everything burns, everyone screams

[caroline isabelle sutton]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 380px; height: 380px; background-color:#E3E3E3; border-left: 20px solid #7D463F; border-bottom:20px solid #7D463F; border-top:20px solid #7D463F; border-right: 20px solid #7D463F;] carly cursed at herself for the life and situation she was in. under most circumstances carly would have been happy. she had a great career that she was very proud of that had made her happy and stable even if it was a short-lived one. she had a daughter that she loved and a family that supported her at just about every turn. she had people in her life who cared about her and wanted to see her safe and secure...and maybe that was where her problem really lay. of all the people in the world that carly had to meet and consider friends, or even close, why did almost every one of them have to come with a bucket full of drama or blood-stained hands? of all the people that carly knew, a good thirty percent or more of them were criminals...like the people she had at one point trusted with her life and safety or the life and safety of her child. that was bad. all of this was bad. but as much as carly wanted to find a way out of it or find a way around it, she really couldn't. at the same time that these people, these criminals were bad news and weren't worth her time for the sake of carly or someone carly loved getting hurt, she still saw the people she knew before they were criminals. flynn for instance. he was a good, solid guy who had never showed carly that he ever had any inclination to hurt people. carly had never seen him so much as hurt a fly and here he was offing people in his spare time? he was a criminal? it just seemed to defy the odds because carly didn't see someone who was gone for strange periods of time who came back with a few unusual bruises or who didn't have a good reason for being gone. she saw someone who she danced with, someone who knew her on such an emotional and occupational level that he just couldn't be a criminal. he just couldn't. this man was like a second father to lily. he had left lily in his care multiple times when she needed to be somewhere or be doing something where she would be utterly bored and instead could stay home drawing with crayons with him. this was a man she had left alone for hours at a time with her daughter or, what was worse, had gone out in public holding the hand of her daughter and making the four year old a target for anyone who sought to do him harm. as much as it would have killed flynn and as much as the guilt would have eaten him up alive, it would have devastated carly. this is something you'd think would register with her as she looked over at her best friend now on a day to day basis but this wasn't the case. carly didn't see a killer holding her daughter's hand. she saw her best friend and someone lily looked up to being a good stand in for the father she never had. she was confused and she was angry and it was for that reason that carly decided to just have a girl's day and to go walking around the town. with so many people being back in her life, after a stint of time where practically no one was around, carly had been so swept up in drama and confessions that she hadn't made a lot of time for lily. today that was going to change. she and lily were going to walk around the town, stop in at all the street side vendors and just have some quality mother-daughter time. that was something carly was proud of. though she hadn't really recently, it was beyond obvious that lily was her entire world. at twenty years old carly had someone else to live for, someone who would never be out of her life, and a reason to be selfless. she hadn't spent nearly enough time with lily with jamie coming back and flynn popping back onto her radar. sam had been around and he'd been a big help but he'd heard about her past...whatever had come back into her life and had given her hell. sam knew she was a bit eaten up by it which had to sting seeing as how sam had been her main focus while jamie had been...a ghost apparently. with jamie back carly was visibly torn and she knew that had to hurt. knowing that she had been so involved with him before and now that she was conflicted all over again, after he'd probably thought that he'd gotten so under her skin no other man could make their way in. carly hadn't admitted it aloud but jamie being back was a problem for whatever carly and sam had. jamie got under her skin in ways that couldn't be described. he was a train wreck and he was a low down, dirty bastard but for some reason she couldn't turn away from him. for some reason she just wanted to know where he'd been and why he hadn't called. something. anything. just to make her feel better. it was a kind of instinctual feeling that she hadn't experienced with sam and he knew that. there was no doubt that she cared about sam and that she didn't want to lose him and that she loved him even if it wasn't yet in a more romantic, personal way. it wasn't like he'd just been a filler until jamie could come back because as much as carly might feel something for him she wasn't even sure she wanted anything back with him. jamie was a wreck and he was going nowhere fast. he dropped off the face of the planet and hopped back on only to give her hell and that wasn't something carly or lily needed to be associated with. any way you spun it carly was conflicted and right now she just didn't know what to do. so she was instead spending her time with lily. she'd had no plans for the day and she'd made sure that had been the case especially. no one was escorting her today. no one else was tagging along. it was carly and her daughter today. she held the tiny, warm hand in her own as they walked down the sidewalk, stopping in to different vendor's tents and checking out the merchandise. lily now wore a few beaded necklaces, a few giant plastic bangles, and a few new boys in her hair. she looked like she just stepped out of a lisa frank explosion but she wore a smile on her face the size of mount everest so carly couldn't really care if she looked like a walking rainbow. "what next?" carly asked as she looked down at her daughter who looked up at her with her father's big, blue eyes. those baby blues were the only part of cain that really shone through. everything else about lily carly could see parts of herself in. the brown hair, the same childish chubby cheeks, the same big smile. she'd be a heartbreaker some day and carly knew it. she was sure she'd be fighting off boys with a stick one day and she prayed the time it took to get to that point passed slowly. already her baby girl was four and she was working on five quicker than carly would have liked. soon enough carly would be hitting thirty and lily would be hitting her teens and it would be one huge adventure. a day she hoped was farrrr off in the future. "num nums?" lily asked up at her mother, making carly smile. she was hungry and wanted something to eat. saying cute little things like "num nums" pretty much always meant she'd get her way when it came to carly. anything that came out of that little girl's mouth was adorable in her opinion and it was no secret that carly wanted to give lily the world. "alright baby. how about some chinese? you want fried rice?" lily jumped up and down, still clutching carly's hand as they headed past the tent vendors down the street toward the china wok. they'd spent all day outside, doing things off and on, and carly was surprised that lily wasn't dog tired but she figured that they'd eat dinner, walk back to the hotel, and just wind down for the night. easy enough right? carly checked her watch as they walked, turning up the street as she registered that it was close to 9:20. it really was late. but she'd already promised lily fried rice so they'd make it their last stop before heading home. she could see the china wok in the distance as they walked, finally coming up to the sidewalk that lead to the entrance as a large boom sounded in front of them. carly was hit with a surge of energy which sent her flying backwards, that little hand slipping out of her grasp as her back hit the pavement, her head cracking against the asphalt a moment later. spots dotted her eyes as carly blinked. she heard screams over the whistling of her ears, debris and ash falling from the sky like some kind of horrific rain as carly sat up and got her bearings. she put her hand down to steady herself...on top of a singed, pink bow. carly's fear immediately spiked as she looked around frantically, her head screaming at her in pain as she did so. "lily!" she screamed, seeing large chunks of debris and stunned bodies lying on the ground. finally her eyes found a smaller resting body on the ground and carly scrambled to her feet, her nails digging against the concrete as she hurried over to lily's side, her shaking fingers reaching out to her still body, afraid to touch her. "HELP!" she screamed as people continued to scream, running in all directions. a man stopped at her side, kneeling by lily and checking her pulse. carly didn't even noticed he was wearing and EMT's uniform until he whipped out a small neck brace and lifted lily's head, securing it in place. "you've got to help her. i-i...i can't..." carly began to panic, her voice shaking and her skin going ghostly white as she realized what was happening. she felt a strong hand come down on her shoulder, smoothing over it for a moment, faint words in the distance reassured her that things would be okay, they would do all they could, she'd be the first one out of there...or something like that. she watched as men rolled her daughter onto a back support board three times the size of her daughter, lifting her once she was securely fastened and rushing her to the ambulance. she scrambled in behind them as they lifted her inside and set her down on the bed, tying the board to the bed before one of the men tapped the back wall and the ambulance lurched into action. "she's unconscious, a head wound, possibly a fracture but she's strong. she'll be okay." carly stared at the guy, pretty much staring through him, watching him check vitals and do whatever he did as they traveled the short distance to valkyrie hospital. once there carly numbly stepped out of the ambulance, blindly following after the rolling cart that carried the center of her universe until a nurse put a hand on her shoulder and told her she couldn't go any further. carly screamed, lurching against the woman, calling out for her baby until a group of nurses packed around her making the same promises she'd heard already. over and over again. finally she calmed and a nurse walked her over to a chair, sitting her down and asking her if she wanted to call someone. carly felt around for her purse before a nurse came running in from the ambulance bay with it. someone had picked it up for her and put it beside her in the ambulance. carly hadn't even realized..."sam..." she said as she stared at a crack on the countertop at the nurses’ station, unable to register anything else. "call sam." was all she managed. the woman nodded and grabbed carly's phone, flipping through until she reached a sam in carly's contacts, the only sam, and dialed. in the meantime carly felt a weight press against the back of her head. it was another nurse pressing a towel to the blood soaked portion of her cranium. she hadn't even realized she'd been bleeding. notes, tag: sam, frankly anyone else can join in too xD word count, 2,112 thanks brooklyn from caution

