Title: "Mortal Visions"

Author: ShadowFox (Shado-Fox)

Disclaimer: Not mine.

A special thanks to Garfieldlady for helping me to translate my fanfiction from French to English.

Hi! Thanks for the review! I hope you'll like this chapter... it's hard... sorry ( but I'm evil... and I like use lot of details... it's why it take long to write... Tell me what you think about it please!

Chapter 5

Adam makes an incision to the level of the damaged ribs, blood flows out very quickly; dark... he sees the place where the ribs made the damages, causing the bleeding that threatens the life of Shalimar. He takes a sort of laser that he points towards the source of the bleeding and with a very precise and fast gesture; he cauterizes it, to stop the amount of blood. It works, he slips his right hand in the incision that he made and tends to replace the broken ribs as finely as possible, without making more damages than necessary... the stain is arduous but he gets there quickly. He grabs a strange tool that he added; a short time ago, to his equipment, a species of a very long brush with a long end that he inserts in the opening, Emma's amazed eyes follows each of his gestures. He stops his movement and raises the eyes to see the gleam of questioning in the look of the young woman.

Adam: It is a prototype of a sort of glue! I am going to use it, to hold the ribs in their place, all the time that the bones are healing themselves. Then I would hold them all with a very tight bandaging to avoid that they don't give up before their solidification.

A small smile draws itself at the corner of his lips while seeing the incredulity painting on Emma's face. He pursues his task and some minutes later, he closes the incision again with the help of a laser, only letting a light reddish line, in manner of a scar.

Adam: Well. Now that the bleeding is stopped, it is necessary that I put her shoulder back in place; I would make a bandaging that will maintain her arm and the ribs at the same time... I fear that she cannot move a lot for some time...

He looks attentively at the haematoma that formed itself on the shoulder of Shalimar, and puts his hand on the scapula to feel the bones.

Adam: Jesse, I am going to need your help, to put her shoulder back in place. I am going to do it in one try, but I need the two of you to maintain the rest of her body to counterbalance the effort. I am going to count to three.

He stands on the right side; he stretches the right arm of the young woman as mildly as possible towards him, put his left hand under the right armpit of Shalimar and slips her arm under his own armpit in order to consolidate his hold. He puts his right hand just after the elbow, holding her arm against his body. He is ready. On their side, Emma and Jesse positioned themselves in order to block all movement of the body, at the time of the shock provoked by Adam. They hold the feline very tight.

Adam: One... two... three!

On three, Emma and Jesses hold tight whereas Adam pulls a dry stroke. A plunk resounds in the piece whereas the bones took their place. The beeps of the electrocardiogram accelerated some seconds before taking their rhythm Adam brings the wounded arm, back on the young woman's chest, slowly, while folding it to the level of the elbow. He puts his hand on the scapula again and takes a deep breath, not feeling the prominence anymore.

Adam: I am going to put her bandaging around the chest, it is necessary that you help me... it is not going to be easy.

Sweat begins to dawn on Adam's forehead, the efforts, that were asked, are enormous. Emma and Jesses hold still, waiting for the instructions.

Adam: Very well. I am going to put the strip on her and you should raise her rightly enough so that I can make the tour around her. It is necessary to pay a lot of attention, while you're moving her, I don't want to reopen her injuries, best would be to straighten her in position to simplify it.

At the same time he speaks, he takes the remote control of the seat and let the chair to straighten itself slightly, without shaking. When the chair gets to a satisfactory position, he makes a sign to his two helpers. He puts the strip then on the front of the chin indicates them to raise Shalimar's back, he let the strip pass her back, comes back then and so forth until the whole torso of the young woman is maintained solidly. The right arm also disappeared under the bandaging, until the shoulder.

Emma and Jesses look at him to make with interest. His gestures are precise, fast and efficient. Extinct the tremors that they had seen earlier. The father to let the place to the physician. Assured once that Adam doesn't need his aide anymore, Jesse returns to supervise Brennan that didn't always take knowledge. Adam takes the remote control of the seat and makes it come down again in stretched out position.

