"Some relationships are meant to be broken."
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The next day in the hospital, Bellona avoids going near VIP sections as she wanted to avoid him. His gaze ignites something in her and she hates the way he looks at her as if he can read like with ease. She accomplishes her mission of no-sea-water. Happy that she didn't saw him till night, she happily hops downstairs to rest for a while. But on her way, she met chaos and rushes towards the doctor in the critical unit.
"What's happening?" she asks the intern, looking at the patient.
"It's a traffic accident patient. A hemopnemothorium on the right side and his shoulder are dislocated," the intern replies.
"Move! Can't you perform CPR properly!" Bellona snaps and takes over the patient. She starts executing CPR, "How much time has passed?"
"1 minute 56 secs"
"I am going to try again, 200 Jules," she pants and climbs up on the bed to proceed with the CPR.
"Dr. Bellona, three minutes have passed!"
"Please, please," she mumbles, pumping the chest of the patient.
"It's back! The heartbeats are back"
She halts, eyes closed in mitigation, breathing a slightly ragged as she surges off the bed and analyzed his pulse.
"Is the dislocating issue solved?" she asks the intern and one of the doctors.
"We are on it," the doctor nods.
"Okay, be cautious," Bellona turns to leave the room and almost falls flat on her face gaping at the man with ocean eyes standing right outside the room with a slight smile that sported his dimples. Cursing herself for being a sucker for dimples, she rolls her eyes and walks past him.
"You looked so sexy while treating him," he comments for everyone around them to hear. She twirls around, gives him a withering glare.
"Yo-
The buzzing of her phone cut off saves him from her expletives. She sports a punching gesture to Kaiser and receives the call.
"Dr. Bellona, please rushed to the second floor!"
"Okay," her legs move on their own accord, she rushes in another direction scaling down the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Kaiser catches up with her, in case she decides to crack her skull open while running. She solely ignores him and increased her pace. On the second floor, she witnesses a patient soaked in blood who was being on the stretcher. Bellona darts along with them, "What happened?"
"It's a bike accident. Lots of blood is lost"
"What's his blood type?" she asks, examining the deep wound on his head and abdomen.
"It's B negative"
"Get the blood and rush him to O.R. Nurse, prepare an ultrasound" she intrusts the team and stops when she sees Tyler dashing towards her.
"Blood lost. Deep wound on the head, other conditions will be known when the ultrasound will be attained," she replies to his silent question as they walk towards O. R
"I have a surgery to handle," he tells her. Bellona glance at her wristwatch, the time was slipping fast, the hand of the clock crawls towards twelve, "Is it, heart patient?"
"Yes. Fortunately, we received heart just in time," Tyler smiles slightly and she could swear that in the past month, it's the first time he flashed his teeth, " Are you okay"
His unexpected questing had her eyebrows fly up. He clears his throat and takes a step closer to her, "I heard about your breakup. Sorry, I was being harsh."
Stunned by his soft side Bellona just wonder if Tyler swapped souls with Ryan, who is chief of the Emergency Department and he is super nice.
"Dr! The ultrasound!"
Bellona gets back in her General surgeon mode and takes the ultrasound report, examining it carefully.
"Hemoperitoneum," She and Tyler conclude simultaneously.
"Perform the surgery. I will take the heart patient," he tells her and they part ways. She immediately gets groomed and scrubs her hands thoroughly. The shining rings on her middle finger make her stop.
Flashback
"I am sorry, so sorry," he said as Bellona turned away and strolled into the park.
"You always say that," she sighed.
"I was really in the meeting, babe"
"When you are not Chase?"
He abruptly blocked her way and hunched on his one knee.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing!" she tried to pull him up when people stare at them.
"I love you, Bellona. Maybe I am not the best choice, maybe I don't deserve you. But I promise I will work hard. I will be better. Just don't leave me," he says, the sincerity in his voice made her smile like crazy. She grabs his hand and pulls him to his feet. He hugged her tightly, breathing her strawberry scent.
"I have something for you," he whispered. Excited, Bellona watched him stuffing his hand in his coat and procuring a black box.
