Chapter - 9 - Frozen iceberg

"How may I help you, Dr.Zane?" asked Dr.G haughtily leaning back on her chair with crossed legs and hands clasped together. Zane smiled sheepishly and replied as stepping into the room, "I came to report about the surgery." As she didn't give any response, he continued to speak, "The cut's depth was 2.8 cm and as the temporary care was done, I hope there won't be any infection on site of bleeding. I stitched up the cut and gave the prescription to the attending nurse." Gianna nodded and said, still looking at the monitor, "Okay. If there is anything, Dr.Ralph will contact you."

There was an awkward silence in the room. Zane knew he couldn't expect any more conversation from her and broke the silence by saying, "Your seminar on the topic, Deep Brain Stimulation was really informative and interesting. You explained really well so that anyone could understand the topic" Gianna looked at him with a faint smile and said, "Thank you", and continued with her work. Zane's mind was thrown into chaos, 'That's it? Just a thank you? Isn't she surprised that I attended her seminar? Woah!!! What is her heart and mind made of??'

Gianna noticed that he was still standing there so, she said, "If there is nothing else -", Zane cut her off and asked quickly, "Aren't you surprised that I attended your seminar?" He looked at her with anticipation. She looked at him and casually replied, "What is there to be surprised about?" Zane was baffled to hear her words and she continued, "That was a summit attended by many doctors from different cities so the possibility of you attending my seminar is naturally obvious." That was the moment Zane knew Gianna is a ten thousand years old frozen iceberg and even global warming would have no effect on this iceberg. He had nothing to tell her or ask her with his current state of mind so he gave her an awkward smile and left her room.

Meanwhile, the staff station was unusually loud with a lot of discussion going on at this early morning hour. All were talking at the same time and no one could understand what they were actually conversing about. Few had serious expressions while others acted surprised. Dr.Zane was eager to know what they were discussing so deeply, so he walked towards the staff station to join their discussion. There was a sudden silence in the room as they stopped their discussion thinking it was Dr.G who entered the station. But to their relief it was Dr.Zane, so they ignored him and continued with their conversations.

Zane laughed at their actions and sat in a chair to listen to their conversation. All of a sudden they all heard echoing hurried footsteps in the corridor and turned to see Ralph running towards them with a bright smile on his face. All looked at him with a questioning look thinking why is he running so fast. Ralph reached the station, stood for a few moments catching his breath. He looked at everyone slowly and continued to speak after drinking a few sips of water, "I found out what happened in the ER room." Everyone gasped in unison and that's when Zane realized that he completely forgot about that incident!!

They didn't want to stay in the dark anymore and urged Dr.Ralph to explain what happened. He chuckled at their eagerness and started to explain, "While we were here in staff station drinking coffee, Dr.G completed her rounds and went to check with the ER for any new cases. That's when a severely injured man in ripped black suit stepped in the ER while carrying an unconscious man, allegedly his boss. After taking a few steps he passed out and couldn't say any details about them to the doctors or nurses there. The nurses and the doctors including Dr.G rushed to examine both the men and the man who was brought in unconscious state was the person who Dr.G performed surgery on. While examining him, she found that his head was severely injured and his oxygen level was depleting. So, she instructed the ER residents to give him immediate care and take a CT scan to prepare him for surgery. Dr.Jason was also there and helped to examine the other man in black suit." He paused for a moment to take a breath but others urged him to continue.

"Just when Dr.G was about to call us, a few men barged into the ER. They started yelling, moving around frantically and pushing away all the equipment in the room. All the doctors and nurses scattered leaving all the patients as they saw the goons were carrying weapons in their hands. Everyone was terrified and Dr.Jason tried to stop one of the men but he was pushed to the bedside. No one knew who they were looking for but all of a sudden those men came to a stop after noticing the man lying on the bed behind Dr.G."

"Dr.G understood that these men came to injure the man and as all of you know no matter what, she wouldn't let anyone touch her patient. She slowly removed her coat and threw it on the bed while maintaining eye contact with those goons. She pulled the screen to cover the patient and took a step forward towards them." Ralph paused and posed weirdly and said, 'Then she warned those men saying, 'if you dare to take another step forward, you won't leave the hospital'."

Ralph then sat on his chair again and continued, "The men literally laughed at her warning and the man in front raised his hand to beat her without heeding to her warning. Just when everyone thought Dr.G was done then and there, instead they heard the man's crisp wailing sound which echoed the ER. Everything happened so fast that they couldn't see what happened but they only saw that the man was lying on the floor holding onto his right hand, unable to move his hand. The next moment other men started charging towards her and she also counter attacked those men swiftly and smoothly. She smoothly evaded the knife attacks and surprised everyone in the room. You all saw what happened next."

"But the important thing is none of the men left the hospital just as Dr.G warned them! Five of them are injured pretty badly who are getting treated in the general ward and others have minor injuries." Everyone laughed and thought those men deserved it. Stanley said, "Dr.G is so cool. When everyone left to save their lives, she stood there and protected the patients. Isn't she a real hero?" Everyone nodded in agreement to what Stanley said.

Yet, they couldn't digest the fact that Dr.G tackled, no, actually thrashed eight armed men single handedly. They made a silent note in their mind that from that moment on, they would never get on the bad side of Dr.G. That was a silent oath taken by all the employees in the hospital that very night. Their thoughts were interrupted by the notification tone of the mobile phone which rang at the same time in everyone's phone except for Zane.

Before everyone could take a look, Ralph said with a beaming smile, "I sent you all the CCTV video of the fight. Do enjoy. Dr.Zane, please share your number if you also want the video." Victor let out an annoyed grunt and asked Ralph, "Why did you explain for so long if you had the video?!!"

"Oh! Because CCTV video doesn't have audio." Ralph replied indifferently. All laughed at his reply and Victor raised his hand to knock on his head but Ralph stood in a boxing posture and said in a deep voice, "If you dare to take another step forward, you won't leave the hospital." Everyone started laughing including Dr.Zane, hearing him copying Dr.G's dialogue.