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[donald jeremy davis]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 340px; background-image:url(http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss279/legendskseeker/fk5qwnjpg.png); padding: 30px; border: #3e0401 solid 30px; ] They say it's over but man, I'm still here livin OUTFIT: HERE. TAGGED: all on carly thread --- WATCHING A BUILDING BLOW UP AND KILL SOME RUSSIANS? Maybe a few innocents? Injuring a shit ton? Yeah, that was what the night had in store for the Siren household. Going out to be with Kale. He was of course the reason the place was gonna blow. The Siren's had suggested him to the Italians. Kale was smart about his work, as crazy as the man could get, he was always smart when it came to his own special brand of fire. He knew where his target was, he knew how to control an explosion to make it destroy the target room and center the focus there. Would some innocents get hurt, perhaps killed in the process, yes of course, there was no way to get around it but honestly? Had the Italian's gone to someone with less control, there would probably be a lot more casualties. It was hard for Donny to tell if Kale did that out of concern, guilt relief, or just logic. Kale always told him he did it because it was a larger challenge than just blowing the joint. Which of course it was. If Kale didn't want anyone to come out of the place alive, he could do it with a lot less innovative thinking. But of course, it was his inventiveness with his bombs that made him famous. He bombed this one place in Rome while him and Donny were running around Europe, did it for a Ukrainian underground party and the fire that spread from the explosion was purple and a bright red. First time Donny had ever seen anything like it. Donny also knew that Kale was especially good at blue fire which was of course, much hotter than normal flames. He knew what chemicals to spread the blue flames but he used it rarely. But there they were, Widow, Liz, Kale, Orion, climbing the fire escape of the building across the street. Kale assured them the only building the explosion would hit would be the Chinese restaurant, and that the fires from it with the structure of the building should not be able to spread to a different building in the time it would take the fire department to put them out. Donny looked down at his watch and tapped the screen as he pulled down the ladder and watched as the group climbed up. 9:17pm, so they had about seven minutes. Donny understood there were a lot of people who would probably disapprove of Kale and his work but honestly, Donny didn't have any issue with it. He was used to it. He was used to worse. And death was far from the worst thing a person could go through, call him hardened, call him heartless. But the fact of the matter was, that when Kale was hired for the job, they had a drink to celebrate, Kale was unstable and dangerous but he was not the flat out evil you found all over the underground. And he was his best friend. Donny and the group reached the top of the roof and sort of lined up and looked over to the chinese food place. "Shame all that orange chicken's gunna go to waste." Widow said with a small smirk as they looked it over causing and slight chuckle from the group of young adults. Donny looked back at his watch. 9:19pm. five more minutes. He looked over at Liz as she stepped forward to look closer, "Yeah, spirits with you Kale but I'm gotta go save a life." Liz said before running of excessively fast, practically jumping down the fire escape. Widow raised an eyebrow confused and stepped forward to look down at the street. She scoffed and rolled her eyes. Donny then out of curiosity leaned over and looked down at the ground where Liz was running up to Riley and his daughter, oh of course. Donny didn't dislike Riley but he had a bit of grudge simply because of what happened five years ago. It wasn't until after Isabel had died that he found out from Liz that Riley had been there when she killed Darren and that she had killed Darren to stop him from killing Riley, a fact that, if her father knew about, he would have had Riley killed and left them alone instead of killing Iz. Not Riley's fault, not even Liz's fault really, he would have done the same. It was just, Donny was still a bit sore with Isabel's death. But as he was about to step back from the edge he saw another familiar face with a child walking towards the doomed restaurant. Carly and her daughter Lily. Donny looked down at his watch, 9:22... he would not have time to get her out of there in time. He nodded to Kale who had apparently seen them too. As Donny ran he pressed the side button on his watch which was no ordinary watch. It was a watch that was already a smart phone on your wrist which Donny had of course tweaked and made even more powerful. it was also an untraceable number when he made a call that immediately disguised his voice as he spoke. As he made a run for it, he called 911. "Hey in two minutes China Wok is going to explode, get ambulances down here now." He said as forcefully as he could. He hopped off the fire escape as his watch read 9:23:43. He dashed towards the building yelling out to Carly right as the bomb blew. Donny through his arms up to protect his face from debris and used his legs to keep his balance from the blast of energy, getting tossed back a foot or two off his feet. He was not close enough to get thrown back too hard. He simply had the wind knocked out of him a bit. Donny coughed and stood up as an Ambulance zoomed in, "Oh thank god" he mumbled under his breath. Sometimes they don't listen to anonymous phone calls like that. He coughed a few more times and rubbed the shoulder he had landed on for a moment scanning for Carly and Lily as he saw and EMT over by them, helping. He exhaled a bit, they both packed into the ambulance and zoomed off towards the hospital. Donny looked up at the people still standing above on the opposite building. He gave a thumbs up before pointing to where the ambulance had gone. He saw a faint thumbs up from either Kale or Orion before Donny nodded and ran about a block away to Kale's motorcycle and hopped on before taking off for the hospital. He felt had to. They were after all his sister and niece, sort of... right? Whatever. Didn't matter right now. He just wanted to get there. And he was very quickly. He parked quickly and ran into the hospital straight for the waiting room. He sort of burst into the room taking off his helmet as he did so and looked around to see Carly having a towel pressed to the back of her head. He jogged up to Carly and without thinking twice, hugged her, tightly, something he had never done with anyone on that side of the family yet. He pulled back with his hands on her shoulders, "I saw what happened? Are you alright? Where's Lily?" He asked jaggedly. See? Family just makes everything more complicated. I think that maybe I'm in over my head

