Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Six
Jessica got off the elevator and headed down the familiar
hallway to Nick’s ICU room. She stopped in the doorway when
she found the bed stripped, all the machines gone and Nick
no where in site.
She turned around quickly and half way ran to the nurses
station. Jess tried to calm the panic she was feeling rise
in her body. “Please! I need to know where Nick Carter was
taken to.”
A nurse looked up and mumbled “Yeah, you and 10,000 other
hormonal girls.” Speaking clearer she added, “Miss, you are
not allowed on this floor, only family of ICU patients.”
‘Oh god, she thinks I’m a fan,’ Jess thought to herself.
“No, you don’t understand, I’m family---” Jess’s voice
trailed off when she could see that the nurse wasn’t
listening to her. “Oh god, please! You have to believe me.”
“Miss, if you don’t leave right now, I will have to call
hospital security,” the nurse abruptly stated.
Blinking away the tears that were filling her eyes, Jess
decided it would be best if she left the nurses station and
went down to the next floor to Brian’s room.
Jess felt relieved when the elevator stopped on the fifth
floor. She walked quickly past the nurses station desk,
trying to avoid contact with any of them in case they were
called from the ICU desk to be on the look out for her.
When Jess walked into Brian’s room, she was greeted with one
of the biggest smiles she had ever seen on his face. Her
eyes followed the direction of his gesture to see Nick
laying in a bed next to his, asleep.
“Oh my god, Nick!” Jess blurted out, rushing towards his
bedside. As she grabbed his hand, she spoke softly to Brian.
“I was so scared, I went to his room in ICU and he was gone.
The nurse wouldn’t tell me where he was and, oh god, Brian
thought the worst, I thought I lost him forever,” Jess
cried.
“They just moved him into my room only an hour ago. I
thought you’d know,” Brian replied. “I guess they figured if
Nick were around someone he knew and hearing my voice, it
would possible trigger something and jolt him out of this
coma.”
Jess ran her fingers through Nick’s hair. “We can only hope
and pray, Brian.”
She took a good look at Nick. He still had tubes going in
and out of him and he still appeared to be in a deep,
restful sleep. There were no changes in him at all. Glancing
over towards Brian, she noticed that the smile on his face
was gone, replaced with a look of worry and his color had
paled.
“Brian, are you alright?”
“Uh-huh.”
“You’re lying, something’s wrong, tell me what’s wrong,”
Jessica demanded.
“It’s my stomach, I’ll be fine.” Brian tried to lessen
Jess’s worry about him. He was worried about himself as well
as about Nick, but he dismissed the pains in his stomach as
nerves, never bothering to say anything to his nurse.
Nick softly moaned which diverted the attention away from
Brian for the moment. Jess held her breath, hoping this
would be the one time that Nick wakes up, but was
disappointed when nothing else happened.
“Brian, when is Nick going to wake up? I’m getting so
scared. This has gone on longer than when he was in the car
accident,” Jess broke down and started to cry.
“I wish I knew honey,” Brian looked at her, suddenly feeling
helpless.
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