Chapter 12 – Always yours
Buck opened his eyes slowly, his vision was blurred and he felt disoriented. The light hanging above was dim, but the sharp pain throbbing in his eyes made the pain even worse. He tried to focus his eyes to no avail. As he woke up properly, his body begun to ache as a sharp pain shot through hit him as he grinded his teeth trying to hold in the agonising scream. Buck's vision was slowly coming to as he went to move his head to look around, he felt someone grab it forcing him to look forward. Buck looked forward seeing a blurred figure in front of him as he got his eyes to focus on who it was, he saw Chase, he was smirking as Buck saw the enjoyment in his face.
"So? What shall it be?" Chase grinned as he walked slowly towards Buck, grabbing his chin and lifting it up to get a better look in his eyes, Chase was enjoying every moment of this.
"Just… kill me." Buck shakes his head moving Chase hand off him.
"Who said you could talk?" Chase snarled as he tightened his fist hitting him with a hard blow to the face.
Buck looked down to his side as he spat the blood out and felt the sore throbbing pain erupt in his jaw as Chase stepped back smirking.
"Cut his shirt off, I think we need to teach him a lesson. To talk when spoken to." Chase snarled as he walked round him inspecting him.
Aaron grabbed a pair of scissors from the table as he begun to cut his shirt off catching him with the scissors on winced in pain and he gritted his teeth, not wanting to let these jerks know how much it hurt. Aaron threw the scissors on the table as he picked up the belt off the table, Chase turned his head and smirked as he looked over.
"No, that won't do it." Chase said. "I think he needs a harsher lesson."
"Then what?" Aaron stared at him confused.
"Get your phone out." Chase told Aaron as he complied and got his phone out to record. "I was inspired for this, I decided to make my own Roman Scourges whip, they used it on the slaves and called it the cat nine tails, one handle, nine whips attached to cause more pain."
Bucks eyes widened in horror as he looked at the whip as Chase held up his own hand made, Chase moved round getting a grip on the handle as Buck heard the leather in his hands as he twisted his hand around the handle to make sure his grip was secure. Within a second, Buck felt the most excruciating pain as Chase whipped him, Buck tried to hold in the screams as tears rolled down his cheeks as Chase continued Buck begun to cry out in pain, with each forceful whip his back was split and ripped as blood begun to seep down his back, each whip tearing through the open wounds even more. Aaron stood filming the ordeal grinning as he moved round to get a better view of Buck's back as Chase turned around stopping, the blood seeping out of Bucks back as he dug his fingers in as Buck screamed in pain begging him to stop. Chase took a step back laughing slightly as he smirked and looked to Aaron as Aaron panned the camera to him.
"So then Eddie, we know you don't care for Buck but surely his sister cares about him? She would want nothing more than for poor Bucky to come home safely." Chase smirked running his hand through his hair. "So, I suggest you get a move on, you have one hour counting from the minute this video ends, next time we may not be so kind."
Aaron pans the camera round to Bucks face laughing as tears fell down his face, his back was on fire as Aaron grinned.
"Anything to say babe?" Aaron grinned as he leaned close.
Buck remained silent as Aaron smirked and ended the video sending it to Eddie, he looks over at Chase who stood cleaning off the whip as Aaron walked over the two begun to talk to each other, Buck couldn't hear anything but felt weak, tired and felt his body just giving in as he gritted his teeth.
Eddie stood leaning on the bannister over the docks, as he looked around he saw the other docks across the coast in the distance. Ssilence fell as he was left alone with his thoughts, the reality soon hit him. The challenge ahead and everything hanging on him. He turned his head to see everyone stood behind him, their faces begun to lose hope in their eyes as he knew himself, he was losing hope.
"Hey, we will find him." Lena said softly as she tried to lift the atmosphere and raise their hopes.
"We'll find him?" Maddie snapped in frustration. "Where do we start, Lena? Where do we even start? It may not even be here!"
