Meant to be

Chapter 53: Part One

July 28th, 2021
The car
Allys Pov

Today Ben was going to take me on a 'little surprise vacation' because the kids were going to be at their grandparents house for the weekend. Ben and I don't really get much alone time anymore since we have two little kiddos running around all the time and are about to have three, so it was nice to finally just be together by ourselves without having to change diapers, clean bottles, or spit up, just like old times.

(btw we're pretending Meghan is 7 months preggo and that in the last chapter she was wearing baggy clothes so she didn't show)

"You excited?" Ben asked as we got back in the car. "Yeah, but I miss the kids." I said, a laugh escaping my lips. He smiled, "I do too, but at least we'll see them again tomorrow afternoon." he said. I smiled.

"So what should we name this little kiddo?" I asked, rubbing my stomach. "We haven't even found out the gender yet." Ben said, focusing on the road, not wanting to repeat his little accident he had about two years ago. I smiled, "Yeah, but it's just fun picking names." I said. He chuckled. "Well obviously we have to name it with an E, everyone would go crazy if we decided on something that didn't start with E." he said. I laughed, "What about Elizabeth?" he said. "We're not naming our kid after a historical figure/character from a broadway show." I said.

He laughed, "We named Danny after Davey from Newsies." he said. "That's different, first of all you played Davey! Second of all it's his middle name not his first." I said. He sighed, "Ooh wht about Ethan for a gboy and E-."

I turned back to the road. A car stopped in the middle of the street.

Bens Pov

I opened my eyes to airbags hitting my face. I could feel blood dripping down my forehead, I turned over to the passengers seat. There was glass there, Ally wasn't there. That's when I saw her. She went through the windshield. "Ally.. Ally, ALLY!" I yelled while getting out of the car.

"Ally! Oh, g-" I said. The guy got out of his truck. "Help me! I need an ambulance! Call 911! Go!" I yelled. The guy ran back to his truck and got his phone.

-at the hospital-

The ambulance stopped at a hospital. The paramedics got out. "We got a multiple blunt trauma. Tachycardic and hypotensive en route. Obvious head and chest injuries." A paramedic said as they wheeled Ally out of the ambulance. "What's the patients name?" A doctor asked.

"Allison Fankhauser, she's 29 years old and has no previous medical conditions. She's also 24 weeks pregnant." a paramedic answered. "She's hemorrhaging." a doctor said. "Wait- wait hold on! Is that blood coming from her chest?" another doctor asked. "o- Oh, honey we're gonna fix you up just fine." A doctor said, taking Allys hand. "She lost a lot of blood." a doctor said. Their voices were fading.

They rushed her into an operating room and told me to wait in the waiting room.

-after her surgery-

"She has a depressed skull fracture and a brain bleed. There is a fetal heartbeat so the baby is alive but there's a chance they won't make it. She needed a central line and there was a lot of blood in the right upper quadrant of her chest. She went into V-fib and we had to start CPR." A doctor said to Kara and I.

Another doctor came up to us, "She had some contractions during surgery but we can't deliver the baby until she's more stable so they had to do a temporary abdominal closure and we took her to the I.C.U. We've brought a fetal surgeon from Los Angeles just in case we have to deliver the baby early." she said. "She has a hole in her heart which we need to fix with bypass- which would also need a lot of heparin." the first doctor said.

-a couple minutes later-

"So you think she'd have a better chance of living if you deliver the baby now?" I asked. "Allys cardiovascular status could be improved but we just need to know-" the doctor got cut off by Kara, "what we'd want to do." she said. "No, what Ally would want us to do." I said. "Why are we even talking about the baby?" Kara said. I was shocked, "Oh my g- Did- Did you just say that?" I said. "No, I'm saying we give Ally the best shot she can get." Kara said. "Ally wants the baby!" I said. "Ally wants to live." Kara said. Jeremy cut in, "We all want her to live, but what's her life going to be like if she wakes up and her baby is gone?" he said.

Kara sighed, "What's her life going to be like if she's dead?!" she said. "It's not that simple Kara." Ashley said, holding Clara. "It is. I don't like it. It's horrible! But it is that simple! You can have another baby but you can't have another Ally!" She yelled. I walked away.

A doctor found me in another room. We talked for a while, trying to come up with a plan to keep both Ally and the baby safe. "She's going back into the O.R tomorrow, but we won't know whether or not to deliver the baby until we go back in." he said to Kara mostly but to the rest of the group as well. "We can take Carolynn and Danny for the night if you'd like." Corey said. "It's fine. They're at their grandparents house until tomorrow." I said. "Okay, well see you tomorrow." he said. "Bye."