Don't own them. Ain't mine just borrowing
Chapter 2 of 3
John was sick with regret that he hadn't stopped that second bomb. His only consolation was that Natalie had not been in the hospital. He had seen her and Vicki outside before he had found the first bomb and since no one had been let back in after that he was sure she was safe.
He himself had avoided the bulk of the blast because he had been in the stairwell at the time the second bomb went off. After that things had happened so fast. He had raced to the ER where Jessica and Antonio were getting there just in time to see them being taken out. Bo had told him that they would be ok and that neither was seriously injured. Now he was helping out the rescue crews find any other people that might have been in the building before it collapsed all together.
John was headed out to the lobby when he heard a muffled groan. He looked around and didn't see the source. It came again and he focused in on the sound. Following it he found himself looking at an injured Marty Saybrooke. He heaved a mental groan at the sight of her. It wasn't that he didn't like the woman, on the contrary he felt bad for her and her son and tried to help them out, but it was becoming obvious to him that she wanted more from him then he was willing to give. He still loved Natalie and even if he didn't he wouldn't get involved romantically with the woman that in all reality had let Spencer go free because she had felt sorry for him.
With a tenderness that he would have used with any victim he bent down and shook her a little to wake her up. "Marty," he voiced, concerned. She had a nasty gash on her head that was seeping blood and he worried that she had a concussion.
Marty groaned and her eyes flapped open, "John?" she said huskily.
John was happy that she was waking up "That's right. You're gonna be ok Marty." He wondered silently what she had been doing at the hospital but shrugged it off when she shifted on the floor and moaned in apparent pain. He was about to say something else when Miles Lawrence came into the lobby yelling for Marty. "Over here!" he yelled to Miles. He didn't trust the other man but he knew he was in love with Marty so he wouldn't do anything to her.
Miles rushed over to them and exclaimed, "Oh, gosh. This looks like a nasty cut. Marty are you ok?" He loved Marty even though she tended to treat him like a simpleton. She was smart, beautiful and wonderful, the perfect woman.
Marty groaned at this new development, she didn't like Miles in the least and wished he would leave her alone! She wanted John and she had gone to great lengths to get him away from that slut Natalie. She wasn't about to give up all that hard work for this moron! "John, is Cole OK? He wasn't here was he?" She said sluggishly, deliberately slurring her words to play on his caring nature.
John frowned at the question, "What would he be here for?"
Miles frowned too, at both Marty and John. He wanted to get John away from Marty so he said, "Maybe you could go look for him see if he was here?"
John thought about that for a minute then, wanted to go look for others anyway, shrugged and replied, "I'll go call him for you. Then I got to get go back and help with the search." He looked at Miles and gave him a stern look, "Make sure she gets that head looked at."
Miles was relieved that John was leaving and smiled down at Marty, not seeing her annoyed look. He called over one of the EMT's and they helped Marty out of the building and on to a gurney so they could clean and dress her cut.
Marty was tired of being with Miles so she tried to think of a way she could get rid of him so she could slip out and meet up with Spencer. She knew what he wanted to do with Natalie and she wanted to see the look on the bitch's face when he told her. Hiding an evil grin Marty said to Miles sweetly, "Could you get me some water? My throat hurts. And Oh... could you see if John has found out anything about Cole?"
Miles nodded eagerly, happy to do her bidding. He went in search of some water and John. He didn't see Marty slid off the gurney as soon as he disappeared from sight and slip off to her car.
John called Cole's cell phone and was relieved when the boy picked up. He told Cole about his mother's injuries and that Miles was taking care of her. He ignored the boys not so subtle hints that John would have been a better choice so stay with her and quickly got off the phone and back to work.
As he rounded the corner he spotted Miles talking to Vicki, they appeared to be having an argument and he wondered why. He approached them and heard Vicki saying something about Todd.
"Mrs. Davidson?" John said politely.
Vicki spun around in relief. "John! Have you seen Natalie?" Vicki had gone to get help for Todd, that had taken a little time but Todd was in stable condition now and on the way to the nearest hospital along with Jess and Antonio (couldn't use LV Hospital now could they?). She had come looking for Natalie to tell her only to find she was nowhere to be found and Vicki was getting very worried.
"Natalie? What was she doing in here?" John was very concerned now. He didn't want Natalie anywhere near this hospital. It was very dangerous with all the loose wiring and crumbling, unstable walls.
Vicki took a deep breath and tried to explain, "She was in the waiting room when the bomb went off." Seeing John's panic she hastened to calm him, "She wasn't injured John. She was fine. But she stumbled on to Todd! He was badly injured but not just from the explosion. She was going for help when I bumped into her. She went looking for Blair and I went for a doctor." Vicki had to stop when tears started to overwhelm her.
John put his hand on her shoulder and tried to calm her down. "Then what happened?"
"I found Michael and he patched Todd up enough to get him into an ambulance and ship him to the closest hospital. I was gonna follow in my car, because Jess and Antonio are there too, but when I went to tell Natalie I couldn't find her!" Vicki burst into tears and began to sob.
John was terrified something had happened to her and he called Bo on his walkie. He asked if he had seen Natalie. Everybody was on the same walkie system so when John asked they all answered. No one had seen her.
Vicki heard and was even more terrified for her daughter. Suddenly she remembered something, "Todd!"
"Todd?" John asked her, he didn't understand her statement.
"He said something about Natalie. I didn't understand him but it seemed like he was scared for her. Maybe..." She left the statement unfinished, not knowing what she was implying.
John picked it up in his head and finished the thought, "Maybe he knows something." He called Bo on his cell not wanting everyone else to hear and told him what was going on. Bo told him to go question Todd if he could and that he would keep looking at the hospital.
Knowing instinctively that Natalie wasn't there John left the hospital to talk to Todd and hopefully get some answers. Vicki went with him. She knew that there was nothing she could do at LV hospital and she wanted to be with Jess and also to be there with Todd.
They drove in complete silence, as both were lost in their own worries and concerns.
To be Continued...
