Hey, I've been in the mood for updating this and so I give you an update; I think the reason for that is because I've been making loads of Stargate vids on Youtube and so I've been in the mood =D
Enjoy.
KaseyKC
Ten
"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding their capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect." - MARK TWAIN,Joan of Arc.
"Rush!"
"Eli!"
Greer! Get off him!"
"Move!"
"T.J!"
"ELI!"
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People scrambled back as the Stargate engaged and four ragged people dove through, just after three soldiers had done so as the gate had literally connected. The four people landed in a heap on the ground directly in front of the gate which was shut-down as Young had screamed, "SHUT IT DOWN!"
Within moments the gate room was filled with shouting, tension and the occasional bang of cases being knocked over. The gate technician was on the radio calling for T.J to get to the gate-room quick as he watched Rush literally shove Greer off of an unconscious Eli with a desperation that was seldom seen in the man. Scott, who managed to untangle himself from Young, was beside Rush checking Eli over as Rush seemed to be trying to not panic too much and be of help at the same time.
As T.J ran into the gate-room followed by one of the soldiers who had basic-triage skills, the gate-room fell silent after Rush's terrified shout of, "He isn't breathing!"
Scott looked at Rush in worry and panic as T.J threw herself down next to Rush and shoved him aside. She gave Scott a quick glance and said quietly to him, "Get Rush out of here, now," before re-focusing on Eli and giving him CPR.
Scott slowly got to his feet and hauled Rush up, "come on Rush, Nicholas, come on," he said softly as he guided an almost catatonic Rush out of the gate-room; even though he didn't want to leave Eli, his friend, he understood that he would be of no use to T.J and would be the best one to... to console Rush if things went south, 'God, I swear to God he better make it, please Lord.... please,' he thought as the people parted and let them pass through the corridors without a hindrance.
Back in the gate-room T.J was furiously trying to get Eli to breathe again, her actions tinged with a desperation that was last seen when they'd first arrived on Destiny; it was a type of desperation that came from a person's absolute terror and fear and worry.
Young was stood behind T.J next to Greer and was watching in silence, before he suddenly clicked that there were a lot of people in the gate-room and he realised that T.J didn't need an audience; not one of this magnitude at least. He cleared his throat and said, in a voice that wavered slightly but was still resounding and as firm as it could be, "Everyone who shouldn't be here now, get out...." no-one moved at his demand so he took a breath and reiterated it again, in a louder and more firm tone, "Out! Now!" and people began to slowly leave the gate-room, all the while looking back at T.J and Eli; all of them worried about the kid.
Young looked around and, for the first time, noticed that Scott wasn't anywhere to be seen, "Where's the Lieutenant?"
As T.J was too busy to answer as she finally got Eli to breathe again, she had to worry about the bleeding laceration in his chest, so Greer answered, "He left with Rush sir. Rush looked like he was going to break down," 'God knows why... he hates everyone... doesn't he?' Greer looked down at Eli and muttered, "I don't think he was able to handle this..."
Young nodded and decided to leave it at that, he too was curious about Rush's reaction to all this but he wasn't going to mention anything right now. He looked at T.J and asked gently, "Is he going to be alright?"
T.J didn't look up as her nurse handed her the pressure bandages but she did answer Young's question, "he's breathing alright now but I think he might have cracked ribs; also this laceration is a bit worrying, I'm guessing it probably should've stopped bleeding by now?"
Greer nodded and then realised that she couldn't see him and said, "Yeah, it happened over half-an-hour ago," Young looked at him and he shrugged, "give or take sir."
T.J sighed and said, "Well, if that's the case then whatever did this probably has some sort of anti-coagulant on their-"
"Claws," Greer cut in, "He got slashed by one of the creature's claws when we were escaping."
