The clock kept ticking, moving much too fast. Jay stared at it willing it to slow. Two minutes gone. Only two more left. Why were they moving so slowly?
Kay pressed a hand against the window as he watched the doctors working. They had managed to remove Elle's blood. The question was if they could get the clean blood into her in time.
"Come on, Elle. Don't quit on us now," Jay whispered as he joined Kay at the window, his fingers absentmindedly touching the bandage in the bend of his elbow. A similar bandage was on his partner's arm. The clock was quickly approaching three minutes. Jay could see the medics working frantically, squeezing the bags of blood to make them empty into her body faster. It all seemed so slow though, much too slow.
"Three thirty," Zed whispered. It was taking much too long, he thought. If this didn't work and Elle died, it would be on his conscience. He should have made the doctors try something else, anything else rather than doing this.
"Come on," Kay murmered as the doctor got the doctor got the defibrilator and positioned the paddles again. They were cutting it extremely close. Her body jolted once, twice and then three times as the doctor applied the shocks to her heart. Nothing. The monitor stayed in that ominous flatline.
"Elle," Jay whispered as he felt tears stinging his eyes. The doctor took a needle and injected something into the IV. Three forty. Why had they ever agreed to letting her do this?
"Come on. You can do it. Come back," Kay whispered as the doctor applied the shocks again. Elle twitched again but this time the line on the monitor wavered a bit. It peeked for a second before flatlining again. The three men held their breath as they waited to see if by some miracle there might be a second beat.