The Surgeon Got a Blade and I Got a Clipboard, So I Decided Who Lives novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Expectant
I took its hand across the folding table.
The Hold came up my arm without my asking for it.
I'd braced for a bite or a bleed.
What came into me was hour seven of a twelve-hour shift.
It was my feet in my sneakers at 2:14 on the first night.
It was the ache low in my back from the stretcher in Bay Two.
It was forty walk-ins under the skylight, and a drunk who wasn't drunk in Bed Four.
It was my son's ankle in a bag of ice, and the word Mouse still in my mouth.
That was all it was.
It was me, the minute before I climbed through the window, and it was dying of being tired.
"Oh," I said.
"Yeah," it said. "That's what it's like."
People were gathering around the open sides of the pavilion.
They'd come from both sides of Pratt Street, in hotel blankets and hospital socks, and they stood there in the morning light and watched.
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