Author's Note

Two chapter dump before I go to bed. Any feedback on this story are much appreciated

The queen of hearts

My body burned with exhaustion and pain, the dull throb of the gash on my face began to grow into a white hot searing pain like someone took a white hot knife and slowly drug it across the bridge of my nose.

My phone began to ring again, I slowly bent down to grab it trying not to keel over. I fumbled with it a bit from my hands being soaked in crimson, I taped the answer button not knowing who was on the other end.

"Hello?" I croak out, a voice on theother end said my name and asked if I was OK.

"I'm fine I think, just cut myself trying to catch my mom falling, Sunset is that you?" I ask.

"Alec I’m coming over what's your address?" She said frantically.

"3354 Crown Jewel place. Just 3 blocks from school. The house with the navy blue SUV in the driveway." I say slightly slurring my words knowing the adrenaline was fading.

"Stay on the phone with me, you don't sound like you're doing too well." Sunset said as I could hear the chime of her car in the background and then the start of the engine.

"I'm fine sweetheart just a little bit of blood and a decent gash across my face, definitely gonna need to go to the ER when you get here," I say nonchalantly like this has happened before.

I set the phone down on the counter and opened the drawer next to the sink, finding the first aid that my dad kept for emergencies such as this one. I opened the kit up and found the bleed stop and more gauze, tearing open the packet and setting it beside my right hand I fished out more supplies and cleaned up my face the best I could until I got to the hospital.

"The door is unlocked, come in and help me real quick I'm over the sink cleaning my face up." I say to Sunset, "don't question it but if you need to have a spit the trash can is next to me on my right side."

"Are you okay," I hear sunset's voice as the door opened, the echo from the phone making a weird feedback.

"I'm in the kitchen, don't freak out ok," I tell her as I see her face round the corner.

"What happened to you!!?!?!!" She screams like someone who witnessed a mugging.

"Come here, grab a chair and help me," I say in a stern yet eerily calm tone.

Frozen in place Sunset just stood there like a deer in the headlights of an oncoming car. "I need you over here right now Sunset!" I barked out grabbing her attention and shaking her from the frozen state.

She slowly made her way to my side shaking with every step she took, holding her hand over her mouth looking on in shock. Finally making it to my side she was pale as a sheet on the line and looked like she was gonna have a spit, I moved the trash can over to my left side then it happened.

"Sunset, oui come back to reality sweetheart," I said as I patted her back firmly, "put these on." I handed her a pair of exam gloves from the medical kit. My hands already gloved up and covered in blood.

"I need you to pour this on the gash and really press it in there, I can't see too well because of the blood in my left eye," I tell her and hand her the packet of quick clot.

"I can't, you need actual medical help!" She said frantically.

"Yes you can, I can't see and you're the only able body that can do this. My dad is about 20 minutes out bringing medical, I just need you to pour the quick clot on the gash I can do the rest." I reassure her as she took the packet with shaky hands.

Tears streaming down her cheeks and trembling like a leaf in the autumn breeze. I grab her face with my hands and force her to look me in the eyes, "you can do this, after this is over I will pay for the therapy, you can do this just breath in through your nose and out through your mouth find your center and slow your breathing." I told her calmly.

"How the fuck can you be so calm, look at you all covered in blood and bleeding badly." She replied with shaky voice.

"Wouldn't be the first high stress situation I've been in, that's beside the point right now. Pour that quick clot on me and make sure you use agood amount, I've stopped the bleeding best I could with a towel but I'm fading." I reply slowly.

Sunset raises the packet and pours the white powder in the gash on my face. I press the stuff into my face giving out pained grunts while trying to maintain my breathing as to not pass out from pain.

"More,"

Sunset does as she's told and dumps the rest of the packet into the wound, gagging slightly as I firmly pack the powder in. That's wen I hear slight moaning ad gagging from my right.

"I need you to start your car and open the back seat, I'll get mom and I need you to book it to the closest ER." I snap at my friend, "now Sunset!"

Hurrying out the door and to her car, Sunset starts it and opens the back driver side door waiting on me to come out. I stumble with my mom over my shoulders making sure I picked her up and held her up the best I could with her head forward as to not choke on her own vomit.

I get mom in the back seat and closed the door, "go," I say in a barking tone, still sitting there hands on the wheel frozen in shock again I get out and open the door and pull Sunset from her seat ad stick her in the back.

"I need you to come back to earth Sunny, keep mom on her left side, if she throws up keep her head steady and don't let her roll on her back or have her head tilt backwards, SUNSET!" I shout at her like a drill smoking new recruits.

I look in the rear view mirror and see Sunset sobbing uncontrollably.

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I make it to the hospital faster than I thought, tires squealing as I practically drift into the front pull up under the awning, the smell of rubber filling the air as I come to a screeching halt. Throwing the shifter violently in park I get out and open the back door, yanking Sunset by the arm and grabbing my mom, throwing her arm around my shoulder and hobbling her through the front automatic doors of the hospital.

"Get me a doctor, woman with broken nose and alcohol poisoning," I shout to the receptionist.

Doctors rush to us with a gurney and a wheel chair, "sit down son," one doctor said to me.

"She's been on a bender and has alcohol poisoning, pump her stomach and get a charcoal solution with an IV of saline and magnesium, potassium, and check her heart while you're getting all that." I tell the doctors as I walk alongside my mom.

"Son you need to sit down right now, I need to check that wound on your face it looks deep." One of the doctors demands as he pushes me into a wheelchair.

"Listen lab coat I've been through worse she needs all that she can get, I'm fine I even stopped most of the bleeding at home, where's Sunset?" I reply with the last few words coming out slurred from another adrenaline crash.

"Listen here son, your wife is in good hands I need you to calm down and I'll wheel you to a bed so I can clean out that wound." The doctor demands as he starts wheeling me away.

"Not my wife, she's my drunk of a mother, where's Sunset." I say in a shaky voice, the room was getting a little blurry.

"Alec!" I heard Sunset yell out while security held her back.

"Let her through, please doc," I plead.

"I can't," the doctor says as he pauses his stride.

I grab his lab coat and pull him down to my level, look him in the eyes; "you can and you will or I am getting up and bringing her over with me," I say with a fire in my gravely voice. The doctor motioned to security to let her through. Sunset came running to my side.