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General Hospital Nathan and Maxie story

The Shot: True Love Comes Once in a Lifetime

Chapter 3: The Wait part 2

Lulu shouts, "Maxie"

Dante lifts her off the floor and looks around to see where he could set her down. He see an empty cubicle and lays her down on the bed in it.

"Is she going to be all right?" Lulu questions the nurse who also saw Maxie collapse.

"I think the news about Nathan has caught up with her and her adrenaline got depleted. Give her time to absorbs the news." replies Epiphany.

"I need to check on Nathan," replies the doctor. "I'll make sure that one of the CCU nurses know that she can see him when she wakes up. I'll also be around to answer any more questions she might have."

The doctor leaves.

An hour later, Maxie starts waking up. "What happen?" as she swings her legs to the side of the bed.

"You fainted. No need to worry about Nathan," Lulu responds as she hands Maxie a glass of water. "Dante is with Nathan right now. We can go up whenever you are ready to."

"Lulu, what am I going to do? I can't lose him just when I've found him. I didn't think I would ever find another guy that I love as much as I loved Spinelli."

"Maxie, let me remind you of our friendship, we started out as enemies and turned friends. I've been there when you went through men like wind and I never seen you look at them like you looked at Spinelli and now Nathan. What you went through with Levi, Nathan was always there for you, listening to you rant and just be your friend. He never gave up on you so don't give up on him. Yeah, there will be tough times ahead but I know he need you and plus you have Dante and I to help you and Nathan through this hurl. Now how about we get some food before we go and see Nathan?"

"Please, I need to see him now," begged Maxie.

"We will but I need to do a quick touch up on my makeup before I see Dante and Nathan is being watched by nurses and his partner. So let's freshen up before we go and see your prince charming," replies Lulu.

Meanwhile...

"I don't know if you can hear me or not but I've got to say," said Dante. "You are one lucky man. I have seen Maxie go through men like there is no tomorrow but with you, it's totally different. She has sparkles in her eyes when she sees and talks about you. No matter what her imperfections are, she still think the world of you and doesn't want to lose the best guy she's ever been with since Spinelli. That's saying something."

The girls went to the restroom to fresh up and fix their makeup.

"Between you and me, if I see you hurt her in anyway, I'm going to have to have a word with you and it won't be pleasant even though you are my best friend and partner. Here's another small prep talk, "I know you are strong and will fight with everything you have to come back but don't you dare...

alarms start going off...

They were heading up to see Nathan when Lulu states "Let's go up to see Nathan and my husband. And then I'll ask him to go and get us some food from Kelly's while we visit with Nat. And when my man comes back, he will stay with his partner while we eat, so he won't be alone."

Maxie just nods her head in agreement.

When they came upon the nurses' station to asked what room her boyfriend was in? They saw Dante outside a room and wonder why he was there instead of with Nathan but as they got closer to the door, they saw the reason. A team of doctors and nurses working on Nathan.

"What happened?" shouted Maxie.

"As I was sitting and talking to him, the alarms went off and they came rushing in and went to work in getting him stabilized." Dante tells Maxie and his wife. "They have been in there for about forty-five minutes working on him. It doesn't look good."

"Dammit, we are going to have to take him back into surgery and finish correcting to problem and hope that he's strong enough to make it through another surgery." states the doctor and as the nurses start unhooking the stationary machines so they could take him back into the theater.

The doctor's voice was loud enough for Maxie to hear him and runs into the room. "Where are you taking him?" asked Maxie as she starts to panic.

"Back into surgery." the doctor informs Lulu.

"Well, you told us that he wasn't strong enough to handle another surgery?" Maxie pointed out.

"He's blood pressure dropped traumatically which made the alarms go off and because of that, we think there's internal bleeding we missed. While we are fixing that problem we are going to finish correctly the damage that we could not do in the first surgery," explained the doc. "If he has any other family, you might want to call them because his prognoses isn't looking good. You need to move because the more time I waste talking to you the less likelihood of him making it. If we have time, someone will come to the surgical waiting room and give an update."

At the top of her voice, Maxie screams, "NATHAN WEST, DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME," as the elevator's doors closed.

"He won't give up," Dante and Lulu said as they hold her back from getting on the elevator, "because we won't let him and he has too much to lose."

"I hope you're right."

"I'm going to get some food and refreshments from Kelly's for us while we wait," proclaimed Dante. "Call me if the surgery gets done before I return with the food, please Lulu."

"I will. Love ya. Hurry back." Lu replies back to her husband

Dante heads out as Epiphany walks with the girls to the surgical waiting room.

Epiphany states, "If I don't get called away, I'll be outside the doors to the OR and bring you any news of the surgery and if there are any complications that you should know about. Okay."

"Thanks Epiphany." They both responded back.

"What am I going to do, Lulu?" Her best friend cried. "I love him so much but what if I'm not strong enough to help him through this?"

"When I went through this with Dante, do you remember what you told me?"

Maxie shook her head, "No?"

"Well, let me remind you what you told me to hang on to, girlfriend, You said 'that Dante is a fighter. And that there was in no way in hell that he would even think about leaving me and that the only reason why he wouldn't make it was because you weren't there by his side. You also told me to take it one day at a time. Plus, I had my best friend to help me through it, just like I'm going to do for you'."

They fell into silence waiting for any word from Epiphany or the Doctor Lenney about the outcome of the operation.

Two hours later still no updates. Dante had returned forty-five minutes ago with the food. They ate in silence and in their own little world.

Six hours later, Dante sees the doctor with his blooded scrubs still on coming through the door.

"Well?"

"I'm so so..."

Things are going to get worst for Nathan before they get better but he will return like he was before the story or close to it. LOL.

I hope to have another chapter up by later today or tomorrow.

Trivia: "Does anyone know what 'Ausgespielt' means?"