Jay and Kay turned when they heard a gasp from the doorway to find Zed standing there. The head of MiB rarely left headquarters and as far as Jay knew, he had nver came out this far before. What was he doing here?
"When I realized what that sound was..." Zed murmered as he hurried over to Elle's bedside. It had only taken him a moment after Kay had abrubtly cut off the communication to realize the whining noise that he had heard in the background of the call was a heart monitor flatlining. As soon as he had figured that out, he had joined the medical team that was just leaving. Needless to say, he was thrilled to find out that Elle was alive when they arrived at the hospital but now that he had seen her, he wasn't sure if that really was a good thing. "What happened?"
"They had to operate because of the swelling," Kay told him. "It had already killed some of her tissues. They had to open up her arm and face so the swelling would have somewhere to go."
"Her face," Zed murmered as he reached out to touch her undamaged cheek but then thought the better of it. He stared at the bloodstained bandages for a moment before asking, "Is she stable?"
"Definately not," Jay murmered. "They still haven't been able to neutralize all of that venom and her blood's not clotting right. It runs out almost as fast as they can get it in."
"There's absolutely now way we can move her right now," Kay said just as Elle's eyelid twitched a bit and then her left eye slowly opened a tiny bit. The swelling on the right side of her face kept that eye shut. Even though they could barely see into her half open eye, they could tell she was in terrible pain. A tear rolled down her cheek as she looked at them silently begging them to help her.