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"My name is Dr. Walter and I really need to get consent for emergency surgery right away."
An audible gasp was heard from the group. This hit them all hard. They weren't expecting this.
"Do what ever you need to do Dr. Walter." Hetty said as she signed the paper on the clipboard.
"I'll be right back."
The group was on tender hooks waiting for Dr. Walter to come back. They couldn't imagine what kind of surgery Kensi would need.
Before Dr. Walter could come back, Director Vance called Hetty.
"Yes Director Vance."
"No, we are at the hospital waiting to find out what is wrong with Miss Blye."
"Yes, they are all here."
"Can't this wait?"
"I see."
"Good-bye Director Vance."
Hetty looked very thoughtful before she spoke to the group, "Unfortunately, a important case has come up. Everyone, except for Mr. Deeks, must get back to OPS. I will be staying too."
Turning toward Sam, "Mr. Hannah, I trust you to drive my car in a safe manner."
"Hetty, as soon as you find out any information, you let us know."
"I'll do that Mr. Callen."
Reluctantly those needed on the new case left the waiting room.
Deeks watched his co-workers leave. Anything to distract himself from the situation while he waited for Dr. Walter to come back.
Deeks couldn't believe how calm Hetty seemed.
"Hetty, what do you think is wrong with Kensi?"
Hetty was taking a long time to answer. In reality she didn't even want to speculate.
But she was saved from answering Deeks when Dr. Walter came into the waiting room.
"I'm sorry for taking so long. I was called away to an emergency."
"Let me begin by letting you know that Miss Blye is a remarkable woman. Lesser woman would have died."
"What are you taking about?"
"Shh. Let him finish Mr. Deeks."
"We couldn't begin the surgery until we dealt with the dehydration. Thankfully it only took two hours to get Miss Blye hydrated enough that we could perform the necessary surgery."
"While we were waiting for her to be hydrated, we ran a tox screen; one less issue to deal with. "
"We were expecting Miss Blye's consciousness level to increase as we were administrating the necessary fluids. Instead, she was still unresponsive."
"We needed to do a MRI and a cat scan. They both let us know that Mrs. Blye suffered a chronic subdural bleed."
Before Dr. Walter could continue with his speech, Deeks interrupted him to ask what that meant.
"A chronic subdural bleed, means that something caused Miss Blye's head to slowly bleed internally. It could have been recently or weeks or even months ago. But we need to relieve the pressure now by drilling a small hole in her skull.
Deeks had already felt very guilty for not contacting Kensi during the holidays, but now he felt very guilty for not having Kensi get checked out when Talbot had knocked her unconscious.
"Kensi and the guys were going to blame him," Deeks' thoughts were self-condemning, but in reality Sam and Callen were just as guilty. They saw Kensi unconscious on the couch. They had a history with her too. But Deeks was to absorbed in his own guilt that nothing at this time could convince him differently.
Hetty felt completely differently. She was in charge of everyone. If they hurt, she hurt.
As Deeks and Hetty were thinking their separate thoughts, Dr. Walter brought them back to the present by asking Deeks and Hetty, "Do you know when Miss Blye was hit in the head?"
Deeks spoke up first, "She was hit in the forehead and knocked unconscious on Christmas Eve. Do you think that is what caused the chronic subdural bleed?"
"That could be it, or it could have exasperated the situation. Does Miss Blye do anything dangerous?"
This time Deeks wisely let Hetty answer the doctor.
"Miss Blye does do some pretty dangerous stuff. I'm sure that she was hit in the head multiple times before Christmas Eve."
"I see."
Hesitantly Deeks asked, "What are the symptoms of her condition?"
"Some of the first signs of a chronic subdural bleed are: confused and slurred speech, difficulty with balance or walking, headaches, weakness, numbness, nausea and vomiting, loss of consciousness, seizures and then ultimately death.
As Deeks reflected back on the night of Christmas Eve, he realized that Kensi was clearly showing all the signs of a head injury and not a sever hangover. He thought it strange that she couldn't hold her liquor. He had chalked it up to her being tired and the late hour.
Deeks couldn't help but replay that night in his mind. He had felt weird leaving Kensi with Talbot. Talbot was agreeing with everything Kensi was saying. Deeks could see that Kensi was weirded out too. He was so glad that he prevented Talbot from shooting Kensi. He should have called an ambulance. Instead, he had driven Kensi to the pier so she could shoot the bastard.
When she had good-naturedly gone with him to the homeless shelter, Kensi had acted to completely normal. Actually she had acted very unusual; she was so carefree. When she had asked him to share the beer and ice cream she had seemed friendly, carefree, and trustworthy of him. He should have made sure that she went to the hospital. Instead he had talked into the night with her and left her there to sleep off her "hangover".
Deeks didn't hear Hetty ask, "What brought about the dehydration?
Dr. Walter said, "The throwing up and head injury probably brought about the dehydration."
Deeks was still lost in his thoughts until he heard Dr. Walter say, "I'm sorry to say that the baby did not survive."
What baby?
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