Third Person's POV
Valerie and Aileen is still crying when the ambulance arrived, El's bodyguard also cried secretly while shoving cameras off of reporters' asses. Mr. Trevino'e hands are still trembling, he just witnessed a shooting, and not just an ordinary shooting, he witnessed his favorite gem and gentlest friend get shot! He blames himself for not getting there sooner.
Everyone was blaming themselves. On the other hand back in Australia the doctors have just finished taking the crash cart out of Mr. Del Acosta's Room, the exhausted Mrs. Coleen Del Acosta was comforted by El's secret boyfriend Ash Ron.
They haven't heard what happened to El yet, no one from paris dared to say a word, everyone including the models were too pre-occupied. The event organizers are handling the reporters to silent them from all that's happened at the meantime, Mr. Trevino of El's Agency specifically requested not to let the news out internationally yet, they want El's parents to be the ones to know first about what's happened, they don't want the internet to be the one to bring the dreadful news to the Del Acosta Family.
As Mr. Trevino rode with El' in the ambulance, Danica and the two assistants used the Agency's rented car to ride as convoy. The hunky bodyguard and his men hunter down the suspect who was actually a man, he's just a needy kid who got paid to do the dirty job, they're now hunting the woman who planned and organized all of this, the woman is no other than Selene Sam, the wife of the deceased Daniel Sam.
"Single open would, no exit wound, we're losing vitals." The brunette paramedic stated.
"The bullet didn't fully hit the heart, it just pierced the poor thing." The brunette paramedic tried to explain, the other one seems to not know how to speak English fluently.
"The chest, we need to crack open the chest, can you look away?" The other woman who doesn't speak fluent English asked Mr. Trevino who was holding El's hand.
"Will she be fine?" The nervous Trevino asked.
"She won't be if we don't perform open thoracotomy now, " the Red-haired paramedic stated with a french accent.
" What's does that mean? " Mr. Trevino nervously asked. Whatever happened today was partly his fault because he let El' go to Paris in the first place, her family would never forgive him, and he would never forgive himself for losing a friend.
" We are going to crack open her chest and massage it to keep it beating, my friend here believes that somewhere inside she has a small or huge hole that might've hit a nerve. " The brunette paramedic explained.
" Believes? What if it's not really that? Would you be risking her more damage of scarring or she may lose blood if you open her up, right?" The worried Mr. Trevino begged the paramedic for answers.
" Look I'm just a paramedic, my friend here can't speak english that fluent, so she can't explain it to you, but I assure you she knows what she's doing, she was once a Cardiothoracic surgeon in the military. " The brunette explained the qualifications of her friend.
" Please do everything to make her live. " The girls acted fast as soon as Mr. Trevino stopped asking them questions.
" Do you feel the lesion? " The brunette asked. Mr. Trevino followed their request to turn around, so he doesn't really see what they're doing.
" Yes! She has a hole in the her right ventricle, but as long as I keep my hand here I can feel a good heartbeat. " The Red-haired said in her french accent.
That immediately made Trevino's grip on El's hands tighter, all the hole and opening of the chest talk makes him scared for his friend's life. "Aren't we there yet?" Mr. Trevino asked impatiently.
"We'll arrive there sir, just please calm down." The paramedic reminded.
" Aileen stop crying I can't focus on driving if you keep on sobbing like a cow that's being slaughtered. " Danica yelled in fear. She doesn't have a driver's license in Paris, she's going over the speed limit, a killer is on the lose, and her model just got shot in the heart and pelvis. She's really scared of everything that's happening right now.
" Again I'm telling you we need to tell her parents, " Valerie yelled at Danica because she's been ignoring her since before El got shot.
" I told you not to tell El' yet! If only El' didn't knew about her dad, she wouldn't have been outside! " Danica blamed Valerie.
" I don't care if you blame me! But there is a family worried about their little girl in Australia, and a boyfriend who didn't have a chance to talk nicely with his girlfriend before she left, because her manager kept on bugging her to come to paris! " Valerie rebutted hitting Danica back with blaming words.
" Will the two of you just stop? This is both your fault! And it's our fault for letting her go here in the first place, can you stop blaming each other? We all have a contribution on this happening. " Aileen yelled at the quacking two.
" We need to tell Mr. And Mrs. Del Acosta! " Valerie screamed on the top of her lungs.
" You don't even know if Mr. Acosta is alive! What if you just make Mrs. Acosta more sad!" Danica screamed too.
" Stop it or we'll crash! Maybe we'll get to heaven sooner than Emerald! " Aileen cried out loud.
"Prep O.R. 3 ASAP, Ms. Del Acosta needs surgery right away. " A doctor said as soon as she heard what the Red-haired doctor told her in french which Mr. Trevino did not understand. The doctors took away El' and left Trevino in the waiting room.
Aileen, Valerie and Danica had just arrived. Mr. Trevino told them to call El's mother and inform her of what's happened.
