Jasia

Shattered Glass

Jac was woken up the following morning by pain tearing through the sole of her right foot. Her whole foot was throbbing and she couldn't move it without having to bite her tongue to stop a scream escaping.
Zosia woke up, feeling the mattress moving beneath her. She rolled over and saw the redhead wincing in pain as she tried to get off the bed.
Zosia sat up and slid out of bed herself, making her way around too Jac who still hadn't been able to stand up, and was attempting to take her weight on the dressing table which was just a little too far away.
The brunette slipped her arms under Jac's armpits taking her weight, and she sat her down on the armchair in the corner of their bedroom.
"What hurts Jac?" Zosia questioned once she's got the consultant comfortable.
"My foot, the right one. I stood on something yesterday remember, it must have cut my foot." Jac explained wincing again as she attempted to move her foot.
"And you didn't think to check it then?" Zosia mused as she propped Jac's leg up on a stool.
"It didn't hurt much then, and I had to do surgery anyway!" Jac defended herself.
Zosia nodded knowing that Jac would never willingly get help anyway. She looked at Jac's foot.
There was a large chunk of glass wedged into the sole of Jac's foot, with dried blood around it and large purple bruises.
"God Jac this is really bad, we're gonna have to go to hospital to sort this out! There's a massive chunk of glass in there!" Zosia exclaimed, watching Jac's face as her expression changed to one of horror. The brunette dressed herself, then helped The redhead into some loose clothes. Zosia slid her arms under Jac's armpits again, taking all her weight. It was lucky that Jac was a little shorter than her, otherwise the process would have been a lot more difficult.
The redhead did her best too help her companion by opening the doors and unhooking their bags from the pegs beside their front door.
With a lot of effort they managed to both get in the car and Zosia shoved the keys into the ignition and pulled off the driveway, heading down the road towards the hospital, that they were both rather too familiar with, both as doctors and patients.
After a short drive Zosia pulled up in a parking space near to the entrance of the hospital. She rushed inside and asked a nurse to sort a wheelchair for Jac, then she sprinted back to the car and helped Jac out. They made their way over too the entrance where the nurse was waiting with a wheelchair.
"Ms Naylor!" Exclaimed the nurse as she lowered her into the chair. The consultant rolled her eyes knowing that she would be the hot topic for the gossiping staff for the next few days.
"Yes? I don't have all day, let's get up too AAU now please!" Jac retorted, she had no time for idle gossips. Zosia walked beside the wheelchair holding Jac's hand.
The nurse was so obviously staring at them and preparing how she was going to reveal this anecdote to all her fellow nurses, that she was beginning to irritate Jac. Zosia noticed decided to step in before the situation escalated to a shouting match between the two women, and quite possibly a nurse in tears.
"I'll take her from here, I'm sure you've got patients to attend to." Zosia directed her statement towards the nurse and forcefully put her hands on the handles of the wheelchair. The nurse let go and said goodbye before heading back down the corridor the way she'd come.
Zosia continued to push the chair in silence till they reached the checkerboard floors of AAU.
Serena came around the corner, immediately seeing the two doctors.
She greeted them and then asked what was wrong with Jac. They filled her in with the injury and how it happened whilst Serena sent Raf to sort a bed for the consultant.
Raf came back after a minute and led the three women over to an empty bed near the edge of the ward. There wasn't many patients nearby so not as many nurses would be coming near to the redhead.
Serena and Zosia lifted Jac onto the bed and Serena lifted her leg a little.
"Let's have a look at this foot then!" She exclaimed as she inspected the wound. They cleaned up the outside of the injury and cave Jac a dose of painkillers before booking her into theatre to remove the glass and stitch the veins that had been cut.
The painkillers made Jac sleepy and after less than 10 minutes she was black out.
Zosia left her for a bit too meet Dom in pulses as he had his break. She went too the counter and ordered herself a coffee. She sat down at a two person table and waited for Dom, who typically turned up five minutes late. Zosia waved at him and she came over too her table.
"So what are you doing here? You're obviously not working because I'm sure you're not a consultant which would be the only reason you could work in plainclothes." Dom asked.
Zosia smiled at his enthusiasm and replied,"Jac's got a lump of glass stuck in her foot, she can't walk on it and needs surgery to remove it and patch the veins that have been damaged. She got it last night when we where running to the hospital after the emergency call." Zosia explained the situation to Dom, "being Jac she ignored the pain until it became totally unbearable and she couldn't walk!"
Dom sighed dramatically, "your life is like a soap I swear! Like, something dramatic is always going on!"
Zosia giggled at his drama queening when his pager bleeped and he had too rush back too Keller. The brunette wandered slowly back towards AAU, knowing that Jac wouldn't be awake yet and she still had almost an hour till her surgery.
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Zosia sat in the waiting room, Jac had just been taken into theatre and she now had the torturous wait that lasted for just over an hour.
She picked up a Cosmopolitan magazine from the table and flicked through it, not really focusing on the words properly.

Serena and Ric had just extracted the lump of glass and had discovered that it had partly shattered and there was a lot of small fragments of the shattered glass spread around the large hole in her foot. As Serena teased out one of the larger fragments, the artery started bleeding and Jac's stats started dropping. Ric grabbed the swabs and packed them against the artery. The bleeding didn't stop and they switched too suction, but still the blood flow didn't slow and they had too start pumping fresh blood into the limp body of the resident Ice Queen.

A/N thank you too everyone reading and voting on this story! I'm feeling good about how it's going at the moment! Hope you like this new chapter, and my attempt at a cliffhanger is pretty pathetic but oh well!
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