Summary: A ransom leads to a very long weekend for Walker and Alex
Disclaimer: I do not own them
A/N: First attempt at a Walker fic, be nice
Chapter 39
Walker sat in the ambulance but no matter what the EMS men did to her Alex laid there still as death. The sirens blared with the rush to get to the hospital, but even as they pulled into the unloading area Walker couldn't bring himself to let go of her hand.
He held her hand as they unloaded her, he even held her hand when they wheeled her down the hall, but the gurney stopped at the double doors to the exam room.
"You will have to stay here Ranger Walker. I will send someone out as soon as I can tell you something."
Walker didn't sit down though, he paced the floors. "Cordell, you know Alex will be just fine."
"How can you say that CD? Look at everything she has been through, and you think she will be all right?"
"That little lady is a fighter Cordell, no doubt about that, you just wait and see."
Walker did wait, he waited for hours, and finally the doors to the examination room flew open, Alex being rushed past him in a blur. "Ranger Walker I am afraid we couldn't control your wife's bleeding. She is going to need surgery."
Walker tried to get past the nurse how had given him the information, but she put her hands against him. "Ranger Walker I know you are upset but you cannot go back there."
Walker stood at the entrance, CD, and Trivette now both beside him.
The babies, what about the babies?" Walker said in a whisper.
"I'm sure they will do all that they can."
Walker sat down after being led to the chairs and pushed to sit by Trivette. Each of the two of them tried to get his mind off what was happening, but nothing they said or did seemed to stir the man from his vigil of the doors that Alex had disappeared behind.
"I'm going for some coffee does anyone else want any?"
Walker and CD both shook their heads no, and Trivette walked down the hall shaking his head. He loved Walker like a brother, and now he didn't know what to do to offer him any comfort. Twenty minutes later he was back with three cups of coffee. CD gratefully took his, but Walker waved it away, his eyes never leaving the door.
For what seemed like forever, but really was only two hours they sat there. Walker stood and paced the floor, every so often asking a passing nurse if she knew anything, but no one told him a thing. He was getting frustrated, and a more than a little scared. His thoughts ran from the bad to worse the longer he had to wait.
He was about to go and ask the nurse at the desk to check again when the two double doors opened, and the doctor walked out.
"Are you the family of Alex Walker?"
"I am her husband, and these are friends of the family."
"I am afraid your wife went into labor. We have given her something to stop the labor, but it doesn't seem to be working. We are going to give it another hour or so and then we will have to give her a c-section."
Walker swallowed the lump in his throat. "What about the babies, can they live being born so soon?"
"Twins bring an added risk into pregnancy as it is, but I think their chances for survival are better than most. What concerns us now is your wife. We have given her blood, but she does not seem to be improving."
"Can I see her?"
The doctor looked at the three of them and sighed. "For now I am sorry but only family is allowed back, and then only for a short while."
CD and Trivette nodded their head in understanding. "You will give her our love won't you Cordell?" Walker told them he would and he was then let into the room. The first thing he noticed was how white it was, how sterile.
The room was scary, more so than any man he had ever faced, for this was a room like the one he had saw his parents in the last time he saw them. It was in a room like this one, only they had been dead. A small shiver went through him as he approached the bed. Laying on the bed was Alex, her stomach bared with tubes and wires running everywhere. Walker was afraid to touch her, afraid it would somehow hurt her.
He sat down next to the bed in the chair and gently took hold of her hand. The IV in it looked ghastly, small droplets of blood on the sheets from where they had put it in. "Alex?" Walker whispered to her, but all he heard was the beep of the heart monitor, and the other machinery in the room.
"I should have killed Culliver back at the cabin. Trivette had the nerve to kill his brother and I should have known that he would cause trouble." Walker was now talking to himself, as Alex made no move to say she had heard anything. Walker sat in the room with nothing but the beeps and whirls of all the things Alex was hooked up to. He stared down at the monitor strapped to her stomach and watched the screen that held each baby's heartbeat on it.
The was almost soothing to see the little beep with the heart next to it and know that for now his babies were fine. Walker stood up to kiss Alex on the cheek, and brushing the few strands of hair off her face that had fallen into it.
"I love you Alex, and I hate to see you suffering like this. It tears me up inside when I can't do anything to stop the pain." Still Alex made no move to show she was hearing him. "Alex, the doctor says the babies should be all right even if they are delivered now." As soon as Walker said that Alex took in a deep breath, and then it seemed her whole body relaxed.
Walker hoped it meant she was about to wake up so he could tell her how much he loved her, but just as the smile was forming on his face the monitors started going off. The first alarm was the Alex heart rate monitor. The scream of it sent a nurse into to check, and after that it seemed all the monitors went haywire. One by one they started screaming as if to alert Walker that all was not well in the room.
Walker was pushed into the corner as more and more people rushed in, checking wires and tubes. "Ranger Walker you are going to have to leave now."
Walker stood his ground, refusing to budge. "What is wrong? Tell me doctor what is going on?"
The doctor gave the others instructions and then moved to the door very quickly. "You wife is deteriorating fast. The babies are in jeopardy. We have to move now if we wish to try and save them all. Go to the waiting room and I will be with you in just a moment."
"Walker, why did they rush Alex out of the room? Is something wrong?"
"They said the babies are in jeopardy so they are going to have to go ahead and take them."
CD could see the fear in Walker's eyes, and he put his arms around him and pulled him into a rare hug. "Somehow Alex will make it through this Cordell, I just know she will."
Walker wanted to believe him, but Alex had looked so pale, so lifeless. He was about to tell Trivette and CD everything that had gone on in the room, when the doctor came out, wearing scrubs, a nurse at his side.
"Ranger Walker," he said motioning for Walker to come over to where he stood. CD and Trivette were not about to be left in the dark and walked over with him. "I have to get your decision."
Walker stared blankly at him. "My decision on what?"
"I need your decision of which to save. If we can only save either you wife or the babies which do you want us to try for?"
Walker's mouth fell open, too stunned to respond. "I can't make that decision," he finally sputtered out.
"Ranger Walker, I will not give you false hope, Your wife is in critical condition at this time. We may be able to stabilize her, but I cannot tell you for sure that we can. I need your decision."
Walker shook his head. "I am sorry I can't." When the doctor stared at Walker, still waiting CD spoke up. You do whatever you have to doctor, to see that they all come out of this okay."
The doctor looked sadly at Walker. "I will do my best, honestly I will, but I don't know if it will be enough."
All three men stared after him. The next two hours would seem like an eternity.