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Chapter 42 - Awake

Christina

I've been staying around the Infirmary a lot lately because I want to be there for Shauna if she wakes up. Zeke texted me a few minutes ago and said that he was twenty minutes away on the train and would be here as soon as possible.

I just hope that Shauna will eventually wake up. The doctors are very quiet about her situation, but the one had told me that there isn't much they can do until she wakes up. Then maybe she can tell them what hurts or what happened. Until then, they are just going to keep observing her, taking tests, and keep her breathing with the oxygen they've had on her since she's been here.

Shauna's little brother and only family left, Hector had chosen to stay at Dauntless last year. He's still sixteen. I don't remember what job he has, but when he came down to visit Shauna a few days ago he was thanking me up and down for being here with her because he is so busy he couldn't get down here.

I myself have been trying to figure out what's wrong when I'm in there sitting with her. The doctors said that sometimes people can hear you even if their in a coma, so I talk to her and even try to ask her what's wrong.

"Hey Shauna. It's me, Chris." I say taking a seat next to her. As usual, she doesn't move and she stays silent.

"I just thought I'd stop in and say hi, and to tell you that Zeke is on his way. He texted me a little while ago and said that he was in the train twenty minutes away. He's really worried about you and said to tell you that he loves and misses you and can't wait to see you." I say.

Will was always so observant for being the Erudite that he was. He could've probably just looked at her for like two minutes and could have given a whole list of diagnosises for things that happened.

You can't cry Christina. Not now. You're here for Shauna and to support her, not to cry.

My phone bleeps signaling that I got a text.

-I'm getting off the train in three minutes. What room is she in? Do you wanna meet me outside the Infirmary?-

I text back.

-I'll meet you outside the Infirmary so I can catch you up a little.-

He texts back.

-K-

"I'm going to go meet Zeke outside the Infirmary. I'll be back." I tell Shauna placing my hand on her arm.

I pull my arm away and head out the door so quickly that I don't notice her flinch the tiniest bit when I take my arm away.

* * *

I go and stand outside the Infirmary for probably five minutes until I see Zeke barreling down the hall toward me.

"H-H-Hi." He says out of breath.

"Hi. Let's walk and talk. C'mon." I say turning around and starting the path to her room. "She is on the fifth floor so he have some stairs to climb."

"Okay."

I go over everything with him; how she won't wake up, how they can't tell what's wrong until she wakes up, how she may be able to hear us talking even though she's in a coma, and all of that.

"Here it is, room E17." I say.

"Will you come in with me at first? I may need the support." He says his hand on the doorknob but not making eye contact with me. I can tell he's nervous.

"Yeah. Sure."

"You go first." He says backing away from the door.

"Okay..." I say. He's acting really weird. But yet again, he's nervous.

I open the door and walk into the room.

"Hey Shauna! Zeke is he-- Oh my god! Shauna!" I stop in mid sentence and can't continue walking.

"What? What?! What's wrong?!" Zeke runs into the room.

"Oww. My back. Get a doctor. My back." She groans in pain.

She's awake!

Zeke runs over to her and takes her hand. I run to go get a doctor.

"She's awake and in pain! We need a doctor! She's awake!" I yell.

I nurse goes and makes a call on a phone while another one comes rushing down the hall and beats me to Shauna's room.

I rush after the nurse into the room. Shauna has her eyes open but filled with tears and she has the worst look of pain on her face. She was more peaceful while in the coma.

"I'm going to have to ask you two to leave." The nurse says.

Zeke holds his ground begging for them to let him stay.

"Ma'am. Please leave." The nurse turning toward me.

"I'll leave but please let him stay. He's like the only thing to family she has left. I'll leave no questions asked just please let him stay." I plead.

"We'll see what the doctor says. Now please leave. We will let you back in later."

I walk out the door just as doctors start rushing down the hall toward Shauna's room.

Shauna       (Starting from after Christina leaves the room)

I finally break out of the darkness to a room full of light.

I blink rapidly a few times and I realize that I reconise this place; I'm in the Infirmary.

I could've sworn that I heard Christina in here talking to me and I felt her touch my arm. But she's not here now.

What did she say? I know she had said something, I just don't remember what.

I try to look around and see what's going on or what the room looks like, but I can't move from the waist down. When I try to move, pain shoots strainght down my spine and down my legs. I groan in pain.

The sensation is familiar, but when do I remember it from?

I try to think, but all I can focus on is the pain in my back getting stronger and worse by the second. It hurts when I breathe, when I move, when I blink, but I cannot feel my legs. It's hard to explain. They hurt, but I cannot feel them.

I hear people outside my room. I can't reconise the voices though. Sure enough, out of the corner of my eye I think I see Christina walk into the room, but as soon as she sees me she stops dead in her tracks and stops talking.

"Ow. My back. Get a doctor. M-My back." I groan in pain.