"He's here, I feel it he's somewhere here its just where…" Eddie turned his head back to face the docks.
"Well how do you know that?" Maddie barked at him.
"In here." Eddie pointed to his heart. "You have to trust your gut, your gut it always right."
Amongst their passive-aggressive attitude towards each other they fell silent when Eddies phone went off. Eddie looked over at Lena and Maddie as Lena grabbed Maddie's hand who gripped it tightly. Eddie pulled his phone out he knew what it was and who it was, an hour had passed. He should be heading to the destination already. He unlocked his phone and saw a message as he closed his eyes and took a deep breath as Maddie let go of Lenas' hand and walked a few steps away shaking her head, she could not face it anymore. Eddie moved over to Athena and Lena as he clicked the video and it begun to play as their eyes widened in horror at the video, Eddie felt his heart drop and felt the sick forming in his stomach, Lena clasped her hand over her mouth in horror and disgust at the brutality of the video. Athena moved away in horror, covering her mouth breathing heavily as she crouched down. Eddie turned the video off pausing at the end of the video and seeing how Buck face look defeated he couldn't speak he just couldn't take it anymore. Tears flooded Eddies eyes as he gripped his phone hard as Athena moved and begun to throw up, the brutality of the video and the gore twisted her stomach as Lena looked over to Eddie.
"I'm so sorry Eddie, I didn't realise how bad it was when you told me over the phone… We will get him back and they will pay for what they've done I promise you." Lena said as she grabbing his arm reassuring him.
"What's the plan though? Look at this place it's a maze, endless turns, where do we even start? We have an hour you heard him." Eddie wiped the tears from his eyes as he looked over at Athena as she was leaning against the bannister as she covered her mouth.
"We can't waste any more time then." Athena said slowly as she looked over to them. "The longer we spend here talking about what to do instead of doing it we will get another video and this time it will be worse."
"She's right." Maddie spoke as she turned around to look at them. "I'll go and ask at the security desk; they may have seen Chase or Aaron around or at least be able to point us to some sort of direction of derelict old buildings."
"I'll go with Maddie, just in case, it's better to go in pairs." Lena said as she walked over to Maddie as she put her hand on her back and lead her away as Athena looked over at Eddie as Eddie looked at her, she hung her head shaking it.
Eddie pulls Athena up as they head off in a different direction scanning the area for any clues or any signs to them. Maddie and Lena walked up to the security desk in silence.
"Hey, excuse me. Have you seen these two men around here at all or hanging around?" Maddie asked as she turned her phone round showing a picture of Chase and Aaron to him.
The security guard took the phone to get a better look but shook his head handing the phone back to Maddie.
"No sorry, I only started the other day, the best person to ask would be Max down by the boats." He turned pointing down to the gentleman by the boats as Lena looked round.
"Why?" Lena quizzed.
"He's always here, I wouldn't be surprised if he lived here honestly. He's got eyes and ears here, he's your best person to find those two." He shrugged.
"Okay, thank you." Maddie smiled as she turned and headed over with Lena to Max, Lena noticed the security guard walking off as she thought fthat was odd for a second she glanced at Maddie unsurely, but she cme to a decison.
"Hey, you go check with Max and get some information off him, I'm going to check something out." Lena said as she walked off.
Eddie and Athena walked round, looking in empty buildings after empty buildings, their hopes fading faster by the minute. Eddie checked his phone it had already been thirty minutes as he sighed running his hand through his hair as he looked at Athena.
"Athena its been thirty minutes already. What are we going to do?" Eddie sighed
"We will find them, and we will get him back I promise, and they will pay for what they've done." Athena smiled at him weakly.
"They will pay for this; we will make sure they can't hurt anyone ever again!" Eddie snarled as Athena noticed a different look in his eyes.
"You're not going to do something stupid. Those two boys need you and you won't be any good being locked up because you didn't think clearly." Athena glared at him her voice like a mother's tone.
"I know, I won't do anything stupid I'm just… so angry." Eddie sighed.
