I do not own Royal Pains, nor do I have any claims on the characters, ideas, etc. Italics are people's thoughts. I don't know anything about medical stuff so some of this stuff may not be possible. I literally just made it all up. Sorry for the break between updates, I went to Florida for a week! Enjoy

What If

Chapter: 9

The women shook their heads ferociously and followed to doctor towards Evan's room. Hank walked a little behind them thinking of what else the doctors had to tell them. If he didn't want to mention it right now either it is bad, or long and hard to explain. He was really hoping for the latter.

The doctor led them to room 118 and stopped. "Alright, I would say only one at a time but I know you guys will be careful and not distress the patient, right?" Hank was about to answer the doctor and tell them that three of the four people here were medical professionals when Paige, without answering, brushed past them into Evan's room.

About to apologize for Paige's actions, they all heard a gasp. This quickly turned the three towards the room. Paige was still standing in the door way with tears in her eyes and her hand over her mouth so the others had to peek around her to see what had startled her. Doing this caused Divya to gasp too, Evan looked awful! Once to doctor knew everything was alright he turned to leave.

"Oh," he turned back towards them. "Visiting hours have already ended, just don't get caught by Head Nurse Loretta. She makes her founds at four AM when she leaves." The doctor gave the make-shift family a small smile and headed down the hallway.

Hank looked down to his watch. It's not even close to four. He sure got a surprise when he saw that it was almost three o'clock in the morning. Yikes we've really been here all night. Hank looked up to see Divya leading Paige into the room with one hand on her back.

He went to get more coffee to let the girls get some alone time with his brother. He could see from here that Evan's was alright. As much as he wanted to run into the room and never let go of Evan's hand he knew that Paige and Divya needed this.

Once Divya led Paige to the chair next to Evan's bed, and looked at Evan to make sure he was okay she settled down on the couch to give Paige a little bit of privacy.

There were still tears poring down Paige's face as she sat down and reached for Evan's uninjured hand. Sniffling she remember that first moment when she opened the door. There laid the love of her life, her soul mate looking as though he was dead. Trying not to focus on his bruised, battered, and lifeless face she looked at his elevated leg and injured ankle. Seeing that his cast was bright orange she smiled. It was almost as if Evan woke up and told them his favorite color. There was no doubt when he woke up that everyone would be forced to sign his, "battle wound."

She moved her eyes to his injured arm. It was bandaged heavily and there was a cast covering his entire arm. Unlike his leg this cast was a light purple. She laughed to herself imagining Evan waking up and freaking out upon seeing that "horrible, girly, nightmarish color."

While she was doing this Evan twitched a little in his sleep startling her and Divya. After Divya checked to make sure that it was just a dream Paige noticed that his blanket had moved off of his side. She was about to move it back when she noticed that his whole torso was wrapped tightly. She remembered the doctor saying something about his ribs but not exactly what, she was too excited after realizing that Evan was alive!

"Uh, Divya," Paige gasped with worry. Having heard the worry in Paige's words Divya leaped up immediately. Just in time to see Paige's hand covered in blood.

"Oh my Paige, what did you cut your hand on?!" Divya was shocked; there was nothing here that she could have accidentally done that on. By the amount of blood she guessed it was a pretty serious cut.

She started to walk over across the room as Paige was just sitting there looking startled and shocked, staring at her hand and then looking down at Evan repeatedly.

"Divya, this isn't my blood." Paige chocked out and then pointed at Evan's mid section that was covered by blankets. Divya quickly got to Evan's side and lifted the blankets there was blood all over the bandages covering his torso. It was starting to seep into the sheets and the blankets.

She just stood there in shock for a couple seconds before seeing Hank out of the corner of her eye. He was carrying three cups of coffee and had just arrived at the doorway. Taking in the scene before him quickly switched into doctor mode. Calmly and quickly he set the coffee down on a chair and pushed the call button. He ordered the two ladies to step back and started to examine Evan for the first time. Seeing the bright orange and purple casts brought up memories but didn't make him smirk as Paige did. A smile was the farthest thing from his mind as he watched his brother bleed in front of him.

Soon after the doctors arrived and forced the three out of the room. They watched from the hallway until the team rolled Evan out of room 118 and towards the operating rooms.

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