[b]Valentina Vetrov - Haywood - Shannon/Emma/Rob/O'Connor/Brianna[/b]

As the doctor was waiting for a response, he was checking on his nurse turned patient. "You'll live." He said to her after straightening up, "Just apply some pressure on it and I'll get back to you." Looking around at everyone else who was present, he could see Shannon stepping forward and volunteering herself.

"I want to help, though I can only offer one hand." The woman had said, and Riley O'Connor, the doctor, looked her over with a rather dissatisfied look on his face.

"Do I look like I need *one* hand?" The doctor said sarcastically, but then decided to put Shannon to use anyway. Going closer to her, he whispered his instructions so that Valentina wouldn't hear, "Look, I need you to calm her down - talk to her, hold her hand or something. Keep her occupied while I fix her up. And the part about her hand? That's a priority - I have no idea what other surprises she might pull on me."

Then, to the rest of the crowd who had followed Rob, he shouted for a real volunteer; "I need someone to clean the blood off her face and back of her head! And someone with a pair of hands or more, please!" Before going back to assembling the tools of his trade - things he would need to fix Valentina up. Things like surgical tape, bandages and some medicine.

Despite being heavily sedated, having had an adult's dosage of sedatives in her veins, Valentina could not find it within her to fight back and struggle free anymore but tried hard to do it anyway. She was tugging limply at the handcuff that had fastened her to the hospital bed. She had only made it as far as to try to sit up, but fell back into bed as she was too weak. "No..." She cried almost unconsciously, "D-don't..."