A/N: Last chapter now for this story. I'm quite sad that it's all ending, but, like I said, I intend on making a sequel about the adventures they get up to, eventually. I might write an angsty one about them when I'm done with this. But it won't follow on from this fic. :(
Let's see how it ends, shall we?
Chapter 6
Drake was speeding down the road towards the hospital, occasionally glancing over at his little sister, Megan, who was clutching her bleeding hand, crying softly.
He dialed his mom's number again on his cell. But again it rang through to answer-phone. Like he did before, and the other 4 times he had rang her in the last 2 minutes, he left her an urgent voicemail.
"Mom, when you get this message, make your way to St Schneider's hospital (this was the actual name of the hospital in the D&J TV show) and call me back."
He furiously shoved his phone back into his pocket, before checking on Megan again.
"You hangin in there?" he asked her, trying to make her feel a bit better.
Megan just nodded her head, for fear of starting to bawl if she opened her mouth.
Drake swerved in front of the hospital, coming to a complete stop against the sidewalk outside.
"Hey," a voice called over to him.
A young Jamaican man, dressed as a nurse jogged over to him from a little way down the road.
"You can't park there, you'll get a ticket!" he exclaimed.
"Do I look like a give a shit?" Drake asked angrily as he lifted Megan from the car and ran, with her in his arms, towards the hospital entrance, blood smearing on his t-shirt, adding to the blood that was already there from the first time he picked her up.
The man just stood there in shock. Seeing as the teen leaving the car had an emergency to attend to, he just stood by the car to make sure the boy wasn't given a parking ticket.
Drake rushed through the hospital doors, slightly regretting the way he spoke to the man outside, who was only trying to help. As he reached the reception desk, Drake informed the receptionist of the situation.
"My little sister's got glass stuck in her hand and it's bleeding everywhere!" he said, making sure the receptionist heard the urgency in his voice.
He didn't even bother examining her to see how 'hot' she was. He was more concerned about the pain that his sister was in.
The receptionist looked over the desk at Megan, who nuzzled her face deeper into the crook of her brother's neck, so that no one could see her cry. The new t-shirt that she had bought at the mall with Drake that very same day, was now dripping with her crimson red blood.
Drake didn't care that the new shoes he bought today, were currently absorbing the blood dripping from the bundle in his arms that he called his sister.
The receptionist took Megan's details from Drake before typing them into the computer in front of her.
After, what seemed to Drake and Megan like an agonizingly long wait but was actually only 30 seconds, the receptionist instructed them to take a seat in the waiting area.
Followed by "The doctor will see you shortly."
Drake was fuming.
Wait? He thought to himself. Wait? How could she be so blind as to not be able to see that this is an emergency?
Suddenly he felt a light tug at his t-shirt. He quickly turned his attention from the receptionist to Megan, his expression softening as he did so.
She had grabbed what little she could of his blood-stained t-shirt with her right hand, tugging on it to urge him to sit in the waiting area.
He sighed, turned round and walked towards the waiting area without looking back at the receptionist. Once there, he set Megan down on a chair and took the one next to her for himself, carefully avoiding her hand as he sat down.
Megan leant her head against Drake's arm. She had cried herself dry and now her hand was just insanely painful. The two sat there in silence, waiting for the doctor to call them through.
After a few minutes, the doctor came round the corner.
"Megan Parker?" he called out around the room.
Drake stood up and raised his hand a little so that the doctor could see them. Megan stood up behind her brother as quickly as she could. The two walked towards the doctor. Megan grabbed Drake's hand with her none injured one just before they got there and Drake responded by giving her a gentle but reassuring squeeze.
The doctor smiled before leading them to a small room, just down the corridor. Once inside he told them to take a seat.
Megan sat in the chair directly in front of the doctor, whilst Drake sat in the chair slightly behind and to the right of Megan's. She quickly turned round to look at Drake. When she did he gave her a small smile and a nod to say that everything would be OK.
The doctor handed them both some wipes to clean up some of the blood that they were both covered in.
After they had cleaned themselves up as best they could, the doctor asked to see Megan's hand. She reluctantly showed him after having a quick glance at Drake, who gave her another reassuring nod.
The doctor saw this but chose to say nothing. After having a good look at her hand, he turned to talk to them both.
"This should be an easy enough job," he commented "I won't even need to put you under."
Megan sighed in relief at how easy it was going to be to get the glass out of her hand.
"I can even do it here if you like." He said, pulling a white rubber glove onto his hand.
She nodded eagerly, wanting to get it out as soon as possible.
"Can Drake stay?" she asked, so quietly that the doctor almost didn't hear her.
"Of course he can!" the doctor replied with a smile before looking at Drake.
Drake smiled back at him just as Megan grabbed his left hand with her right, holding tightly onto it like it was a lifeline.
The doctor then picked up some tweezers and asked Megan to put her hand on the cloth-covered table in front of her. She did as she was told. The doctor put his free hand gently on the ends of Megan's fingers, to keep her hand steady.
"This may sting a little." The doctor said.
Megan squeezed Drake's hand, bracing herself for the pain.
As the doctor pulled each little piece of glass out of her hand, Megan's grip on Drake's hand got tighter. Drake didn't realize how strong his little sister was, but he decided to grit his teeth and bare it because she was probably in a lot more pain than he was right now.
Finally, the doctor finished removing all of the glass. He then told her to wash the blood off of her hands in the sink, using the disinfectant soap, while he went and disposed of the glass. The doctor left the room and Megan did as instructed. She hissed as the soap stung her cuts, but straight away a pair of strong arms wrapped themselves around her, calming her down.
