The Choice

Chapter 19

The elevator door opened and Nurse Lainie came up there with a gurney. She moved me away from him. Dr. Medicus came in with the gurney. I just stood there. My body wouldn't move, my legs were frozen. Will was on the gurney and the medics were taking him to the OR. There was one guy on top of him giving him manual breathing compression indicating the fact that he couldn't breathe on his own anymore.

Dr. Medicus saw me standing there.  He came up to me. And jerked my shoulders and suddenly I was fully aware of my surrounding, my legs could move and my brain processed the fact that Will had collapsed and had been taken down to the OR.

Dr. Medicus said," Its okay. You couldn't have know what could had happened and you did the right thing texting us and now come downstairs and go and sit in the resident's lounge. Your friends are all here today as they were on-call last night."

I nodded and looked at my watch it was almost morning. I took the stairs as Dr. Medicus took the elevator. I walked thinking about the kiss and fainting till the point where I did not want it anymore. I went to the lounge, I did not want to meet anyone. So I just slept.

My grandmother was sitting on a chair and sipping coffee, my mother was there reading me stories from her cases when I was three years old and now I saw Will there looking at the stars alone and suddenly all of them looked at me at once and started smiling.

I screamed and woke up,"Will can't be dead."

And checked the watch it was eight in the morning. I got up and changed into the scrubs and went down to the OR Floor to see if Will was out of surgery. I picked up the tab and saw that 

WILL GRAYSON, Intracranial bleeding still in on-going operation with DR. Ross ( neuro) and Dr. Medicus (general).

I went to see my interns. Jake had an open colostomy , Sarah had a bowel reconstruction and Neal had a kidney tumor and Sia had post open dictyosome. So I went and checked all my post-op patients. This week I had only done six- seven surgeries. So I discharged six patients and discovered one of them had died due to fistulas.

It was nine and the operation was still going on. Ava came up to me and said,

"Heyy, I need your help. You are good with people and you know how emotionally cold I am but I really care about this patient."

"Okay, go ahead."

" Okay there are these two girls who tried to commit suicide together in front of the train today. But by god's grace they were pulled away at the right moment. Those two girls Aria and Chloe they are madly in love with each other. Aria's mother passed way and her father did not know anything about her being gay but  Chloe's dad is not dead and her mother got to know it yesterday and that's when she told Chloe she will be taking her to a camp for three weeks."

"So illegal sexuality changing camp?"

"Yes. That is why they decided to commit suicide. Please do something and go and talk to the goddamn mother."

"Okay."

I walked with Ava to the mother. And then Ava left us.

"Hello ma'am would you come somewhere in private to speak to me?"

"Okay.."

We walked up to the conference room and I locked the door from inside.

"Hello ma'am are you Chloe's mother?"

"Yes I am."

"We are aware that you wanted to send your daughter to an illegal camp and you know right if this information goes to the Social Services then you will be barred and not be able to meet your daughter forever."

"Are you threatening me?"

I sighed and replied," No, but you realise right that your decision almost costed you your daughter's life? And its not wrong being a lesbian. Its all right. It is who she is and there is no point of changing it and at some point you will have to accept and trust me if they wanted to commit suicide to forever be together then it is true love."

"But.. She is my daughter and the society....?"

"Don't even get society in this thing. This is between you and your daughter. If you do not tell and do not ever accept that she is a lesbian then will always be scared to tell the world that she is."

"Thank you so much. You are a god's gift. Thank you soo much."

She came and hugged me. And I got a text, Will was out of the operation but still unconscious.

"Thank you ma'am for listening to me. But now I have to go."

I rushed past the elevator and saw Ava,

"Dude, done! No camp! Enjoy. Bye."

I rushed to Will's room and saw Dr.Ross

"Dr.Ross, what happened to Will Grayson it was a four hour long surgery?!"

"Well I know that he is your patient so it is that he has a tumor in the frontal lobe and we cannot operate it so the only way is transplant.So we are waiting for him to wake up so that we can ask him for his consent and you will have to be here. And Hayley without transplant he has  very less time."

I just walked away. I realised that I had broken the most important rule that no emotional connection between patient and doctor. But now it did not matter because I knew now at this very moment that,

I love Will Jackson Grayson.