Life As A Motto. Sequel to Bad Things Happen!

No Guarentee's!

Washington received a call about Laurens. He and Martha were in the car, driving to the hospital. Panic flowed throughout them. They knew that Laurens wasn't a normal kid, but it was still hard whenever something like this happened to him. It was pretty stressful. By the time they arrived, Lafayette, Eliza, and Alexander had arrived as well. They met in the parking lot.

"Alexander!" Washington called out when he saw them. The group ran over.
They didn't speak to each other, they just ran into the hospital as fast as possible.

"Where is John Laurens?" Washington asked the woman at the front desk.

"Oh, you're John Laurens' family." The nurse sighed. "He's still in surgery. We're not sure what the outcome is going to be. He's lost alot of blood and has many severe injuries."

Washington lost all color in his face. This couldn't be happening. Not again. Lafayette looked like he was about to have an anxiety attack. This was how his family died after all. Alexander and Eliza tried to calm him down.

"What do we do?" Martha teared up.

The nurse put her head down and stared at the floor. "I'm afraid there is nothing else that you can do but wait."

"Where is Margarita Schuyler?" Eliza asked.

"She's in room 215. Her father and sister are already here." The young woman said sadly.

Eliza jumped up and went to see her sister. Alexander followed.

"Eliza?" Peggy cried. Her face drenched with tears and her eyes bloodshot. "Tell me everything's gonna be ok."

Eliza ran over to her sister and gave her a hug. "It's ok Peg."

"Snff. It has to be. I have to tell him I'm sorry." Peggy bawled her eyes out.

"Sorry for what?" Alexander chimed in.

"W-We got into a fight. It was stupid, I should have just told him what he was asking me to tell him. Now I may never get to." Peggy whined.

Eliza held her sister in her arms, trying to calm her.

"It's no use, Eliza." Angelica added. "We've been trying for awhile, she won't calm down."

"I want to let him know I'm sorry. I just want to let him know I'm sorry." Peggy continued to sob.

Alexander started to have a panic attack as well. Eliza put a hand on Peggy's shoulder and whispered in her ear.

"Peggy please. Calm down. If not to keep you calm, then think of Alexander." 

Peggy calmed down and wiped the tears forming in her eyes. She blew her nose and tried to do her best to calm down. It wasn't until this moment that the shock wore off. She felt a sharp pain in her arm and glanced down to look at it. It was bandaged up, but she could see all of the blood seeping through the white bandage wrapped around her arm. It hurt like a mother.

"Ahh." She moaned.

"What's wrong?" Eliza asked.

"Without a distraction, my arm feels like it's trying to kill me!" Peggy sighed. "Ahh!"

"I'll go get a nurse." Alexander said before running out of the room.

"Maybe Laurens was right. Maybe we shouldn't be together. I don't deserve him." Peggy whimpered.

"What? When did Laurens say that?" Eliza questioned.

"He said he was worried about me having to suffer with all the bad things that happened to him. But now I feel like we shouldn't be together for some different reasons. He loved me and I got mad at him." Peggy moaned.
She let her mind slip away from the pain in her arm and switch to the pain in her heart. The big, empty, aching hole left at the center. Where the love of her life was supposed to be. Not here. He was not supposed to be in the hospital. Not on death's door.

Alexander came back in a few minutes later with the nurse. She felt the pain in her arm coming back. It was killing her. The nurse gave her some medication which helped. But it made her very drowsy.

"E-Eliza?" Peg asked.

"Yeah?" Eliza turned to face her sister.

"These drugs are probably gonna make me pass out soon. Promise you'll wake me up as soon as Laurens is out of surgery." Peggy pushed.

"Oh, umm..." Eliza didn't know what to say. She wanted her sister to rest, but if things took a turn for the worst, she would want Peggy to get one last night of sleep. But if she told her that, she would never give in to her exhaustion. "S-Sure."

"Ok, thanks." Peggy took a sigh of relief and laid down. She fell asleep a few minutes later, even though you could clearly see her trying to fight it. But she couldn't take it anymore. Her body needed sleep to heal, and the pain became unbearable.

Alexander went back outside to the waiting room with Lafayette and the Washingtons. It was getting late, the time read 11:48, you could see it on their faces. Lafayette tried to slow down his breathing, he didn't want to start hyperventilating in the waiting room. If Laurens saw him like this, he would try and calm him down. That's what Alexander was doing right now.

"You need like a paper bag or something?" Alex asked.

Laf didn't respond, he just looked up at his brother and shook his head. "I'll be fine. Hopefully."

He just kept breathing, slowly. The seconds turned to minutes, the minutes turned to hours. It wasn't until 2:49 that they heard anything from the doctor.

"During the surgery, we had some struggles. Some parts were easier than others to operate on. He lost alot of blood, and suffered damage to many muscles and tissue. I know that it's been awhile, and you have been really anxious." The doctor explained. "But we are finally finished and have an answer."

Everyone perked up at the sound of an answer. Lafayette kept heavily breathing, trying not to have a panic attack. He turned up to look at the doctor when he heard his words.

"And?"

"John Laurens, in going to..."