Managed to quickly type this one up. It's short I know, but there will be longer chapters coming soon :-)
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Far From Home P5
Nick and Mike were sat in a corner of the library, talking amongst themselves.
Windham, Claudio and Bryan were trying in vain to get a signal on their cell phones.
Randy and Paul were sat on an old sofa, discussing what they'd both seen in the basement.
Brock and Heyman stood by a desk in the centre of the room talking about a new storyline the company want Brock in.
Granted, it probably wasn't the best time, nor place to talk about something so trivial, but else were they supposed to do?
Joe, Colby and Jon were sat on the floor.
Colby was playing a game on his phone, Joe was looking at pictures of his family on his and Jon was still clutching his shoulder.
After a few minutes, he slowly and painfully made his way to his feet.
"Where are you going man?" Joe asked his friend.
"Gonna try and find a bathroom" Jon mumbled before walking out of the room.
"Do you think he'll be ok on his own?" the Samoan asked Colby.
"He's a big boy" the smaller man said, his eyes not leaving the screen of his phone.
Jon wondered the hallways.
Eventually, he found a small bathroom and walked inside, closing the door behind him.
He let out the pained breath he'd been holding.
He raised his sore arm slowly and looked at the blood that trickled down his side.
When he'd leapt forward to help Colby, he hadn't noticed a bit of wood sticking up in the air.
It had stabbed him just under his armpit on his side.
He hadn't realised it had happened until his adrenaline had worn off and he'd felt the sting of his pierced skin.
He hadn't told Colby or Joe, simply because he knew they would worry and fuss over him.
He looked down at the wound and realised it may be best to tell them sooner rather than later as blood continued to flow freely, light headedness beginning to set in.
He turned the taps on to try and get some water to clean himself up, but nothing came out, instead, the pipes just creaked and groaned from being unused.
He huffed in annoyance and instead decided to head back to the library.
Once inside, he slowly walked over to Joe and Colby.
They both looked up at their friend and noticed the sheen of sweat that glistened on his ashen face.
"Are you ok man? You look pale and you're sweating" Colby asked worriedly.
"M'fine" Jon told him.
"Bullshit man. No offense, but you look like shit. You've dislocated your arm loads of times before and you've never been in this much pain. What's going on?" Joe asked him.
"Just…don't...freak out okay?" Jon asked them.
"Why would we freak out?" Joe asked worriedly.
Jon slowly lifted his arm to show them the wound under it.
"OH, SHIT JON" Joe shouted, inadvertently gaining the attention of everyone else in the room.
Jon scowled at his friend, then turned away from all of the staring from everyone in the room as he lowered himself to sit on the floor.
"What's going on?" Paul asked.
"It's Jon...he's..." Colby started but couldn't seem to get the words out.
"He's what?" Paul demanded.
"He's hurt" Colby finished.
"We know that already" Mike said while glancing back and forth from Jon to Colby.
"No asshole, he's like, really hurt bad" Joe told them.
"What's wrong?" Paul asked as he made his way over to the man sitting on the floor.
Jon hesitated momentarily but then slowly lifted his arm to show his boss the damage.
"Jesus Christ. What the fuck happened?" Paul asked, crouching down to take a closer look at the wound.
"M'fine" Jon told him unconvincingly.
"Oh, you're fine? Is that why you're pale and sweating? You look like you can barley sit up" Paul told him sternly.
Windham, Bryan and Claudio stood up from where they were sat and walked over to them.
"We think this may have been a hospital. We'll go and see if we can find any sort of medical supplies. Some bandages maybe" Bryan told them.
Colby and Joe nodded appreciatively.
"Thanks guys" they said as the trio left the library together.
"Someone go and get some water" Paul said to the remaining men in the room.
"Can't, already tried. Pipes are rusted up" Jon told them through gritted teeth as a wave of pain ran through him.
"When I asked you earlier if you were ok, why didn't you tell me you were hurt?" Joe asked his friend, somewhat annoyed.
Jon winced again as pain shot through his side.
"I didn't wanna worry you. Were in enough mess as it is, I didn't wanna add anymore shit on top of that" he told him honestly.
Joe brushed the man's sweaty hair back and huffed.
Seeing how badly hurt his friend truly was made him go easy on him.
He looked like he could barely sit up, let alone take a verbal bashing from his best friend.
"I got an idea to help with the bleeding" Randy said just before he walked out of the room.
Windham, Claudio and Bryan made their way around the lower part of the structure and looked for any type of first aid kit.
With all of the random medical equipment they'd found around the place, there had to be something there that was of use.
Eventually, they came to a door that said 'Supplies' on it.
The door however, was locked.
Bryan started to try and barge the door open with his shoulder.
"Let me try" Windham told him.
He stood in front of the door and with a few strong kicks, he managed to get the door open.
Inside, they found sheets, pillows and blankets.
"Grab some Claudio, these will come in handy for tonight" Windham said as he began handing the items to his friend.
As they continued to look around the supply closet, they came across a small box with random medical items in it.
After some rummaging, Windham found some bandages.
"Brilliant" he said aloud as he grabbed all that he could find.
They pulled the door closed and began to head back to the library.
After being gone for a few minutes, Randy walked back into the library holding a small bowl.
He walked over to where the men were huddled on the floor and handed it to them.
"Here. It's rain water. It's not perfect, but it's something to help clean the wound with" he told them.
Joe nodded his thanks before taking it and sitting back down.
Windham, Claudio and Bryan made their way back into the room with the supplies they'd found.
"Here guys, found some blankets and pillows" Claudio told them as he put them on the sofa next to where Randy was sitting.
Windham walked over to Jon, Joe and Colby and knelt down.
"Here, I found some bandages in a storage room" he said as Joe took them from him.
"Thanks man" Joe said appreciatively.
He and Colby then set about cleaning Jon's wound and wrapping it in bandages, using their phone light as a torch to see what they were doing.
As they were half way through dressing the wound, they all heard footsteps from above them.
They all looked at each other expecting to find someone had wondered off and was upstairs looking around.
Upon further inspection, and a head count later, they were all there and accounted for.
The same question was in every single one of their terrified minds.
If they were all in the library, then who was walking around upstairs?
To be continued…
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