Death & All of His Friends || Riley & Josephine
It was a beautiful day, Josephine thought the moment she left Ben’s home that morning; the sun shone over the usually cold city, warming up the weather and making everyone starting to feel like winter was finally over as spring season began, a cloudless sky with birds singing as they walked to the car and drove off to the hospital, they both work at. Looking at Rosewood General Hospital standing tall and proud with the windows reflecting back to the trees and beautiful decorations that surrounded the buildings, Jo couldn’t help but smile a little bit as she thought that her life was complete and perfect as she had everything she could possibly want.
That morning the woman had received the acceptance to the sub specialty program to become a Maternal and Fetal Specialist, since the beginning of her career as an OBGYN Josephine knew that she wanted to be more, she wanted to learn as much as she could so she could save and help as many women as possible and after some thinking the woman finally decided on maternal and fetal medicine a subspecialty so difficult there were only about a thousand doctors all over that country certified in such field.
The day went on as usual, Josephine attended some consultations before jumping to a couple of natural births and then was needed to get into an operating room as one of her patient’s needed an emergency C section. The OBGYN walked into the O.R. only to find her best friend working on giving her patient an epidural so she wouldn’t feel any pain during the procedure. “Is it going to hurt?” She asked looking at Riley with slight fear in her eyes.
“With Doctor Cross?” Josephine asked as she walked into the operating room wearing her scrubs and surgical gown, letting the scrub nurse work around her to tie the straps of her gown. “Dr. Cross has magical hands; you won’t feel a thing.” She said smiling softly behind that mask that covered half her face. The procedure was quick and easy, the new born came out perfectly healthy and the mother of the child was kept safe at all times; the moment the OBGYN watched her patient’s face change from fear to complete happiness as she got to see her child for the first time was another shot of gratification and solidification that she had taken the right choice in her professional career only to see and help moments like the one she was seeing come true.
After Josephine closed up the woman’s incision and sent her patient to the recovery room, she walked to the scrub room and started to remove her gloves, mask and surgical gown throwing them into the trash before she started washing her hands and glanced back at Riley as she entered the room, “Guess what?” She asked and grinned widely. “I was accepted into the MFM specialty program here. I start next month.” She said unable to remove the wide smile that took over her face as her friend reacted to the news.
“Do you want to get lunch? I think Thomas and Ben are supposed to be there already.” She said with a smile as she dried off her hands before she took her white coat putting it back on, just as the duo was walking out of the scrub room and into the hall; she heard her pager going off at the same time as Riley’s. “Code black?” She read out loud furrowing her eyebrows a little bit as she tried to remember what the code was, “Wait…” She said softly as she stopped walking and then looked at Riley just as a loud sound took over the usual noise of Rosewood’s busy daily dynamics. “W-what was that?” She asked, her voice trembling as she looked at her best friend standing there completely frozen.
“EVERYONE RUN! THEY HAVE GUNS!” Someone yelled as she looked at the end of the hallway, she noticed people running away in the opposite direction of the entrance of the area, Josephine stood there feeling unsure of what to do for a second as her legs didn’t seem to respond to what her brain was dictating; but then she heard a blast of gunshots going off and people started to fall on the ground.
Making the woman jump back and tremble at what she was seeing, “Shit, come on, come on. We’ve got to hide.” She said trying to keep her voice down as she grabbed Riley’s arm and ran off towards the first room they found as they were unable to go towards the entrance and exit of the area they were.
Josephine’s patient was still there in the recovery room with a confused look in her face, “What was that noise?” The woman asked laying there and unable to move as the anesthesia still had an effect over her body.
“Shit… okay, okay. Gwen, I- I need you to lay there and be as quiet as possible, if anyone comes in close your eyes and act dead.” The brunette said rushing towards her as she started to turn off the machines that showed the woman’s vitals before she covered her with a few blankets. “Do not move, Okay?” She asked softly but her voice kept trembling. Josephine then turned to Riley and looked at her for a second, “Hey, hey. We’re going to be fine. Okay? We need to hide, we need to be quiet, Riley. Come on.” She said softly taking her friend’s arm before the two rushed into a storage closet and covered their mouths as they tried to stabilize their breathing to make as little noise as possible as they heard the door of the room open abruptly.
