Haven ✔️

Ch. 31 Two Patients

Sunstreaker's P.O.V.
"Sunstreaker, stop!" I hear Jamie yell.
I let Victoria's body fall to the ground. Many Autobots and soldiers are around.
Scrap.
I take a few steps forward away from the body before being punched, causing me to fly a few feet before landing on my back. I sit up to see Jolt and Ratchet looking over Victoria and see it was Jamie to punched me. I'm not surprised she's enraged and fighting me, even though she's been scared of me.
"Oh, scrap, Sunstreaker, get out of here!" Drift yells, sounding more worried about what Jamie will do than if I will hurt her. 
I watch Jamie's hair turn white, her eyes glow white, and a white aura surrounds her. Drift runs towards her, getting her onto the ground. The few seconds before this glow disappears felt like minutes, waiting for Jamie to hurt Drift. Crosshairs crouches next to him as tears roll down Jamie's face.
Ironhide and Prowl waste no time taking me to the brig.
What the hell was that?
Stay with Jamie and support her. I instruct Sideswipe.
I don't need to give up trying to be Jamie's friend. I'll be punished for this and will never see her again. I instruct Sideswipe.  I don't need to give up trying to be Jamie's friend, I'll be punished for this and will never see her again.

Sideswipe's P.O.V.
As if things couldn't get worse, we watch Jamie go into a seizure, not waking up once it ends. I don't know if this power caused it, but this isn't good. Ratchet tells Crosshairs and Drift to care for her as he and Jolt need to get Victoria into surgery.

Crosshairs and Drift let me sit in the room as they look over Jamie. She needs a little oxygen support. Crosshairs goes to run a sample of her blood through the analyzer. The problem is this will take a couple of hours. We worry we're missing valuable treatment time, but we can give her nothing until we know what caused the seizure and for her to still be unconscious.

Crosshairs returns and sits on the chair next to Drift.
"You know this isn't normal," Drift frets as he carefully moves Jamie onto his lap.

Two hours pass before the blood analyzer is done. Ratchet is out of the operating room to check on Jamie and review the results.
"She's been poisoned," Ratchet tells us before going to prepare treatment. 
Crosshairs is enraged and storms out of the medbay.

Crosshairs' P.O.V.
The key to the cells is left hanging on the wall. I don't know if it's a mistake, but now I can fight that fragger.
"You fragging bastard!" I shove Sunstreaker to the wall, "you lied to everyone for too long!!"
"I swear I-."
"THEN WHY DID YOU POISON HER!?"
"WHAT?!'
Sunstreaker can't fake emotions or facial expressions. He's always proud of his kills.
I let him go, prepared to be punched.
"Is she ok?" Sunstreaker asks, genuinely concerned. He hates what I tell him, "I want to see her, but the only way I'm getting out of here is going to wherever my punishment is. I-I never meant for any of this to happen..."
I leave the brig and go talk to Prime.

Drift's P.O.V.
I'm failing my femme; at this point, being in her dimension and dealing with that scrap is better than being here. Maybe we can stay with friends in another dimension. I'm thinking too far ahead. Ratchet won't even tell me if this poison is deadly, and we're seeing a delayed response from Jamie's body.
"We won't know if treatment is working until tomorrow," Ratchet tells me.
I look at him in horror.
Won't know if this is working? You know she might die, Ratchet?
I hate how he ordered me to go to my room. Sure, I can argue, but he'll get Prime, and there's no arguing with Prime.

Ratchet's P.O.V.
Fifteen minutes pass before Victoria is out of surgery and critically unstable. Jolt and I believe in giving patients a chance, but we'll need a damn miracle for her to get the strength to recover.

"No pain medication?" Jolt asks, seeing I am not giving Jamie any pain medication.
"No, I know she'll be in a lot of pain as the medication takes care of the poison, but I'm not adding another drug to the mix."
"I'd like to know who the frag did this and how they got their hands on this particular poison. Humans haven't used it since 1945. The chemical in her blood isn't helping either. The two mixing together...scrap...."
We're lucky Jamie is only unconscious and needs a little oxygen support.

Jolt and I would sometimes stay in the medbay overnight. Jolt questions why I'm not letting Drift stay.
"I know he's not going to like seeing her in pain, but he comforts her," Jolt argues.
"He's seen her struggle enough. I'll stay with her."

I wait until eleven to check Jamie's blood again. The problem is treating this poison is slow. Treatment is working, but this won't be done until morning. What worries me is Jamie is unconscious due to the poison and how this is reacting with the chemical in her blood. In a way, this is good. Jamie won't feel pain, but she should have woken up by now. With both patients doing ok for now, I let myself fall asleep.

I wake up at two in the morning, seeing tears roll down Jamie's face as she moves around slightly, which increases the pain, but I think it's an involuntary response.
I close the door so her crying doesn't wake Jolt before standing by the bed and taking her hands.
"You need to stop moving. It's making the pain worse."
I quickly realize she's been biting her tongue hard enough to cause bleeding. Now I must sit her up, or she'll choke on the blood. Raising the head of the bed is painful, and Jamie ends up crying, blood oozing out of her open mouth. This could be bad, but it's hard to know until the bleeding stops.  
"You weren't going to wake me, were you?" I hear Jolt ask.
He hands me gauze and tries to comfort Jamie as I work on stopping the bleeding.
I hate the look in her eyes. I don't know what kind of pain she is feeling. It's going to be a long night.

Two hours pass before Jamie is asleep. She did bite her tongue enough to cut it. Just adds to her pain, and I'm still not adding more medication to the mix. Jolt and I go to bed for another five hours.

Jolt's P.O.V.
Victoria didn't decline overnight, but I hate how much pain Jamie was in and why Ratchet doesn't want to give her anything for the pain. Hopefully, this morning's blood analysis will continue to yield good results.

Crosshairs, Drift, and Sideswipe walk in while Ratchet reviews the results. All three are not pleased Ratchet didn't give Jamie anything for pain all night. The damn poison is almost out of her system, and Ratchet gives in to giving her pain medication.
"She'll be fine in a couple of days....but we don't think Victoria will survive her injuries," I explain to the three mechs.