Chapter Nine
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Chapter Nine
Doug felt himself drifting off, he had gone nearly two and a half days without sleep, and he was struggling with the exhaustion and lack of food, yet he knew he had to stay awake for the sake of his partner. He shook his head to clear his cloudy mind, yet the fog soon dispersed at the sound of a groan coming from his partner. Doug's heart raced, partly relieved that the younger man was showing signs of life, and partly saddened to hear his partner is such obvious pain and distress.
Tom Hanson slowly made his way through the darkness that had held him in it's clutches for so long, he walked away from the comfort and the warmth, yet his body rebelled against him, flashes of pain coursing through his battered body his damaged lungs struggling to draw each shallow breath, his heart pounding unnaturally quickly as it desperately tried to pump the ever diminishing blood through his veins, his pulse weak and threading yet racing. Doug gasped as he felt the heat radiating from his now conscious partner.
"Tom?" he called gently, and Tom's chocolate brown eyes slowly fluttered open, the pain glazed orbs gazing at him. He groaned once more, unable to hold back, he squeezed his eyes tightly shut against the pain and his back arched in a weak attempt to rid himself of the pounding agony radiating from every part of him.
"Jesus Doug, help me!" he whispered, his voice desperate and his tone begging. Doug bit his lip, his heart breaking at the pain on his friend's face, the man was his best friend, his partner and his brother, and yet he knew he could do next to nothing to help him.
"Shh Tom, its okay, Fuller will be here soon, and it'll be okay. You'll be tucked up in a comfortable bed surrounded by pretty nurses soon enough" he tried to console the smaller man.
"It hurts!" Tom told him, squeezing his partner's hand so hard in reaction to his pain. A lone tear slid silently down Doug's face in response to his partner's words, he had never felt so helpless in all of his life. Without utterly a word he tenderly stroked the blood and sweat soaked dark hair away from Tom's face, offering what little comfort that he had to offer. He sat like that until his partner softly slipped back away from the World, back into the comforting arms of darkness, where death tempted him and beckoned towards him using what little strength Tom had left to resist. In truth Doug wasn't so sure that his friend would make it out of there, the slighter man had a number of serious injuries, he had lost a hell of a lot of blood and at least one of his wounds had obviously got infected, and there was absolutely nothing that Doug could do about it.
"This is ridiculous, it's like they've vanished into thin air!" Judy ranted, her frustration growing with every passing hour. Harry sighed from his position beside her.
"I know what ya mean Jude, Tom's been missing for days now, and Doug's been gone for what nearly a day and a half? I just don't get where they could be!" Harry agreed, both officers knew that with each passing hour the chances of finding Tom alive grew slimmer and slimmer. The two officers continued on their way through the darkened street,, eventually coming to a stop at what looked like a dead end. The two stopped and sighed, both frustrated that yet again they had found to find anything. It was just as they were both turning on their heels that Harry happened to look down at the floor, and noted a tiny pool of what looked like blood.
"Judy, wait a minute look at this" he called to his partner. He squatted down besides where the blood had pooled, and then reached for his radio. "Looks like at last we might be getting somewhere" he told the woman besides him, and then the two of them set about trying to figure out how to open the sturdy door before them.
"Sir, I think we may have something. There's a pool of blood outside what looks like some sort of lockup. We think it might have something to do with Tom and Doug" Harry spoke into the radio. Fuller closed his eyes in a moment's reflection, he wasn't sure if he felt relief at the thought of them finally finding their missing colleagues, or if his concern was heightened by the fact that his officer was obviously still bleeding, and quite badly by the sounds of it.
"Okay good work Harry, we're on our way" Fuller finally spoke into the radio, yet he got the distinct impression that it didn't matter at all that he had replied, fro his officers were more than likely well into the task of trying to rescue their fiends. With one final gaze around Fuller called a halt to the search and sent the teams to Harry and Judy, keen to offer all of the backup and support that he possibly could, for it was more than beyond time to rescue his boys.
End Chapter Nine
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