"We all are Eddie, but you got to remember your counselling and remember to keep calm and think clear." Athena sighed.
"I will… I wonder if the others have had any better luck." Eddie looked back towards the docks.
"They will call if they do." Athena said softly as she gestured them to continue.
Back at the docks, Maddie walked down to the boats as she approached Max as she gave a soft smile as Max looked up noticing her instantly.
"What's a pretty lady like you doing out here? Never seen you 'round these parts before. Do you need a boat to somewhere?" Max asked wiping his hands.
"No, I just wanted to ask you something. I spoke to the security guard and he sent me down here said I'd have a better chance of getting answers from you than him as he only started the other day." Maddie smiled at him softly as Max raised his eyebrow.
"Well I can help you he's honest about that but he's lying there about how long he's been here sweetheart; he's been here for years. Strange for him to lie. What did you ask him?" Max asked curiously.
"Have you seen these two guys around here at all?" Maddie asked handing her phone to him with the pictures of Chase and Aaron on it as he scanned the photos.
Max eyebrow raised curiously as he looked at Maddie and looked at the photo as he handed the phone back.
"Actually, yes I have, it's a bit interesting actually." Max said.
"What do you mean?" Maddie asked confusedly.
"They've come down for the past few days, never really spoke to them but the security guard you just spoke to he spends some time with them. They go down to dock 21, it's a maze down there full of run-down buildings." Max said firmly as Maddie eyes widened slightly as she realised Lena had vanished.
"Thank you for your help." Maddie said softly. "I guess he's made a break for it."
Maddie walked off as she pulled her phone out and rung Eddie as Eddie picked up the phone.
"Any luck?" Eddie asked.
"Actually yes. The security guard claimed he had been here for a day so he sent me to a man called Max. He's seen Chase and Aaron here and they spend time down dock 21 he said it's a maze down there full of rundown empty buildings but here's the best thing I was told the same security guard we asked apparently he spends a lot of time down there with him." Maddie said as she looked around.
"Great, that's all we need, 21 is going to take us ages, meet us at the truck." Eddie said as he hung up and turned to Athena.
"Well?"
"Maddie and Lena quizzed a guy called Max. Apparently they come down here for the past few days, they're at dock 21 and worst of it all the security guard they asked lied and he spends time with them in dock 21." Eddie said his anger flaring up.
"Eddie, it took us thirty minutes to get here; its going take us thirty minutes to get back, we're not going to make it before the next deadline. If the security guard has caught on, he's going to let them know now and they may move him." Athena said anxiously as they begun to speed walk back. "Right, I'm going to call it in, going to get the area blocked off and every vehicle searched, no one in nor out now."
Athena and Eddie turned and begun to run back to the truck trying to beat the deadline.
"Okay. Thanks for the heads up." Chase hung up the phone turning to Aaron.
"What's up?" Aaron asked
Chase pulls Aaron over away from hearing range as he whispered to Aaron as Aaron turned.
"You're joking!" Aaron yelled angrily as Buck lifted his head slightly to look over at them.
"Somethings wrong, I need to hold out a bit longer… could it be Eddie? Maddie… What is the point, no one wants me…" Buck deliriously thought, with pain hammering at him.
Buck looks up as he was greeted with Aarons fist to his face.
"This can't be happening." Aaron hissed as he landed a few more blows to Bucks face and chest as Buck begun to cough as Aaron used him as a human punching bag.
"Calm down." Chase snapped angrily. "Look the hour is nearly up, its time. You want to get your frustration out then you can lead this one. We need to move before they have this place locked up."
"Sounds good to me… can start the video early and send it when the hours up." Aaron grinned.
"Well, well Bucky, looks like we got to move." Chase smirked as he cracked him in the face.
"Grab the bar." Chase pointed as Aaron looked over at the metal bar on the floor and grabbed it
"Why?" Aaron asked
"Break his ankle." Chase demanded.
