Dear Derek

Chapter 22 (Bailey)

"Chief! Wake up! Wake up!" I heard as I was in the middle of a good nap.

I sprung up from my couch and gasped, "Who's there?"

"It's me, Dr. Deluca." Andrew replied, helping me up from the couch.

"Andrew why are you waking me up? I was having a good nap." I scowled.

"They need you down at the E.R." he replied.

"You came all the way up here, screamed in my face while you could clearly see I was sleeping, just to tell me they need me in the E.R.?" I said, my hands on my hips.

"I just realized how I could of asked you in a nicer way." he laughed.

I gave him the stink eye and he let himself out of my office. I checked my phone. The time read 9:00 pm. I  saw I got a text message from Tuck and I opened it. It was a picture of him snd Joey in the snow building a snowman with Ben. He captioned it: wish you were here with us... but enjoy surgery

I smiled and replied back with: I love you so much! Make sure you are in bed by 11:00 and make sure you tell Ben I'm so sorry for not coming home tonight."

The message sent and I placed my phone in do not disturb and put it in my coat pocket.

I arrived at the E.R. to find Owen scrambling around each bed.

"Wow the snow must be really bad." I said, looking at all the hurt patients.

"Didn't you hear?" he said, grabbing supplies and taking them to beds as I followed him, "we got at least two feet of snow already and there was a huge pile up on the highway. We are expected to get more people from the accident shortly."

"I didn't hear... I was..." I stopped myself. Owen was doing all this hard work. I didn't want to tell him I was sleeping while he was busting his but. "I was in surgery." I lied.

"Well I'm glad you here now. Take these to bed one." he commanded, giving me supplied.

"Of course." I replied.

I walked over to bed one. There sat a girl who looked like she was in college. I pulled out the supplies Owen gave me. A suture kit and some gauze.

"You want to tell me what happened?" I asked putting on my gloves.

"I was out with some friends ice skating and I rammed into the wall and cut myself." she explained.

"Well I'm going to clean this baat cut and make it better. Can I ask how old you are?"

"I'm 18. I just moved here a few weeks ago with my friends. We all got into the same college so we decided to room together and just hang out together all the time." she laughed.

"Is there anyone I can call? Any family? Any of your friends? I just want to let them know your safe."

"No, I have no family out here and my friends dropped me off before heading to a party. They said the fun doesn't stop when someone gets hurt." she said.

"Alright, well your cut looks fine. I cleaned it up. I will have a nurse bring your discharge papers shorty." I explained.

We exchanged goodbyes and I was on my way. I walked and picked up an ipad to check charts when I heard a voice outside the E.R screaming. I turned around. A was walking in covered in blood screaming. He was a young man, maybe 30's with blond hair. He was wearing a suit as well.

"Sir can I help you?" I asked checking him.

"Yes, I was in a meeting when I got a call my wife was in an accident. They said she was coming soon. When I was walking into the E.R. I tripped."  he began.

"Are you okay? Where are you bleeding."

"No you don't understand. This isn't my blood. I'm fine." he finished.

"Then who's blood is that?" I asked, praying I didn't have a murderer on my hands.

"I'm getting to it.... Okay so as I was walking in, I tripped. I went to see what I tripped on and I saw it was a man, covered in blood laying in the snow face first." he said, shivering, eyes wide open.

I didn't hesitate. I grabbed two other doctors and told them to get a gurney. We headed outside of the E.R. and I had the man point to where he saw the other guy. He pointed and we ran to the location. The snow was falling so hard, I could barley see three feet in front of me. I saw the man's legged and started to pull him out. I turned him over and started CPR. I looked down at his face all covered in blood. What I saw made my own heart stop beating for a spilt second.

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