Part 4
Broken She Was...
"Hey Zoya!... Stop!", Asad ran after Zoya as he saw her passing through the corridor. She stopped as he approached.
"Hi!"
"Hi", she turned to go when he didn't say anything for some moments.
"No-wait zoya! Wo... we are together", she looked at him confused and flushed" No! I.. I mean we're together on duty today!"
"Oh...ok", she replied lowering her eyes.
"So shall we...? The OPD awaits.", and so does the wedding, he thought. Shouldn't we be heading for the shopping instead?. He sighed following her.
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"Dr. Khan, Dr. Zoya... quick to the doors, an ambulance with a victim is on its way!", shouted a nurse from the counter as Asad rushed towards the door while Zoya signaled to join him in a few moments.
"What are the details?", Asad asked as approached the ambulance.
"25 year old man, with multiple gunshot wounds in the chest. He has labored breathing is diaphoretic, cold and shivering. Blood pressure is 60 over 30. Pulse rate is 150, and still dropping. May be in respiratory distress, trachea is deviated to the left, and the right side of his chest is tympanic, with no breath sounds."
"Ok people we immediately shift to the OR and nurse inform Dr. Zoya to scrub in".
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"Bore an IV catheter into the right pleural space, followed by chest tube to the right side and Zoya put the- Zoya?", Asad stopped ordering as he saw her.
"Zoya? Are you listening to me?...ZOYA?", Asad shouted.
Tears were slipping out of Zoya's eyes, her hands were shivering, She was looking at something abstract in the air just when the beeps from the machines brought her back and seemed confused.
"The pressure's Dropping", Called out a nurse.
"Zoya?"
"Huh? I...I ", She seemed Lost
"OUT... Zoya", he roared while she looked at him still confused while tears never seemed to stop. "I said OUT of the OR...NOW!" while she stood rooted to her spot, tears still flowing. So a nurse had to take her outside while Asad got himself busy reviving the patient.
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Asad sat in his cabin, he had just returned from the OR, and seemed...well exhausted, partly from the surgery and mostly from kind of the day it had turned out to be.
He had done what was necessary to save a life but it didn't mean that he didn't care about Zoya, he had been thinking of her all this while, and her teary face had shaken him hard. He had never seen Zoya in this state all through their time in this hospital, she was always confident and accurate in her medical judgments and her skills in the OR were exemplary...all of a sudden, he was infuriated, the only sensible conclusion he could make out of this was that his own presence had affected her so much that she had festered in the OR!
"This is so not done!", he said getting up. He had to talk to her, there was no way he would let her fall like this. And what on earth happened that she reacted this way?
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Asad entered her cabin, literally breaking the door as he slammed it shut. She was nowhere to be found. He turned, and was about to leave when sobs coming from the restroom froze his steps.
Without any rational thoughts he opened the door and looked around and what he saw clenched his heart.
She was sitting in a corner, head on her knees, sobbing. She looked up only to meet his eyes.
"Zoya?", he immediately ran to her. "Zoya... are you ok?"
She just looked at him and continued sobbing.
"Zoya... utho, let's get you out of here", he said and when she didn't budge he picked her up in his arms and brought her out.
"Shh..." He patted her back as he placed her on the couch and settled next to her. As soon as that happened she placed her head on his shoulder and started crying harder. He wanted to console her but then, thinking something, he decided to let her have her time calming down.
"Zoya?..." Asad called her out when her sobs died down.
"As-ad.." she said in a heart breaking tone.
"Are...are you OK?", he asked as they shifted their positions, facing each other now.
"I ... I.." she trailed off, her voice wet with the unshed tears.
"Listen to me Zoya..." he held her hand as he continued "if... is it is because of what I did in the OR then I'm... sorry... I didn't mean to..." he stopped when she looked up, her eyes swollen and red.
"N-No... its... its not you"
"Then what is it?" he asked with soft eyes, concern stamped in them.
"Its...I... Please..." she said, her eyes pleading.
"OHkay", he sighed. "It's ok if you don't want to tell me, I understand". Only he knew the state of his heart when he was uttering these words and then silence took its course again.
They remained there for sometimes, sitting in the same positions engrossed in their own thoughts.
"Its...Its late", Asad said when he realized they had been sitting there for quite a while now.
"Uh- yeah... I...I must leave", she got up, straightened her clothes and started gathering her belongings.
"Its late Zoya", he grabbed her attention. "I cannot let you go all by yourself at this part of the night."
"No... its ok, I'll manage"
"No way!... You. Are. Coming. With. Me!", he said with finality in his tone, stressing each of his word as he looked right in her eyes.
"Ohk", she sighed, surrendering and actually surprising Asad, he never thought that she will let him command this soon, but then he felt a little crack of happiness in his otherwise heavy heart.
"Let me just grab my stuff and I'll meet you outside", he said leaving her cabin.
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The journey to Zoya's place was made in silence. Although they managed to steal glances at each other.
"We're home Zoya", Asad called her out when he found her lost somewhere.
"Oh haan", she tried to regain her composure as she opened the door " A-sad?", she turned before leaving.
"Yea...?"
"Whatever happened-"
"What happened?", he cut her in between while she looked at him confused, does she really have to say it all?. Asad came out of the car and stood in front of her.
"See Zoya... the thing is ..." he sighed "I understand".
Her eyes shot up.
"I understand that you don't want to discuss it right now!...So, let me make it easy for you" he paused to look into her eyes, he wanted her to hear out every single word he was going to say "Nothing... and I mean absolutely nothing happened today, you didn't break down, I never came to your cabin and the rest DID NOT happen today, Now am I clear?" he asked looking into her eyes.
"I said...have I made myself clear to you...Zoya?"
She simply nodded.
"Okey then... see you tomorrow, Miss Wife-to-be", he winked as he flashed a smile, got into the car and went away.
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