Walker, Texas Ranger: What Goes Around (part 3 of 3)
Gage could barely think the whole way to the hospital. It was almost 6:00 when Gage remembered that he had made a date with Laura. He called her on his cell phone and apoligized.
Sydney was very importian to Gage. Sydney had been his partner for a long time and he didn't want to lose her.
When Gage got there he could not believe all the people who were there. He looked all around and all the people were sick. It was then the doctor approched him and said, "They all drank that soda Ranger Gage. But now we have some anti-biotics to stop the poisoning before it gets serious, like Sydney's has."
Gage turned to the doctor and asked, "So how's she doing?"
"Pretty good." The doctor answered, "But she needs a kidney like I said before. So we just need to run a test on you to see if you are a possible match. Some right this way." The doctor pointed.
Gage walked in. After the doc did his work he said to Gage, "You can wait in Sydney's room. Room C130. Right across the hall. It should be about an hour before we get the results back. Like I said before, don't get your hopes up."
Gage nodded. He went into Sydney's room and sat down.
Sydney looked pretty. Gage grinned to himself. He got out the phone again and called Walker. He had already told Walker about the Pepoke posioning but Walker did not yet know about Sydney. They all knew that she was in the hospital with food posioning but they didn't know about her failing kidney. None of them did so Gage called the station.
"Hello?" Gage heard Trivette's voice.
"Hey Trivette. It's me Gage." Gage said into the phone.
"Hey Gage," Trivette answered. Trivette could tell that there was something wrong in Gage's tone of voice, so he asked, "Is something wrong?"
Gage was frank as he said, "Well yes actually." Gage paused to look at Syd, "Syd's kidney is failing."
"What?" Trivette said stunned. Walker and Alex were standing next to Trivette's desk listening to Trivette talk into the phone, "But I thought-"
"-I know." Gage interuppted. "Sydney only has one kidney. I was just tested to donate one of mine but, it's probably not a match. So it would be good if-"
"-we'll all be down there right away." Trivette answered, hanging up the phone.
Gage put his cell phone back and then rested his head on his hands.
Gage was nervous and he really didn't know what to do or say. So he just said, "Hey Syd." Like normal.
Then he reached over and put his hand on hers.
****
Sydney still was not awake when Alex, Walker, and Trivette arivved. Gage greeted them and they all got tested for a match except Alex because since she was pregant it was to risky to do a surgery like a kidney transplant.
They all waited and waited...and waited.
Then, finally the doctor came in and said, "Okay, I have all of the results back."
Everyone looked at the doctor anxiously, especially Gage. "So?" Gage asked.
The doctor nodded and smiled as he said, "We have good news." The doctor paused before he said, "Trivette and Walker, I am sorry to say, are not matches for Miss Cooke here. But Gage," He turned to Gage, "You are, surprisingly enough, a match."
There was a buzz of joy.
"We will do the transplant tomorrow morning. That is, if you are willing. Are you?" The doctor asked.
Gage looked at Syd and grinned as he said, "Duh! Yeah, she's my partner of course I will."
"Okay then." The doctor said, "I'll need you to fill out some forms and such before tomorrow's surgery. I'll have the nurse bring them here okay?"
Gage nodded.
Then the doctor said before he left, "Oh, and it might be best if you stay here tonight in case something comes up and we need to do the surgery right away."
After the doctor left Gage said, "Listen you guys, I know you all must have work to do so, you go on a head and I think I'll just hang out here."
"Okay." Everyone answered.
****
Around 10 mintutes after everyone said their goodbyes and left Gage sat down again. Then Gage saw and heard Sydney stir.
Gage took her hand and said, "Syd. Syd, it's just me, Gage."
She opened her eyes and said, "Gage?"
"Yeah, it's me I'm right here." Gage said.
"Where am I?" Sydney asked, looked around and trying to sit up.
Gage put his other hand on her shoulder and said, "Lay back, Syd. You're in teh hospital."
"Hospital?" Sydney asked.
