Part Eleven
"I can't believe he's gone, I mean really gone." Abby rambled aimlessly from her corner in the lounge.
Luka and Carter sat beside one another on the grubby old couch each lost in their own word neither of them having uttered a word since Kerry called time of death. The image of Dave's cold lifeless body now only a hollow shell which had carried a man they had never really truly known haunted their minds.
"Randi contacted his sister in New Jersey she'll be here as soon as she can catch a flight out. She said she would call any other family that needed to be notified." Kerry tried without success to rouse a response from the shaking forms on the settee.
The noise that normally gripped the hospital so tightly had ceased as if it knew one of its own had been lost.
Each and every inch of the hospital paying its own respects to Dr. Dave Malucci.
The silence was broken by the mumblings of Luka, "He asked me to call someone. On the train before he...before he..." the words were there on the tip of his tongue but his brain refused to let them be spoken as if he could make it not true by not admitting it. "He said he wanted her to know something...had something to say to her..." The feelings of sorrow transferring to anger "He wanted me to tell her in case he... Why didn't I listen? Why did I have to be the big shot he knew what was happening tried to tie up lose ends but no I stopped him. What if it was important I mean really important and I let him...without listening to him..." Luka paced around the room like a caged animal looking desperately for something to hurl in rage.
"You have to say it Luka. Tell me what happened to Dave. What's Dave?" Kerry pressured him to admit it, to let himself here it to let them all hear it.
"NO...I can't...if I don't say it then it won't be true..."
"But it is true Luka. What happened to Dave?"
"He...he...HE'S DEAD ARE YOU HAPPY DID YOU LIKE HEARING IT YOU SADIST HE'S DEAD." Luka slid defeated down the wall and began to sob uncontrollable "He's dead."
With that the cold night air that had held its noise in, erupted with tortured sobs as the ER staff let the world know they were in pain.
"I can't believe he's gone, I mean really gone." Abby rambled aimlessly from her corner in the lounge.
Luka and Carter sat beside one another on the grubby old couch each lost in their own word neither of them having uttered a word since Kerry called time of death. The image of Dave's cold lifeless body now only a hollow shell which had carried a man they had never really truly known haunted their minds.
"Randi contacted his sister in New Jersey she'll be here as soon as she can catch a flight out. She said she would call any other family that needed to be notified." Kerry tried without success to rouse a response from the shaking forms on the settee.
The noise that normally gripped the hospital so tightly had ceased as if it knew one of its own had been lost.
Each and every inch of the hospital paying its own respects to Dr. Dave Malucci.
The silence was broken by the mumblings of Luka, "He asked me to call someone. On the train before he...before he..." the words were there on the tip of his tongue but his brain refused to let them be spoken as if he could make it not true by not admitting it. "He said he wanted her to know something...had something to say to her..." The feelings of sorrow transferring to anger "He wanted me to tell her in case he... Why didn't I listen? Why did I have to be the big shot he knew what was happening tried to tie up lose ends but no I stopped him. What if it was important I mean really important and I let him...without listening to him..." Luka paced around the room like a caged animal looking desperately for something to hurl in rage.
"You have to say it Luka. Tell me what happened to Dave. What's Dave?" Kerry pressured him to admit it, to let himself here it to let them all hear it.
"NO...I can't...if I don't say it then it won't be true..."
"But it is true Luka. What happened to Dave?"
"He...he...HE'S DEAD ARE YOU HAPPY DID YOU LIKE HEARING IT YOU SADIST HE'S DEAD." Luka slid defeated down the wall and began to sob uncontrollable "He's dead."
With that the cold night air that had held its noise in, erupted with tortured sobs as the ER staff let the world know they were in pain.