"Elle?" Jay didn't understand why she was refusing the pain medicine when he could tell she was in agony. Had so much pain caused her to loose her mind or something? He had heard of things like that happening before.
"Need to think," she slowly spelled out. She slowly turned her head to look at the doctor. "Tried filtering?"
"Filtering your blood to remove the poison was one of the first things we thought of but I'm afraid the composition of the poison makes it impossible to remove it that way." the doctor clearly wasn't comfortable talking to Elle, Jay and Kay could see, probably because he knew she was dying. "Agent Elle, you really should let me give you the sedatives now. There's no reason you should have to experience this kind of pain."
"NO!!" she spelled. "Transfusion?"
"A blood transfusion? That wouldn't do any good at this point, I'm afraid," the doctor said.
"Exchange transfusion," she spelled. They could tell that she was starting to get a bit frustrated with the doctor.
"An exchange transfusion? Much too dangerous. There's no way I could allow it," the doctor said.
"Exchange transfusion? What's that?" Kay asked.
"A transfusion where her blood is drained and replaced with clean blood. It's too risky."
"Would it remove the poison?" Kay demanded. He was getting very angry with this doctor.
"In theory it should but it's too dangerous. Her heart would have to be stopped while we were working on her and in her condition it's doubtful we could bring her back again. Even if we could, the chances of severe brain damage are...."
"Elle, is this what you want?" Kay asked as he turned from the doctor to her bedside again.
"Yes," she spelled with a weak nod of her head for emphasis.
"I'll go and talk to Zed for you. Slick, stay with her," Kay said as he stood and hurried out of the room with the doctor angrily following.