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When everyone got there, Nate explained how the whole thing was his fault. Captain McCafferty just looked at him, “Nate, it’s not your fault. You were trying to get the guy. Any good officer would do the same thing you did.”
“But I took the step, he said if anyone moves she goes, and I moved.”
“Nate, you and her were both under a lot of pressure. It could of happened to any of us.” Mag reassured him, but knew that he would still think it was his fault.
“It’s still my fault, let’s just leave it at that.”

Everyone looked at him, knowing it’s not his fault. But he won’t change his mind. He was convinced that he is guilty for whatever happens to CD, and there’s nothing they could do about it.

Jinny and Mag just kind of sat there, glancing at each other occasionally. Kate stared off into space, looking at everyone every once in a while to check that things were OK. Raina looked around…not knowing what to think. Nate just looked around, and thought to himself, he knew it was his fault.

After about ten minutes everyone was antsy, it had already taken ten minutes for everyone to get there; Nate had been there for about 35 now. He didn’t know what to think.
“What’s taking so long???” Magda questioned, wanting to know what was happening to CD.
“Yeah I know, but since six other people, seven including the shooter, injured it could take a while.”

Another five minutes went by, and a doctor walked out. “DeLorenzo?”
Nate and everyone else stood up.
“Wow, are all of you family?”
“No, we are all coworkers.” Nate responded to him.
“Okay well close enough. She’s doing pretty well; she’s stable right now. But we can’t guarantee she’ll stay that way. She was hit once, very close to her liver, and once closer to the heart. Although there was no damage to the heart that we could see today, there was a lot of bleeding and we’ll need to do an exploratory surgery tomorrow to check out if the hearts OK, and the liver. We don’t know how much, but there was damage done to the liver. If it’s too bad we’ll request she go on to a transplant list, if it’s not horrible, we’ll try to repair it. She can live with up to half of her liver gone, any more and chances are she’ll die.”
Everyone just stared, then Kate finally spoke up, “Are you saying she may die?”
“Yes, the odds are about 40% she won’t make it, which is high, but I’ve seen worse cases.”
“Thanks doctor…”
“Oh yes, Dr. Evans.”
“Thanks.” They all said in unison.
“Oh Dr.,” Nate started, “Can she have any visitors?”
“Yes, but with 5 of you, I’d limit it to 2 at a time. And don’t stress her too much, we don’t want any problems.”
“Thanks again Doctor.” Nate told him. And he walked off.

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