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Chapter 11

The chopper landed in the field across from the hospital and was met with Kenny, Topher, Paul and cavalry of medical personal all wanting to help. Scott still had his hands inside of Sophie as they loaded her onto a wheelable gurney and Scott jumped onto it as well, planting himself kneeling on either side of Sophie's thighs as Kenny, TC and Topher quickly moved the gurney towards the hospital entrance.

"Is there an OR free?" TC asked Topher as they ran through the parking lot.

"All prepped and ready go."

"Thanks buddy. Has Drew and Shannon arrived yet?"

"No not yet but Rick is at the nurses station waiting." Topher replied.

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Jordan jumped out of the helicopter as Sophie was being rushed into the hospital, with the baby in her hands and ran up to Paul who was standing with the incubator. He reached out to the the baby from her but she pulled away. "I got it. It's okay Paul. Thank you for this." Paul nodded.

"I can help you do a full assessment on the baby if you like?" He questioned Jordan.

"Thanks that would be great."

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"Move everyone out of the way!" TC yelled as they burst through the doors to the emergency room, with everyone in tow. "Don't even think about getting in the elevator mate."

"TC!" A voice from behind made TC let go of the gurney as he turned to see Rick standing at the nurses station.

"Go on I will catch up in a second." He told Scott, Kenny and Topher as the elevator doors closed.

"Rick..." He said as he walked up to him.

"Oh my god." Rick said as he put his hands over his mouth in complete shock.

"Hey we are going to do everything we can okay."

"The baby?"

"You have a beautiful niece. 10 fingers, 10 toes and a hefty set of lungs. She is absolutely gorgeous. Jordan is just going to do a once over and then you should be right to see her." He smiled at Rick who had tears in his eyes.

"Did Drew come in on the chopper?" He looked around worried.

"No room he was driving back with Shannon. They shouldn't be to far away. Where's Bri?"

"In the staff room watching TV."

"Okay let's keep her in there. Can you do me a big favour."

"Anything."

"Keep him down here either in the staff lounge, the waiting room or somewhere away from the OR please."

"Of course. Go." He ordered TC. TC patted his shoulder as he took off in a jog towards the stairs.

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Shannon and Drew pulled up at the front entrance of the hospital and raced out hoping the chopper had arrived and Sophie was currently in the OR.

Just like déjà vu from a few moments ago they burst through the doors into the ER and started off towards to the elevator when Drew saw Rick and all the emotions of the night finally boiled over and he collapsed on to the floor sobbing waiting for the warm embrace of his husband.

Rick leant down and embraced Drew "shh shh shh, they just took her upstairs to the OR. I am so sorry."

"I don't know what to do."

"Well we are going to go and hug our daughter who is waiting to see you and then we are going to see if we can find this little niece of ours and then we are going to wait as long as it takes."

Drew looked up surprised "she's been born?"

"Yeah TC just told me. I thought you knew?" Rick questioned.

"No they must have of had to do an emergency Caesar in the chopper."

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"I need more suction. I can't see a damn thing." Scott said to TC and Topher as he moved instruments around trying to determine how much damage he could theoretically fix.

"Clamp please, here and here." TC stated to the scrub nurse.

Scott looked at TC and Topher "I am gonna need to remove the spleen, the livers lacerated and I need to take out some of the bowel."

Kenny who was monitoring Sophie's observations spoke suddenly. "Her BP is dropping, sats are in the 80s she's becoming hypoxic."

"If we don't stop this bleeding soon it won't matter, the oxygen has been starved from her brain for too long." Topher stated.

"Dammit guys I know." Scott yelled. "I need more suction now! I can't see where this bleeding is coming from. The more I dig around the more she bleeds." Everyone was beginning to get frustrated.

"Maybe we should stop." Topher spoke softly.

"What do you mean?" TC stated horrified like he was being betrayed.

"Hasn't she been through enough? This clearly isn't working. We can't do anything else for her maybe we should st..."

"No, no no I am not letting her die. She deserves to have a chance to live. We can do this, you, me and Scott. We can save her. Please help me."

"But I don't think we can. The bleeding won't stop, her internal organs are damaged. She's a mess." Scott finally spoke.

"But she is a fighter. She can do this."

"She's tired TC. She stayed alive long enough for us to deliver her daughter. She gave up her life so new life could be created. Shouldn't we let her go peacefully surrounded by Drew and Rick and her daughter. Not around us with our hands inside her. She at least deserves that. Please. Please agree with me on this." Scott said pleadingly.

TC looked utterly defeated. He was so tired had so many emotions running through his mind he just bowed his head and removed the instruments that were providing life saving measures and put them on the tray. He knew what Topher and Scott were saying was the right thing to do. "Okay. Guys let's close her up. And move her as quickly as possible to the ICU." Scott said.

"I need to find Drew. You okay to finish here?" TC looked directly at Scott and Topher and he began taking of his gown and mask.

"Go."

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A soft knock at the door snapped Jordan away from her baby induced worry. "Jordan? Can we see her?"

"Hey of course come in we just finished her exam. She has an excellent set of lungs on her. Any word on Soph."

"No nothing yet." Rick said.

"Oh my goodness. Can I hold her?" Drew asked.

"Of course you can." Jordan said as she gently handed the baby girl into Drew's arms and then proceeded to embrace Brianna in a tight hug. "You have a beautiful baby cousin who might be about to outshine you on the cuteness factor."

"That is totally fine I am happy to pass the crown along." Brianna joked as she smiled at Jordan.

"Hello sweet girl. Hi I am your Uncle Drew. You look just like your mum." The baby started to get restless. "Shh shh shh it's okay everything is going too be ok."

"Did Sophie have a name picked out yet?" Paul asked as Drew was cooing at the baby.

"I don't know we hadn't really talked about it I know she and Josh had a list that was a page and half long but I don't think they actually decided on a name. I think they wanted to meet her first." It was then Drew looked up and saw the weary eyes of TC standing at the doorway scrub hat in his hand.

"TC?"

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