Kids from One Alpha

Chapter 106: Tending the Wounded

Serena kept checking the vitals on the patients in the field hospital. She’d done several rounds already, and there were still com stragglers being brought in off the main battlefield.

“Untie his wrists,” Serena said, going over to one of the Moonshine captives. “Alpha Logan said all Moonshine members are to be restrained and detained until we can determine who is loyal to Damon,” she was told by the warriors that had brought her newest patient in.

“I don’t care,” Serena said. “He is wounded and needs to recover. That goes for all the Moonshine wolves. Right now, health and recovery is the priority, not loyalty.” “Yes, of course,” the warriors said, nodding and running off again. Serena checked the new patient over. He wasn’t badly injured, a few deep gashes that needed sutures. “Can I get a suture kit, blood transfusion bag, and saline drip?” she asked, snapping to the nurses nearby. They immediately jumped into action. Serena washed her hands and found a mask and gloves. She cleaned the gashes with antibacterial wipes and an antiseptic. She also made sure to clean around the cuts. This wolf had been fighting outside and was smeared with dirt and mud.

When the nurses came in with the equipment she requested, they got to work with the saline drip and the blood transfusion. Serena took the sutures and started stitching him up. “Why do you care so much about the Moonshine wolves?” a nurse asked her. Serena Jooked up from her work, raising an eyebrow. “I am a doctor, a healer,” Serena said. “I don’t discriminate against who I take care of. You shouldn’t either.”

back to work. “Finish bandaging his wounds,” she instructed. “I don’t want to see any Moonshine wolves being given sub-par or secondary care.” “Understood” the nurse said with a nod. Serena did the rounds again. One of

he hadn’t needed major surgery, but he was concussed and still unconscious. Serena intended to keep him that way until the swelling of his

turning yellow around the edges, the purple and

It was a double-edged situation. The ones who were too badly injured to move were also the ones that should have been in the real hospital. All the wolves in the most intensive situations were all from Moonshine. Serena knew that Adriana would keep the nurses and doctors in the hospital in line when treating the patients. Serena updated notes on her clipboard and did another set of rounds. She went to see how Santino was doing with his broken leg. Her father and Logan were still holding a trial for Damon and Moonshine. Serena would have preferred Damon to be in the hospital with her so she could keep an eye on him. She had made Logan promise her Damon would be brought in when the trial was over. His back was still pretty shredded, and she’d only been able to give him enough care to keep him lucid and out of pain for the trial. “How’s it going, sister?” Santino asked. She checked his cast and the other bumps and bruises he had gotten in his fight. “Don’t talk to me,” she said snippily. Santino laughed. “What did I do this time?” he asked her. Serena rolled her eyes. She lifted his leg and gently shifted it back and forth. “Does that hurt?” she asked. When Santino didn’t answer, she looked up at him. “You told me not to talk to you,” he pointed out. Serena rolled her eyes again and growled. Santino laughed. “Does this hurt?” she asked again. “No, it doesn’t,” he said. “Alright, I’m going to remove the cast and bandage it up. You’ll have a little more mobility, but you aren’t

yet,” she said. “Got it,” Santino said. Serena got her little cast saw and started to cut the hardened material away. “So, why don’t you want to talk to me?” “You were an idiot to get yourself injured,” Serena said. “You should have been

and rolled his eyes. He winced when Serena began pulling the separated sides of the cast off. Underneath, his leg was dirty and a little thinner than the other

Serena said. “I might not always be there and…” she sighed, trailing off. “Serena, I’m fine,” Santino said. Serena got a wet cloth and began washing his leg. There was still some blood residue and lots of sweat from when she’d first put his

could have been a lot worse. If Logan wasn’t there, you might not have been so lucky,” she said. Santino sighed, grabbing Serena’s hand. “Look, Logan had my back. I knew he had my back and I knew you had my back,”

yourself heal properly and don’t push yourself,” she instructed. She tossed the cloth into a bowl for dirty laundry and got the pressure bandage wrap. As she wrapped his leg, she probed it too, making sure that the bones were setting right and that they were healed enough to walk on. “That should do it,” she said. “You can walk without crutches, but maybe you should have