So remember that time when I said I wouldn't be carrying this on? Well, uh, whoops. I'd like to properly thanks olivershaws over on tumblr and all of your responses to this for making me continue. I love you. Really.
She glances up for a moment, only to see the clock hasn't moved since the last time she looked at it. Holly debates trying to sleep again, but she knows it's futile in these awful plastic hospital chairs and so instead opts for pacing the room.
It's been 4 days since the doctor said Gail was finally stable enough for Holly to stay in there, and it's been 3 since Holly ran out of tears to cry.
****(5 days ago)****
"Holly, it has to be you. We'll all be here for her. Go." Steve nods towards Holly, letting her know he means it, and so she follows the doctor quickly, only taking a small glance back at the sea of officers waiting for just one.
The doctor stops outside a room and it takes Holly a moment to realise he's talking to her.
"-so the injuries weren't too serious in the long run, but her body may take a few days to wake up. I can assure you it's nothing to worry about if she's still asleep in a week, okay?" Holly sees the warmth in the doctor's eyes and knows he'll be taking good care of Gail, so she just nods and he leads her into the room.
It's all Holly can do to not collapse at the sight of Gail lying in a hospital bed, tubes going into her at every inch, machines beeping constantly. Holly did a rotation in the ER during med school but nothing she saw there could have prepared her for the sight of her love unconscious, helpless. She thanks the doctor and asks to be alone for a while. The doctor agrees and Holly falls against the wall, sliding down to the floor, crying. The day has been too much, too soon.
The time blurs by. Holly never imagined being one of those people. One of those people who don't know what to do without their other half. One of those people who can't breathe without their world. One of those people who even had one of those people. But this is where she has ended up. This is what she has become. She's in way too deep with this girl. But the thing is, Holly doesn't mind. For a girl who didn't learn to swim until she was 19, she's doing awfully well at keeping her head above the water. Each day starts with Holly waking up from the extra bed the staff brought in, calling Lena at work, begging for her to cover her, just one more day, just one more day and she'll be back, promise. Then it's punctuated with Gail's tests, her heartbeat, occasional stirring, before reaching the inevitable denouement; Gail is still unconscious. Holly's a doctor, she's not an idiot, she knows about medicine and medical issues, why can't she calm down? When Gail sprained her ankle last month, Holly was cool as a cucumber, so to speak, not flustered at all, so why now?
Of course, she realises; it's the life of the love of her life on the line.
It's a stirring underneath her hand that makes Holly realise she's sat back down, let alone fallen asleep with her head on Gail's lap again. Holly knows enough about comatose patients (now even more so than she did 4 days ago) to figure that Gail is probably dreaming of being out on the job and that's why she's moving occasionally. It's a good sign, the books told her, it at least means her body is able to move and that her brain can still make those connections. But none of this will truly settle Holly's heart. Looking again towards the clock, Holly groans at the time. "Gail, honey it's way too early to be waking up, let me go to sleep and then we'll talk."
It's as soon as she lays her head back down, and it's so quiet she doesn't know if she imagined it.
"Well it'll be the one and only time, so you'd better get used to it."
Holly's jaw drops, and she reflexively hits the button to call for the nurse (god knows she's done it so many times before, just at a slight peak in Gail's heart rate, it's a wonder she's a doctor at all) and just stares, wide-eyed at this fighter. To their credit, it takes the nurses only 5 seconds to rush in to the room, and even they have trouble keeping their mouths closed when they see Gail awake.
"Well is anyone going to-" Gail starts.
"Nope, stop talking, we need to check you over, this is so fast, are you in pain? Maybe the morphine wore off?" The youngest nurse, probably an intern, babbles away and it's at this moment that Gail finally flicks her gaze across to meet Holly's.
There they are, those beautiful, beautiful eyes.
DISCLAIMER I DO NOT KNOW A SINGLE THING ABOUT MEDICINE EXCEPT NOT TO TAKE IBUPROFEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH so don't take my word on anything
And im aware she wouldnt be saying that much
But it flowed
So
also this one is a lil shorter but i couldnt get anything else out
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