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muserevival2014-04-28 11:07 pm
werewolfmasquerade) wrote in muserevival2014-04-28 11:07 pm
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Quote of the Day 076.
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
- Elizabeth Stone
Ivy's shift had finished a couple of hours ago, but she got held back and then stayed even longer catching up on all her clinical notes from the long and arduous shift in Beacon Hills Emergency Room. But now, she stood in the Neonatal ICU and had her hand inside one of the infant intensive care incubators, her index finger nestled in under the tiny hand of the newborn baby girl inside. The infant was born almost eight weeks early when the mother was brought in following a massive motor vehicle accident. The mother's life was hanging in the balance in the adult ICU ward up the hall, and the baby's father wasn't in the picture. Ivy's stomach was churned up inside wondering what would happen to this tiny little person if they mother didn't pull through. Somewhere in the bowels of the hospital, the admin and legal team would be working to try to track down the mother's next of kin, who seemed to be in England. The 'in case of emergency' contact in the young women's phone was continuously going to voicemail.
She had pulled a treatment stool up beside the incubator, just to take a load off her legs. She was tired but couldn't bring herself to leave yet to go home and get some sleep. Of course, she wasn't the only doctor in the hospital and the tiny baby would be in good hands with the ICU staff, no matter what. Something in Ivy's heart had just been tugged on with this particular case. It was making her think and usually she preferred to leave her work at the door when she finished and shift and switched off. It wasn't going to happening that day. She even had a date set up with Derek for that evening, but she had sent him a text and cancelled, not going into any detail beyond the fact she couldn't make it.
Her head was heavy with exhaustion, but her heart was heavy with sorrow. There were cases like this all the time in the world, but this one was making Ivy wonder what she had missed out on in her life. Was it getting to that time where she had missed the boat on marriage and babies? She had always been career-oriented, driven, ambitious, wanting to help people in the wake of nursing her mother through cancer. For some reason, this newborn was making her feel deep inside like she wanted a stab at all that. Did she want to be a mom? Yeah, maybe she did. But was that it, or did she care about the rest of the package? Could she be one of those independent chicks who raised a baby on her own and still juggled a career? If she was honest with herself, she probably wouldn't. She would probably just keep going on as she was and carry out her days just being a doctor because it did fulfil her.
It wasn't fair that she had to get clucky now. Babies were lovely, but they grew up into little people, and then big people, and lately, she was learning more and more that there were a hell of a lot of big people in this world causing misery, and pain, and destruction on others. Was that even a world she wanted to bring a child in to? Could she have the hardass balls like Melissa who had spent the last few years raising a wonderful and gorgeous son on her own she could be proud of and who had the most amazing morals for the people he loved and the world in general?
Ivy reached up and pulled the elastic from her hair that had been holding it back in a loose ponytail, and it tumbled free over her shoulders so she could rake her fingers through it. She stroked a finger over the baby's tiny knuckles in the incubator with a confused sigh when she realised she didn't really have the answers to any of these questions rolling around in her head. The biggest thing she should be worrying about though was would there be a guy out there somewhere who would be okay with procreating with a werewolf? Or was it all just one big giant lost cause with too much risk to ever bring true happiness...?
♦ Ivy Belmont || Teen Wolf (Original Character)
- Elizabeth Stone
Ivy's shift had finished a couple of hours ago, but she got held back and then stayed even longer catching up on all her clinical notes from the long and arduous shift in Beacon Hills Emergency Room. But now, she stood in the Neonatal ICU and had her hand inside one of the infant intensive care incubators, her index finger nestled in under the tiny hand of the newborn baby girl inside. The infant was born almost eight weeks early when the mother was brought in following a massive motor vehicle accident. The mother's life was hanging in the balance in the adult ICU ward up the hall, and the baby's father wasn't in the picture. Ivy's stomach was churned up inside wondering what would happen to this tiny little person if they mother didn't pull through. Somewhere in the bowels of the hospital, the admin and legal team would be working to try to track down the mother's next of kin, who seemed to be in England. The 'in case of emergency' contact in the young women's phone was continuously going to voicemail.
She had pulled a treatment stool up beside the incubator, just to take a load off her legs. She was tired but couldn't bring herself to leave yet to go home and get some sleep. Of course, she wasn't the only doctor in the hospital and the tiny baby would be in good hands with the ICU staff, no matter what. Something in Ivy's heart had just been tugged on with this particular case. It was making her think and usually she preferred to leave her work at the door when she finished and shift and switched off. It wasn't going to happening that day. She even had a date set up with Derek for that evening, but she had sent him a text and cancelled, not going into any detail beyond the fact she couldn't make it.
Her head was heavy with exhaustion, but her heart was heavy with sorrow. There were cases like this all the time in the world, but this one was making Ivy wonder what she had missed out on in her life. Was it getting to that time where she had missed the boat on marriage and babies? She had always been career-oriented, driven, ambitious, wanting to help people in the wake of nursing her mother through cancer. For some reason, this newborn was making her feel deep inside like she wanted a stab at all that. Did she want to be a mom? Yeah, maybe she did. But was that it, or did she care about the rest of the package? Could she be one of those independent chicks who raised a baby on her own and still juggled a career? If she was honest with herself, she probably wouldn't. She would probably just keep going on as she was and carry out her days just being a doctor because it did fulfil her.
It wasn't fair that she had to get clucky now. Babies were lovely, but they grew up into little people, and then big people, and lately, she was learning more and more that there were a hell of a lot of big people in this world causing misery, and pain, and destruction on others. Was that even a world she wanted to bring a child in to? Could she have the hardass balls like Melissa who had spent the last few years raising a wonderful and gorgeous son on her own she could be proud of and who had the most amazing morals for the people he loved and the world in general?
Ivy reached up and pulled the elastic from her hair that had been holding it back in a loose ponytail, and it tumbled free over her shoulders so she could rake her fingers through it. She stroked a finger over the baby's tiny knuckles in the incubator with a confused sigh when she realised she didn't really have the answers to any of these questions rolling around in her head. The biggest thing she should be worrying about though was would there be a guy out there somewhere who would be okay with procreating with a werewolf? Or was it all just one big giant lost cause with too much risk to ever bring true happiness...?
♦ Ivy Belmont || Teen Wolf (Original Character)