Revelation
"Susan?
Susan?"
A blank stare pointed straight into the wreckage
under the ambulance.
"Susan? SUSAN!"
She jumped in
fright at the sound of something breaking her silence. Her head
whipped around quickly to the noise's source. Her lips moved but no
sound came out. Sam's eyes zoomed to Susan's face in a questionable
manner.
"What?"
Again, movement, but no sound. Sam
glanced towards the ambulance, but not at the snow. She shook her
head as if asking Susan what she saw. Susan looked again at the blood
staining the snow. Sam looked around. Susan collapsed into hysterical
tears on the iced over sidewalk. Sam dropped to her level and held
her as she quivered then helped her up slowly and dragged her inside,
tears still flooding her eyes which started back at the blood-stained
mess only wishing the words would pour out as fast as the tears
were.
Finally inside and situated stiff straight up on a bed,
Susan's eyes wouldn't move from the window leading outside. Sam
started walking away when Susan grabbed her arm and a yelp came
out.
"NO!"
Sam jerked around in surprise that Susan
spoke.
"What is it? What happened?"
Stuttering and
shivering, she found it almost impossible for the sentences to flow.
"O-O-O-O-O-OUT-OUT-O-O-SI-SI-SIDE!"
"What?
What's outside, Susan?" It scared her to see Susan so distraught
and not be able to help or even know what she was so distraught
about.
"A-A-A-A-A-AM-AM-AMB-AM-LAN-LAN-CE"
"Ambulance?"
Susan nodded with fear still in her eye. "What about the
ambulance?"
"S-S-SN-SN-S-S-SNOW!"
"Susan, I
don't get this."
"B-B-B-B-L-LO-BLO-BLOOD!"
"Blood
in the snow?" Susan nodded again. "Whose blood, Susan?
Susan? Whose blood is it?"
"A-A-A-A-A-AAAAAAAAAAHH!
AHHHH!"
"SUSAN! WHOSE BLOOD IS IT!" Flashbacks
drained her mind as pictures of the accident repeated in her
head.
"AAHH!"
"SUSAN!"
"AAAAAABBY!"
Sam's eyes jolted to Susan's petrified face. She ran outside
and looked at the snow. Blood. Pouring out from beneath the vehicle.
Sam felt her voice fading away in shock, but turned around to scream
for a gurney. She ran to the rig and, with all her might, tried
tipping it over, but, of course, it wouldn't budge. Jake, running out
with a gurney, saw Sam and the blood and the icicles frozen from her
eyes and dashed to help tip the rig. Once it was out of the way,
their eyes met on a severely trounced figure which somewhat appeared
to be a body. Jake didn't get it because Susan and Sam were the only
two who knew it was Abby. She hauled the form onto the gurney and
ramed it inside. Doctors and surgeons were called into action. Susan
and Sam were too traumatized to go into the room where drills and
cranks were being used to massacre her body even more. Hours would
pass before any progress would be made towards keeping her wrecked,
but still live, body fuctionable. But it only took about 45 minutes
for anyone to make out whose face it was. Jake, still in the room
doing all he could to save this patient, was unaware of who "this
patient" was. Carter looked down after wiping layer and layer of
blood, snow, dirt, and disattached skin off of the face, and saw the
innocent eyes of his past love. He glanced up sadly at Jake who was
working hard as ever without even knowing he was working on his
girlfriend.
"Jake. Get out."
"What?" He
looked up at Carter and expected to see a hateful face as he did the
day before, expected to hear him say it because he was mad at him
still and wanted to show of his superiority. Instead he saw a face
close to tears and could only wonder what had made him so sad so
fast.
"Jake. Out." After much hesitation, he decided to
tell him the truth. "Jake. It's Abby."
Jake's knees
buckled and he plummeted to the trauma room floor.
Hours
passed which felt like days. The three just sat there on Susan's bed
outside of Abby's trauma room until Carter came out of the room
soaked in Abby's blood and his own sweat. His face told it all. Susan
was the first to speak because she had been a doctor the longest, she
could read the faces and know what was going to be
said.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Susan
slumped into Carter's arms as he caressed her hair and back. As she
spoke, the words were muffled, seeing as each syllable was going
through his shirt into his chest.
"This can't be happening! I
saw it! I saw her! She can't be gone!"
Carter spoke no
words, but instead kept holding her weak body. He looked up at Jake
who had not moved an inch. He was just sitting there as if waiting
for Carter to say what happened. He didn't let it strike him that she
was dead. Gone. Forever.
