Kyle had been at the hospital for almost five days now but wasn't allowed to go home until tomorrow, and he just couldn't wait. It hadn't taken long for him to find out that he really did not like being a patient. The nurses that he would usually boss around were now constantly telling him what he couldn't do. It was always "You need to stay in bed and rest Dr. McCarty" or "you shouldn't be doing anything strenuous Dr. McCarty", they wouldn't let him do anything at all. And Kyle had this suspicious feeling that they were they were enjoying it, and he couldn't wait to go home. Dona was away visiting her sister, and he would have the place to himself.
When he looked out the door he saw Lily running by. He had wondered where the sirens that he had heard earlier had come from. But then why was he still hearing them? He had been hearing them for almost ten minutes straight and hadn't noticed.
That wasn't normal even by St. Mike's standards. Something really big must have happened, and Kyle knew for a fact that they were under staffed. He also knew how hectic things could get in the ER and he couldn't leave Lily there to handle everything by herself. He had to help her, he didn't care if every one else thought that he shouldn't be up he gave himself permission to; he was a doctor after all.
Kyle took a beep breath and slowly sat up and got out of bed after removing the IV's and monitors he was hooked up to. 'That didn't hurt to bad' he thought, but walking was a different matter, his chest was still sorefrom the surgery. He decided that he would just find out what was going on and then go from there.
He was wearing scrubs that he had convinced his friends down in the ER to get for him, and figured that someone would mistake him for working. When he saw a nurse hurriedly walking through the halls, that he didn't know, he stopped her and asked he what was going on.
"There was a huge fire in an office building nearby and the ER is in complete chaos" she said as she hurried off.
"Great" Kyle said to himself with a sigh. Lily needed his help, so he took another deep breath and started towards the elevator hoping that he wouldn't run into a nurse that would make him go "rest" some more. He had been "resting" for far too long.
When the elevator reached the ER Kyle found out that the nurse had not exaggerated when she said that it was in chaos, because chaos was the only word to describe what was going on.
