A/N: Three chapters in as many days. :D I like how this is going.
I know this isn't that long, hopefully I'll have the new chapter up soon.
Disclaimer: Nope.
Gloved hands search frantically for a pulse. Sure she can't be dead, not the Captain's girlfriend—!
Andrew Zimmerman, MD, clutches her limp wrist with his latex-cased hand, desperate to find just one sign that Penny could still be alive. But he feels no blood pumping through her veins. She can't be dead. He will not allow it. He can't lose another patient, not after—
He releases grip on her wrist to press two fingers to her throat, hoping, praying he'll feel blood traveling her arteries...
"She's alive!" The doctor yells to companions. "Her pulse is faint, but it's there!"
"Are you sure?" Zachariah Smith inquires. He utters an "Ohmygod" upon verifying what Dr. Zimmerman has discovered.
"She needs life support, stat!" the doctor who had recently learned of Penny survivals calls as he rushes out of the patient's room.
In a matter of hours, Penny Jane Hope is surrounded by a plethora of machinery, checking her pulse, pumping her blood, filling her lungs with air.
She is not dead. She is sleeping.
Yeah, I got the title of this chapter from the person that writes to Billy right before My Freeze Ray, called Dead Not Sleeping.
For Penny name, I took Jane Eyre (I assume you all know who she is, right?) and Antony Hope (the author of The Prisoner of Zenda, also the sailor boy in Sweeney Todd) and combined them. The name Hope just seems to fit, no?:)
Also, since I forgot to mention in the last two chapters, the idea for this fic came from The Happy Monkey of Doom.
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