Ya Never Know…  pt. 7

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            Samantha sat by his bedside holding his now clean hand.  The pulse ox was on his finger the monitors told her he was alive.  She was watching Luca breathing and watching him living a minor miracle.  They had lost him twice once before Robbi had cut into him to remove the metal bar and once just as she was removing it from his side. 

            Abby had been suctioning the blood as Robbi knelt on the floor to get a better view.  She’d been right the angle of the metal bar had been pressing on his aorta.  The surgeons had scoffed and yelled at Robbi and she was on administrative leave as of an hour ago.  A quick hard and undeserving punishment in Sam’s mind but Robbi had smiled at Kerry as she’d told her.  Robbi knew she’d done the right thing even if it did mean her job.  Robbi gone to get Alex from school an offer that stunned Samantha but she’d accepted.  She’d met Alex once and the young man had been taken with Robbi.

            “Sam?”  Luca whispered thickly turning his head and she shot up from the chair sending it skittering against the wall.  “Thirsty.”  He said and Sam sat the bed up and he paled as she did.  She offered him the straw of the cup and he took a small sip.  “What happened?”  He asked finally leaning back into the pillow and rubbing his thick hair into the pillow.

            “Someone hit you.  The other driver is dead.  You came in with…”  Sam stopped and Luca saw the serious look on her face, realizing he was as bad off as he felt.  He reached up with his right hand touching her face.  He knew that she had a lot of things to tell him but right now wasn’t the time he already knew.

            “I know.  You don’t have to say it again, I know.”  He said pulling her very close and let her cry until Robbi came back with Alex.

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            “One month?”  Robbi said a week after Luca’s accident as she sat in Kerry Weaver’s office and Kerry nodded.  Kerry had fought hard for Roberta and the surgical attending had been livid that an ER doctor had been performing surgery in the ER.  “One month?”  She repeated as she played with her hair.  Ro’s eyes were stormy and seemingly lost as she thought about all this time she was going to have on her hands.