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I was now in a room. Liams dad was stood over my body with a disappointed look as he sat holding my hand looking into the surgeons eyes for or sort of hope.
Oh god dad. He looks mortified.
"I'm sorry, but the chances of her survival rates are unpredictable. She was shot three times and we think there may have been some internal bleeding, we did our best and managed to stop it. She suffered a brain bleed but we managed to contain it. But wether she wakes up or not, is on her."
I watched the surgeon talk about me as my body was there with tubes attached all around. Oh my god what if they shaved my head?!
"Your main concern is wether your head was shaved?!" Aiden scoffed shaking his head.
"Don't read my mind." I shoved him a little.
Dad placed his head in his hands trying to contain his emotions but he grabbed my hand placing it against his lips. I could feel it.
"There's one more thing." Liams dad brought up and he had these forms in his hand. "Maxine signed a form from when she was last here, it was a DNR form."
"She didn't want you to resuscitate." Dad guessed and the surgeon slowly nodded slowly exhaling.
"I'm sorry we did what we could. It's up to your daughter" Liams dad apologised and I stared at my dad as the tears had started to form in his eyes.
"I should call my son."
"There's people waiting outside for you." Brett told me and he held out his hand waiting for me to take it. I walked out with him through the walls and into the waiting area.
"You finally got with him only to put yourself on a break." Aiden summarised and I rolled my eyes as the three of us stared down at Scott.
"You've been watching over me?"
"You think I wouldn't?"
"Hang on wait wait, my death had that much of an effect?" Brett said proud. "Okay shut the fuck up. Both of you."
We stared down at Scott as I knew he listened in to what the surgeon was saying and I turned to see Liam sat down on the hospital floor in the hallway.
"Plus he just kissed Malia so he probably feels really crap right now." I realised and I look at the surprised looks on their faces.
"Scott? Do that to you? Damn." Aiden commented and I let out a laugh nodding.
"Yeah I sure would've though it was something either of you would do." I commented and they both looked at me confused.
"What?" They both said together and I turned to look at the both of them.
"Okay first of all you hooked up with my best friend whilst falling love with me. And you, well you swing both ways and your really hot. And private school boy equals whore."
"I mean I never knew you were the one to follow stereotypes-"
"Shut up Preppy." I stopped him from talking as Scott spoke.
"Oh god." Scott sunk his head down low and I immediately crouched down placing my hands on his but they just fell through. Right? I'm a ghost right now.
Malia came to sit down next to him and she tried reaching out for his hand but he pushed it away. He looked up at her shaking his head.
"You shouldn't."
"Yeah, yeah your right." I saw the pain in her eyes and I felt bad. Crap.
Oh they must feel bad considering I walked in on them kissing not so long ago.
"They don't know if she's going to wake up." His voice broke and I saw the distraught in his eyes. "She's DNR."
"Malia I can't lose her." She just nodded pulling him into a hug and as much as I hated her right now I also liked that she was there.
"I'm guessing someone else is kinda feeling crap." Aiden turned his head towards Liam and he had his head hung down low.
"Anger issues looks...not angry, for once." Brett commented as he turned around and I turned to face Liam listening into what Scott had said and he immediately ran away looking furious.
"Don't talk about your boyfriend like that Preppy. Address him by his name"
"Not my boyfriend."
Seriously who was he trying to convince.
"Liam wait." I called out chasing after him only to realise that he couldn't hear me. I ran after him following him into the hallway as I saw him continiously punching the vending machine until the glass smashed.
"I'd stop that if I was you." I heard Theo behind him and I looked to see him by Liam. "Liam!" Theo pulled him away as his knuckles didn't stop bleeding.
"They don't think she's gonna make it." Liam had his head down as he was masking his sadness with anger.
"What?" Theo was surprised to hear and I looked at the shock on his face. "She might die." Liams voice croaked.
"No she can't." Theo shook his head trying to let out a laugh. "It's her choice. Wether she wants to live or not. That's what my dad said to the sheriff."
"No it's Max. There's no way." Theo didn't want to believe it and I'm surprised he even cared this much. "If she dies..."
"I get it." Theo nodded and Liam grew more angry. "No you don't!" He snapped.
"Max she...she loves me. Even when I'm angry, when everyone is afraid of me, she isn't. She, she controls me and saves me and you can't understand that!"
"Believe it or not, she saved my ass from being homeless. When no one wanted to help she did."
"My house by the way? You let your one night stand stay at my house?" Aiden criticised and I gave him the are you serious look.
"Shut up, it's not like he's staying there forever."
"I can't do this without her." Liam said and I stared at him my chest immediately feeling heavy.
"You still thinking dying is a good thing?" I turned to see Brett standing there next to Aiden and I nodded. "If it's my time to go, then I'm going."
