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She shook her head, clasping her hands together “Her medical history states her mother was schizophrenic We called in any of her labs, but I can only presu then as it is now She didn’t have a doctor to go see It was a series of unfortunate events that led to the wrong dots being connected Like I said, we can start treatment, but since she tried to commit suicide, we needed to talk to family first”

“Have you told her?”

“Yes, her heart rate spiked, and she couldn’t calm dohich is e put her to sleep”

I nodded, trying not to iine how she’d felt at that moment

“I’ll wait until she wakes up and talk to her” I put a hand overinover and over how Crossroads wasn’t the place for her She was right and I, like everyone else, hadn’t listened to her

“If she hadn’t tried to kill herself…” I trailed off, not wanting to say it

“If she hadn’t tried to

kill herself, she wouldn’t have had the seizures which ht have been labeled a schizophrenic,” she finished for me

“This whole ti out for help, and because no one bothered to be around her long enough, she suffered in every way Her mother died, her father left her to fend for herself, her doctors couldn’t even get her sickness right, and on top of that, she was huht that because she had a mental illness, she was somehow less than a person She’s been alone…”

“She had you” Dr Knight smiled sadly “She isn’t alone because you stayed, because you cared You were the first person she asked for when she woke up That isn’t nothing Yes, the fact that this happened to her is horrible But things can only iht?”

Part of me wanted to tell her to take her positivity and shove it, but I clung to the hope in her words anyway What else could I really do? Before she could say anything else, her beeper went off

“Ms Ford is in room 342 Follow the yellow lines on the floor I’ency just came in I’ll be back to see you both as soon as possible”

She didn’t wait, she ran… right past Nolan,around the hospital in confusion

“Nolan?”

He turned to me “Sir”