Mai looked was in shock, Lin was lying on the floor unconscious. "Lin!" She shouted as she ran up him. "Lin, Lin, wake up!" She knelt beside him and shook him slightly. At that moment Naru came out of his office to see what all the noise was about. "Mai! What is all the noise ab….." He stopped what he was saying when he saw Lin on the floor. He quickly walked up to him and knelt beside Mai and put a hand on Lin's shoulder. "Lin can you hear me?" Naru said to the unconscious man. Naru placed his hand on Lins' back and ran his hand down his back. Mai looked at him questionably.
"His neck and spine seem in line, did he hit anything on the way down?" Naru questioned turning to Mai.
She shook her head "I don't think he did, he just…." Her voice began shaking. Naru placed one hand on her shoulder. At that moment Ayako, Monk and John came into the room; they were soaked. Monk and the others pulled their coats off and put them on the radiator to dry.
"It's awful out there….." Monk stopped and looked at the scene before him.
"My god…" Ayako said staring at the three figures on the floor.
Monk, Ayako and John walked up to Mai and Naru. "What happened?" John asked kneeling down.
Monk looked at Mai who had began trembling. "Mai?" Naru took his gaze of Lin and looked at Monk. "He collapsed not to long ago, can you call an ambulance"
Monk scratched the back of his head "There's one hell of a storm out there Naru, the phone lines have gone down and cars are loosing control on the roads"
Ayako looked at Lin "I can check him over to see if there is anything injured"
Nodding Naru moved out the way. "I checked his neck and spine and nothing seems out of place" He explained.
"Okay" Ayako replied, she gently pulled Lin on his side. "Mai can you get some pillows off the sofas and bring them here."
"Okay" Mai did as Ayako asked and got the pillows.
"Now put them behind his back so he doesn't roll on his back" Ayako explained as she tilted Lins head up slightly to open his airway. When Mai had put the pillows behind Lins back the group looked at Ayako.
"Now what?" Monk asked
Ayako sighed "We should really call an ambulance but as Monk has said the lines are down, the best we can do is monitor his breathing and pulse until he wakes up"
The team took turns monitoring Lin while the others were keeping an eye on the weather and looking for things to do around the office. Mai was sitting beside Lin when he began to wake up. "Lin?" she said moving into his line of vision. She watched as his dark eyes looked around the room, trying to absorb the information of the environment that they could see. The other members of SPR noticed that he was awake, and began to walk towards him until Ayako stopped them. "It's best not to crowd him; he's most likely disorientated at the moment"
Lin looked at the group and attempted to get up only to be gently pushed back down by Ayako and Mai. "It's okay" Mai said rubbing his shoulder slightly to try and calm him down. Ayako looked at Lin "Do you remember you name?" Lin looked at her blankly.
"Do you think he has concussion?" John questioned.
"Either that or he hasn't figured out what's going on yet" Ayako explained.
Looking at Lin, Mai softly placed a hand on his head to look for any sign of him hitting his head; she brushed some hair out the way and found a lump on the side of his head; he winced when she touched it.
"Guys, I think he did hit his head pretty hard, there's a lump on the side of his head" Mai said.
Ayako turned around to face her "Is it open or closed?"
Mai glanced at the injury "It's closed"
Ayako sighed in relief.
Moving slightly Lin tried to remember what had happened. I was on my way back to the office….then I was on the floor, did I blackout? I must have Lin thought as he tried to sit up again. I wonder how long I was out; my limbs feel stiff, most likely form lying on the floor. He was cut from his thoughts when he felt some put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm….fine" He said trying to brush the hand off. He turned and saw that it was Mai who was now trying to help him sit up.
"Do you want to sit on the sofa for a bit?" She asked.
Lin shook his head "No…I need….to do some work"
"Lin you cant do work after you've just passed out on us"
Not feeling up to arguing with her he sighed "I'll sit on the sofa for a bit"
Smiling at him, Mai slowly helped the thin man to his feet and across the room to the sofa. After she sat him down she collected the pillows from the floor and put them back on the sofas. He squinted at the brightness of the room and tried to shield his eyes from it. Naru noticed this and sighed before closing his black notebook and walked over to the window drawing one of the curtains shut to allow the brightness to decrease. Putting his hand down, Lin nodded a thank you to Naru who nodded in return.
"You might one to lie down for a bit and get some rest" Monk suggested walking up to Lin and pushing him slightly to make him lie across one of the sofas on his side. Ayako and Mai began moving the pillows to a more suiting place to make Lin comfortable, while John went to get an icepack from the fridge. John entered the room with an icepack wrapped in a towel. He gently placed it on the head injury caused Lin to hiss in pain slightly.
"Sorry" John apologized; Lin waved it off telling him that it was fine.
Within a few minutes Lin was asleep, Mai looked around the room. "Do we have a blanket some sort around here?"
Naru looked up at her "Why do you think there would be something like that in the office?"
"I don't know, I guess we can use our coat…"
Monk nodded "I agree with you there Mai" he said pulling off one of Lin's shoes while Ayako pulled the other one off. John went to the find Lin's coat; he came back a few minutes later with the item. He placed it over Lin. After Lin's shoes were off Monk went to go get his on coat off the radiator along with Ayakos, and Johns which had dried. Mai collected hers as well and put it on top of all the other coats. She was shocked when another black coat was put on the pile; she looked up and saw Naru whose attention was on Lin. She smiled and stood back. "I guess we are going to be taking turns looking after him" she said smiling.
A/N - A big thank you for reading this story as well as commenting, following and favouriting it, it really means alot and I hope to see you next chapter.