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McKensie and Lara II :)
Laila watched as he got up off the bed and she nodded slowly, not really wanting to sleep, but also knowing that it would be one of the best things to help her get better again. "Alright." She whispered, curling up beneath the blanket. "Krissy will be home soon... don't let me sleep too long ok?" She asked, not wanting to be conked out all afternoon. She let her eyes fall shut, and was resting in only a few minutes. Sure enough, just like she said, Krissy's bus honked outside the driveway as it drove up and dropped her off.
Luke looked down at the text and he frowned in worry as well. What was wrong with Laila? Why was she on bed rest? It didn't make any sense. She had seemed healthy last time he saw her and now... "Do you think we should visit and make sure she's alright?" he asked, dumping his keys on the counter.
Chris went downstairs to open the door for Krissy. He hugged his sister helping her with her backpack "we need to be quiet...Laila's resting in my room, how was the rest of your day?" He whispered pecking her cheek as he pulled out an after school snack for her.Kenna friwned "I don't know, Laila doesn't like attention if she is sick she probably doesn't want to be treated like an invalid...I remember when she was having the baby, no one knew because she didn't want anyone to see her like that..."
Krissy hugged him tight, beaming. "I met so many people!" She whispered in hushed excitement. "Classes were ok, and the teachers said I was doing really well." When she hopped up on the stool by the counter, she seemed to notice for the first time. "What is on your face!? " She asked in surprise. Luke nodded, huffing out slowly. He remembered that. He remembered feeling sick after he found out that Laila had given birth and chosen not to tell anyone. "You're right. I just worry about her with that man." he said honestly, knowing he would never fully trust Chris.
Chris put his finger to his lips reminding her to use soft voices, he showed her the tube "for awhile this is how Laila will have to eat, liquid nutrition because she can't keep anything solid in her stomach. She was distressed by this so I asked the doctor to put one in as well...it makes her smile and laugh so I don't mind."Kenna put her hand on his arm "whether we like him or not Laila loves him, and we must respect that. I may not understand what she sees in him but I trust he will try and care for her..."
Krissy looked sheepish when he shushed her and she nodded, looking at the tube in interest. Liquid food? That didn't sound like fun. You wouldn't be able to taste anything. She smiled a little and rolled her eyes. "Yuck. You two are way too sappy." She said, munching on the crackers and cheese he had gotten her. Luke's jaw tensed, but he nodded. He couldn't help but feel protective for Kenna, and Laila as well. They had both been his friends for forever. And after what Chris had done to Kenna... well... he wasn't happy at all about who Laila had chosen to love. "But what if he's the cause of this, Kenna? What if he's the reason she's sick?"
Chris ruffled her hair and shook his head "oh hush." He glanced through her backpack seeing what homework she had to do "you finished your math already? You know homework is supposed to be done at home right?" He teased and pulled out her other assignments.Kenna frowned now feeling less sure about the situation "I don't know...I don't want to upset her Luke..." She admitted and chewed on the straw of her water bottle "do you think he could really make her sick?"
Krissy beamed and shrugged. "I had extra time in class, so I could do it then. I was the only kid in class who got it all done." she said proudly. "But I do have to colour in a picture tonight for art..." she crinkled up her nose. "I'm not artistic, Chris." she complained. "Can you do it for me?" She asked hopefully, trying to pull her best puppy face. Luke was tense, and stressed about this whole situation, but he slowly nodded, his hand gripping the counter now. "Why not? He's added so much stress in her life already, its a wonder she hasn't been hospitalized." he said, cursing under his breath.
Chris chuckled "sure, you can do my advanced calculus and I'll color your picture." He shook his head amused "I've got my own homework Squish you can do it. You have a nice little box of crayons just pretend that it's math..." He glanced at the coloring page and wrote in light pencil easy equations and on the side of the paper the colors that went with the answers.Kenna put her hand on his arm trying to calm her down, "we'll visit, while Chris isn't there you can tell her that, tell her that we're worried about her..."
