Le Désir: Through the Eyes of the Ice Dancers - Chapter 8: “Delirious Detachments.”
Jacques didn’t remember much of what he was told over the phone. A lot of it was his mother hiccuping and sobbing, she couldn’t contain herself at all so Jacques knew something had gone horribly wrong. She had rambled for a bit, beating around the bush, saying things like this were the reason she had to stop being a trauma nurse. Jacques, who was getting more panicked, begged her to get to the point.
That was when his father took over the phone, in a voice that was desperately trying to stay steady telling him that Bernadette had gotten hurt.
Jacques couldn’t believe he was here. Just a little less than an hour ago, he was arguing with Josée and her mother regarding their partnership, and how he wished he could go back to doing that compared to spending the night in a hospital after receiving terrible news. Gabrielle had tears forming in her eyes, and their father had an unusually neutral expression; if you disregard the haunted look in his eyes as he tried to comfort his wife. Despite all the chaos that was a hospital, all Jacques would hear was the clock ticking.