Hannah’s P.O.V
The car ride back was a complete blur, I was aware of everyone talking and almost yelling at each other, I was aware of Matt whispering to me and playing with my hair but the thing I was most aware of was the pain radiating from every part of my body.
Those guys had me for, what? A full day? And they almost killed me. I’d been their ragdoll since they got me to the warehouse and not once did anyone let up on me, but I knew I’d only make it worse if I fought back or tried to escape, so I didn’t. I waited.

“Can you walk dear?” Papa Gates asked, turning around in the driver’s seat and looking at me.

“I don’t think-“

“With help,” I said, cutting Matt off. I don’t care what I’ve just been through, I don’t want people doing everything for me, I’m still as stubborn as ever.

Everyone climbed out of the SUV and Matt turned me so that my legs were hanging out of the car, all I had to do was slide down, hit the ground with my feet and walk into the house.

It won’t hurt that much. I told myself.

“Okay,” I whispered, everyone was watching me, waiting.

I slid out of the car, my feet his the ground and I pushed myself off of the car… but as soon as all of my body weight was on my legs I went crashing to the ground with screams of pain.

“Fuck!” Erin said “Matt, carry her into the house, Papa, you’re gonna have to call someone,”

“Why would he have to call someone?” Zack asked as Matt scooped me up, carefully and everyone followed us into the house. I couldn’t stop the tears and the cries of pain.

“Because we can’t take her to the hospital, dipshit,” Brian said “We don’t need the cops in on this,”

Matt got me into the house and Papa Gates told him to get me into my bedroom, he did as he was told and Papa and Johnny followed us. Johnny removed the duvet and pillows from my bed while Matt lay me down.

“Alright, Hannah,” Papa said, leaning down to my level so I could see his face “I’ve called someone I trust very much, a doctor, who can bring us everything we need,”


“Who?” I asked through cries.

“My son,”

“Brian?”

“No, Brian’s brother, Brent,” Papa said, he shot Matt a serious look and then back to me softly
“But we have to make his job a lot easier, okay?” I looked at him confused “Your shoulder and knee are dislocated, we gotta put those back in place, then he can find any other breaks,” I started crying harder.

“I can’t!” I sobbed “It’s going to hurt!”

“Yes, but only for a minute, then we give you as many painkillers as we can and you won’t feel anything,” I took a deep breath and nodded “Alright, Matt you hold her still and Johnny, you help me with this,” Papa came back to me with a dry, rolled up face cloth and held it in front of my mouth “To bite and muffle the screaming,” My eyes widened but I leaned forward and took it from him.

“Hannah,” Johnny said “Grip the edge of the mattress with the dislocated arm,” I did as he said
“As tight as you can,” I gripped tighter and bit down on the cloth “Okay, you’re gonna hear and feel a really big pop,” I looked up at Matt, into his eyes so I didn’t have to see what he was doing, but then I was aware of Papa’s grip on my leg and I realised they were doing them both at the same time.

“One,” Papa started the count “Two,” I bit the cloth “Three,” They both pushed as hard as they could and there were two huge pops and a crack as everything went back into place and I screamed loudly, maybe this cloth was a good thing.

I was breathing heavily as the pain from my leg and shoulder went dull and I tried to roll onto my side but when I did, there was only more pain, like the pain I was getting with every breath I took.

“Broken ribs,” Someone said as they walked into the room. I looked up to see a guy wearing a shirt and tie, he had messy blonde hair and some machine with him and a doctor’s bag. Matt tensed beside me and I looked at him, he was shooting daggers at this guy.

“Hannah,” Papa said “This is my son, Brent, he’s going to find out what else is wrong with you,” I nodded looked at Brent.

“Hello sweetheart,” He said softly, standing over me “I’m just going to have a feel around here,”

His hands hovered over my sides, where my ribs are and I nodded again before he started feeling around, poking and prodding making me cry all over again, when he was done I turned my head into Matt and cried “Two on the left and three on the right, all broken,”

“What do we do about them?” Jimmy asked, walking into the room and pointing to me.

“All I can do is wrap up her torso tightly so that they heal,” I sighed quickly, the pain from my rib stopping me “But I have to find out what else is wrong,”

He gestured for Matt to get off of the bed and he opened the machine thing he brought with him.