Krissy giggled sheepishly as he scolded her for trying to push her homework onto him. "I tried..." She sighed, shaking her head. She went to grab her box of crayons and came back to find that her brother had turned it into a math puzzle for her and she beamed. "Thank you!" She exclaimed, her whispered a little louder this time as she hugged him tight and got right to work on colouring. Luke nodded in agreement. "That's a good idea." he agreed. He took out his phone and texted Chris quickly. 'We're worried about Laila. Could Kenna and I stop by for a quick visit this afternoon?' He sent the message and sighed, wrapping his arms around Kenna. "I'm so glad I have you." he said honestly.
Chris chuckled and hugged his sister as she worked, he cleaned up the food mess and heard a text from his phone. He blinked but texted back "of course, she's resting now but I'm sure later this afternoon would be fine." He wondered how she would take it, but they were her friends they deserved to know she was ok.
Luke received the text and showed it to Kenna. "We can go see her later this afternoon." he relayed. He hoped that Laila was just resting as in slightly fatigued. If she was horribly ill, he knew who he would be blaming. 'Alright. We'll be over in a few hours.' He texted back. Laila slept the whole evening long, and Krissy just worked on homework, so it was quiet in the house until there was a knock on the door, as Kenna and Luke had arrived. Laila was just starting to stir, so the timing was almost perfect.
Chris sighed and went to go answer the door "come in, come in...would you like some water? Laila is just waking up, let me go tell her your here?" He asked going to his room and to her side "hi pretty girl...how did you sleep?" He noticed her TPN bag was almost empty so he put a little more powder in and shook it up before hanging it.
Laila blinked open her eyes and smiled when she saw Chris. "Alright." She admitted. "No nightmares or anything." she shrugged, propping herself up a little on the pillows. "Have I missed out on much?" She asked. She was still feeling a little sleepy, but mostly she just felt much better from taking a nap.Luke shook his head at the offer of water, and instead he waited in the entry with Kenna, observing Chris's house. It was acceptable, he had to admit despite begrudgingly not liking anything that was Chris's. Especially Chris himself. But he waited patiently for him to come back and show them where Laila was.
Chris caressed her cheek softly "Kenna and Luke are here to see you, I told them to come by later and they are taking that pretty seriously...do you feel well enough for guests sweetie?"
Laila's eyes widened a little in surprise, and a little sinking feeling lit in her gut as she didn't really want her friends to see her this way. But they deserved to know what had happened, and that she was alright. "Yeah. Thats ok. I'll talk to them." She agreed, squeezing his hand. "We have some catching up to do anyways."
Chris left and went to Luke and Kenna "just in that bedroom...she's still pretty tired but I think she's excited to catch up." He moved out of their way as Kenna ran to Laila's side "oh honey!" She said scared and hugged her close "we should get to a real care giver..."
Laila hugged her friend tight, happy to see Kenna. Though she was embarrassed about the tube, she was thrilled to see her friend, and happy and skinny again. She had not seen Kenna since the delivery. When Luke walked in, his jaw clenched. Laila was pale and had dark circles under her eyes. She looked positively worn out. He shut the bedroom door so they could all talk in private, and came over to sit on the end of the bed. "What did the doctor say was the cause of this?" he asked gently. Laila chewed her lip. "Stress mostly, and lack of sleep." She shrugged. "he said I could get better pretty soon."
She looked at Kenna, smiling softly. "What do you mean, a real care giver? Chris is doing a wonderful job."
Luke cursed in his mind, as it sure didn't look like it.
Kenna shook her head "sweetie...we are worried about you...all this stress he puts on you...being a druggie an alcoholic...it's made you sick darling I've never seen you so sick...Chris is draining you, Luke and I believe that he isn't good for you." Chris heard it through the door and swallowed moving away all of his old negative beliefs about himself pretty prominent.