Adam: Now it is necessary to take care of her leg. The fracture is not beautiful to see, it is not clean and it will probably need a second look... for the meantime I am going to try to put it back in place and to immobilize it ... I am going to maintain the bone, with a piece of metal... it is going to slow down the recovery but will permit a better solidification of the bone.

He takes the scissors, which was used earlier by Jesse and now he grabs the right leg of her trousers. He cuts it on the whole length; he cuts the other leg, hoping to remove the garment completely. Shalimar is now in small panties with the chest completely shut in a gangue of white strips. Emma gives out a small scream of surprise while seeing the fracture of the leg.

Adam: I told you, the fracture is not beautiful...Then... I would like you to clean it. The last wound worries me. The one on her temple. I want to have a better view before trying to clean and repair it.

Emma: Okay Adam. Take care of her leg; I am going to take care of the injury on the head.

She is looking then for the absorbent cotton and the physiological serum and then returns close to Shalimar. She pulls a stool that she places close to her friend's head while Adam is busy to clean the wounded leg. She sits down then takes one moment to look at the face of the feline... small cuts without gravities sprinkled the neck and the low of the face, some more important cuts are visible as one goes back up on the top of the face. Before tackling the biggest among them, she decides to take care of the small... she knows that Shalimar likes to take care of her face... Absorbed in her task, she doesn't pay attention to what Adam does. She feels he is agitated next to her but remains concentrated on her goal.

After ten minutes, satisfied at her work, having succeeded letting disappear most small cuts, she is going to take care of the most important, that don't really require points of sutures but rather of small strips. She puts them softly on the sensitive places, so the skin would heal again. Then the moment came of taking care of the temple... she clears tenderly, finely hair stained of blood that regains the wound again. Of every piece of the cut spreads a bruise, nearly black, on 5 cm of width...impressive. It takes all the smoothly cotton, moisturized of the physiological serum in order to eliminate the blood to clean the wound. When she finished, the cut appears jagged, long of about fifteen centimetres, active of the corner of the eye until behind the ear. There is no doubt that points of sutures will be necessary for this one.

On his side, Adam finished with the fracture of the leg; he reduced it and placed the piece of metal to maintain it. He uses the laser again to close the incision, letting a reddish line once again but only on the calf. He rises then for one moment, comes back with a plaster in resin that he installs around the leg to immobilize it.

Adam: This is what I have done. It is going to hold for some time and she won't be able to move the foot but seeing the gravity of her injuries, I think that we can be happy, because she will be able to walk again!

He takes a light cover that he puts on the body of the young woman, as much by modesty as to protect it.

Adam: Well, I see that you took care of her face. Thank you. I am going to be able to examine this injury.

He moved forwards, while Emma moves back her stool to give him some space. He carries a needle, bends and did some sutures; these will remove themselves when the wound will have closed again itself, leaving the less possible traces.

Adam: The sides are shredded well... I should probably do the repairing surgery once all will be closed again. In the meantime I am dealing with the worst ones.

Emma: I treated the small cuts as there, put some strips, I didn't think it was necessary to do it again, it should not leave any traces....I hope I made the right choice.... otherwise she is going to tear me in little pieces when she sees the result!

Adam: No, no. You did very well, don't worry. It is this one, that bothers me because it will always remain a trace, even after the surgery, the slash is too deep and really irregular. Fortunately her hair will cover it on a good length.

While speaking, he takes the needle, closing again the wound progressively. It needs a lot of patience and especially of precision, but finally they did a great job.

Adam: Give me gazes please. I am going to put Beta dine on it and make a compress of it.

At the time of putting the compress, he sees a red stain of blood in the corner of the right eye of the feline. He raises the right lid softly and perceives that the white of the eye is blood-red; the blood vessels exploded under the strength of the impact, and the eye bleeds.

Adam: I hope that there won't be any consequences....Unfortunately I didn't know before she got unconscious...But this worries me a lot. The vessels exploded. It is not so serious, but it indicates more important lesions. It will be necessary to supervise the evolution of this injury.

Emma: What are you thinking? Do you think that she could lose the use of her eye?

TBC!

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