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[caroline isabelle sutton]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 380px; height: 380px; background-color:#E3E3E3; border-left: 20px solid #7D463F; border-bottom:20px solid #7D463F; border-top:20px solid #7D463F; border-right: 20px solid #7D463F;] there was a whistle sounding off in her head and it wasn't from the blood rushing to a part of her mangled skull. the blast had done a number on her eardrums and she could hardly hear a thing. everything was just a jumble of words that carly had to squint as she deciphered, even then she was in too much of a stunned shock to really answer anyone. she hadn't said anything after the nurses had asked her who she wanted to call. since then she'd just been sitting in a chair as a woman held a towel to her head and pulled debris out of her mess of hair. when had something like this ever happen in valkyrie? the worst thing to ever happen to the place was the earthquake and that was a natural disaster. something told carly that the media would either make this out to be some accidental kitchen fire or that they would tell it like it was. this was a hit. usually things like this would never go running through carly's mind but she'd recently had her eyes opened to all the dangers of this damned city and she knew just exactly what could have been the reason for the china wok to go up in flames. and. she. was. pissed. valkyrie wasn't just someone's underground playground. it wasn't some empty lot with no traffic that could be used for brawls that decided who was the strongest and who just needed to die. this wasn't a god damned movie. people lived here, lots of innocent people, though that number seemed to be dwindling by the day. for all carly knew whoever the explosion had been targeted for could have killed more innocents than it ever did their target meaning that the regular people of this city, the people she loved even, they were all just expendable. she was expendable. because she wasn't like the rest of valkyrie's population and able to defend herself from something like this she was just a casualty of war. honestly what the fuck was wrong with these people. if it wasn't obvious carly didn't believe in the slightest that a place like china wok was subject to your every day kitchen disaster. sure they may not have been completely up to code, something people had let slide in an effort to eat some good food, but not to the extent that it would blow sky high. carly knew about all the dangers in the city. she'd seen the masterminds in person for christs sake. jamie had dragged her off to a poker game a long bit ago that had lead to guns being drawn and death threats being passed like everyday hellos. this was not a crowd who would just like silently in a town and carly knew it. hell it was likely that at that poker game she had stared down the idiot who dreamed up this wonderful plan. if she wanted she would probably point him out to the police. sure she didn't actually see anything but her daughter was being rushed into emergency surgery as we speak. she could make shit up on the fly if it meant getting justice for her daughter's sake. if those dangerous people out there thought they were the shit just for whipping out their guns and using force to get what they want, they hadn't seen a damn thing until they saw a mother's wrath and right now carly was really starting to be filled with wrath. if her daughter didn't make it through this surgery she would point fingers at everyone she saw and every she knew were criminals. hell a few of them had even confessed things to her in confidence. if her daughter came back anything less than the perfect little four year old that she was carly didn't care if they were dangerous, her friends, of her past lovers, she would sell out every. single. one. until those streets were free and clear of danger and the prisons were packed with them. let them duke it out in a place no one gave a shit about them but leave the innocents alone. she sat so still and so silent in her seat that no one really knew of the murderous rampage carly had started to plot out should her daughter not come back safe and sound. most of the other nurses had rushed off to help new incoming bomb victims but one still stayed with carly, holding the towel in place because carly's hands didn't work anymore. she was too numb, too overwhelmed with shock to think or do anything clearly. she didn't even flinch when the nurse pulled away the towel to dig chunks of embedded asphalt out of her skin. she just couldn't move. not until she knew that her daughter was safe. she heard mottled voices starting to speak up over the loud whistle in her ears when she was suddenly hoisted upright, held in a tight hug. "i told you not to do that! she's in shock!" carly's hearing started to come back slightly as the voices were a little less mottled, the nurse's chastising words ringing much louder than before as she stood up to keep the towel on carly's head. "i said put her down!" "it was a bomb." carly swayed a little in his grasp, the weight of his shoulders too much for her delicate sensibility. she heard the nurse gasp and respond with a "what? are you sure?" but carly didn't turn to look at her. "too many criminals in this town." she felt the woman's hands brush away donny's and ease her back down into the chair before turning to donny. "by lily you mean the four year old that came in with her? are you famil- oh screw it, she's in surgery. she's got swelling in her brain and the doctors are doing everything they can to slow it down or else..." the nurse stopped realizing she'd gone to far. she must have been new. you didn't give away looming fatality secrets like that. you never got the family worried. you simply smiled and said they're doing all they can. notes, tag: sam, frankly anyone else can join in too xD word count, 1,035 thanks brooklyn from caution

