Fic: You've Got a Piece of Me (08/50) (original) (raw)

Title: You've Got a Piece of Me
Characters: Kate/Jack & Freddie/Effy
Rating: PG (minus some swearing)
Summary: A crossover fic between JK&FE set after 4x07 of Skins and after 4x10 of Lost but instead of being in 2007, it's 2010 and some things are different. The first chapters are focused on once couple only till they all meet in a difficult situation.
Notes: Thanks to Jennifer for review the first 4 chapter and Ivy for being my beta of all the rest of the fic *hug*

She closes her phone, she feels a little dizzy, she looks like she’s going to faint any minute. Karen hasn’t basically said anything on the phone and her mind is left wondering a million different things: if he has woken up, if he is alright, if anything bad happened to him. She stops sobbing, she holds on to Katie, hoping not to fall on the ground and she screams at her “I need to get me to the hospital, take me to Freddie!!”. Katie escorts her to the car, the others follow them because they want to go too but Katie shakes her head letting them know it’s not a good idea. The hospital is less than ten minutes from Effy’s place but right now it feels like she’s going to LA, “Katie, can’t you go faster?” she asks but she doesn’t get a response because she notices that Katie is parking, they’re here. Before she can get off the car, Katie grabs her arm to stop her “Eff, I’m not coming because whatever is going on is for his family and you only. So I’m going back to your place and when you want to come home, you just give me a call or text me ok?”. Eff can only nod before getting out of the car. She’s nervous as she slowly walks toward the entrance of the hospital, she doesn’t need to ask for directions, she knows how to get to Freddie’s room better than she knows herself. Karen and his dad are outside the room, as soon as Karen spots her she runs toward her and she hugs Effy. She whispers, “He’s awake. They are running a lot of tests, but they’re letting us see him soon enough”. Effy hugs her back.

Two hours later she is still sitting in the waiting room holding Freddie’s necklace in her hand, her phone had been buzzing the whole time but she kept rejecting the calls. She goes to the bathroom for the millionth time, this is getting ridiculous: first she almost faints in front of the gang, then she keeps going to the bathroom since she arrived here, next thing she knows she’ll be throwing up all over Freddie’s family just to make it clear they understand she’s pregnant. When she comes back no one is there anymore, the doctors probably let them visit Freds. She doesn’t go to his room though, it’s a family moment and she doesn’t belong there, not yet. She sits and waits, seems like since this whole nightmare started all she’s is doing is waiting, waiting for the ambulance to get Freddie, waiting for his surgeries, waiting to see him, waiting for news, waiting to find out about the baby, waiting for things to get better; all this waiting is really getting on her nerves. Her train of thoughts is abruptly stopped by Karen’s voice “Eff, dad and I are going, the doctors said we can’t spend the night so we thought of giving you two a little time together ”. Her response is a slight nod before she starts walking to his room. She’s scared, she’s scared that Freddie will blame her and drive her away, she’s scared that after what they’ve been through her love won’t be enough. She tries to remind herself who she is, she’s Effy Stonem and for once in her entire life she’s scared to death, but she is ready to face her fears so she steps forward. She can spot her boyfriend now, he’s still a bit messed up but at least he’s in one piece. She feels the throat go sour when she says “Hey” He turns to the source of the voice and his eyes light up when he sees her, in that instant all her fears disappear: his look says it all. She comes closer and takes his hand between hers and she simply smiles at him before adding “I would ask you how you’re feeling but that would be a pointless question. So I’ll ask if it’s ok for me to be here or you don’t want to see me” He shakes his head “Effy, I know what you’re thinking. It’s not your fault. Not fucking one bit, alright? He was a freak, Eff, we couldn’t know he’d do anything like this”. She knows but still just looking at him laying in the hospital makes her feel so guilty. She brushes some hairs from his forehead, a familiar gesture and yet so new, she sits next to him and she continues to hold his hand without talking, their silence is not uncomfortable, it’s just the expression of the peace due to be in each other’s company. Freddie breaks the spell by asking her “Did the doctors say anything to you? Because I can’t feel almost anything and I don’t know if it’s normal or not after what they did to me”? She answers right back “No, they didn’t. I only know they did a lot of tests and they’ll tell your dad when they know something” She just tightens her grip on his hand, he knows she is trying to reassure him but he can tell that something is wrong with him but he won’t upset her. She doesn’t wanna leave his side, she hopes the nurses won’t check his room so they won’t know she’s here. Freddie starts to laugh and Effy is puzzled, she can’t possibly think of any reason to laugh right now, he explains “I’m not crazy. I just realized you and I have a thing for hospitals, didn’t you notice?” she laughs a little too, maybe laughing will help. She wonders if she should tell him about what she’d found out and after a little internal struggle she starts speaking “Freddie, there’s something I think you should know…” but she’s abruptly cut short by the opening of the door.