Thanks for all the reviews for chapter four. I am sorry that it took soo longfor me to updatebut I won't keep you waiting…Here's chapter five.

Chapter 5

"Detective! Detective!" a gentle female voice beckoned me back to consciousness. I hoped that the voice was Lily. That it was all a dream and we were at her house watching a horror movie but instead I opened my eyes to see a doctor standing over me. It was Dr. Carmichael, standing behind her was doctor dressed in blood covered scrubs.

My heart raced. The blood had to be Lily's. She was dead. I knew it. "Yes, Dr. Carmichael," I managed to say.

"This is Dr. Torres," she introduced me to the man in the blood covered scrubs. He preformed the bullet retrieval on Detective Rush."

"Hi," I said halfheartedly. I extended my arm for a handshake and Dr. Torres shook it. "How's Lily."

"The bullet did a lot of damage to Detective Rush's internal organs. Most we were able too repair. We had an OB/GYN in the OR with us to monitor the baby. She's unconscious and we're keeping her on a ventilator for the time being but she'll wake up soon."

"Is the baby okay?" I asked.

"You're baby is fine." The doctor said. "We have a fetal monitor strapped to Lily's abdomen to monitor the baby."

"Can I see her?"

"Yes, just wait until the nurses get her settled," the doctor said.

I waited patiently, or at least I tried to appear patient. The urge to burst into Lily's room was making me antsy. I wanted to see her, to let her know that I was with her, that she would be okay.

After a while the nurse came to get me and I fought to contain my composure. The nurse led me down ICU, where Lily was currently being kept. They promised to move her to another room, a private room, once her condition stabilized. We stopped at a door and the nurse told me to go in.

I looked at the bed to see her small body lost in the sea of white sheets. There were monitors protruding from every different part of her body. Her hands where sanctuary for the IVs that ran the drugs through her system and snaking out of her mouth was a respirator, there where other tubes snaking down to her chest, and another monitor attached to her abdomen.

I took a moment to gaze at the monitor. Watching the fetal heart tones as they rose and fell, I held out my hand in a gesture of intimacy. I was thanking god and yet I didn't realize it. Then I walked around the bed taking a seat next to Lily. I took her hand and I squeezed it before moving it up to her abdomen and letting it rest near her bellybutton.

I sat there silent for a while before I lay my head down next to Lily's and started praying.

"Please god, let her live, please." My words sounded like cries as tears began to fall. "I love her. I don't think I can go on without her."


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