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 Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:59 pm
The ambulance was rushing to the hospital. Dante could heard the sirens and horn blaring as the EMTs asked him questions.
"Where is your pain?" one of them asked.
Dante groaned as he clenched the portable bed. "It's in my stomach and around my kidneys."
"When did this start?" the EMT said as he checked Dante's vitals.
"The pain started this morning. The weakness and blood thing started about fifteen minutes ago." Dante coughed a bit.
"Ok. We're almost there." the EMT gave him a shot. "This should help with the pain.
When they arrived at the hospital the two men rushed Dante inside. "He's complaining of stomach pains and tenderness around the kidneys. He also has some internal bleeding. It's most likely from his stomach since it's when he coughs sometimes." the one of the right told the doctor. As the nurses and doctors rushed him to the x-ray lab, the doctor asked Dante a few questions.
"Son do you drink."
Dante was hesitant. "Yes."
"How much?" the doctor was writing stuff down.
"Too much. Everyday." Dante winced in pain.
"How long have you been drinking son?" the doctor looked at Dante and checked him, while running along the side of the bed.
"Years. About 3."
They turned the corner and went into the x-ray lab. They took a few of his stomach region and his kidneys. "How bad is your pain son?" The doctor asked him as he read the x-rays. "Enough to want to die sir." Dante told him. "We'll give you something. And you might get your wish if you keep drinking." They took Dante into a room. It was on the floor above the ICU and that made Dante feel better, even though it wasn't much better than the ICU> He saw that the room number was 2561 as the took him in. "I'm going to give you some pain medicine through an iv. We're going to put you on a machine to keep your kidneys working." The nurse told him. "Will this medicine make me tired?" Dante asked the woman. "You'll end up falling asleep in a bit." The nurse told him as she put the iv in his arm. She patted his shoulder and walked out. Dante looked around the plain, cold room as he became delirious and things started to become hazy. He closed his eyes and everything went black as he fell asleep.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:00 pm
Victoria began to cry when Aria answered. She had gotten the right number, but now she could barely speak to tell what was wrong. "No...no I'm not okay. I just watched Dante being taken off to the hospital!" She screamed it into the phone. She finally tried to calm down and apologized for being rude. She also said that she was worried and that Dante said to take his car to see him there. "He wants you there too," She finished the story breathlessly.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:16 pm
Aria gasped and jumped up, almost hitting her head on the counter. She looked at Daren and whispered Dante just got wheeled to the hospital.
"I'll be there soon." Aria replied and hung up.
She looked at Daren and half-heartedly smiled. "Up for a roadtrip?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:23 pm
Daren nodded but then stopped when he saw her smile. It didn't seem whole and he frowned, asking quietly if everything was okay.
Victoria tried to breathe normally and finally grabbed the keys to his car that he had given her, and ran down the stairs like a crazy person. She jumped out the door and sounded the alarm, finding a blue ford mustang parked in front that was honking very loudly over and over. She pressed a button on the keys and it stopped, and she opened the car door and suddenly stopped. Did she even know how to drive? Well, she had taken some driving lessons in school...
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:35 pm
Aria grabbed Daren's hand and walked up to Trisha asking if she could leave.
"The way I see it, you were never here."
Others might have thought that Trisha was being rude, but Aria saw the hint of a smile as she rang customers up and knew that Trisha would get her back when everthing was cool again. She walked over to and out of the door with Daren in tow and hopped into Trisha's car.
"He'd better not die.." she muttered.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:00 pm
Confused, Daren frowned but he followed her anyway, wincing when the pain got to him. He tried to ignore it and let himself into her car, wondering what the matter was. "Who better not die?" He was clueless, and some might not have called him the brightest tool in the shed. Then again, he didn't graduate from high school either.
Victoria got to the hospital after only five minutes, lucky she hadn't gotten stopped by a cop. She was so nervous about Dante she back into a sign on accident, and there was a small dent in the back of the car. She could see that it was new, and she hoped he wouldn't kill her for it. She locked his car after a few troubles, and walked up the steps, deciding to turn around and sit there to wait for Aria.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:12 pm
"That guy you hate." Aria smiled.
She backed out of the parking lot and drove about 5 miles over the speed limit. There was no need to get a ticket in Trisha's car. She and Daren arrived at the hospital about 15 minutes later and Aria pulled in and saw Victoria sitting on the steps. Getting out and closing the door Aria ran up to Victoria.
"Hey! We're here. Did you see where they took him?"
Aria was nervously running her fingers through her hair. He beats up my potential boy...friend...and then gets himself wheeled to the emergency room! It's been a hell of a day... Aria finally just collasped and sat on the steps by Victoria. She glanced at Daren and made a mental note to have a doctor check him out as well.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:23 pm
Daren raised an eyebrow, but didn't really care anymore if they went to see him or not. Sure, the guy was an @ss, but he wasn't worth getting himself killed over. He sat in silence until they arrived, and he was surprised when he saw a girl he fairly recognized on the steps, and he remembered her name was something like, "Victorious.." something like that. He sat down on the steps as well, tired from walking just a short distance. When Aria said the girls name he remembered.