Laila bit her lip and shook her head insistently. "Kenna... I can see you are worried, and I am so glad you care enough to be concerned about me. But honestly, Chris is the best thing to have ever happened in my life."That did it. Luke was so peeved off right now. Here was Laila looking like she was dying, and yet she was so love blind she was sticking around the fire, not caring that she got burned. "Laila." he said, turning then. "Do you not see? This is not a healthy relationship for you. Both of you are going through too much right now to be of any help to eachother." he said, putting it as lightly as he could, as he didn't want to hurt her feelings. "Laila... you need to get out of this circumstance. Take some time off, and then maybe once this has all cooled you could come back and be friends."
Laila shook her head, her eyes starting to water. "You don't understand." She whispered. "I love him."
Kenna shook her head "if you love something let it go...if it comes back then it's yours...please just come to the hospital with us, please...this isn't healthy. When you are well you can try again...he's killing you, and I won't let that happen to my best friend!" She insisted and took her hand "you aren't well Laila, your delerious and can't make decisions..." She watched Luke call the doctor.
Laila shook her head over and over, shocked that her friends wouldn't believe her, hurt that they didn't understand. Maybe she was delusional. But that didn't matter. She didn't care. All she knew was that she loved and needed Chris. He was holding her together, not tearing her apart. "Please... please..." she mumbled. "You don't understand."The ambulance showed up in minutes, and they loaded Laila onto a stretcher. Luke smiled gently at her as she was carted out. "This will be better Laila, I promise. You can get proper care and get better sooner. Then you can come back and try again with Chris, ok?"
Laila couldn't hear him as she was rolled into the ambulance. All she could hear were the sirens. She could only see masked men and flashing lights, and she was starting to breathe harder and faster. When they got into the hospital, Laila took one look at the white walls and doctors everywhere and the memories became too much. She snapped and screamed, thrashing on the bed until they finally had to sedate and restrain her, labelling her as malnourished and delirious.
Chris watched shocked, he couldn't believe they were taking them the one place she hated...he wasn't even allowed in, Luke made sure of that. He felt broken and lost. He tugged out the tube looking at the blood at the end of it and wiping away the nose blood shaking slightly. He locked himself in the bathroom not letting Krissy in, he couldn't go downhill he had to be strong for her..when they got to be together again.
Krissy covered her eyes when her brother started tugging out the tube, as she felt she would faint watching that. And when she opened her eyes again, he was gone. "Chris!?" She asked, running into each bedroom until she found the bathroom. She knocked and rattled the door. "Chris, please let me in. I'm scared."When Laila woke, she was only more frightened. She was trembling all over. She was in a hospital, alone and restrained. Terror, and the drugs they had used to sedate her, as well as her exhaustion, low blood pressure, and malnourishment finally did their toll. Laila's mind shut down and her body started to spasm as she started to mildly seizure. She was immediately wheeled into intensive care.
Luke had watched them take Laila away in an ambulance, and then had walked out to the car with Kenna again. He kissed her cheek. "She'll be in much better hands now." he said softly, reassuring them both.
Chris swallowed shaking his head as he just sat in the bath tub and cried, he wanted to die. He knew where there was the last bit of heroin left in a syringe. He dug away the brick and pulled it out just staring at it "Krissy go to the hospital and tell them your her sister. They won't allow me in but they'll allow you...make sure she's ok!" He yelled shaking.Kenna sighed feeling something that wasn't relief "are you sure this is the right thing to do Luke?..."
Krissy had never heard her brother yell. It scared her even more than the fact that he was locked in the bathroom. That was what their mother had used to do when she went to take a drug dose. Krissy's eyes watered but she nodded slowly, pulling away from the door. "Ok." she whispered. She ran out of the house and down the street, running all the way to the hospital. As soon as she got there, she was told to wait, as the doctors were working on trying to stabilize Laila again. They were all bemused as to her sudden downward spiral. Krissy texted her brother, telling him the news. 'She had a seizure.' she sent. 'They say she's delirious and at risk of going into a coma.'Luke swallowed, getting into the car. He sighed and shook his head. "I'm never sure, Kenna. But it can't be worse than being at home with Chris who probably knows little to nothing about medical care."
