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    Lifeline – Chapter 7

    Story written on January 6, 2011 by gr8d8.
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    Code Blue, Room C121…Bette remembers their anniversary night

     

     

    Lifeline

     

    Chapter 7

     

    Bette was startled out of her flashback by the urgency of the announcement on the intercom.  “Code blue!”  The voice had said, in room C121.  C121.

    “Tina!” she exclaimed, and before she knew her thoughts she was running down the corridor, passing people in a blur of motion, her long strides covering the distance at a sprinter’s pace.  Two people stepped in front of her as she reached the room, snapping their hands back in unison in response to Bette’s fierce scowl.

    “I’m sorry… you can’t go in there…” The older woman ventured bravely,  noting the terror in Bette’s eyes.  “Only hospital personnel are allowed inside.”

    “But she’s my…” Bette began, and was cut off when two men in green scrubs pushing a heavy-looking piece of machinery brushed by her running into the room.

    “What’s happening?” She asked fearfully.  “What’s code blue?!” She knew it was something very serious.  She glanced anxiously between the nurses, who exchanged a fleeting glance, silently deciding who would speak to the imposing brunette.

    The older nurse took a step forward, and placing a hand on Bette’s arm, led her away from the door.  “The patient…your…?” she hesitated, wondering what relation the dark-haired woman might be to the fair-haired woman in cardiac arrest.

    “My wife,” Bette answered, her voice rising. “Tina Kennard-Porter is her name.”  Tina was a real person, goddammit!  She had a name!  She hated hospitals, hated everyone and everything keeping her from Tina, she thought irrationally.   

    The nurse continued in a calm and compassionate tone meeting Bette’s eyes steadily, “Tina was experiencing respiratory distress so the doctors are attempting to regulate her breathing again.”  Through the haze of her panic Bette realized she was receiving an oversimplified answer, a euphemism, but her sleep-deprived mind was too fuzzy to decipher the jargon. She stopped walking and turned sharply to face the other woman.

    “Look, I know I seem frantic,” she began, trying to soften the edge in her voice so that the woman would speak candidly, “but that’s because I don’t know what’s going on in there,” she pointed over her shoulder at the door to Tina’s room.

     “The woman I love may be dying for all I know and nobody will tell me a goddamned thing!” The older woman recognized the terror and frustration in the strikingly beautiful woman’s brown eyes.   She’d seen it on many occasions in her job.  Too many.

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    4. Thank you for the new update. This story is so well done! I love the juxtaposition of Bette’s past and present and how you have them playing out. Please let Tina get better! PPS!

    5. wow… i agree with the others… just keep tina safe and let her get better…. bit keep posting… love the flash backs… and love this story…pps

    7. I really love these small visits into their past – but for Bettes sake and our sanity – keep Tina safe and let her wake up soon. Thanks for a great story.

    12. What an honest, romantic conversation between the couple. Simply beautiful. I see why Bette committed that anniversary celebration to her memory and how it’s somehow serving as her own lifeline as she keeps vigil at the hospital. Thank you for focusing this and the previous “NC17” chapters not on the sexual act itself but on the depth of the intimacy they share. No blow-by-blow account of their bedroom activities: what a relief! Tina’s medical condition is quite scary but I have an inkling she’ll make it. I trust you when you said in a previous author note that this is a love story more than anything else, not a tragedy. Thanks a lot for sharing this moving love story, Nell. Looking forward to more of your posts. =)

    15. This story has Bette and me at the end of our rope almost. Please let Tina get better real soon, Bette and I can’t take the strain. Bette is almost completely broken, one more setback and she too, will become a patient. Hopefully Bette will be up to speed with her reflections of their lives and love. AS Kit thought they will lose Bette too if Tina doesn’t get well. Thanks for sharing such a great story.

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