“What is that?” I asked quietly and he smiled at me.

“Did you ever watch Pursuit of Happiness?” I nodded “Well that x-ray thing that Will Smith was trying to sell, that’s what this is,”

When he was done x-raying every inch of my body he had the x-rays out and was holding them up to the light.

“That explains why you couldn’t walk.” He sighed before turning to me “Your pelvis is fractured,”

“Well then we have to get her to the hospital,”
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Matt’s P.O.V
I was having a breakdown inside my head but I couldn’t let that show, not to Hannah, I’m supposed to be her strong fiancé who can handle anything, but knowing they shattered her pelvis but not knowing how, was killing me, there were numerous things they could have done to her…

“Matt,” Erin whimpered from the sofa as we walked through the living room. Jimmy was carrying Hannah to the SUV while Papa and Brent followed him, Johnny had hurried into the kitchen to drink everything away.

“Yeah?” I asked, looking over the back of the sofa at her, she was laying there, looking kind of ill but that must have just been with worry “Where’s Brian?”

“Outside,” She pointed to the window where I could see Brian smoking outside, continuously running a hand through his hair “But how did it go? There was so much screaming,” Tears welled in her eyes and I took her hand in mine.

“It’s not good,” I told her honestly “They relocated her arm and knee, but Brent found something…”

“What?” She asked, slowly sitting up, the worry spreading across her face.

“They fractured her pelvis, E, we’re going to the hospital,”

“MATT!” Jimmy roared from outside “Come on, we gotta go!!”

“Go,” Erin said, pushing me away from her. I jogged to the door, closing it behind me with a last glance at Erin who was silently crying on the sofa.
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We got Hannah to the hospital and she was in and out of consciousness, she was lying across Jimmy and me in the car, since she couldn’t sit normally anymore.

“Dr Haner,” one of the little nurses smiled when we walked into the hospital, but her smile fell and her seriousness appeared when she saw Hannah in my arms “What do you need sir?”

“Surgery,” He said “Call them and tell them we are on our way, reconstruction,”

“Sir,” A male nurse said to me as he pulled out a gurney and started walking down the corridor with us “I think she would be more comfortable on this,” I stopped walking and so did he. I looked at Hannah who was looking at me through hooded eyes “She will get there faster sir, I can run with her,” Hannah whispered a ‘please’ and I did it without thinking anymore, I put her on the bed and he lifted the sides and started running down the corridor.

“She’ll be alright,” Jimmy said, wrapping an arm around my shoulder. We were in the middle of a busy corridor but I didn’t care, I turned to face my best friend who kept his hand on my shoulder but crushed me to him when I broke down in his long, lanky arms, sobbing and screaming into his shoulder. What a sight that must have been.
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It had been roughly five hours, Jimmy and Papa Gates stayed the whole time, Brent was working but he came to check on us every hour or so and over the time that we were here Johnny and Zack turned up, but Brian and Erin stayed at home, apparently no matter how much Erin wanted to be here when Hannah woke up, Brian wouldn’t let her be here, not after everything she’s been through already today.

“Hannah Williams’ family?” Another doctor asked, stepping out of one of the rooms and we all jumped to our feet “Come with me,”

We all followed the doctor down the corridor and into one of the private rooms, it smelled clean and sterile, the sound of a steady heart beat on the monitor alone made me feel better, but when I looked at her, seeing that they had her bottom half levitated, the tubes going into her nose, her shoulder was wrapped and I imagine her leg and torso were too, her black eye and busted lip and other bruises covering her face and neck were suddenly more visible in this light and against all of the white in the room.

“Jesus,” Zack breathed. Jimmy wrapped an arm around my shoulders again and Johnny swore under his breath and threw himself into one of the chairs in the corner of the room.

“Press the button when she wakes up,” The doctor said, shooting me a sympathetic smile before leaving us all alone in the room with Hannah.

“Why did she do that?” I asked “Why did she go out alone? This is all my fault,” I was starting to raise my voice but Papa stopped me by smacking me up the back of the head.

“This is nobody’s fault,” He said “We were all cooped up in that house, any of us could have left and been taken, it just happened to be her,”

I sat in the seat beside her bed and took her hand in mine, rubbing her knuckles with my thumb.

