p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Allie focused on the automatic ball release in front of her even as she heard sound behind her. She knew it was Don. She wasn't ready to deal with Don./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Why do you keep risking your life? To prove a point?" His voice had a sharp bite to it and Allie flinched as a ball sailed past her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Who called you?" Don was her emergency contact on her file so the hospital would have called him if she had been alone but Ben, her partner, had been with her. Most likely it was Ben as she had left the hospital almost immediately after being examined, while he had been off updating their boss. She came straight to the batting cages from the hospital. The ER information braclets were still on her wrist. "How'd you find me?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Don entered the cage just as Allie connected the bat with the next ball and sent it into the upper right corner. "Benji called when he found out you had signed yourself out AMA. He called Colby too by the way. Megan literally had to sit on him to keep him at his desk when he found out what happened. I told him I'd get you to call him as soon as I knew you were okay." Allie connected with another ball before Don continued. "We're a lot alike Allie Cat. I knew where to find you immediately. Low and Inside."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I'm fine." Allie adjusted her stance with a slight wince, and sent the next ball, exactly what Don had called, into the lower left corner of the cage. "Just a mild concussion with a slight headache. A couple bruised ribs. I've been worse. Not anything bad enough for an overnight stay in the hospital." She let the final ball sail past her as she removed her batting helmet and finally turned to face her older brother. "And the answer is no," she slipped past him knowing he'd follow. "I don't do it to prove a point. I do it for the exact same reason you do, the same reason Colb does. Because it's my job."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Why do you keep risking your life? To prove a point?" His voice had a sharp bite to it and Allie flinched as a ball sailed past her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Who called you?" Don was her emergency contact on her file so the hospital would have called him if she had been alone but Ben, her partner, had been with her. Most likely it was Ben as she had left the hospital almost immediately after being examined, while he had been off updating their boss. She came straight to the batting cages from the hospital. The ER information braclets were still on her wrist. "How'd you find me?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Don entered the cage just as Allie connected the bat with the next ball and sent it into the upper right corner. "Benji called when he found out you had signed yourself out AMA. He called Colby too by the way. Megan literally had to sit on him to keep him at his desk when he found out what happened. I told him I'd get you to call him as soon as I knew you were okay." Allie connected with another ball before Don continued. "We're a lot alike Allie Cat. I knew where to find you immediately. Low and Inside."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I'm fine." Allie adjusted her stance with a slight wince, and sent the next ball, exactly what Don had called, into the lower left corner of the cage. "Just a mild concussion with a slight headache. A couple bruised ribs. I've been worse. Not anything bad enough for an overnight stay in the hospital." She let the final ball sail past her as she removed her batting helmet and finally turned to face her older brother. "And the answer is no," she slipped past him knowing he'd follow. "I don't do it to prove a point. I do it for the exact same reason you do, the same reason Colb does. Because it's my job."/p