KING'S BAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Sarah's
steps fall evenly on the
lobby's linoleum floor, determined thuds striking out their path. She waits
with arms folded for the elevator and then taps her foot nervously as it
carries her upstairs.
When the ding sounds and the
doors part with their characteristic slowness, her last shreds of patience
vanish. She forces her way out of the elevator, fairly certain that she
cut someone off but not really caring.
She makes a beeline for Andy and
Maggie.
"Andy," she says loudly to catch
his attention.
He turns immediately. "Hi--"
"Hi." She pauses, frazzled, for a
second, brushing back a few loose strands of hair. "Hi, Maggie."
Maggie raises a hand slightly in
greeting, offering a grimly sympathetic expression.
"Any word?" Sarah asks.
Andy shakes his head and his eyelids
droop with exhaustion. "Not yet. We've been waiting ... Sarah, I'm so sorry
about this."
"Things happen. You can't prevent
every accident." She glances around, absently hoping for some sign of Brent's
progress. "What happened? The call I got -- they said something about a
fire, and about you being here ..."
"Brent was at my mother's house with
us. There was a fire there."
Sarah's eyes widen. "Oh my God. Do
you know what caused it?"
"No idea. Brent was trying to clear
a path for Maggie and me to get out ... A chandelier fell and hit him.
We tried to get him out, but ... the house was burning too quickly. We
got out and called 911 and they were able to rescue him, thankfully."
"Has he been unconscious the whole
time?"
"I think so," Andy says with a somber
tip of the head.
"We can't see him yet?"
"They're prepping him for surgery,
I think," Maggie says. "One of the doctors came out a little while ago
and told us that much."
"Oh my God." Sarah closes her eyes
briefly as the weight of the situation strikes her again. "Do you know
what's wrong with him? What the surgery's for, I mean?"
Maggie and Andy exchange a quick
look that confirms that neither of them knows, and Maggie says, "I'm not
sure. I bet you could ask someone--"
"I will," Sarah says, already moving
off to find that someone. "Thanks, both of you."
She moves across the waiting area
in search of a staffer, but she pauses in front of the swinging doors.
He's back there somewhere.
Don't leave me, Brent, her
mind pleads. Come back, please. Just be okay. Come back so that we can
have our second chance.
END OF EPISODE #210
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