Chapter 90:

Anna had taken her compazine and was feeling better as she grabbed a chart. She finished with one patient, signed nursing orders on another and then found a med student pulling at her arm.

"Dr. Del Amico I need your help. I have a patient and I don't know what to do with him. I'm not sure what's going on with him." the med student said.

Anna felt herself being dragged into exam one. She was about to tell him to go get his resident, but once she was inside the room she could tell that man was obviously high, she couldn't tell by looking at him what he was on, he was extremely agitated, and getting more so by the minute. He looked almost as if he was going into a manic phase. Anna turned her back to the patient in a low voice so not to irritate the patient anymore than he already was she looked at the med student, "go to the drug lock up and bring me back haldol now and bring another doc, get Dr. Ross or Dr. Kovac anyone I don't care," Her tone more serious with the med student, "get the first doctor you find and tell them to get in here, go now."

She watched as the med student walk out the door closing it behind him. 'Damn it," she'd have to talk to him later, you didn't leave someone alone with a closed door and a jumpy unrestrained mental patient who was obviously agitated. She just hoped she didn't get into trouble. She could handle this, she was nervous being alone in there with him but she wasn't going to let it show. "I'm Dr. Anna," she said keeping her tone soft, "I'm here to help you. I need you to relax no one is going to hurt you." She said as she walked closer to the bed.

He jumped off the gurney and came towards her, Anna went to step back just as his fist came into contact with her face. As she attempted to recover from the first blow, she felt him hit her again this time lower her stomach, she wanted to vomit. Her knees went out as she dropped to the ground as she felt his foot go into her side, over and over again, pain shot thru her entire body as she tried desperately to crawl away. 'My baby, no this can not be happening not now, not now'. She needed out of there now. She put all of what energy she had left into getting to the door. She was almost there when she felt him pick her up by the back of the neck, her body now almost limp, he slammed her into the wall, before spinning her around and hitting her again.

She tried to call out but she couldn't breathe, she couldn't get the words to come out. She focused everything she had now on getting out of there as she brought her leg up to kick him, but all she did was aggravate him even more, she had stunned him enough that she was in reach of the fire alarm while he was distracted from her feeble kick she hit the glass and pulled it. "Damn." She heard him say before she felt his grip on her tighten slamming her into the wall again. She then found herself flying thru the air hitting the door and sliding across the hallway floor coming to rest against the wall. She didn't want to move everything hurt... she fought to stay awake, to move further away from the room, but the intense pain that was now surging thru her overwhelmed her senses and caused her to black out.

Doug's 'difficult' patient wasn't anything more than a LOL who was altered. "I can't believe you drug me in here for this." he said trying to act serious. Doug quickly smiled as he saw the med student's face look worried. "Hey don't worry. The number one rule of medicine is 'always ask a doc if you're not sure' ok." Doug's thought was interrupted by the fire alarm. "Oh what now?" he said turned as another student grabbed his arm.

"We need someone in exam one."

Doug rolled his eyes. Anna should be ready by now. "Who is we?" he asked the student.

"Ummm Del Amico I think...she told me to find a doctor and get some haldol."

Doug nodded and walked to the medicine lock up. He wished they'd turn the alarm off. No one was paying attention to it anyway. After grabbing some haldol and a needle he moseyed into exam one to find it empty. There was a table flipped over but nothing too out of the ordinary. "Are you sure it was exam one?" he asked turning around. As the student started to answer Doug's eyes caught a small patch of blood by the door. Without hearing a word the student said Doug opened the door slowly in case the patient was behind it. Instead he found Anna lying on the ground. Doug walked over next to her and pulled on her shoulder. "Anna...Anna can you hear me?" he looked up at the med student. "Get a gurney! Grab another doctor or nurse...go now!" he turned his focus back on Anna. She looked pretty beaten up but she was still breathing. "Anna...Anna come on. Its Doug, can you hear me?"

Abby listened to an extremely babbling med student who wasn't making any sense. She grabbed the closest gurney and ran into exam one. "Doug," She said crossing the room, "I've got a med student who's babbling about you needing." She stopped as she noticed it was Anna on the floor, "oh god what happened?"

Doug looked over his shoulder and was glad to see Abby. "I don't know...just help me lift her up. Grab me a backboard and a C collar." he said making sure to stabilize Anna's neck with his hands before rolling her onto her back.

