"Oh, don't rush to speak" He said in a mocking tone, with a slight chuckle. "Well, you may wonder why the Devil has chosen to visit you, and I will be...frank. You will die of a clotted artery next week. I have come here to give you an option. Mind you, I am not asking for your soul, but to instead simply to give you a second chance at life. I know your passion. I can make it better then you could have ever imagined."Alex suddenly felt calm, and knew somehow that he could speak. The devil had. There had been no time forthat. The neonatal code blue team were missing. Completely. Without atrace. They just hadn't arrived. An inexperienced obstetrics residentand a midwife had been left holding the literal dying baby. We had come,in the nick of time. Thank God Linda had insisted on it. I really hadn'twanted to. Figuring the 'Code Blue' team were surely on their way. Butthey weren't. We were all there was. Unsterilized street clothes andall.Some luckless cleaner will have to decontaminate. I began rubbing my thumbs into her palms, and between her fingers. I worked up her wrists and past her elbow, towards her shoulders. I would pat the bed between my legs, and told her to sit in front of me. It was always easier to do her shoulders and neck this way. I told her to take her tank top off and slip her bra straps down her arms. Kelly never had any problems getting naked or dressing in front of people. So I wasn’t surprised when she did as I said. I took a little more moisturizer. I had a shower and left for the rink after giving Vicky a kiss and leaving her another note. I was early and got out Patrick to shoot on until the rest of the team showed up. I moved out half way between the blueline and the centreline and shot from there, aiming for the small slots. I was less accurate from there but a good portion still went where I wanted them too. I was surprised when some of the guys wanted to keep him up for their practice, but Bob didn't have a problem with it so we shot.