"Yep." Gage answered. He then explained to her everything that had been going on.
"...So then we were all tested to see if we could donate on of our kidneies to you, and..." Gage trailed off. He really didn't know how to tell Syd that his was a match. He didn't want it to seem like much.
"And what?" Sydney asked, "Did they find a match?"
"Yes they found a match." Gage answered, not telling her the whole story.
"Really?" Sydney asked, a little worried. "Who is it?"
"Well," Gage started, "I really don't know how to tell you something like this."
"Why?" Sydney asked, still concerned, "If it's someone I know I hope that it's no one close to me because if something went wrong during the transplant I would be blaming myself for the rest of my life."
Gage nodded and then decided that maybe it would not be best to let her know that he was the match right that instant. "Get some rest Syd. You'll know soon enough. I'm sure that everything will be fine. Just get some rest, we have a big day tomorrow."
Sydney turned and looked at him and said, "We?"
Gage realized his slip of the mouth and covered by saying, "Yeah um, I just meant that I'll be worried you know?"
"Yeah." Sydney nodded. She yawned and not long after she fell asleep.
**Next Morning**
Gage woke up to find Sydney gone from her bed. Gage looked around.
Then he pulled himself together and walked outside.
"Ranger Gage?" Gage heard the doctor's voice say. He whirled around and faced the doctor.
"Morning doc." He said.
"Are you ready?" He asked, "We need to get you in the prep room."
Gage nodded. "Let's go." He said.
After getting pre-pared and everything was taken care of Gage was on the stretcher.
Everything was happening so fast for Gage. But that moment when he saw Sydney lying on one stretcher and he was pulling up right next to her, that moment was in slow motion.
Sydney's head was turned to her right so her eyes met Gage's when he pulled up.
"Gage?" Sydney whispered softly, but Gage still heard.
Gage's head was getting fuzzy. "Hey Syd." He said.
Gage then went into a dreamland. With Sydney.
****
Sydney opened her eyes slowly. Her vision was blurry and she really couldn't see clearly until she blinked a few times.
She nodded her head back and forth for a second. She looked around to find that she was in a hospital room.
She then remembered what she had saw before she fell asleep.
She looked over to her left and she saw that it was around 2:30pm the day after the surgery was to take place.
"Gage?" She said. She looked around. That was when the truth really sunk in. Gage had given her one of his kidneies. Sydney felt awful but she really wanted to know if Gage would be alright.
Then that same doctor came and said, "You asking for your partner?"
Sydney nodded weakly.
The doctor sat down with a solemn look on his face.
"He-he is alright?" Sydney said softly.
"We had a few complications..." The doctor trailed off.
Sydney had an alarmed look on her face.
"What kind of complications?" Sydney asked.
"Well..." the doctor went on to explain.
****
Gage woke up and he had no clue how long he'd been out.
Gage realized that he was in the hospital and he slowly remember all that had happened. He saw by a calender on the door that it had been almost a week ago that the surgery was to take place.
He looked over to his side to see if Sydney was there and okay.
Indeed Gage did see Sydney there on the bed looking over at him already.
She smiled and said, "Morning sunshine."
In the weeks to follow they both made a full recovery. Thank goodness.
On their first day out of the hospital Gage took Sydney to dinner.
"Gage," Sydney said, "You have no idea how worried you had me when the doctor said-"
"Ah!" Gage interuppted, "I say that we are both fine so we should just put it behide us."
Sydney leaned over the table and said, "But I can't put it behide me because...there is something I should tell you."
Gage nodded and said, "I should tell you something too."
Then Gage leaned over and-
You know what? I think that you have probably read a Syd and Gage fic before so you must know what's going to happen next. Yep, they'll do some more sweet talk and yada yada so let's just skip all of that and get to the point!
-"I'm in love you Gage." Sydney told Gage.
"I'm in love with you back." Gage repiled to her.
So they both found each other after being through something so life-changing that they both knew that after that day, their lives would never be the same. And you know what? They didn't mind the change.
