Max wakes up in the morning, to find Carolyn was already awake with her lying partly on top of him on his right side, and with her leg over his while her head on his chest. They woke to feel renewed.
Carolyn was still quite sore from their love marking, but thoroughly enjoyed it.
They had woken during the night, and had another round of making love, where she savoured him stretching her open again, filling her and pleasuring her. She loved how she fell asleep afterwards.
She felt refreshed this morning, renewed and happier than she has been in a long time. She was unconscious of herself stroking her fingers over his chest, while remembering last night.
Max woke and kissed her head. He slips his right hand down to her bottom and gropes her lovingly. "I see someone is happy this morning. Morning Sunshine."
Giggling, she smiles and stretches against him, while she kisses him, while she unashamedly let her own hand wander downwards and found someone else was fully awake and eager.
Giggling more, she carefully climbs onto him. Careful of his injuries, she takes him into her, hissing slightly at the rawness from last night, but loving him in her, filling her and while just sitting up.
"Fuck me, you are gorgeous," he exclaims and she smiles more.
His right hand reaches for her breast while his left hand rests next to them.
"Baby, I want you fuck you. But we can't like this" he moans.
"Can – can I try something?" she asks and he nods.
Slowly, she rocks herself softly on him, caring about his hip, but with desire and craving blazing through her, she uses her inner muscle to massage him while simulating herself to that incredible orgasmic peak. And Max moans in response. A very good moan.
Max, lovingly strokes her body, then his finger finds her clit and she cries out in shock. They were about to near their peak, together, a knock sounds on the bedroom door.
"GO AWAY!" Carolyn shouts, not caring or stopping, craving that peak, that explosive orgasm.
The knock sounds on the door again.
"Damnit! Who is it!" she shouts.
Selene from the other side apologises and says she urgently needs to speak with Carolyn.
"Urg! For heaven's sake, can't you wait, like 15mins!" and Selene regrettably informs her through the door, it couldn't.
Frustrated, Carolyn collapses on Max, hurting him slightly, but not majorly,
"5 minutes!" yells Carolyn.
After a minute of trying to calm down, frustrated from not getting off. She climbs off and after grabbing her gown, she heads to the bathroom in a stormy mood.
"God! You are sexy" he comments, eyeing her body, she stops halfway.
Then her mood changes and she smiles. Sending an air kiss, she seductively walks to the bathroom, and after teasing him a bit more, she was about to close the door when Selene knocked again.
Smiling, with her eyes hinting mischievousness, Carolyn shouts, "IN!", and disappears into the bathroom, closing it too.
Max, now sitting on the side of the bed, realises he was still completely naked and hard as a rock, still saluting the air, yells "NO!" and twists quickly, without thinking, onto his right to grab the covers to cover himself.
Only to shout, "URG!"
Intense hot pain erupts for a second moment in his lower body, then fades away completely. Then he suddenly notices he couldn't move. His body was stuck in a half-turned position. And in a matter of a second, he realised he twisted his spine and the fusion metal plate had twisted too. He noticed he could no longer feel from his waist down.
Shit! "Shit!"
"Max, you okay," calls out Carolyn, laughing from the bathroom, unaware of the 'URG!' was actually something serious and not the frustration of sexual lack of release.
The problem was, Max was positioned on the bed edge before he twisted. And now, with the loss of feeling from his waist level downwards, he was unable to control his body and was sliding off the bed with half his body still stuck in a twist.
Uncontrollably, he grabs where possible, only pulling on sheets and covers. He collapses onto the floor with his knees bent in bad positions, his buttocks hitting the floor hard, and then sliding to the side hitting his head on the bedside cupboard.
"ARG! AH!!"
With intense pain now radiating from his lower back upwards, and his head throbbing like fireworks exploding, his mind and his vision blur. But he screams. Enough to have Selene burst through the door and shortly afterwards the Nurse into the bedroom, with Carolyn too bursting out the bathroom still naked but wet from the shower.
They all found Max, naked in all his glory, on the floor at awkward bodily angles, with blood pooling around his head on the floor, screaming in pain while lying there.
The Nurse quickly grabs the sheet from the bed to cover him decently, and uses a discarded shirt from nearby to suppress the bleeding. Looking up, the Nurse saw her Queen was naked too. Taking charge, she orders Selene to get her back in the bathroom and dressed before anyone else comes.
Selene, coming out of her shock, grabs and shoves Carolyn back to the bathroom, closing the door just as the Palace guards storm in, only to see the situation.
One quickly radios for the Palace Doctor and medical team to get up here immediately. The other comes over to assist the nurse, as they have basic first aid training, whereas the PPG – Personal Protection Guard, has EMT level of first aid training.
PPG's Raul and Philip storm in moments later after hearing the situation over the radio.
