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Running a mile

Last time

Maggie sent Miranda out to find Maria after there were complications with the young woman they had hit with their car. So Miranda was left running as fast as her legs would carry her to find Maria.

NOW

Miranda ran as fast as she could through the halls trying to remember who Maria was. Miranda had just seen her five minutes ago and now she had something more important than that on her mind.

'She can't die! IF she does what is her family going to think?' Miranda thought as she ran still trying to find her way around this stupid hospital. Miranda could not hold back the tears that started to fall, she was too worried, worried about that young woman that her family and her hit with their car, and then about the girls family.
"Maria!" Miranda yelled. Maria ran up to Miranda.

"What is it honey?" Maria asked.

"The girl she's going to die!" Miranda said as her and Maria started to run to the room. Miranda had no idea if this woman she was running with was the Maria Maggie had asked for but she would have to do. They had to get back to the room, they had to go and save this poor girl. They needed to make this all right, they needed to do what they could to save her. And if it meant running a mile Miranda was willing to do it.

They got to the room only to find Maggie and two other doctors working on the girl. They were losing her! Miranda saw the monitors going cold blue. If Miranda learned anything from Maggie and ER it was medical terms. Miranda had come in but was told to leave by Maggie. So Miranda left the room and tried her best not to get sick at the sight from behind the window.

"She's going to die!" Miranda cried! Then she heard the monitors showing no pulse. The girl was in V fib. She heard 'clear!' and then that fatal sound again.

"They lost her!" Miranda screamed. Her tears were now forbidding her to see what was happening and she could no longer keep herself from the floor. Her body gave and she fell to the floor curling herself into a ball just listening to the sounds of the frantic doctors in the room.
Bianca and Erica had just come back from talking to Derrick and were walking over when they heard Miranda screaming. Bianca, Erica, Derrick, and James all ran to the spot they heard Miranda screaming from.
"Miranda!" Bianca yelled as she ran to her daughter. "What…what's…" Bianca than heard the beeping noise.

"Clear!" They heard Maggie yell than the beeping noise stopped.

"Oh my god! Miranda baby what happened?" Bianca asked as she pulled her daughter up from the floor. Erica and Derrick still looking in the window to see what happened, didn't notice the two get up from the floor.

"Well she's going to be okay, for now…!" Maggie said coming out the room seeing Miranda crying. "Miranda it's going to be okay!" Maggie said, trying to comfort the teen that had become like her own daughter. Maggie knelt down and opened her arms for the teen to come in, and she did. Bianca just sat there with tears of her own making there way down.

"Hey…I wouldn't let anything happen to her! I think you can trust in me after all, we are talking about me here." Maggie said getting two smiles from her family.

"I'm going to ask that girl some questions" Derrick said going into the room.

"No, you're not! Did you just stand out here and watch what just happened. She is in no shape to talk right now! She can't even breathe on her own!" Maggie said getting frustrated at what Derrick was trying to do.

"Maggie I'm doing my job!" Derrick said as he went into the room.

"And I'm doing mine by telling you to back the hell off!" Maggie said as she got in Derrick's way.

"Maggie…I have to try and get some information out of her! Like her family…to tell them what happened!" Derrick said pushing past Maggie. But Maggie was not going to let this happen now…if it did this young woman may not be able to make it.

"Derrick she is in no shape to talk! Just give it a day or two! See what happens. I am as much concerned about her family too but she came out of no where…she came out of the woods and right in front of our car! Don't you think I want to know who she is as well?" Maggie said finally getting through to Derrick.

"Fine…but as soon as she's ready I need to talk to her…and I am going to need the exact spot of where she came from!" Derrick said as he and Maggie walked out of the room. Maggie had convinced Miranda, Bianca and Erica to go home. They hesitated but went when Maggie promised to call if anything happened. So they left Maggie to stay over night with this young woman that had come crashing into their lives.

1:23 AM

Maggie heard a reselling in the bed when she opened her eyes to find that the young woman's eyes where opened looking right back into hers.

"Hey…shh….you can't talk with the ventilator in your throat! Do you want me to take it out…do you want to try and talk?" Maggie asked as she stood up from her chair where she had fallen asleep. The teen nodded her head yes and when the ventilator came out of her throat she tried to talk.

"Who…are…" the teen said in barley a whisper of a voice.

"I'm Maggie Stone and I'm your doctor…and I was the one to hit you…your in Pine Valley Hospital…and we're in ICU. You heart stopped due to your injuries, and you were unable to breathe on your own, so we had to put you on a ventilator." Maggie said trying to get all that in so the girl wouldn't have to talk as much.

"Tad…Thaddeus…" the teen tried to say. Maggie was confused…was she speaking of Tad?

"Tad…Tad Martin?" Maggie asked as she looked at the young woman lying in the bed. The only thing the teen could do was nod her head.

"Tad…? Is he your family?" Maggie asked as she looked at the teen and saw Tad's eyes. "Who are you? What's your name?" Maggie asked.

" Trixie…Cooney" Trixie answered.

"Oh my god!" Maggie ran out the door and called Derrick, Jamie, and Tad! They were not going to belive this but Maggie was going to get them to do a blood test just incase what she thought was true.

TBC…