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[donald jeremy davis]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 340px; background-image:url(http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss279/legendskseeker/fk5qwnjpg.png); padding: 30px; border: #3e0401 solid 30px; ] They say it's over but man, I'm still here livin OUTFIT: HERE. TAGGED: all on carly thread --- WHEN DONNY FIRST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE SUTTONS, his primary question was what would he had turned out like if his father had never come and taken him away from Emilia, their mother? And now the question seemed even more prevalent, now that the more criminal side of his life was effecting this family he was just getting to know. Although, then again, it's not like he was the reason Carly and Lily were at the restaurant and him knowing just got the ambulance there faster for Lily. So maybe it was a good thing? Whatever, doesn't matter. The fact remained that Donny would probably die before telling Carly about Kale's involvement. Besides, it wasn't exactly Donny's secret to tell now was it. He wouldn't be able to control what she did with the information. Valkyrie, California had become a war zone lately. This was probably only the first of the louder attacks. The amount of casualties would probably only rise from here on out and now Donny knew he had to find a way to keep the Suttons away from the dangers. Fuck, this was why he was always wary before getting close and getting to know people. It was always just another thing to worry about. Another thing to do. He was supposed to be care free Heyward, not stressed out donny davis. Most of the time, Donny felt pretty untouchable. Very few people knew who he was by face, but pretty much everyone knew him by his alias and he had a fair amount of respect in the underworld. People knew he had no real loyalties, pay him enough, he'll help you out but it's fair game. And it has to be a lot unless he finds the job to be an interesting challenge or just plain old fun. Because honestly? The boy had enough money. Stolen, yeah but untraceable, electric so no worries about unmarked or marked bills like bank robbers had to deal with, no, the boy was stealing silently. Ever seen the movie Office Space? Similar concept just he executed the whole scheme much more efficiently. Donny enjoyed his work, he wouldn't be giving it up any time soon. He enjoyed the people in his life, shady dealing ones as well as those who now trying to be a bit more straight laced, like Liz or Orion. He was not going to be giving them up anytime soon, if ever. I guess, it was a hard world to understand from the outside but I suppose the only thing he could say to help people understand was that, nothing was black and white. Not the underground, not the government. Donny had hacked into the FBI multiple times. He had once hacked the CIA. Believe me, he knew. The government was not a clean group of people and had sacrificed more innocents than one man could count. So who were the bad guys huh? Who could you point a finger at and blame for the world falling to shit? It was impossible to say with certainty what was 'right' and 'wrong' anymore especially when those terms are culturally defined. The politics of human rights had to deal with that issue all the time. Female genital mutilation, most American's find a horrible violation of human rights but to the people of those participating cultures, female circumcision was something that they could not be beautiful without, something that was almost a right of passage. One man's tradition is another man's offense. And no one has the right to be the deciding judge. No god gets to have authority in a fair world. Donny didn't believe in a divine judge. He was far too much of a scientific brain to believe in any sort of heaven or hell situation. Eternal damnation just seemed far too final. No, for Donny, morality came from instinct, and instinct was to protect one's family, no matter how you define that and in the modern age, protecting your family sometimes meant sacrificing others. Call it wrong because of what you were brought up to believe all you like but that doesn't change the truth of the human situation. At least, that was the way Donny saw it. Donny had been thrown back in the explosion, there was so dirt and blood on the whites sleeves of his shirt but he himself had not been injured in the slightest. He let go of Carly as she looked pretty shaken. "it was a bomb." He nodded, as the nurse looked over Carly worried. The nurse brushed away his hands and sat her back down gently as another woman came over to them "too many criminals in this town." Donny couldn't help but smile a bit out of a defensive habit. He couldn't really disagree with Carly's words but he also couldn't agree since he was one of them. He turned to look at the nurse as she spoke to him more directly. "I'm her... umm yeah I'm her brother." He said, out loud for the first time, to the nurse before she continued to tell him about lily. He glanced down at Carly before looking back at the nurse. He nodded to acknowledge that he understood what she was saying. He had dealt with swelling of the brain before, not him but head injuries were common enough. Mannitol he knew would help and furosemide, both drugs that help direct the blood away from the brain and into the kidneys to help reduce the swelling, also keeping the head elevated above the rest of the body. He also knew that in extreme cases they would have to surgery and remove part of the skull to release pressure or even give them access to drain some of the fluid build up. He looked back at Carly and crouched down in front of her, "I know I don't know her that well yet, but from what I can tell, there isn't even a possibility of her letting a little swelling keep her down." He said, attempting to be reassuring when another nurse asked him about the blood on his shirt. "I'm fine, just knocked off my feet, the blood's not mine." he explained shooing them away. They had too many other people who were to be rushing in for help. They did not need to be wasting time on him. I think that maybe I'm in over my head

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[samuel henry lockhart]

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"so this is where you have been set up at, eh?" matt lived in new york city as he was a broadway singer/actor/dancer. all the lockhart children were succeeding in their own career paths. matt was nominated for a tony almost year after year, but tried his hand at television a couple years back and nabbed an emmy for his guest appearance. his sister chanel was a musician who you could catergorize as pop, but not really. she was currently on tour and had to miss this brief sibling get-together. then there was sam, who at twenty two was getting more serious roles and could now attach 'oscar nominee' to every movie he'd be a part of from this point forward. he believed he was at a good place in his life. he was still filming 'drift' everyday and he had the weekend off, which prompted matt to fly across the country to visit sam in valkyrie. the nineteen year old was in pur heaven as sam showed him around the hotel. matt might be underage, but when you were famous, a lot of rules tended to slide out of the way. "let me tell you, brother, the new york chicks don't have anything on these california girls." matt shook his head as the two brothers sat at one of the bars in the inferno. an attractive blonde walked passed them and smiled at matt. sam shrugged. "well, you know probably half of these girls are prosititutes, right?" the inferno tended to attract escorts because it was the only high-rolling hotel in valkyrie, surprisingly. but, it was big enough to house the city, sam was convinced. sam ordered the both of them another bottle of beer and matt sighed. "ok, you know what? i want to talk about real life. talk to me about carly." sam rolled his eyes and nodded towards the bartender when he gave them their drinks. "what's there to say? she knows where i stand and that i'm willing to wait. i took her by surprise, what did i expect?" matt took a sip of his beer. "so that's the real story, huh?" they both laughed. because tabloid stories tend to get half truths. ever since sam took carly as his date to the oscars, magazines were buzzing that they were "back together." too bad for them, they had never been together in the first place. after the oscar appearance there were several interpretations of how they got back together, about how they broke up and spent those months a part with sam in los angeles and carly in new york city. sam found them humorous and even read some of them, but he was trying to ignore most of them. his publicist and close friend, gabrielle, was telling him he didn't need to bother with gossip he needed to focus on the movie and work on the real relationship he was trying to have with carly. gabrielle had a point, and sam decided to follow it. gabrielle called him every few days saying star or e! or people wanted a comment on how spending time in valkyrie with carly and lily was, or sometimes, they wouldn't even be coy and go straight to 'confirm they're dating?' that question usually always came a morning after pictures were posted on blogs of sam, carly, and lily in the park, out to eat, or when carly and lily visited him on set. "dude, you're spacing out on me," matt said and shook his fingers in front of sam's face. sam looked over at his brother, "what did you say?" matt asked the bartender for another beer and looked back at sam. "i said have you met the other guy yet?" sam looked down at the bottle in his hand and swished it around. "no." sam wasn't sure he wanted to. he tried not to mention the guy when he was with carly because in his mind, the less she was reminded of him when she was with him, the better. "well, i bet you could kick his ass back to wherever the fuck he crawled out from." sam slightly cocked his head to the side. he could argue that. sam knew this guy wasn't exactly a nice guy, you never know what those types are capable of. "speaking of, where are those two? thought you said they lived here." matt looked up at the ceiling as if their room was right above the bar. "carly wanted to spend the day with lily. i told her i'd text her later tonight. see what they were up to." matt slapped him on the shoulder. "i do hope everything works out for you man. well, hello ladies." matt smiled as two girls that looked like they were probably in college and out to party tonight approach them. the girls didn't miss a beat. "we are huge fans of you two and we were wondering if we could get a picture?" the brunette of the two asked them holding her phone in her hand. "sure, of course," sam said and slid off his seat. he called the bartender over. "mind taking a picture?" the bartender shook his head and took the girl's phone. matt and sam got on either side of the girls and smiled for the picture. when the bartender handed the phone back, the brunette looked at sam, "thank you so much." sam shrugged, "not a problem." now it was matt's turn to not miss a beat. "hey, leaving so soon? how about i buy you ladies some drinks?" the girls exchanged looks like they might have misheard.right then, sam's phone started vibrating in his pocket. he pulled the phone out and saw carly's name. "one minute, i got to take this." he said and walked towards the end of the bar. he swiped his finger across the screen to answer, "i was just thinking about you," he said with a smile. "is this sam?" a voice he wasn't familiar with asked him. "uh, yes," he said. "my name is susan and i'm a nurse at valkyrie county hospital. carly told me to call you?" sam frowned. "what? is she ok?" he didn't understand what was going on. "there was an explosion downtown and carly and her daughter were injured in the blast. carly told me to call you." sam was wondering if this was all some kind of joke. "lily? what happened?" sam started walking back to his brother who was making chummy with his new girlfriends. "she was rushed back into surgery." "ok, i'm on my way. right now. thanks. for calling." he grabbed his coat off his chair and tapped matt on the shoulder. "hey i need to talk to you for a second." he was sure the girls meant no harm, but sam wasn't stupid. matt nodded and got up, telling the girls to make themselves comfortable. "i just got a call from the hospital. apparently there was some kind of explosion downtown and carly and lily are in the hospital. i gotta go." matt's eyes widened. "what? i'll come with you, i'll drive." sam smiled at the gesture but shook his head. "no. you've had too much to drink. go, enjoy your groupies. i'll text you when i hear anything new." matt looked torn as if he really wanted to go with sam but nodded. "ok. call me if you need me." "i will," sam said and started heading out to the front entrance. joe, sam's favorite valet was working tonight. "need the car tonight, sam?" joe asked. sam could only nod. "hey joe, you hear of some explosion?" joe nodded. "it's all anyone can talk about. china wok just blew up for no apparent reason. it's a mess over there man, don't try and drive over there. the cops have everything blocked off." sam's car rolled up. "i'll try and avoid it." it took him over fifteen minutes navigating through traffic to get the hospital. he quickly parked his car in the parking lot and ran towards the er's doors. the waiting room was flooded with people. some were crying, some were pacing, some had blood on their clothes. what? how bad was this explosion. sam was about to approach the nurse's desk when he spotted carly in a chair with a nurse tending to her head. "carly!" he said. the nurse looked at him. "she hit her head." sam knelt down by her, a hand on her knee. he didn't want to interfere with what the nurse was doing. "i came as soon as the nurse called. the nurse told me lily was still in surgery..." sam noticed another guy sitting next to carly. he was too invested on what was going on between the nurse and carly to be a guy that just happened to be sitting next to her. sam nodded towards him wondering if this was the jamie guy. "hey. i'm sam." .

