#pass out

I’m sitting on the edge of my bed in the emergency room rubbing at my chest. Someone has gone off to chase the doctor up about my discharge papers but all of a sudden I’m not feeling good. It’s like my heart is being forced through intense exercise while I’m just sitting down, racing along in my chest and thudding so strongly I can feel each seperate beat shake my little body.

My breath catches as a wave of intense dizziness comes over me, I’m no longer hooked up to any monitors now because I’m meant to be going home but I know I need to tell someone about this before it gets dangerous. It feels like I haven’t taken my medication for the entire day, but I have, the nurses were delivering it to me every four hours… weren’t they?

I push my trembling body to its feet, feeling my heart rate immediately sky rocket and I gasp in surprise as my entire body begins to go numb. I’m going to faint, I can just feel it but this is all happening so fast for me, usually I have a warning. I manage two steps forward and catch the eye of a nurse across the room who looks instantly concerned and then I just crumple. My legs give out and when I hit the floor of the ER I’m already unconscious.

By the time the nurse has run to my side and pressed her fingers into the soft skin of my neck my muscles are tensed and I’m spasming on the cold hospital floor. She finds my pulse racing almost too fast to count and very gently rolls me onto my side in the recovery position. I’m known here, my heart condition makes me a semi regular and she kindly smooths my long hair off of my face, telling me it’s going to be okay. She’s got me. Around her other staff are running over and closing the curtains around my bed to give me privacy.

My eyes are slightly rolled back in my head and completely unfocused, my breaths are coming in sharp little gasps as I twitch. It’s usually over by now, my heart usually corrects itself and I regain consciousness but this time the nurse can feel my pulse only getting faster. She asks for an oxygen mask, a pulse ox and for someone to fetch a crash cart just in case as my pulse peaks over 194bpm and my twitching arms tuck into my chest. I’m starting to drool a little bit from the corner of my mouth and my breathing is laboured, she’s worried now, she’s never seen my episodes last this long before.

Then, as my heart stumbles and pushes itself to its limits she frantically calls out for a code the exact second I enter vfib, yelling over a loud snoring gasp I produce, my arms contorting and I go into cardiac arrest.

Dizzy

𝔭𝔞𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 - Matt x fem!reader

𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔶 - request <3

𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰 - nothing

You smile as the bright stage lights shine down, the crowd still going wild for the triplets. This being the last show, Matt asked you to be his partner which you happily accepted.

You’ve never been on tour before but it’s exceeded your expectations, although very stressful.

Matt tosses the basketball to you, snapping you out of your little trance. Standing up from your chair, you wobble a bit, your vision going fuzzy.

“You alright there love?”

“Mhm” you blink a few times before walking up to shoot. After missing the shot miserably once again, you return to your previous seat, feeling like absolute shit.

Suddenly, the lights felts extremely bright, the voices seemed painfully loud, and you didn’t think you had enough energy to shoot again.

You push yourself off of the chair with shaky hands, ready to make your way over to Matt. It’s not like this is the first time this has happened, you’ve felt like this on and off all day today and yesterday.

“I’m gonna go get water quick” you whisper to Matt after he finishes shooting.

“Do you want some of mine?” He offers, pointing at his nearly full water bottle sitting on the ground.

You just shake your head, making your way across the stage. Your vision has gone fuzzy again and your legs feel like jello as you grab for something, anything to hold you up. So close to making it off the stage; out of the sight of so many people but you couldn’t. And everything goes black.

A gasp echos around the room as the crowd watches you collapse, each of them angling their phones in your direction.

Matt is quick to sprint over to you, swiftly scooping you into his arms before carrying you bridal style off of the stage.

He lays you down on the couch in the triplets “break” room, his face twisted with concern. Luckily, it didn’t take long for your eyes to flutter open, immediately mortified of what just happened.

“I’m so so sorry Matt I tried to make it off stage, I really did” you apologize, covering your reddened face with your hands.

Matt takes a hold of your wrists, pulling them down.

“You don’t need to apologize honey, are you ok?”

Sighing, you squeeze your eyes shut, attempting to pull yourself together. “I think I just need to eat something” you eventually say.

“But I really really don’t want to go back out there” you add, afraid to disappoint him but too weak and embarrassed to go back onto stage.

“That’s ok my love, I’ll pull a fan from the crowd to be my partner” Matt smiles gently, placing sweet kisses on your knuckles.

“Matt” you say as he gets up to go back on stage.

“Hm?”

“I’m lowkey kinda excited for the edits. You’re my hero”

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Kinda different than what you asked but I hope you like it ! :)

XOXO - Zoe

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