Chris dropped the phone at the news, he was going to lose his love...he didn't want to deal with this anymore. He took the tourniquet and snapped it around his arm almost by habit he unscrewed the cap his hand shaking as he stared at the scars of past adductions and chucked it out the window refusing to use...he promised her. That didn't stop the campus police that happened to be under the window as the syringe dropped. He barged into the house and arrested Chris only knowing him by his past endeavors he felt like he finally got the big fish.Kenna sighed and nodded "you're right...you're right...it's just Laila's never used the word love before...with anything or anybody..."
The doctors could do nothing for Laila, as she passed into a coma. They set her into her own room and kept her on life support, leaving her alone for if and when she woke again. They came out to say that Krissy could see her, warning her that Laila might have sustained sufficient brain damage from the trauma. Krissy ran in and hugged Laila's unconscious form, crying. "You have to get better. You have to get better. Something's wrong with Chris. He said he wouldn't become mother and now he has." She sobbed clinging to Laila's unresponsive form. Luke sighed softly, seeing her point. "Maybe we should let him go see her." he said softly. "I don't think forcing them apart will help either of them." He admitted softly.
Kenna nodded and made him go back to the apartment, she frowned as the door was broken into. Wood splintered as she stepped over the mess and found a note with Krissy's crayons 'arrested. Call (Andrew's number) you can stay with him till I get out. Love you Krissy...I didn't use.' She read allowed and looked at Luke shocked.
Luke grit his teeth, not liking that the guy had gone and gotten himself arrested. It only proved that he shouldn't be around Laila. But his sister... she needed him to care for her. And Laila... maybe they should let her see him. "He gets a bail call, Kenna. We can go get him out again."
Kenna nodded and frowned "he didn't use..." She frowned going outside past the bathroom window and found the full syringe nearly poking herself "Luke look...the campus police must have saw this and jumped to conclusions...we have the proof he's innocent!" She said almost excited.
Luke nodded, still begrudgingly not liking Chris, but he also knew the man had changed his ways and didn't deserve being arrested. Yes, his emotions were unstable, so it wasn't good for Laila to be around him, but that didn't mean he wanted to keep them isolated, or have him in jail. "Lets go get him." He agreed.
Kenna hugged him tightly as they left for the jail. She looked around nervously this was not a happy place. Every guy staring at her made her jumpy, she hated that she automatically judged them but...they were wearing handcuffs! She went to the desk "um hello...we are looking for Christopher Matthews?"
Luke had slid an arm around Kenna's waist as they walked into the police station, as he didn't want anyone to eye Kenna too closely. The receptionist looked up. "Whacha want him for?" She asked, raising an eyebrow. Luke nodded at the syringe. "The thing is full. He didn't use, and therefore he is innocent."
The receptionist rolled her eyes. "He was in possession."
Luke frowned. "It was outside the window. He threw it out. We don't lock people up for quitting drugs, now do we?" he asked.
The lady huffed tiredly. "Yeah yeah ok." she turned and shouted into the back room for someone to bring out Chris.
A police man came out "what you want Razor for?...there was a squall, he got shanked...he says he's fine but it's pretty deep in his chest." he rolled his eyes "he ain't no condition to leave the infirmary, stupid mad max insulted his sister...it broke out last night."
Luke frowned, worried then. If they couldn't bring Chris out of jail... and Laila was still stuck in the hospital.... Luke swallowed. "Please transfer him to the hospital. He's just been proven innocent, and he needs to leave here at once." he said firmly.
The receptionist got the arrangements made, Kenna gripped onto Luke's hand feeling an amount of overwhelming guilt. Chris was rolled out in the wheelchair before being loaded into the van. His chest was covered in bandages the rusty shank sticking out. He gave a smile to the two of them but it didn't reach anywhere in his eyes.