Ash Ron did not like the news and couldn't help himself but slam his hand on the wall, he keeps on hitting it and eventually just trembled in exhaustion on the hospital floor.
"I'm going to see her," Ash Ron forced Mr. Trevino to approve.
"We'll go home as soon as her surgery is over, then you need to look for a hospital that'll clear their whole floor for El'. They don't get to make money out of gossips about her, not while she's fighting for her life." Mr. Trevino explained what everyone should do.
"What's the success rate or the surgery? And is the doctor familiar with cases like that?" El's mother asked worriedly.
"I don't know, let's just pray for the best." Mr. Trevino answered.
"We found Selene Sam, she's was captured in the airport just in time." The bodyguard told everyone in the hospital, El's mother also heard from the monitor.
"Selene really went far this time." She whispered but was still catched in the monitor.
"She really did." Aileen responded.
"I'll need to settle things with the French military deffense secretary, they want to keep her since she had caused not only miss Del Acosta's lesions, but also some other civilian's." The bodyguard left right after he said so.
"They need to let her go back to Australia, she deserves to pay for her crimes here. If they take her she wouldn't be able to pay for what she's done to our family, and the families of the workers that she ruined in Del Acosta group of company's management. " Miss Del Acosta informed.
"Let's think about El' for the meantime. " Ash Ron suggested.
After a long day of surgey, it took almost six hours atleast, the doctors finally went to see us. "She's fine, we fixed the hole in her right ventricle, let's just wait till she wakes up." The handsome doctors informed them, which made everyone shout in joy.
"We're taking her home to Australia, can that happen anytime soon? Her parents and boyfriend really needs to see her, her father's in the hospital when she left, he had a stroke. " Aileen informed the doctor how important it is for El to go back home. After some discussion her doctor agreed to clear her for transfer, only if he gets to come and monitor her on the plane. Ofcourse the Agency had already booked a private plane for their favorite gem's usage.
El's body was weak, given that she's a model, she's pretty slim, she's malnourished, and apart from that she didn't have a nutritious diet at all. Her body needed enough time to heal itself, not to mention she also had multiple surgeries perdormed in Australia when she came home. Paris doctors cleaned out the blood from her stomach, it was a effect from her lower lesion. She had unfortunately the one taken cared by the French doctors had a blood clot again, so they needed to fix that up again, they said it must've been because of her long travel when they transported her back home. She also had some alllergic reaction to the thread used to patch her ventricle so they needed to re-do the surgery performed, which was very scary, especially for the family and her Agency's management that had been with her during it happened, but luckily she survived it again.
Ash Ron's friend Doctor Stevens was the one who performed the surgery, he was the same doctor who took care of Mr. Del Acosta along with another doctor who was a neuro surgeon, when he experience seizures, and prevented a heart attack. It took months until the last surgery was done, it was a plastic surgery that was performed by Australia's best Plastic surgeon, she took care of El's scarring in case she still wants to pursue modelling soon. Venice and Ash Ron coordinated with the board members to get the company back to it's proper financial standing, Ash Ron was ofcourse supervised and given authority by Coleen Del Acosta.
The reason why she was in a comatose is because they kept her that way to heal more, they decided to stop the drugs they were giving him after four and a half months of going into surgeries. At that point they were just waiting for her to wake up.
El might haven't known yet, but Ash Ron really pulled some strings to surprise her when she wakes up. He's planning to officially ask her hand one more time, and this time, he wants it to perfectly fit what El deserves.
Five months after the day of the shooting, El' showed symptoms of being awake. She moved her fingers and gripped Ash Ron's hand that was holding hers. Everybody have already prepared for her awakening, exactly three days after her recent signs of recovery she uttered her first words.
"Did I got shot?" She asked and slowly opened her eyes everybody was talking when she uttered it.
"You're awake, wow! Uhm are you feeling alright? Want me to call on the doctors?" Ash Ron asked.
"We're here sweetie, you can tell us what you want." Mother Coleen exclaimed.
"Do you need anything? " Aileen's voice from the back echoed inside the room.
" Yeah! I need my peace please. " El' replied and slightly giggled which made everyone laugh a bit.
" It's glad to have you back kid, " Danica said before leaving along with the others. Only El' and Ash Ron were left inside her hospital room.
She looked at him as if she was studying his features, he was looking at her very happy to see her awake, for the first time in several months the woman he wants to marry is now breathing just fine again. "I know what you've been through, you got shot, your chest have been open in the field, they did all sorts of surgeries to you, I know you're hurting sweetheart. That's why I'll stay here by your side until the day we're old, wrinkly, and might even have trouble hearing each other; Emerald Del Acosta I know you just woke up, but I've been waiting for you for so long, regretting that I didn't asked for your hand sooner, when you were asleep I just kept on thinking that what if I ruined my chance? What if you didn't wake up? I'm not going to make the same wrong decision of leaving before, I'm doing it now. I Ash Ron Mendoza, just a simple man with a simple life was told by a beautiful girl that even though I won't propose she would still marry me, that's why I would like to ask if it didn't change, Will you still marry me my El' ?" El'cried while Ash Ron was finishing what he's got to say.
