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April fool's indeed.
Chapter 1 – The scar.
This is an alternate sequel to the Invader Johnny Story "Not So happy April fools." While he wrote a sequel to it, he allowed me to write a different sequel to it, giving it a much different ending. If you haven't read the invader Johnny story, it would help to read that one shot before reading this one.
No One's POV.
The accident was the top story on the news, beating out an earthquake in china. That a 53 year old insurance salesman with 3 previous OWI convictions drove straight into a crowded bus stop, killing 3 people and injuring 9 others.
The police said the very intoxicated driver hit the group of people, going at least 50 miles an hour.
Amongst the list of those who had died was a young high school student named Tori Vega. Horribly mangled, he was buried in a closed casket funeral 2 days later. There was not a dry eye at the funeral save for one; her girlfriend Jade West.
Instead of crying, Jade merely stared at the coffin during the service and later as it was lowered into the ground with an almost numb expression. After the funeral she wordlessly retreated into her room and stayed there, refusing all phone calls and visitors.
Her sister Trina who's refusal to drive her, lead to Tori being at the aforementioned bus stop, would have been crying, had she not suffered a nervous breakdown immediately after finding out her sister was dead.
The injured were released one by one until there was only one left in the hospital.
The only one left was a Maria Gomez, a freshmen student from Columbia studying at UCLA. Most of the nurses and doctors at the intensive care unit where she was still in a coma felt badly for the girl. She had grown up in an orphanage in Bogotá and had no family. But from all reports she was a bright and intelligent girl who through hard work qualified for a scholarship to study nursing. Besides being in a coma, she was badly injured and heavily bandaged up, leading at least one orderly call her mummy girl.
The only person who ever came to visit was a representative from the Columbian consulate who would visit every other day. The hospital requested her medical records from the orphanage the day she arrived but due to an error, they didn't arrive for a full 8 days.
They were delivered to the intensive care unit near the end of the day on a Friday where they sat in a pile of other records. The attending physician took a quick look at them, but once he realized they were in Spanish put them down meaning to have them translated later.
It was several hours later, just after 2 am when they were looked at again. The night nurse was friendly man named Hector Ramirez who was new to the ward, but well-liked by all. It was a slow night and nothing of any importance had happened. As on many nights he got bored and happened to spot the Spanish writing on the side of Maria's records.
Hector who was fluent in Spanish decided to take a look at the records and began to read through them. It was the typical detailing of a young girl growing up in an impoverished orphanage and a sad tale. The records didn't tell him anything he really needed to know and he was about to put them down when he noticed something.
It was a page near the end and caught his attention immediately.
Standing up he looked to Maria's room and walked over to the bed.
"This can't be right?" He said as he looked over the record again. Then Hector looked at a certain spot on Maria's body and scratched his head.
He promptly called for the attending physician.
"Yes Hector. Is something wrong?" Said Dr. Morgan.
"Dr. Morgan. I speak and read Spanish so I was reviewing Maria's records and there's something wrong."
"What?" Said Dr. Morgan with a slight yawn.
Hector pointed to the record. "According to this, Maria Gomez, had her appendix out when she was 14. The record is quite clear on the subject."
Dr. Morgan shrugged. "So."
"Uh….Dr. Morgan. The girl in this bed, has no appendix scar."
His expression suddenly morphing from boredom to seriousness, Dr. Morgan quickly checked and there was no appendix scar. "You're positive hector?"
Hector nodded vigorously. "Yes, the notes stated the doctor performed the operation at 5 years ago. It also states the doctor had treated Miss Gomez before and knew her."
Dr Morgan suddenly looked worried. "Hector this girl is from the bus station accident. Do you know thee ages and races of the people that died?"
"Wait I have the newspaper at the desk, hold on."
Hector ran to the desk and returned. "OK, 3 dead. 1st victim was a 37 year old African American woman, the 2nd victim was a 67 year old white male and the third was an 18 year old Hispanic girl. You don't think, they made some kind of mistake?"
Dr Morgan bit his lip nervously. "The dead girl, what was her name?"
"Uh...Victoria Vega"
Dr Morgan shook his head as his whole demeanor turned urgent, "Hector call who you need to call, get them out of bed, just get me this Vega girls medical records, NOW!"
Jade didn't sleep much lately, nor did she eat or do much of anything else. After the funeral Jade retreated to her room and stayed there. She would not come out. She turned her phone off and left it off. Destroyed by Tori's death, Jade have given up. Her parents tried to give her support, but Jade was no longer interested. Unbeknownst to them Jade had stopped eating 5 days ago. Every meal they delivered to her room she dumped in the garbage outside. They tried to talk with her and to humor them, she'd play along, but inside she wanted to die.
It was near 5 in the morning and Jade was still up. She was doing what she did every night, watch horror movies and try to decide how to kill herself. At this point she narrowed it to hanging, drinking antifreeze or cutting her wrists with her scissors.
She just wanted to be with Tori.
As she lay in bed, she heard a banging at the front door, followed by the doorbell being run over and over.
"Who in the fuck!" Cursed Jade at the 5 am disturbance. Rushing downstairs to kill whoever was at the door,she flung it open to see it was Tori's father.
