Chapter 14
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But here is chapter 14! Enjoy!
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It had been a couple of days and Astrid was sleeping in the chair beside Hailey's bed. Hiccup had gone to get some food and his phone rang on his way to the cafeteria. He answered it.
"Is she okay?" A female voice asked. Hiccup recognized it.
"Cami, why are you calling me?" Hiccup said.
"I heard about the accident, I want to make sure Hailey is okay." Cami said.
"She hasn't woken up yet, but she's stable. Besides you have no rights to her remember, you're not even allowed to see her." Hiccup said.
"I don't know what I did to deserve this, she's my daughter for Thor's sake." Cami said.
"Yeah, and you walked out on your daughter and me when she wasn't even a year old. Not to mention the abuse you gave her when she would visit. Stay away from the hospital and her, or I will call the cops on you." Hiccup said and hung up. He walked the rest of the way to the hospital cafeteria and got the most appetizing looking food. He went back to the room and put the food on a table. He kissed Astrid's head and she opened her eyes.
"Hey." She said.
"Hey, I brought you some food." Hiccup said and handed her one of the take-out boxes. Astrid took it and opened it and started to eat.
"Cami called asking about Hailey." Hiccup said.
"When is she gonna give it a rest. You have full custody, she can't do anything about it now." Astrid said.
"I don't know. I told her if she tries coming here or anywhere near Hailey I'll call the cops on her." Hiccup said.
They finished their food and sat in Hailey's room waiting. It was a little later in the day and they heard a small groan. They looked up at Hailey and saw her face scrunch and her eyes flutter open. They were both on one side of her.
"Daddy..." Hailey said softly seeing Hiccup come into her vision.
"Hey, sweetie." Hiccup said and kissed her head. Hailey reached to touch the oxygen tube in her nose. "Don't touch it, you need to keep it in."
"It feels funny." Hailey said. Hiccup buzzed for a nurse and told her Hailey was awake and the nurse went to get the doctor.
"I know it does, but it's helping you breathe." Hiccup told his daughter.
The doctor came in and started to talk to Hiccup and Astrid.
"She has a broken wrist, a broken leg, some cuts, and bruises, and she had some internal bleeding which was what the surgery was for, we stopped it and she's fine now. I'll give her stitches a check and her lungs and if she's breathing fine on her own we can take the oxygen off." The doctor said.
"Okay, thank you." Hiccup said. "Healing time?"
"4 - 6 weeks for the broken bones. A week or so for the stitches, the cuts and bruises will heal on there own. But she might need some physical therapy. She's little and her bones are still growing, so if we can strengthen them, it would help with the healing process." The doctor said. Hiccup nodded.
The doctor left them with Hailey. Hailey was still kind of out of it. Hiccup looked at Astrid.
"I don't know how we're going to afford all of this. I mean we have insurance, but they'll only help for so much." Hiccup said. Astrid nodded.
"I know. But we'll figure it out." Astrid said.
She felt horrible, the car was wrecked in the accident and they had to either get it fixed or get a new one, and now they had a bunch of hospital bills, which they'll have more and now other medical bills for Hailey's therapy. They also had a baby to get ready for and the apartment wasn't big enough for the three of them and a baby.
Later that day the doctor checked Hailey over and they took off the oxygen tube and heart monitor and other tubes and wires. They left her IV in though since it helped give her fluids.
After a few more days they were able to take Hailey home. Hiccup brought her in her wheelchair and into the living and put her in her bed. They moved her bed to the living room for the time being, so she could watch TV and it would be easier to get her around. Toothless hopped onto the bed and started licking Hailey. Hailey giggled.
"I missed you too, Toothless." She said. Toothless curled up beside her on the bed and Hiccup turned the TV on and put on Hailey's favorite show. He went to the kitchen where Astrid was making something to eat. He picked up the stack of mail that had come while they'd been at the hospital. He started ripping them open and divided up the bills and how much they had, including all the medical bills now and a car.
Hiccup sighed. "I'm going to have to pick up more shifts at work." He said writing all the amounts of bills down for the month. He added rent and groceries and there wasn't much wiggle room.
Astrid went to the bedroom and picked up her phone she dialed a number and waited for an answer.
"Hello, Mr. Hofferson's office, how may I help you?" a friendly, female voice said.
"Hey Mary, it's Astrid, can I talk to my dad please." Astrid said.
"Sure, let me connect you." Mary said and transferred the call.
"Hello?" A male voice said.
"Hi, dad. It's Astrid." Astrid said.
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Leaving you on a cliffhanger cause I want too and not quite sure what to do next.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Hoping I can update soon.
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