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Jul. 19th, 2010 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crooked_lossTitle: Blame Me
Summary: Adrianna loses her first patient.
Timeline: May 2015 - Adrianna is 26, Andy is 31.
Challenge: Soy #2 (trying to please everyone), Candy Bar Crunch #20 (belly up), Chocolate #21 (luck)
Word Count: 444
Rating: PG
Andy hurried through the hospital hallways, avoiding contact with as many people as he could. He knew where he was going, and with what he gathered from the call he had received... This wasn’t the time to stop and chat with the few nurses and doctors he was acquainted with. It was only another hallway or two before he found the sleep room, and he didn’t bother with knocking. As soon as he entered the room, he knew that had been the right decision.
Adrianna’s scrubs had blood on them. Considering that she had stepped in to help a short staffed ER on a weekend in New York City, it wasn’t completely uncommon. It was the amount of blood and the rather deadened look in her eyes that worried him. Andy didn’t have to ask what had happened.
“It was a little boy.” She said, once she noticed his presence. “There was a drive-by. He was caught in it. It was... a through and through, in the upper chest. When they found him, they thought he might have a chance, but... When he got here...”
Andy sat on the bed beside her, but didn’t try to give her a hug or offer words of sympathy. He knew Adrianna better than he knew himself, most days. That wasn’t what she needed right now, and it would probably make the situation worse. “Walk me through it. What happened?”
“He was in shock when they found him, but still responding. By the time he got here, he had fallen unconscious from blood loss. The bullet had caused too much damage... Even if we had been lucky, and been able to stop the bleeding, there were bone fragments in his lungs that we wouldn’t have been able to get to in time. There was nothing we could do.”
“Then you know it wasn’t your fault.”
“No. I wasn’t the one with the gun.” Adrianna slumped over her lap after she answered. “But that doesn’t make me feel any better, Andy.”
“What are you going to do? Am I bringing you home?”
There was a long silence as she considered her answer. Eventually, she shook her head. “No. There are other patients... They need me here. Things might just get worse if one of the only doctors on staff leaves in the middle of her shift. I couldn’t do that to them. Besides, I don’t have anything else to do.”
Andy was able to read between the lines well enough. If she stayed, it would keep the guilt at bay. If she stayed, she might be able to save a life to make up for the one she lost.
Summary: Adrianna loses her first patient.
Timeline: May 2015 - Adrianna is 26, Andy is 31.
Challenge: Soy #2 (trying to please everyone), Candy Bar Crunch #20 (belly up), Chocolate #21 (luck)
Word Count: 444
Rating: PG
Andy hurried through the hospital hallways, avoiding contact with as many people as he could. He knew where he was going, and with what he gathered from the call he had received... This wasn’t the time to stop and chat with the few nurses and doctors he was acquainted with. It was only another hallway or two before he found the sleep room, and he didn’t bother with knocking. As soon as he entered the room, he knew that had been the right decision.
Adrianna’s scrubs had blood on them. Considering that she had stepped in to help a short staffed ER on a weekend in New York City, it wasn’t completely uncommon. It was the amount of blood and the rather deadened look in her eyes that worried him. Andy didn’t have to ask what had happened.
“It was a little boy.” She said, once she noticed his presence. “There was a drive-by. He was caught in it. It was... a through and through, in the upper chest. When they found him, they thought he might have a chance, but... When he got here...”
Andy sat on the bed beside her, but didn’t try to give her a hug or offer words of sympathy. He knew Adrianna better than he knew himself, most days. That wasn’t what she needed right now, and it would probably make the situation worse. “Walk me through it. What happened?”
“He was in shock when they found him, but still responding. By the time he got here, he had fallen unconscious from blood loss. The bullet had caused too much damage... Even if we had been lucky, and been able to stop the bleeding, there were bone fragments in his lungs that we wouldn’t have been able to get to in time. There was nothing we could do.”
“Then you know it wasn’t your fault.”
“No. I wasn’t the one with the gun.” Adrianna slumped over her lap after she answered. “But that doesn’t make me feel any better, Andy.”
“What are you going to do? Am I bringing you home?”
There was a long silence as she considered her answer. Eventually, she shook her head. “No. There are other patients... They need me here. Things might just get worse if one of the only doctors on staff leaves in the middle of her shift. I couldn’t do that to them. Besides, I don’t have anything else to do.”
Andy was able to read between the lines well enough. If she stayed, it would keep the guilt at bay. If she stayed, she might be able to save a life to make up for the one she lost.
