Hero [Ironstrange]

36 - Hospital

Stephen

The last ten minutes of my life have been the worst.

I walk up from my seat, careful not to disturb Victor, who was sleeping on my shoulder. The room smelled like hand sanitizer and latex, and it was anything but pleasant.

"Can I see her yet?" I ask the guy at the front desk, who was trying his best not to strangle me from asking too many times.

"I'm sorry, Mr.Strange, we have to wait until your legal guardian arrives." He shifts his gaze from the computer monitor to me.

"But I'm her family, plus I'm seventeen so I'm basically an adult," I argue.

"Just wait until your parents come, kid." he glares. I sigh and walk back over to my seat, pretending to skim a magazine.

Doctor Palmer had picked me and Victor up from school and dropped us in this waiting room. I had swarmed Mom with texts and calls, but it was no use since she always powered her phone off at work.

"Stephen?" I hear a groggy voice from next to me. "What are we doing here?" I turn to Victor who was just waking up. I was supposed to tell him during the car ride but I couldn't bring myself to do so.

"We're waiting." I bluntly reply.

"For what?" Victor groans, fidgeting in his seat. "I wanna go home."

"Just go back to sleep." I snap, pulling my phone back out to check for any reply. I found none.

"Why are you so grumpy?" Victor furrows his eyebrows. "At least we aren't at school."

I would rather be at school than be waiting to see if my sister was fucking dead.

I don't reply and just hand him the magazine I was reading, hoping that it would keep him distracted. I can't deal with a hysterical child right now.

"I'M HERE!" I hear Mom yell as she bursts into the waiting room, still dressed for work.

"Mrs. Strange, I presume?" The front desk guy asks. "Sign here, your children are waiting there, your daughter will be in room 420, on the right."

Mom looks like she's already on the verge of tears as she quickly signs the papers and goes up to us. 

I want to say something like, "where have you been?" or "why did you take so long?" but I know it's not important right now. For all we know Donna could be already dead.

We rush into the room to see a nurse standing next to Donna's unconscious body. Unconscious, but alive. I let out a loud sigh of relief as we gather around her.

"Wait, what happened to Donna?" Victor gasps, poking her hand. Mom's face falls a bit more and turns to me, mouthing "you didn't tell him?".

"Is she dead?" Victor sniffs, sitting down.

"No, she's just hurt." I explain, placing a tentative hand on his shoulder.

"She'll be fine." Mom lies, her eyes becoming more watery by the second.

"She's seems to not be getting any better." A nurse says. What the hell, dude? Not helping.

Suddenly a device starts beeping and the nurse's face turns from pitiful to panicked.

"Okay, we're going to need to do some more work on her, have a nice day." The nurse pushes us out of the room, not explaining what happened.

"What's going on?" Mom furrows her eyebrows in outrage. "What happened to my daughter?" She asks a doctor rushing in. The doctor doesn't answer, but a nice lady next to us does.

"Her heart rate has slowed down and her breathing has stopped." The lady, probably a nurse, says. "I'm sorry for your loss..."

"She's not dead yet." My mom snaps, comforting Victor who was sobbing next to her. "She'll get better."

I tend to disagree with my mom a lot, but I didn't expect this to be one of those times. 

I don't think she will.

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A/N: Sorry for the late update! I've had a lot going on with school and I recently got a new puppy so everything has been pretty chaotic. I hope you liked the chapter!