Prodigal Son; Malcolm Bright

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Malcolm Bright

Malcolm: WHERE'S THE DAMN AMBULANCE?!

She kept fluttering in and out of consciousness the entire trip to the hospital. They were currently trying to get her stabilized.

Nurse: Her BP is steady; we need to get her to push now.

Doctor: Wake her up, Mr. Bright are you ready?

I nodded my head and the nurse injected something into her IV and after a few moments her eyes opened, and she looked around frantically.

Malcolm: Celine, look at me. You have to calm down so you can have Paisley...you can do this, okay?

She nodded and looked down at the doctor who gave her a reassuring smile. She waited until the next contraction and began to push.

Doctor: You can do this, keep going

I continued to encourage her despite the excruciating pain she was obviously in. The sound of a baby crying drew my attention to the nurses who were now holding her.

Doctor: We have to get her to surgery now, let's go!

Celine: *weakly* Stay with her...

Her eyes fluttered closed again as they rushed her away. I slowly followed behind them until I found myself in the gallery of the operating room.

Nurse: She's flatlining!

I stared at the heart monitor screen that showed no sinus rhythm. I then noticed my reflection in the glass. I had blood everywhere, Celine's blood.

Malcolm: She's gonna be okay. She's gonna be okay. She has to be okay, she's gonna be okay.

I stood there repeating the words as I stared down there at her. She suddenly opened her eyes and looked directly at me.

Celine: Stay with her Malcolm

I nodded and walked out the gallery. I walked past Dani who had said something to me, but I couldn't hear. Celine's words were echoing through my head "Stay with her" eventually I found the room and I gently picked her up.

She's flatling. Charge the paddles to 200. Clear.

The doctor's words were flooding my head. I shook my head trying to get their voices out, but nothing was working.

Malcolm: SHUT UP

Dani Powell

I noticed some of the nurses turn their attention to Malcolm after he screamed. I walked into the room and noticed his hand tremor was there and each breath he took sounded shaky.

Dani: Malcolm...let me hold her

He was going through something traumatic right now, so I didn't expect him to have it all together. I just didn't want him to do something he'd regret later. I extended my arms toward the baby and he snatched away.

Malcolm: STAY AWAY FROM HER!

I glanced over to see the nurses were now starting to look concerned. I stepped towards him and grabbed his face, forcing him to look at me.

Dani: It's me Malcolm, it's Dani. I need you to calm down because the nurses are starting to stare. If you don't get it together, they're going to come and take her away and she needs her father right now.

He nodded taking in everything I'd just said. I looked down noticing he was holding her closer to him and his hand had stopped tremoring.

Dani: Sit down

I helped him get into the chair and he looked down at the baby. One of the nurses walked in holding a chart.

Nurse: I need her name

Malcolm: Paisley Victoria-Jade Bright

She wrote it down and showed it to Malcolm to make sure her spelling was correct, he looked at it and nodded.

Nurse: It's a beautiful name

Malcolm: Thank you

She exited and I sat there with Malcolm, anxiously waiting to hear something about Celine. He glanced up at me after a while.

Malcolm: She shouldn't have been there tonight...but she'd reassured me everything was going to be fine, like it always is

Dani: There's nothing we can do about it now

Malcolm: I left her alone...I was trying to put the fire out so we'd be able to exit, but I shouldn't have left her alone

I stood up and rubbed his back reassuringly. All I could do was be here for Malcolm, he didn't need to be alone right now.