Spoilers: None
Author note: Yet another Drama/Tragic Luka fic from yours truly!
I don't know what it is about me…I just love depressing/hurting/killing/ect
Luka. Enjoy! I reposted this because I changed it from 3rd person to 1st.
Eventually it's going to revolve around Abby, Susan and Luka ;)
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"I'm off!" I looked up as Luka passed the admit desk. It was midnight and the shifts were changing and Luka, looking tired was gathering his belongings to go home, I suppose. Abby walked up to the admit desk, upon hearing Luka's comment she laughed.
"Lucky, we're both just starting out shifts, right Susan?" I nodded while Luka smiled as he grabbed some papers by the phone.
"Have fun." He said. " It doesn't look like it's going to be so bad. It's seems like it's going to be a slow night."
"I hope so." Abby replied.
"Have a good night." I called as Luka left. I sauntered over to Abby, sighing as I leaned my elbows on the admit desk.
"Don't you just love working nights?" I said, smiling sarcastically.
"Oh, yeah. It's the highlight of my week." She laughed and I took a seat next to her.
"Mine, too."
"Well, as Luka said, it looks like a slow night."
We started talking and before we knew it a few hours had passed. I got up and stretched, my muscles cramped from sitting so long.
"Susan! Abby!" We both looked up to see Yosh running toward us. "We have a mugging victim five minutes out, you guys want to take him?" Abby stood up.
"Yeah, I think we both need a little stimulation." She replied. Yosh
nodded, walking off.
Once adorned in trauma gowns and gloves, we walked out into the ambulance bay and waited in the chilly air. I could hear the sirens in the distance. It was freezing and the clouds overhead looked as though they would open up any minute and drench the world in a sheet of rain.
"What a crappy night to get mugged." I remarked, shivering. Abby nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, it's freezing!" By then the ambulance had pulled up and we ran up to its doors, helping the paramedics take the gurney out. I craned my neck to get a look at the victim and felt my body go cold.
"Luka?" Abby said, in shock. A paramedic looked at her.
"You know him?" he asked. Abby nodded her head.
"He works here...what happened?" she asked, while I stood staring at the motionless Luka. His face was pale except for the bright red blood splattered across his cheek. I realized there was a lot of blood splattered across him. I listened as the paramedics gave me the bullet.
"Multiple stab wounds to the chest, abdomen and neck. We tried to intubate him in the field but we couldn't. This guy seriously needs an airway. Pulse ox is eighty two, BP is ninety over fifty." I sucked in her breath at the information, feeling like I had been sucker punched, it didn't look good. We hurriedly wheeled him into trauma one, calling out for other doctors along the way. In a moment, Gallant, Kerry and Yosh were also in trauma one.
"What the hell happened?" Kerry asked, grabbing an intubation tray. I shrugged my shoulders.
"A mugging, I guess."
"Squeeze in two units of O-neg, type and cross for four." Gallant instructed. Abby read the monitors.
"Stats and BP are falling, Eighty percent on room air." Kerry was franticly trying to intubate him.
"Damn it!" she yelled. " I can't see anything!" I ran over to her, taking the tubing from her.
"Here, let me try." There was blood everywhere and I kept getting this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. After the third try I was able to insert the tube. "I got it! Bag him" I yelled, as Yosh ran over to my side and took over the bagging.
"Pulse ox is up, ninety percent." Abby said. Kerry was now working the ultrasound, staring at the screen with a grim face. I looked at Kerry as Gallant spoke.
"He's losing blood faster than we can give it to him."
"What is it, Kerry?" I asked. Kerry sighed.
"There's not a lot that looks like it wasn't hit." The words hit everybody with a strong impact. Just then, Elizabeth ran into the room, listening as Gallant filled her in on everything.
"We need to get him to an OR, he's bleeding out." Abby and Yosh quickly began moving tubes and machines around so that they could move him. As they were about to leave, alarms started going off.
"He's in V-tach!" Yosh yelled.
"Starting compressions." Gallant informed everybody as Elizabeth reached for the paddles.
"I want an amp of epi and charge to two hundred." She instructed. "Clear!" everyone jumped back and Elizabeth shocked him.
"Still V-tach."
"Charge to two fifty...Clear!" Abby and I both flinched as Luka's body jerked upward.
"Nothing!"
"Push another amp of epi, charge to three hundred...clear!" Elizabeth's voice had an edge in it. The monitor beeped and they relaxed a little as Yosh quietly said,
"Normal sinus rhythm."
"All right, let's get him upstairs!" Elizabeth yelled and they wheeled him toward the elevator. Kerry and Yosh accompanied Luka and Elizabeth, leaving Gallant, Abby and I standing near the elevator in shock. The doors closed and we stood there in silence. My head was spinning with all the events playing in my head. Finally, Gallant removed his trauma gear and threw it into a trashcan. I was next, and finally, Abby. Abby glanced at me, an unreadable expression on her face.
"It's ironic." She said. I gave her a puzzled look, not understanding.
"What is? I asked as Abby gave a small laugh.
"He said it was going to be a slow night."