn.... for me? Please?" She begged looking into his eyes knowing that she was hitting a soft spot on him

He was quiet for a moment or two

"Fine only for you" he huffed and was now in a bad mood

Well at what she has her man and that's all that matters to her

Yay finn didn't die! I couldn't do that to finchel! Comment what you think, love you all 😘❤️💖💗💝💕