Alicia stood frozen for a moment looking down at his closed eyes, expecting them to fly open again and scare her half to death. She quickly moved away from him and dropped the sponge in the tub of water. She rushed out of the room and closed the door behind her. She went to the nurse’s desk, asking the nurse on duty to page the doctors, informing them that the man had awakened and required more anesthesia. She leaned against the high counter edge of the desk and listened as the nurse made the calls, trying to calm her racing heart. The doctors came quickly, entering the man’s room and slamming the door behind them. Alicia sighed and rubbed her temples as she felt a slight headache begin to form from all the sudden excitement. Turning back to the nurse, she told her that she was going back to the doctors’ bunks and try to get some more sleep. The nurse nodded and went back to her paper work.
Sighing again, Alicia stuck her hands in her coat pockets and slowly walked back down the long hallway to the elevator. Just as she pushed the button, a pudgy nurse suddenly called her name while trying to make her way down the hallway as fast as she could. Alicia quickly went to her, meeting her halfway down the hallway.
"Were you just in the room at the end of the hallway?" The nurse asked slowly since she was trying to catch her breath at the same time.
"Yes I was. Is there a problem?"
"You need to go back. The man awakened and we are thinking that his body is having a negative reaction to the anesthesia."
Alicia didn’t wait for the nurse to finish before she was running down the hallway. It sounded like the doctors needed help fast and she would help out in any way that she could. The door was open since doctors kept running in and out of the room. To say that the room was in complete chaos seemed a weak way to put it. The semi-unconscious man was thrashing about on the bed, ignoring the fifteen doctors that were trying to hold him down. Alicia quickly moved in to help, wrapping her small arms around his large head that was thrashing about on his pillow. The moment her hands and arms carefully cradled his head, his eyes opened and looked around quickly before finally resting on her. The large man stopped struggling and weakly whispered something that made every head in the room turn and look in her direction.
"Angel . . . my angel . . ."
Copyright 1999 by Lady Serria