Two Birds With One Stone (Trauma Team, Second Opinion, and New Blood)

Two Birds With One Stone (10)

I sat on the cool, metal doctor's table anxiously as I waited to get my blood drawn for tests.  I shook my leg up in down and I wiped my sweaty palms on my slacks, nervous habits I'd developed over the years.  I was absolutely terrified of needles and getting blood drawn, I always have been.  I don't know why, but ever since I was young I've have vivid nightmares about getting injected with different things, and the result is a very impractical phobia for a doctor to have.

I know that I should've outgrown it, or at least been able to control the fear, being a doctor and all, but I haven't.  Back at Resurgum Chief knew about my issue with them, so she always assigned a different doctor or nurse to deal with those sort of things.  I feel like it's sort of required for a doctor, specifically a surgeon, to use a needle at one point in their career, and I fear the day it comes.

My thoughts were interrupted when Angie, the pretty blonde nurse that's friends with Derek, opened the door and entered.  She gave me a reassuring smile and began to pull on rubber gloves before opening a drawer in on of the silver counters lining the wall and pulling out a vial, needle, and tube.  She then reached into her pocket and pulled out an antiseptic wipe and opened it up.

"Can you hold out you left arm for me, Kat?"  She asked, and I did as I was told.  She lightly grabbed my wrist and wiped the area of skin where my forearm meets my elbow with the moist, cool material.  When she was finished she threw it out and began preparing the needle.

"Are you ready?"  She asked and I shook my head, squeezing my eyes shut.  She chuckled softly and reassured me, "Don't worry, it'll only be for a moment.  We just need one vial for now, okay?"

With my eyes still tightly shut, she pushed the needle into my skin and I let out a yelp.  I had to refrain myself from pulling my arm away from her and tried to focus on more pleasant things.  I thought about all of the wonderful people from Resurgum, and how much I missed all of them dearly.  I thought about Gabe and how he was such an older brother to me, and about Maria and how she was my closest, most trustworthy friend.  My thoughts then moved onto Hank and his kind heart, and Chief and her spunky, wild personality.  Eventually my thoughts began to linger on the one doctor I missed the most of them all;  CR-S01.  I missed the way he never smiled, but you could tell when he was happy, and I missed his awkwardness around people.  I missed the way he looked out for me, and the way he admired my skills as a surgeon just as much as I admired his.  I missed him.

"All done now!  See?  That wasn't so bad!"  Angie said, pulling me out of my thoughts.  I frowned slightly, realizing just how much I missed all of my friends, but this didn't go unnoticed by Angie.

"Hey, you okay, Kat?  Are you feeling sick?"

"N-no, I was just thinking..."  I replied, still half-stuck in my own thoughts, reliving some of the memories I had with the Resurgum crew.  "I just...miss my old friends, that's all.  Nothing big."

I hopped off of the metal table and offered Angie a small smile.

"Okay, where to next?"

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Hey guys!  ...I'm an awful person, I know; I waited waaay to long to give you guys this update and I don't really have any valid reasons.  I tried to make this chapter longer, but I'm not sure how successful I was at that.

This chapter didn't turn out exactly like I thought it would, but I liked her reminiscence of all of the beautiful Trauma Team characters (I just played that game yesterday).

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Thanks so much for reading!

xVal