"Kay?" Elle called as she knelt over him, lightly shaking his shoulders a bit to try to rouse him. He didn't move, didn't twitch. Not good at all. She started to quickly check him to see how badly he was injured.

His breathing was weak, maybe six or seven times a minute and his color was horrible. His pulse was very thready and she couldn't even find it in his wrist, only in the neck and groin. His blood pressure had to be dropping rapidly. She slipped her jacket off, folding it and stuffing it under his feet to elevate them. She was worried about a possible injury to his back but that would have to be dealt with later. Her first concern was to keep enough blood circulating to keep him alive. She unfastened the top of his pants and slipped her hands along his stomach feeling for any swelling. She bit back a sob when she felt his rigid stomach muscles, knowing that that signalled bad internal bleeding. She had to get him back to headquarters fast!

Just then she remembered Kay's communicator and frantically fumbled in his jacket for it, sighing with relief when her fingers touched the object. "Jay?" she called as she pulled it out and flipped it on. She just hoped he was paying attention and the water hadn't damaged the communicator.

"Elle, where are you?" Jay called as he pulled his communicator out and flipped it on. He had been frantically searching the riverbed looking for any sign of his friends since the water had swept them away. "Where's Kay?"

"Jay, he's hurt. I need you to get the LTD and follow the communicator signal until you find us. I have no idea where we are." Elle told him.

"Drive the LTD? I can't do that! I don't have the keys!" Kay couldn't believe what Elle was saying about Kay being hurt. Kay was Mr. Perfect MiB. How could he have been hurt by a little water?

"Jay, hot wire it or something! I don't care! Just get here fast! We have to get Kay back to headquarters now!" Elle cried as she continued to check him as she talked, her fingers carefully examining his head and neck, feeling for any tenderness or swelling that might signal an injury.

"Hotwire the LTD," Jay muttered as he climbed into the car and leaned down under the dashboard. Kay was going to kill him for this. Of course Elle did tell him to do it. Maybe he could blame the entire thing on her if the car was damaged and escape with his life.

******

Elle was still examining Kay when the LTD pulled up and Jay hopped out. Jay started to come over to them but stopped in horror at the sight of his partner laying there, bloody and battered. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"Kay?" he whispered as he stared down at him in shock.

"Jay, pull yourself together," Elle told him as she looked up at the shocked agent. "We have to get him back to headquarters now!"

"What can I.... How bad is it?" Jay murmured.

"He's bleeding internally. I know that much. I need you to help me lift him. We need to get him into the backseat of the LTD. Just be very careful not to move him too much. I can't be sure there isn't spinal trauma." Elle said as knelt by Kay and prepared to lift his legs. "Come over here and get his head and shoulders and lift when I do, alright?"

Jay numbly followed Elle's instuctions, helping her to lift Kay and quickly lay him on the backseat. Elle scrambled in and knelt in the floorboard beside him, quickly checking his pulse and breathing again as Jay climbed behind the wheel.

"He's going to be alright, isn't he?" Jay asked as he started the car, watching in the rear view mirror to see what Elle was doing to Kay. Just then he noticed her taking a hand and slipping it into his groin. "What are you doing?"

"Femorial pulse," Elle murmured. She was starting to loose that. His blood pressure was dropping faster now. He was starting to slip towards irreversable shock. "Jay, get us to headquarters now!"