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[caroline isabelle sutton]

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what was the big deal? so she never wanted to set sights on the people who had done her wrong and never wanted to grace them with her celebrity ever the fuck again. why did it matter? carly wasn't about to be the type to go back to her old hometown to rub in their face the girl they never should have let go. she didn't need to go back and remember the back roads she'd had to invent just so she'd never run into anyone on her walk home for fear of getting jumped or heckled all the way home. that wasn't something people intentionally went through and so carly ignored that. she didn't think anything of it either. she'd never heard of any invitation to return to keizer so it wasn't like there was some open snub there. besides, carly didn't consider that place home anymore, not that she'd ever really considered the place to be home. in carly's opinion valkyrie had been home and new york was her old hometown. she was happy to send her thoughts of keizer to the wind in the hopes that they would never, ever again return to her. and that thought process worked out rather well. the only memory carly really had of that place existing was lily. her little girl embodied everything carly wanted to forget but at the same time carly never held that against her daughter. it wasn't her fault for being conceived in such a horrid town and it wasn't her fault for people treating carly the way they had. the only person whose fault it was for treating her so miserably was the person who had dolled it out in the first place and they really didn't even register on carly's radar anymore. all that ever really mattered anymore was the fact that she'd gotten her daughter back and that she was happy and healthy and right now the latter was the thing most at jeopardy. carly honestly wouldn't know what to do with herself and if something ever happened to lily and she couldn't help but to think that this was all her fault. somehow, someway there had to have been something that carly could have done to prevent this because she knew without a shadow of a doubt that this had been a criminal thing. who was meeting? who was doing the targeting? carly would bet her life that she knew the responsible parties, or at least a few invested on either side. it was probably one of the reasons why so many people wanted her dead. hell a whole organization wanted her wiped off the planet and they'd almost gotten their wish. carly only wished that she could have somehow stopped this from happening. if she'd told someone about that poker game that night and the conversations they so flippantly told then maybe some of this wouldn't have happened. maybe she wouldn't be bruised to hell with a gash on the back of her head and maybe her daughter wouldn't be lying in a surgery room somewhere cold, scared, and with strangers poking and prodding her and digging to find out what was really wrong. she wanted to break into tears. donny's eyes found hers as he squatted in front of her and spoke to her. carly registered his words but with so little emotion she could hardly stand it. the ringing in her ears reverberated throughout her skull, mimicking lily's screams and all carly wanted to was to put her hands over her ears and cradle herself, praying that she would have the warm body of her daughter to hold later on. she managed a slight nod, trying her best to shake off the sticky, nervous shaking that had racked her body. moments later a familiar voice carrying over the din of the rushing hospital caught her ears and for the first time carly really perked up. "sam!" she said as she tried to look around the emergency room, the nurse scolding her and holding her head in place as she mopped up more blood. "sam!" she grabbed him as he knelt down in front of her, her arms wrapping around his neck as she buried her face in the crook created by his neck and shoulder, just shuddering in fear. "she was so still sam. i-i don't know what to do. my baby...god what's gonna happen to my baby." she felt strange hands prying her back, the nurses no doubt who wanted her to stop stressing herself and sit back in the chair but carly didn't want to. she reluctantly sat back as the nurse continued to work but settled for clutching at sam's hand, her own shaking now that she felt someone truly trustworthy was around to take care of her. it wasn't a slap to donny in an intentional way but instinctively carly knew that same was there for her and always had been. deep down carly knew that donny only meant the best and that she'd been lucky he was there or had heard or whatever but he was still the stranger in her life and she couldn't help her instinctive reaction to him. she couldn't help what her body chose to do and what her mind told her she should do. either way her instincts always won out and right now all she wanted was someone who knew her well. "d-d-donny?" she asked, her body making small, subtle rocking motions as she called out his name. "my...my mom...the rest of the...they don't know." she hoped he could get what she was trying to say because the words just weren't coming out right. notes, tag: sam, frankly anyone else can join in too xD word count, 1,237 thanks brooklyn from caution