"It's a matching couple ring. I noticed, many teenagers were into this. I will cherish you," he slid the ring in her finger.
Present
Even your eyes were forged, Chase.
Bellona aggressively glides the ring off of her finger but it slips from her hand and falls on the white tiles with a soft metallic tone. It rolled and she jogs to grabbed it. But before she can, someone else does.
"I guess, the ring wasn't for you. It's running away," Kaiser gazes at the ring then his eyes found her. His eyes were similar to Chase and yet they were different. The eyes she was staring in were replenished with a soft gaze blended with utter sincerity, passion, and devotion, something she never saw in his brother's eyes.
"Can you stop following me? I am really at the crest of nervousness" she heaves a sigh and inflates her hand, motioning him to give the ring back.
He smiles and quickly swings his arm, throwing the ring out of the window.
"What the hell!" the chubby girl gawks at him in disbelieve, then gape at the window then back at him.
"To discard someone from your heart, you need to discard the things related to that someone first," he smiles cheekily, crossing his arms in front of his chest and leaning back on the wall with his one leg up as if modeling. Bellona sighs as the head nurse gush towards her, "Dr. Bellona! We are out of B negative. We are ferrying the blood but the supply vehicle is stuck in heavy traffic due to rain."
"Damn, what about the nearby hospitals" she inquires the nurse.
"They are out of blood as well"
"How much time do you have?" His voice cuts in through the side. Bellona glance at him, "Half an hour or we won't be able to save him"
"I will get it," he pushes himself off the wall and digs his phone out of his pockets. Bellona's eyebrows pull in together, wondering how can he help.
"But u-
His eyes met hers and her heart skips a beat, "Wait for me, Dr. Bellona." Pressing the phone on his ear, he walks away. Bellona again washes her hand before stepping inside the O.R. Nurse assists her in slipping on her garments and gloves.
"Let's get started," she announced.
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"According to maps, the traffic is awful," Austin says as they race their motorbikes in the torrential rain. Alex and Adrian sped further to clear the area. When they reach the street jammed with vehicles, all of them rushed to the traffic police. Kaiser explains the situation to them and asked for cooperation. There was also an ambulance stuck in the traffic so his teammates and he starts clearing the way, asking the people to shift their vehicles even if the inch is possible. Gladly that were cooperative. He spots the supple vehicle and trots towards it.
He knocks on the window impatiently, "Hand me the blood cabinet. I will deliver it to the hospital. I am Captain Kaiser Collins, here's my ID."
Digesting the information of him being a soldier, one man immediately heeds to what he said and passed him a huge white carton. He rushed towards his motorbike and gesture to Liam who was helping the ambulance, about his departure.
Kaiser utilizes his belt to keep the carton fastened to the backseat and sped off.
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"Scalpel," Bellona demands, and her steady hands plunged it softly between the abdomen of the patient. The blood begins to gush out.
"Suction! Suction!"
The nurse dabbed the tissue to perish the beads of sweat formed on Bellona's forehead, "Retractor"
"Pads," she cleans off the spilled blood then asks, "What's the time?"
"12: 35 am"
Will he make it before time?
The panic of losing the patient sets in on her. The life of the boy who looked young was in her hands. If she failed to save him no amount of self-motivation could save her from drowning in the ocean of guilt and hatred for herself. The knock on the door of the operational room catches her attention. She motions the nurse to inspect was what's happening.
"Dr. We got the blood!" The nurse happily exclaims. Bellona's heart protruded in contentment and she peeks at the entrance. Through the window, she sees him, smiling at her. The rush of emotions takes her breath away as she slowly lowers her gaze to the patient.
"Let's wrap up," murmuring, her hand hands move in sync with her eyes to save the young boy.
Kaiser waits for her to wrap up. His drenched clothes give him cold chills, but he couldn't care less. When Bellona trudge out of O.R, the chubby girl provokes eye contact.
A fabulous smile pranced on her lips, her tired eyes were still sparkling with immense happiness. All the thoughts swirling in his head flys away like butterflies, looking at how beautiful she looks wearing nothing sexy but disheveled uniform of pride, her hair in messy bun sticking out in all directions and the beads on her forehead seems like pearls in the oyster. Her plump cheeks bloom pink under his gaze and she turns away to wash off the blood on her hands.
