"It isn't fair," Jay whispered as he turned away from the room as tears started to pour down his cheeks. He wanted to hit something, anything. How could Elle be dead? They had done everything right! It was just an ordinary earth snake! Elle should have been alright! How could she just be laying there so still and silent? It wasn't fair!
He felt Kay's hand on his shoulder, and he spun pushing his partner away and lashing out, hitting, at him. "We did everything right! Why's she dead?! We should have saved her!" His mind kept replaying those moments in the car when he had held Elle, trying to comfort her. She had been so afraid and now they had failed her. They had let her die. She had been counting on them and.... Jay felt sick.
Suddenly a faint beeping sound filled the air. "That couldn't be," Jay whispered as the two men moved back to the door again. Jay's jaw dropped when he saw the monitor. Instead of that awful flatline, there were a series of small peaks running steadily across the screen.
The doctor took a syringe and injected the contents into one of the IV lines. As the drug entered her bloodsteam, the peaks on the monitor became stronger. "Okay, people. We have her back. Type and cross-match for two units of blood and let's get that antivenin in now!"
"You really need to go back to the waiting room now," the nurse said as she came over and started to shoo them away from the door. Neither Jay nor Kay bothered to object. Elle was alive. That was all they cared about.