When she was finished, she turned back round to Drake, who had returned to his seat. She spun her chair round so she was sitting opposite him.
"Drake?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah?" he responded, equally as quietly.
"You remember that money I borrowed off you this morning?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well…" Megan started to say, working out in her head the best way to say it. "…I used it, and some more of my own, to get you this when we were at the mall today."
She pulled a little box out of her pocket, that she retrieved from one of the bags in her room, before she went to go and prank Josh. She handed the little box to Drake.
She smiled a big smile when he opened the box and saw him smiling at what was inside.
He picked up the contents of the box and held it up to the light, to get a better look.
It was a little golden locket with the word DRAKE engraved on the front.
His smile widened when he opened it and saw a picture of him and Megan, when they were little, at Disney world. Drake was wearing Mickey Mouse ears and Megan was wearing Minnie Mouse ears with the little polka-dot bow on top. They were both grinning widely and looked like they were having a good time.
"I spent all my savings on it." Megan stated proudly, as Drake clipped it round his neck.
"It's amazing Megan!" Drake said smiling. "You're the best!"
He leant forward and wrapped his arms around her, smiling.
Eventually the doctor got back and said Megan could go. As Drake and Megan were leaving the hospital, Drake's cell phone rang. He looked at the caller ID to see that it was his mom.
"Hey mom." he said, trying to sound as normal as possible.
"Drake, I just got your message, I'm on my way! What happened? Is everyone alright? Who's hurt?" Audrey Parker (I didn't know that was her name, but this site says it is so I'll just roll with that) asked, clearly panicking about what was going on.
"It's alright mom, I just had to take Megan to the hospital, we're on our way back home now so you might as well meet us there." Drake said, trying to reassure his panicking mother.
"What did she do? Is she alright?" Audrey continued to ask.
"I'll explain when we get home." Drake replied, hanging up before she could ask any more questions.
He hated being so blunt with his mother, but he knew, if he wasn't, she would have asked no end of questions and they wouldn't be able to get home.
Upon returning to his car, he saw the nurse that had confronted him about parking outside, leaning up against his car, asleep. As Drake stepped closer, the nurse shot wide awake.
"Oh, hey, I knew you were in a rush so I waited by your car to tell the parking attendant not to give you a ticket." The nurse explained.
Drake thanked the man and gave him a handful of money from his wallet, to say thanks. He and Megan then climbed into the car and headed home.
By the time they got home, their mom had already got back and was worrying over them. Josh had already wiped up the blood off the floor not long after they left.
Audrey had explained to Josh that Drake took Megan to the hospital, she asked him if he knew what had happened.
Josh thought for a moment, coming to the conclusion that Megan must have cut herself on some glass when she smashed his laptop.
He told Audrey what he thought had happened, he explained about the cameras and thinking that his siblings were plotting something against him. He then explained how they had reacted when they found out about the cameras.
Oddly enough what they were really doing behind his back had slipped his explanation for now.
Audrey told Josh that she was disappointed with him invading the privacy of his siblings. But just as she was about to rant at him, Drake and Megan walked through the door.
Audrey immediately forgot about Josh and dashed straight over to Megan, hugging her and holding her daughter's head against her chest like only a mother could.
Drake turned to face Josh. Josh shuffled nervously on the spot.
"I'm sorry I spied on you," Josh whispered shamefully "it wasn't right of me."
"It's ok," Drake replied, clapping his brother on the shoulder "I forgive you. I'm sorry too, for reacting the way I did."
They shared a small smile as they stood, arms around each other's shoulders, watching their mom fuss over Megan, checking her hand to see if it was ok. When she was satisfied that Megan was ok she hugged her again.
Josh saw the locket dangling from Drake's neck.
"What's that?" he asked, pointing to Drake's newly acquired piece of jewelry.
"Oh, this?" Drake questioned, taking the locket between is finger and thumb. "This was a gift from someone that I love with all my heart."
He smiled at Megan as she released herself from her mom's grasp. She smiled back, and then ran to him. He picked her up and swung her round before placing her on his shoulders, smiling up at her as she smiled down at him.
Audrey was so happy to see her children behaving so lovingly towards each other that she struggled to stop herself from crying.
"Eh hem!" Josh cleared his throat loudly, getting everyone's attention. "Do I get to share in the family lovin?" he asked goofily.
Drake put a spare arm around his step-brother.
"Ok," he started "but sometimes you have to let me and Megan have time to ourselves, WITHOUT spying on us!" he told Josh, putting extra emphasis on the 'without' part.
"Deal!" Josh shouted, putting his arm around Drake and pulling his brother and sister in close for a bear hug.
They all smiled, knowing that everything was going to be so much better now that they were nice to each other.
"Eeeeuuuurrrrggghhh!" Josh squealed, breaking from the family hug.
He danced around the living room shouting "GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!"
Josh reached down the back of his t-shirt and pulled out a snail by it's shell. He turned around to see Megan and Drake rolling around on the floor clutching their sides and howling with laughter. He looked over at Audrey who just had a bewildered look on her face.
Josh just smiled before saying…
"Some things never change!"
A/N: And that is the end folks. I thought you deserved a long chapter to finish off with.
I would like to thank 'whoalookatthat' and 'midnightquaffles' for their influence over parts of the story.
My challenge will now remain open to anyone… FOREVER!
Stay tuned for more stories comin your way (hopefully).
Hope you enjoyed 'It was not your fault but mine'. R&R :)