Isabel was sitting in the waiting room of the hospital biting her thumbnail. It was a nervous habit she had and right now she had every reason to be nervous. Blaine had been in surgery for two hours and no one could tell her anything. She had managed to come out of the accident with only a bump to the head.
*FLASHBACK*
“Hello? Are you okay in there? Hello?” a voice said.
Isabel was slowly waking up. Her head really hurt. Where was she? Last thing she remembered was getting hit by another car. Blaine! Isabel looked sharply to her left and winced. Her neck hurt really badly also. But that was soon all forgotten when she saw Blaine. He was bashed up pretty badly.
“Hello? Ma’am?” the voice said again.
Isabel looked out the window and saw a guy standing outside the car. He was on the phone and was trying to talk to her.
“Ma’am can you hear me?” he asked again.
“Yes,” she managed to croak out.
The guy looked relieved and said something to the person on the other line.
“Can you tell me your name?” he asked.
“Isabel. Isabel Anderson.”
“And him?” he said referring to Blaine.
“Blaine, my twin brother.”
“Is he awake?”
Isabel shook her head. She looked to him and tried poking him. “Blaine, wake up, please wake up.”
“An ambulance is on their way. Does anything hurt?”
“My head and neck.”
She then heard sirens approaching. She never thought this would happen. She was going to the hospital via ambulance for the second time in her life.
*END FLASHBACK*
Isabel went up the desk again. The nurse working there looked up and said, “I’m sorry, he’s still in surgery. Is there anyone you can call? Family? Friends?”
“I don’t know. How long is the surgery going to take?”
“I don’t know, Miss. But as soon as something comes up, I’ll be sure to let you know.”
Isabel sat back down. She pulled out her phone and dialed a number. After a few rings, the person on the other end answered.
“Could you come here?... The hospital… Blaine’s been in an accident… I don’t know… I’m scared… Could you-… Thank you.”
She hung up and waited.
Fifteen minutes later, she heard footsteps and looked up. Jeff was finally here. She ran to him and hugged him. She started crying and he started to stroking her hair.
“Hey, hey. It’s gonna be okay. Blaine’s gonna be fine. He’s gonna be okay. Come on,” he said leading her to sit down.
She put her head on his shoulder and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. He pulled her in closer to him.
“Where’s your Aunt Bea?” he asked her.
“She’s working and she can’t get away at the moment.”
“What about your mom and dad? I know you’re not talking to them, but I think they’d like to know about Blaine.”
“They aren’t answering their phone.”
Jeff started rubbing her arm, slowly. She was silent, not saying anything. He didn’t say anything to her. He just sat there rubbing her arm, until a doctor came up and said, “Blaine Anderson?”
“Yes, right here,” Isabel said getting up.
The doctor looks up at Isabel. “You are?”
“His twin sister.”
“You’re brother’s stable right now, but he’s in a coma. We can’t be sure how he’s doing unless he wakes up.”
…
Isabel was back at the school the next day. Since she heard of Blaine’s condition, she’d been on autopilot, going through the day normally.
Kurt passed Isabel in the hallways. He was a bit pissed at Blaine about the argument from the day before. That’s why he didn’t go meet Blaine at the locker in the morning and why he didn’t notice Blaine wasn’t there. He turned on his tunnel vision and concentrated on talking to Mercedes when he neared Blaine’s locker.
Many people passed by Isabel that morning and not many of them noticed Blaine’s absence.
Thomas came up to Isabel before school started. He liked to pass by Blaine’s locker in the morning, hoping to see him alone so he could talk to him, but he was always with Kurt. But not this morning, in fact, he wasn’t even there. They only way Thomas could figure out where Blaine was, he’d have to go to Isabel.
“Hey Isabel,” he said, tensing himself for her response.
“Yes?” she said, sniffing.
That’s when he noticed something was up with Isabel. Normally, she’d either snap at him or ignore him. But today, she had answered him normally with no spite.
“Hey, what’s wrong?” he asked her, putting his hand on her shoulder. “Where’s Blaine?”
“He- He- We got into an accident yesterday. And I don’t know if he’s going to make it.”
With that she collapsed into tears. Thomas grabbed her before she fell onto the ground.
“Thomas Johnston, what’s happening here?” Sue Sylvester said.
“She collapsed ma’am,” Thomas answered.
“Bring her into my office,” she told him.
“Come on Isabel,” he said, taking Isabel into Coach Sylvester office.
Thomas sat Isabel down in the chair in Coach Sylvester’s office.
“Now go to class,” Coach Sylvester said.
