The Aftermath [Ben/Whisper]

[Christina "Saiya" Moore]

Saiya awoke to an annoying beeping noise, beep... beep... beep... It took her a moment to realize that the noise was coming from one of those machines that was used to monitor pulse rate. Her vision was blurry, her contacts had been removed. But from what she could see, the room was bleak and white, very white. There was a fuzzy outline of something upon the table by her bed. Saiya reached over and felt the frames of her glasses. Her parents must've been by... She put them on and the room came into sharper focus.

Saiya attempted to sit up, but a searing pain pulsed through her body, and so she laid back down, staring at the ceiling. She strained her groggy brain to try and remember what had happened... For the time being, her memory was blank. She could remember most of the details about her life, but not anything about what had happened, nor how she got there. After a few minutes it came to her. The crash. Saiya groaned feebly, then recognized the kind of room she was in. An Intensive Care Unit, which was why it was so quiet, other than the beeping noise of the heart monitor.

The door creaked open and in walked a tall, thin, blonde woman. She was wearing a bright red dress, it was only down to her mid-calves. She wore ridiculously high heels, they clicked loudly on the floor. The woman wore over-sized sunglasses and a lightweight scarf over her head. Saiya couldn't believe it, the woman was her older sister. Yes, it was her, there was no mistaking that acid green, crocodile skin handbag. The woman sat down in the chair beside her bed, grinning. "Candice?" Saiya said, voice barely above a whisper.

"Bonjour, Chrisina" said Candice, in her fake French accent, which Saiya hated, her sister was British, not French. "I 'erd about zur acciden', I took ze earliest fligh' to ze Los Angeles Airport." Saiya nodded, which sent up a pain through her neck, so she stopped rather quickly. "I cannot ztay long, but I 'anted to geev zu a gift. Zu might be needing zis when zu can drive again." said Candice, then put something on Saiya's bedside table and left quickly. They were a set of car keys. The door opened again, from her position, Saiya was barely able to see...

[Ben Adams]

Saiya's parents had called Ben's cell phone as soon as they found out about the crash. Ben had been staring at his celing, looking at nothing in particular, and thinking about nothing in particular. His phone had ruined his reverie, but he saw Saiya's name flashing on the caller ID, so he answered it. It had been her hysterical mother. She was crying. Sobbing, really. She could barely catch her breath enough to tell Ben what was going on. It took Ben half an hour to calm her down and get her to tell him what the hell was going on. Saiya's mom told him, almost too queitly to hear, that Saiya had been in a car crash. And then she'd hung up.

Ben was too upset to think straight. He had school in twenty minutes. But he grabbed his car keys and took off, yelling at his mom that he was leaving. He drove, a little recklessly, to the hospital, his heart pounding in his chest. She had to be okay. He just had to. He made it there in ten minutes flat, and he ran into the hospital lobby. He quickly lied to the woman at the counter, that his sister had just been in a crash, and she told him her room number. He ran through the hospital, to the elevator. Elevators don't move quickly enough.

Someone was coming out of her room. A woman who thought she was hot stuff. But Ben barely noticed her. He burst into the room, his chest heaving, his eyes welling up at the sight of her lying there, looking lifeless. He more slowly made his way over to her bed, taking her head. "Saiya? I'm here, okay? You're gonna be okay."

[Christina "Saiya" Moore]

Saiya heard the voice, it sounded so sweet... It took her a second to remember who it was, that beeping noise monitoring her heart rate was really annoying her... Ben. She smiled feebly, with the little stores of energy she had. For the first time in the past six, maybe ten minutes she had been awake, there was a needle in her arm. It was fed by a tube filled with blood, the tube lead to a full bag on a stand behind the table, it was half-full. O+ the bag read. Saiya turned her head, it hurt to move... Well at least she could see Ben in full now.

She didn't know the date, nor the time, for the room lacked clocks, but had its fair share of strange machines Saiya had only seen once, while being seven years old and visiting her grandfather after he'd been hit by a bus... He died, they weren't able to save him... She wasn't really sure how to respond, but Ben's words, they made all the difference...