The Ice Queen

Chapter Thirty Eight

-Alyssa-

I hear beeping as I find myself slowly waking up. People were muffling around me and I feel someone holding my hand. I groan a little because my shoulder was bothering me again, I start to sit up before opening my eyes and feel someone push my back down.

“Easy now, honey,” I heard and slowly opened my eyes, blinked a little and then groaned again to get use to the light, “How do you feel?”

“Where am I?” I asked as I propped myself against the wall and held my face with a hand.

“You’re at the local hospital, you were taking a long time to wake up so your trainer brought you in to have your system looked over,” the nurse said and I looked around the room.

My eyes squinted, I see that some of the guys were leaning against the wall, sitting on the floor, sleeping. Some of the Bruins were here and some of my teammates, my trainer was standing in the hallway talking to my coach. I looked down and saw Milan holding my hand, “How long have I been out?” I asked as I managed to slip my hand out of his grasp and ran my fingers through his hair. He was asleep, sitting on the chair that was tucked up close to the bed.

“I believe that your trainer said that you fell asleep around eleven last night, so almost thirty three hours,” she said and my eyes widened, “The dose of your prescription was way off, your body couldn’t handle the high dosage.”

“Oh, I only took one.”

“And if you took more than this could have been worse,” she said and then sighed, “Did you drink alcohol after you took it?”

“No, water.”

“Are you sure?” she asked and I snapped a look at her, “I’m just checking.”

“I drank water,’’ I said and she nodded her head.

“I’ll let your Coach know that you’re up,” she said and then walked out of the room and I looked down towards my arm to see that she was taking some blood.

‘…They’ve been here all night?...’ I looked around; Nathan and Brad were sitting in a loveseat couch next to my bed, leaning up against each other passed out. I didn’t see Tyler or Tuukka around, but I wasn’t worried, Mike, Nick, Semin and Alex were in the room, mostly sitting on the floor and leaning against the wall, Mike was in a chair at the end of my bed, his head on the bed curled up under his arms.

“AJ,” I heard and looked to see Rebecca walking in, “You’re awake.”

“What happened? What time is it?” I asked and Rebecca looked at her watch.

“It’s eight in the morning,” she said and then placed a big box of coffee on the one table along with some cups, sugar and creamer, “It’s Tuesday.”

“Tuesday?” I asked and she nodded her head and I remembered the nurse telling me that I was out for almost thirty three hours, ‘…The game was Sunday…’

“You want me to wake the boys up?” she asked and I was about to answer when Coach and Doc walked in.

“How are you feeling?” Doc asked and I nodded my head.

“I’m better.”

“How’s the shoulder?” Coach asked.

“Little sore, but better that before,” I said and Doc walked over towards me and started to poke at it.

“It’s not inflamed anymore, which is good- That’s what was causing your pain before,” he said and I nodded my head.

“There’s a game tonight,” I said and Coach shook his head, “I thought we played against the Panthers?”

“You don’t, you’re scratched from the line up based on your injury,” he said and I sighed and shook my head, “Don’t fight me on this Brace, your injury can get a lot worse.”

“I know,” I said and then felt Milan move from next to me.

“You can tell these Bruins to head back to Boston with the rest of their teammates,” Coach said and I sighed and nodded my head.

Doc and Coach walked out of the room and I ran my fingers through Milan’s hair against and heard him groan. I gave a small smile when he woke up and looked at me, sleep filling his eyes. Milan placed his hand on my thigh before his eyes widened and he shot up from his seat and smiled towards me.

“You’re awake,” he said and I smiled and wrapped my arm around his neck when he pressed his lips against mine, “Don’t scare me like that again!”

“Sorry,” I muttered and Milan kissed my forehead.

“We tried to wake you up, but you wouldn’t. I panicked- Even carried you into the bathroom and poured water on you- You wouldn’t budge,” he said and I looked at the bed sadly and grabbed his hand, sad that I put him through so much worry, “Pretty sure I heard your Doc say something about suing the pharmacy for giving you the wrong dosage.”

“That’ll be fun,” I said and Milan sighed and kissed my hand, “I’m all right Milan.”

“I thought it was Mr. Looch?” he smirked and I looked at him confused, “Horty said that you wouldn’t remember.”

“What are you talking about?” I asked and he chuckled and then kissed my head.

“Forget it.”

“Don’t you have a game?” I asked and he shook his head.

“Tomorrow, it’s against Buffalo,” he said and I nodded my heads, “So, does your Coach want us gone yet?” I sighed and then felt Milan grip my chin and push my face up, “It’s all right, we’ve been getting hate vibes the whole time.”

“I don’t want you to go,” I said and Milan smirked and pressed his lips against mine.

“Your team nearly had a heart attack when my whole team came to see you yesterday,” he smirked, “We were suppose to leave at nine in the morning, but when you didn’t wake up and we needed to rush you to the hospital, they postponed their flight for a few hours and came to see you. The gift shop made a lot of money,” he said and I giggled when I looked in the corner of the room and saw the flowers, cards and teddy bears.

“You guys are too much,” I smirked and kissed Milan’s cheek.

“I’ll wake them up,” Milan said and then walked around the bed, being sure not to trip over, Alex, Nick and Semin’s feet, as he walked over towards Brad and Nathan, “Wake up,” Milan said ask he kicked the bottom of their feet.

They muttered a few things before they groaned and opened their eyes, asking why they were being woken up. Milan answered them by just nudging his head towards me.

“Red,” Brad said as he jumped up and walked over towards me, “You’re up, are you all right?”

“I feel all right,” I said and Brad nodded his head and wrapped his arms around my neck.

“I’m happy you’re all right,” he said and then kissed my head.

“You were a riot kid,” Nathan snickered as he walked over towards us, “Wish I recorded it, by the way, you ever find Muffin?”

“What the hell are you talking about?” he asked and the guys chuckled.

“You were doped up and just saying ridicules stuff, wish we recorded it,” Brad said and I sighed and rolled my eyes.

“We gotta head out, guys,” Milan said and Nathan and Brad looked at him confused, “Her Coach wants us gone.”

“Assholes,” Nathan muttered as he walked over towards me, wrapped an arm around my shoulders and kissed my head, “Bye second wife.”

I giggled and waved towards him and Brad. Milan walked over towards me and kissed me again, “We’ll just be at your house. Our flight to Buffalo doesn’t leave until early tomorrow morning, if you don’t come home tonight, we’ll stop in before we leave.”

“All right, thanks,” I said and Milan nodded his head and kissed my forehead, “See you soon.”

The three of them walked out of the room and past Doc and Coach. I sighed and then looked down towards my teammates. I grabbed my pillow and threw it at Mike and it landed on his head, he shot up and the pillow flew back and hit Alex in the face, ‘…Two idiots with one pillow…’

“Red, you’re up?!” Mike said as he stood up and looked around, probably noticing that the Bruins were gone but not saying anything about it.

Alex must have woken the others up because Nick, Semin and Alex were standing up and surrounding my bed, asking me if I was all right and how do I feel.

‘…Oh these questions are going to get old quick…’