"It's not Max. It's not your time." Aiden shook his head and I don't care what he said. There was no way I'm surviving through this.
"It is!"
It has to be. Because if I wanted to live right now. I would be awake.
~
"Max, look." Aiden pointed and I looked to see Scott talking to Malia.
"I found the one girl I've always wanted. And now she's close to slipping away."
"I can't comfort you. I'm sorry." Malia bluntly said and I couldn't help but laugh to how straight up she was.
"I um- I have to update Isaac, he's on the plane right now. And text stiles." Scott placed his fingers on his temples rubbing them as he stared down at his shaking hand holding his phone. Oh god. Oh fuck.
"Fuck, Stiles. Oh my god Stiles. And Isaac. Oh my god Harry. I'm never going to see them again." Holy crap. I'm not gonna see my best friends anymore.
"You are, they're just not going to see you." Aiden told me and Brett stood there nodding along. "And Lydia."
Oh crap. Oh no, Lydia. If there's one person in this entire world I'm keeping, it's my soulmate.
"She's in the hospital if you want to see her?" Brett asked and I looked at them confused.
"Was she shot?" I asked and they both nodded and that's when I immediately ran through the corridors of the hospital racing to her hospital room and I walked to the straight through the door to see her awake.
"Lydia, please listen to me." I tried placing my hand onto her and I could touch her! Holy shit! I could touch her.
God I'm thankful she has connections to ghosts and dead people or whatever.
Her eyes immediately widened and she was looking at me. "You can see me?"
"Why are your hands so cold?" She managed to breath through her breathing ventilator and she could actually feel me.
"Hi." I cried out clasping onto her hand. "Are you dying?" She asked and I ignored her question as I quickly had to say what I needed to.
"I love you so much. Okay? Lydia I freaking love you. You have to tell Scott, you have to tell him I love him. I never got to say it. You have to tell him I never ever hated him. That's a lie, I have hated him but tell him it's okay, even though I hate him right now.
And my dad, oh my god my dad, please tell him if it's anyone who's finishing his licour it's me because I'm taking it in my grave."
Tears we're streaming down my face and I could feel my body getting weaker by the second.
Lydia let a tear slip down and I nodded as I gripped onto her hand with both of mine placing my lips softly on her hands.
"Thankyou for loving my brother. Thankyou for loving me."
"Max, listen to me, you can't die on me." Lydia cried out but I immediately lost contact with her as soon as someone walked into the room. A nurse came to fill Lydias tube with a sedative and that's when she immediately drifted back of into her sleep.
"No, I need more time." I pleaded trying to grab Lydias hand but I couldn't feel it anymore.
"Come on. Let's take you back."
~
"They almost died. I meant Max...they don't even know about Max."
I stood meters away from my dad and Scott talking staring at the entire conversation.
"They're gonna live." Dad refused to live through the idea that I want to go.
"We're gonna have two deputies here posted around the clock. Parrish is guarding Max's door at all times. No one sets a foot on this floor without my authorisation."
I turned my head to Brett and Aiden as I heard the anger in my voice feeling my chest sink down. "My dad-"
"Thinks your gonna live." Aiden said and I shook my head as I cried into my hands. "I can feel myself getting weaker."
"Because you didn't fight from the start." Brett told me and I shook my head. "You don't think I'm trying? I don't know how."
~
I was immediately brought back into my room and I had seen my dad sat on one side and on the other was Scott, burying his face in my hand and I walked over to him staring down at him.
"We met up with Duecalian. We don't have long till we meet up with Peter. We're trying to make alliances." Scott spoke softly as he held my hand throughout his words squeezing it tightly.
"Liam, he wants to come see you but he's trying to find out who did this to you. So is your dad."
He had dropped into the hospital to check up on me but he was busy the entire day trying to save people.
Not that I expected anything less.
"I love you Maxine. I mean your the one girl who managed to bring out the hell in me. And your the girl who saved me from it. I've never been more annoyed at a person than I have at you." He let out a painful laugh and I looked at him seeing the pain in his eyes.
"Max you can not leave. You can't go okay? Please wake up, please."
I kneeled on the ground levelling to him and I couldn't hold his hand. I couldn't do anything.
"Im sorry. Scotty I'm sorry. Im sorry."
"She's still not awake?"
Oh my god! Oh my god, he really flew all the way here? Fuck I wanna hug him. He's wearing the scarf I bought him!
Scott lifted his head up to view Isaac stood there, his eyes almost as red as Scott's from crying. Scott stood up walking over to Isaac and Isaac hugged him for a moment and then placed his eyes on Harry.
"Is she okay?" Oh my god! Seriously! The worst time to be dying. They all didn't answer his question staying in complete silence.
"No I'm perfectly fine and not on the verge of dying British boy."
