After what seemed like hours, Abby went back to the E.R. to grab her things and go home. I knew what was going to happen now. I knew what I had to do, so I went after her.
She was crossing the street and I saw the car coming even before it turns in the street. The thoughts of Luka in her mind keeping her distract enough to not see it coming. The last thing she heard was the sound of the wheels on the asphalt before she got hit.
I kneeled in front of her body, it was time. I was going to take her soul when she grabbed my cold hand with her bloody one. Her touch warmed my entire body, that's when I heard it. It was something I never felt before; I didn't know what it was.
"Luka, you're here." She said looking at me. "I'm sorry for everything…I love you so much…I'm really sorry..." She was losing conscious and her hand left mine, but the feeling of warmth continued.
I never really understood feelings, after all I'm the Death and I'm not supposed to feel anything. Not pain, not joy, not happiness, not love. However, this moment I felt something. I felt her pain, I felt her love…
I don't know how long I stayed there just appreciating the feeling, but when I came back to reality the paramedics were taking her to the hospital. I did the only thing I could, I followed her.
"Female. Around 30 years old, hit by a car…PA …."
"OMG. Abby, open your eyes. Let's take her to trauma 2" Pratt pushed the gurney through the E.R.
"Oh God, Abby??"
"Morris, I need your help here. Frank, call Kovac."
"Heart rates dropping…" Halleh announced after hooking Abby to the monitor. "I have no pulse."
"Damn! I need the intubation tray. Morris, start compressions. Halleh, call Dubenko she must be bleeding internally." Greg tried to get the tube down her throat while doctor Morris did chest compressions. "Stop a second Morris. I'm in. Charge the paddles 200. Clear!" Nothing changed. "Charge 300. Clear!"
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"Kovac." Luka runs to answer the phone so it doesn't wake Joe.
"Dr. Kovac, it's Frank." He silence for a moment. He liked Abby, and the thought of losing her was making even more difficult to talk. "You should come to the hospital."
"What happened Frank? I don't work there anymore."
"Abby suffered an accident." Luka couldn't listen anymore, he run upstairs to take Joe and go to the hospital. Although they were apart and he was leaving for while, the perspective of never seeing her again was unbearable. He couldn't loose her. No, he just couldn't. No
"No change." Halleh said feeling her heart get smaller. It was her friend on the table.
"Charge 360. Clear!" This time her heart started beating again.
"Okay, I'm taking her to the O.R. now." Dubenko starts to pull Abby's gurney through the doors.
Luka enter through the E.R. doors. Chunny seeing him go there and gets Joe of his arms.
"She's going to the O.R., Luka." Luka thanks her and goes in the direction of the lifts.
What would happen now, I don't know. For the first time in my entire existence, I don't know. What was I going to do?
My job is come in here and let they rest. Death isn't restrict for old or young, rich or poor, female or male…death is something no one can run away from. I'm the Death. My mission, job, obligation, curse, call it whatever you want, but is something no human can do. If you can feel love, anger, for instance… you are no qualified to this, because if you feel everything changes. The whole situation change.
I became for one second what I wasn't suppose to be. I became a human the second she touched my hand and warmed my heart. I felt love, I felt loved. What was going to happen now was in my hands. Should I listen to the darkness of my existence or should I listen to the beats of my heart?
