Part 6.
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"Courage, my word, it didn't come, it doesn't matter. Courage, it
couldn't come at a worse time" -Courage. THE TRAGICALLY HIP.
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"I am, Dr.Weaver." Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen announced proudly. "I've got a favour to ask you actually. My patient swallowed this and the lab refuses to test it because he's not showing any symptoms of poisoning."
"Is there an ingredient list?" Kerry murmured, taking the bottle from the resident.
"Hermoine's Magical Erection Elixir." Chen blushed red.
"How old is your patient exactly?" Kerry cocked a brow, turning the bottle over in her hands.
"Two."
"and does he have an erection?" Kerry said with a smirk.
"Well no.." Deb turned purple.
"Well.. I'll take it. I'll get toxicology to test it for you." The ER
chief took the bottle and continued down the hall, when she heard
somebody chasing after her.
"Kerry! You're here!"
Weaver turned around to see a relieved Luka chasing her down the hall. "Yes Luka? You've known I was here for an hour now.. Is there a problem?"
"No.. Not really. I just realized that I'm off shift now. That's all.." He smiled sheepishly.
"Well then.. Off you go. You have any patients to get me up to speed on?" Kerry replied mildly irritated.
A few.. Cupid in exam 4.. He was mobbed by a bunch of bitter, drunken
women coming out of a singles bar. Exposure, mild
hypothermia and frostbite. The cops found him hanging and duct-taped
to the street sign outside the bar..." Luka paused, blushing.
"Wearing nothing but his wings.."
"Anything else?"
"Well.. He had his little bow and arrow.." He admitted.
"No... I mean patients.." She said frustrated. "Any other patients?"
"Lucy and Dave's patient I guess.. We've all been a little preoccupied to discharge him." Luka stared at his feet and sighed.
"You mean the head-ache? I thought we were waiting on a psych consult?" Kerry took the chart from Luka and looked through it.
"Hi Kerry.. Happy Valentine's Day.." Karl DeRaad muttered cheerfully.
Better late than never, he thought to himself. He
remembered he'd told Lucy three hours.. But.. It was Valentine's day..
He had a lot of nutty people upstairs. Lucy also had a tendency to over-react
as well.. He was here now though.. "I guess it's not technically Valentine's
Day anymore.."
Luka nodded sadly. He wanted his party music back.
"Do you know where I can find a.." Karl looked down at his chart. "Paul Sobriki?"
"We were all wondering about that ourselves actually." Kerry muttered.
"Hey.. Dr.Weaver.. The films are back on the screamer in exam two..
Can you take a look at them?" Carter handed the doctor the
envelope. She nodded slipping from from the manila and tacking them
up on the lightboard.
It popped and the switch clicked, the bulb was dead. "Aww for christ's
sake!" Kerry ripped them down and stomped to another
board down the hall and pinned them up. She bit her lip, cocking her
head slightly. "Is that my.."
Carter grinned. "Yeah.. He disappeared.. I figured he'd discharged himself AMA when I was getting some shut eye in exam one.. That's your watch. A pair of tweezers, a syringe, a pair of rubber gloves.. That there is one of Dave's rings.. That.. I think is.. Hey! That's my pen!! Awww gross.."
Kerry chuckled.. "I don't think my watch will ever keep time again.. He can keep it.. As for the other things.. Try an endoscopy and page a surgical consult just in case. Hopefully they can get here a little quicker than psych manages to."
DeRaad reddened and shuffled his feet. "Kerry.. I..."
She slipped the films back into the envelope and handed them back to Carter. "Sobriki's in exam th..reee.." Kerry murmured glancing back at the board. "That's right.. I gave it to Malucci.. Teaching case.. Probably stress related or a low-grade tumour.. Why did Lucy call you again?"
Her hand went to the door and she paused. "Carter.."
"Yeah, Dr.Wea- Hey.. Shit.. Look at that!!" Carter pointed to the mark on the floor next to Kerry's crutch. The hand print on the floor, the finger marks trailing back into the room as if the hand had been blindly groping for something to hold onto.
The colour dropped from her face and the hand grasping her crutch started to shake. "Carter.. Go get security." She whispered softly.
Her hand pressed inward on the door as it slipped open and the dark
room cast in a grey haze as it was hit by light. Taking a few
tentative steps forward, Kerry flubbed for the light and realized itwas
blown.. She moved farther into the room, not daring to breathe before she
nearly collapsed at the sight.
"Oh.. Oh.. Oh my god.." Her knuckles whitened around the cane as Kerry struggled to stand upright. She walked further, her voice cracking and filled with tears, her body shaking with exertion and fear. "Oh god.." Kerry murmured.
Luka and DeRaad followed close, their mouths agape. Kerry turned burying her face into Luka's shirt. "Luka.." She moaned softly. "Was.. Is.. Is that Malucci and Lucy?!"
Luka stood, stunned.. The ER Chief, County's Rock, bawling into his shirt. A doctor and a medstudent bleeding all over the clean tile. All he could see was Malucci's sneakers. Feeling like he was going to be sick, all he could do was slowly raise his arms and encircle them around her trembling body. His hand rubbed her back as he spoke comfortingly. "Yes.. Kerry.. I think it may be.." He replied in solemn disbelief.. This couldn't be happening.
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"Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you." Mark grinned, holding Elizabeth's hand and kissing it softly as she joined in, horribly off-key.
"Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand, Vanished
from my hand, Left me blindly here to stand but still not
sleeping. My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet, I have no
one to meet And the ancient empty street's too dead for drea-ming."
She broke off in fits of giggles and the parents at the table exchanged
harried glances.
"Those two are awful aren't they?" David Greene grimaced and sipped his beer.
Isabelle Corday nodded in agreement. "She had singing lessons as a child, but even the best opera singers couldn't help her. She's tone deaf. Poor thing.. She gets it from her father's side of the family." Her hand went up half-heartedly in a wave as Elizabeth waved madly from the stage. "Whose idea was it to go to a karaoke bar again?"
David 'dropped his fork' and as he bent down, he nonchalantly stuffed small wads of napkin in his ears. "Not mine.. I wanted to stay home and watch the Patton war-recreation marathon on DISCOVERY." He grumbled. "I need a good strong scotch."
"Make that two." Isabelle muttered raising her hand and waving over the waiter.
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