Biker Who Hit My Son Visited Every Single Day Until My Son Woke Up And Said One Word

The doctors said Jake’s brain was swelling. They said we had to wait. They said coma patients sometimes hear everything around them, that we should talk to him, play his favorite music, remind him why he needed to come back.

I couldn’t do it. Every time I looked at Jake with those tubes and machines, I broke down.

But this biker—this man I’d never met—he talked to my son every single day.

I first saw him on day three. I walked into Jake’s room and found this huge bearded guy in a leather vest sitting next to my son’s bed. He was reading out loud from a book. Harry Potter. Jake’s favorite.

“Who the hell are you?” I’d demanded.

The man stood up slowly. He was maybe fifty-five, sixty. Big guy, probably 6’2″, patches all over his vest. “My name is Marcus,” he said quietly. “I’m the one who hit your son.”

I lunged at him. I don’t even remember doing it. Hospital security pulled me off before I could land more than one punch.

“You need to leave,” the head nurse told him. “Right now. We’ll call the police if you come back.”

But he did come back. The next day. And the day after that.

The hospital couldn’t legally ban him from the building. And my wife—God help me—my wife Sarah told them to let him stay. “He wants to be here,” she said. “And Jake needs all the support he can get.”

I couldn’t believe she was defending him. “He PUT Jake in that coma!”

“It was an accident,” she said, crying. “The police report said so. Jake ran into the street. Marcus did everything right. He stayed. He helped. He’s been visiting every day because he cares.”

I didn’t want to hear it. As far as I was concerned, Marcus being there was torture. Every time I saw him, I saw the moment my son’s life got destroyed.

But Marcus kept coming. Morning and night. He’d sit in that chair and read to Jake. Harry Potter, then Percy Jackson, then The Hobbit. All Jake’s favorites.

He’d tell Jake stories too. Stories about his own son, who’d died in a car accident twenty years ago. Stories about learning to ride motorcycles. Stories about his club, the Nomads, and all the charity work they did.

“Your dad’s real torn up, buddy,” Marcus would say to my unconscious son. “He loves you so much it’s eating him alive. But your mama, she’s strong. She knows you’re gonna wake up. And I know it too.”

On day twelve, I walked in and Marcus was showing Jake pictures on his phone. “This here’s my boy, Danny. He was about your age in this one. Loved baseball just like you. He was the best kid…”

His voice broke. This tough biker with tattoos covering his arms was crying over my son.Continue reading…