CHAPTER TWO- Simple Prayers

{through Don's eyes}

Yeah, I'm alive
I don't need a witness
To know that I survived
I'm not looking for forgiveness

Yeah, I just need light
Light in the dark as I search for the resolution

-JACK'S MANNEQUIN, THE RESOLUTION-

"LAUREN! DON'T YOU DARE DO THIS TO ME! LAUREN! PLEASE!" I roared at and begged the almost lifeless girl in my arms. However it was too late, she was already unconscious.

I took a step back and just watched as the paramedics prepared to load her into the ambulance. The back-up team already had the scumbag shooter, in cuffs and inhaling dust balls.

Was this actually happening? I simply couldn't believe it.

Lauren was laying there bleeding to death whilst I just helplessly watched. She just told me that she's in love with me and now she could be gone. I want to just hold her, to just tell her that I feel exactly the same. I have since we first met last year. She walked into the precinct with Mac and she smiled. That's all it took for me to fall for her.

However, that love could now be ripped away from me. I can't seem to move as I watch the ambulance doors shut. The shock of glimpsing one last look at her pale, ghostly face is probably what's got me stuck in the mud. I need to move again. I need to remember how to breathe and I need to get my ass to that hospital. I need to be by her side. She needs to stay alive.

The hospital. The germ riddled, plain old boring hospital. The thing I hated the most about these places, and I'm being perfectly honest here, was the horrid plastic seats. I knew instantly that when Lauren woke up, and she will wake up, she was gonna hate being here just as much as I do. She has never liked seeing people in the hospital because she believed that the, and I quote, 'dull place somehow fills people with hope'. When it came to hope, Lauren didn't have it. She was a glass half empty kind of person.

Now the whole gang was here. Mac, Stella, Danny, Lindsay, Sheldon, Adam, Sid and me all sat in a tiny cramped waiting room in an awkward silence. I don't think anyone could find the words. Lauren meant a great deal to everyone. She'd been with us for about a year and already she had captivated us with something I couldn't place my finger on.

I'm in love with her. I know that but I don't know why. Yes, she's absolutely beautiful. Her long brunette hair, her unreadable chocolate eyes, her naturally coloured cherry lips and of course her athletic body were all reasons why I'm attracted to her but something else is there too.

A machine. It pushed me back into reality. Someone was dying. Someone was losing themselves. Someone was giving in and I had this sickening feeling that I knew who that someone was. Lauren.

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