"Cut the boy some slack." Aiden defended and I just rolled my eyes at him. " I'm to stressed to cut some slack lover boy."
"I'm Harry." He placed out his hand cutely waiting for Scott to shake it and he did. "Yeah I figured."
Okay this was probably the wrong moment to be introduced since I'm unconscious and not here to make an awkward comment.
"So this is Harry? Damn you have taste." Brett told me and I glared over at him. "Not the time preppy."
"He's not wrong." Aiden agreed and I rolled my eyes at them. "You too lover boy."
"She's going to be okay, right?" Harry asked and the room was still silent as no one answered.
"I'll let you guys talk. I have a former phsycotic alpha I have to talk to" Scott told them and Isaac looked at him confused.
"Peter?" Isaac questioned and Scott nodded. "Yeah, I'll catch you up if there's time." Scott told him patting his back.
"There's hunters in Paris too." Isaac told him and Scott looked at him wide eyed. "Then we definitely have to talk."
"I'm going to be sick." Harry sprinted out to the bathroom dipping his head in the toilet and I couldn't help but laugh.
Wrong time to laugh.
God I'm broken.
"Maybe I'll finally get to introduce Malia and Harry. And then she can get away from Scott." I said getting excited.
"Actually, you won't. Because your choosing to die." Aidens right. But I'm not choosing death I just don't know how to get back.
Isaac walked towards me as he placed his hand intop of mine and I lightly sighed as I stared towards him.
"I wore your stupid scarf." Was the first words that left his mouth and I immediately laughed.
"Looks great Lahey."
"Please try not dying. I'd kinda hate that Stilinski. Your kinda the only family I have left."
"Plus your the only one who laughs at my trauma jokes." Isaac added on and my heart sunk to my stomach.
I looked towards the bathroom door to see Harry walking out and he sat down on the seat next to him staring at me.
"Your boyfriend looks like he hates me. I mean he shouldn't be threatened. He's an alpha." Harry let out a painful laugh and I couldn't help but laugh along.
"Your British, it levels out."
"Oh, oh now I remember what I was going to say. Well there's like fifty things...sorry I'm getting distracted." Harry rushed through his words and I grinned looking at the nervous reck.
"It's okay." I tried to encourage.
"I was on the plane and there was turbulence again. All I could think about was how much you calmed me last time. K-kinda stupid because right now your the only thing that's not making me calm. I mean yesterday you were fine, you called me and you were okay, your supposed to be okay-"
"Harry. Harry that's enough." Isaac stopped him as his eyes were filled with tears and he used his sleeve to wipe them away.
"Shes meant to be okay." His voice broke and he stood up pacing around the room.
"Hey get some water." Isaac advised and he took it walking out trying to gather himself.
"Damn Stilinski. You really think your gonna win. Get everyone to break huh?"
Isaac let out a laugh as he squeezed my hand tightly and I placed my hand on his shoulder.
"Shut up Lahey."
"I know you can hear me. Your not gonna break me." He shook his head continuously.
"I mean I was abused for years. And I got through that....to be honest I'm kinda crap at this, that was the worse reference I've used. I don't even know what I'm saying. Just wake up, your my only source for gossip in Beacon. I'm not really a people person." Isaacs head hung low as I felt the grip he had on my hand.
"Just wake up." He slowly breathed and I looked back at Brett and Aiden. "I can't Lahey."
"Still think it's okay to leave them?" Brett turned his head to me raising his eyes with a sorrowful look and I could feel my eyes watering by the second.
"But I'm with you guys now." I tried containing my voice knowing that it just hurt more to talk. "You want to live." Aiden smiled at me and I shook my head.
"Yeah but somethings holding me back. And no. No no I'm finally with you. I can't leave you guys. I don't want to leave-"
"Max." Aiden stopped my words and I bit my lip holding back my tears.
"I don't know."
~
"Come on kid. I know your awake in there."
Dad sounded so tired. He had been sat here for hours in silence.
"You know I saw your mother like this." Dads voice broke and I sat on the bed staring at him.
"When you freak out. When your going crazy, or talking a bunch of crap it brings me joy because you look exactly like your mother." Dad talked to me still clutching onto my hand.
"Yeah well I bet I'm just as pretty as her too." I mumbled but I was only talking to myself.
"Stiles wanted to come see you. But I know you'd hate if he spent his money on you."
Good
"So he told me to play this to you." Dad pulled out his phone and I saw the voice message left on his phone.
"Listen max, get your weak ass up right now, we all know you love the attention. And...I-I love you asshat. Okay? I love you."
His voice croaked halfway through that message and that's when I broke. Hearing my brother.
I love you too mischief.
"I want to wake up." I admitted looking at Aiden and Brett. "My brother needs me." I cried as I ran to the pair who stood there with their arms folded.