End of Fic
Gage could barely think the whole way to the hospital. It was almost 6:00 when Gage remembered that he had made a date with Laura. He called her on his cell phone and apoligized.
Sydney was very importian to Gage. Sydney had been his partner for a long time and he didn't want to lose her.
When Gage got there he could not believe all the people who were there. He looked all around and all the people were sick. It was then the doctor approched him and said, "They all drank that soda Ranger Gage. But now we have some anti-biotics to stop the poisoning before it gets serious, like Sydney's has."
Gage turned to the doctor and asked, "So how's she doing?"
"Pretty good." The doctor answered, "But she needs a kidney like I said before. So we just need to run a test on you to see if you are a possible match. Some right this way." The doctor pointed.
Gage walked in. After the doc did his work he said to Gage, "You can wait in Sydney's room. Room C130. Right across the hall. It should be about an hour before we get the results back. Like I said before, don't get your hopes up."
Gage nodded. He went into Sydney's room and sat down.
Sydney looked pretty. Gage grinned to himself. He got out the phone again and called Walker. He had already told Walker about the Pepoke posioning but Walker did not yet know about Sydney. They all knew that she was in the hospital with food posioning but they didn't know about her failing kidney. None of them did so Gage called the station.
"Hello?" Gage heard Trivette's voice.
"Hey Trivette. It's me Gage." Gage said into the phone.
"Hey Gage," Trivette answered. Trivette could tell that there was something wrong in Gage's tone of voice, so he asked, "Is something wrong?"
Gage was frank as he said, "Well yes actually." Gage paused to look at Syd, "Syd's kidney is failing."
"What?" Trivette said stunned. Walker and Alex were standing next to Trivette's desk listening to Trivette talk into the phone, "But I thought-"
"-I know." Gage interuppted. "Sydney only has one kidney. I was just tested to donate one of mine but, it's probably not a match. So it would be good if-"
"-we'll all be down there right away." Trivette answered, hanging up the phone.
Gage put his cell phone back and then rested his head on his hands.
Gage was nervous and he really didn't know what to do or say. So he just said, "Hey Syd." Like normal.
Then he reached over and put his hand on hers.
****
Sydney still was not awake when Alex, Walker, and Trivette arivved. Gage greeted them and they all got tested for a match except Alex because since she was pregant it was to risky to do a surgery like a kidney transplant.
They all waited and waited...and waited.
Then, finally the doctor came in and said, "Okay, I have all of the results back."
Everyone looked at the doctor anxiously, especially Gage. "So?" Gage asked.
The doctor nodded and smiled as he said, "We have good news." The doctor paused before he said, "Trivette and Walker, I am sorry to say, are not matches for Miss Cooke here. But Gage," He turned to Gage, "You are, surprisingly enough, a match."
There was a buzz of joy.
"We will do the transplant tomorrow morning. That is, if you are willing. Are you?" The doctor asked.
Gage looked at Syd and grinned as he said, "Duh! Yeah, she's my partner of course I will."
"Okay then." The doctor said, "I'll need you to fill out some forms and such before tomorrow's surgery. I'll have the nurse bring them here okay?"
Gage nodded.
Then the doctor said before he left, "Oh, and it might be best if you stay here tonight in case something comes up and we need to do the surgery right away."
After the doctor left Gage said, "Listen you guys, I know you all must have work to do so, you go on a head and I think I'll just hang out here."
"Okay." Everyone answered.
****
Around 10 mintutes after everyone said their goodbyes and left Gage sat down again. Then Gage saw and heard Sydney stir.
Gage took her hand and said, "Syd. Syd, it's just me, Gage."
She opened her eyes and said, "Gage?"
"Yeah, it's me I'm right here." Gage said.
"Where am I?" Sydney asked, looked around and trying to sit up.
Gage put his other hand on her shoulder and said, "Lay back, Syd. You're in teh hospital."
"Hospital?" Sydney asked.
"Yep." Gage answered. He then explained to her everything that had been going on.
