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Please, don’t let hi

Please, let him be okay

Please, guide my hands and my mind as I do this

Oh, God, how could she do this? How could she not? She didn’t want anyone working on Jude other than herself She needed to

Sarah intubated Jude, not quite believing she was doing this to him Her hands shook She panicked just a little when the tubeher way through what she was doing, she got the tube situated, sighing in relief when she checked placeood

Heartbeat low but steady Airway established Fluids going Meds going

Vitals stable for the moment

She glanced around at the haggard, dirty creho’d carried Jude into the e to check for internal injuries and fractures Other than insisting that he wait for the next a particular before he went out? Mention so?”

“We carried hi He’d had the air knocked out of him by the debris that fell on him”

“What kind of debris?”

“The big kind Bea tiles, dust, who knohat all that was? Visibility was next to nil and ere digging him out as quick as possible because the upper floors of the building were gone We could hear explosions going off and although that ground floor wasn’t on fire, the weight of everything above was pushing down hard and stuff was falling almost as fast as we could clear it

“We cleared hiround, but he was talking so your name”

She placed her hand over Jude’s, squeezed the warmth she found there

“He’s going to be okay, isn’t he?”

Sarah’s gaze er’s “He has to be”