"So, he can't run?" Aaron smirked as he passed the bar over to Chase as he took it, tightening his grip around it. Aaron walked over grabbing the phone as he begun to record.
"Well times up pretty boy… well, I mean he isn't so pretty anymore now is he?" Chase smirked. "Let's break that precious ankle of yours, got make sure you can't run."
Chase swung the bar as it smashes against Bucks ankle. He screamed in pain as the sharp stinging pain shot up his leg as it begun to throb. Soon enough, the blow was followed by another as he screamed in pain. Chase smashed it against his ankle two more times as he threw the bar on the floor stepping back smirking. Buck felt the pain striking up his leg throbbing as he soon passed out from the excruciating pain. Chase grinned as he walked over grabbing a surgical knife as he turned looking at Buck as Aaron looked over smirking as he continued to roll the video, Chase walked over and lifted bucks face slapping his cheek to see if he would wake up, dropping his head down he moved the blade over bucks chest as he begun to cut into Bucks torso slicing his flesh as he does it several more times and begins to laugh manically as he throws the knife and turns to the camera.
"We know you're on your way, sadly by the time you figure it out and get here we will be long gone before you arrive and he's coming with us. We told you what we wanted, and it seems like you don't care nor could comply so I guess this is the last time you will see Buck sort of alive." Aaron smirked as he ended the video and sent it.
They take Buck off the restraints and drop him to the floor, grabbing his arms they drag him towards the door ready to leave as they're about to open the door they hear a commotion outside so they decide to head out the back way and into another part of the buildings to hide.
"What do we do? They could be out there." Aaron asked.
"It's too soon." Chase said shaking his head in disagreement.
They look around trying to see if they could see where they could go, they notice there is a walkway leading across the waterfront and it leads into the hills.
"There, we go for the hills?" Chase pointed
"That's a good ten-minute walk and that's not including the dead weight here." Aaron pointed to Buck.
"We don't have a choice, put this bag over his head and tie him up." Chase demanded.
They quickly tie him up and place the bag over his head and head out keeping low so no one can see them as they walk along the waterfront, they hear a woman's voice.
"BUCK!" Lena screamed at the top of her lungs
Eddie pulls to the side, he pulls his phone out and opens up his video and begins to watch it as he begins to cry as he watches what they do to Buck, he hears a gasp as he hadn't realised Maddie had come up behind him.
"Eddie, please tell me they all haven't been like that?" Maddie pleaded as she begun to cry.
"Maddie I'm so sorry." Athena said softly as she grabbed her hand squeezing it.
"I didn't mean for you to see this Maddie." Eddie sighed as he closes his phone ending the video. "Wait… Where's Lena?"
"She went off." Maddie said looking round.
"You don't think she's with them, do you?" Athena asked looking over to Eddie
"No, she wouldn't have brought us here if she was." Eddie responded
Eddie goes through his phone looking for her details and contact number and calls her.
"Lena? Where are you?" Eddie asks.
"I had a suspicion on the security guard, so I followed him." Lena responded
"You're at dock 21?!" Eddie snapped
"How do you know?" Lena asked confused.
"That guy Max, he told Maddie. Be careful were on our way." Eddie said as he hung up and they all got into the truck.
Eddie begins to drive as he puts his foot down, Eddie was determined to get there and save Buck. They approach dock 21 they saw Lena she was coming from the buildings and heard her screaming for Buck. Eddie jumped out his truck and rushed over to her grabbing her.
"Where is he?" Eddie asks
"They must have left. He must have tipped them off." Lena panicked as she looked around.
"But they only sent the video ten minutes ago." Eddie looked confused as he scanned the place.
"Well they wouldn't have gotten far. We need to spread out and search." Athena responded as her and Maddie finally caught up. "Lena go with Maddie and stay with each other; I'll go with Eddie and let's go we haven't got much time."
