Chapter 5: The Overdose
It was four days later. Not even two months and four people dead. Four people gone, only to be replaced by four new people. Susan wondered when the replacements would start to need to be replaced. She wondered who would be next. Deep down inside she could feel it, another death lingering in the air. It was a creepy feeling, sensing what would happen next. It was this feeling that had kept her awake these past nights, until only the tears and sobs could make her gently fall asleep.
Some could say she was depressed, but she didn't show it, not one bit. She went on each day as if it were any other, trying to ignore the feeling of death around her. She was on the graveyard shift today, a particularly slow one, which made her all the more afraid something tragic might happen. Just as she was thinking that, Jerry announced a trauma was coming in- the first trauma of the particularly slow night. Susan got ready, and went to wait outside in the ambulance bay.
A few minutes later, with Sam and Luka by her side, the ambulance pulls up. "Possible overdose, BP's 80 over 30..." the paramedic says, but Susan doesn't hear the rest, because when she takes a look at the person on the gurney, she sees Abby being pulled out of the ambulance and towards the ER doors.
They rush her into a trauma room, hook up some IV's and monitors, and order a tox screen. "There's nothing we can do until we figure out what she took," says Luka.
Susan stares at Abby's still figure. The tears start to come, but she pulls them back. She had to be strong. "Why… did you… have to…go?" Susan sniffles, looking at the lifeless body of her best friend. It isn't until then that she finds the letter. Susan takes it out and reads it. In the letter, it tells them what Abby took. Susan looks at Abby. "We…could have… I… could have… saved…you…" she says, letting the tears flow. "And… I had… this feeling… something would… something like… this… would happen…and…if I found the letter…" Susan gets hysterical. As Luka walks by he goes to the trauma room, seeing Susan like this.
"Come on," he says, as he helps Susan out of the room. A single tear drops down his face, but he wipes it away before anyone can see it. Susan is able to pull herself together, and goes to call Abby's family.