Now Jade was more confused than anything. "Mr. Vega?"
Mr Vega excitedly rushed and put his hands on Jade's shoulders. "It's Tori, she's alive, she's alive. It's a miracle."
Jade heard the words but they didn't register, at first. Then her face distorted with anger. "What kind of sick joke is this?"
Mr. Vega shook his head. "No, I swear. It was a terrible mix-up after the accident. There was another girl who was the abt the same age, height, weight and she was killed. All this time Tori's been in a coma and they thought she was that girl. I can take you too her."
The realization hit Jade like a train; Tori was alive. The sudden shock of learning tori wasn't dead, combined she hadn't eaten in 5 days was too much for her. She suddenly felt her heart start to beat rapidly and she felt like everything was spinning. A second later Jade's eyes rolled up in her head as she collapsed.
The next thing Jade knew she was lying in a hospital bed with her mother sitting next to it. Looking at her arm, she noticed an IV attached to it.
As Jade tried to sit up, her mother urged her to relax. "Relax honey, the doctor said you appear not to have eaten in days, you're dangerously malnourished."
Not wanting to be away from Tori one second longer, Jade ripped the IV out of her arm and got out of bed. "Where's Tori!" She barked.
Mrs. West ran round the bed and put her hand on Jade's shoulder. "She's in intensive care, but you need to get back into bed and rest."
"NO! I WANT MY TORI NOW!" Jade bellowed as she broke free of her mother and left the room.
Oblivious to the fact that she was only wearing a pink hospital gown Jade charged into the hallway, and grabbed the first person she saw. It was middle aged doctor. "Where's intensive care. TELL ME NOW!"
The doctor immediately frowned. "Miss, you should not be charging around the hospital like a mad woman. Get back to your bed."
Jade growled and shoved the doctor to the floor. "You're fucking useless. I ought to gut you, just for pissing me off." Then using what little energy she had ran down the hallway.
Ignoring her mother's cries to stop, Jade kept going until she ran into a young blonde candystriper. Quickly grabbing the woman, Jade shoved her against the wall and glared at her. "Tell me where intensive care is now or I'll put you in it."
The young woman's eyes went wide as she suddenly went deathly pale. "Uhhh…..up two floors on the fifth floor. South end of the hospital. The elevators are just around the corner down the hall."
Jade quickly released the young woman who immediately fled. Jade determined to get to her Tori, moved towards the elevator.
As she reached the elevator and pushed the up button she heard, but didn't bother to listen to, a announcement that came over the loudspeaker. "Security please report to the 3rd floor in response of report of a deranged raven haired woman in a pink hospital gown who may have possibly escaped the psych ward. Handle the situation with care. She may be heading up to the fifth floor."
Had not Jade been so intent on reaching her Tori, she would have listened or possibly even realized she was the deranged woman who security was now looking for.
Jade got to the fifth floor and saw a sign for the Intensive care unit and followed the arrows. As she got further down the hallway towards the intensive care unit a male nurse grabbed Jade by the shoulder.
"Where are you going? Hey You're that…."
Jade without any further hesitation ran her knee straight into the nurse's crotch causing him to double over in pain.
"HELP!" He cried as she fell to the floor.
"DON'T TOUCH ME. ONLY TORI CAN TOUCH ME!" A now furious Jade screamed.
As Jade stormed down the hallway, security found the nurse who was still in pain and curled up on the floor.
"There she is! GET HER!" Jade heard from down behind her.
Looking back she saw to uniformed security guards charging down the hallway. Jade broke into a run and as she ran, spotted an empty food cart in the hallway. Jade sent it flying down the hallway where, with a mighty crash, struck both security guards sending them tumbling to the floor.
Meanwhile, sitting by Tori's bedside, David Vega heard an announcement for a code red, which was a major security incident and how a deranged and violent woman was now headed towards the intensive care unit.
David looked to Holly with a sinking feeling. "Uh…Oh…."
Holly bit her lip. "You don't think?
David rushed to the door to see a wild eyed Jade, wearing a pink hospital gown burst into the main hallway.
Before he could react a doctor ran up to her. "Hey you can't…"
That was all he got out before Jade punched him in the stomach and screamed. "I WANT MY TORI!"
Needed to defuse the situation before it really spun out of control, David ran up and grabbed Jade.
"Calm down, she's here. She's here."
At this point, 5 uniformed security men with pistols drawn, burst in behind Jade. "Apprehend her." Said one of them.
David pulled out his badge and held it up. "Don't worry men. Sergeant David Vega, LAPD, Homicide. I got this one."
He then turned to Jade with a somewhat disappointed expression "I just knew that would be you. She's in room 5. You go to her and I'll clean up the mess you've left."
Jade ran to room 5 to find Tori's mother by the bed and a very bandaged woman lying in the bed. Just looking at the figure, she knew instantly it was Tori.
Tear's burst from Jade's eyes, as she rushed to the beside. "Tori."
This will be a short story, I'm imagining it as 2 to 3 chapters. As you noticed, in Invader Johnny's sequel Tori is dead. In this one she turns up alive, due to a mistake made at the crash site.
A candy striper is a person who volunteers at the hospital doing simple tasks.