Chapter 64
“What?” Rain stopped struggling so that she could comprehend what he’d said. It didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t as if Mist could be pregnant and having a miscarriage. Her period couldn’t cause that kind of blood. What in the world…?
Rain gasped, both hands flying to her mouth as she realized exactly what Mist had done. Her breath was knocked out of her as completely as a swift kick to the gut would’ve done. She stumbled backward a few steps, leaving Adam confused as he reached for her. “Rain? What is it?”
“Oh, no!” she said, scrambling for the door again. “Her IUD!” she stammered, met with Adam’s strong grasp again, pulling her back. “You have to let me go, Adam! I’m the only one here who knows how to remove the piece that’s tearing into her now.”
“Her IUD?” he repeated, loosening his grip. “Wait a minute--didn’t you tell me that those had trackers in them? That if they weren’t removed correctly, they activated some sort of a signal?”
“Yes--but that’s the least of our problems at the moment, Adam. If I don’t get that other piece out, it will continue to eat through her tissue until she bleeds to death. Now damnit, let me go!” She pulled away again, but this time there was no resistance as Adam released her.
Rain shot down the hallway having no idea where she was going and almost collided with Seth. “What’s happening?” he asked.
“Do you have a doctor in town?” she asked. “Someone who would have forceps, clamps, a speculum?”
“I don’t know what all of those are but… we have a midwife.” Seth looked from Rain to Adam and then back again, her panic infecting him as he began to fidget with his hands and shuffle his feet.
“Go get her and every tool she has involving the uterus!” Rain demanded. If she were in Michaelanburg now, she could fix this in a few seconds, but without the right tools, it would be much harder. Seth ran off toward the back door, and even though he was sprinting at full speed, she felt the need to shout, “Hurry!”
She realized she’d forgotten the medical kit. Spinning around, she said, “Adam, go get the black bag. Where the hell am I going?”
“Last door on the left,” he directed her. “The bathroom is inside of the bedroom.” He went back the way they’d come, and Rain powered ahead, thinking through the procedure and trying to come up with the best way to stop Mist’s bleeding before it was too late.
She pushed through the door to see Mist had been transferred to the bed. Esther had her friend’s legs spread and was trying to ascertain the problem while Mist gritted her teeth and tried not to scream, and Walt stood next to her, holding her hand with tears streaking down his face.
“I don’t know what’s wrong!” Esther shouted, pulling her blood stained hands back.
“I do,” Rain assured her. “Seth went to get the midwife. I’m going to need her speculum and probably a lot of other tools to get this out. I don’t think I can do anything until I have those tools. Mist, what the hell were you thinking?” She didn’t yell at her friend, only muttered the last part. Right now was not the time to shout at her, not when she was on the verge of dying.
“What is it?” Walt wanted to know. “Is she pregnant or something?”
“No, she tried to take her IUD out,” Rain replied, taking Esther’s place. Mist was only wearing a shirt, and since she knew Adam would be back any moment, she grabbed a blanket from the foot of the bed and draped it over her friend. “Walt, go get some towels and clean water.” She wasn’t sure if she’d need either of those things, though water was always useful, but she definitely needed Walt out of the room.
He looked at Mist for a moment and then rushed off. “I’ll be back,” he called over his shoulder. She said nothing, but her eyes followed him.
The sound of familiar footsteps heading their way prompted Rain to say, “Esther, can you get the bag from Adam? Don’t let him in. There’s no reason for him to come in here.”
As soon as Esther handed her the bag, Rain dug out the few tools she would need. She would have to cauterize the blood vessels once she was able to get the other piece of the IUD out, but she couldn’t do that at the moment, not without something to hold Mist open for her. Right now, if she could reach in and feel it, she wouldn’t be able to get the tools she’d need to remove it inside.
Not that she had the tools she needed to remove it. That was a specialized tool that she wouldn’t have access to until she was a full-fledged Medical Mother. Now, she was just a third year student. She’d have to do this the hard way. If they were in a hospital in Quebec or someplace where they could take their time and go in surgically, it would’ve been easier to remove, too, but that was also not an option, thanks to Mist’s hasty decision to pull it out now.
With a deep breath, she looked her best friend in the face and said, “Mist, once I have the tools I need, this is going to hurt. The only way I can get it out is to cut it out.”
“Won’t that cause… damage?” Mist asked, her eyes wide.
“Yes, it will. I’m not sure how much, and I don’t know how far up inside of you it’s traveled. It’s not a large piece, but it is programmed to bite, chew, and climb up the fallopian tube to the uterus. The Mothers don’t want people just yanking these out for obvious reasons.”
Behind her, she heard Esther click her tongue against the roof of her mouth. “How barbaric,” she muttered.
“But… I want to have a baby someday,” Mist reminded her.
“I know that, and I will do everything I can to make sure you still can, but you can’t have a baby if you’re dead, my friend.”
Mist’s face was already pale from all the blood she was losing, but it went even paler now. “Maybe… I don’t want to be alive if I can’t have a child.”
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