"You can't." Aiden told me and I stared at him confused.
"Why can't I wake up?"
Before I could answer there was a knock on the door and I turned my head seeing Liam at the window.
"Sorry sheriff do you think I could..." Liam trailed of and dad nodded standing up.
"I could use a coffee anyway kid." Dad said wiping his tears away standing up letting go of my hand.
"M-Max. I almost killed someone today." Liam broke to me and I never heard him sound this bad.
"It's fine, I expected it baby face."
"I can't hold back without you. You get me. You always got me, Max you always did. Please push through this, please? For me." He sobbed hetting all his tears on my blanket and I tried my best to touch him.
"I can't do it." Liam tried his best holding his emotions out shaking his head and that's when Lydia walked in and he turned his head to her but ignored her.
But she wasn't focused on him. She was focused on me. I mean me. She stared at me, not my body. Me? Can she see me?
She looked straight at me not breaking eye contact but she grabbed my body's hands and that's when she froze.
"Max?" She stared at me and i was confused. She was addressing me?
"Lyds?" I looked at her but then her body was on the chair. There were two fo her like there were two of me.
"How the fuck did you recover so fast?" I ran into her arms laughing out of happines but also crying into her arms.
"You can see me right? You can see me?" Lydia asked whilst squeezing me. "Yeah! You look crap but yeah. Not that I look any better-"
"Why aren't you waking up?" She asked and I looked back at Brett and Aiden. "Do you see them?" I asked her and she shook her head.
"Who?"
"You can't even see Aiden?" I asked her and she shook her head. "No, I can only see you."
Aiden stood there as if he expected this and I stared at him confused.
"Why can't I wake up?" I stormed up to the two of them and they sighed as they stared at my body.
"Because you have to want to wake up."
"I do want to!" I yelled and Brett shook his head. "You have to want to wake up for yourself. Not for anyone else."
"Max? Max who are you talking to?" Lydia asked and I turned to her tears running down my face and the stupid lump in my throat.
"Brett and Aiden. I know...weird I can see them. And hold them. But you cant."
"That's concerning since they're dead." She muttered to herself and I drifted away from that point.
"I can't wake up." I yelled out and she looked at me confused.
"Max? Max why can I see you anymore?"
"I don't know!" I screamed and I let go of her hand but the moment I did the machines started going of.
"What's going on?!" I yelled at Brett and Liam and I could feel my self starting to become lighter.
"Your hearts starting fail." Aiden pointed and I looked at the machine beeping as my heart rate decreased.
"We need a doctor!" Liam ran out of the room yelling and that's when I saw dad storm in and right behind him was Scott.
"Dad! Dad come on. Save her!" Liam pulled his dads arm but he was calm.
"Why aren't you doing anything?" Liam scolded his dad and Scott walked up to me placing his hand on mine and my dad walked in to sit next to me.
"Why's no one doing anything?!" Liam yelled out and I looked towards Lydia who figured it out. "She's DNR."
"What does that mean?!" Liam growled and Scott squeezed my hand tighter.
"It means she has to fight it, or she dies."
"I don't want to go! I don't want to go! I can't leave them!" I screamed at Brett and Aiden and they both looked at me with sympathy.
"Fight it Max." Brett said and I stood over my body and the machine still showed I was failing.
No, no I'm not leaving. I climbed over my body and I was doing cpr on myself.
"You think it's gonna work?" Aiden stood on one side and Brett stood on the other as I was doing chest compressions on myself.
"The fact that your questioning it makes me question it! So lover boy, I really do love you but shut the hell up."
"I forgot how pissed you get."
"Just give her a minute." Brett told him and I pushed through it not stopping and then the machine stopped beeping rapidly going at a constant.
"Okay, she's good. Her BP's stable for now." Liams dad announced and everyone let out a huge breath of relief including me.
"She fought." Lydia said with a smile on her face.
"She's a fighter." Dad held my hand as he commented it and I looked around at everyone in the room.
"I did it!" I fisted bith my hands in the air.
"Suck on that!"
"Okay instead of celebrating, figure out how to go back." Aiden told me and I groaned.
"I just preformed CPR on myself! Give me a moment."
"Why aren't you guys trying to help me! Isn't that why you were sent?!"
"Actually no I volunteered." Aiden raised his hand and I shoved him a little. "Shut up, lover boy."
"I may be dead but that still hurts."
"Yeah her little digs hurt like a bitch." Brett commented and I groaned rolling my eyes at the both of them.
"Grieving about you guys made me forget how fucking annoying you both are."
"Max, come back for you." Brett told me and I didn't know how to do that because I wanted to come back for Liam, for Stiles, Lydia. My dad. For Scott.
"What if I can't."
"Then we can't help you." Aiden sighed as he looked down at me.
"Maybe you idiots are just lazy."