Jay moved to Elle's side and took her other hand as the monitor continued to fade in and out. He carefully stroked her fingers, hoping she could feel the touch so she would know she wasn't alone. "Come on, Elle. Come back," he whispered.
"Don't just stand there! Do something!" Zed demanded as he turned towards the doctor. Elle was fighting to come back to them so why was the doctor just standing there instead of working to save her?
"I don't think there's anything I can do," the doctor said as he checked the monitor. Her heartbeat was fading in for a moment, flickering out again and then coming back. He had never seen anything like this. "Anything I tried right now would probably kill her. I don't even know how she's alive in the first place."
"Elle?" Zed said as he moved to her side and took both of her hands, slipping his fingers beneath Jay and Kay's.
"Come on," Kay whispered. Suddenly he detected a change in the beeping of the monitors. It was still unstable but he heard the beeps getting closer together. "That's it. Come on back now," he carefully touched her cold forehead and stroked her hair. Closer and closer. Twenty, thirty, forty. The flatline that had appeared between beats had disappeared. Suddenly he felt movement under his fingers. Her hands weakly twitched and squeezed their fingers.
"Welcome back," Zed whispered with a relieved sigh. She was alright. They had her back again.
The doctor motioned to the medics to start hanging more bags of blood as he moved to Elle's side.
"Well, is she going to be alright?" Zed asked.
"I don't know. It took three fifty-nine. That's much too close but.... We'll have to wait for her to wake up to tell if there's any damage," the doctor said as he carefully felt Elle's pulse before taking a warming blanket from a nearby counter and covering her with it. "We'll get her into a private room and keep an eye on her until then."