She felt the car screech to a stop and a second later her car door was opened to reveal Andrews gaunt face. He was pale with fear and seemed to go as white as a sheet at the sight of all the blood Serena had leaked on the leather seats. Andrew scooped her up gently but swiftly and carried her into the emergency room doors. Serena looked back at the car woefully after seeing all the blood she had oozed all over the formerly pristine car seats. Her leg didn't seem to hurt as much as before, but she was being kept fully awake by the bouncing motion of Andrew walking.
He practically ran to the front desk and pounded on the bell when no nurse was in sight. A slight, old woman meandered her way to the desk and Andrew contained growing impatience instead of grabbing her by her collar and shaking her. She peered at Serena, then put on a pair of glasses to see her better. The old woman gasped in shock and sat in the chair with a faint thump.
"Oh my! This young girl needs to be taken to the Emergency Room right away." she commanded with very little authority. Andrew almost sizzled in anger but managed to hiss a little instead of howling in rage.
"This is the Emergency Room! She needs a doctor right away!" he yelled. Serena roused a little from her fitful sleep but passed out again almost instantly. Andrew longed to take her into the hospital himself but a stunt like that wouldn't help Serena if he got them in trouble. "Could we get Doctor Shields to look at her? He's my friend and should understand the need for haste."
"Hmmm Doctor Shields, Doctor Shields…..Your friend seems to be on vacation for a while. You two will have to come back and visit him another time." and with than she stood up and began to shuffle away. Andrew mournfully watched as she retreated around a corner and disappeared from sight. The pounding of the bell could be heard up to the second floor and 3 nurses ran to the ER expecting a disaster. A male Nurse reached them first, took one look at Serena, and his face took on a look of alarm.
"Was there an accident?" the nurse asked efficeiently. "We didn't hear anything about it.
"No just her, but it looks pretty bad."
Two more Nurses arrived, one with a gurney and another carrying stacks of paperwork for all those patients. The young woman with the papers dropped them when she saw only one girl and threw up her hands in annoyance. The man and other woman took the unconscious Serena from Andrew, placed her gently on the gurney, and wheeled her out of the room. Andrew staggered to the tacky plastic chairs and slumped into the one nearest him.
"That's odd. Darien said he wasn't going on vacation for a few more days. I thought he wanted to take his car with him…." he pondered aloud. His musing were interrupted by the last nurse as she brought over a clip board and thrust it at him.
"Here. Fill these out. And next time, don't ring the bell so much, we thought it was an emergency or something." she walked off before he could claim it was an emergency. Andrew looked at the form and found he knew almost nothing about Serena that would go on this form. He got as far as name, age, and height before he gave up. Unsure whether or not to call her mother he decided to call her best friends: Ami, Lita, Rei, and Mina instead. They should know enough of the "vital" information to satisfy the hospital.
Making his calls had only taken a few minutes but he felt he should go check on Serena even if they weren't done cleaning her up. He left the clip board on his chair with a note to Ami to fill it out and made his way down the hall, looking for her room.
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As Andrew struggled with the paper work Serena was coming out of here fog when a pair of scissors passed in front of her vision. The fact took a few seconds to register before she sat up screaming and flailing her arms. The surprised Doctor dropped his tool to restrain the young girl from hurting herself. A nurse walking by saw the battle of wills going on and rushed inside to help. She held Serena down while the Doctor carefully extracted the shards of glass from her body and Serena calmed down when she saw they weren't scissors, they were rather large tweezers. She started to fall asleep to the motion of him washing the blood off her skin when she saw his eyes. As she faded out of reality the last thing she saw washis gorgeous blue eyes and equally blue sparks on the bandage coming toward her leg.
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Andrew had walked in on a lady getting a sponge bath and an old man secretly smoking while the nurse was gone. He hoped that Serena was behind the next curtain and not something he shouldn't really be seeing. Andrew braced himself for whatever was behind screen number 3 and was pleasantly surprised to see a woman. She was asleep in her hospital bed with a bandage on her head and a slight smile on her face. Andrew went to close this curtain and move onto the next when he realized it was Serena. She looked so…..so different! With her hair down and no adorable grin, Serena looked all grown up.
She smiled at something in her sleep and rolled over. Andrew sighed in relief and headed back to the waiting room to see if any of her friends had arrived.