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"Analysing rhythm...shock advised, charging...do not touch patient"

"CLEAR!"

"Shock delivered...analysing rhythm"

"Well?"

"Good pulse, we've got her"

"Airway?"

"Clear"

"Good, let's get her intubated and down to ICU, I want her hooked up to a twelve lead and ventilator yesterday...go! Now!"

"Yes Doctor"

"Right, now will somebody tell me what the hell is going on?"

36 hours later

"Officer Kelly?"

Chin opened his eyes and smiled, accepting the steaming coffee from the nurse.

"Thank you"

The nurse smiled and retreated, closing the door behind her. Chin put the coffee to his lips, savouring the strong, earthy taste, then glanced at the prone figure in the bed he sat beside. Seven was completely still apart from the slight rise and fall of her chest as the ventilator filled her lungs in a steady rhythm. The hiss of the machine accompanied the insistent beeping of the heart monitor that combined, created both a disturbing and oddly comforting soundtrack. Steve had told him that it had only taken one shock to get Seven's heart beating again but she remained unconscious and had yet to make any improvement, and now she lay hooked up to IV drips and every conceivable medical machine imaginable. Both he and Kono had been ecstatic to learn of Grace's phenomenal recovery but he worried that in saving Grace, Seven had pushed herself too far. He had stayed with Steve whilst Kono helped Danny and Rachael with Grace who had been moved into a children's ward for observation, and now Steve had the unenviable task of explaining the situation to a very confused medical team. Due to Seven's...specialist background they had decided to inform the Governor and now NATO had been contacted. So far they had resisted all attempts to move Seven to a specialist army hospital on one of the other islands, as far as Steve was concerned Seven was his officer and she would stay where he could keep an eye on her. Chin couldn't agree more.

He was just beginning to doze off when he was startled by Seven's sudden return to consciousness. The Medic retched and gagged as she clawed at the tube that protruded from her throat, dangerously pulling at the IV tubes in her hands.

"Whoa Seven, it's alright, calm down...you're ok"

He gripped her shoulders, pushed her back onto the bed and pressed the call button for a nurse. Seven was looking at him, wide eyes still marred by white and he saw the question there,

"You did it Brah, you brought Grace back!"

Seven visibly relaxed, her eyes closing in relief as she sighed around the ventilator tube,

"And by the way Steve is gonna kill you, and I think Danny may hug you...then kill you"

Seven groaned.

Steve sat in a conference room trying to stave off a migraine. Confused faces looked back at him from the team of medical staff that were perched on various surfaces around the room. A young, male Doctor with sandy hair spoke up from the back of the room,

"So...can you run that by us again?"

Steve sighed and rubbed his eyes,

"I can't tell you any more that I already have...what is it that you don't understand?"

"All of it"

Steve had to stop himself from banging his head on the table. He had been over this four times already. A senior nurse in pink scrubs leant towards him,

"Look, I'm sorry Commander but the events of the past twenty four hours have us all rattled. We had a young girl who was deceased when she arrived and is now very much alive and a young woman, known only by a number, who was, admittedly, a little beaten up when she came in and has since had a totally unexplained cardiac arrest and is now on life support in ICU. People don't come back from the dead Commander, it's just not possible"

"You'd be surprise what's possible" Steve muttered under his breath.

"I'm sorry?"

Steve sat back,

"Nothing I –"

The door opened and a nurse appeared,

"Commander McGarret? Your officer is awake"

Seven tried to sit up straighter as Steve entered the room. She was still hooked up to various machines,

"Relax Seven" he said, smiling as he perched on the edge of the bed,

"How are you feeling?"

Seven lay back in her veritable mountain of pillows,

"Like I've been hit by a bus...I'm assuming I arrested?", her voice was rough, a result of the ventilator tube,

"Yes, it took one shock and a couple of rounds of CPR to get your heart going again, you've been in a coma the past 36 hours and on life support"

Seven nodded, her milky eyes focused on Steve's hands resting on the crisp white sheets,

"And Grace?"

"Grace is fine, Danny's wandering around like the cat that's got the cream and Rachael is the same. The medical staff however, haven't got a clue what's going on"
Seven smiled,

"I can imagine they aren't used to resurrection on their wards"

"No I suspect not...now what?"

The Medic's face fell,

"I don't really know...I feel...I can't...I...I'm tired"

Steve tried to keep the concern out of his expression and voice. He leant across and placed his hand on Seven's and was inwardly shocked at how cold she was.

"Get some rest, we're here for you...whatever you need"

Seven nodded and turned away from him, curling into a ball beneath the sheets. Steve stood and left the room, closing the door softly behind him, unaware of the tears that rolled down Seven's cheeks.