Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of "Heavy Rain"
Rating may change in later chapters
Pairing: slight Carter/Norman
Authors note: sorry if you become confused, I'm starting out with a prolepsis ^-^' just something i came up with, you may review if you like
P.S this is my first fanfic so sorry if its crap.
October 31 12:49am West Virginia
Lights flashing bright red and blue lighting up the night, sirens roaring up into the open air as the scene filled with police men. Carter's car pulled up to the side of the narrow road behind a few police cruisers, quickly opening the car stepping out rushing to the scene leaving ash behind fumbling with his seat belt in the passenger seat. After a jog up the long driveway Carter approached a near by ambulance; cater was huffing trying to catch his breath to speak.
"Is…huff…he" Bending placing his hands on his legs pausing to catch his breath…"alright?" Carter asked with concern.
The medic looked back at him from opening the ambulance doors, he spoke loud and clear. "It's not clear to say yet sir! But all I know is that he was unconscious!" he turned from the worried man to go help bring the stretcher to the ambulance. Ash eyed the surrounding forest as he walked up to the worried lieutenant apparently informing him of the information he received from the officers at the scene, "I heard he might be in a coma an..." but little did he know Carter didn't hear a word.
"Fuck, Norman! Why didn't you call and say you were in trouble? Hell! Even if you were just scared" Carter thought to himself as he watched the stretcher pass him, catching a glimpse of the younger man. Carter's heart pained at what he saw.
Norman was pale, paler then usual, he looked like a corpse. His usual redden eye lids were now a bruised shade of blue, his lips matching in color. A medic placed a breathing mask on him, to help pump in air he wasn't getting. 'Lieutenant?" Carter turned back in surprised after hearing Ash calling his name. Carter collected himself and fished in his pockets and pulled out his keys "here" he tossed the keys to the detective. Pausing for a second to think things through, he stepped up in the back of the ambulance and looking back at Ash. "Sir?" Ash said in a confused and questioning tone.
Carter looked at his colleague"take my car back home, and tell Perry I'm taking off sick"
With a quick nod, Ash understood as he walked away from the ambulance watching as the doors closed and the ambulance drove down the leaf covered driveway the siren slowly fading as it drove away. Ash scanned the area watching the officer's search the scene, some setting down markers and searching the woods. He walked to an hefty elderly looking officer, and asked about the scene and if there was any evidence.
"There was no sign of any struggle in the house, unless whoever did this had enough time to clean things up"
Said the older officer as he took his hat off and scratched his gray head "it gets stranger" he said looking towards the old Victorian style mansion "the kid didn't have a single cut or bruise on him or there was no sign of a fight" he paused, and slowly looked at ash with a face the young detective could not understand. "Yet, he had a incredible amount of trauma done to his body…I don't understand"
With that ash's eyes widened in shock at hearing this, could this be what the Ex FBI agent was telling them about?
"Thanks' I need to get back home now, or my wife will kill me" he said with a slight chuckle walking down the driveway, the elderly officer gave a wave of dismissal.
"Anytime kid! Oh and be carful"
"It is Halloween after all"
With that ash pulled his brown coat together from the brisk wind, heading for Carter's car 'time to do some research'
'How could this happen…this?" rubbing his hands over his tired face.
'I'm so sorry norm…I…I shouldn't have told you to go"
The medics were moving about checking the young mans vitals, as Carter thought to himself. "We need to get him in the ER, fast!" The short sandy haired man stated out loud, Carter felt a lump in his throat as he heard. The young blonde pony tail clad EMT was steadily pumping the oxygen mask to stabilize his breaths "His breathing is not stabilizing!"
Carter was watching in horror 'how'd the hell this happen to him?'
Carter sat across from the two working medics listening to the fast beeping of the heart monitor, thinking to himself.
'Looks like he hasn't got a single scratch on him' Carter's fist's clenched.
"Sir, were almost at the hospital" exclaimed the female medic, she had been watching the lieutenants expressions and figured the two had to be close. The short sandy haired man kept his hands gently to sides of Norman's head keeping it from moving just incase he had broken his neck. The man had sun kissed skin and a grunt head shape, his dark green eyes scanning over the young ex agents face. Carter noticed this and gave the man a vicious glare as he meet eyes with the younger man, who quickly looked to the heart monitor averting his stare. The young blonde smiled at what she saw "they must be together" About 30minutes later Carter heard.
"w-were here now"
"Willard!" the young blonde said aggressively.
"Get the door ready"
The man stumbled to the door opening it to reveal the waiting doctors outside. Carter was impressed at the immediate service; he watched as they carefully lowered the stretcher down to be pushed in to the hospital with many doctors at each side. "How did this happen" the lieutenant said under his breath barely a whisper as he watch everything unfold.
He walked into the hospital surprised it wasn't as packed as he had expected it to be, with quick steps he walked to the elevator that the doctors had rolled the ex agent to, only to be suddenly stopped.
"Sir, if you can just wait in the lobby till the doctors have everything under control" a kind faced brunette woman said pointing.
"There's the lobby down the hall straight to your right"
"Umm…thanks?"
"Your very welcome sir"
Carter waited for the woman to turn to head back to her desk, and then he walked to the emergency stairs. "Fuck that, nobody tells me to fucking wait!"
In the emergency room Norman laid half naked on the hospital gurney with doctors and nurses surrounding him.
"His left lung is collapsed, Doctor Stanmore I need you to insert a chest tube!"
"I'm on it!" A nurse passed the doctor pad covered with iodine, the doctor wiped it over the young mans pale skin tinting it yellow. Tossing the pad in the trash, the skilled surgeon picked up a scalpel and pressed it against the pale skin pressing in deep to make a incision between his left rib, "Tube!" a nurse handed him the chest tube, he began to skillfully shove it into the incision to inflate the lung.
"Heart rate in creasing, Blood pressure decreasing Sir!" hearing this, the head doctor knew he was bleeding internally.
"We need to get him to a CAT scan ASAP! Shouted the head doctor, as a nurse held the ex agents I.V steady as the push the gurney to the door. Cater spotted the crew of doctors "Hey!" Carter was stopped by a male nurse "I'm sorry sir; he's in critical condition…and needs CAT scan so we can see the internal damage" "I'm the lieutenant of the Philadelphia police depart…" stopping short after feeling for his badge realizing he left it in his glove compartment of his car. "Shit" Cater couldn't stop his hands from shaking 'why…why am I afraid' the brown skinned man seen this and his face softened. "you can stand outside the operating room, as soon as I hear anything ill let you know ok" Cater was staring out at nothing, fighting with his thoughts till he felt a hand on his shoulder. "Ok?" the nurse said with concern.
"Yeah….yeah I can do that"
The nurse smiled and began to walk to the room the other doctors took the ex agent. Carter slid his back to the wall thinking. 'This is my entire fault! If I never was such a fucking asshole!' pounding his fist against the wall 'you're a smart kid norm…you can beat this' he close his eyes trying to piece together who or what done this.
"When I find out…" he chuckled darkly "oh-ho man…"
A/N: Next chapter's will be before the incident ^-^