Robyn was rushed through the ED and into resus, she was the first to arrive from the wedding reception and they'd arrived to a virtually empty ED. A team of doctors and nurses filled around the bed taking various blood samples and trying to ask the young nurse questions, all the while she remained silent.
"What happened Lofty?" Tash asked, having drawn the short straw and was put on shift despite having been invited to the wedding herself.
"There was an explosion at the wedding reception, there are several other of our team on their way in." Lofty explained quickly before pushing to get back to Robyn's bedside.
"Robyn, can you hear me?" Lofty asked, worry evident in his voice at the fact that the nurse who usually it was hard to shut up, had not spoken since the accident had happened. Still he got no reply, her eyes moved slightly to look at him but it was more like she was looking through him than at him. "It's me, I'm here and I'm not leaving you." He told her, taking her hand and gently moving it to his lips, placing a kiss on her soft skin.
"Can she hear me?" He asked the doctor who stood looking at the blood results that had just come back from the lab.
"There's nothing that suggests that she can't. I think she's just trying to process everything that's gone on, after all I'm not sure she expected her brother's wedding to end in this manner." The temporary doctor replied.
"Lofty?" Came a slightly whisper from the junior nurse.
"Robyn, are you alright?" Lofty asked, rushing back to her beside and taking her hand again.
"I can't feel... I can't feel my body...what's going on?" She said through tears that were now falling thick and fast down her cheeks. The doctor was listening to her and suddenly got on the phone to CT.
"You'll be alright, I promise. The doctors are doing their best to make you feel all better again."
Within minutes a porter came in and Robyn was rushed to for a full body CT, leaving Lofty in resus on his own. He walked out to the nurses' station where the doctor that was treating Robyn was stood.
"What's wrong with her?" Lofty asked quietly, not sure if he really wanted to know.
"I'm not sure, I'll know more when I get the scan results."
"What are you thinking?" Lofty asked.
"You're a nurse, what would you think if someone came in presenting the same symptoms as Robyn is?" The doctor asked him.
"Paralysis." Lofty answered slowly.
"Yeah, we're hoping that it might be temporary but at the moment we just don't know. Like I said, we'll know more when the scan results are back."
Half an hour later Robyn was back, tears still falling down her face as the longer she lacked feeling, the more she panicked.
"Am I paralysed?" Robyn asked, trying to located Lofty as best as she could in the room, but failing slightly as she was restrained by a head and neck brace. From the other side of resus she could hear someone enter, their footsteps heavy.
"Miss Miller..."
"Am I paralysed?" Robyn asked, interrupting the doctor as Lofty came into view and took her hand.
"I'm sorry.." Robyn burst into tears, knowing that that meant yes. "It could just be temporary but for now we'd like to keep you in hospital whilst we monitor what's going on." The doctor spoke softly.
"I'll be right beside you the whole way Robyn, you're like my little sister. I'm not going anywhere."
A/N Hi, sorry I haven't updated this in a week but I've been busy and ill. So this is Robyn's chapter, please let me know in reviews who out of those who were injured in the explosion in the last chapter, you'd like to see next.
Beth x