"You are drenched, go home and change. You will catch a cold," her soft delicate voice, echoes in the quiet foyers.
"You are worrying about me?" he grins, voice deep.
"I am a doctor. It's my duty," she rolls her eyes and wipes her hands clean on the white cloth.
"Hey Chubs," he calls out softly. She hoists her eyes brows, pulling a straight face at the nickname.
Kaiser stands, "Will you g-
Bu his words plugs in his throat when his pants slide down, pooling on his feet. Bellona's eyes widened like saucers, her face scrunches and she burst into laughter.
"Dr. Bel....woah...
The nurse stares at him and cackles, poor Kaiser scrambles to hike his pants up, letting out a string of scourges. Bellona slightly buckles down keeping her hand on her knees, still laughing her ass off.
Just, die Kaiser, just die.
He turns and sprints, then stumbles then again hurries to dig his grave.
How the fuck I forgot about my belt?!!
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"You asked for me chief?"
Bellona walks into his office and Tyker smiles, again making her confused by the sudden change in his attitude.
"Dr. Bellona, I heard that the surgery was successful despite some situations. So you can go home and rest," He plainly says, going through some catalogs.
"Wh-what? Chief, are you possessed? Why are you being nice? And why are you smiling so much?" she keeps her hand on her chest with a huge grin.
"I can't with your dramatic ass. Get out or I will make you stand all night in the critical unit," trying to suppress his smile, he points at the door.
"Thanks. Take care. Bye and smile often you will look less of a zombie," she throws the words and dashes out of his office before he could react.
"You little piece of shit! Get back here Bellona!"
Bellona chuckles to herself and then laughed, recalling how Kaiser's pants fell. His face was so red, it has to be the funniest thing she witnessed since last week.
Walking into the elevator, she sees him again, speaking on a call. A worried sigh evades from her, looking at his doused clothes. Kaiser notices her and forthwith turns around to sprint, but the poor guy slams straight into a pillar.
"Omma!" Wide eyes, Bellona jogs towards him to check if he was okay, "You okay?" she tries to see his face but he hides his face with his bulky forearms.
"I...a-am..go-good," he runs away. He must be so embarrassed that she saw his strawberry-printed underwear. Isn't he allergic to strawberries?
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"Shut up!" Kaiser yells at Theo, who couldn't stop flashing his teeth.
"Just tell us what the fudge happen?" Alex slaps his back.
"He....he...damn! He was about to ask Lily out...but...shit..his pants fell and he showcased his strawberry underwear to her and the nurse!" Theo laughs along with others, making their Captain more annoyed. Kaiser throws his shoe at Theo, who ducks down missing the hit, and sticks his tongue out. The irritated man stands, before his pants could slide down off his waist, he grabs them saving the morsels of his esteem.
"Just take my belt, or you will go around showing your underwear to the whole damn hospital," James laughs playing games on his phone.
"I am going home," Kaiser grumbles as Adrian passes me the belt.
"Bye and get that bump on your forehead treated," Liam gives his best friend an apologetic smile, and Kaiser and steps out of the room.
It was still raining raucously. Lost in his thoughts, he ambles downstairs. He was just about to her out his luck ditched him. He gathered all his courage while she was in operating on the victim but the moment she stepped out, he was blank. Before asking her out on a date, he gave it a lot of thought, he peered at the situation through all scenarios and asking her out just seemed right. He wanted to get to know more about her, he wanted to know what makes her smile, what makes her eyes twinkle, he pretty much already knows she loves BTS and he is ready to hear more.
Walking out of the entrance, he sees her. She was giving her umbrella to an old lady. A smile appears on his face when the lady pats her head and waves.
Bellona dramatically spins, "Why I am so nice?" and laughs.
Abruptly her eyes crash on him, and he goes stiff.
"Want a ride?" he breathes out heavily, stuffing his hands in his pockets.
Bellona let out a chuckle and strolls towards the nervous guy, "I will just be shameless for the last time and accept your offer."