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[donald jeremy davis]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 340px; background-image:url(http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss279/legendskseeker/fk5qwnjpg.png); padding: 30px; border: #3e0401 solid 30px; ] They say it's over but man, I'm still here livin OUTFIT: HERE. TAGGED: all on carly thread --- DONNY DID NOT FEEL GUILTY, HE DID NOT BLAME ANYTHING ON kale, no. Logically, perhaps he should but the truth was, he did not really blame anyone. People die all the time. And while he did not want Carly or Lily to be hurt, if they had died, he would have only blamed himself for not making sure they stayed away from the restaurant. Liz must have felt the same. But for the strangers who lost their family or friends tonight? For the people he didn't know who were being rushed past them in the hospital now, he really did not have any consideration for them whatsoever. Six years ago, he would have cared. Maybe still not as much as he should have but six years ago, he would have felt something like remorse because he would have wanted a way to get the restaurant closed down before Kale blew the joint. He would not have cared about the damage done in terms of the cost to deal with everything. But he would have cared about the life damages. Now? He could care less. And if something really bad did happen. Liz ran towards the building to get Riley and Tate out of the way, had she gotten hurt or killed, or if Lily doesn't make it out of this, while Donny would be incredibly enraged, it would not have been directed at Kale or the Italians or the Russians. Just at the situation. It may be a strange way of thinking about things but acts like the one of tonight was more an act of war. Liz or Lily would have been a casualty. Neither the Italians or the Russians were trying to kill either of them and Kale was, at the end of the day, just a hired pawn. It would have been something without blame in his mind, which is a hard concept for someone who was not part of the underground to understand, because to most the blame for the building blowing is obviously a mix if the Italians who hired him and Kale. But no, to Donny, it was the way the world was and if blame had to be dealt out, it would be God if there was one. Kale really was just a hired pawn. And Kale knew it. See, Kale had no real ambition. He liked what he did, he did it well, so he found a way to get paid for it but did he have anything against the Russians? No. Did he have any loyalty to the Italians? No. Had the Russians found him first he would have attacked the Italians. Hell, they could still hire him if they wanted, Donny knew his friend. The Sirens were friends with the Italians because the Italians respected the Siren claims on Chicago and Detroit and the Sirens respected the Italian claims to the west coast. Territories were marked and respected. The Russians respected neither. The ironic thing was that Kale had worked for the Russians before. Kale was not a Siren. Kale was not with anyone. He worked for whoever paid him. Kale was not interested in much else. He did not care if people trembled at his name. He was not in the business of threatening anyone. He was all in for himself but only for fun. Donny was now the same but Donny's idea of fun was power and recognition. Not recognition in the sense that his face was known to people. But recognition in the sense that his alias, A. Heyward was a name known throughout the world. That people recognized Heyward as the best, because he was and he knew he was. For fucks sake, he caused a black out in London from a cheap computer in a public library in Chicago when he was thirteen years old! Name a hacker who could top that at thirteen. He had basically free access to the electronic worlds of the FBI, CIA, NSA and all of the other abbreviated governmental organizations that people didn't even know about. Donny knew what was in Area 51. Not that he would tell anyone, he agreed with the government on this one, the public would not handle the truth in Area 51 well. But the truth of Heyward was that the original Donny Davis was slowly dying out, and Heyward was gaining more and more control of the body, and Donny didn't even care. He figured the more Heyward was in control, the more he would have, the better he would be. And he was going to prove to be the best. He was already recognized as one of the greats but he wanted the government to recognize him as the best hacker threat in the world. He wanted the underworld to recognize him as untouchable. He wanted to do all these things that a family would just get in the way of, or get hurt in the crossfire. It was unsettling for him. He looked up as a familiar looking young man with an exceptionally strong pair of eyebrows that he managed to make work for him, came running up to Carly and him. Donny watched them for a moment before he nodded as the guy introduced himself, "hey. i'm sam." Donny thought for a moment, before nodding, "You're that movie guy. Name's Donny. " He said putting out his hand momentarily, "I'm sort of her other brother." He added as casually as possible before looking back at Carly. He wasn't really offended or anything that she was so excited to see Sam, whom she was obviously very close to, and barely reacted to his presence. It was exactly what they had been fighting about. You don't have a close relationship to someone just because your blood. If anything she proved his point. Just because he was there and he was her brother of sorts did not mean it meant anything to her he came because they were still basically strangers. And honestly, now that this Sam guy was here and could be with her, he still had things to do that night. He needed to check on Liz who ran towards the building. He needed to shake Kale's hand and then help him spend the profit drinking. Compartmentalizing was a gift from the gods. He turned to look at her as she spoke his name with a bit of a stutter. "my...my mom...the rest of the...they don't know." Donny shook his head as if to say she didn't need to finish, "Yeah, no I got it. Don't worry. I'll give 'em a call." He assured her standing up and walking a little off to the side to give the two their space. He pulled out his normal traceable Donny Davis cell and dialed the Sutton household, he briefly hoped it would be Wesley that answered, because he was easily the least awkward to deal with but no such luck as Emilia, Donny's birthmother answered. "Hey Emilia, It's Donny." He paused as she spoke before he cut in, "Look sorry but actually this is about Carly and Lily. Have you been watching the ne- - - yes, yes they're down at the hospital, Carly's fine, but Lily's pretty hurt - - - okay, I'll tell her." Donny then ended the call before turning back towards Carly and Sam. "Okay so, your mom's on the way with Wes." He told her, tone as calm and controlled as it always was. I think that maybe I'm in over my head

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[samuel henry lockhart]

