Chapter 60:
JJ follows the nurse down a long hall. Both to her left and right there were rooms with patients. Finally they stopped outside a door.
"Agent Jareau? This is Agent Prentiss' room. When you see her you are going to get a little surprised and scared. She is going to be pale, but that is form the surgery and her color will return to normal throughout the day.
Right now she is hooked up to a lot of machines, including a ventilator to helping her breathe. If she wakes up, help her to stay calm until her doctor comes and help her remove the ventilator. It's usual for patients to wake up very confused. If there is anything, just call on us."
JJ stod outside the door and watch the nurse disappear in the direction they came from. Not sure what to do, JJ starred at the door for a few seconds before slowly opening the door and cautiously entering the room.
Emily didn't look like herself. She was pale and there were a lot of tubes and wires attached to her body. The blonde moved carefully closer to the bed.
"Hi Em," JJ whispered as if not to disturb the brunette. When her lover gave her no response, she sank down in a chair next to the bed. "I don't know if you can hear me or not, but Emily I...I need you. I need you okay? So please wake up!" The blonde reached over and grabbed the unconscious woman's hand.
Three hours later the blonde was sitting in the same chair, holding Emily's hand. She hadn't moved since she sat down. The team had been in and out, one at the time. They had talked a little bit to Emily, all saying that they loved her and wanted her to wake up. They all had given JJ worried looks and some, Garcia and Morgan, had tried to talk to her, but JJ seamed to be as far away as Emily. Her eyes were blank and locked on Emily, her hand holding on to Emily's as if she let go one of them would disappear.
A small knock was heard on the door before a familiar face came through the door.
"Hi JJ." When JJ didn't respond or show any sign to register the other person in the room, the woman walked over to her and lightly placed a hand on her shoulder. "I flew all the way from New Orleans and you're not going to say hi to me?"
When JJ felt someone touch her, and being so close, she turned around and saw Dr. Eva Draper standing next to her. Emily's chart in her hand and her white lab coat over casual clothes.
"Oh, hi." JJ answered in a low voice. "Thank you so much for coming!"
"I'm honored that you called. But I'm also glad. You and Emily mean a lot to Spencer and when he told me about her doctor there was no doubt in my mind." Eva smiled softly at JJ. The doctor had dealt with a lot of patients and their family and friends, so the blonde's behavior wasn't unfamiliar to her. She knew that more than anything, the blonde was scared, and the way the doctors hadn't done their job properly wasn't helping either.
"I've read over her chart and spoken with her doctor," the doctor's voice was calm and soft, "I am going to run some tests on Emily to see where we stand. After that I will come and talk to all of you. Is that alright JJ?"
The blonde seamed to go into her blank state again, so the redheaded doctor placed a hand on her shoulder again.
"JJ, look at me." The command was soft, but Dr. Draper waited until JJ turned her head before continuing to talk. When the blonde finally turned her head, the doctor could see a mix of fear and shock in her eyes. "JJ, I want nothing more than for you and Emily to get safely out of here and I will do absolutely everything in my power to see that you get to go home together. If I need to I will call in a crew of the best doctors and nurses, and IF I need to operate on her, I will brig my own surgical team from New Orleans up here. I won't say that you have nothing to worry about, because I don't know how her situation is yet and I don't want to lie to you, but I will do anything I can. Okay JJ? Can you trust me?"
After awhile JJ slowly nodded. She did trust Dr. Draper.
"Good. If it's alright with you I'm going to start to run the tests on her. My resident is somewhere in here getting us in line for CT scans. I will give you a minute with her. Just come out in the hall when you're ready JJ." With one final squeeze on the blonde's shoulder, the doctor left the room as quietly as she entered.
"This is Nathan Jareau speaking." Nathan picked up his phone. It was unusual form him to be called up from an unknown number.
"Nathan? It's Penelope Garcia. I'm on JJ's team. We met in New Orleans." When he heard who it was, he got worried. Had something happened to JJ?
"Yes, I remember you. Is everything alright? Has something happened to JJ?" He tried to keep his voice steady, but it sounded a bit more shaky than he would have liked.
"JJ is physically unharmed. But Emily is unconscious, with a broken nose. She got punched in the nose trying to protect JJ. When she fell to the floor she hit her head hard and went unconscious. She was brought to the hospital and woke up soon after. Then she went into cardiac arrest, without anyone knowing why. They rushed her into surgery and found a small brain bleed." Garcia tok a breath, and Nathan felt uneasy. He was really worried about Emily.
"It looked like her doctors didn't take her medical history or check her properly when she was first admitted. We have called in Dr. Eva Draper from New Orleans. She treated JJ when she was there and she is also one of the best neuro surgeons in the country." There was a pause again. Nathan's mind spun, his daughter's girlfriend, a woman who had grown to like very much, was unconscious with a broken nose for standing up and protecting his daughter. Oh, poor Jenny!
"How is Jenny holding up?"
"No good, sir. She moves around on auto-pilot. I think she is in shock." Again there was silence on the other end. "I know it's a lot to ask, but could you consider coming here?"
"Emily, Eva is here. And she's going to take you down to run some more tests. I... I won't ever ask you for anything else, but can you please, please be okay? I love you so much!"
And with that the blonde leaned down and pressed a kiss to the brunette's forehead before slipping silently out of the room.
A/N: Wow! 60 chapter! Who would have thought that when I started this story? Not me!:p
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