Thomas left with a backward glance at Isabel. They may not be on good speaking terms right not but he was still worried about her. Something about her was off, different. She wasn’t the same as she was in middle school. She had changed, drastically.
“Now what’s the problem Isabel? And where’s the Hobbit? Why isn’t he with Porcelain?” Coach Sylvester asked.
“Blaine’s at the hospital. He’s in a coma.”
“I’m sure he’ll be okay.”
“I don’t know, the doctors don’t know. What am I supposed to do if he never makes it?”
“You live on. I didn’t know what I was going to do when my sister died, heck I wasn’t sure I deserved to live when she didn’t. But I got through it and, yeah, some days I wish I could hear her voice but I know she’s gone. Death’s just a natural part of life. We have face up to. Now I’m going to call your parents and have them pick you up. I’ll tell your teachers where you’ve gone.”
Isabel just nodded. She didn’t know why she didn’t object to Coach Sylvester’s decision. Isabel knew that if she called her parents, she’d probably get her dad. But right now she didn’t care.
Coach Sylvester dialed a number on her phone and waited for someone on the other end to answer it.
“Hello, Mr. Anderson? Yes I have your daughter here. No she’s not in trouble. It’s regarding Blaine. He’s in the hospital. He’s in a coma. Yes. McKinely High School. Of course. Thank you. Goodbye.”
Coach Sylvester hung up the phone. “Your father’s going to be here in a few minutes.”
…
Richard Anderson was a lot of things. But you can never say he doesn’t love his kids. He may not have always shown it but that’s how he was. He knew that if Blaine came out, he’d be bullied. So he thought that if he showed that he didn’t support him, Blaine would wait to come out. But instead, he came out. So Richard Anderson changed his game plan, he tried to get Blaine to at least pretend to be straight, so he’d stop being bullied. But that stupid Thomas ruined it. Blaine had to fall in love with Thomas even though Richard always knew that something was up with that boy. Thomas never did anything for anyone else, he always did things for himself. Blaine probably didn’t even know his dad knew about his feelings for Thomas, but he did. When Richard had the chance to send Blaine to Dalton, he did it in a heartbeat. Maybe at Dalton, Blaine could get over Thomas, find somebody else. Richard may not have been actively supportive but he just wanted his son’s heart to mend. He didn’t know what Thomas had down to Blaine but he hurt him somehow. And when Blaine met Kurt, Richard could see the change in Blaine. He was happier, but he was getting grief from everywhere. And that hurt Richard. It’s a father’s duty to protect their sons but what if he can’t? What if he’s unable to?
Richard Anderson loves his kids even though Isabel always gave him trouble. But that was the way she was, especially after Blaine came out. But he knew there was something other than bullying that lead to her suicide attempt, something deeper. And now he’s gotten a call saying that his son is in the hospital again and is in a coma. So of course, he drops everything and cancels everything for the rest of the week. He can’t go to work while his son is in the hospital. He also knows that he has to be there for Isabel, because Blaine helped her through so much and without him, she might try to kill herself again.
So Richard Anderson was a lot of things, but he loved his kinds more than anything.
…
Kurt was walking to his French class and noticed that Blaine wasn’t there. That’s funny, he hadn’t seen Blaine all day. He saw Isabel in the morning but then he didn’t see her again. Maybe Blaine was avoiding him. He was also probably running later today, probably forgetting his gel or something. Kurt sat down in his desk. He was getting his stuff out when he heard the two boys behind him say Blaine’s name.
“Hey dude did you hear about that Blaine kid?” one asked the other.
“No, what?”
“He’s not in school today cause he’s in the hospital.”
“What? Why?”
“Maybe he took too much fairy dust.”
Kurt tuned after this. Blaine was in the hospital? Yeah right. Why would he be in the hospital? He was fine yesterday when they talked on the phone. Well until they got into that argument. But he was healthy, wasn’t he? He hadn’t said anything lately. Maybe he was visiting some one in the hospital. Yeah, that was it. It must be. The bell rang and Ms. Daley walked in.
“All right class, let’s get started on today’s work.”
…
There was only one way from Kurt to find out what happened with Blaine: Isabel. He walks to her locker and waits from her to show.
“They’re not here,” Kurt hears a voice behind him say.
Kurt turns around and sees Thomas. “What do you mean?”
“Blaine’s been in an accident and Isabel’s with him at the hospital.”
“An accident?”
“Isabel and him got into an accident yesterday and now Blaine’s in a coma.”
“Yesterday? When?”
“I don’t know. That’s all I know.”
