Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of CSI NY.. I am merely borrowing...
Her brain kicked into gear at the first crash and adrenaline carried her through, driving thoughts of Don Flack and a bottle of wine out of her head as she pulled her gun and started shooting.
Searing pain followed the moment of triumph that filled her when she caught his shoulder and she found herself falling back from the force of the bullet ripping through her.
Her mind filled with thoughts of Flack as she stared up at the ceiling.
When his face appeared above her…
She thought for sure she had died but then she saw his lips move and made out the anguish in his eyes as he yelled for the bus.
She willed him to read her mind as she stared up at him, unable to speak, until he scooped her up in his arms and carried her out.
She was ruining his tie.
If she'd had any energy to do anything more than to will herself to stop bleeding and stay alive… she'd laugh. But the would have hurt even more.
But she adored the fact that he didn't mind that tie. She'd given it to him for Christmas.
There were so many things that she wanted to tell him.
She stared up at him aftr he'd laid her down in the car.
"Jess stay with me…"
"Jess … don't leave me, Jess…"
She felt like she was underwater as she heard him. She could hear her heart beating in her ears… the blood pounding in her ears as she felt the warm hot stickiness of her blood soaking her clothes… the pressure of his hand on her abdomen.
"Jess… I love you. Stay with me baby."
Oh how she wanted to stay with him.
Wanted….
Wanted to tell him…
Tell him that she… she loved him.
Don stared at nothing. Tears falling and hope dying inside him as he stared blankly at Danny. Her last words to him pounding in his head.
He'd never think about a black slip of satin or a bottle of wine again without seeing Jess Angell in front of him again.