I see the face I've been longing to see since I fell that night, Zeke's. He runs over toward me and takes my hand is his. He kisses my forehead and tells me how much he missed me and how much he loves me.

"You're okay. Everything is okay. You are fine." He tries to reassure me.

"It h-h-hurts. I c-can't f-f-feel m-my legs." I sob in pain.

"Okay. I'll tell the doctors. Christina went to go get them. Don't worry. Just breathe." He says stroking the top of my head with his other hand.

Zeke

"I-I-It h-h-hurts." She groans.

A nurse comes in the room and looks shocked when she sees Shauna.

"I'm going to have to ask you two to leave." She says.

"P-Please don't l-l-leave." Shauna quietly sobs.

"She's my girlfriend! She needs me! I need her! I'm not going to leave!" I yell.

I hear Christina protest not for her to stay, but for me to stay.

"We'll see what the doctor says." The nurse says to me coming back into the room.

As if on cue two doctors run into the room followed by three nurses with a bunch of medical equipment. They all start setting up stuff as the doctors start checking Shauna out.

"Ow! It hurts!" She yells. Immediately they take their hands off of her and back away. She is sobbing violently in pain. I try to calm her down by whispering condolences in her ear and stroking her head with one hand and holding her hand with my other hand, but it doesn't seem to be working.

"Where does it hurt, Shauna?" The one male doctor asks.

"Everywhere!" She sobs.

"She had told me she felt numb from the waist down, but that it hurt earlier." I speak up.

"Look through her past files." The guy says to a nurse. She pulls out an envelope that was in a slot on the wall and starts going through it.

"Shauna, I'm just going to check out your back and hips to make sure everything is in line. If it causes you a different pain, then you have right now then let me know." The doctor says.

He goes around pressing on different spots on her back, hips, and knees and Shauna never speaks up but she still has tears going down her face.

"Found it. The only thing in her records is paralyzation from the waist down from being shot in the back. She had made an amazing recovery from the whole thing with the pills that we had given her from Erudite. She had walking braces for if she needed them, but never seemed to." The nurse says.

I feel my heart sink and my face pale.

"Shauna, can you move you legs? Your knees? Hips? Toes? Anything below your waist?" He asks.

She shakes her head no and breaks out sobbing.

"I hate to say it, but it looks like your paralyzed from the waist down again. What were you doing when you fell?"

"I-I-I was in the kitchen getting some painkillers for my b-back because it had been bothering me and so I could sleep better and then pain started shooting d-down my legs and they gave o-o-out under me. I fell on the f-floor and d-didn't have my phone b-because it was in t-the bedroom s-so I just started y-yelling and h-hoping someone would hear me. Then I-I heard people break down the door a-and I recognized Chris and Four's mother, E-Evelyn, then I b-blacked o-out." Shauna sobs. I continue to try and calm her by stroking her blonde hair which is pulled back in a messy bun.

"Okay. So it had been bothering you just that day, or for a while?" The doctor asks looking up from the paper he was writing on.

"For a f-few days. I was going to make a-an appointment, but i-it was too late a-at night so I-I was going to call in t-t-the morning."

"I know it's too late to change the past, but for the future, if your back ever hurts you like that, and because of your history of a back injury, come in right away, no matter what time. You're lucky that your neighbors heard you or else you could've been in a worse situation of just from the waist down paralyzation."

She nods laying back on the pillow under her head. For being in a coma for as long and she was she sure looks tired.

"We will put you on some painkillers through your IV and try to rest the best you can. We will check you further out tomorrow." The doctor says.

She nods.

I stand up and shake the doctors hand.

"I'm Zeke, her boyfriend." I say.

"I go by Isaac. I don't like having 'doctor' in front of my name. It's too professional for someone who went through Dauntless initiation." He says chuckling a little.

"Agreed." I say chuckling.

"I've got other patients to tend to, so nice meeting you Zeke." Isaac says.

"Same to you."

I go and take my seat next to Shauna, taking her hand in mine and laying my head next to hers. She can move her head, so she turns her head toward mine. I kiss the tip of her nose and a small smile forms on her face.

"I love you. So so much." I say kissing her temple, right between her eyebrows.

"I love you too." She says pressing her forehead against mine and closing her eyes.

"I love you more." I say not caring how cliché it sounds.

"Well, I love you and our cliché relationship most." She says reading my thoughts.

I press my lips gently to hers and she kisses back. I realize now how much I missed her and how worried I was about her while I was in Erudite.

We pull away and as soon as we do my phone starts making noise. We laugh and I look to see who the caller ID is.

It's Four.

"It's Four. I've gotta take it. I'll be right outside." I tell Shauna.

"Okay."

I press the little green button to answer the call as I head out the door.

"Hey. What's up?" I say.

He wastes no time getting to the point.

"We have a way in."

A/N-

Hi again humans!

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