Casey's life is changed in an instant. Can he wait? What's happened to Brett? Will she be okay? - This is an updated version of a story I already posted. (For Brett and Casey lovers!)
Hour after hour, you could hear every little noise in the waiting room. Nobody said anything they just sat there in silence on the edge of their seats waiting for news, any news on Brett. Doctors came in and out of the waiting room telling families good and bad news about their loved ones, but nobody came to say anything about Brett. Everyone felt like they were stuck there just waiting, waiting, and waiting.
"Shouldn't we have heard something by now?" Inquired Mouch as he continued to bob his knee up and down.
Foster sadly looked up from the ground and replied, "Yeah, we should have."
Another hour ticked by when the majority of the group decided to head down to the cafeteria to get some coffee. Casey and Severide were left behind sitting a chair apart from each other, though Casey seemed too lost in his thoughts to know who or what was around him.
"I'm sure Brett will be okay Casey," Reassured Severide as he leaned his elbows on his knees and turned to look at his friend.
"You don't know that nobody knows that. Nobody knows if she'll ever open her eyes and talk again. Nobody knows." Breathed out Casey while he continued to stare at the stark white hospital floor.
The clock continued to tick by when the rest of the group eventually made their way back to their assigned seats in the waiting room. No one said anything. They just continued to sit in the quiet. The quiet that no one wanted nor consented to.
The quiet hurt Casey on the inside; it made him feel like this was actually real and not some nightmare he was praying every second that he would wake up from.
The cry of a cell phone eventually disturbed the quiet and its victims. "Sorry, it's Cindy," Answered Herrmann quickly, as he left the waiting room and went to answer his call where he would update Cindy with no new news.
Everyone quickly went back to the silence before Casey interrupted, "I was going to ask her to marry me this morning."
Everyone in the room quickly darted their eyes to the fire captain.
"Casey..." Started Chief Boden before he was interrupted.
"No, I was going to ask her before we left my apartment this morning. But I...I just didn't. I thought she deserved something bigger. I mean I've had the ring for over a month now, and I still haven't asked her."
"You'll get the chance to ask her, man." Commented Severide as he scooted closer to his friend and put his hand on Casey's shoulder.
'What if I don't?' Thought Casey as he stared at the door waiting for a doctor to bust through it and give them any news. 'What if I never get to see in a wedding dress? Or if we never get the chance to spend the rest of our lives together. Why did I waste so much time telling her how I felt?'
Cruz leaned over to Boden and asked, "Did someone call her parents?"
Boden nodded, "CFD took care of it. They said her mother and father should be here in the morning."
Cruz and everyone else who was listening nodded and quickly went back to watching for doctors.
"You should all go and get some rest. Brett wouldn't want all of you just sitting here waiting," Commented Casey before he turned his head thinking he was hearing approaching footsteps that turned out to be a janitor.
"Sorry, but it looks like you're stuck with us till we get some news." Answered Kidd, as she patted Casey's back and continued to hold Foster's hand.
For a while, the only noise heard in the waiting room was the ever growling clock. Tick. Tick. Tick.
Casey didn't know what to do. Did he get up and take a walk? Or did he stay glued to this seat until they heard something?
Eventually, some of the waiting participants drifted off into another world, but not Casey. He couldn't close his eyes because if he did, all he would see was her. Her beautiful eyes and her smile.
'Come on, Brett?' He thought as he heard the continuous ticking of the clock. 'Why her?' 'What did she do to deserve this? Why not me? Why can't it be me instead of her? Please God just let it be me instead of her.'
If you had just walked into the waiting room not knowing what had happened, you would think she was already dead by the looks on everyone's faces. But they waited and waited. Tick. Tick. Tick.
The waiting got so bad that eventually every time the door opened one of their heads would pop up to see if that doctor or nurse was headed towards them. But nope, nobody came. They saw lots of doctors run past them as different codes were called and patients were brought in, but none had news on Brett; so they waited. And waited.
"This is ridiculous, we should know something by now. She's been in there for hours." Called Casey.
"Give it time, Casey. For all we know, they are doing everything they can for her." Said Chief Boden as he himself continued to stare at the ever-rotating door of hospital staff.
So many words were spoken without noise it seemed.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
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