Panchali’s POV

“We’ve got subdural hematoma!” I called out to the rest of the interns in the back as Dr. Komal tried to stop the bleeding.

“What? All of you?” Chanyeol said but seeing my face he stopped and ran over.

Kai, Suho and Luhan were right behind him.

“I need an intensive care specialist.” Dr. Komal grunted putting pressure on the wound.

Dr. Diksha was trying desperately to push the baby out.

“That baby’s weight is putting too much stress on her spinal cord.” Chanyeol said, instantly leaning down beside her and examining the lady.

“Luhan help me push the baby.” Diksha said and Luhan got to it.

“Its no use.” Chanyeol said, shaking his head, “We need an OR.”

“Well I need to do a C-Section which I can’t do! She HAS to push!” Diksha said.

Suddenly a man ran up, with tears in his eyes. He was the husband and I saw the translator talking to him but I really couldn’t help at that moment.

 “I’ve done a specialty in intensive care.” Chanyeol said and everyone looked at him with a certain respect in their eyes.

“Panchali how far gone is the hematoma?” he asked.

“I can’t say. I need a CT. But its acute.”

“Theres a shard of glass in her back!” Suho gasped.

Dr. Komal let go instantly and stared at the wound.

Chanyeol reached out and felt around the shard and declared “Its not too deep.”

“Heartbeat is dropping further!” Kai said, checking her heartbeat again.

“Okay people! We have to deal with the hematoma later. I need a scalpel. We need to cut her back.” Chanyeol barked.

We all knew that he knew what he was doing.

“Dr. Diksha get the baby out somehow.” Dr. Komal said.

“Revive her. She needs to push.” Diksha grunted.

“Okay I’m reviving her! Valium and prolene!” Chanyeol said as Suho made a small incision in her skin.

Kai put a tube up her arm as I put a drip of the required chemicals and increased the pressure.

In a few seconds her eyes fluttered open.

“Okay I need you to push!” Diksha said and the translator said something to her quickly.

“Keep saying push!” I told him and he nodded and kept repeating one word again and again.

By now, a large crowd had gathered around us but none of us were fully aware or had any mind to acknowledge it.

Diksha was busy helping her to push the baby.

“Crowning! I need a plug for a ventrouse. Give me forceps!” she yelled.

“Diksha quick! She’s bleeding from the pressure.” Dr. Komal said.

“She’s gone again!” I gasped.

A nurse hurriedly handed Diksha the forceps and she clipped them around the baby’s head and pulled.

The baby came out smoothly but the poor girl was yelling and crying. She had come to because of the high degrees of pain she was experiencing.

Seeing that I was the only girl around she clutched my hand tightly and I her forehead and asked her as calmly as possible to endure the pain somehow. I told her it would end soon. The baby was only 6 months on and it was nowhere near ready to be delivered.

Diksha handed the body to a nurse who took it away.

“No more morphine!” Komal yelled and I stopped the flow instantly.

It took an hour more of surgery but finally Dr. Komal announced “She’ll live.”

We all heaved a sigh of relief and flexed.

“Crazy first case.” Suho said putting everything back in the bags.

“Yeah… I feel sorry for her. The baby died.”

“She’s alive. She’ll have another one.”

I nodded. I felt guilty somehow. Maybe if I saw her sooner the situation would have been better.

I felt someone my hair once and looked up to Suho smiling gently.

“Its not your fault. You did your best.” He said.

I returned a small smile and he nudged me once.

“Cheer up! Smile? Please?”

I gave him a genuine smile when I heard someone behind me “HOW many guys are you dating?!”

I closed my eyes in anger as Suho gave me a quizzical look and yelled “KYUNGSAAAN!”

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I stretched my back while entering the small hut that had been set up for us.

It had been a very long day. After the initial woman it had been a quiet day. No interesting cases. We administered vaccines to everyone and regulated them.

I had to take medical checkups of the women as they didn’t feel comfortable with the other interns.

And Kyungsan, he would peek in again and again and stand too close to me. Finally I got him thrown out on the pretext that the women felt uncomfortable around him. It wasn’t a lie considering I was a woman too.

Anyway.

I was back in the small hut I was sharing with Dr. Komal and Dr. Diksha.

The nurses had another hut and the boys a third one.

It was night already and I squinted in the little light that came in.

Suddenly I heard an “Mfp.” And I heard someone struggle in the corner.

I could vaguely make out three shapes.

My eyes took longer to adjust to the dark but my instincts kicked in quickly and I turned to run, to get help when I bumped into a large figure blocking the doorway.

I could just see a pair of eyes as I backed away slowly, searching for any weapon.

Island rapists? What the heck was this? Who were these people??!

I bumped into someone on my back and they caught my hands and pinned them behind me.

Someone clamped a large hand on my mouth just as I tried to yell but I didn’t put up an easy fight.

I struggled, slapped and kicked before I felt a rope on my hands and legs and a cloth on my mouth.

I was slung onto someone’s back and carried off into the forest.

I think I saw a figure slung on the back of a person next to me.

I got a good look before a blindfold was tied on my eyes.

It was Diksha.

And I could tell that we were in big trouble.

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