"...So then we were all tested to see if we could donate on of our kidneies to you, and..." Gage trailed off. He really didn't know how to tell Syd that his was a match. He didn't want it to seem like much.
"And what?" Sydney asked, "Did they find a match?"
"Yes they found a match." Gage answered, not telling her the whole story.
"Really?" Sydney asked, a little worried. "Who is it?"
"Well," Gage started, "I really don't know how to tell you something like this."
"Why?" Sydney asked, still concerned, "If it's someone I know I hope that it's no one close to me because if something went wrong during the transplant I would be blaming myself for the rest of my life."
Gage nodded and then decided that maybe it would not be best to let her know that he was the match right that instant. "Get some rest Syd. You'll know soon enough. I'm sure that everything will be fine. Just get some rest, we have a big day tomorrow."
Sydney turned and looked at him and said, "We?"
Gage realized his slip of the mouth and covered by saying, "Yeah um, I just meant that I'll be worried you know?"
"Yeah." Sydney nodded. She yawned and not long after she fell asleep.
**Next Morning**
Gage woke up to find Sydney gone from her bed. Gage looked around.
Then he pulled himself together and walked outside.
"Ranger Gage?" Gage heard the doctor's voice say. He whirled around and faced the doctor.
"Morning doc." He said.
"Are you ready?" He asked, "We need to get you in the prep room."
Gage nodded. "Let's go." He said.
After getting pre-pared and everything was taken care of Gage was on the stretcher.
Everything was happening so fast for Gage. But that moment when he saw Sydney lying on one stretcher and he was pulling up right next to her, that moment was in slow motion.
Sydney's head was turned to her right so her eyes met Gage's when he pulled up.
"Gage?" Sydney whispered softly, but Gage still heard.
Gage's head was getting fuzzy. "Hey Syd." He said.
Gage then went into a dreamland. With Sydney.
****
Sydney opened her eyes slowly. Her vision was blurry and she really couldn't see clearly until she blinked a few times.
She nodded her head back and forth for a second. She looked around to find that she was in a hospital room.
She then remembered what she had saw before she fell asleep.
She looked over to her left and she saw that it was around 2:30pm the day after the surgery was to take place.
"Gage?" She said. She looked around. That was when the truth really sunk in. Gage had given her one of his kidneies. Sydney felt awful but she really wanted to know if Gage would be alright.
Then that same doctor came and said, "You asking for your partner?"
Sydney nodded weakly.
The doctor sat down with a solemn look on his face.
"He-he is alright?" Sydney said softly.
"We had a few complications..." The doctor trailed off.
Sydney had an alarmed look on her face.
"What kind of complications?" Sydney asked.
"Well..." the doctor went on to explain.
****
Gage woke up and he had no clue how long he'd been out.
Gage realized that he was in the hospital and he slowly remember all that had happened. He saw by a calender on the door that it had been almost a week ago that the surgery was to take place.
He looked over to his side to see if Sydney was there and okay.
Indeed Gage did see Sydney there on the bed looking over at him already.
She smiled and said, "Morning sunshine."
In the weeks to follow they both made a full recovery. Thank goodness.
On their first day out of the hospital Gage took Sydney to dinner.
"Gage," Sydney said, "You have no idea how worried you had me when the doctor said-"
"Ah!" Gage interuppted, "I say that we are both fine so we should just put it behide us."
Sydney leaned over the table and said, "But I can't put it behide me because...there is something I should tell you."
Gage nodded and said, "I should tell you something too."
Then Gage leaned over and-
You know what? I think that you have probably read a Syd and Gage fic before so you must know what's going to happen next. Yep, they'll do some more sweet talk and yada yada so let's just skip all of that and get to the point!
-"I'm in love you Gage." Sydney told Gage.
"I'm in love with you back." Gage repiled to her.
So they both found each other after being through something so life-changing that they both knew that after that day, their lives would never be the same. And you know what? They didn't mind the change.
End of Fic