Yesterday? But Blaine was fine yesterday. It must have happened after the phone call. But why was Blaine driving so- oh shit. Was he driving to Kurt’s? Was he trying to apologize? Oh god. He needed to see Isabel. He wanted to see Blaine. Maybe he was driving to- somewhere. But where would he be driving? Oh god. What if the accident was his fault? What if- It didn’t matter. He needed to see Blaine and he was going to skip Glee practice to do it.
…
Kurt found Blaine’s room in the hospital with ease. When he walked up to it, he stopped at the door. Isabel was sitting next to Blaine holding his hand, her head resting on the bed next to him. He looked around and saw something surprising. Blaine’s dad was sitting in a chair, sleeping. It seemed that Richard Anderson had swallowed his pride for Blaine.
“What are you doing here?” he heard Isabel say.
He looked and saw Isabel was looking at him. She looked a little mad.
“I came to see Blaine,” he answered.
“Why?”
“He is my boyfriend.”
“Last time I checked you two were on a break.”
“It was a stupid argument.”
“An argument that caused my brother to be like this. We were driving to your house so he could apologize and you didn’t even notice he was gone.”
“I was angry, okay? I was trying to avoid him okay?”
“He swallowed his pride and was willing to apologize and you wouldn’t for him.”
“I just want to talk to him, please.”
“No.”
“Isabel,” Richard Anderson said.
“What?”
“Let’s give him some time to talk to Blaine.”
“No. Why should I?”
“Maybe he’ll wake up.”
Isabel didn’t say anything to this. Instead she got up and walked angrily out the room. Richard Anderson followed her out but before he was out the door he said to Kurt. “You should be lucky Isabel gave you time. She’s mad right now and she’s being unreasonable.”
“Mad at who? Me?”
“At the world. Blaine’s the only one who’s been there and now he’s injured and Isabel doesn’t know what to do. So she’ll snap at anyone right now.”
“I’m sorry.”
“It’s not your fault.”
“If I hadn’t argued with Blaine he wouldn’t have been on the road at that time of night and-”
“Stop. Don’t blame yourself. Some one ran a red light and crashed into them. Unless you drove that car, it wasn’t your fault. Now go talk to Blaine, maybe you’ll be able to wake him up.”
Kurt nodded. He never thought Blaine’s dad could be so understanding. Maybe Blaine had judged his dad too quickly.
Kurt walked over to Blaine and grabbed his hand. He was reminded of when his dad was in the hospital and all he wanted was for his dad to squeeze his hand.
“Blaine? Can you hear me? I’m sorry. For everything. I didn’t mean anything I said. I don’t want to go on a break. I want to be with you. I don’t know why we’ve been arguing so much but I want to stop. I love you and I don’t want you to go. Please wake up. If not for me, wake up for your dad or your sister. Please Blaine. Wake up.”
Kurt said it all in one go. He just rushed it all out and waited for any response. But after a few minutes, nothing. Blaine didn’t even stir. The only sounds here were the machines beeping.
…
The rest of the week was the same, no new news about Blaine. Isabel grew more and more into depression. In fact, Richard Anderson had Isabel stay with him at the house instead of at her apartment. But he was still worried about Isabel. He remembered her freshman year and how she didn’t say anything about the bullying until it was too late. And now he was worried it was going to end the same way, except Blaine isn’t here to save her.
So by the end of that week, Richard Anderson set up a therapist for his daughter.
“Isabel, I’ve signed you up to go to a therapist.”
“I don’t want to go to a therapist. I’m fine.”
“No you are not. I know you don’t think I don’t care but I do. I don’t want you trying to kill yourself again. And I know that sending you to therapy hasn’t worked but please can you at least try? If not for me, then for Blaine?”
“Therapy doesn’t work dad.”
“Isabel, please. You need to talk to someone about what’s going on. If it’s not me, then at least some one.”
“I have talked to some one about what’s going.”
“And you still have nightmares.”
“Dad. Please just leave it alone. I don’t want to talk to anyone about anything okay?”
“You can’t just leave everything in you all bottled up inside. One day it’s gonna explode.”
“I’m fine dad, okay? So just please stop asking.”
“Alright I’ll stop but I want you to go to the therapist.”
“And if I don’t?”
“Then you don’t. I can’t say or do anything to change your mind.”
“Then stop trying.”
…
A Few Days Later
Isabel was still sitting vigil at Blaine’s bed. Nothing new had happened. He hadn’t stirred or done anything. But then all of a sudden the machines started going crazy. Rapid beeping came and Isabel started screaming for a nurse.
“I’m sorry ma’am you’re going to have to step outside,” a nurse said.
Another nurse brought in defibulator pads. They started to use it on Blaine until his heart restarted.
“We have to get him to surgery.”