Seeing Max still on the floor, Raul, who was just recently assigned now as Max senior PPG, steps forward and assists the nurse to assist the situation.
Philip asks where the Queen was, and after being informed she was in the bathroom with Selene, getting dressed, he nods. With the PPG now in the suite, the palace guards departed, to give them space as there was no danger for them to defend. Philip stood watching, observing them treating Max.
Max was still screaming in pain. Nurse Tarryn, with Raul, were trying to assess where the worst was. Not realising the issue was his spine, they tried to lay him flat and it hurt Max terribly. It was only then, that they discovered his back was stuck in a bent twist position.
Immediately Nurse Tarryn realised he must have accidentally twisted his back to reach for something forgetting he was not allowed to, and caused the metal strip to bend, and now he was stuck in that position.
Quickly conveying this to Raul, he quickly grabs the pillows to pack under Max's left shoulder to give him support, which seemed to lessen the pain a little bit. Raul slowly straightens Max's legs, and found them to be 'heavy', which he knew from EMT training, this meant nerve damage as his legs were not resisting him at all.
Updating Nurse Tarryn, she grabs the bath towel she left on the chair near his side of the bed, rolls it into a rope-like noodle. She tries around his neck to secure his head in case spinal damage was in his neck area from hitting the cabinet. The blood was soaking the shirt, and this worried her.
Just then, the Palace Doctor arrives with another nurse in tow and a gurney plus emergency kits.
Nurse Tarryn quickly updates the Doctor, with a bit of help from Raul.
The three of them work together to secure Max with a cervical collar, while the Doctor injects a big dose of Morphine for pain. Then the doctor inspects Max's head wound, and finds a deep cut. He ordered for the suturing kit, and put a few staples in, to secure the wound closed for now. Packing with gauzes, he wraps the head with a bandage to suppress further bleeding.
By now, Carolyn, crying, is watching from the bathroom door with Selene preventing her from rushing over.
The attending nurse places the backboard on the ground in preparation. When the doctor was ready, they tried to slow move Max onto it, only causing more screams of pain from him. Max ended up passing off from the effect of morphine and intense pain, which in the end helps them a bit.
Securing his head, body and legs to the back board, the Doctor noted his hips were flush with the board while his left shoulder was a little over 15 cm (3-inches) away from it. Shocked, he uses a pillow to support the shoulder and they strapped him down.
They hook him up to oxygen and the vitals monitor, insert an IV line and after ensuring he is secure and ready for transport, with a moment of monitoring his vitals, the Doctor stands and orders the gurney over.
Carolyn comes over, weeping, with Philip and Selene as her support. They kept her away, a bit, as the team slowly lifted Max onto the gurney, causing him to groan loudly unconsciously.
Concerned, the Doctor administered through his IV, more heavy pain meds.
Doctor barks out an enquiry on the ETA of the Air Ambulance. Philip uses his radio to check and gets reports they were on the other side of Denmark still, and ETA was 20mins.
Carolyn quickly orders them to use the Royal chopper, which was parked outside. Philip relays this order.
The Doctor, nurses and two medic helpers that had arrived during all this, move Max out of the room, with Selene forcing Carolyn to remain behind and dress properly first, stating she could follow in the car.
Max groans at every bump on the floor and passage. This caused the Doctor to stop the procession and ordered someone strong enough carrying him. Four palace guards, standing in the passage, shot forward to volunteer.
Grabbing the gurney, they lifted it and marched down the long passage, down the stairs, and through another set of passages, towards the Palace helipad, where the Royal Chopper was starting up.
Securing Max onto the long three-seater, with a portion of his legs and feet hanging out, was not something one would have liked. Raul dons a harness that was always available in the chopper, hooks himself to the chopper and stations himself to hang just out of the chopper in front of Max's feet to prevent him from sliding out.
The Doctor, with Tarryn, hops onboard and after triple checking the patient was secure, and the monitor was working, with the IV bag hanging from the hook located in the corner of the roof, another PPG joins them while the co-pilot quickly checks everyone was secured
As the foot side of Max door was still open and with Raul hanging out, the co-pilot climbs on board into his seat while the pilot clears with air traffic control, while lifting the chopper from the ground, departing the Palace and heading directly to the hospital.
Air Traffic had already been prior alerted, and had cleared an emergency flight plan, moving all traffic out of their way.
A set of PPGs had departed the palace ten minutes ago in their cars, flashing blue lights and siren screaming, as they raced through the streets, to the hospital to secure that area. And Dr van José was alerted of his inbound patient.
What normally took about 25-35 mins to drive at normal speed on the road, and 10-15 mins via helicopter. The pilot was pushing his Sikorsky S-76 at maximum speed and made the trip in less than seven minutes, landing on the helipad of Rigshospitalet, where Dr van José and his team were waiting.
