Chapter 3:
"Cara Martinez, 26, found out side Albies, one deep laceration to her thigh and two large stab wounds to her abdomen, which are approximately 5cm in length each, she is hypothermic and she has a low heart rate, no treatment yet given" raf announces as he, Serena, Morven, Fletch and Arthur burst onto AAU with a lifeless Cara on the bed. Raf, Serena and Morven are all covered in her blood and are still applying pressure to her wounds unaware of the wound in her lower back.
As they get onto AAU Cara can just about see lights, bright lights hit her. "Where the hell am I?" she mumbles to herself. Raf is standing next to her with also Serena at the other side of the trolley.
"Ms Campbell did you hear that?" Raf asks as he is nearly sure he heard Cara mumble something.
"Dad? It that you?" She mumbles as she moves her head to the side Raf is on, her eye sight is really blurry and she can just make out the outline of a male body.
"No Cara it's Raf" Raf informs Cara and the it hits Cara what's happened she tries to sit up with her last burst of energy but they hold her down, she can hear them talking but she's not sure what about, she thrashes about and tries to stop the hooded Stranger... But were these things just the illusions of a dying woman.
"Get off me!" she says trying to move but the force at which Raf and Serena both had her pinned down on the bed was too strong for Cara to move. She didn't realise Serena was there she only knew it was Raf. Thrashing out like this in front of her boss after making a mess at work today, really wasn't a great idea for Cara...but she couldn't help it.
She grabs hold of Rafs wrist when she realises who is around her. Raf wrist turns red with her blood which is on her hands, they get Cara to a bay and instantly start to pack her wounds but Cara isn't letting go of Raf, she grabs his top and pulls him with her last ounce of energy and says "don't let me die" her eyes are teary then they shut...
"she's gone into cardiac arrest" Raf shouts as he drops the railing of the bed.
"Crash Team...NOW!" he shouts. Cara needs urgent attention and fast. Serena takes over the wounds while Raf starts CPR. He rips her top and sticks the defib pads on her chest as quickly as possible while Fletch is bagging her, still trying to get her heart into a sinus rhythm. "And Clear...Shocking!" he says as everyone leaves go of Cara. "Come on Cara!" he mutters under his breath.
Ten minutes later...
"well all in agreement?" Serena announces and everyone including Fletch agrees.
"No! She isn't dead till I say she is!" Raf says as he continues to do chest compressions.
"Mr Di Lucca she's been down for thirty minutes she's gone" Serena says but Raf isn't having any of it.
"please just let me try, shock to 360... Shocking... Clear... And again!" Raf says.
"Your breaking her ribs Raf" Fletch says.
"One last time, please Serena, She can make it...please?!" Raf begs.
Raf shocks one more time. "Come on Cara, don't let me down here, I have faith in you!" he mutters so as no one can hear him. Just as he says that...the monitor starts to beep... Serena looks round in shock.
"Looks like you did it Mr Di Lucca, she's back with us, in sinus rhythm too!" she adds. A huge smile grows on Rafs face, he knew she could hang in there.
"Right, Cara isn't out of the woods yet, she needs a full blood transfusion and we need to see what's going on internally" Serena says as they decide to incubate Cara to keep her stable.
Luckily both Serena and Raf hadn't been on the drink in Albies and were able to take Cara to theatre. "Who an earth would do something like this?" Raf says to Serena as they stand with Caras life on the table.
Raf and Serena look up at Cara's face, she looks so innocent yet so ill, " I have no idea Mr Di Lucca" Serena replies as they begin to work on Cara.
"There's sick people out there these days!" Serena says shaking her head. The laceration on her thigh was the deepest. Raf worked on it while Serena worked on the both on her abdomen.
"Whatever did happen, she's had it nasty!" Raf says sympathetically to Serena as he really does feel for Cara at this particular moment in time.
"what a way to start your first week on the job too" Serena says as she finally adds the final stitch to Cara's leg.
"Ms Campbell... where's that blood coming from?" Raf says as he sees it pooling on the floor next to his feet.
"Oh gosh, don't tell me we've missed something?" She says.
Raf freezes, he has no idea what to think.
"Raf what are you thinking?" she asks.
"Mr Di Lucca there is no time to stand and day dream...we need to work together on this!" Serena says in a stern tone. Which instantly makes Raf snap out of his thoughts.
He lifts the sheets at the have finished working on her abdomen and leg and he finally sees a deep stab wound in her back,"how did we not notice this?" Raf mutters and then they end up rolling her onto her side so they can sort her back.
"Oh lord Raf, how did we miss this? Its worse that the rest!" Serena says. They stich up her back which seems to take a lifetime as its extremely deep.
Once they finish up on her back, Raf says to Serena "Even though she messed up today and after what she has been through tonight..." Raf starts to stutter, he blushes, he feels his face hot with embarrassment in what he is about to say... "I think we should erm, err"
"Spit it out Mr Di Lucca!" Serena says fixing up Caras last stich.
"I think she should get another chance..." he says to Serena. It suddenly goes quiet...Serena doesn't say anything.
Raf agrees. He feels himself cool back down again, the flushed look on his face had gone. He was worried Serena would say no but he knew it wasn't a definite yes... yet. He knew Nurse Martinez had done wrong but what little spark inside of Raf wanted to give Cara a second chance and why?
Later on Cara is in ITU and Raf is standing at the bottom of her bed doing her observations. "Oh Cara what happened" he mumbles as he takes her pulse which is steady and a little slow but nothing to worry about as she is been put into an induced coma.
He knew Cara could fight, he knew in the end she would be okay. After all she was in safe hands. "Looking any better for her?" Fletch says as he sticks his head in the side room. Arthur and Morven had also stuck around to see if there was any improvement in Cara.
"she's extremely ill, she lost half of bed blood and the stab wound to her back is inches away from her spinal cord" Raf informs the team and everyone wonders what if they had invited the newbie to sit with them... Would of she got into this state in the first place or not.
Morven feels guilty about the whole situation. "She will be alright in the long run though, won't she Raf?" Morven asks worriedly as all she wants for Cara is to wake up. She thinks back to when she saw Cara in the staff showers crying her eyes out...all she felt now was sympathy for Cara...they all did.
"she's got colour in her cheeks again" Arthur says as he looks at Cara's not.
Raf smiles and holds Cara's hand and says "we're sorry about today Cara, we really are" Raf smiles at her, she now looks peaceful and content, she doesn't look in pain at all, but all they have to do now is sit and wait for Cara to come round to see if her blood loss has caused any long term damage such as Brain damage or paralysation.
Fletch, Arthur&Morven all exchange strange looks...they had just about taken in he was holding her hand. They don't say a word. They stand in silence all looking at Raf holding Caras hand. Fletch breaks the silence "Well lets look on the bright side, Raf found her, now she's safe, we all had a role to play to do that!" Fletch smiles.
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