Yin-Yang:2

40. 4:29 PM

(list #2 prompt)

Four twenty-nine PM.

The time she missed the sound of her phone ringing.

The time she'd forgotten to pick up Danny from Sam's on the way to the store.

The time she would always regret dismissing as insignificant numbers.

Maddie Fenton didn't think to look at her cell phone after it rang, too busy soldering circuitry in her husbands newest ghost invention. To the end of her days she still didn't know why she didn't glance over at the screen. If she had, she wouldn't have heard the voice message.

As it was, the horror didn't hit for another half hour.

"Mrs. Fenton? It's Sam. I- (there was a quiet sob behind her) Danny...he- (now she sobbed into the phone) He's hurt. Really bad. We tried to help him, but there was just so much!" Maddie started panicking, screaming for Jack to get the RV. She hadn't even noticed Tucker finishing the message, just that Sam was wailing and her son was hurt. "He's in the OR. They said- they said he might not make it...but... (he choked, his voice cracking as he tried not to breakdown himself) but he's here in Amity General...I guess we'll see you when you get here." The message ended and the phone disconnected. But Maddie didn't care, didn't notice.

She just knew that her little boy was in the hospital and she wasn't there with him.

And she'd be damned if any traffic lights stopped her.

Because that phone call was the one thing that meant everything in the world to her.

It was her son.

And she was not going to let him go without a fight.

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