SAM POV 

Nick was in the ambulance, An oxygen mask on him, probably with a lot of bruises and the way he couldn't breathe meant he had a broken a rib or two. It could mean a collapsed lung. We also had him on a backboard so if his back was injured it wouldn't be more hurt by the movement.   We reached the hospital and quickly got him out and into a trauma bay. 

'"Let's get him on a monitor, call me an ultrasound, and take him for a CT after a complete exam for bruises. Everyone move now." I said. The nurses got him on a monitor, someone went to get me a portable ultrasound. I went to his neck to check for spinal injuries. He passed out probably cause of the pain but I couldn't give him pain meds until I knew everything. I quickly checked him out and he was all clear. They got him attached to a monitor. 

"Dr. Radford, his knee is swollen." A resident said. 

"Get me an X-ray for that." I cut off his pants, and started examining his knee it was swollen badly and me and the resident started examining for other injuries. 

He woke up. 

"Dad, I'm sorry." 

"You have nothing to be sorry for Nick, I've got you, You're okay, You'll be alright." 

"Everything hurts Dad." 

"I'll get you meds for that, just let me complete the exam okay you'll be fine." 

"I love you Dad and tell Di I love her too." 

"You'll tell her yourself later." 

We finished the exam, and he had a lot of bruises, we stitched some up and cleaned some up. His X-ray showed a torn ACL which meant surgery. His MRI just confirmed the torn ACL nothing more. We got him into surgery and I sat in the waiting room, not being allowed to go any further. 

"Sam, Are you okay? I just heard."   James asked as he came in. 

'I'm fine yeah." I said 

"I know you're not but how's nick?" 

"Torn ACL, A lot of bruises that we stitched and cleaned." 

"He'll be fine Sam." 

"I know, but I'm just angry and I wanna kill those people who did this to him." 

"I know you're angry and that's fine." Suddenly, His phone rang. 

"It's diana." 

"Fuck, I didn't tell her, and I left my phone in the ambulance maybe." 

"Talk to her, I'll go and get her." 

"Thank you."

"Keep my phone with you, I'll just get her quick." 

I answered. 

"Hey Di." 

"Dad, why aren't you picking up? Is nick okay? My friends are saying he's hurt." 

"James' coming to get you here,  he's a friend of mine, and Nick is hurt kinda badly but he'll be okay and so will you so just come here with him. I'll tell you everything." 

"Is he fine like right now?" Her voice was breaking. 

"He's in surgery but he'll be fine." 

"Take care of him please." She was crying now and I knew it was getting hard for her to breathe. 

"I will, and calm down and focus on your breathing. 4,7, 8 okay? He's okay." 

"Yeah." Her breathing was getting fast.

"Alright, inhale, 1,2,3,4." I waited for her to follow. 

"Hold, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, And exhale 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. We did this a few more times. I could hear her calming down slowly. 

Then, she hung up cause James was there. 

The surgeon came out later. I only knew his last name.

"Dr. Radford, hey what are you doing here?" He asked. 

"The torn ACL, that's my son. Is he okay?" I asked. 

"I'm so sorry, and yeah the surgery went good, the recovery's gonna be demanding as you know but he can do it, he's a strong kid. " He said. 

"Thank you." I said. He nodded and went out. I went to the nurses' station to find out where he was. He was in the ICU. I went there and Nick was attached to all these wires and tubes. They still had him intubated. 

A nurse called me outside to tell me that Bradley was here. I told her to tell him I was on the ICU floor. 

After a few minutes, I saw Diana, she ran up to me and hugged me tight. She had been crying, Her eyes were all red and cheeks swollen. 

"He's okay Dia, Don't worry." 

"I want to see him. Can I?" 

"Yeah sure, but he isn't awake and is attached to everything." 

"Just take me there please." She was crying again as soon as we reached there. 

"I'm so sorry Nick, I failed you as a  sister."

My heart broke as she said that. She hadn't. She was the best sister a brother could ask her. 

"You didn't Dia, he's going to be fine, none of this is your fault."

"I should've protected him dad, I'm his big sister, it's my job, it's my fault this happened. She said crying again and I hugged her. 

She let go and just fell into my arms her legs gave out cause of the crying. 

"It's okay, he's going to be fine." I kept repeating to her. 

Suddenly, all the monitors started beeping. His heart had stopped.