They all split up and begin to walk around, Lena and Maddie round the outside and Eddie and Athena in the centre of it all. Asthey walk through buildings, they can see blood. Eddie closed his eyes and clenched his fists, he instantly knew it was Buck's and the images of Buck and the tools and the torture he endured begun to become into his head as Eddie stomach churned. He looks over to Athena, who's on the phone calling it in, getting whoever, she can to the docks as soon as. They continue searching around but they couldn't see anything, Eddie wises there was a sign to where they could have gone, he looks to Athena who was looking back at him and shines his torch towards the back and sees something reflecting as he walks over to it, there's more blood on the floor, he looks round the area and walks round the corner and hidden in the corner is a door.
"Athena! Over here!" Eddie shouted.
Athena walks over quickly as she pulls her gun out and opens the door slowly and points it up as they walk through, they end up outside they look around and they see Lena and Maddie walking towards them.
"Any luck?" Maddie askes nervously
"Nothing, you guys?" Athena asks looking over to them.
"The guard didn't know where they had gone." Lena said shaking her head.
"I persuaded him with my boot after he thought it be smart to try pull a gun on me." Lena hissed.
"He did what?" Maddie asked in horror.
"Yeah he knew where they were so I followed, once he got here I knew this was the place so I asked him politely where Buck was and he tried pull the gun on me so I managed get it off him and broke his arm and then he begun to sing after that." Lena said as she ran her hand through her hair.
"What do you mean?" Eddie asked confused.
"They've been planning this for months, Chase got the guard off for some illegal charges so that's why he was helping, repaying his debt to Chase in a way. They were originally bringing Buck here after Aaron had got more closer to Buck but because people kept interfering, they moved the plans up and then Buck managed to get away." Lena responded.
The whole time they were talking Eddie is looking around, hoping to see something, some sort of sign, in the distance he sees two figures moving and they begin to make their way to them, he gets closer and he sees its Chase and Aaron as everyone else begun to follow Eddie.
"Stop right there!" Athena shouted. "You have nowhere to go!"
Chase and Aaron stop and turn around to see everyone stood there, Chase pulls a gun out and holds it to the bag over Bucks head.
"Two choices here, you either let us go and we let him go or you try to shoot us, and I will his empty head with bullets." Chase responded
"Don't hurt him!" Maddie screams begging them.
As they stood there the tension built as the guns were drawn. Buck begins to slowly to come round to the commotion, he opens his eyes but sees nothing but darkness, he moves his head slightly and feels the bag against his head and something pressed against his skull as he freezes.
"Where am I? Where are you taking me now?" Buck questioned.
"If I was you, I'd stay quiet unless you want something bad happen because you don't know how to keep quiet." Chase snarled.
"Buck! Were here for you. I told you I would come." Eddie shouted.
"Its Eddie! He's here he does care for me, even after everything…"
"Stand him up." Chase barked.
Aaron places Buck to his feet as Buck groans in pain, his body ached and was sore and in pain all over, it had suffered severe torture throughout the entire situation, he feels his body weakening and as he feels like he's about to pass out.
"Look, let him go and we will let you leave." Athena shouted as Eddie turns his head to her.
"Yeah, and I bet there's cops all over this place." Chase shouted.
"Aaron bend down and grab that rope, wrap it around Buck's waist." Chase whispered.
Aaron bends down and picks the rope up tying it around Bucks waist.
"What are you doing?" Eddie quizzed angrily. "Leave him alone, take me!"
"You would love that wouldn't you? Doing something heroic for the man you love." Aaron shouted as Buck head turns in shock to what Aaron just said trying to comprehend what was just said.
Eddie is floored by what Aaron shouted in front of everyone as he froze for a moment.
"You're asking yourself, now aren't you? How do we know this?" Chase grinned
"Come on we have people everywhere who owe me a lot of favours, that kind nurse in the room, yeah her. you remember her, right? She told me exactly where you were, what she heard you say to him as he slept, looks like you may miss out on telling him. The cops that came to take the statement they were mine too." Chase starts.
"You're evil." Maddie shouted angrily.
