Chapter 9: How and Why
Six hours later and the people from the morgue finally come to pick up Jake's body. Nobody believed Susan when she told them what happened, but once they got a good look at Jake's lifeless body they were sure she was telling the truth. With nothing else to, and not wanting to go home, Susan moped around the ER, taking care of patients.
"You should go home Susan," Dr. Carter told her, but she didn't listen. It would be easier if she just absorbed herself in work.
"Where's Ray?" she asks, annoyed. "He's over twenty minutes late!"
Her question was soon answered when an MVA pulled in- one of the victims was Ray. "Ray?" she asks, seeing if he is responsive. Ray mumbles something inaudible as they make their way to the trauma room. One of Ray's legs is severely crushed, and both of his lungs have collapsed. They intubate him and get him ready for the OR- he would need major surgery for his leg.
Susan volunteers to take him up to the OR, and she even decides to stay with him, since she wasn't even technically on a shift.
About two hours into the surgery, complications start to happen. Susan stares at Elizabeth Corday and the rest of the surgeons trying to fix Ray. In the end, they are unable to stop the bleeding and have to amputate his leg. Halfway through the amputation, Ray's heart stops because he had lost so much blood. They shock him and start compressions, but in the end Ray's heart fails, leaving another member of the ER staff dead.
Susan can't believe this. In less that one day, three people were dead. How was this even possible? They all died, but in completely different ways (plus Jake was suicidal), so they couldn't be connected, so how, and why?