Lies of Lush (Matthew Lush F.F.)

Chapter 14

*** Chapter Fourteen ***

~One Year Later~

   It was hot and sweaty, Nick leaned down and kissed Liz. She ran her hand over his toned chest. Nick shivered from the light touch. His phone started ringing. For a while he ignored it, but whoever was calling seemed pretty persistent to get his attention.

  "Answer it babe, we have all day." Liz grinned. Nick groaned groggily and rolled out of bed, wishing he hadn't left his phone on the kitchen counter last night. The kid was clad in a pair of boxers and cold from his girlfriends eagerness in saving money on heat.

  "Nick Laws speaking." He answered, sounding more professional than he felt. "There's a patient here for you." His boss said. "Well good morning to you too." Nick sassed. He was close with his boss since they were both younger staff at the hospital. "Morning, now get your ass down here." Derrick hung up while Nick got dressed quickly. "What's wrong babe?" Liz asked, seeing the worried look in.her boyfriend's eyes.

   "Nothing. The hospital just needs me today." Liz pouted before sitting up. "I use to be a detective, don't hide stuff from me, Nicky." Nick rolled his eyes. "I'm not hiding anything, Lizzy." He retorted. Both of them hated the nick-names they gave each other. They never were into pet names much, other than babe or baby occassionally.

   Once dressed in the baby blue scrubs, Nick got in his car and drove to the hospital, wondering why a patient would need to see him, he's only a nurse. 

  "Hell no!" He yelled when seeing the patient. Matthew was hand cuffed to the hospital bed in his room. Nick felt bad, seeing how bruised and cut up the boy looked, but he wasn't going to get caught up with his ex again. Matthew's hair stuck up in places, it was a dried out red color with blue on the ends. His lip was bleeding and his face was bruised. "I'm so sorry." He begged when seeing how upset Nick was to see him. "Get a different nurse, you do not need me."

   "Please!" Matthew urged. "Please don't leave me!" For some reason the younger boy felt a pang in his chest when hearing how desperate Matthew awas. He was broken. Broken like Nick had been, but somehow Nick knew this wasn't the first fime Matthew has been broken. Someone made Matthew hateful and cruel, and Nick had to fight the urge to hold him. He didn't want to feel bad over his ex though.

   "What's wrong?" Nick reluctantly asked. "I broke my leg and arm." Matthew coughed. He looked awful. Nick took his temperature and sighed. "103.5 how did you get like this?" Matthew wiped at his eyes. "You don't want to know."

   Nick had some nurses have Matthew soak in cold water to bring down his temperature while he contemplated his next move. Matthew wasn't going to tell him what was wrong and he looked pretty bad off.

   "You don't look like a smoker." Nick jumped and dropped his cigarette. "Shit." The person behind him stomped out the hot end. "Maybe the scrubs make me look innocent.about my health, huh? I usually don't. Just when I'm really stressed." Nick was surprised to see a teen standing by him. He was probably about fifteen.

   "Can I have one?" The boy signaled to the smokes in Nick's pocket. "No, but you're funny kiddo."

  "Well what's wrong then?"

   "You wouldn't understand you're just a kid." Nick laughed, more at himself than the kid. "Maybe. I'm trying to grow up before next year. Apparently I'm pretty mature. I guess it's from the chemo." Nick almsot choked. "You're dying?"

   "That's what most people do in a hospital, Sherlock."

"Not always." The kid shook his head. "I have a year left, at most. I haven't even done anything with my life. Haven't helped anyone. I played video games until I was diagnosed. My friends didn't want to hear about my shit, so they left me. Hey, atleast my shit parents stayed to yell at me about the Hell I was causing them." Nick didn't know how to respond. He put his hand on the kid's back and rubbed it gently.

   The kid sniffled slightly. "I don't know what's wrong, mister, but I hope it gets fixed. I should gi back now. Thanks for listening to my crap." He walked inside before Nick could ask his name the kid disappeared in a hospital room.

 

   When he got back to Matthew's room he was shocked to see he was choking on air, suffocating. The younger boy wanted to call in other nurses to help, but none were around. He resuscitated the older boy (A/N not by mouth I don't know what the procedure is called and I dont want gross details so this).

   Matthew fell back into unconsciousness. Nick was breathing heavily when he fell back against the wall and shut his eyes to stop the memories from flowing through.

Sorry it's been so long! I just moved so I haven't had computer of wifi to update with! Expect routine updates for this story. Lush you all! Vote and Comment, loves!