Summary: Ray and Sarah get on with their daily life. Featuring the much-anticipated wedding of Abby and John. Sequel to Breath of Life. Please read it before, or it gets confusing…

Disclaimer: ER is not mine. If it were, then Carter would not be leaving. And Abby and Carter would be married already. And I would be with Ray…

Author's Note: Guess what? I'm writing this in the afore mentioned computer lab (you know, the one where we all got shot). Yeah, I just realized that.

Beat of Life

"She's bleeding out. Get 4 liters of O-Neg, and where is a God-damned surgeon?" Carter yelled, as he held pile gauze to the girl's stomach. Blood tried to spurt from the wound He whispered under his breath, "Stay with us Mia, stay with us."

Abby grabbed more gauze as the girl lost blood. A nurse came into the room carrying units of blood. Abby pulled the rapid infuser and hooked Mia up to the machine, forcing donor blood into her veins and arteries.

"I swear to…" Abby muttered under her breath. She was threatening the still M.I.A surgeons who were supposed to be saving the life of one of her kinda daughter's best friends.

"Okay what do we got?" Jake came into the room. Abby glared at him, while grabbing one side of the gurney, which was starting to roll towards the door.

"Gunshot to the abdomen, lower right quadrant, and left tibia. Bleeding out into the abdominal cavity. BP low, pulse 64. Who's doing it?" Abby inquired, curious to who would be saving Mia.

"Anspaugh," Jake said as the elevator's doors closed.

The hysterical screaming had not stopped in 5 minutes. Both Neela and Luka wondered how they could they could keep it up for so long. Finally Neela cut in.

"If you guys don't settle down, we will be forced to sedate you both," her English accent was almost lost between the cries of 'Where's Sarah' and 'Where's Mia?'. However that line seemed to capture the attention of both parties. They both settled onto their respective beds calmed down. Arya even started to hum.

"I swear to god, if you say the words 'Ba-ba-bapa', I will shoot you myself." Chandra threatened her friend.

"Sarah, Sarah, can you hear me?" Ray called to his unconscious sister. "Come on, Sarah, come on."

"Her right lung is collapsing. We're going to have to do a cricothyroidotomy." Dr. Lewis told Ray as a nurse brought over a tray.

"Yeah, whatever you need to do," he answered as he held his sister's hand. Everything swirled as people moved around him. He felt dizzy, faint from the sight of the blood of his sister. He barely noticed Pratt calling his name.

"Ray, Ray, RAY! Hold this," he yelled giving him an air bag. He had not noticed the annoying beeping sound that had filled the room.

"One, two, three, four, five," Susan said, lifting her arms from the lifeless body on the bloody gurney. Ray compressed the bag. He had to do it. He did it everyday. So why was it so difficult know. Susan resumed compressions. After 3 rounds, a rhythm had not appeared.

"Clear!" Greg yelled as everybody stepped away from the table. The flat line that streamed across the screen beside Sarah's bed, sprung to life.

"Normal sinus rhythm," Dr. Lewis said. She took the bag from Ray and handed it to a nurse. "Get her up to the OR while she's stable," she instructed Dr. Pratt, as Dr. Dubenko entered the room. In a minute, Sarah's gurney had left the room. Susan turned to Ray. "She'll be alright. You know she's a fighter. You know she'll never let herself lose."

Since both girls had finally calmed down, Dr. Kovac and Dr. Rasgotra were free to do their jobs.

"Well Chandra, your foot doesn't seem to have any other injuries then a hole through it. It didn't hit any arteries, veins, bones, or anything. You got pretty lucky. We'll just stitch and bandage it up, and then you can go. You'll need to use crutches for a few weeks, and you'll need to come back in a week to ten days to get your stitches out."

She nodded and responded only with, "You know, your voice is still sexy."

Meanwhile Neela was busy suturing the shoulder of Arya. "You'll need to come back in a week to ten days to get your stitches out. No getting them wet so no swimming, showering, etc. I'll let you go just after an orthopedic surgeon makes sure that your elbow is fine."

Arya briefly muttered a reply, then turned to herself again, humming to the bars to a Ramones song to herself.

Author's Note: Ha, two and a half periods to finish a chapter. Go ME! Anyways if you want to see if Sarah or Mia survives or if Chandra does shoot Arya for singing 'I wanna be sedated' then please feel free to click the button because I will not update until I get 4 reviews for this chapter.