Sorry it's late guys. I was trying to make it long, but it still isn't. I really hope you enjoy this chapter!
I tried to write as best as I could but as I said, English is not my first language. You've been warned.
Lindsay ran to Jay's side and as soon as she sat next to him, she pressed a hand on Jay's wound, Jay screamed in pain. He felt his chest get tighter with each breath his lungs took and each beat his heart undertook. He took a look at Erin but could barely make out her features. For a moment, he forgot what he was doing laying on the hard ground. It reminded him of when he tried Will's new stiff foam mattress. "How on Earth could you sleep this thing?", but now he thought, maybe this mattress isn't so bad, and that he could actually fall asleep on this thing.
"Jay stay with me ok? I'm calling an ambulance."
Erin gently slapped him. He wasn't in his apartment. No. He just let a dangerous man get away. He could hurt more people and that would be on him. He did remember taking something from Finch though, when they were struggling.
"I-I got his phone, Erin." Jay's hands stained Erin's shirt with blood when he put the phone on her lap, the simple action of moving his arm sent waves of pulsing pain in his chest. He yelped and it startled Erin. He wished he could stop it. He wished he could stop being so weak.
"Please, stay still, Jay!" She needn't have said those words, because Jay's eyes rolled to the back of his head; he released a weak sigh before falling into unconsciousness.
"No, no, no! JAY!" She put her fingers to his neck and released the breath she was holding when she felt a weak pulse. His chest was still moving but the ambulance was 10 minutes out. She couldn't wait that long. She took off the scraf she was wearing covered Jay's injury as best as she could, then she grabbed Jay's good arm, put it around her neck and, gingerly, lifted him up.
"Hold on, Jay. Please." She begged him desperately as she took him to her car.
Lindsay pulled Jay out of her car as she barely held back tears. "We're here, Jay. Just hold on."
She could feel his burning clammy skin against her shoulder. He whimpered with every step. Lindsay wondered if it would have been better if she just waited for the ambulance. She could be causing more harm than good.
She finally got to the ED door and pushed it open with her free hand.
"SOMEONE HELP HIM!"
She immediately saw Will in front of her, looking overcome. He dropped the mug in his hands and it hit his foot and spilled all its contents on the ground. When he finally came to his senses, he ran towards them then wrapped his left arm around Jay's upper back and his right arm behind Jay's knees and picked him up, slowly but swiftly.
"Is he going to be okay? Please tell me, Will!"
Nurse Doris put an arm in front of Lindsay and stopped her before she could go any further.
"Let them do their job. They will take care of him." She spoke with a tone that was comforting enough for Erin to trust her.
Sarah, Natalie and a nurse followed Will into the trauma ER. Will carefully put Jay on the bed onto his side, so Will could look for an exit wound.
"The bullet is is still in him prep the OR now." He told the nearby nurse and as soon as she left Nurse Doris took her place.
Will proceeded to examine Jay's spine to make sure he could safely lay him on his back.
"Help me put him on his back. Slowly." Dr. Manning held Jay opposite to Will and steadied him onto his back. Will removed what seemed to be Lindsay's scarf rapped around Jay's chest, the only thing that had kept Jay from bleeding to death. The nurse handed Will woven gauze, and he sealed the bullet hole with it. By the time Will was done, Dr. Manning had hooked Jay up to the monitors.
"I'm going to need at least two units of A- or O-." Will half-shouted at Sarah, which did the job because Sarah was back in less than a minute. She hung up the blood bags on the IV pole then gave Dr. Manning the needle to insert into Jay's vein. She knew this person was important to Will, for some reason, so she didn't want use him as practice.
"He should be stabilizing now. Why is his BP still 90/60?"
Will was always one of the few fourth years in his class who managed not to freak out on their first ER rounds, yet here he was, 12 years on the job, feeling like he was about to have a panic attack.
Dr. Manning placed her stethoscope on Jay's chest and moved it around a couple of times.
"His heart tone is muffled. And his veins, look at them! They're extended."
She took another look at the monitors. "And his venous blood is high, that's consistent with cardiac temponade. We need to drain his pericardial fluid NOW."
Of course, Will thought. He fumbled with the drawers next to him and found a syringe large enough to drain the fluid. Before he could stick it into Jay's chest, however, Natalie stopped him.
"Let me do it."
Will wanted to protest but his hands were shaking which could cause him to penetrate the wrong area and possibly injure major arteries. Also, he didn't want to waste another second or his brother was going to die, so he handed her the syringe. She expertly stuck it 1-centimeter left to Jay's mid-chest line, just below the sternum and began draining the fluid. As expected, the fluid came up bloody.
Will signed a sigh of relief, glad they caught it when they did, or else Jay's cardial sac might have exploded.
"Alright is the OR ready Doris?"
"Yeah, they're waiting for him."
I hope you guys didn't notice how much I bullshitted the hospital scenes. It's WAY HARDER than I thought it would be.
(Btw the story is nowhere near done.)
Please review if you can. Criticism is also welcome. xx
