There Never Was Any Us by badwriters

Author:badwriters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Drama, Good Wife, FanFiction, Kalinda S., Completed, Lana D.
Publisher: www.fanfiction.net
Published: 2013-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

18. Chapter 18

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An hour later, Rachel arrived at Mercy hospital. People were staring at her, she looked like someone who mistook the hospital for a hotel with all the luggages she carried. Uncle James was just dropped off by his driver when she noticed Rachel.

"Rachel!" He called out to her. Rachel turned around and recognized her uncle. "Let me get your bags," He called his driver to come pick up Rachel's things and then they proceeded to the ICU where they saw Sarah just standing outside.

When Sarah looked up and saw Rachel, she came running and embraced her.

"What are you doing outside?" Rachel asked her.

Sarah didn't answer. She just continued to embrace her sister tightly.

"Sarah, why are you outside?" Rachel whispered this time.

"I can't." Sarah answered.

"What do you mean, you can't?"

"I just, I can't stand, I can't—" Sarah couldn't finish her sentence. She actually did not know what she couldn't stand the most. Was it the hospital equipment? Was it the numerous tubes connected to her sister's body? Was it the sight of her sister like that, so fragile, beaten and weak? She didn't know.

Rachel went inside the ICU together with her uncle. Everything was silent inside except for the beeping sound of the hospital equipment and soft chatter of two nurses. One nurse just came out of Lana's curtained room. She was about to close the glass sliding door when Rachel caught a glimpse of her sister.

She usually had high tolerance for these kinds of things, she was a doctor after all. But it was different when the one being treated is close to your heart, when the one who needs healing is your family.

She went inside the enclosed room, closely followed by her uncle. Never mind that she had a tube in her chest taking out blood. Never mind that her breathing was being assisted by a machine. Just by looking at her face, Rachel could already feel her sister's pain. Along with all the other injuries underneath.

"Oh my god," she whispered to herself. She went closer to Lana's side and touched her hand. She was hesitant at first, thinking it might hurt her. When she was assured by her uncle that it was okay, she held it tight. She tried to stop herself from crying. She wanted to cup Lana's face and just embrace her, but she couldn't.

She stared at Lana's face. It was bruised. It was beaten. Her nose was broken, she could tell. It was bruised on the bridge. There were stitches on her right eyebrow. Her right cheek and right jaw bone were swollen. Her lips had one or two stitches on them. She gently touched her cheek and whispered, "Lana?"

Uncle James couldn't take it any longer and just walked out. The two nurses that were chatting stopped to look at Rachel. They could feel her pain. They've had a lot of patients in the ICU and none compared to what this patient's injuries were, at least none that they could remember.

Rachel only stayed for several minutes.

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