LINGER
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Chapter 13:
The drive to Desert Palms was excruciatingly long. The EMT's were monitoring Sara's stats, had stuck an oxygen mask on her, and were pretty sure a lung was, if not had already, started to collapse. Greg was understandably panicked by the outcome of the hostage situation and was still holding onto Elicia.
Once the vehicle pulled up in the ambulance bay, Sara was wheeled away, into the trauma unit. Greg followed behind them, holding Elicia, refusing to let go of her.
The room was in a mad rush, taking BP's, O2 stats, monitoring breath sounds which were definitely down on the right side, there was no obvious exit site for the bullet that had entered at her eighth rib, fracturing the bone before permeating her lung.
Greg blocked hsi daughters view as he watched as they stuck a chest tube in to drain to blood building up that was keeping her right lung from functioning. "She has to be okay," Greg mumbled as they stabilized Sara's vitals and wheeled her towards the operating room.
They were shooed out of the hallway by one of the nurses.
He carried Elicia back out to the ICU waiting room, and upon finding there was no news yet on Sara, Greg sat down on one of several couches in the room, Elicia leaning against his chest.
"Daddy," she said, looking up at him. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry Sara got hurt."
He shook his head. "That wasn't your fault."
She shook her head back. "It wasn't your fault either, Shane is to blame. Sara said you'd come save us. You did, we were lucky." she said.
"I was so scared, for both of you. That I'd never see my little girl again, never see Sara again. I-"
He cut himself off when he saw a doctor walk out of the hall they'd taken Sara down. "Sidle?"
Greg and Elicia stood up abruptly. "How is she?"
"Ugh.. We don't know for sure yet. The bullet punctured a lung, broke a rib, somehow that's all it managed to hit, but there may be some complications..." the doctor continued on.
I re-did this chapter, too. My plan works better with Sara hurt rather than Elicia. I'm ungrounded now so I'll be doing a lot of typing today.