Abby slid a backboard down next to them and handed Doug a C collar. Before helping him move her onto the board. "Trauma 2 is open right now." Abby said waiting for him to count before lifting her up onto the gurney.

"Alright." he said snapping the collar on. "One...two...three." he said as he lifted her up. A shot of pain got sent down his back and he barely got Anna on the board before his strength gave out. "You take her in...Is Weaver on tonight? We need her in there."

Abby started to push the gurney across the hall, "yeah she is." She said as she pushed the door open with her back as she pulled it the rest of the way in. She started an IV, "I think I saw her at admit Doug." Abby kept her eye on Doug waiting for him to start giving orders. She had a pretty good feel for what he was going to want if he was going to do anything. As she put her head out the door, "Kerry, we need you in here now!" She yelled down the hall.

Kerry heard Abby call her and she hurried towards the trauma room, she paused for a minute when she realized who it was, "okay let's get x-ray in here c-spine first people." She started to check Anna over, "get an orbital and right wrist film too."

Doug stayed in the hall. He couldn't be in there and work on her again. He knew nothing was life threatening but a thousand things were running through his head. 'What if she was hit in her stomach? What if she hit her head again? What if I hadn't come here? This is my fault again...damn it.' Doug couldn't think of the right thing to do. He was hurting from his back, and because of his best friend looking like that. He walked over and sat in a car outside the room. He figured if something serious happened he would hear it. Otherwise he didn't want to be in there.

Abby was checking Anna over where she realized that there was a lot of blood at one end of the gurney but Anna wasn't injured. Doug hadn't come inside; she knew that this had to be hard on him, even though they weren't together, Abby's anger melted when she realized what was happening. "Dr. Weaver." Abby pointed out what was going on to her as gently as she could. Abby grabbed the sonosite and took a look. The news wasn't good at all. After the got Anna somewhat stable and on her way up to CT. It looked like all in all Anna was going to be okay; she had some broken ribs and a concussion from the looks of it and a broken wrist. If he asked she would tell him what she knew, but with the way that things appeared she wasn't sure if he knew about what all way going on. She wasn't sure just how much of what she knew she should tell him. Abby went out and found Doug and sat down next to him, "you okay?"

Doug nodded as he looked at her. "Yeah I just...my back's killing me and I didn't want to be in a trauma working on one of my friends you know?" he looked at Abby trying to read her face, trying to see if anything serious was wrong. "Is Anna ok? Anything serious?"

Abby patted his leg, "yeah she's going to be fine. She's got some broken ribs, but we're pretty sure she just has a concussion. She also broke her wrist. Nothing that she won't bounce back from ya know. Weaver has to still talk to her when she comes back down from CT here in a little bit. But we should be kicking her out of here in a few hours."

Doug tried to smile. "Thanks Abby...kind of saved the day there. Anyone find this psycho this hurt her?" he asked looking around a little. "I didn't see anyone around when I found her. Make sure people are careful ok?" he sighed as he tried to stand up. As much as he wanted to be there when Anna woke up he needed some time to chill by himself. He knew she was going to be ok...he would call her later. "Hey Abby, will you call me when they decide to discharge her? Just to make sure everything's ok?"

"Yeah I will." She said standing up, "If I'm not here I'll make sure that who ever is calls you."

"Thanks I appreciate it." he said touching her arm. Doug pulled out his script pad and wrote a quick note. "Run this up to her when you get a chance." he said folding the paper up and handing it to Abby. "I took good care of you...sorry for getting you into more trouble. I know you'll be fine though...just give me a call so I will be able to sleep tonight. love- D." he knew Abby wouldn't read it but hoped that it might make Anna feel a little better. Doug walked over to admit and grabbed his stuff. He went outside and made his way to the EL and then his house. The weather was turning nicer. Although it was still cold at night it wasn't nearly as bad...maybe the spring would bring better things for them both. Doug walked into his house and set his stuff down. After getting changed out of his work clothes and into his boxers and a sweatshirt Doug grabbed a beer and his TV remote and headed into his bedroom. After watching sports center and a few episodes of Frasier, he slid down into his sheets and set his cell phone by his pillow. He needed some sleep, but he wanted to be sure to wake up if Anna called.