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"She's been having terrible dreams" Jamie tells Neteyam, "they had to keep her in psych at night-"
"Wait what?" Neteyam turns his head, "you put her in psych?"
"Not me" Jamie put his hands forward, getting that accusation out the way, "but she was put in to psych by other doctors who were on their night shift. They say that they had no choice, because she lets out horrible screams? Not my words, just what I've heard."
Neteyam walks off, making his way to reception, as Jamie follows behind him.
"Give me a list of the Dr's who have registered for the night shift for the last three days" Neteyam tells the receptionist.
"R-right away" she stutters.
It was no doubt he was fuming.
"Is something wrong?" Jamie asks.
"I did not authorise this" Neteyam turns to look at Jamie, "I did not authorise them to put her into psych."
"Maybe they were just trying to help, I'm not sure" Jamie shrugs.
"Have you ever seen what it's like? In psych?" Neteyam asks, "if there was a problem with her, I should have been called. I should have been informed. I-! She's my wife for gods sake!"
"Dr.Sully" the receptionist holds up the registry paper, with each of the Dr's signature and proof of being signed into their shift.
Neteyam snatches it out of her hand, his eyes scanning through.
He sets it back down on the desk and turns to Jamie.
"Bring Dr.Almeida to my office."
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"Aneysa's coming home today" Tuk tells Orla, "my mother said they're giving her a little welcome back party."
"What is the point in it?" Orla shrugs, "she's barely herself."
"Have you visited her? Neteyam has told us not to visit until she's better" Tuk asks.
"I went for an appointment" Orla points to the scar on her head, "when I saw her.. she wasn't herself. I can understand why Neteyam didn't wish for you to see her."
"Was it that bad?" Tiana asks.
"He threw me down and watched me bleed out. I have no doubt it was ten times worse when she was left alone with him for hours" Orla responds.
"Here" Ethan joins the table, handing Orla a couple of tablets, "they're painkillers. It's not much but, to get through the school day at least."
She gives a soft smile, "thank you."
"Hey, whatever happens, we're all here for you" Tiana tells Orla, "we're friends now."
"I appreciate you guys but don't bring yourself down with me" Orla chuckles, "I wouldn't want that."
One of Evan's friends walks past a table, setting down a can of water.
He walks past and makes his way to sit down next to Evan.
Orla picks up the can to look at it.
"Since when have they started selling cans of water?" She mutters.
"Evan got that for you?" Tiana asks.
Orla looks up at Evan to see him give her a little smile and a nod.
"Well he hasn't been picking on me for some time now. Guess Orla's changing him into a better man" Tuk chuckles.
Orla stood up with the can in her hand, as Evan watched her walk to throw the van into the bin.
"I've gotta go to class" she picks up her bag and begins to walk off.
"We've still got five minutes left!" Tiana shouts.
Orla continues to walk off, her head throbbing.
Her tears swelling up when the pain becomes unbearable but chooses to keep on a brave face as she continues walking.
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"I heard you wanted to see-?"
"You sent her to psych?!" Neteyam walks towards Romario.
"I'm sorry?" Romario looks at him confused.
"You sent, my wife.. to psych" Neteyam spoke to gritted teeth.
"Well yes, I did" Romario left out a nervous chuckle, "I had no choice she was ruining the night for other patients here. There was no other option."
"My wife is not crazy. I did not ask that you put her in psych, I asked that she was to be taken care of whilst I took the time off to take care of my kids. At home. With who's permission, did you take her in to psych?" Neteyam's anger was boiling by the minute, having to look at Romario's face.
"I'm sorry Sully, but the way that she was screaming-"
"It's Dr, for you" Neteyam steps closer, appearing a lot more intimidating as he looks down at him, "she has been through something traumatic, I will admit that. But psych is not for her. Psych is for patients with schizophrenia, or patients that can put others in harm. She is not harmful to anyone and yet you had put her there."
"Only for the night-?"
"I do not care!" Neteyam shouts.
Jamie, who was stood outside the door, jumped as he heard Neteyam shout through the top of his lungs.
He had never seen Neteyam speak this way.. to have anger this way.
No one ever has.
"A person is put in there for a second, and their body changes. Their mind changes. They become worse than before, and I swear to god, Romario, I do not want you around her again" Neteyam sets the rules down straight.
"I'm sorry, but why am I being blamed for this. If she is your wife, you should have taken better care of her. That way she would have not have ended up in this situation to begin with" Romario fights back but instantly regrets it the moment he feels Neteyam grab onto him, tightly from the jaw.
He pushes him back, Romario's head now slammed against the wall, "do not make me repeat myself. Get out of my sight."
He pushes Romario's head to the side, with the strong grip that he had against his jaw.
