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     OLIVIA FEELS A RUSH OF RELIEF AS SOON AS THE WORDS "THE SURGERY WAS SUCCESSFUL." leave Anastasia's mouth, "we're waiting for him to wake up on his own, we'll keep a close eye on him, make sure he doesn't get any infection, he's in the SICU."

"Can we see him?" Liv asks her, with hope filled eyes.

"One at a time." Anastasia informs her, and Lori stares at Anastasia before thanking her, and hugging her. Anastasia smiles and accepting Lori, the past was in the past between the two women. They had each moved, started their own family, Shane was still not used to Lori accepting his sister. The Grimes children weren't exactly sure about the messy past of Lori, Rick, and Anastasia. They had known Anastasia had grown up with their father, being Shane's younger sister, and a year and a half year younger than Shane and Rick. Their grandfather and aunt Maggie did tell them that Rick and Anastasia did date before she left their small town. "I can take you to him." Anastasia tells Lori who nods, "we actually have another waiting for you guys, come on." Anastasia tells the Grimes family.

Derek had insisted on Peyton, Brooke, Nate, Tom, and Vero leaving, everyone did go but Veronica. She stayed, and he gave up. Junior seemed to be doing better with her here, but Liv seemed to grow irritated with her friends around. She didn't mind Veronica as she tended to her brother. And Liv knows he rarely ever lets himself be vulnerable in front of Carl, he and her, he keeps it together as the oldest of the three.

    ONE BY ONE, THEY WENT IN, CARL WAS THE EXCEPTION, HE HAD GONE IN WITH DEREK, he cried when he saw his fathers stated, hooked up to machines.

Lori felt her heart break, seeing her husband in such a state. The fight didn't matter, and it didn't help when Anastasia told her of the complications during the surgeries. She didn't want to say anything in front of Carl earlier. But now Anastasia had informed her of the complications, and Lori cried in her arms.

"I told him that he didn't love me." Lori cries out.

"He does Lori, he does." Anastasia tells her. "You both know it." Anastasia felt like she wanted to cry, but she needed to remain professional. "He's strong, we have to think positive, believe he'll wake up. Hell even pray that he wakes up." Rick had grown up going to church every Sunday, Anastasia praying would be something big, she didn't grow up religious. Shane and her weren't raised by a religious mother, her mom thought those were cults, just not her mlm schemes. The irony of it all, Anastasia and Shane often found the humour of it all.

To Lori it all made sense why Rick was in the SICU now. Him needing assistance breathing, and he lost a lot of blood, Rick almost dying during the operation. Junior and Liv saw their mother hugging Anastasia, and Anastasia seemed to be comforting her, and the two women seemed to have a heartfelt conversation, their mother crying and Ana with tear filled eyes.

"Somethings wrong." Liv voices softly.

"Everything is wrong Liv." Junior says in a soft tone.

"He's gonna be okay." She tells him, not knowing if she just convincing him, or her, or both of them.

"Yeah." He nods. Nothing else needed to be said between them, Rick is going to be okay. He needed to be okay. There wasn't any other option. He can't die.

           AT SCHOOL, OLIVIA COULD FEEL EVERYONE'S EYES ON HER, SHE COULD FEEL their pity eyes, just as much Junior. Truthfully they hate it, Junior held Veronica's hand and she squeezed it, reassuring him she's right next to him. "We can ditch today." Vero offers the twins.

"We can't, mom will kill us." Liv says and Junior nods in agreement. "Plus were bound to see these freaks regardless, might as well get it over with." She says entering the school building. Noah sighs before him and Vero walk towards the school building, after Liv.

      AT SCHOOL, CARL FELT EVERYONES EYES ON HIM. THEY KNOW, HE KNOWS THEY know. Truthfully he hates it. He did the only thing he could think of, hold his head up high and face the uncertainty. Something his father taught him. He had a feeling his siblings would face the same thing today, and he was jealous of them having each other to rely on, while he was all alone in this school.

He takes a deep breaths before making his way to the building, and towards his class. 

          ANASTASIA SAT DOWN IN RICKS ROOM, SHE WAS WORRIED FOR HIM, AND WANTED him to pull through. He deserves to watch his children grow up. "You need to pull through, your daughter and sons, your kids need you Rick. So does your wife." She tells him holding his hand. "Shane does too, but this isn't about him, not right now." Anastasia had only come to Tree Hill after her brothers horrible separation, Rick called her informing her Shane was a mess and he needed to be snapped out of it, and who better to snap Shane out of it than his sister. She had a life in Seattle that she had to get back to, and children to get back to. "You hear me Rick, you aren't allowed to die. You have a healthy, gorgeous family, they are waiting for you to wake up, and annoy them." She says, "make them laugh."

"You scared me yesterday, you almost died. I was terrified, Rick, I know what your wife was feeling. I've been the wife in the waiting room, waiting to hear the worst news ever." Anastasia tells him, Lori was at the door hearing her. "Being a wife to a first responder is hard, and you need to wake up, if you don't, I don't think Lori will ever forgive herself, and you have a long beautiful life to live. You need to watch your children grow up, hold your first grandchild if they decided to have children." She smiles softly squeezing his hand.

"You're speaking to him?" Lori asks Anastasia entering the room.

"Yeah, it helps. Sometimes they can hear us." Anastasia says standing up, letting go of his hand.

"Thank you." Lori says and Anastasia nods. "Your husbands, he's a first responder, right?"

"Yeah, firefighter, every time he walks out the door, I hope, and I pray to whatever being is out there, that he comes home to me and our children." Anastasia says.

"You've been the wife waiting for the bad news?" Lori asks and Anastasia nods.

"Before we had our first child, there was two firefighter that went down from his firehouse, and I was about to start a surgery, and I get pulled from it." Anastasia says thinking of the horrible accident. "He got hit by electrical wiring, and one of his friends died that day. Nate he was lucky, we were both so dam lucky, and I just, I don't want Rick to die. He has so much to live for." Anastasia didn't share every detail of the story, like how it was her brother, one of her older brothers from her fathers side, died that day. How Nate got to live but her brother died. There was no point to share that misery.

"He does." Lori nods in agreement. "Is he your only patient?"

"I have two others, but I'm waiting for Rick to get better, so I can go home." Anastasia says.

"Right, the kids and family back in Seattle." Lori says and she nods. "I'll let you get to it then." Lori says and Anastasia gives a small smile before heading out of Ricks room.

HERSHEL, CRISTINA, MAGGIE, GLENN, AND THEIR CHILDREN: HERSHEL, AND ANA HAD arrived to Tree Hill early the next morning. Hershel Rhee was named after Hershel Sullivan himself, and Ana named after Ana Josephine Sullivan, both Olivia and Ana had been named after their grandmother. They dropped their bags off the Sullivan home, where Derek greeted them, and they quickly made their way to the hospital to see Rick. Hershel and Maggie were allowed to go in together, and see Rick first. Maggie almost cried seeing Rick, and Hershel felt his heart break seeing his boy, his oldest son in the hospital bed. Cristina went in with Glenn, and Cristina cried, as she caresses Ricks hair, and Glenn was clearly distraught by seeing his brother in law. Glenn's mind went to his children, how they handled seeing their father in such state. He knew Junior was one to keep it in, and Liv and Carl were probably trying to keep it together for their moms sake.

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Updated May 16 , 2023