Bang The sound of a pistol echoed through the warehouse, and William's extended hand dropped to his side, gun still smoking from the assault. Cliff was dead, yet both William and Audrey remained in the wrong haven. "Well"
William appeared slightly taken aback "That, I did not expect"
His mouth twitched upwards into a smile. On the other side of the room Duke laid sprawled out on the floor, breathing shallowly. A dreadful feeling filled Audrey as her eyes widened in realization, she was stuck, and if she didn't do anything, Duke was going to die. Audrey was at Duke's side in a second, pressing her hands against the bullet wounds in his chest. "Duke,"
Audrey franticly cried. "Duke!"
His eyes fluttered open and he coughed. Little droplets of blood landed on Audrey's shirt "Damn,"
Duke whispered, cringing in pain. His eyebrows were furrowed in confusion, as if he had just truly realized there were bullets in his chest, and he was just taking in the rest.
Standing in the back of the room, cringed against the wall Nathan had been almost completely forgotten. Audrey was tending to Duke, and William was intently watching from behind. Slowly- never taking his eyes off of the scene before him, Nathan stuffed his hand in his pocket and withdrew his phone. His shaky fingers dialed 9-1-1, and the phone rang a few times before an operator picked up. "9-1-1 what's your emergency?"
"A man h-he's been shot,"
Nathan stuttered "And another one, he's dead,"
Nathan had hardly processed the events that had happened in the past few minutes and he was quite slow, everything about him was slow, his voice, his movements, even his thoughts. The operators voice flew through the phone line "Where was he shot?"
"In his chest, multiple times,"
Nathan's hand holding the phone dropped too his side, before he slowly brought it back up. "I'm going to hand the phone to someone else"
Nathan speed up as he walked towards Duke, when he arrived he placed his hand on Audrey's shoulder. She looked up, tear-filled eyes. He held out the phone, until Audrey finally took it, remembering that here he was a doctor, not a cop. "Hello?"
Audrey spoke into the phone, unsure of who was on the other side. " Hey sweetie, this is 9-1-1, as I understand someone's been shot. Am I correct?"
"Yes"
Audrey's voice was ghostlike dull "May I ask where you are?"
The operator questioned. "A warehouse, a police officer, Duke Cro-Wournos is here, he's the one who's shot"
Audrey spilled out the rest of the needed information to the operator as Nathan kneeled down pressing his hands against Dukes chest. "Duke, can you hear me?"
He nodded his head, wide-eyed and weary. "I need you too sit up, so you don't choke,"
He glanced back at Audrey, motioning to her for help. Together both Nathan and Audrey lifted Duke into a sitting position, and leaned him against a wall. Afterwards Audrey stood back up, and continued talking with the operator. "Do you have anything to press against to stop the blood?"
Nathan quizzed Audrey. Audrey nodded and removed her blue haven shirt, remaining only in her gray undershirt. She tossed it to Nathan.
By now they could hear sirens, as Nathan and Audrey franticly tried to keep Duke awake, he was breathing shallowly, and his eyes were open lazily, as if he were just about to close them for the day, not good. Moments ago Audrey had hung up on the operator, to involved in assisting Nathan, who was helping Duke, She had hoped they would be able to find them on their own, without her help, and they had because only a minute or two later they were rushing in, calling out orders.
"We need to stop the bleeding!"
One called out pressing Audrey's blue haven shirt harder against his chest "We'll need to get him in surgery as soon as possible!"
"Get a stretcher we need to get him out of here!"
The paramedics made it almost look easy, Nathan thought as he watched from behind, he was a doctor and he had virtually no experience working on the field. One of the paramedics approached Nathan "Where's the man who shot him?"
He questioned, speaking to Nathan. "He's-"
Nathan stopped mid-sentence because in all of the chaos William had managed to slip out, and now there was no murder weapon, and no murderer. Cliff was dead, Duke was dying, and there was no man to have committed the crime. "Gone"
Nathan flustered, finishing his sentence. One man had picked up the gun Nathan had held only 10 or 15 minutes before. "Was this the murder weapon?"
Nathan sighed. "No"
At this time Audrey was occupying the floor, curled up with her knees to her neck, and watching the paramedics examine Cliff. She had no idea of what to do now, she had lost her haven, and now she was stuck in this other one. Someone headed towards Audrey "Hi"
A brown haired, girl, who was maybe in her mid 20's, spoke to Audrey. It was one of the troubled girls she had helped in haven. Audrey sighed. "Hi"
Even in a different world the same girl was helping people, it was stunning. "Were going to need you to come to the police station, just to answer a few questions okay?"
Again Audrey sighed. "Okay"
Both Nathan and Audrey had to be questioned, by regulation they were both to be sent to the police station and asked a series of questions, by different officers.
Both Nathan and Audrey climbed in the back of the police car. Silence was all they had. Audrey peered out the window, at every shop and house in haven, noticing the differences, and similarities to the haven she was from. Nathan glanced towards Audrey, before turning and holding out his bloody hand. "I guess we never had a proper introduction, my name in Nathan, Nathan Hanson"
Audrey gave him a slight smile and shook his hand "My name is Audrey, Audrey Parker."
