Disclaimer: Not mine. I love them.
Author's Note: Merry Christmas. Got the fifth season this morning. Does a little dance. Happy. Enjoy.
No one had bothered to think about the stress Donna must be experiencing. Donna hadn't even thought about the affects stress might have on her body.
Donna thought her anxiety would disappear after telling the Bartlets. She thought that would be the last point where everything would either come together or fall apart. Now she couldn't help but wish it were that easy.
As she sat at her desk in the morning she still felt terrible and her anxiety was still alive. They were going to tell Josh's mother and Donna's parents that afternoon. The slow curse still hung over her head and weight down on her shoulders.
She tried to work but she felt her chest expand with pain and her head swell. She lent over her desk as her breath became pants and she felt like her face was filling with fire. Her eyes were filling with tears.
Why? she thought to herself. I can't stop it. There's so much...
Her stomach began to ache but she stayed in her chair and didn't call to anyone. The pain began to overwhelm her. She didn't know what to do, but fear took over along with panic.
Josh was wrangled once again at Senior Staff. He handled it extremely well, as voices clashed. He left the room before Leo could say anything that might cause Josh to take action that would not only force him to lose his job but would probably end him in jail.
He did a few laps down the halls, trying to cool his temper before going back inside. The meeting broke, everyone feeling uncertain about how to handle it. Whether it might not even become an issue had yet to cross their minds.
Donna felt a sharp pain in her stomach. She finally rose, slowly. Her head felt dizzy, and she could feel the beats of her heart grow louder and quicker. She tried to support herself on her desk. With no one around to catch her she feel to the ground, silently without a cry.
Assistants ran to her, one getting on the phone and calling for an ambulance. Someone began to take her pulse.
Donna could only vaguely make them out, her eyes were blurry and her head was rushing with pain. Her body was growing feverish, and her stomach was shooting with violent torture.
Sam and C.J. suddenly exited into the hall, after observing the commotion of interns rushing back and forth.
"What's going on?" C.J. shouted.
"It's Donna," someone said as they passed by while everyone seemed to be running somewhere.
Sam ran towards Donna's desk in a rampant dash. C.J. followed him terrified with worry.
"Donna!" C.J. shouted when she saw her lying on the ground.
The intern, who had stayed with Donna when everyone else had risen in a rush of panic, got up when C.J. and Sam knelt down to take her place. She went into the lobby and waited for the ambulance to arrive.
"Donna?" C.J. questioned softly while supporting her friend's head and looking at her half-open eyes in terror and fear.
Sam knelt beside her and held her hand, waiting for her to make some kind of response.
"Josh," Donna whispered half-coherently. Both Sam and C.J. leaned in to hear her more clearly. "Find Josh. Tell him..."
She was cut off when two paramedics stormed into the bullpen. Both C.J. and Sam let her go as she was hoisted up and carefully adjusted.
"Where's Josh?" Sam shouted as he watched Donna cry out in pain when the paramedics tried to move her.
An assistant ran over to him. "Mr. Lyman didn't come back from Senior Staff. He had a meeting on the Hill at eight... but he never came back to get his things. Someone's been trying his cell but it's turned off."
"For God's sake," C.J. said throwing her hands up into the air. She looked at Sam. "I have to brief in ten minutes." As though to say "Are you going to go with her?"
Sam was still staring at Donna. "I have a meeting in like five minutes. I can cancel."
"No," came the quiet and commanding voice from behind them. "I'll go."
Toby began to follow the paramedics into the lobby. C.J. and Sam followed him and watched Donna as she was wheeled into the back of the large vehicle. Toby followed the paramedics, sitting down next to Donna.
"Toby?" Sam called.
"Find Josh!" he shouted as the doors were shut.