Melendez drove Lim home. They were both silent during the ride, because although Melendez wanted to ask many things from Lim, he was sure this wasn't the time as she looked pretty overwhelmed.
When arriving to Lim's condo, Melendez just looked at her and waited for her to say anything.

"Thank you..." Lim sighed. "Do you want to come in?" she glanced at him while searching for her keys.

"I'd love to." he nodded. "But do you want me to come in?" he asked before moving. Lim had to think it over. He was right, Lim wanted to be alone. Wanted to shower, eat some junk food and sleep, but before she could answer, Melendez's phone started buzzing. "Well, sorry, it's not a question anymore. I have to go back to the hospital." he informed her while reading the message he got.

"I understand. Okay. You can call me when you're free." Lim opened the door and got out of the car. "I'll be home if you want to visit later." she added.

"Okay, I'll call. See you later." Melendez nodded and Lim shut the door so he could rush back to the hospital. She watched him leave and with the distance growing between them, she felt more and more lonely. She denied her need of his company, but now she really longed to hug Melendez and feel safe in his arms.

Melendez was thinking on his way back about this whole thing between them. It was so strange, so confusing and so not right. He always loved being around her, but he had some doubts now. Are they even meant to be together or is sex the only thing that works between them? He wasn't even sure what Lim wants because they couldn't talk about it yet.

Melendez arrived back to the hospital quickly. He had to perform a transplant surgery. I patient, called Oliver Wega was on the transplant list for almost three years after a liver failure caused by an autoimmune disease, but now it seemed that this was his time to get a new liver. Oliver was already prepared for surgery so Melendez changed his clothes and rushed to scrub in. What he wasn't expecting is to meet the donor's mother on his way.

"Are you the surgeon to perform this surgery? The liver transplant?" the elderly woman asked him.

"Yes Ma'am and I'm in a rush." he nodded and continued his way to the OR. The woman followed him. "I'm sorry, you are not allowed in here. Please, stay outside." he stopped her but the woman grabbed his arm.

"Please just listen to me." she started to tear up. "My baby girl is laying on one of those tables. Her name is Abby, she graduated a few weeks ago from university. Please take care of her." she begged Melendez with tears rolling down her cheeks. Melendez wasn't quite sure what she was talking about, but he nodded.

"All right, I'll make sure she is in good hands. But I have to go now." he pulled his arm out of her hands and headed to the OR. He quickly scrubbed in and prepared his mind to the surgery. "Okay, details please." he asked the nurses.

"Acceptor name, Oliver Wega, age forty. Blood type A+. He had a partial liver failure three years ago from Lupus. The donor is Abigail Justin. Brain dead after a car crash. Age twenty-six. Blood type A+. Perfect match." the matron informed him. "Are you ready, Dr Melendez?" she glanced at him.

"You said Abigail?" Melendez asked back. "Abby..."

"Yes, Sir. We are ready for surgery." she nodded.

"Alright, me too. Let's change a life with a new organ." Melendez smiled a little bit and stepped closer. He glanced at the girl. She was damn young and beautiful. He couldn't help thinking about that he promised the mother that he will take care of her daughter. He wasn't aware of the fact that her daughter is the donor and as he could notice, the mum wasn't aware either.

Two and a half hours later he announced that the procedure is done, they all closed up, counted the equipment in the OR and made sure everything was great around the transplant, but Melendez got a call right before leaving.

"Take out all the healthy organs. We need her hearth, lungs, kidneys. We have a general donor assignment paper signed by her mum. Do it before the organs are unusable." Andrews ordered. Melendez was quite sure that the mother didn't know what she just signed, but he had to act quickly.

"Work on the heart first. I'll start there but I'll need some help. Is any of my residents available?" he asked in a rush.

"Dr Park is in the ER, he just finished a surgery with Dr Trent."

"Perfect, page him. Stat." he ordered and opened up the chest immediately. Park arrived in a few minutes, scrubbed in and stood across the table facing Melendez.

"What should I do?" Park asked.

"Help me with the heart then we will do the lungs next." informed him Melendez.

It took them almost four hours to take out all of her good organs. All together it was a seven-hours-long surgery for Melendez and let's say, he was exhausted by the end.

"Good job, Dr Park, thank you for helping me out." Melendez thanked Park for his work and finally he could get out of the OR. He got rid of all the bloody scrubs, masks, gloves and washed his hands. Fortunately, all the organs were about to be transported to other hospitals which meant Melendez didn't have to perform those transplants. He was tired enough.
He was on his way to the dressing room to get the out of the hospital finally -since it had been almost eleven p.m.- but he pumped into someone in the hallway.

"Doctor! This was a long surgery. What happened? Is my baby girl okay?" she rushed to him when she noticed him coming. "She is safe, right?" she smiled with hope in her eyes.

"Ma'am. Are you aware of your daughter's condition pre surgery?" Melendez asked politely.

"Sure?" she raised her eyebrows. "She needed surgery. I signed everything that was needed. She is okay now, right?" she asked. Melendez sighed.

"Please, sit down." he pointed on the chairs and he sat down too. "Your daughter had a car crash yesterday. She didn't have any brain function since, which means she was brain dead. That's an irreversible status." he started slowly. "We weren't able to save your daughter. She would never have woken up again. But she was an organ donor. The papers you signed were about using all her organs we could to save other patients life who were on the transplant list for a long time. My sincere condolences to the family." he finished. "We saved six lives with your daughter's organs." he added and waited afterwards. She couldn't even realize what happened.

"So...when can I visit her?" she asked and looked at Melendez. It was clear that she didn't understand what Melendez just explained -or she was just exclaiming.

"Ma'am, your daughter is gone. She is dead." Melendez stated it clearly.

"All right, I will come back later then and see if I can visit her." she smiled and stood up. "Thank you, Dr ...?"

"Melendez. But Ma'am...wait, you won't...be able…to visit her anymore." Melendez tried to say, but the woman left by then. Melendez just remained silent. His brain just couldn't process this event; he was way too exhausted to understand what was going on. "Oh dear lord..." he sighed and stood up slowly. He went to change his clothes in the dressing room and grabbed his car keys -while still thinking about this woman.

Honestly he really wanted to stop by Lim's condo, but it was just too late ad this day turned into a mess, so he sent a text meassage to her to apologize. "I finished now. I'm going home to have some rest. Sorry. Gnight"