Romario looked up at him, slightly frightened, tripping on his way out, closing the door behind him.
Neteyam turns around, his palms hitting the edge of the desk as he sighed.
He knew what it was like for the patients, who stayed at psych.
What it made them become, after he had worked with patients there.
The things he witnessed, only being a young doctor himself. He could only imagine the trauma it was to cause Aneysa and he needed to do something.
Fast.
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"Pa?" Lo'reya looks up at her father.
"What is it my love?" Lo'ak looks back down at her and smiles, as they walk into Neteyam and Aneysa's house.
"Where auntie Ney?" Lo'reya put her hands up in a shrug as she shook her head.
"She will be home soon. We are just here to help clean up" Lo'ak smiles at her.
He looks back at Tsireya, holding his hand out to her to help her step up, and walk inside.
"I hope everything will be okay" Tsireya sighs.
"It will. She will be reunited with everyone once again and it will be great" he gives Tsireya a peck on her head, "do not stress. You are pregnant. Remember what the nurse told you."
"I know I know" Tsireya nods, "it's just so hard. She's my best friend after all, and just when not being able to get pregnant was hard enough, now this?"
"Right Tsireya, we need to make something clear before you get to see her" Lo'ak sits Tsireya down onto the sofa carefully, "look I know, that you love her. And that you're not very good at reading people. But please, whatever you do, do not mention anything about her not being able to be pregnant."
"But I just-?"
"I know. I know, that you care about her and that she's your best friend" he holds her hand gently, "we all do. But sometimes, the way you word things it's just.. people will take it the wrong way. I know you and I know that it comes from a good place but you must be wary of how you speak about certain things. So please, will you promise me to just hold your tongue in a little tonight?"
She nods, "I guess."
He gives her a kiss on the cheek before standing up to get the door, after hearing a knock.
Ao'nung jumps when he sees Lo'ak stood opposite him.
"When did you change from Neteyam to Lo'ak?" Ao'nung asks.
"You know I have the key to their house right?" Lo'ak chuckles as he welcomes Ao'nung and Love in.
Ao'nung runs towards Lo'reya, when he sees her running towards him.
"Unc-Nung!" She giggles.
Ao'nung picks her up, swinging her into the air, "I have not seen you in forever! Where have you been hiding?"
He gives her a little tickle on her belly, causing her to giggle when he brings her down from the air but still holds onto her.
"Tsireya, what's wrong?" Ao'nung looks at Tsireya to see her sulking on the sofa.
Lo'ak hears Ao'nung asking her this, causing him to walk back, "what is it? What's happened?"
Tsireya shrugs, "I'm not allowed to speak. If I speak I might hurt people's feelings."
"Reya" Lo'ak sighs, "I didn't mean it like that."
"I think what he meant is when you talk to Aneysa, just hold back your inner thoughts. Because, you always say too much" Ao'nung puts Lo'reya down to let her continue playing.
"I do not" Tsireya responds.
"Oh you most certainly do" Ao'nung gives his sister a playful pout to mimic her sulking, "let's not forget what you said to her the other night after telling everyone you're having another baby."
"Ao'nung, that's enough" Lo'ak stood up beside him.
"I'm her brother. I'm allowed to say it how it is" Ao'nung shrugs.
"And you're forgetting she's pregnant" Lo'ak speaks to gritted teeth, his eyes clearly asking him to stop speaking.
"Look, Tsireya. I love you. We all do. Just tone it down tonight, yeah? We don't need any drama" Ao'nung scoffs at Lo'ak, "so, what do we do?"
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"Psst" Orla hears a sound as she's looking down at her book, but her pen doesn't seem to be moving.
Her eyes felt heavy, and she felt tired.
"Psst!" She hears again a lot more aggressively, and looks up to see Evan looking back at her.
He smiles at her but his smile fades when he sees how pale her face had become.
"Do you need to see a nurse?" He whispers.
She shook her head no, and looked back down, her eyes becoming droopy.
Orla was unable to hear the next couple of words, as it sounded like murmurs, before she felt someone helping her up out her seat.
Evan holds onto her bag and helps her out, walking past Tuk.
Tuk stops them for a moment, to check on Orla.
"Hey, are you okay?" She whispers.
"I-I don't- I don't know.." Orla responds faintly.
Tuk looks to Evan, sighing before handing him a water bottle, "give her some. And don't do anything stupid."
"I wasn't planning to" Evan responds, taking the water bottle out her hand.
"Miss Sully" the teacher calls out.
Tuk turns around to see her teacher tap his pen onto the screen of the big white board.
"Right. Sorry. Sir" Tuk turns to look back at the screen, but as he teacher looks away, her eyes wander off towards Orla who was being taken out.
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