Luke felt a little sick when he saw Chris, mostly because of the state he was in. Prisons were horrible places, and he was reminded of that everyday. "Well that's that then." he said softly, taking Kenna's hand. "We can follow them to the hospital." he told her, going out to their own car.
Kenna burst into tears as they got in the car "I should have said nothing! Both would be home happy and well...they could both die Luke!"
Luke squeezed her hand, sighing. "It wasn't just you." He whispered, trying to be encouraging. But he knew this was a horrible situation. He drove them to the hospital, and immediately requested that Chris be hospitalized in the same room as Laila. Might as well make up for what I've done wrong He sighed. The nurse agreed to this, and then smiled lightly. "I have good news. Laila is starting to wake from her coma again. The bad news? We don't know the extent of the brain damage, if there is any." She explained.
Kenna watched Krissy run to Chris he sighed in relief and held her closr in his orange jumpsuit "I'm so sorry Squish, I didn't use I promise..." He just felt better being with his girls though he still hadn't had the surgery to remove the shank from his chest.
Krissy curled up on Chris's lap, trying to ignore the metal sticking out of him. She was sobbing and shaking and so scared. "I was so scared... so scared that... that you might have..." She choked down a sob and she pulled back, staring at his wound. "Chris... Oh my gosh... please... I..." she just stared. "Are you dying!?"
Chris shook his head "I'm ok Kriss...you brother is a tough jail rat, have to protect you right?" He smiled kissing her head "I think they are going to take it out soon. L" he heard about Laila and stretched trying to see her to be with her "Laila?"
Krissy nodded weakly, tucking her head against his shoulder as she tried to just focus on the fact that he was there, and not that he had been stabbed. Laila was mostly unresponsive on her bed, though awake. She had started screaming anytime she woke, so eventually the doctors had to have her drugged heavily so that she was awake, but only slightly aware of what was going on around her. Even in her drugged state, she still was tense, pulling against her restraints, a look of constant fear etched on her features.
Chris reached out his hand trying not to strain the wound. He pushed back the separator curtains and grasped onto her hand caressing it slowly wanting to be with her to touch and know she would be ok. He winced as the blade moved in more swearing and apologizing to his sister.
Krissy couldn't take watching him trying to reach Laila like this when he was injured and she might as well be unconscious. "I'm taking you to get that removed." she said seriously. She grasped the handlebars of his wheelchair and moved him into the emergency, where nurses immediately got him ready for surgery. Back in her room, Laila's condition had not changed. Inside herself, she just kept watching all her fears replay over and over and over like a never ending nightmare.
Chris just needed to reach her, he had to get her back...she was his love, his soul was hers and he'd do anything for her. He shook his head as they tried to put him under "just localize it...I want to watch..." He said seriously. He wanted to stay awake he couldn't stand to be sedated it was his worse fear to be put under and never come back.
The doctors complied and got right to work in removing the metal, and making sure no organs had been hit. Deeming him lucky to have not pierced a lung or the heart, they then sewed him back up again and wrapped a bandage around his chest, putting him back in his wheelchair so he could go back to his room. Krissy was waiting outside surgery for him and she immediately ran to him, hugging him tight. "Does it hurt?" She asked immediately.
Chris groaned and pat her back "when you squeeze me like that Squish I'm in pain." He admitted and had her roll him to Laila's bed. He took her hand and undid the restraints kissing her palm pressing it to his face and trying not to cry "hi baby...I'm so sorry..."
Krissy winced and nodded, loosening her hold as she wheeled him to Laila. "Sorry."Laila twitched a little when he moved her hand around, and her glassy eyes moved across the room, as if searching for something, or someone. She was trembling sporadically like a small dog, but because of the drugs, she couldn't pull herself into the conscious again. But slowly, she seemed to grow more aware, her movements less sluggish as the drugs started to wear off.
Kenna hugged the hyper dog playing with his ears as he snufflef get stomach "no more baby." She explained and stood frowning at the text and showing Luke.