"No evil is your brother for screwing me out of my money." Chase snarled.
Eddie takes a step forward as Chase cocks his gun up.
"Eddie I'm sorry about Chris." Buck shouts as his head begins to swirl with all kind of thoughts as he begins to believe he is about to die.
"He's okay, he's in hospital but he will be okay." Eddie shouted
Aaron and Chase begin to laugh as they grinned.
"What?!" Eddie shouted angrily as he felt his temper flaring up.
"We told him the kid had died, even made fake news to make it so believable." Aaron smirked.
"You're both sick in the head." Athena shouted angrily.
"Well maybe we are, but you're not so innocent yourself. Because of you lot you pushed him straight to us, you made it so much easier to get to him. So really this is all on you." Chase stated
"Look I'm getting bored and I want to get out of here, so what choice you are making." Aaron snarled.
"The one where we get Buck and you guys get put away." Athena shouted responding to Aaron as he shoots her a dead glare.
"Yeah… I don't really like that; I much prefer this." Chase smirked as he moved pushing Buck into the water as Aaron kicks the rock off with him as Eddie screams.
"No!" Eddie runs as he dives into the water.
As he was diving, he hears a gunshot then a burning pain as he realised, they shot him through the shoulder as he hit the water, he dives into the water. Athena begins to fire as Lena pins Maddie down to the floor to get her undercover as Chase and Aaron moved to cover.
"We need to help him!" Maddie cries. "They shot Eddie!"
"Stay here." Lena held her hands up gesturing to her to stay as she runs and jumps into the water.
Lena swims down looking for Eddie as she can see him, he has hold of Buck pulling the bag off his head and working on the rope trying to get it loose, Lena swims over and pulls her knife out as she cuts the rope and helps Eddie to swim to the surface with Buck. They break through the water gasping for air as they hear gunshots in the distance, they swim to safety by the side of the docks so no one can see them.
"Oh god Buck! You're okay. I've got you." Eddie panics as they keep Bucks head afloat.
"I'm sorry for everything." Buck gasped.
"Don't be sorry, none of this is your fault. Let's get you out of here." Eddie said
They slowly swim along the wall keeping low and quiet, Eddie leading the way as Lena helped Buck, once they got to the ramp, they pulled Buck out of the water as they take a deep breath.
"Stay here." Lena said. "I'm going to tell them were out stay here."
"Please be safe." Eddie said softly.
They watch Lena run as she keeps low, Eddie looks down at Buck and sees him beaten up nearly upon recognition but took comfort in knowing he was still alive, Eddie starts to cry the shock of nearly losing him catches him up.
"Eddie. I'm…" Buck starts as Eddie cuts him off.
"Buck… I love you, I mean I really love you, I wish I had told you sooner but after everything you had been through I kept quiet to help you heal and put you first, I promised myself when I found you I was going to tell you and I'm sorry I didn't sooner…" Eddie cries as he held Buck.
"You love me? Like really love me?" Buck quizzed
"That's what I just said." Eddie smiled slightly.
"You're not just saying this? Not just messing with me?" Eddie asked
The question hurts Eddie, but he understands where Buck is coming from, he couldn't imagine the torture of what they said let alone the physical aspect as Eddie leans down and kisses Buck softly.
"Does that answer your question?" Eddie smiles weakly.
"Yes…" Buck smiled slightly as it begun to face. "Is Chris really okay?"
"Yes, he may need surgery but he's going to be okay… Like you are." Eddie said softly
"They told me he died Eddie, they made it look so real…" Buck stuttered as gunshots fire above as Buck darts his eyes above.
"It's fine it's fine, I've got you, Athena won't let them near you." Eddie soothed Buck.
Amongst the gunshots firing above in the distance sirens wailed drawing closer.
"If I'm going down you're coming with me!" Aaron shouted.
