The door was pushed open and Craigen and George came back into the room and suddenly Olivia couldn`t lie anymore, it was enough. The last four weeks, her whole life, there were so many lies that she couldn`t count them anymore. Her conception, her drunk mother her whole childhood was a lie and it didn`t change since she was an adult. How often did she lie to Elliot about a guy she was dating. She looked into the faces of her two colleagues and said: ¨ I`m pregnant.¨
And then something inside her just broke. She started to cry and to laugh at the same time. This wasn`t possible, how did she end up like this, she couldn`t believe it. From far away she heard herself screaming and she could feel how her throat started to burn so it wasn`t a dream, she was actually screaming out loud but she couldn`t stopp it. She clinched into the blanket and she wanted to hit something, anything, no matter what, she needed to do something to get the pain and the pressure and the fear out of her body.
¨ Olivia!¨ George was trying to get her attention but Olivia was just screaming. He tried to process what she just said but he had to take care of Olivia first. The door was torn open and a nurse came in and left instantly to look for a doctor. But Geoge was sure that Olivia wouldn`t want to be calmed down with medicine when she is pregnant. His brain was running what could he do, he needed to do something, anyhing.
Craigen set on the edge of the bed and took Olivia`s face into his hands. He looked deep into her eyes and said:
¨Olivia, listen to me. Everything will be fine, you`re not alone. Okay? You`re not alone I`m here, I`m here.¨ and then he pulled her to his chest and hugged her tight, something he wanted to do for years but he never did it cause it would have been inappropriate, but this didn`t matter anymore.
He didn`t know how long he was sitting like this, with Olivia crying at his chest but he felt her leaning into the hug and closing her arms around him and she hold him so tight that he had trouble to breathe.
And slowly her sobs weren`t so intense anymore and he felt how she calmed down. She was still crying but she wasn`t screaming anymore and he could feel how exhaustion took over her body.
The nurse came back in with a doctor following her, but George send them back out.
After a while he could feel Olivia breathing steady at his chest and George stepped closer and whispered. ¨ She fell asleep.¨
George helped him to lay her onto the bed and then he set into a chair next to her bed and hold her hand.
¨ I stay with her, could you please go and take care of Elliot?¨, Craigen said to George. George nodded and left the room to look for his other friend. While he was on his way to Elliot`s room he felt tears running down his face. This didn`t happen for a long time cause normally he is a professional but he felt so overwhelmed and sad and exhausted. He stopped and called Mark.
¨Can you please tell me that everything will be alright?¨
¨Everything will be alright.¨ Mark responded immediatley
¨ I`m afraid it will not, but thanks for beeing there for me.¨
After the call he walked into Elliot`s room and found Elliot fighting with the nurse about leaving the hospital and his look at his watch told him that it was 10 a.m.. Great, this day had just started.
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