9. I Wanna See You
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River hummed as she danced around the kitchen, preparing lunch for the twins, Mrs. Marley and herself. She had decided on a simple turkey sandwich and some yam fries.
They loved it.
She loved it.
But she wasn't too sure if she would get to have it.
"Life of a surgeon!" She exclaimed, sighing. She said that out loud a lot.
Truth be told, she had no plans to have kids. All she wanted was to be a bomb ass surgeon, who conquered the Orthopedic field.
But now that she had had them, she could not even imagine a life without them.
After all, her Lukey and Ki were the lub and dub of her heart.
Hey, that's actually a pretty good sentence. Her inner voice cheered as she continued cutting the yam.
"Mommy?" River was interrupted from her conversation with herself by the sweetest cutest voice in the world.
"Ki love, why are you up so early?" River asked in her baby voice as she picked her little one up, adjusting her on her hip as she went about doing her work, only after placing a few kisses on her face.
It was five in the morning.
River had absolutely no right to complain about her lack of sleep due to work when this is what she did on her off days. But she couldn't help it; it was everyday she could make lunch for her little darlings! And she loved cooking!
"I had a nightmare." Kiara mumbled into the crook of her mother's neck.
"Oh you did? Wanna tell mommy? They say dreams don't come true if you tell someone about it. Or say it out loud." River said, still using her baby voice. She had heard wishes didn't come true if they were said out loud but he hoped the same applied for nightmares.
River could not go about talking in her baby voice to her little Lucas. He threw a tantrum every single time. "Mommy, how many times do I have to tell you? I am a big boy Mommy, I am not a baby!"
He probably got it from his dad. River mentally sighed. She wished she knew what their father was like, or who he was. Starting out, she was confident she was all they needed and they would always have Sebastian as their father figure and it would all be fine but she knew what it felt like without her dad, and she lost him when she was twenty-two. They never even got to meet their dad. They were too young to ask questions but some day they will and she really needed to start thinking of an answer to tell them than the usual "He is not in the picture." she slapped on everyone else.
"Really?" Little Kiara asked in a low voice, sounding very tired. River knew for a fact that her daughter was going to go right back to sleep in her arms in a couple of minutes.
"Yeah honey." She said, trying to close the lunch boxes with a single hand and failing. She decided to just leave the lid on top and made her way to her bedroom with her in my arms.
"I dreamt of Flynn hitting Lukey with his water bottle." She said, snuggling closer, her arms wrapped around her mother's neck while River adjusted her so that she was holding her little girl with both arms.
Someone just hold me before I faint from all this cuteness! Her inner voice squealed when she heard what exactly her baby's nightmare was.
That's her nightmare? That someone hit her brother?
The twins loved each other so so very much. And they made their Mommy's heart swell with pride. There was only two things River was sure about her children: One, that she loved them more than anything in the whole wide world and two, she along with Mrs. Marley, her mother and grandmother were managing to raise them pretty well.
"Oh don't worry baby, you know your brother is strong right?" She asked her, kissing her hair as she laid her down on her bed.
"Yeah.." She hummed; her eyes half shut.
"He will protect himself just as he protects you." River whispered.
She didn't reply but her lips curved into a small smile as she snuggled into the pillow. River covered her baby with her duvet before placing another kiss on her forehead.
God really did bless me when he gave me these two darlings. The inner voice was beaming with pride. He really did.
River tiptoed out of her room and into the children's, making sure her little prince was comfortable and warm before placing a kiss on his forehead.
"Love you Mommy.." He mumbled in his sleep, making her heart swell.
"I love you too my baby."
"I am not a baby." His eyebrows furrowed in his sleep.
River laughed, covering her lips to not wake him up. "I know big boy." She ruffled his hair before tiptoeing out of there as well.
She walked back to the kitchen to finish off with packing the lunch and since she had a lot of time left, she proceeded onto making some waffles and toast for breakfast.
She finished off all the work and quickly had her breakfast before going back to her room and getting ready as quietly as possible for work. She had to report to work at eight in the morning and that was around when the kids usually woke up. The preschool was from nine in the morning to three in the evening.
She quietly grabbed her bag, phone, car keys and lunch as she left.
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River was in my cabin, talking to an arthritis patient when it happened.
The alert signal in her watch went off. It meant only one thing. All doctors were supposed to help out in the ER due to some major accident or something. She left Mr. and Mrs. Alisten with Eric and her nurse as she hurried towards the ER wing, her friend Dr. Tony joining her from his office.
"What's going on?" She asked him.
"There was a blast in the subway. Multiple blasts. Some f*****g suicide bombers!" He showed her the news he was reading on his phone as they quickened their pace and eventually broke out in a jog.
They pushed open the swinging doors to the ER and were met with some really horrible sights.
"Please doctor! Save my son!!" A lady came forward, holding River's hands between hers. Her head had a deep cut which was bleeding profusely and her arm had a second-degree burn
River nodded earnestly. "We will do everything in our power. Now please get yourself treated." She squeezed her hands giving her a reassuring smile before she took out her stethoscope and walked over to an unconscious patient.
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"Mommy!!!" Kiara cried her eyes out while Lucas hugged her from the side, asking her not to cry. "Mom! I wanna see you!"
"Yeah baby, I know I know, Mommy miss you both too." River tried to shush her but she just wouldn't listen.
River was at the cafeteria getting coffee between surgeries and treatments when her mom called and her little Kiara was crying her eyes out.
She had been in the hospital for four days now and Kiara had fallen from the swing at school and had injured her ankle.
And since she was just four, they couldn't give her any strong pain killers, and the painkiller she was prescribed just wasn't doing its job. It didn't help that Kiara had a very low pain tolerance. Not that she expected a four-year-old to endure it.
It was all just terrible timing.
"Baby, don't cry.." River said helplessly, her own eyes tearing up.
She hiccupped and wheezed and continued sobbing. And then her watch beeped. Kiara looked up, knowing exactly what that meant.
"NOO!! NO!! MOMMY!!!" She started screaming.
River looked down at her watch.
[OR09, female, 17, subdural hematoma, left vertebral rib fractured, unconscious, convulsions]
"I am sorry honey." She hung up the phone, wiping away her tears before pocketing her phone and hurrying to the OR wing. She hoped her mother would be able to calm her baby down. Only she could do anything right now.
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River walked out of the OR, nodding at the patient's parents, giving them the best smile she could muster.
"She'll be fine. We will keep her under observation for forty-eight hours but you can meet her once she's shifted to the ICU." She said while the parents thanked her profusely.
She gave them another smile before going to get her things and change into her regular scrubs and coat.
She had thirty-seven missed calls from her mom's phone and twenty-nine from the home phone. It was surely her little girl.
Can't we go home for a bit? Her inner voice whined. My little girl needs me and you don't even care!
River felt all the worse when she heard that in her head. The b***h really needed to shut up.
Before she called back, she checked her phone to see if there's any other emergencies she had to attend to.
River had one message.
[VIP Room 07]
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