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"And get something to eat before you start doing cart wheels down the hall. I don't want a call at
home saying that you're in a body cast."
"Don't worry I'll behave myself, too tired to do anything else." She gave Betty a hug and headed
for the staircase. Betty shook her head at Pez; the woman exhausted as she was still wouldn't
take the elevator.
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Pez checked on Shay's stats and removed the IV drip and other stuff that she no longer needed.
With gentle movements, she adjusted the support under her knee and checked for swelling.
Placing a cold pack inside a towel, she put it above Shay's knee and sat down in the chair she had
been using earlier. The files were still piled up on the floor so she started to go through them and
fell asleep with one in her lap.
Shay woke with discomfort in her knee, in her sleep she couldn't tell what it was until her eyes
fluttered open and she saw the towel on her leg. She reached for the call buzzer and then saw Pez
sound asleep in the chair. She lay there and watched the doctor fidget to get comfortable in the
straight-backed chair, the files sliding off her lap and hitting the floor woke her with a start.
"What are you doing sleeping in a chair?" Shay asked with a hoarse voice.
"I was trying to catch up on paperwork, why are you awake?" She blinked her eyes that felt like
they were coated with sand.
"My knee hurts and it woke me up, can you take that cold pack off?"
"Sure, you want something for the pain; you haven't had anything in hours."
"No, I don't want anything; I can handle the pain once the cold pack is gone." She rubbed her
eyes and watched Pez toss the cold pack in the trash and the towel into a hamper. "You're not a
resident are you?"
Pez stopped picking up the files and took a deep breath before she answered. "You talked to
Besom huh?"
"Yeah but he said to talk to you, no resident could have performed the surgery on my sinuses.
Why the game?"
Pez sat down on the edge of the bed and took Shay's hand in hers. "Besom called me in because
he was worried about you, he was getting complaints from residents and he had two choices.
Either fire you, which was not what he wanted or find out the problem."
"And how were you going to find out my so called problem?" Shay's temper was starting to boil,
she felt played with and manipulated by everyone involved.
"I have a knack for getting to the bottom of things." She took her sunglasses off and hung them
on her collar. Bringing her eyes up to meet Shay's emerald green eyes, she watched Shay push
back into her pillow. "Do you see now why I wear sunglasses all the time, from when I was little,
all I had to do was make eye contact with someone and ask them stuff they would never
normally admit to. They pay so much attention to my eyes that they answer my questions
without even knowing it." She went to put her glasses back on but a small hand on hers stopped
her.
"Don't, it annoys the Hell out of me when people wear sunglasses. I have to see their eyes, it's a
trusting thing." She raised the back of the bed and kept eye contact with Pez. Never had she seen
a human with elongated pupils, it was like looking into a cats eyes. At first, it was freakish but
with taking in the whole picture, it suited Pez. With her long dark hair, high cheekbones and ice
blue eyes it all fit into the image of a large Black Panther. "Is your vision normal, I mean
peripheral, colors and everything?"
"Yep and I have better than 20/20 vision. I can see a mouse in high grass in the dead of night 200
paces out." She gave Shay a bright smile. "I'm a medical mystery, one of the reasons I became a
doctor."
"About that, why didn't you just play doctor with me& ?" She saw the wicked grin form on Pez'
face and knew her own was turning red. "I didn't mean it the way it sounded; I mean why make
me think you were some resident?"
"Because you were eating a couple of them a day for breakfast, I thought that maybe it was them
that you had the problem with. Gods know we all do and some of them are just plain ignorant
beyond belief."
"Liar, you thought I was a drunk, drug addict or just a plain Ice Princess."
"I'll admit that was some of the possibilities before I met you. I ruled that out after the first day."
"Why, what caused you to rule it out?" She was interested in her detective work.
"Easy, I was with you the entire shift. If you had been either addict, you would have ditched me
for a fix. I knew it was something else when we had lunch, how long have you been with
Osborne?"
Shay's eyes grew wide; she didn't know that Pez had a name for the Trooper. "Almost a year, we
met here at the hospital one night." She wiped the tears from her eyes and lay back against her
pillow. "The beatings didn't start until after she moved in with me. Have you ever seen that
movie Sleeping with the enemy with Julia Roberts? That's what it's like, everything has to be
perfect. When she gets home from work, I have to have her supper on the table as soon as she
steps out of the shower. If I don't then I get beat with her baton or she uses her fists and feet.
Sometimes it's for no reason other than she had a bad day." She held blue eyes with hers and
softened her voice. "I think she's the one that shot you, I didn't get a chance to tell you about her
threat and it could have cost you your life." She broke down into soft sobs and covered her face
with her hands. She jerked away when she felt warm hands touch her and gave in to the
comforting feeling of Pez pulling her against her wide chest.
"It's not your fault, there's no way of telling if someone will go through with a threat or not." She
moved a hand in small circles on Shay's back and held her head with the other one. She held her
until she drifted off to sleep, laying her back against her pillow; she covered her up and left her
to sleep.
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Pez wandered to the doctor's lounge, poured a cup of 10w/80w coffee into the styrofoam cup and
waited to see if it would dissolve in her hand. Taking it with her, she went out to the nurse's
station and picked up the charts lying on the top of the small bar.
"That's what we have in the triage rooms right now." Betty said from behind her. "And I think [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]