"I've got a few different medicines from earth that I could use but I don't think anything of ours will work that well, so I'll have a look in Destiny's medical database; see if there's anything there that could be of use," T.J finished as she tied the bandage around Eli's chest; stemming the blood flow from the wound. She looked up at Young and Greer and said, "I'll need some help getting him to the infirmary."
Young and Greer looked at her, then each other before Young said, "We'll use that," Young sighed and said, "That hover board Eli made to get him there."
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Scott gently guided Rush over to the seats in the waiting room opposite the infirmary; he swore the guy was in a walking coma, he'd never seen him so... shell-shocked. He sat down to Rush and said gently, "He'll be alright Rush... he's your son afterall."
And much like Eli had done after the explosion weeks ago, Rush seemed to come back to life again and he sprung from his seat; looking much like a man on the edge. The edge of what, Scott wasn't all that keen to address because the last thing he needed was to think one of the best and most important people on Destiny was a few screwballs short of sanity.
Rush's mind went from all stop to all full in less than a second after Scott's comment, and he found himself standing in the middle of the waiting room shouting at Scott in Gaelic, feeling so afraid and so confused and so angry at himself that he couldn't even verbalise how he really felt; all he could do was call Scott a bastard's son over and over.
Scott, though not able to understand Gaelic, had a pretty good idea of what Rush was calling him and figured it wasn't anything nice, but instead of stopping him he let rant and rave and he let him shout and scream because when Rush was done with all that, Scott knew that tears of pain, loss and self-hatred would come next; because if humans were one thing, they were incredibly predictable in times of crisis.
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They had managed to get the hover board to the gate-room relatively quickly and now they were all on their way to the infirmary; Young at the front, parting the people on the corridors, and Greer at the rear, stopping anyone from crowding too closely. If Young had ever doubted how much the crew of the Destiny cared about Eli his faith in them was duly restored, 'Damn, you'd think the kid was a celebrity...' he thought as he nodded as a couple of the soldiers moved a few of the dumbstruck scientists out of the middle of the corridor, 'maybe he is to this lot... he's got Rush's smarts but he ain't half as mean,' he thought about that for a second then amended, 'not when he has enough sleep at least.'
They had just reached the infirmary doors; they were quite thankful that the corridor leading to it had been clear of people since that made going down it a lot easier, when they heard shouting from the waiting room. Young and Greer where both on the immediate alert and were about to enter when they froze at the next shout they heard.
"HE'S MY SON!"
Neither of them could mistake the Scottish lilt to the words and neither of them could pretend to have not heard it when the waiting door opened as Rush shouted over his shoulder at Scott, "My son!"
And Rush couldn't pretend to not see Young and Greer standing in front of the infirmary looking like they had just been hit by a tonne of bricks; and he also couldn't pretend to not see the two lummoxes blocking access to the infirmary.
"Move! You're in her way!" he barked, his voice filled with a contradictive mixture of anger and calmness which made the pair move without even hesitating; they both knew well of how parents could be when their children were under threat.
'Eli.... Rush.... Rush is.... damn...' was all that Young could think as he watched Rush storm through the infirmary door after T.J, 'how? Did he even....' he couldn't do anything other than stand there in the middle of the corridor as Scott came out of the waiting room and said to him, "It's a bit of a shock for everyone who knows too sir."
That got Young's mind going again, "who else knows?" he asked Scott as he finally moved into the infirmary, followed by Scott and Greer.
"Just us in this room sir, no-one else," Scott replied, "I didn't think it was a good idea for it to be public knowledge," he admitted as he looked over to T.J and Rush who were conversing; each giving the unconscious Eli worried glances at regular intervals.
Young nodded and said, "Good idea, I don't want anyone to know about this unless Eli and Rush say it's okay, understand?" he looked from Scott, who nodded immediately, to Greer, who nodded slowly, as though he was still trying to comprehend it all.
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Rush stood with T.J as she explained her theory and what she needed to find in the medical database, she hoped that by including Rush in trying to find a counter-drug for the anti-coagulant in Eli's blood that his sense of guilt; which was incredibly obvious, would be lessened.