Victoria saw two people arrive and saw Aria and a familiar boy come up. Oh, it's the boy I met on the street, Daren! She thought with a smile to him. She saw in fear that he was covered in bruises and wounds that looked fairly freshed. She shivered, not really wanting to know what happened to him. "I just know he's somewhere in the hospital." She answered, shrugging. "Nothing else."
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:05 pm
Aria grabbed Daren's hand without realizing she actually did. She was getting used to having him around so hand holding was becoming a natural thing. She then helped Victoria up and walked up the steps.
"Let's go find the boy."
She looked over to Daren and whispered "And get you looked at too."
She though Daren would probably protest but she had high hopes he might not with Victoria there.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:42 pm
Daren got up slowly and followed the two, but heard Aria whisper that he should get checked out too. He shook his head and said firmly, "I'm fine, It's just some-" He saw that was Victoria was looking at him curiously and he stopped, muttering something that sounded like, "Nosy people these days". But he stopped objecting, and silently fumed while they walked in, very aware that he was holding Aria's hand. Victoria didn't hear what Aria whispered to Daren, but she looked over as Daren started mumbling that he was fine. Wondering what that was about, she looked to Aria for answers but found none and decided that it wasn't much of her business anyway. She ignored Daren's next low mumble and walked up to the desk. The secretary looked up at them with a bored expression and waited. Not knowing what to say, Victoria kept silent.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:44 pm
As they approached the counter, Aria noticed that the nurse there look quite bored. She was not in the mood for one of those girls. When Victoria didn't say anything, Aria guessed she was up.
"Ahem."
"Yes, can I help you?" The nurse said without even looking up.
Aria rolled her eyes slightly. "I'm looking for someone who was wheeled in her about fifteen minutes ago. His name is Dante Reynolds."
"Let me see if he's in the system."
Aria watched as the clerk typed in Dante's name on her out of date computer.
"He's in ICU. Room 17."
"Thanks."
Aria glanced at Daren with an expression that said she was sorry and then led the way to the elevator. In the back of her mind, she realized that she knew this hospital's layout way too well.
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:17 pm
Daren ran a hand through his hair on the elevator, letting go of her hand and leaning against the wall for support. He was feeling a bit tired already. He closed his eyes and tried not to think about who they were going to see in a few minutes.
Victoria bit her lip, scared. She had no idea what she was expecting. She followed the two to the elevator and rode up with them. She again noticed that Daren didn't look so well, and she looked at Aria, worried. Is he okay, she mouthed, her eyebrows furrowed.
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:29 pm
Aria noticed Victoria mouth something and then she glanced at Daren. He really wasn't looking well. Aria stopped the elevator on the floor before they reached ICU.
"Okay, Vic. You keep going up and check on Dante. I"m gonna get him some help."
She stepped out of the elevator with Daren and looked at Victoria. She hoped Daren was too tired to protest.
"I'll meet you up there after he's cool."
After watching the elevator doors close, Aria walked over to another counter where nurses were working.
"Hi, can I get some help for my friend?"
The nurse took one look at Daren and gasped. Aria thought the nurse was being way too overdramatic; he didn't look that bad...
"He had a run in with one of my other friends."
The nurse quickly went to working on her computer as she typed in Daren's name and phone number.
"A doctor will see you in a moment."
"Thanks."
When they finally sat down, Aria glanced at Daren and then nervously played with her hair.
"Sooo..." she began trying to make small talk.
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:50 pm
Daren was a bit angry as he sat in the chair, but when he tried to tell her that he was not going to see the doctor, he felt his breath quicken and he closed his eyes, his stomach twisting. What the hell, he thought in a panic. Leaning back in the chair, he groaned and didn't catch what Aria said when she sat down beside him. His stomach was getting worse, and his eye felt like it was throbbing again. Victoria nodded at Aria's directions and she continued up the elevator, praying for both Dante and Daren, but mostly her closest friend. She bit her lip, impatient until the elevator made a loud, ding! And she was off and running down the hall, trying to find the room number. "Room 17, here we go." She said quietly to her self as she slipped inside, seeing Dante laying on the bed and sleeping. She sighed, hating to see him so banged up, and she sat in a chair, pulling it next to the bed. She took his hand in worry and put her elbow on the bed, resting her head in her free hand. She felt sick, so she looked away from him. He looked terrible, and it was all of her fault.
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:58 pm
Aria was watching for a doctor when she saw Daren move out the corner of her eye. She turned to him and flinched. He looked worse.
"D-Daren..."
She didn't want to ask if he was alright because that was an obvious no. She began drumming her fingers nervously along the chair side when Daren's name was called to go into room 4.
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