Kickdrum Beating in My Chest Again (Alternate Version)

Chapter 76

!!!!!!!!!!Author's Note!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Everyone! Happy Friday (pretty close)! I hope you all had a good week. Mine was busy and tiring. I put together a Halloween Setlist that I want to perform at various venues throughout October, so I've been trying to get a few gigs. It's very time consuming to have to gather contacts and call and email venues. I'm really hoping something works out though. I'm really excited about this setlist and I haven't been super excited about a setlist in a while. Don't get me wrong, I love all the stuff I perform, but this is something new, unique and something I've never done before! It would also be fun to go in costume too!

Anywhoo, this week, Patrick is treating as many patients as he can and pushing himself way too hard trying to hold out until the doctors from the hospital arrive and discovers where his limits are. Spencer is also overloaded with patients and trying to keep up with the amount that just keeps pouring in. The particular patient he's working on has several serious issues and Spencer works hard to keep him alive. Gabe and Brad are finished torturing everyone, reminisce about it and then dump Earnesto and Mateo's body in the tunnels beneath the prison before feeding, showering and going to visit Sugar.

As always, enjoy, tell your friends and if you like please leave me a comment or vote on my story. If you'd like to talk to me about the story, you can find me on tumblr @dancecoaster. Happy reading!

Chapter 76

*******Trigger Warning for Graphic Violence, Torture, Gore, and Discussion of Medical Procedures *******

Patrick sits back down in the wheelchair as Joe wheels him to the next patient. It's been just over an hour and Patrick has treated twelve patients. Every time he managed to make a dent in the patients in the recovery room, they'd be replaced with twice as many as before. He's getting tired and all this standing is making his pain increase. He has no other choice but to push through and keep going. Help is coming, you just need to keep going until they show up. Joe parks his wheelchair near the next patient. He and Dan help him stand next to the bed to examine the patient. Patrick takes a look and notices that this patient has several broken bones and a few dislocated joints that he must set and pop back into place. They are also nursing some kind of bleeding wound in their lower abdomen. Patrick knows his plan of attack on this one and goes straight to the bleeding wound.

"Hello. What is your name?" Patrick asks.

"Jose." He answers.

"Hi Jose, I'm Patrick and I'm going to help you out with some of your injuries. I noticed that you have several broken and dislocated joints, but I need to look at this bleeding wound under your hand. Could you move it, so I can see what I need to do?" Patrick asks.

"I was told to hold pressure on it. If I move my hand, it will start bleeding again." Jose replies.

"I understand. I don't think it's as bad as you think it is, or you would be on the other side of sick bay. Let me look, and then you can begin applying pressure again. I know you are scared, but you are in good hands. Is that, ok?" Patrick asks.

Jose thinks for a minute and agrees to remove his hand from the wound.

"Thank you, Jose." Patrick says.

As he examines the gash, he sees that it is relatively shallow and didn't hit anything important. He should be able to just stitch up the wound and Jose won't need surgery.