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The anxiety, the worry, the confusion, it was all new to him. he didn't like feeling this way. sam was only close to his brother and sister and his parents and none of them had ever been in an accident, never were hospitalized for being sick, nothing was every wrong. sam didn't take that for granted, he knew there was a lot of suffering in the world, but he himself never had to experience that. well, until now. his feelings towards carly were known to her, and sam felt like he was lily's second father. sam had spent so much time with the both of them since sam came to valkyrie for filming. it wasn't like he stopped caring for them those months that they were a part, but having them around only made his feelings for them stronger. sam felt shaky, words were proving to be hard as they formed in his head, and he could feel is throat growing dry. he felt her arms wrap around his neck when he crouched down next to her, his arms circling around back out of instinct when her face buried itself on his shoulder. "she was so still sam. i-i don't know what to do. my baby...god what's gonna happen to my baby." carly was pulled away from the nurse. "she's going to be fine. i know it," he said, though of course he didn't know. no one knew. carly was the one that saw her, sam had no idea how hurt lily was or what she was in the er for. a nurse was still tending to carly's head and sam held onto her hand tightly. "You're that movie guy. Name's Donny." sam nodded and smiled a little bit. "yeah, that's me." he shook donny's hand, more relieved that his name wasn't jamie. donny continued saying he was carly's other brother. sam nodded again, not missing a beat, "oh, ok. carly was telling me about you." sam had gotten to know carly's family over the years like carly did to his. he had met her three siblings, the triplets. not too long ago, carly had been telling him about another brother she had out there, who was living in valkyrie. "good to meet you, man." the nurse was still busying herself. "um, ma'am? is she ok?" sam asked nodding towards carly. "she'll be ok. it looks like just a scratch. but i'd finish a lot quicker if you'd stop moving around." she said towards carly. sam smiled towards carly and rubbed her knee. as soon as this nurse was out of the way, then sam could talk to her freely without feeling like he was getting in the way. carly looked over at donny and started explaining that no one from her family was told yet. donny nodded and got up to go call them. the nurse, too said, "ok, you're done. i'll go check on your daughter." when the nurse left, sam took her spot next to carly. he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "carly, everything will be ok." again, he knew he didn't know but a little hope did a lot in situations like this. he was silent for a couple seconds before adding, "what happened? the valet at the hotel told me it was an explosion. matt and i didn't hear a thing." sam was surprised that they hadn't heard anything. he knew the hotel was loud and bustling like a mall, but a bomb detonating was something he was sure he would have heard. the inferno wasn't exactly located right in the heart of the downtown area, but it was a five minute drive away. maybe the talking was just loud enough and the music was just loud enough to where matt and he didn't hear anything. matt... that was right, he was probably wondering what was going on. he pulled out his phone with his free hand and ran through the contacts. "matt wanted to stay updated." he got to matt's name and shot off a "lily's still in surgery, carly's fine." and pressed send. though carly was physically fine, sam knew that she wasn't "fine." he rubbed her back as they waited for donny to come back from calling carly's family and the nurse to get back from trying to figure out what was going on with lily. sam had never waited in an emergency room before. he didn't know the procedure because he knew it would be different than that in the movies. but sam thought, it wasn't like lily was just in surgery and she'd be out in an hour. from his understanding, she was probably unconscious when she was brought in and the doctors were trying to save her life. he'd think that they'd be getting updates fairly regularly. though, as sam looked around the waiting room, it was like a zoo. he had been there for barely ten minutes and already the room was more crowded than when he entered. people were crying, people had scratches on their faces. injuries that weren't exactly "emergency" but still would have to get checked out. it looked like the hospital had been severely understaffed for the night, but it wasn't like you could plan for a bomb. nurses and doctors that had probably been spending family time in their homes were being called in to assist. sam couldn't shake the constant noise of the sirens ringing through his years, and a stretcher bursting through the swinging doors every few minutes and being whisked off to wherever lily was. donny came back, saying that carly's mom and wesley were on their way. sam nodded. "the nurse just left to go see if she could find anything out about lily." what else was there to say? lily was in surgery, the doctors were trying to save her life, and it seemed like valkyrie was falling apart from beneath them. ---

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[caroline isabelle sutton]

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"huh?" she said realizing sam had asked her a question, "oh. we were having girl's day. we'd spent all day hanging out on the streets and going to vendors. we even went to the boardwalk and played some of the games there. we were going to get some food and the china wok...it was right there. so we headed to the building and it just...all i felt after that was fire. and lily...she hit the ground so hard." carly started welling up again, brushing the tears away from her eyes with dirt-smudged hands. "my baby." she whispered under her breath as sam turned to his phone. she watched absentmindedly as donny stepped out of earshot, on his phone, calling up her family like carly had asked. she didn't get it. how had he known? carly had to admit that the ambulance had gotten to her and lily remarkably fast. she cocked her head to the side slightly, not as far as she normally would have seeing as how her neck was shooting with pain from the whiplash or whatever it was going on with her body. she just watched him for a moment, seeing his lips move as he finished up his phone conversation and headed back over to them. why was she getting a weird feeling? maybe it was just the reaction to everything that had been happening. carly had heard something about shock. maybe shock made you think strange things about foreign family members. she shook the thought from her head without shaking her head because she knew that would hurt to much. there was no way that donny had preempted the explosion. he would have had to know about it... she chased away the thoughts as donny came back, talking about how her brother and mother were on their way. she nodded before deciding to speak up. "thank you for being here. if you need to get to someone else, or check on someone else...you can." carly didn't know how else to tell him that he had no real obligation to her and that he didn't have to stick around if her didn't want to. she knew the air around here was uncomfortable and hospitals didn't tend to sit well with a lot of people. she didn't know how donny really handed anything because she didn't know him in the slightest. still she was grateful, but she didn't want him sticking around simply because he had to and she knew that he probably didn't want to be running into yet another sutton family reunion. not to mention the fact that someone else he knew could have been hurt? she figured he would have been a little more concerned about leaving if that was the case, but what did she know, really. she leaned her head on sam's shoulder, sliding her hand into his and interlinking their fingers. she was so unbelievably glad that he was still here for her despite her confusion and trepidation. despite the feelings she knew he knew she had for jamie he was still here and he was supporting her and lily. the whole thing was just so overwhelming it made carly want to cry all over again. it had been a few minutes later when the nurse finally reappeared, telling them nothing new by way of news. lily was still in surgery, they were still doing everything they could to reverse the swelling. after giving them the non-news news the woman hurried off to help more people leaving carly with a ton of questions and no one to answer them. a few more minutes passed an a new nurse approached them, asking if they would like to get out of the crowds and wait in what would be lily's recovery room. carly nodded. it sounded better than being around all these strangers who were bellowing in pain, sobbing uncontrollably, or desperately seeking out their family members. "yeah, get me the hell out of here." she said as she gripped sam's arm, the request pretty much geared at him. notes, tag: sam, frankly anyone else can join in too xD word count, 1,194 thanks brooklyn from caution

