Passions Re-written

Tabitha Falls off the Dock

The scene goes back to Tabitha and Julian. He leaned her against the pillar. Him and Pilar were the only ones there. Pilar knelt down with Julian and told Tabitha "if you don't take it easy, it's going to be harder to recover." Tabitha reluctantly agreed and slumped against the pillar. Julian asked pilar if she could help Tabitha lean forward slightly, so he could put his jacket around her shoulders to try and warm her up a bit. Pilar nodded and tried to help her sit up, but she groaned in pain, and her hands flew back to her side. Pilar caught that and quickly leaned her back against the jacket. "Are you alright?" She asked. Tabitha relaxed a bit as the pain diminished slightly and replied "Yeah!...my side hurts like hell!"

Julian asked her to move her hand, so he could check on it for her. As soon as she moved her hand, he saw the blood. Pilar was talking to Tabitha so she wasn't paying attention. Julian quickly pressed his handkerchief down on her side wound. Tabitha flinched slightly but didn't notice what he did. "Tabitha, why were you and Kay walking on the pier this late at night?" Pilar asked her, while Julian continued to put pressure on her head and side. "Kay couldn't sleep...and she wanted to take a walk...I wasn't really feeling good...but I didn't want her to go alone...I didn't tell her I wasn't feeling well...Guess I should have..." Pilar stopped her quickly saying "No, this is not your fault. It was just a mere accident." Tabitha smiled and said, "thank you." Julian tried to lighten the mood by saying "Well, at least we caught you at the right time." She thanked Julian as well.

Sam and Ivy came running back towards them. They had a worried look on their faces. Sam started "The ambulance got caught with a fire, on the other side of town." Ivy whispered to Sam "is that blood on Tabitha's hands?" Sam noticed it and asked if Ivy could take Julian's place while he talked to him. He agreed and showed Ivy what to do with Tabitha's side. Once he walked ten steps away from the girls Sam asked "where is the blood coming from?" Julian let out a sigh before saying "there is a piece of the dock lodged deep into her side. She is bleeding out." Julian continued to ask "what are we going to do? since an ambulance can't make it here." Sam started "I don't know, but if she is bleeding out we NEED to get her to the hospital NOW." Pillar walked over, and asked the men "what's going on?" Sam told her the same thing he just told Julian.

Tabitha saw the concern on all their faces. She started pulling herself up, despite the dreadful pain that followed. "Hey! Hey! Tabitha, you need to stay down and relax!" Ivy pleaded. Tabitha ignored her and finally stood all the way up. She started to walk toward everyone, but before she could take two steps Ivy was already helping her. "...Thanks Ivy..." She said stopping behind them. Ivy smiled and everyone noticed that they were behind them. "Tabitha! what are you doing up? You should be taking it easy!" Julian ran to Tabitha's side. She started "...I'm fine but what are you talking about?.." They all kept quiet, so Tabitha demanded "...Somebody...please tell me what the hell is going on...Oww!" She groaned in pain and fell into Julian and Ivy's awaiting arms. "Tabitha!" He helped her stay on her feet.

Sam told her that the ambulance wasn't coming and that it wasn't getting dark, but they needed to get her to the hospital. "Well, how are we going to get there?" Ivy asked. Tabitha volunteered to walk. "NO! we need to keep you as still as possible." Sam argued. "Why? I am fine...all with just a slight side pain and headache." She retorted. Sam turned his sight to Pilar, and back. "Tabitha, the reason you are in so much pain is because there is a piece of wood in your side and you're bleeding out." Julian finally told her. Tabitha glanced down to see all the blood. "...Oh!...I see why that would be...a complication..." She tried to shift, but the blood kept pouring. Sam noticed that she was going down and watched Julian and Ivy catch her. "Tabitha? Tabitha? She is not responding. We need to get her to the hospital now!" Julian told everyone.

Kay, Miguel, and Hank said they were going to meet them there after getting changed. Julian and Sam lifted Tabitha up in their arms, while Ivy and Pilar followed close behind. They walked for ten minutes to the hospital. Once they got there, Eve ran over to them with a gurney. The two of them laid her down. They saw she was so pale and fragile. "Is she going to be alright?" Julian asked. Eve told him that she would do everything in her power.

Everyone waited in the lobby, until Eve came out, and sent them shooting up out of their chairs faster than light. "Is she alright? What happened?" They all asked. She told them that they managed to stop the bleeding, remove the piece of wood, but there were other complications and that they had to put her on life support. She wasn't able to breathe on her own. "Julian you can go in, but let's keep it at one person at a time," Eve told everyone while leading Julian to the room.

Once he opened the door; all he saw was Tabitha laying in the bed with tubes attached to help her breath. He walked over to the chair that was placed next to her bed, took her pale hand, and kissed the top of it. "I am so sorry that this happened. I promise that I will never leave your side! I love you!" All of a sudden he saw Tabitha's eyes flutter open. She tried to breathe, but the tubes were in her way. The machines started beeping rapidly. Julian ran to the door and grabbed Eve as she was already running towards the room. "Tabitha I need you to take a deep breath, so I can remove the life support. Okay?" Eve asked trying to reassure her. Tabitha inhaled one breath, and Eve took out the life support. Tabitha coughed a little but then settled back into her pillow, half awake. "...What happened?.." She asked tiredly.

Julian explained how they got her here and Eve started in about how she is currently. "Tabitha, we managed to stabilize you, fix up your side and head wound, but we found one thing that didn't make any sense." Both Julian and Tabitha looked confused. "We found a baby!" Tabitha just chuckled and thought it was a joke, but Eve kept a serious face. 'I can't be pregnant... at my age. There is no way." Julian tried to comfort her. Eve left the room.

"Tabitha? please say something?" Julian asked. She tried to move up in the bed but groaned in pain so Julian helped. "Julian, how could this happen?..We were together only that one time..." He placed a hand on her shoulder. "I don't know how it happened, but it happened. Now we have to take action. I am going to be by your side the whole time." She placed a hand on her flat stomach, while Julian took her other hand. "You are going to be a great mother." He was so hoping that she would smile. She didn't, but she did say something "How am I going to take care of the baby when I can't even walk at the marina?" Julian took something out of his pocket and showed it to her. When he held it up, it was a picture of Timmy. "This is why you will be a great mother. You had so much love for Timmy that you will have for this new baby." He gave her the picture and placed his free hand over hers, and they both thought about the baby. Will they be able to take care of the baby, and will there be a new baby girl or baby boy? Eve never did an ultrasound, so we can't be sure. I guess we'll find out.

The End For Now.