Escorting Max, the Palace Doctor, Nurse Tarryn, PPG Raul and the other PPG, rush him first to the special Royal Triage in the Royal ward that was reserved for Emergency cases.
After the Palace Doctor and Nurse Tarryn verbally handed over the patient with their information. Dr van José gives Max more pain meds and sends him for an emergency CT Scan while booking the MRI for an emergency scan too.
While Max was in the CT scanner, under heavy royal guard, Carolyn arrived at the hospital with her own PPGs, and Selene. They were directed into the adjoining room and informed Dr van José would be there shortly.
With the whole Royal ward and passage now under guard, Carolyn and Selene sat in the waiting room with Philip standing just inside at the door. Selene tries to calm Carolyn down, but fails.
A moment later Carolyn sees Max wheeling back into the room and she jumps up. But Selene stops her while a nurse, who saw the Queen charging for the door, informs them they have to wait for the doctor who is reviewing the scans.
Agitated, she wanted to shout at the nurse, using her weight as Queen, and Selene seeing this, stepped in and drew her away while getting Philip to close the door.
The nurse in the other room opens the curtain which allows them to look in, while not being in the room, where they saw Max being attended by staff.
Moments later, Dr van José entered the waiting room and, after bowing, he sat down near his Queen.
"Your Majesty, I regret to inform you, the Prince needs emergency surgery to his back. While I was planning to schedule surgery to replace the damaged vertebra, and possibly a few discs too, the incident has upped the timetable and we need to operate immediately. He had somehow managed to accidentally twist his back, twisting the support. This has not only broken the damaged vertebra more but has damaged the discs on either side and fractured two other vertebrae where the screws were. This may not be that serious and can be repaired. Three screws have come loose too. Also, we can see on the scan the twisting is causing major compression on the spinal cord and right now he has no feeling from the waist down. So it is imperative we operate now to relieve this compression. But, there will be a 50/50 chance he may be paralyzed for life. If I was a betting man, maybe a 30% chance of being mobile again, 20% paralyzed with some feeling or 50% total paralysis with no feeling. Do I have your permission to continue, Ma'am?"
"Dr van José, you have my full permission to do whatever is needed to be done. Just save him, I don't care if he is paralyzed, I just can't lose him. Please!" she cries.
Nodding, he stands, bows his head to her, then hurriedly departs and heads next door. He orders them to take the Prince to the theatre immediately which was already booked and prepped for him.
Returning to the waiting room, he suggests this will be a LONG surgery, probably about 6-10 hours. He suggests that Carolyn should go home. He promised to keep them updated.
Philip then says. "Doctor, per royal requirements, one of us bodyguards has to be in the operating room too, while a few are staged outside. Can we radio or call in updates to the palace, to update Her Majesty accordingly?"
The Doctor agrees to this and tells him to have whoever is to be in the OR, dress in sterile gear and ready to enter. Raul was assigned as he was following the Prince with four others, who were assigned to his team as the Prince's protection team. Raul receives the instruction via radio, quickly gears up, joins the medical team inside the OR, and stands guard inside, updating them per the Doctors updates of the progress.
Philip, with Selene, escorts Carolyn, with the Queen's protection team tagging alone, up to the roof where the Royal chopper was still waiting. They boarded it and flew back to the palace.
The remaining members of the PPGs, who had arrived earlier, returned to the ward and waited while keeping in contact through their radios.
The Palace doctor met the Queen when she returned. He gave her some medicine to help calm her nerves a bit, advising her to cancel her day's meetings, and just relax, as he knew the Prince was in good hands.
Relax, thought Carolyn. Relax! Not possible.
But agrees she would be useless at the meetings today and orders Selene to cancel it all.
Then, she walked down to the chapel in the palace and sat there for a while, praying and crying.
Selene, calls in the minister from the church nearby where they regularly visit. She asks if he would mind coming over to counsel the Queen, pray with her during this time.
He arrives shortly, sits next to her, and waits.
After quite a bit of praying with tears streaming down, she realises she was not alone and saw it was Father Thomas, whom she knew since a little girl. Quickly buries herself into his open arms and cries.
Whispering, he tries to calm her and starts praying for strength, healing and the Holy Spirit to be among them, while praying for the Angels to watch over the Prince and surgical team. After a while, he noticed she had stopped crying and had cried herself to sleep.
Being prewarned that the doctor had given her some medicine, he suspected it helped her to sleep too.
Looking up, he saw Selene in the next pew, silently waiting while monitoring them. After quietly informing her, Selene ordered and supervised the PPG team to carry her to her bed, where they departed to allow Selene to cover her and sit in the corner, while Philip stood stationed in the suite, protecting his sleeping Queen, while keeping Selene posted via her silenced mobile on the updates.