New York Detective That Complicated My Life
I had arrived at the hospital shortly after they had put me in the back of the ambulance. Right now I'm laying in a hospital, waiting for the doctor's report and doing nothing. I'm just going to come out and say this, that I'm not the type of person who can contentedly lie in one place for periods of time doing nothing. I need to be up and moving! That's why I am not liking being in the hospital.
I'm in the process of sitting up in bed when Danny and Mac walk into room.
"I'm perfectly fine, why can't they just let me go home?"
"Hate to burst your bubble there Annabel, but you're not perfectly fine. In case ya haven't noticed, you're in a hospital." Danny comments as he sits down in a chair across the room.
"Thanks Danny, thanks a lot for keeping it real." He just smiles as he makes himself comfortable. Mac comes over to the hospital bed.
"Annabel, I and I think I can speak for the rest of the team when I say we're going to get the guy that did this. Now, Stella told me you saw his face, can you tell me what you saw."
"Yeah His hair and beard looked like he wad homeless, but the rest of him was just... off for someone who's homeless. Clean shirt, pants and a decent pair of shoes."
"One of them was fake, And I bet you that the hair and beard were fake. It would be way to easy to spot someone with crazy facial hair, the clothes though were probably real. Or who know's, maybe it's the other way around." Danny responds as he looks at Mac. Just as Mac opens his mouth, the doctor walks in with a clipboard.
"Mrs. Stevens you are a very lucky girl. The cuts on your face and arm had just missed major arteries. The blows to your back had not broken and ribs or caused internal bleeding."
"So does that mean I can go home?" I ask, excited to hopefully getting the hell out of here. The doctor laughs and shakes his head.
"Yes you can, but you can't do any overly vigorous activities and your going to need to take these antibiotics when you wake up and when you go to bed. Do you have someone to watch over you?" He looks over at, which causes Mac and Danny do the same thing. I open my mouth to say no when I hear a voice go "Yes she does, and it's me." I look towards the door of the room and Flack is now fully in the room.
The doctor nods his head. "All right then, here are the antibiotics, you can leave whenever your ready." The doctor hurries out of the room. Danny stands up from his chair and pats Flack and the shoulder.
"Last time I believe you when you say she's not your girl." Flack turns to respond but Danny has already walked out of the room. Mac follows behind him.
Flack comes over from the entrance of the room to stand next to the hospital bed. My eyes are still somewhat wide at his entrance and then I realize that he already said he'd be coming. Lucky the doctor's had left my clothes on so we can avoid the awkward changing.
"Told you I'd be coming, so are you ready to leave?" He asks, lightly placing hand on my shoulder. I respond by trying to sit up and get out of bed.
"I take that as a yes, but easy there. Your going to kill yourself." He helps me get out of the bed by coming to stand in front of me. He takes his hands and lightly places them on the area right above my hips. I slightly stiffen up as a reflex.
"Relax." He whispers as he get's a firm grasp on it, then lightly lifts me up out of the bed and places me on my feet, in front of him. He drops his hands from my hip area and sticks them back his sides.
"See, you didn't kill yourself trying to get out of the bed. You should be glad I'm here." He spoke with a hint of laughter.
"Yes I am, cause what would I do if I didn't have you to help me out of bed when I can get up on my own." I say sarcastically as I walk towards the entrance to the room. Flack follows me out of the room.
"Stella already brought a bag of some of stuff you'd need while your staying with me, I hope that's ok." He pulls me off to the side in the doorway of an empty room, away from the hallway.
"Yeah that's fine but... I didn't think you were serious."
"Didn't think I was serious about what? You staying with me?" I nod my head slightly.
"Of course I was, I need to know your going to be safe at all times. I can have that piece of mind if you're at my place. Besides, it will give me an opportunity to be able to see you more." He looks at me as he starts to raise his hand up to my face but stops and puts it back down. He instead pushes some strands of hair off of my face. He walks out of the doorway, pulling me along by the hand.
