The Ransom of Dr. Dave

Part 16

Elizabeth: We don't know for sure until we do a rectal on him.

Mark: I'll do it.

Kerry: No, I will Mark.

Mark: I think Malucci would feel more comfortable with a male doctor.

Kerry: If what we think happened to him then, in this case, I don't think he would want a man touching him, especially in that area.

Mark: He's in a coma. He won't even know what's going on.

Kerry: True, but I'll still do it.

Mark: Have it your way.

Kerry: Lydia, will you assist me. We will need to get a rape kit.

As Kerry and Lydia leave the lounge, the others started to ponder what Elizabeth said and it started to sink in what had really happened to Dr. Dave. Then they saw Jing-Mei shaking as she walked over to a table where several files were piled up and with one quick swipe of her hand sent the files all over the lounge.

Jing-Mei: DAMN IT!! HOW COULD THEY? WHAT KIND OF SICK, TWISTED MONSTERS ARE THERE IN THE WORLD THAT WOULD DO THAT TO HIM!

Jing-Mei fell down in a chair and put her head in her hands and started crying. Luka and Haleh tried to comfort her as Carter ran out of the lounge noticeably upset with Abby after him.

Jing-Mei: Please everyone. I know you mean well and only want to help but right now I just want to be left alone.

The doctors and nurses honored her request and left her to her own sorrow in the lounge. They headed back out to the admit desk. Outside, Abby was trying to calm Carter down.

Mark: Are you alright, Carter?

Abby: No, he isn't.

Elizabeth: I know you and Malucci were good friends and what happened to him is devastating and difficult on all of us, but you seem to be taking it especially hard.

Carter: Of course I am. Why shouldn't I. (pause) Every time I find out more about Malucci's condition, it hits hard. As hard as I try not to think about it I do.

Mark: Think about what?

Carter: It was suppose to be me, not him. Everything that happened to him was meant for me. I wish I had never lent Malucci my car and then it would have been me.

Elizabeth: Carter, if you think anyone here is pointing an excusing finger at you, we're not.

Carter: You don't have to. I know my guilt and everytime I look at Malucci I'll know my part in his injuries.

About an hour later, Kerry comes down from ICU. She is NOT a happy camper.

Luka: Well, did you see what you needed to?

Kerry(with tears in her eyes): Yes, I did.

Abby: Well.

Kerry(looking at Jing-Mei and Carter): Elizabeth was right. Malucci has been sexually assaulted.

Jing-Mei: You mean raped. Just come out and say the word---RAPED. They not only violated him internally by stealing his kidney but they also violated him sexually.

Haleh: Poor Dr. Dave. I never thought I would say this but I feel so sorry for him. He was a total jerk, no doubt about that, but no one and I mean NO ONE deserved to be done to them what was done to that boy.

Abby: So where do we go from here?

Kerry: Malucci needed to be tested for STD'S and HIV. I sent Lydia down to the lab with the tests. We should know something soon. I told her to tell them to put a rush on them.

Just then, a furious Capt. Amos came into the ER holding a newspaper.

Capt. Amos: Dr. Chen, how could you do this?!

Kerry: Excuse me captain, please do not come in here and yell at one of my doctors. What did she do?

Capt. Amos: She might have put another one of your doctors, her boyfriend, in danger again.

Mark: I don't believe that. She would never do anything that would endanger Malucci's life.

Capt. Amos(handing them the newspaper article): Look what she did. She spoke with a reporter.

Carter: So what if she did?

Capt. Amos: Think about it everyone. The punks who did this to Dr. Malucci are still out there. They went through alot of trouble to kill him after they kidnapped him. That tells me that maybe Dr. Dave knew something about his kidnappers that could lead us to them.

Kerry: Well he doesn't. He didn't see them remember he was blindfolded.

Capt. Amos: Means nothing. After all he saw that they were holding him in Hangar#7 or maybe he overheard them. The point is if they find out that Malucci is still alive and they think Malucci can identify them I guarantee you they'll come back for him and finish the job.

Jing-Mei: Captain, do you mean they might try to get to my Dave and hurt him again?

Capt. Amos: Not might. Will.

Luka: They wouldn't try to kill Dave right here in the hospital.

Capt, Amos: Don't be so sure. Just look what they have done to him so far. Do you think they wouldn't hesitate in completing their job if it meant staying out of jail.

Mark: I'll speak to Romano about beefing up security around here.

Capt. Amos: Still the same, I think I'll put a few of my own men in here. (to his officers) I want a 24 hour guard placed on Dr. Malucci's hospital room door.

As the captain starts positioning his men and giving them their orders, the doctors and nurses look at each other, all thinking the same thing but wondering who is going to speak.

Capt. Amos: So doctors, when can I talk to Dr. Malucci?

Mark: He can't talk to you now. He's in a deep coma and we aren't sure if or when he's going to wake up.

Capt. Amos: You will tell me when he does wake up so I can question him about his kidnapping and attack.

Kerry: Captain, there has been a new development in Dr. Malucci's case.

Capt. Amos: What new development?

Kerry: It has come to our attention that the people who were holding Dr. Malucci, that is, his captors (pause) well they....

Capt. Amos: They what?

Mark: Dr. Malucci has been raped.

Capt. Amos: Oh God! But I shouldn't be surprised. A pretty boy like Dr. Malucci, it was bound to happen sometime.

At that moment, Elizabeth's pager went off. She pulled it off herself and looked at where she was being paged from.

Elizabeth: Oh no!! It's coming from the ICU. It's Malucci's room.

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