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This was my first EVER attempt at fan fiction and at fiction in the English language. In addition it was written many, many years ago so please, take that into consideration when reviewing. In other words, yes I am fully aware of how bad the writing is...hahahah!! :D
Kneeling
Part VII
The ER was unusually quiet when Abby and Kerry arrived. It was already 7 o'clock in the evening and everything seemed to be in apparent order. Abby, who was walking ahead of Kerry, made a beeline straight to the desk and took her coat off leaving it by a chair. Randi had already left for the day and Frank was on the phone passionately talking to someone about some supplies that were needed.
Luka emerged from some door and headed directly towards Kerry. When Kerry noticed his presence, she just looked upward and softly asked, "Kim?"
Reading Kerry's silent plea in her green eyes, he just whispered, "In four..."
Kerry thanked him muttering the word in her lips without making any sound. He just nodded silently. Abby looked up from some papers and stared at Kerry. Kerry looked up at Abby and nodded as she started to walk down the hall.
Luka walked towards Abby and asked, "How did you find her?"
Abby looked up at him and wearily, she just smiled."I'll tell you later when we get home." She sighed heavily, relieved of the weight of the day's events as her eyes returned to Kerry, following her small, limping figure down the hall.
Kerry opened the door quietly and saw Kim resting in a gurney with an IV in her arm and an oxygen mask over her face. Quickly, her trained eyes turned to the monitors and rapidly checked the displays, relieved to discover that her lover was stable.
She walked slowly to one side of Kim's bed and gently, leaned over to kiss her lover's cool forehead. At the touch, Kim opened her eyes and upon seeing Kerry, her sight became clouded with tears.
"I didn't think you were coming back..." murmured Kim while her hand desperately reached and grabbed Kerry's.
Kerry's eyes also filled with tears, gasping at the touch.
"I'm sorry baby... how do you feel?"
"I'm fine... where were you? I came looking for you and couldn't find you and thought that you... -her tears choked her words" that you had left me..."
Kim could say no more and started to sob desperately. Her beautiful face started to contract with an out most pain that Kerry felt in each of her cells as it had been she the one laying in the bed crying. The only thing that Kerry managed to do was to hold Kim in her strong arms and rocked her, whispering soft words of comfort.
"I will never, ever leave you. Never. I'm sorry baby, I'm sorry..."
They lay like that for what seemed to Kerry a long time. She did not care her leg was aching due to the awkward position she had to maintain to hold Kim in her arms. She did not care about people outside or intruders walking in and finding them. The world was effectively obliterated.
When she finally sensed that Kim's crying had quieted a bit, she positioned her lover again by the bed and reached into her coat pocket with her right hand. Once she tightly had a grip around the small leather box, she just smiled at Kim who was still shedding her last tears.
Gently, Kerry detached her arm from her crutch and placed the trusted artifact against the wall. Immediately, she searched for the bottom to lower the bed.
"What are you doing Kerry?" asked Kim with a puzzled look in her face.
"Wait just one second baby..." whispered Kerry.
Once she felt the height of the bed to be appropriate, Kerry leaned yet once more and kissed Kim firmly but gently on the lips. She separated herself and smiled at Kim. She then lowered herself until the knee of her left leg, gently touched the linoleum floor.
Kim, who had not separated her eyes from Kerry's, opened her mouth to say something but her amazement effectively suppressed any words.
Supporting herself with the aid of the chair, Kerry brought the small box in her hands and opened it in front of Kim.
Abby had been called to check on a patient but decided to pick some linens from the linen room by the end of the hall before returning to her duties. The room was empty and dark but light came through from the room next door. Looking up through the open blinders, she got a glimpse of her friend kneeling, as Kerry opened the box in front of Kim. Her eyes filled with tears immediately and she just simply could not do anything else but to watch the amazing spectacle before her eyes.
Kerry's hands and lips trembled, reflecting the intense emotions of the older woman.
Whispering tenderly, she asked, "Kim... would you marry me? Would you be my... wife?"
Kerry asked as huge tears flooded her flushed cheeks and her lower lip trembled in expectation.
Kim's eyes swelled up again at the sight of her lover kneeling in front of her like those dashing knights of children stories, but her heart stopped when she heard Kerry asked her if she wanted to be her wife.
She could not utter any words unable as she was, to take everything in. Instead, she started nodding uncontrollably while her lungs made a conscious effort to inhale air.
A soft, broken gasp was all Kerry heard before Kim started to cry again. Kim's hand grabbed Kerry's right shoulder and pulled her in an embrace that almost made Kerry fell down to the floor.
Between sobs and moans, Kim managed to say, "Yes Ker, I would love to be your wife... if you'd have me..."
Kerry stood up and shut her eyes as her face plunged into Kim's chest.
"Thank you... thank you..."
Luka entered the linen closet looking for Abby and looked up at the scene before him. Without taking her eyes away from her friends, Abby reached her hand and took hold of Luka's. He approached her from behind and embraced her waist.
Abby whispered, "Kerry just asked Kim to marry her..."
Luka tightened his grip on Abby and buried his chin in the young nurse's hair. Abby went on.
"I don't think I have ever seen anything so touching..."
"Neither have I..." whispered Luka as he mumbled some words in his native language.
"What did you say?" Abby asked as she fondled his lover's arm around her waist.
"May God Bless Them," Luka answered quietly.
Abby could not control herself and another tear escaped her eyes as she heard the words uttered by her lover.
Looking up again, seeing Kerry and Kim still engaged in the most tender of embraces, she whispered, "Amen."
(The End)