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[donald jeremy davis]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 340px; background-image:url(http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss279/legendskseeker/fk5qwnjpg.png); padding: 30px; border: #3e0401 solid 30px; ] They say it's over but man, I'm still here livin OUTFIT: HERE. TAGGED: all on carly thread --- DONNY FELT ANXIOUS FOR SOME STRANGE REASON. THIS WAS a foreign feeling for the hacker. He was so used to not caring about anything or anyone except for those he already considers family. But there he was, honestly worried about the little girl. I mean, I can guarantee his level of concern was microscopic compared to Carly's but still. It was high enough that honestly, it felt like too much. Too soon. He felt a bit like he was not the one in control and that was not a feeling Donny was fond of. He felt as though, he should probably get out of there. He was supposed to go meet up with Kale and Liv anyways. This new guy seemed to have things handled anyways. Sam, that was what he called himself. Donny was pretty much a sci fi/action only kind of guy when it came to movies but he had seen the Social Network with a girl on a date once, which was why Donny had been able to recognize him. No, Donny's favorite movie was a kid and into today was the original Tron movie. Of course, that was where his name as Heyward came from, the secret connection in the productions of Tron and the writer of Inspector Gadget, his idol when he was seven. Donny did not even mind the newer Tron. Tron Legacy. Obviously the story wasn't nearly as original or well written as the first but the effects for Tron, because of the new age technology and all? The film makers were able to really bring the grid to life in the way the original wanted to but did not have the means to do. So he appreciated it. Liz always seemed to think it was funny that Kale was his best friend because at the end of the day, Kale really did look like the kid who played Sam Flynn in the newer Tron film. Ironic coincidence I guess. And speaking of Kale, Donny momentarily wondered if the Brit would already be wasted. He had not really gotten used to the whole idea of his other side of the family yet. I mean, neither had they, but the difference was they kept clearly trying. Donny was trying to because he didn't want to be a complete asshole but the way he saw it was that they met, they got to know a bit about each other and that that should be enough. Forcing a connection was just stupid right? And besides, even when Donny cared about you, he was rarely there until you needed him. He only really knew how to be family when someone in his was in need of help. But talking to Emilia was still so strange. It was like the Davis's were raised on a separate planet from the Suttons instead of a different state. He simply couldn't shake his instinct to pull away when he saw a hand going for his face. He was not a hugger unless he knew the person well when Emilia seemed eager to be as though they hadn't been separated but most of all was that Donny did not feel right answering questions about his past and background. Questions he knew they wanted to ask. They didn't want to know though, not really. How was he supposed to tell them, not only is he the physical embodiment of the rape but that he was also a hacker on the most wanted list of thirteen major countries. Oh and he had killed a few people... yeah, that's always a fun conversation starter with straight edge people. Honestly, he had already taken a bit of a risk immediately calling for help before the explosion blew. He wasn't worried, he knew his skill and he knew they would not be able to trace the call but still, it would not be all that difficult for Carly to put it together. If she even realized it had happened. He had gone pretty much straight to the hospital after making sure the ambulance picked them up. He looked over at Carly as Sam sat down next to her. Two celebrities who defied stereotypes about being self obsessed, it was clear Carly cared more for her daughter than just about anything, and the way she hugged this Sam guy and how he seemed to drop everything to come for her... People like that were your family. Of course family could also be really cruel. After Isabel died, he couldn't feel anything apart from his sorrow and rage, mostly rage. And when he was handed to picture of his sister dead that had been wrapped in a gift box addressed to Liz, he had walked up to Liz an handed her the photo. He looked her in the eye and told her it was her fault, this was meant for her. He basically told her it should have been her. And while at the rawest level, he was in a way correct, Isabel died because of Liz killing Darren and then lying about Riley Turner's involvement to save his ass, but Donny did regret saying it. No, he wasn't beating himself up but he knew Liz was already feeling the guilt, he knew Liz loved Izzy too, he knew Liz was suicidal at the time and he had still said it. He never really apologized officially but he had sort of. He had begun to, she stopped him, said she knew and that had been that. "thank you for being here. if you need to get to someone else, or check on someone else...you can." Donny had turned back to look at her as she spoke. He hid a sigh of relief. Honestly he was not too ready for the idea of a family reunion taking place in a hospital after tragedy just yet. He nodded and pursed his lips before he stepped closer to where she and Sam were sitting. "I probably should, Wid, the umm kinda bitchy girl, she was a bit shaken" He said, lying a bit but it sounded better that 'yeah I'm meeting the guy who blew up your kid for drinks.' He looked at Sam, "You good with this?" He asked before nodding again and giving a small wave, "Just... let me know when they know she's okay?" He added sincerely before turning and making his way towards the exit. I think that maybe I'm in over my head

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[samuel henry lockhart]

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TAGGED: CARLY NOTES: this probs sucked. --- CARLY was explaining to him the day she and lily were having all the way up to the explosion. that would have been scary. to be walking one minute, and then the next second you were lying on the ground. sam couldn't imagine what that was like. carly was still frantic and worried, and from the sounds of it, lily was knocked out right away. maybe if it had to happen one way, that was the way, because being awake with the pain would have been torture. at least they knew she hadn't been in any pain going to the hospital. though sam had never been in a emergency room before, he knew why people didn't like it. it was sad and it reminded him of death. and everyone in the room was just as worried as sam was. and sam was putting full faith in these doctors. or maybe he was just too much of an optimist to think that lily could die. no... it just seemed weird to think that. that didn't happen to them. i mean... you hear it happening on the news, but no one ever thought it could happen to them. sam watched the nurse disappear behind the swinging doors of the operating rooms. carly told donny that he didn't have to stay and if he needed to check on someone else, he could. donny said something about maybe checking on someone else and to keep him updated, and then he left. carly put her head on sam's shoulder and held his hand as they waited for the nurse to come back. though in reality, they were probably waiting for ten minutes, it felt like an hour. especially when the first nurse came back and said the doctors were still operating on her and trying to reduce the swelling. information that answered nothing like 'is she going to be ok?' they had been operating on her for awhile now, they had to of had some kind of useful information on her well being. sam knew they were quite busy right now, but it would have taken two seconds to give them something more than what she gave them. the second nurse came a few minutes after the first one left them. this one asked if they wanted to wait in the room that would be lily's recovery room. did that mean she was going to be ok? sam was assuming so. they stood up and carly held onto sam's arm saying she wanted to get out of there. he didn't blame her. the crying and moans weren't sounds he ever wanted to hear again. there needed to be more nurses in the emergency waiting room to make sure none of these people were seriously injured. sam followed the nurse out of the room and down the hallway to the recovery rooms. "does this mean lily is going to be ok?" sam decided to ask the nurse. the nurse looked at them as she led them to a room on the right. "yeah. the doctors stopped the bleeding, and reduced the swelling. she should be fine now." should be. the nurse slipped that in there. so, lily was supposed to be ok, but anything could happen over the next twenty four hours or whatever. the nurse turned on the lights of the room and showed them to the chairs. "the doctors will bring her in here around ten, fifteen minutes. they'll explain everything that happened and what they did during surgery." the nurse left, leaving carly and sam alone in the room. "see? i know lily could pull through anything," he told carly with a smile and pulled his arms around her, pulling her into a hug. he sighed, letting go of all the tension and confusion that had been building up in him after the nurse called him while he was drinking with his brother. sam's phone started buzzing in his pocket. he relunctantly let go of carly and was almost tempted to just ignore the call but he reached in to see who it was. "it's my mother. i should take it, she's probably worried." sam didn't even have a chance to greet her because the moment he accepted the call his mom was already talking. "samuel. are you and matthew ok?" sam took a step back from carly, "yeah, we're ok." "honey, it's all over the news over here. what happened?" sam knew nothing. he assumed the news knew more about what was going on. "i have no idea, a restaurant blew up. i'm at the hospital right now with carly. lily got hurt." he heard his mom gasp over the phone. "oh, no, the poor thing. i hope everything is ok?" sam nodded. "yeah, we're in her recovery room right now. they're bringing her in soon." his mom sighed again. his parents adored carly and lily, and his mom always knew sam's true feelings about carly. he could fool the paparazzi, but never his mother. sam noticed lily's bed getting wheeled into the room followed by a doctor. "mom, i got to go. the doctor's here." his mother wished them the best before hanging up. sam stepped up to stand next to the her. the doctor looked at the two. "you're the parents?" he asked. sam jokingly smiled. too much explanation there. "yeah. everything is ok now with lily?" he asked. the doctor nodded. which was probably the best gesture he'd seen this entire night. ---

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[caroline isabelle sutton]

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