“Come on baby,” I whispered “Wake up,”
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Hannah’s P.O.V
“Come on baby, wake up,” I heard someone whisper. It was Matt!

My eyes fluttered open and I took in my surroundings. Johnny in the corner, Papa, Jimmy and Zack standing around the bed and… I looked to the side and saw Matt, my fiancé, smiling widely at me, holding my hand.

“Oh thank fuck,” He breathed and I chuckled.

“What happened?” I asked.

“What’s the last thing you remember?” He asked, leaning over and pressing the button for a nurse.

“Getting my shoulder and my knee popped back into place,”

“Hannah!” A doctor beamed, walking into the room and picking up my file from the end of the bed.

“Who are you?” I asked nervously and Brent looked around all of us.

“The last thing she remembers is right before you got to the house,” Johnny told him.

“Ahh,” He smiled “I’m Brent, Brian’s brother, I’m gonna be your doctor while you are in here,” He smiled.


“Okay,” I shrugged “But why am I in here?” I pressed.

“Your pelvis was fractured,” Brent said sympathetically and I took a quick, painful breath “We had to completely rebuild it, fix your ribs and bandage you all up,”

“I don’t care about anything else,” I snapped “What’s the deal with my…” I trailed off.

“Well, we reconstructed it and it is being held in place with pins,”

“So…”

“You won’t be able to walk for some time, you will have to use a chair and be carried, but you will attend physiotherapy as many times a week as you feel able,” I started to cry as he spoke, but silently, I just let the tears roll down my face for a minute before wiping them away, and then I saw the ring on my finger and I thought about my future.

“What about… getting pregnant?” I asked.

“Oh,” He smiled a little “Your reproductive system was not damaged, we checked that in the scans and you will still be able to conceive, but carrying the child will be difficult for you and you may not be able to carry the baby to term, your body may be under too much stress around eight months so you would go into labour, but you will be able to give birth naturally, but it could be too much on your body and given the placement of the pins you may not reach ten centimetres so we would have to do a C-section,” Again, all I could do was cry.
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Matt’s P.O.V
Hannah had sent me home to get a shower, and some clothes for the two of us since she was going to be in the hospital for a couple of days, Johnny and Zack came back with me and Jimmy stayed with Hannah, which was probably best because he knew how to make anyone smile, no matter what was happening to them.

“How is she?” Erin asked from the sofa, she was laying where she had been when I left to go to the hospital… last night.

I relayed this morning’s events on her, told her about the surgery, the pins, the inability to walk and the complications with future pregnancy.

“Oh God,” She cried “When does she get to come home?”

“Two days, if everything keeps going well,” She just nodded.

“I want to see her so badly,”

“Then why don’t you come back with me?” I asked.

“Brian doesn’t want me going, he says I’m too ill and stressed so the hospital isn’t a good place for me to be,” I nodded and started to walk up to Hannah’s bedroom.

“Well, I’ll be leaving in an hour or so, if you change your mind you are welcome to come with me,”

I didn’t think she would come, Brian had a way of getting his way, he loved Erin and would do anything he could to keep her calm and happy, but really, was she getting peace of mind sitting in the house while the woman she loved was in hospital? Probably not.
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I went back to the hospital and Erin didn’t come with me, when I went back into the living room she was gone, I guess she finally went to bed.

“He was so drunk that he was one note behind everyone else!” Jimmy laughed loudly as I walked into the room where I found Hannah sitting up in bed, Jimmy sitting beside her as she was trying to eat some soup.

“Oh God!” Hannah laughed “Stop,” She said between laughs “You’re gonna make me spill my soup,”

“Hey, man,” Jimmy smiled when he saw me, Hannah’s head snapped up and a full smile pread across her face.

“Mattie,” She smiled.

“Hey baby,” I smiled back, walking over to her and kissing her on the head “You seem a lot better,”

“They gave me a lot of painkillers,”

Well, at least she wasn’t breaking my heart by crying… for now.

Notes

Looks like Hannah is out of the game for a while, huh? Will Sarah come back before Hannah can fight her? Or will she wait. How did they break her so badly? Find out later!!

More from the amazing E to come!!

- LMV x