The next ten minutes were spent getting out of the hospital, in the car, and off to his place.
As were riding in the car, he attempted to make small conversation about his work, the new York rangers but I just continuously stared out the side window. It's not that I didn't want to make conversation with him, I do it's just for some reason I can't make the words come out of my mouth.
I'm still staring out the window when I finally notice the car has pulled to a stop and he has turned the car off.
"We're here." I move my head from the window to raise my eyes so I could look at him. I blinked, but what I saw truly terrified me for the 3 seconds I did see it.
I saw the guy, holding a knife up to my face and digging into my cheek, and this time I screamed instead of whimpering. I shutter as I open my eyes again.
"You ok?" I look at Flack and see that he just saw the entire thing. His blue eyes show concern.
"Yeah I'm fine." I open the door and get out of the car. He comes around to the other side of the car and takes my hand and starts pulling me towards this brick building that has multiple stories. Once we get inside the building, we only have to climb a single set of stairs (thank god for that!) Before he steps in front of a door. He takes out his keys and unlocks his door. I hear the lock click and he opens the door. The inside of his place is simple. The rather small kitchen is towards the right of the entrance. There's a wall to left that has photo's covering most of it. Him with a women who I assume is his sister Sam, one of the biggest ones though is of him with Mac, Stella, Danny, Hawkes, and a girl with longer brown hair.
"Your bag is in the guest room. It's down the hall and to the left. You might want to get some sleep it's almost 11." Nodding my head I follow his directions as I go down the hall and to the left where I see my bag sitting on the bed. I walk into the room and the bed is situated in the middle of the room with a lamp on the bedside table. My favorite part of the room is the window sill that is big enough for me to sit on and it over looks the street. Turning my attention back to my back, I open it to see what's it. Stella put a few outfits in there along with my travel size makeup bag along with a few other things I would need. When I one of the side pockets, there's a frame in there. Taking it out, it's the picture of me and my Cousin Tony with a Sticky note attached to it. It reads 'a little slice of home, stella." Smiling I take a shirt and sweatpants out of the bag and I put that on. I go to lay down in bed, but when I close my eyes again, I see his face again, except he was holding the knife up to my throat.
Getting out of bed, I make my way over to the window and I was right, I do fit on it. I situate myself to where the window is to my left and if I were to look straight ahead I would be staring at the door. I tuck my knees up closer to my face and wrap my arm around my legs. I look out the window and find myself getting lost in the world outside. I'm only dragged out of it when I hear a knock on the door. Taking my head away from the window, I look at the door and see Flack in a shirt and sweat pants as well.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" He asks his arms crossed.
"I can't." I admit, my voice becoming weak.
"How come?" He asks, coming over and leaning against the window sill in front of me.
"Every time I close my eyes, even when I blink. I see his face, the look in his eyes. I see the knife being pressed into my face. Hell, I can even remember the smell. The image is just burned in my eyes."
"Why is it getting to you? I know your stronger than that."
"I'm afraid ok? I'm afraid that he's going to back and the next time, I'm not going to make it out alive and if I do it's not going to be by much." I look at him, and I think Flack finally get's it because he uncrosses his arms. He lightly grabs my arm and pulls me up from the window sill. He walks over to the bed, lays down, and rests his head against the headboard.
"Come here." He motions for me to come over. I walk over to him and he pulls me down next to me.
"What are you doing?" I ask him as I move slightly to give him room but he pulls me closer to him.
"I am going to stay here until you fall asleep, because you need to sleep. I want to help you, so let me do this... for you." He starts stroking my hair lightly. Slowly, my eyes start getting heavier. I move my head onto his arm to use a pillow.
"Thank you." I mumble as I start getting extremely comfortable.
"Your welcome." Flack says. He continues to stroke my hair as his other arm and hand wrap around me, holding me closer to him.
"I'm not going to let anything happen to Annabel." He whispers.
"How long." I was fading fast but I know I heard him say "As long as you want me too."
So in my opinion I thought the ending was incredble, what do you guys think