"A rattlesnake?" Jay said as he stared at the frozen reptile. It had to be five or six feet long at least.
Just then Elle screamed as she opened her eyes. "Snake!"
"It's okay. Kay froze it," Jay said as he and his partner knelt by her and Kay started to inspect the damage. Jay could barely bring himself to look at it. There was so much blood, too much blood, covering her upper body and face.
"Let's get this jacket off," Kay muttered as Jay propped her up a bit so they could ease her out of the black jacket. He ripped at her sleeve, exposing swollen flesh that was already beginning to turn purple. Blood was pouring from two neat fang bites in her lower arm and the swelling was already above her elbow.
"You look funny. All yellow," Elle murmered as she stared up at them. She felt so lightheaded and sick.
"Slick, go and get the first aid kit. We have to stop that bleeding," Kay said as he pressed his hand over the fang marks to try to slow the blood loss.
"Elle, what happened?" Jay asked when he came back with the supplies a minute later. He was relieved to see that his partner had managed to slow the blood loss a bit.
"So stupid," Elle muttered. "I tripped on a rock and fell right onto the snake." She moaned in pain and shut her eyes again. It made her feel sick just to have them open.
"Elle, what do we need to give you?" Kay asked as he finished bandaging her arm and started to carefully clean some of the blood off of her face. As soon as he did that the thing he had thought he had seen before was exposed, fang marks, at least three sets.
"You're going to be okay," Jay said as he took her hand to try to reassure her. "You said you had the stuff to handle Denubian bites, right? A ordinary earth rattlesnake should be a piece of cake."
"It would be if we had the antivenin," Elle moaned. Her face felt so funny and she struggled to bring her wounded arm up to feel it. "What happened to my face?"
"It's alright," Kay said as he took her arm and lowered it to the ground again. He definately didn't want her to feel those bites. "You need to keep that arm still. Now, what did you say about the antivenin?"
"We don't have it. A Man in Black getting attacked by a rattlesnake was just an impossible situation to imagine. I think we might have a vial or two at headquarters but that's it." Elle said as the full force of the situation hit her. She was going to die.