The jeep screeched to a sudden halt at the corner of West and Town and Dayne stepped out from the shadows of the dumpster behind which he had been hiding, he clambered into the passenger seat, barely having time to shut the door before Dan sped off once more. Dayne stared ahead frozen with fear as Dan put his foot to the floor hurling the jeep round street corner after street corner at break-neck speed as though he were a rally driver.
His knuckles were white as he gripped the steering wheel and stared stonily ahead his mind overflowing with images of the girl from the camera footages face, his ears ringing with the sound of her screams and the frenzied scrabbling of her limbs as she tried to free herself from her attackers.
Wordlessly he pulled up at the end of the darkened back street and leaping out he rushed over to the crumpled heap that was the unconscious girl slumped against the wall.
It took Dayne a couple of seconds to spring into action; grabbing the medical kit from under the front seat he hurriedly made his way over to the girl shoving a reluctant Dan aside so that he could examine his newest patient. Her lip was badly split and a trickle of blood oozed from the corner of her mouth, one side of the girls face was already discolouring with bruising, her chest was exposed and scored with deep lacerations, on the portion of her back Dayne could see without moving her there were a number of bruises that clearly resembled boot prints but most worrying of all was that her breathing was shallow and irregular and her pulse weak.
As the noise from inside the nearby club grew louder he turned to Dan. "The others, they did this?" Dayne questioned him. Dan nodded in response.
"She's in a bad way, if we're gonna get her out of here we have to do it now, if we get caught with her in this state we'll be linched". Dayne informed him as he began to panic.
"What do you mean if? We did this, not just Jeremy and Choy, we all did and we're going to fix it do you understand me?" Dan spat menacingly.
"Ok man, I was just saying, but we need to be quick otherwise she's going to die out here on the street and so will we if we don't get a move on". Dayne replied signalling for Dan to hold the girl's head and neck still whilst he slid a neck brace around it.
He lifted her carefully into the back of the jeep as he did so her arms fell limply by her sides like those of a rag doll. Dayne climbed in beside her and instructed Dan to drive steadily home.
