Thanks so much to shaddy for her help to edit….Waves to night…
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Oracle moved her back against her chair. She played nervously with her fingers. Alfred stood up behind her. The situation was really bad. The only good thing was that Leslie was helping her.
::Barbara, I gave her the blood.:: Oracle felt a great relief hearing her protegee´s voice.
"I'm here Dinah. Do you know how she is?"
::She looks bad,:: Oracle heard the teen's voice break :: she was covered in blood and the place was full with doctors. It was terrible.::
"Stay calm Dinah. Don't worry, if Leslie is with her everything will be okay."
::She was so pale, as like the dead…::
"I trust in her. I need you to be strong now, she needs you now." Oracle listened to the silence. "Are you okay?"
::Sorry, you're right. It's just… this is difficult, I'm scared.::
"I know it."
::I don't want loose her.::
"She is going to be okay Dinah, don't worry. Now, please, tell me, are there policemen in the hospital?"
::Yes. There are almost ten and outside and two patroling.::
"So many cops inside, this is not good Alfred." She looked him.
"We need to find a way miss Gordon." He said.
"I know, I know, only Leslie will help us." Oracle tried to think of what to do.
::Leslie told me to wait for her.::
"Do it. It's a good idea. I think it's the only thing we can do now and she will tell you how the surgery went."
::Could you please talk to me?::
"Talk to you?"
::Please…::
Oracle leaned back, she understood how Dinah felt. Talk was a good idea. "All right, about what would you like to talk about?"
::Who is this doctor? Why does she know who you are?::
"She has helped Helena's father many times. He trusted in her and she kept his secret safe. In her early years she had worked with Bruce's father who was a doctor. She has helped us many times, and she has kept our secret. In our profession it's good to have a surgeon near. She had been ours since that day."
::She knows Helena?::
"Yes, Selina knew everything about Tompkins. She was her personal doctor since Selina came back to New Gotham." Oracle smiled remembering those years. "She is like a grandmother for her."
::She is a good friend of yours too.::
"Yes, she is."
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"Heart rhythm is decreasing." A nurse said in surgery room.
"I'm moving, I'm moving." Leslie was working on the damaged lung. She looked at Helena's pale face, her skin was ashen. She swallowed and resumed her work, she needed to focus on it an not in her feelings; she was having a very hard time trying not to loose her. A nurse cleaned her sweaty forehead "Inject her with more solumedrol, 100 milligrams. We to need close this artery Dr. Bumiller, it's the one that has been bothering us and the source of the bleeding."
He looked where she was pointing with her finger "I see it. Give me a second. He took some pinchers.
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"And?" Morton yelled in his mobile to one of his men at the hospital. He paced nervously on the street. Having Helena in hospital was not part of the plan.
::She is in surgery now.:: the voice confirmed.
"New Gotham Police?"
::Outside, we showed them our Secret Service credentials.::
"We need to move her out of there as soon as possible."
::That will be impossible. I don't think the hospital will authorize that. The doctor said that the wound in her back is really bad.::
"Your damn man shot her that way! I wanted her injured! Not dead!" Morton shouted hitting his car with his fist.
::She is alive!:: the man at the other side of the line said.
"But she is in a public hospital!" Morton felt angry, he wanted to take her to his place. That only delayed his plans. "We can't loose time. We can't… Damn it!" he rubbed his head "Keep an eye on her, don't let no one, No one! hear me? I don't want no one near her!"
::Right sir.::
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Leslie moved back, a nurse cleaned her forehead. That had been a very hard surgery. She removed her gloves and began to undress.
"Wow, now that was great work," Dr. Bumiller said, "congratulations."
"Thanks." Tomkins said. That damn bullet on her back had given her most of the trouble. She wanted to find the son of bitch that had shot her in the back and hang him from a big tree. "Move her to the intensive care room."
"Right," Dr. Bumiller took off his gloves, "I'll keep an eye on her."
"No, let me do it. You go to rest doctor."
"But."
"I have to work anyway" she lied, "finishing some reports."
"All right."
Outside the surgery room Dinah felt like seconds had turned into hours. She played with her fingers nervously and looked her watch. She had been inside the surgery room for more than three hours. The ER room door opened, she raised her head. A nurse walked outside, she looked her and made a sign with her hand to follow her. Dinah followed her.
The doctors were preparing to move the unconscious brunette. Dinah looked at her scared, she had her chest bandaged, and her right arm on a sling, she had an oxygen mask over her nose and a IV was pumping blood into her arm. She could hear the beep of a heart monitor connected to her stretcher. She always was strong and now, she looked so fragile. The doctors rolled the stretcher out with unconscious Helena on it.
