Connor's footsteps sounded throughout the large warehouse. His heart pounded so hard he could hear it. He stopped in the middle of the huge main room.
"ABBY!" He yelled, spinning around in an attempt to find her.
"Her black box is 6 meters forward and 2 meters right." Jess told him through his earpiece. They had lost contact with her two minutes ago when she went off on her own to find the anomaly, much to Connor's annoyance. Seconds before they lost contact they heard a bloodcurdling scream, then static.
Connor rushed forward and turned right. He gasped at the sight he saw a short distance ahead of him.
Abby rested on the ground in a pool of her own blood. Several deep scratches marred her torso and face. One of her arms stuck up in an odd angle and her white blond hair was dyed red from the crimson liquid surrounding her.
"ABBY!" Connor shouted again, surging toward her and kneeling at her side. He put one hand under her head and the other in the middle of her back and her lifted her off the ground, cradling her to his chest. He started sobbing.
"Conn," Abby started in a weak voice. Connor shook his head. He pressed his lips to the top of her head.
"Shhh, you need your strength." He whispered into her hair.
"Connor, where are you?" Matt's Irish accent came through his earpiece.
"Go left 20 meters and then forward 11, Matt." Jess replied. Matt came around a corner a few moments later and Connor had started rocking back and forth, trying to wrap his head around what was going on. Becker came from the way Connor did, EMD raised.
"Is Abby.." Becker started, looking down at his friends on the ground.
"No." Connor answered. "She's still alive."
"Jess, call an ambulance. Now!" Matt instructed." Emily, where are you?"
"I'll be right there." Emily announced. Becker kneled at Connor's side and patted his back.
"Abby'll be alright. She's strong." The captain said, more to himself than anyone else.
"The ambulance is five minutes out." Jess said loudly.
Emily then backed into the small space the rest of them occupied , her EMD raised.
"Conn.." Abby tried to speak again.
"In a minute, Abby." Becker told her for Connor, the latter being unable to speak because a flood of tears and sobs prevented him to.
A siren made all of them except Connor look up.
"Emily, go get the paramedics. Becker, stay here and guard them with your life. Also, tell your soldiers to find the creature and take care of it. I'll go find the anomaly and close it." Matt instructed. All of them did as they were told quickly.
"Finley, Watson, Williams, and Tyler. Go find the creature, kill it." Becker commanded over his earpiece. He stood and raised his weapon.
Connor's sobs filled the air, so masked by the sound of three people running. Two men and Emily rounded a corner and the men immediately went to Abby. Connor willingly let her go, knowing this may very well be the only chance of her survival.
"No pulse." One of the men commented in a very thick Irish accent. The other one nodded and Connor let out a sound halfway between a scream of agony and a huge sob. Emily walked over to him and drew the crying man into a tight hug.
"CPR." The other man said in an American accent.
They began reviving Abby as sudden EMD noises sounded through the warehouse. A heavy crash showed that either the creature had been taken out, or it had pushed one of Becker's men through the floor.
"Okay, anomaly closed. Is the creature down?" Matt asked.
"Yessir." A man with a very deep voice replied.
"Thanks. Connor, hows Abby?"
"They're reviving her." Emily answered, pulling away from the hug.
"Connor!" Abby jolted awake and back to sleep again.
"Okay, she has a pulse. We need to get her to surgery, now. Her brain may be bleeding." The American said and the Irish paramedic rushed out and was back very quickly with a stretcher.
"One of you may ride to the hospital with her. Decide on the way out." The Irishman told them all quickly before they began rolling Abby out. Connor immediately followed them and the rest stayed back.
The ride to the hospital was very uneventful and very, very short. It consisted of Connor holding Abby's hand and telling her he loved her over and over. Before he knew it, Connor was told he could not go through a certain set of doors.
"But she's my fiancee!" He argued, tears no longer streaming down his face.
"Sir, please, just wait in the family room." The busty nurse told him. A new flood of tears sprung to his eyes. The family room was most commonly used to tell someone that their loved one died. Matt, Becker, and Emily met him there almost three hours later.
Connor was just staring out into space, like he had when Cutter had fired him. He was unresponsive to everything until a doctor in a white coat came in.
"Hi, are you the friends of Abigail Maitland?" He asked.
"Yes." Connor answered before anyone else could.
"Well, I have some good news and some bad news. Which would you like first?"