"Ofcourse, Yes!" El' whispered in his ear.
Happiness filled the room when El' said yes, Ash Ron was jumping in excitement, and El' was laughing and crying at the same time. It's almost like they've forgotten about tha bad things that happened already.
People started marching inside the room bringing balloons, party poppers, and all sorts of celebration stuff. The nurses weren't happy about their disturbance and the mess they were doing, they are also not happy about the newly awoken patient to be stressing herself to much, but deep inside they're also happy to the couple who would be wed. Aileen and Valerie popped another party popper, Demon and Simon brought in the foods. Danica and Mr. Trevino was just standing there happy for what's happening with El.
El'tried to speak but Ash Ron can't hear her over the noises so he shushed everyone for El' "You know what I realized, that time isn't always on our side. I don't want to be in the hospital again for so long, I don't want to keep you waiting. Let's do it soon, let's get married now." El said which made everyone shocked.
"Sorry to interrupt but you can't even stand up yet, we will not allow you to leave the hospital to plan for a wedding anytime soon, Miss Del Acosta. I suggest keep on waiting for your full recovery, we don't want to risk yout health." The nurse spoke up so that everybody could hear her clearly. El' Del Acosta is their treasured patient, their whole hospital floor is in lockdown just for her, just to keep her safe, they can't hope to see the patient they've been working on for five months to just die out of exhaustion.
"I already have a plan for the wedding, she doesn't need to worry about anything but the dress." Ash Ron replied to the nurse.
"We'll help her buy the dress! We can call in the boutique, they'll bring their gowns here." Aileen excitedly said and looked at Valerie.
"I'll shoulder anything you need to pay for the food, pick a place you want to cater the wedding. Send me the receipt." Mr. Trevino spoke up which made the couple smile in awe, everyone around them are so generous.
"We'll take care of the venue designs," Simon suggested and Demon also nodded. El' just giggled at the thought that these two masculine in heart people would be taking care of her wedding's designs.
"Flowers are mine, don't worry about that already." Danica then said after everyone was done.
"Are the nurses and doctors invited?" The nurse asked Ash Ron. He looked at El' and she just smiled meaning yes.
"Yes, everyone in the hospital who wants to come can come. " He assured the nurse who then left excitedly to inform her co-workers.
"Tell my parents, and my model friends. I want them to be there," El' said before closing her eyes again. The happiness and all the adrenaline already left her body, that's why she's now feeling sleepy. So they let her sleep for the moment.
The hospital belonged to Mr. Del Acosta's friend, Ash Ron easily asked the owner if he and El could do their wedding in the hospital chapel of the hospital and he agreed, given that the chapel is in the same floor as El's room. The flower arrangement team that Danica ordered already came to distribute the flowers and make the place look pretty. Demon and Simon were struggling at first but after Mr. Trevino helped them with choosing the right designs, it all went smoothly.
Sapphire and Diamond also arrived early than the others, El' was still sleeping when they arrived so they just helped with the flowers and decorations.
Beryl and Onyx also heard about the wedding, they congratulated Ash Ron the winner of El's heart before they proceeded to go inside the chapel and help Simon and Demon who was struggling on straighting their signs. Aileen and Valerie just arrived too! They brought the dresses from a friend's boutique just for El', ofcourse they can't let their model friend wear something plain in her wedding day, because it's her wedding day!
The Priest arrived at last in the evening, so they woke up El'. When she woke up she saw the dresses and the one her friend's chose for her, each of ther friend's also wore creamy blue colored dresses which is El's favorite color. The bouquet is also blue. Valerie fixed El's hair and put a little bit of make up on her face.
When they helped her walk she saw a red carpet outside her room, at first she smiled but when the feeling sinked inside of her she dropped a tear. "Don't cry please, you're going to ruin your make up." Aileen reminded her.
El' remembered her dad had a heart attack before she got shot, she got nervous to continue, she felt bad not even asking if her dad's okay when she woke up. Standing there frozen and helpless, a man with a walking stick came by her. "Why are you keeping your groom waiting, my dear?" Asked the jolly old man.
El cried just by seeing her father there, walking, ready to walk her in the aisle. "I'm sorry if I was so stubborn dad-" her dad cut her off.
"Shhhh! This is your wedding day, you should only think about the wedding, apologize and talk later." Her dad said so she smiled along with Valerie and Aileen who was fixing her make up.
The two already went inside and left the father and daughter outside for their walk.
"Let's do this my dear." The dad said.
And then the doors opened, it revealed the dashing lights of the chapel and the flower scented room. Her friends were standing in the edge of the elevated part of the chapel, nurses and doctors were sitting in the seats looking at her glamorous beauty, and Ash is right there on the end of the aisle, waiting for his bride to come forward.
"Feels just like my first Runway experience." She nervously but happily described.