"I don't know what I'll be looking for-" she continued but Rush cut her off before she could even explain in greater detail.
"You'll need the sub-branch of the medical database that focuses on blood; it's not that difficult to find but it's a bit tedious to translate," Rush said as he moved further away from Eli and over to one of the active computer consoles in the infirmary; he quickly tapped into the medical database and was already searching for the necessary drug when Eli came to.
"Wha..." he mumbled as his eyes opened sluggishly and T.J was immediately at his side. She checked his pupil dilation and then realised the Rush would drop everything to be next to Eli and so pre-empted him.
"Nicholas," she referred to him using his first name in the hopes that it would focus his attention on her, and it did, "I need you to find that drug; quickly."
Rush was torn, he wanted to be at his son's side, to help him and tell him he was going to be alright, but he knew that he needed to find this drug for Eli or he might not be able to do much more than be at his death bed... and he couldn't do that again; not with family, not with someone he cared about. And so he looked at T.J, and she saw the anguish in his eyes and the way his heart was being torn, and nodded silently. He scoured the sub-branch of the medical database at such a speed that Scott truly doubted he was actually reading what was coming up, because there is absolutely no way anyone can read that fast!
After what felt like years of searching through all the text, but was actually less than five minutes, Rush found what they were looking for and dove away from the console and over to a compartment on the opposite wall; making Young and Scott scramble out of his way in the process. He hit a couple of buttons on the wall and the compartment doors slide open to reveal a huge collection of drugs and needles; he looked at them, quickly finding the one he needed and snatched a needle before the compartment closed automatically as he moved away and over to T.J. Rush stood in front of her and said quickly, "this is what you need; it needs to be injected at the-the point of impact, s-so that would be the w-wound."
T.J nodded in thanks and Rush stepped out of her way and up next to Eli who was lying on one of the beds and staring blearily at the lights over-head. He leaned down close to Eli's head and said softly, "you'll be alright son... I promise...." he smiled at Eli as he slowly nodded and gripped his hand tightly; almost as if he was saying 'stay... don't go' and Rush thought that was the most absurd thing ever because he'd never leave his son ever again; not if he could help it and even then he'd be damned if he left quietly.
T.J injected the serum into the wound and Eli winced and gripped Rush's hand tighter, and Rush belatedly realised that it was his damaged hand. Rush, in a sudden action, winced and his hand jolted, almost pulling out of Eli's hand but he stopped the natural reflex just in time; at Eli's bleary but questioning gaze he choked out, "sorry... reflex action; broken hands don't like being crushed a second time."
Eli's eyebrows knitted together and Rush could feel Eli's grip on his hand loosening but he didn't want that, he didn't want him to slip away and so he said, "no, no, it's alright; I don't think it's broken just bruised," Eli eyed him dubiously and if he could have spoken, Rush was certain he would have said that that was a load of bull, "well, it's not very broken," he shrugged and gasped in pain as his shoulder injury also made itself known, "ow...." he breathed softly, "I'm investing in full-body-armour..."
Eli's eyes reluctantly slid shut as T.J injected him with a sedative but Rush was certain that through the oxygen mask on his son's face that he could see a smile on Eli's face, and that made Rush smile sadly; just as he himself passed out from pain and exhaustion, and he would've landed in a heap on the infirmary floor if it hadn't been for Young, Scott and Greer's attentiveness as they grabbed him and quickly hauled him up onto the bed next to Eli's.
Scott stood back as T.J checked Rush over and couldn't resist one jibe at her, "hey T.J," she looked at him and he wondered if he should just shut-up now, "they must really enjoy your company you know?" she glared at him but didn't say anything, but the glare said everything and he grinned out of sudden fear for what she would do now that Rush had discovered a whole new supply of needles for T.J to stab and jab him with.
TBC...
