More at the hospital

Sam felt numb as she listened to the phone ring, waiting for her parents to pick up. She'd been trying all night to get a hold of them but for some reason they hadn't answered. She'd left at least a dozen frantic messages but now she didn't have the energy to be frantic anymore. The familiar message played in her ear but she almost forgot to start talking after the beep. "Oh uh, I need you to call me, soon." She fliped her phone closed and slumped lower in her chair. It was almost 7 am, they had been sitting at the hospital for 8 hours and still didn't know any more then they had known when they arrived. Jess, who had been pacing for the last few hours, sat down next to her.

"I should probably call my mom and check on the kids. And I think I'll call in today."

"Sure hun, sounds good." Sam hardly heard what Jess had said, but was too tired to do anything but agree.

Sam started to doze off. Her phone rang and she flung it in the air as she jumped from her chair. Picking it up from the carpet she answered it. "Hello?"

"Sam its mom. What's wrong?"

Sam couldn't hold her composure and began violently sobbing into the phone. She was so upset that she didn't even notice when Rance slid the phone from her hand.

"Hello?"

"Rance, this is Berta. What is going on with Andi? Why is Sam so upset?"

Rance swallowed hard. He hadn't intended to be the one telling his inlaws about Andi's condition. "We don't really know what's going on. Evan beat her to a pulp and she's in the hospital but they haven't told us anything. Last we heard they were working on stablizing her." Rance waited for a response but was answered only by silence.

"Hello?" Now Andi's father was on the other end, agitation rising out of his voice.

"Hi Rod, is Berta ok?"

"She's sobbing. What's going on Rance?"

"Evan beat Andi last night. She's in the hospital but we don't know anything. They will only tell us that they are trying to stablize her. The doctor did tell us that all of the family should probably come as soon as possible though."

"Well it will take us an hour or so to get packed and then we'll hit the road. If I go strait through we should be there in about 7 hours." Rod hung the phone up with out saying goodbye.

Rance sat down next to Sam and put his arm around her. He felt an odd relief as he looked across the room at his sleeping wife. He wasn't sure he could handle much more of the hystaria that had ruled their lives most of the night.