Chapter One
The first sound after arrow fired was a loud thump and a loud scream of pain. John turned around to the noise and saw Jamie on the floor with the arrow sticking in the lower part of his abdomen and a pool of blood slowly forming underneath him.
Once John had gotten over the shock, he rushed over to Jamie on the floor forgetting everyone else around him. He knew that every seconded counted and had to stop the bleeding or steam it. So, he pulled off his suite jacket started putting pressure onto the wound. Jamie hissed out in pain and the then tried to say, "I'm sorry… sir I."
John then looked at him and said "Shh Jamie, don't worry about that now. Just save your energy. You need to keep your eyes open. I know it hurts Jamie. Look you can hear the ambulance help is coming. Just keep those eyes open."
The second the paramedics turned up they rushed over to and John said "This is DS Jamie Winter; he's been shot with an arrow. Please take care of him"
Within in moments of them arriving Jamie was stabilised and placed in the ambulance and rushed straight to the nearest hospital.
Once John knew that Jamie was in safe hands, he went into DCI mode. Making sure that the suspect and person who caused this pain was being dealt with and said to the uniform officer "I want you to add attempted murder of Detective Sergeant Jamie Winter to the list of charges including 2 counts of murder. If you need me, I will be at hospital."
Once John had reached his car the adrenaline had started to disappear. Before he did anything, he need a reassuring voice so called his wife Sarah. It took him 3 goes to dial the right number and a further 3 rings before she picked up. Before she could say anything, John said "Sarah can you meet me at Causton Hospital. Winter been shot with a Bow and arrow."
John then drove in silence to hospital suddenly realising that he needed to dig out Jamie's next of kin details. He did a u-turn and headed back to the office.
Once he got there, he noticed that how much quite the office was without him there. When he pulled up Jamie's personal file he noticed that his next of kin was blank and that the system showed it happened within the last month. Wondering if the death in service payment would shed any further light to who he should contact. When he looked it up John was shocked that any money left in the event of Jamie's death would go to one person a Miss Betty Barnaby.
John shut down the PC and headed towards the hospital wondering how he would inform his wife that his Sergeant had no one he felt that cared for him.