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Adam sat quietly as he and the rest of the team sat around the table in the conference room. The topic of discussion: Adam. "He can stay with us," Lindsay spoke up first.
"Not an option, you two have Lucy to watch out for," Mac pointed out.
"Why don't we rotate him between me, Mac and Hawkes?" Flack offered up.
Adam was getting madder by the minute, I am sitting right here, please stop talking about me like I'm not here. Stop treating me like I can't take care of myself. Adam mind screamed, why can't they just ask me. Why can't they just treat me like before?
"What about a safe house?" Danny offered.
"He'll be expecting that," Mac responded.
"You can just stop," the young lab tech shouted. They all looked at him, giving him that same look. He hated that look, the look of pity, the look of feeling sorry for him. He loathed that look. "Forget it," he got up and left.
Leaving them all behind.
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He leaned up against his locker, closed his eyes. His head felt like someone had taken a jack hammer to it; the lack of sleep hasn't helped either. But every time he closed his eyes, every time he tried he saw the barrel of that handgun. And the team treating him like that, though they meant well didn't help either.
Slowly he opened his eyes, spotted his black duffel bag, Danny had brought back with him. He was glad that he had; now all he needed was a shower.
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"Did you find him?" Jo asked.
"Someone saw him storming off towards the locker room." Mac said in relief. "I know this has been hard on him, but I've never seen him like this. Adam is so laid back."
"He's had to deal with a lot Mac; I mean he was held at gunpoint, if that gunshot was four inches to the right, Adam would be in the morgue right now." Jo stated.
"I know I just wish he'd talk about it. We can all see it eating at him, he's withdrawn, I haven't seen him eat anything, and it's been over twenty-four hours since he's slept, put all that together it puts Adam on a mental downward spiral."
"I know he needs to deal with this, but right now the biggest thing we can do for him now is treat him like Adam."
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His head still hurt, but at least he didn't stink anymore. He popped a couple of aspirin and cupped some water and downed the pills, hoping that they would bring relief to his pounding head. He looked into the mirror, he looked like crap, and his bruises on his face had started turning a harder color of purple and yellow, not to mention that the circles under his eyes made him look paler then what he was. He popped out his hip and looked down at his side.
"You're dead," he hissed as he brought the gun down onto Adam chest hard.
No, this isn't happening, he tried to scream for Mac, but the words failed to come, trapped in his throat. He fought hard, taking and forcing the gun off his chest.
"If you live, I'll find you, and we'll finish this at a later date. My promise to you," he whispered in Adam ear. Adam helplessly watched him escape out of the window and heard the clanking of his boots on the fire escape.
He heard footsteps coming up from behind him shaking the bitter memory from his mind. "Hello?" he hollered no answer. "Mac is that you?" Fear washed over him like a wave. Gripping the sink, while fear pumped through him, he tightly shut his eyes.
"Hello Adam," the cold voice cooed.
He refused to look up into the mirror to see him. "You're not here," he whispered.
He laughed. The sound of the hammer being pulled back echoed all around him.
Adam heart raced, this wasn't happening, this wasn't happening that's all his mind kept repeating. He was about to die and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
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"That is one long shower," Jo observed.
"Yeah it is, maybe he's just trying to clear his head." Mac offered up.
"So what are we going to do about Mr. Tompkins?" Jo turned and looked at Mac.
"He's in the wind, not much we can do, just try and keep Adam out of his sights. I've got all units out with his mug shot. Maybe we'll get lucky."
"And if we don't? I mean we can't hide Adam forever, eventually he'll have to try and get back to some sort of a normal routine."
"True but right now Adam doesn't have much of choice."
