”We need more precision here…”

”more light…”

”swab…”

”a bag of blood…”

”open spreader please…”

”vital signs…”

”clamp more…”

”come on Bette….”

”I should go inform your mother and Dr. Kennard….it…it’s been half an hour…” De Luca broke the silence that had fallen for almost forty minutes, Helena and Jackson saying few words since the situation had escalated, their gloves stained with blood in Bette’s body.

”no” Helena warned him ”you will wait.”

”they will wonder why…”

”I said you will wait, De Luca” the tone was brusque but necessary, De Luca understood, putting on a pair of clean gloves again and returning to Jackson Avery’s right. They needed hands.

As well as a miracle.

”They’re not coming back…” Tina thought, but she didn’t say it out loud, not in front of Peggy who was reading a stupid medical journal just to occupy her mind. Tina had tried to occupy her mind too, but after the fourth coffee she really wasn’t in the mood to stay calm and calm her spirits anymore, the nerves were persistent.
Four hours had passed, Tina knew that it would definitely take longer to finish but she still couldn’t take her head off that operating room, she could have slipped into the gallery, even if it was a closed operation, her badge would have allowed her to see from above, but she didn’t have that courage.
For the first hour she had remembered step by step the kiss between her and Bette and that had relieved her but now, now it was all too much.

”I’m going to the ward…”

Peggy looked at her ”what do you mean you’re going to the ward? Today you have the day off”

”I’m going to the ward, I’ll do a round, I’ll check on the patients and the interns, as soon as De Luca comes back you’ll call me, I…I can’t stand it..not anymore.”

Peggy sighed ”you promised Bette that you’d be here…”

It was true.

Tina put her hands on her hips raising her head to the ceiling, she was overwhelmed.

”I know…in fact I’ll be here when she comes out, not a second later…”

”ok” Peggy said with a hint of a smile ”go, I’ll call you”.

”Really?”

”Yes…I know how tense you are, you really love her, right?”