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She pushed through the door, turning on the light in the empty room. The little girl's eyes flinched at the bright light. She placed her down gently on the gurney, helping her brother on the stop next to her. She clung onto him at once, and he held her. She pushed her hair behind her own ears with her fingers, and placed the two charts she had grabbed from the admit desk on the tray. She needed an attending if she was going to file a police report. Her hands were unconsciously shaking. The look in the boy's eyes only screamed of fear and distrust. She needed to get someone in here with her. And she needed to find Adele from DCFS. Somehow she felt they would be here for the night, since Adele usually only worked from eight until six. She usually didn't come in, except on special cases. This wasn't an entirely special case. In all her years working in a hospital, she had seen enough abuse, and been the victim of it, to know it can happened to anyone.
"I'll be right back, okay?"
The boy nodded his head and squeezed his sister closer to him. She pushed through the door, and spotted a pair of green scrubs sitting at the desk. She quickly strode over there, unsure if this would be a good idea. He had been through so much, and he was particularly emotional about children. She was a few feet away from him when he suddenly looked up. She didn't have a choice. He was the only one around at the moment, and she needed them to get checked out and taken care of as soon as humanly possible.
"Luka, I need your help."
He saw the worry in her eyes, and quickly left the pile of ever growing paperwork. Her step was quick and long, steering him toward the once empty exam rooms. He felt the weight of the night on his eyes, they were beginning to close on their own. She stopped at the door, pausing a moment, composing herself before going in. He suddenly knew that this wasn't a hard case medically. It was one of those ravaging, mentally destroying cases that a doctor obsessed about for days. He followed her through the door, and he saw a scrawny little boy protectively holding his sister.
She walked over to him, sitting on the bed next to him. He started to scoot away from her, but then realize it was probably rude. She wasn't at all a bad person, she just wanted to help.
"This is my friend, Dr. Kovac. He's going to help me take care of you. What's your name?"
She noticed the gleaming eyes of the little girl, she couldn't break away from starring at Luka. She withered up closer to her brother, forming a ball out of her body. He noticed it too. She gently laid a few fingers on the girl's shoulders, causing her attention to be diverted from the source of her anguish.
"Jake."
His voice came out a loud whisper, but he was tough. She knew he held a great deal of determination and strength in that little frame. She focused her attention on the little girl, who was trying her best not to cry and stay brave. She was scared more than anything else, her whole body shaking in spasms every few minutes.
"What's your name, sweety?"
"Her name's Emily. She doesn't talk."
She scrawled down the names on the chart, then glanced up at Luka. He motioned her outside with a subtle glance. She put the charts back down, and eased off the bed.
"Jake, I'll be right back."
She watched him nod his head silently as she walked out of the room. She stopped with Luka right outside the room, the two children in view through the blinds.
"She's afraid of me. You won't get anywhere with me in the room. I'll send Sam in to assist, and I'll deal with DCFS."
She nodded her head and walked back into the room, shutting the door behind her. Emily had eased off of Jake after she realized Luka wasn't coming back in. She pulled up a chair close to the bed, and put out her hand for Jake to take it.
"Come on, I want to check out your sister. You can sit here."
He maneuvered onto the chair, and she pulled it up as close the bed it would go. She walked over the vulnerable girl, and kneeled down in front of her.
"Emily, my name's Abby. I'm a doctor. I want to check out those bruises on your back, and make the pain go away. But I want to make sure you're okay with me doing that?"
Emily wasn't look at her, she was looking at her own shoes, and playing with the hem of her shirt. She saw Jake nudge her thigh and he nodded his head. She followed suit and nodded her own. She took it as the okay to check her out, and soon the door opened, Sam coming in. Emily instantly tensed up in her touch.
"Emily, calm down. This is Sam, she's a nurse. She's really nice and she promises not to hurt you."
Sam walked closer and whispered a small greeting and reached out a teddy bear for Emily to take. She looked suspiciously at Sam, but again Jake nudged her and she gratefully took it, wrapping her tiny arms around it and squeezing it close. Abby motioned Sam to the other side of the bed, and both put on gloves. Abby skimmed her fingers over Emily's back, making sure she knew she was going to be very careful and not make her hurt. She began to pull up the back of the shirt, when Sam took the other edge, and pulled the shirt off, over her head. They nearly stopped breathing.