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Chapter Four – Jeremie's Operation

The gang rushed into Jeremie's hospital room, his heart rate was really slow, a doctor was writing down things on a notepad. He looked up from it and saw the four. "Please sit down." Aelita sat down by Jeremie's bed and the others took seats at the side of the room, she could see Jeremie crying out in pain, clutching at his heart. Tears began to swell up in her eyes.

"I regret to tell you that we accidentally overlooked an injury caused to one of his ribs, it's broken and has..." He closed his notebook, "...squeezed his heart." He pushed his glasses up his face, "We have given him several painkillers but nothing is taking any effect." Aelita began to cry and Ulrich stood up and walked over to him, "Is there anything you can do to help him? Anything that could give him a chance of survival? Anything at all?" The doctor flicked his notepad open, "There is one thing..."

"We can attempt an operation to remove the rib and then fix it back in it's correct position. But it's mighty risky..." "Why's that?" Odd asked, he was kind of clueless about medical procedures, "Because if we remove the rib there is a chance that we wouldn't be able to put his heart in the right position, fortunately the rib didn't break through the heart's flesh. If it did there would be a 0 chance of survival, I'd say his chances at the moment of survival are 50."

Aelita looked up, her face was red and stained from crying, "Please do all you can to help him." "Well we are, his parents agreed to the operation and we will begin this afternoon at 3:00." Aelita checked her watch, it was 12:00, "Why can't you start now?" "We are on a tight schedule miss, we have other patients to see to as well as your friend."

The others sat there and waited for the whole three hours, Aelita cried the whole time, she had little hope that Jeremie would survive. No matter how much the others tried to convince her she didn't believe them. Jeremie tried to tell her it'd be ok but every time he tried to talk he screamed in pain, which caused Aelita to cry more, so Jeremie stayed quiet.

It approached 3:00 and three doctors came in and put him on a stretcher, they wheeled him through to Surgery and applied anaesthetics, Aelita and the others waited outside, the operation took about two hours, a doctor walked out of the room and lowered his mask. "The operation was inconclusive, we were able to fix his rib and heart but it isn't at normal beat, we will have to wait to see if his heart rate returns to normal, he'll be able to survive with his current heart rate for about 24 hours." The doctors wheeled him back through to his room.

The four scrambled into his room and Aelita took her normal seat by his bed. They sat in silence for a couple of hours, Yumi checked her watch, it was 9:00pm. "Guys I've got to go. I'll be back in the morning." "Yeah me too." "And me." Odd and Ulrich said. They left and Yumi waited by the door, "You coming Aelita?" Aelita didn't move, "Ok, I'll be back tomorrow." She said shortly before walking out of the door.

Aelita sat there for what seemed like hours and she rested her head on his bed. Please wake up Jeremie, please just wake up, please please... She begged in her head, tears built up in her eyes and dripped down her cheeks and off her chin, "Jeremie, please wake up." She got comfortable leaning on his bed and cried herself to sleep...

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