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"Hey Hey! You’re doing your job That’s how you do your job" I got up onto my knees to put us at , you’d never be able to save anyone You’d be like one of those doctors on TV, where every person you had to as your brother or your best friend…"
"Or h "Weone of those extras who only appears in one episode and then goes off to be on a different show" I touched his cheek lightly with the back ofmy best to keepto be there for hi your job Nohat happened with Kate?"
Nathan took a deep breath "She was presenting with nor sickness The EMTs orking on her decided to let Devi stay in the roo in the way, and it was easier than separating the to hold Kate’s hand when she could, but she understood that if she interfered at all, she’d be asked to leave"
"Uh-huh," I said
"Devi’s dead" Nathan made the statement without emotion or inflection: it was a fact, and he presented it as such I droppedHe turned to look at me, and there was no life in his expression He looked as e Kate’s hand, and Kate attacked her"
"Wh-what?"
"The EMTs didn’t have a chance to react They’d never seen that kind of behavior fro sickness cases before One moment, Kate was on the bed, unresponsive, and the next, she was sitting up and grabbing Devi by the throat Her trachea was crushed It broke her hyoid bone They couldn’t react in tiot her onto a table"
"Oh my God," I whispered
"Kate never even blinked Not even when they were pulling her off her wife’s body She never blinked As soon as they got her away froue state that they all see toward his dresser "I need to get to the hospital They need me I’m really sorry to do this, but if I leave you ? I’m not sure I’ll be back"
"Of course This isn’t the time for me to insist you be the one to drivesickness, and now Devi was dead I stayed on the bed, watching Nathan as he dressed, and tried towildly around those two poles: Devi was dead, and Katherine had the sleeping sickness
Whatever anseto come too late for Devi, who had always been kind to me, and for Katherine, who had loved her wife verysickness, hoas Katherine ever going to recover from what she’d done? "I was in a coma, I didn’t know" didn’t seem like much of a justification It wouldn’t have worked forto work for her
Nathan crossed back to the bed and bent to kiss , "I’m sorry" He thrust forty dollars intoon the bed and staring blankly after him
It wasn’t until the front door slammed that I actually turned and looked at the clock on his bedside table It was a little bit after three o’clock in theA new day had started It hadn’t started particularly well
Instead of going back to sleep, I decided to go home Beverly would need to be fed, and I could use the company The taxi let me off in front ofto seeout of the vehicle I didn’t mind It was nice to know that there was someone at ging wildly frorin She didn’t bark Her previous owner had trained her well before the sleeping sickness had taken him away fro and wondered if she s were loyal Howto co into the house and easing the door closed behind me If I was quiet, s to do in the , and I had already e- to need me when he finished his shift and finally allowed himself to think about the reality of what had happened Devi was gone Devi wasn’t co back We both had to deal with that
Beverly followedAt least someone was happy aboutthe e her to jue her out of the bed was usually a harder task She hopped up and sat down next toas I bent over, put my arms around her neck, and wept silently into her fur
About five minutes had passed when I heardin the doorway ofhiht?"