My heart was racing as I quickly get Tori out of the car and hold her in my arms as I rush towards the ER. We were at LeBonheur, so I knew they were good at what they do here. I panicked as I reached the front desk.

I knew the lady could tell something was really wrong with Tori, she gave me that oh-my-god look.

‘’Please.’’ I breath out breathlessly.

‘’What’s wrong?’’ She asks, standing up from her chair, worried.

‘’She’s.. she’s been molested for weeks.. and she’s.. please, just.. please. She’s hurting.’’ I whisper gently, not able to cope with the tears falling from my eyes.

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I had a huge lump in my throat as the nurses come back in to the room. There’s two of them. I know their names, they were in here about fifteen minutes ago, explaining the procedures and tests the doctor wanted to do and they done Tori’s vitals and all that mandatory stuff.

“Hi,’’ Christy smiles gently at me as they walk to the counter and prepare their stuff.

Christy was a little older than the other nurse, Sara. Sara was around twenty nine, possibly thirty. Christy was in her mid-thirties.

‘’Okay, sweetie,’’ Sara says, rubbing Tori’s hand gently as she speaks to her, ‘’We’re gonna have to poke you, okay?’’

‘’No.. I don’t like that!’’ She whines lightly.

Sara looks over at me, raising her eyebrows. I stand up from my chair and walk the very short distance to the bed Tori’s sitting on. With my finger, I move her chin towards me, so she was looking at me directly.

There was still tears left in her eyes, and some still slightly dripping from my own. I drop my fingers once I know she knows I need to speak to her.

‘’Baby, I promise it won’t hurt bad. Okay? I’ll be right here beside you.’’ I assure her, leaning down to place a kiss on her forehead.

‘’No, Daddy! I don’t wanna get poked! I don’t like it!’’ She sniffs her nose lightly.

‘’Tori, you need to behave and do this. Daddy’s gonna promise that its all okay, babe. Its all okay. It won’t hurt.’’ I mumble, leaning down to her level.

‘’But.. no. I don’t wanna.’’ She huffs, looking away from me and to the needle in Sara’s hand.

‘’If we get your daddy to do it, will you?’’ Sara asks her, surprising me.

‘’I.. I dunno about that.’’ I laugh slightly, in shock.

‘’We do it all the time, to break tension with the kids. Hey, it won’t hurt. We spray our secret weapon on you.’’ She smiles a little at me.

‘’Okay, I guess..’’ I shrug as I stand up and sit on the edge of the bed beside Tori.

Sara holds up a small spray can so that I can see the name of the stuff. It was numbing spray. She puts her gloves on and opens up a alcohol wipe.

I hold out my arm to her. She pokes at the veins in the inside of my elbow. Shit, I hate when they gotta do those. She hums to herself as she moves to a new location, the top of my hand. She pokes my skin with her finger.

She’s still not satisfied, though. But finally, after a few more tries in other places, she decides to get me about two inches from the top of my hand, in my arm obviously.

‘’Maybe a slight pinch, but not much.’’ She mumbles as she puts the cold needle against my skin.

Like the idiot I am, I watch her stick me. But to my shock and sudden surprise, it was almost painless.

‘’See, nothing bad.’’ She smiles to Tori as she pulls the needle out of my skin.

“Okay.. I can do it then.’’ She nods a little as she holds her arm out to Sara.

The girls go through the same process as I did. And before she knew it, Sara had the IV in and was ready to take a few tubes of blood.

Tori, of course, already knew that. I told her it would feel funny, but it wouldn’t hurt. She actually laughed a few times, but to be honest, the movement and flow of the blood coming through the tube always had be cracking up a little too. It felt weird.

But anything was worth it at this moment. Any thing was necessary.. just to find out if my baby's okay.

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||You know I'll be your life, your voice, your reason to be. My love, my heart is breathing for this. Moment, in time||

Notes

so? Are you guys getting a little more "okay" and "comfortable" with the situation? Its all okay. But anyways..
>>>>>>COmMeNT
>>>>>>sUbsCRIbE
>>>>>>>>RaTE