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As Holly sat down looking defeated, the rest of the group looked at her reaction to the news and immediately assumed the worst. No one said anything for the next few minuets, they all sat processing exactly what they had just heard. Steve took one of Holly's hands into his own and sat there holding on to the hope that Gail would pull through; Tracy did the same thing on the other side of Steve trying to convey all her strength to him. It was going to be a rough few hours.
Meanwhile in the operating room Gail had arrested twice on the table and was brought back successfully both times. The cardiac surgeon finally finished his portion of the surgery, so he scrubbed out to go and update the family. This was his least favorite part of the job, but he was hopeful. Holly immediately saw the surgeon coming around the corner and jumped up to get a much-needed update about Gail.
"Doctor, how is Gail, were you able to maintain a thoracotomy, and what was the damage?" He was a bit taken aback by her rapid-fire questions, and her obvious medical knowledge. "I was able to do everything through a right thoracotomy, she coded twice on the table from blood loss and ventricular arrhythmias. My part of the procedure is done; I was able to repair her artery and right ventricle. Miss Peck is a fighter; the neuro surgeon was still finishing up the craniotomy. Doctor Smith should be out soon to give you the final update on miss Peck." Holly hugged the doctor and thanked him profusely. Steve was standing beside Holly waiting for her to break all of that down into English for him. " Holly what the heck does all that mean, is Gail alright?" Holly pulled Steve in for a hug "yes Steve, Gail is alive and so far the outcome is looking far better than when she arrived. Our girl is a fighter, she's not giving up just yet, neither should we. We shall await the neuro surgeons report." Steve was so thankful he pulled Holly in for another crushing hug and they all sat back down to a wait the finally condition report on their beloved Peck.
The surgery was finished, and Gail was being prepared to be transported up to the ICU; So the surgeon went out to update the family on her condition. "Is the family for miss Gail Peck here?" Steve, Holly, Tracy and Oliver all jumped up and came forward claiming Gail as their family. Holly Stepped forward "Doctor, yes we are all her for Detective Peck. How is she doing, what's her prognosis?" he stepped a little closer to the sea of people. "Miss Peck is doing ok for now, she is still in critical condition. She isn't out of the woods just yet; she still has a lot of fighting left to do. We will be lucky if she just has some memory lapses, we are just playing the waiting game now and trying to see if and when she wakes up. We are not yet sure of what kind of permanent damage she may have suffered." They all thanked the doctor and sat back down, waiting for the nurse to come take them back to see Gail. The nurse came around after getting Gail settled into her room and told them she could have 1-2 visitors at a time. Holly spoke up "Steve you and Tracey should go first followed by Oliver, I'll go after him." Holly was nervous she didn't know what to say or do; for once in her life she was speechless and unsure of things. So they did as she said, they all went in and had their time with Gail. They all came out looking out of it or a little spooked by what they had witnessed. The group was not used to seeing Gail so quiet and fragile. So it was finally Holly's turn, she slowly made her way to her room not wanting to see for her self how bad it truly was. As she opened the door and walked in the sight before her almost made her break down. She shook it off and proceeded to pull up a chair to Gail's bed and sit down to hold her hand close. "Gail, I'm not even sure if you can hear me, but I don't care. Oh god baby I've missed you so much. I can't go on living without you in my life; I am coming back home baby. So you have to wake up and come back to me, I refuse to go on living without for another second of my life." She proceeded to email her boss in San Francisco to tell him that she will not be returning and that she was sorry to inform him that she will be resigning her position. She will figure out the rest later, right now all she needed to do is focus on Gail and getting her better.
(About 3 weeks later)
Gail was still in a coma but the doctors were optimistic about her outcome, she was making more purposeful movements as the time passed day by day. Holly was offered a promotion in the old Toronto office she worked in before moving to San Francisco. She would come to the hospital everyday before and after work. It took a lot of convincing from her friends and family for her to go home to sleep, she is almost as stubborn as Gail Steve said. Thanks to Gail's efforts with the bomb, the damage was far less than it would have been; the lives lost you could count on one hand and two of them were the bombers so not too shabby. It was later that week when Holly was in visiting her that she started to come to. "Gail baby, come on wake up. Come back to me, stop being lazy and open those beautiful blue eyes." As if on cue Gail's eyes shot open and there in front of her stood Holly, Gail looked up with a quizzical stare. So Holly was scared that she didn't know who she was. "Gail its me Holly, oh my god you don't know who I am, you've lost your memory. They said this could happen and I didn't want to believe them and here you are confused as to who I am I cant believe this has happened after everything." Gail interrupted her "Lunchbox, you're going to have to stop rambling because I am in no condition to kiss you to stop your further on slate of words." Holly was crying by this point "you remember me!" Gail let out a hearty laugh "yes nerd I could never forget you!"
After a semi happy reunion, the pair got back together and worked on their relationship. The actions of that fateful day have only further solidified their love for one another and they were finally able to be h0onest with one another about what they wanted and felt. Holly moved back to Toronto and her and Gail got a place together and have been going strong ever since. Their relationship is stronger than ever and they are even considering marriage and kids in the future. For now they were enough for one another and there were no complaints.
(That's it for now, sorry I haven't updated in a long time. Took me a while to get back to it. Might follow up with another story not sure yet.)