They both look up to see Aaron stood above them pointing the gun at Buck, soon the area falls silent as the wind passes through and the ocean moving and hitting against the docks, in the moment the sound of the sirens drown out as Aaron fires one shot and then fired a second. Buck looks up and sees Aaron falling to the ground, blood forming in his torso as he drops the gun, as Aaron hit the floor they saw Athena stood behind holding the gun up still. Buck didn't feel any new excruciating pain rippling through his body, he looks down to see Eddie laying on top of him as blood begins to pool through his stomach to the side as Buck begins to scream in hysteria.
"Eddie! No, No, No. Don't quit on me, please!" Buck pleaded as he rolled Eddie onto his back wincing from his own injuries, the adrenalin pumping through Buck gave him enough energy to move Eddie to his back.
Athena runs down to their side to help Buck, they apply pressure to the shot as Maddie comes down and moves Buck, as she feels her instincts kick in as she begun to treat Eddie to the best of her ability.
"Buck, speak to him! Keep him awake." Maddie spoke firmly to Buck as he Buck nodded in agreement. "Athena help me turn him, I need to see if its gone through."
They turn Eddie slowly, applying pressure when Eddie lets out a scream in agony as Buck strokes his face and kisses his head to try calm him down as they put him back on his back.
"It's still inside, we need to hold pressure. I'll apply, Athena you need to go get that ambulance down here now we can't risk moving Eddie and the bullet moving." Maddie commanded as Athena looked over at her, her eyes wide in horror and anxiety rushing through her.
Athena gets up as she looks to see the flashing lights as she takes off to them.
"Hold on, Athena is going to get help." Buck reassured Eddie as he ran his hand through his hair. "You owe me a date Diaz, you can't quit on me now."
"I…I promise… I'll take you on a… magical date." Eddie winced through his words as he begun to feel light headed.
"Stay awake Eddie, come on you can do it, think of Chris. He's going to need you when he wakes up." Buck reassured him some more.
Buck looked down and noticed there was more blood coming out of Eddies shoulder wound, Buck moves applying pressure to the wound as he looked up to Maddie in horror.
"Maddie I can't… I can't lose him." Buck stutters as tears begin to form in his eyes.
"We wont, just keep pressure on him. Yes! the medics are here, look." Maddie nodded her head to their direction.
The paramedics rush over and start working on Eddie instantly as another starts on Buck, checking the wounds, giving them both some morphine to help with the pain, once they got them stabilised enough they got Eddie onto the stretcher first and got him to one of the ambulances as the placed Buck onto another stretcher as Maddie held his hand.
"Don't split us up…please." Buck begged.
"We can't fit the two of you in the ambulance on stretchers, you know that." The medic reassured him. "We will take good care of him, I promise you."
"I'm sorry, but you can't sir, I promise we will do everything we can to make sure he survives and you do as well." The medic said as Maddie looked over at him.
"Buck, you've endured a lot you need medical help as well, they will look after him I promise you." Maddie spoke softly squeezing his hand.
Eddie is whisked away in the ambulance as they get Buck into the other ambulance, Buck looks up to see Aaron lying on the floor, no motion from him, his face pale and his eyes wide. He knew straightaway that he was dead. He turned his head slightly, he could see Chase being dragged out of the area in handcuffs. It was over, it was finally over, and he knew it. They couldn't get him no more, Buck took a deep sigh of relief as he relaxed as the doors shut and the sirens blared as they begun to move, he turned to see Maddie holding his hand as he gave her a reassuring smile as she smiled at him softly as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I'm so happy I found you." Maddie said. "I don't know what I would do if I lost my big brother…"
"I'm not going anywhere…" Buck smiled as he closed his eyes to rest.
Bucks eyes open when he hears the radio from the front stating that there was a cardiac arrest and that they were losing the patient from excessive blood loss, Bucks heart stopped he didn't know what do he was stuck in a separate ambulance and Eddie was in another dying. He looked at Maddie who was listening her face said it all.
"No, no not Eddie, please." Buck says panickily as he tries to stand, he passes out.