"Don't worry she is okay, she's quite stable now, and the procedure is really routine. I secured her arm to prevent her from moving it. Will be less painful. She's going to be fine, don't worry." Tompkins placed her hand on Dinah's shoulder and told the nurses that were inside. "Girls give me a few seconds alone please."
As soon as they left, they locked the door immediately. She went to the next wall and opened the door that connected with the emergency room where the teen was. Some nurses were cleaning there. "Could you please give me a few seconds ladies?"
The nurses nodded and walked outside. Leslie locked the door behind her too.
"She will be okay? Are you sure?" Dinah asked worriedly.
"Yes honey, don't' worry, now quickly," she touched the blonde's shoulder "we need to do an exchange in both rooms. Take the stretcher and change it, I'll do the same with the box of the dirty clothes and the surgery equipment. Police are sure examine her clothes and her blood." Leslie carried the box with the dirty clothes to the other room "In this room we just operated on a man involved in a car accident. If they take these things, they are going to examine the man's things. We don't want anyone knowing who she is, right?"
Dinah moved as fast as she could. When she finished, Leslie gave her some old clothes and cleaned up some small blood spots on the floor while she put Helena's clothes inside a plastic bag. She gave it to Dinah.
"Dinah, downstairs there's an incinerator, burn the clothes there, later I'll see you at my office."
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::She is quite stable now Barbara,:: Leslie explained over phone a few minutes later from her office ::But it was pretty hard work trying not to loose her. That son of bitch really did a number on her. There were a few complications but she is strong, I have moved her to the Intensive care area. She was shot.::
"I know." Barbara said. She was sitting in front of Delphi and Alfred behind her listening attentively. They had felt more calm when they heard Leslie's voice. It ha been a hard night.
::Do you know that it was by a sniper?::
"What?" Barbara almost jumped off her seat.
::The one in her lower shoulder. It damaged her lung. It was a pretty bad wound. The wound in her leg was not dangerous but very painful.::
"Damn it. She was talking with somebody, a man. I couldn't recognize his voice. But she knew him. We need know who he is." Barbara removed her glasses and leaned back in her chair.
::This place is like a police station at the moment.:: Leslie said ::What she broken now?::
"I don't know, but I need to move her out of there."
::Not now, we need to wait a little more. It's to dangerous move her at least for the next 24 hours. I sent Dinah home. She needs some rest. I'll keep an eye on Helena.::
"Please Leslie, don't leave her alone:"
"Don't worry my friend. I sent Dinah home, I gave her some pills; she was too nervous. She is new, right?"
::Yes… she escaped from her home, her adopted parents were really… you know… she was a mistreated child… it has been difficult for her and a few months ago she lost her mother. She is now afraid she will loose Helena. Helena hasn't been exactly nice with her but she appreciates her so much.::
"I understand. Keep an eye on her. I'll check on your big girl here."
::Thanks.::
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Barbara waited patiently for Dinah's return; she knew the teen would be feeling bad. The elevator door opened, Dinah walked inside hugging her self and walker towards the platform. Barbara removed her glasses and looked her; she turned her wheelchair.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes." The teen nodded her head.
Barbara took her hand and Dinah hugged her crying.
"She was… she was so pale." She mumbled.
"Don't worry." Barbara rubbed her back, "Leslie told me she will be okay, trust her."
"I'm scared."
"She will recover soon."
"I know but I'm scared." Dinah sobbed, "there was so much blood…"
"I know," Barbara wiped her tears, "and now she needs us, we need to keep that in mind. Remember? It's the only way to help her. We need to think how to move her out of there. I need you. I can't do this alone."
"I'm sorry."
"No, no, no, I understand you, It's to good cry, but I want you to know that I need you now."
Dinah moved back and wiped her tears. "I know, what do you want me to do?"
"Go to rest now, we can't do nothing now, Leslie says we can't move her for the next 24 hours. She will help us to move her out of there."
"All right, and you?"
"I'm fine, don't worry. Go sleep. I need you fresh and alert tomorrow."
"I prepared some tea for you Miss Dinah, it will help you to sleep better." Alfred said. He looked at the redhead "And for you I have brewed a big pot of coffee. I know you."
Barbara smiled, "Yes, you now me, thanks Alfred." She felt sad too but she needed to help her protégé more to work on helping her feel better about the situation.
"Thanks Alfred." Dinah said taking the mug of tea.
Barbara sighed and turned back towards her computer, she had work to do. She needed to find a way to move Helena out of the hospital avoiding all that security.