baran’s life falls apart somewhere around 9:30 in the morning when her son’s panicked little voice yells out for her as he’s wheeled in on a gurney.
and she’s at his side almost instantaneously, shouldering past samira a little too hard to get a look at her boy
he’s sobbing messily, blood trickling down the side of his face.
vehicle versus pedestrians, driver had a seizure behind the wheel, ploughed through a red light and caught a pedestrian as she went the paramedic is saying
and someone is trying to tug her out the way, as they transfer her son, her baby, and she can’t hear anything except the way he’s wailing, reaching out for her when he can’t see her with the spinal collar on
then it’s dana obscuring her vision, blurry and out of focus, but shaking her by her shoulders and telling her harshly, you gotta keep it together baran, we need to check him but we need him calm
and baran stumbles over, leans over just enough to be in his vision, smooths back his curls out of his eyes. i’m here, you’re okay, i know, i know, but we’re going to take care of you, i know it hurts, and her body seems to adjust through muscle memory alone to shift and move to allow the others to work around her
but then it’s donnie shouldering through the doors between the trauma rooms to plead to anyone that can hear, we could do with another set of hands in here
and she wants to snap when cassie glances up and then heads out, because this is baran’s son, why is she leaving
she can hear samira or maybe frank say something about how the head wound looks superficial, her little boy’s voice strained and still crying, asking her where’s trinity? i want trinity, she pushed me out of the way, is she okay?
and everyone’s heads snap towards the other trauma room as a collective, just in time to see the frantic rush of bodies, to see cassie begin compressions, and baran is moving too, is only stopped from fully entering when jesse steps in front of her, physically holds her back, she still can’t see trinity properly from this angle, can only see her feet, she’s lost a shoe, but recognises one of the battered pair of vans she refuses to throw away
can see the way yolanda barges through one of the doors too, the way all the life seems to drain out of her in an instant, as someone’s trying to shepherd her out too, and baran’s knees go out from beneath her