Kickdrum Beating in My Chest Again (Alternate Version)

Chapter 77

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

Hello! Happy Friday (I'm only 1.5 hrs late!)!  I hope everyone had a great week. Mine was busy! I'm still trying to get some gigs for my Halloween Setlist so I spent most of the week contacting and emailing people at the many different venues in Sacramento that do live music. I had to learn all this music very quickly. 34 songs in two weeks, so I've been working on that. I actually sang through all of the them for the first time yesterday and found that I'm in much better shape than I thought I was, so that made me feel much better on that front.

This week, we find Patrick pushing himself way beyond his limits and it comes back to to bite him in the ass. When Gabe comes to find him, he is in horrible shape and is continuing to push himself further when his body is clearly saying no. Gabe asks what he's doing and Patrick explains that he's treating patients from the retaliation attack and help from the hospital hasn't come yet. Gabe decides that he's not going to let Patrick push himself until he collapses, so he decides to take over for him and instructs Dan and Joe to take him back to his room, clean him, and put him back in his bed. Patrick mentions that he's in too much pain to sleep, so Gabe tells Sebastien to go get the morphine, measure it out, and then hand it to Patrick so he can get his meds.

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Chapter 77

********Trigger Warning for Drug Use and Descriptions of Medical Procedures ********

It has now been exactly two hours and the doctors from the hospital still aren't there yet. Patrick feels like he's ready to keel over and die. He keeps trying to push himself harder to make it until the doctors get here, but he knows that he won't be able to keep this up much longer. He's almost fainted again twice, and he's vomited three times. His legs feel like jelly, his brain is fogging up, he's in so much more pain now, and he is having issues standing for more than a few minutes. He's tired enough that he feels like he's drunk, which definitely isn't good. It's getting harder and harder for him to push the fog out of his brain. Joe and Dan are helping him out as much as they can, but there have been so many patients that even they are getting tired.

"It's been two hours now, where the fuck are they?" Patrick asks softly between patients.

"I don't know! Hopefully they will be here shortly." Joe answers.

"I'm running on fumes right now, and I don't know how much longer I can keep pushing. I feel like absolute shit. Everything hurts!" Patrick replies.

"I know, but you are almost there. They should be here within the next half hour." Dan comments.

Patrick takes a deep breath before he tells them to wheel him to the next patient. This patient has multiple lacerations that Patrick will have to sew up. This isn't something that he can explain to them how to do it. Then Joe and Dan will have to reset, pop his dislocated joints back into the sockets, and clean and dress the rest of his wounds. Patrick plasters a smile that he is definitely not feeling on his face before he speaks to them.

"Hello, what's your name?" Patrick asks.

"Juan."

"Hello, Juan. I'm Patrick. I'm here to help you reset your broken bones, pop your dislocated joints back into place, sew up all your cuts and clean and dress the wounds. Some of these will require surgery, but I will help you for right now. These are my friends Joe and Dan (they wave). They will be helping me today. Allow me a moment to take a look at your injuries first." Patrick says.