Kyle was falling surrounded by darkness. Then he heard a voice, there was someone calling a name, his name and Kyle became conscious.
"Dr. McCarty, Dr. McCarty, Kyle!" Lily called to him as she held him in her arms on the floor of the hospital.
Kyle slowly opened his eyes to see the blurry form of Lily staring down at him. Kyle was brought to reality when he felt a piercing pain coming form his chest and he closed his eyes tight in pain and moved his right hand over his wound.
"Kyle, hey Kyle" came Lily's quite voice.
Kyle reluctantly reopened his eyes again.
"Come on Kyle you've got to stay awake, you've been shot" Lily said as calmly as she was able, trying to keep him calm as well, the last thing she needed was him going into shock.
Shot? He had been shot? Then every thing came back to him about the robber and the pain in his chest along with his labored breathing and the taste of blood in his mouth made since.
Lily glanced up at the crazed man pacing around the lobby and the gun that he still held in his hand, then she looked back down at Kyle.
"Kyle I need you to move you hand" Lily said softly so as not to attract the attention of the robber. "I need to examine your wound"
Lily was talking to him, but Kyle couldn't make out what it was that she was saying. But when he felt her move his hand, and lift up his shirt he understood what she was trying to do.
Lily could tell it was really bad just from looking at the bullet wound; Kyle had lost a lot of blood and judging from how hard it seemed for him to breathe the bullet had most likely punctured a lung.
Lily knew that if the cops didn't do anything soon Kyle wouldn't make it, and she just couldn't bear that thought.
"Now on to the weather" said the news reporter as Amy turned on the TV.
Today had seemed like it would never end. She had, had a horrible day, and was looking through the case that she was working on when a report on the news caught her attention.
".a robber is holding hostages in St. Mike's hospital. Where there have been reports that a resident male doctor has been shot. Police are unsure if the man is still alive."
Amy stood frozen, 'could it be Kyle, was he even working today?' she keep wondering.
"Mom!" Amy called.
"Amy what is it." Maxine said worriedly as she hurried into the room. Then she noticed what Amy was looking at.
"Oh my god" Maxine said. "Do they know who it was that got shot?" She asked Amy.
"No" Amy responded.
"Then lets go" Maxine told Amy.
"Go? Go where?"
"To the hospital, Lauren's still at her father's right?" Maxine asked as she went to get on her coat.
"Y-yah" Any responded as she pulled on her own coat.
"Good now let's go and see if Kyle is alright" Maxine said as she and Amy walked out of the door.
Kyle was slipping in and out of consciousness and had lost all concept of what was going on around him. All he knew was that he was in pain and he wanted it to end.
Lily had tried everything that she could to stop the bleeding but without having the right supplies she couldn't do anything. She knew that there was some internal bleeding and she had to get Kyle into surgery to get the bullet out.
But all she could do was wait for the police to take action. And it was frustrating for her as a doctor to just sit there and let Kyle die.
And it was even harder for her to fight back the tears that treated to come.
