Chapter 7 Worries
Inside the office Boyd and Grace were sitting on the sofa discussing. Boyd knew that what he had done was out of line and that he never meant to hurt Grace. He also knew that the others felt angry after what he did to Grace and that he should apologise to them as well for his behaviour. Whilst Grace knew it was her fault for making him angry in the first place. Boyd got up from the sofa and went back out to the main office to make them both a nice cup of tea. Grace got up to go over to her desk when she felt a bit light headed and before she knew it she collapsed onto the floor.
CRASH!!!!
" What was that?!" Mel asked as she, Frankie and Spence rushed out of the office. To their suprise they saw Grace lying on the floor.
" Oh my god!" Mel gasped. Spence knelt down beside her.
" Get Boyd!" he instructed to Mel as he and Frankie kept an eye on the profiler.
Boyd however hadn't heard the noise so had no idea about what had happened. As he looked up from the coffee machine he noticed Mel rushing towards him. He saw the look on her face and knew that something was wrong.
"What is it?" he asked hoarsely.
"It's Grace. She's fainted."
Boyd dropped the cups of coffee and followed Mel into the office where he saw the figure of Grace lying on the floor.
"What happened?" he demanded as he went down beside Spence. All three of them shook their heads.
" We don't know but suddenly we heard a crash and came rushing in here to find Grace lying on the floor." Spence tried to explain to him.
Boyd felt for a pulse. It was rapid. "Call an ambulance!" he instructed to Mel.
" Is she going to be okay?" Frankie asked.
"I hope so." Boyd replied. Spence nodded in agreement.
The paramedics soon came and lifted Grace onto a trolley. She was wheeled out to the ambulance. Of course there was no question as to who was going with Grace to the hospital. Boyd got in and held her hand. The others followed in the car. For them the journey was never so long as they all hoped that the news at the hospital was good. Arriving at the hospital some doctors and nurses took over from the paramedics and wheeled the trolley into Resus. One of the nurses came up to the team.
" If you would like to wait in the relative's room the doctor will be with you shortly with some information." she told them.
They nodded and headed towards the door. A few minutes passed and they were getting all worried. The younger members of the team could notice that Boyd looked so worried and knew that what the outcome was, it was due to him hitting her that probably casued her to collapse.
" Spence will you stop pacing ! You'll wear the carpet out." Frankie told him following him with her eyes.
"I can't help it! I'm worried!" he said as he continued to pace up and down the room.
"Yeah so are we! But we just have to let the doctors and nurses do their job." Frankie replied.
" But how long does it take?!"
" I'm not a bloody phychic am I?!"
" Well go and ask them then!"
" Guys, pack it in! None of this is easy I know but listen to you!. You sound like children. This is hard enough without you two going at each other's throat. Boyd is having a tough time as it is and we all are so could you both just shut up!" Mel tried to calm the argument.
Spence grumbled and slumped down on the sofa.
" It doesn't have to take this bloody long!" he mumbled under his breath. That remark was caught by Mel who gave him a glare.
All three of them looked over at Boyd who was standing by the window, his mind somewhere else. They could see how much Grace meant to him. Two hours then four hours went by, still they hadn't got anymore news, in fact they hadn't got any news since they had arrived at the hospital. Spence had gone back to pacing and this had continued on getting on Mel's nerves and now it had got onto Frankie's nerves as well. Boyd had however decided to see if there was any progress news. Frankie had decided she had enough of Spence's pacing about and went with Boyd to the reception.
Rinnnnngg!! Spence's mobile went. He looked at the caller ID and slipped of the edge of the chair.
"Ah!"
Mel turned around and saw Spence on the floor.
"Are you okay?" she asked as she helped him up of the ground.
" Yeah, it's the comissioner on the phone."
"The comissioner? What does he want?"
" No idea probably wondering why no one is at the headquaters."
" I'm not being rude or anything but since when did the Commissioner check up on us?"
" Since Boyd has been ignoring his phone calls."
Just then the door opened and Frankie walked.
"They are still waiting for tests." she told them. Spence noticed Boyd wasn't there.
"Where's Boyd?" Mel asked looking around the room.
"He's gone outside for a break." Frankie replied.
Spence sighed. "Bet you when the tests do arrive Grace might be in a worse condition."
"It's not their fault that the tests are taking so long." Mel said.
"Not their fault?! If it's not their fault then who's fault is it then? The computers or the machines?!" Spence exclaimed, his voice a little louder.
"This isn't helping. These things do take time." Frankie said this time trying to calm the argument down.
"And how do you know Dr. Wharton. You're not a bloody mind reader are you?!"
" For goodness sakes Spence! You're starting to sound like Boyd already." Frankie stated.
Mel let out a laugh but it quickly turned into a cough as soon as Spence gave them both a glare.
" Just because I'm, worried about Grace and that the results are taking to slow to get back to them to give them the diagnosis to why Grace collapsed, you think I'm sounding too much like Boyd!?" Spence said back to her.
Frankie rolled her eyes. "We're all worried Spence but that doesn't give us the right to take out our anger on the hospital staff. If you want to be angry then be angry at Boyd becasue he is probably the reason why Grace is in here now."
" I think we should leave Boyd out of this." Mel told them.
Spence raised an eyebrow and Frankie looked at Mel like she was from another planet.
" What do you mean ' We should leave Boyd out of this'?" Frankie said slowly.
Spence nodded, " Yeah what do you mean?"
" None of this is easy. I know but Boyd feels guilty enough as it is without you two blaming him." Mel answered back.
"Oh come on! Boyd's the one who hit Grace in the first place and he's the reason why Grace is in the hospital." Frankie told her friend.
"Yeah, I mean if Boyd hadn't hit her we wouldn't be here now." Spence said agreeing with Frankie.
" We don't even know what exactly happend." Mel said.
"I think that when we went out of the office and saw Grace was lying on the floor with blood trickling from her head we knew what exactly had happened. She didn't need to tell us." Spence said.
"Exactly. And all three us know that Boyd can lose his temper very easily."
" I'm not saying that he didn't hit her and he isn't the reason why we are here all I'm saying is that we should give him a break because he already feels guilty and he doesn't need more guilt pressure from us. He knows that what he did was wrong and would never have meant to hurt Grace you know that. But he sometimes looses his temper that's all." Mel replied.
