Chapter 10 - woo!!
Nearly finished - will be over soon :( so hang on and review like crazy, well, it was worth a go...
Hope you are enjoying some plot twists coming up in the following chapters.
Contemplating the next thing to say was a lot harder than it sounded, none of them knew what to say that wouldn't sound uncaring or too depressing.
Thankfully a nurse came in and broke the tension with a few simple words. "Mr Ross is out of surgery".
With a scrape of some chairs they all stood up and unceremoniously dumped their coffees in the trash, well except for Flack, he didn't mind his coffee cold, and he really needed the caffeine.
The nurse led them to another room, still in the ICU, but not the same room.
She stopped them outside the room where a doctor took her place; it was the same one who led the operation.
His face held no clues to the fate of their friend, and the anticipation was killing them.
"I am happy to say the surgery went better than expected and even though your friend is not out of the woods yet, making it through surgery is a good step in that direction. We are slowly removing some of the pain killers to give Mr Ross here a chance to regain consciousness".
"Thanks doc, is it all right if we sit for a bit?" Danny said.
"Of course".
They all were able to sit down since the someone had seemed to anticipate their little crowd and they had more space than in the previous room.
Adam seemed just as pale as before going into surgery, but the doctor seemed to have regained his hope and this seemed too good to be true.
The hours seemed to roll by since they had been given the good (well not bad) news.
When visiting hours were up they didn't put up a fight since they weren't as worried anymore but more concerned with who did this.
They all went home to catch up on their sleep.
The next morning they all went back to work like normal (except for Adam who still had not awoken).
They focused most of their efforts on nailing Adam's attacker.
All they had to start with is what Adam had told them before he passed out, that it was a female related to one of the Irish mobsters.
They started by going back to the scene where they found Adam and finding out all of the known female relations to any of the Irish mobsters they had caught.
They were hoping that Adam would wake up so that he could identify her from any of the photos they had gathered of possible suspects.
After all their shifts had ended they each dropped by to see how Adam was doing as the doctor said he should be waking up any time now.
*Meanwhile*Somewhere*
The Irish girl who had planned it all had heard news of his survival and was not liking what she heard, so she began to put the next steps into immediate action as she knew all along there was a chance of one of her plans not to work and she had the perfect 2-step solution that would ensure her goal no matter what.
*Hospital*
Adam lay there as motionless as ever. He lay there not alone but currently with Danny.
"Hey there Adam, hope you wake up soon, we're gonna have to start doing our own lab work soon" he said with a small chuckle.
Out the corner of his eye he could swear he saw Adam's hand twitch.
"Adam?" after a minute of nothing he put it down to his eyes playing tricks on him, well, it wouldn't have been the first time.
He stood up, picked up his coat, turned away and started to leave the room.
Just as he had turned left out of the room, the heart monitor Adam was hooked up to started to pick up its pace.
Danny heard something, but didn't know what so he casually walked back, he wasn't in a rush or anything.
When he walked in he saw Adam's heart monitor beeping like crazy. At first he thought Adam was finally going to kick the bucket, but his eyes snapped open and he began to hopelessly flail.
Danny quickly dumped his coat and began to hold Adam steady so he didn't tear any of those neat little stitches.
"Adam. Adam!" Danny said finally breaking through to Adam, who was calming down slowly but was still tense.
Danny slowly let go of him.
Adam tried not to fight with the ventilator but he couldn't seem to breath with it in there, let alone talk.
He began coughing and choking so Danny stuck his head out of the room, "Yo, can I get some help in here" he yelled before going back to Adam.
"Hang on Adam, someone's coming" he said calmly knowing this wasn't life threatening, just plain painful.
Adam was on the verge of passing out from the lack of oxygen.
Luckily a nurse finally got there and started to put something into his IV port.
Adam's heart monitor slowly began to get back to a steady rhythm, and he fell back into the black abyss...
Yay, Adam is OK...well for the moment *evil*laugh*
Conscious Adam coming your way.
Just out of interest, who is still reading/enjoying this????????