sanctuary (a bastille/dan smith fanfic)

chapter 22

Chapter 22

~Dan’s pov.~

Kyla doesn’t respond anymore and I panic. “Kyla? Kyla! Wake up.” I frantically scream.  Ralph kneels down and checks her pulse, I almost pushed him away out of some weird instinct. “her heart beats normally, thank god. But she has some difficult with breathing.” Ralph states. I am happy that Ralph is amazing with handling this sort of situations, but I am mostly happy about the fact that he knows about first-aid. I carried Kyla to the couch while Ralph called an ambulance. I could feel her bones through her clothes, and I could feel that she had broken some ribs.

 I put her down and take a wet towel to clean some of the blood up, because I just can’t look at her when she’s this broken and bloodied.  It made me feel like I was helping somehow. I looked up when Ralph entered the room “they’ll be here in about 5 minutes. You should call your parents to tell them what happened. Go, call them I will look after her for a second.” He urged me to leave the room. I thought about it for a second but then kissed Kyla’s forehead and went to make the call. I looked back for a second when I stood in the doorway and saw Ralph sit down at Kyla’s feet , he looked so… brother-ish.

My parents panicked  just as I had expected. I told them that I would meet them in the hospital. The ambulance arrived when I finished the phone call.  It all went so fast, it’s like one moment I am opening the front door and the next I am sitting in the ambulance with Ralph sitting next to me. I had to beg him to come with me because he thought that he would just walk in the way. But the truth was that I just needed my best friend right now, my girlfriend just got beaten up and is unconscious and I’m afraid I’ll go mad if I’m alone right now.

We arrived at the hospital and they carried Kyla out of the ambulance.  They told us to stay in the waiting room  while they examined her.  Ralph and I are now sitting in the waiting room completely in silence. I hate hospitals, I know that it sounds childish but the atmosphere always succeeds to creep me out. I look at the clock, she’s been in there for almost an hour.  Ralph gets  up “I’m getting something to eat from the vending machine, you want something?”  I shrug my shoulders and shake my head. I am hungry but I just don’t feel like eating right now.  Ralph nods and walks away, when he comes back he has two bags of crisps with him.  I sigh, “I am not hungry mate, I told you”  I try to explain but he shakes his head again and throws the bag at me. “you are hungry but you refuse to eat, that is something completely different.  You are not going to use this as an excuse to starve yourself again, you may not be doing this consciously but  just eat okay?”   “okay.” I answer quietly.  I open the bag and start to eat.

 I am halfway through the bag when I hear Ralph sigh.   I should apologize I think.  “I am so sorry Ralph, I am burdening you with a lot of problems and that is not fair of me. You are an amazing friend and thank you  for coming with me and looking after me, I really do need that right now.”  I say and go back to eating my crisps.  A nurse walks in after a while and asks us if we were here waiting for a Kyla Daniels, we nod quickly. “you can now go and see her. She has a lot of broken bones and some internal bleedings that we managed to fix. Just be gentle okay? Any questions?” he tells us and we say ‘no’ and hurry to the hospital room he had pointed at.  I take a deep breath before entering the room. 

There she is, I hurry to the bed and kiss her lips. I have been aching to do that for at least an hour. I sit down with Ralph, looking at Kyla and holding her hand.  The doctors had put her other arm and left leg in a cast and I am sure that there are many injuries that we can’t see . she is still unconscious but that is from the heavy pain medicine the doctors are giving her.

"it’s ever worse than I remember...” I whisper while drawing circles on the back of her hand with my thumb. “it feels like my own sister is lying here, I never even realized that I cared about her like a sister.  That reminds me…. I should let Kate know, they are quite close friends.” Ralph said  and walked away to call Kate.  I just stayed here watching her sleep. My parents wouldn’t be here for at least another hour, so I can sit here in peace.

*an hour later*

My parents are here now,  Ralph went home because his parents started  to worry.  I am still sat on the same chair next to the bed, holding her hand and staring at her closed eyes like they could open any minute.  My parents sit behind me at a table, pretending to read a newspaper but they have been staring at the same page for a loooong time.  They stopped asking me questions when they realized that I wasn’t going to answer them anyway.

I suddenly feel Kyla move her hand, trying to hold mine, but her eyes remained closed. “mom, Dad! She’s waking up!” I whisper-yell at them. They turn around to face her and after a minute or two she slowly opens her eyes.

~kyla’s pov~

I slowly open my eyes, I feel like I have the worst hangover EVER in history.  My head hurts, my arms and legs feel heavy and my whole body just hurts. I  groan a little and blink a few times  until my vision turns from blurry to sharp.  I immediately recognize Dan, sweet Danny.  He opens his mouth and asks me how I feel. “ugh f*ck off Danny, you know how it feels when you get beaten up.”  He smiles at my reaction, happy that I’m still my old, grumpy self.  Then he leans down and gently kisses my lips like I am a broken toy that needs careful handling. 

Which is a little true…

Hey guys next chapter is here :) I have a lot of spare time so I could update early, I really do love the summer holidays. I don’t really have anything to say…   

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