Friends Forever?
Chapter thirteen
Mary threw her hand up to her face in pain. A piece of the glass from the window had sliced her cheek.
"Mary!" Danny said as he saw the blood that appeared on the woman's hand.
"I'm fine. Just a little cut." Mary looked down at the end of the bed, where the rock had landed. "What does it say?"
Danny unattached the note from the rock. He looked up at Mary, "It says don't answer it."
Mary who was also confused looked out the newly broken window and caught a glimpse of Garrett. She let out a gasp just before there was a knock on the door.
"Danny open up! It's Luis! I need to talk to you about Mary!" the detective shouted through the closed door. Danny made his way to the door, but remembered not to open it. "Danny, come on! I know you're in there!"
Danny looked back and saw Mary coming out of his bedroom, but told her to go back before she could come close to the front door.
A few minutes past before Luis finally left McCoy's house. Danny just looked out the window to clarify his friend's action. "He's gone."
"Danny, you know Luis, he'll be back."
"I know, we'll worry about that when the time comes."
Both their heads turned towards the phone when it rang, Danny rushed to get Mary back in his room, just in case there really was a bomb. Once he was halfway through the door, the phone stopped ringing and it went to the answering machine.
"Don't leave a message, don't leave a message," Danny mumbled to himself.
"Danny come on!" Mary shouted at him, but he just ignored her.
The answering machine turned on, and the man started to speak. "Have a nice nap, McCoy," was all the man said and then the house exploded in flames.
Mary awoke with a burning sensation on her skin. She sat up slowly, and looked around. Nothing but burned furniture; what had happened? She couldn't remember a thing…where was she anyway?
Mary looked down at her hands; they were covered with blisters. She looked around once more but this time she saw something else than wood. A human body covered in blood. He also had burns all over him, but they were more severe than hers were. He was under where a doorway once stood, and she could see flames behind him.
What had happened?
Just Down the Street…Luis's car came to a sudden stop. He was about fifteen minutes away from Danny's place when he heard a loud explosion. He steered his car around and raced back to where he just was. When Luis got there, he saw the house was still standing. The detective grabbed his radio, where he ordered an ambulance and a fire truck. He knew Danny was in there, he just knew it.
Luis walked around back where there were less flames, and where Danny's bedroom was located. He looked through the window, which had recently been broken. He looked around for any sign of life. He could've sworn he saw something move.
Luis opened the window, which thankfully was opened. He covered his mouth with his sleeve and walked over to the body. Once he was closer he recognized who it was. "Mary!"
The woman turned around at the sound of a voice. She looked up at the man confused. "Luis, what are you doing here?"
He looked over Mary seeing that her hands were covered in 2nd degree burns. "Come on, Mare, we need to get you to a hospital," Luis said grabbing her elbow that was not wounded.
"Wait, Luis what happened?" she asked him, still puzzled about what had taken place.
"You were just a victim in a bombing."
"A bombing?"
"Yeah, now lets get you out of here, alright Mary," he said leading her to the window.
She stopped him. "Wait, where's Danny?" Mary asked looking around,
"Danny was in here when the house exploded?"
"Yeah." Mary looked back at the body under the fallen doorway. "Omigod," she said realizing who it was.
Luis looked at her bewilderedly, seeing nothing. He walked closer and soon knew who it was. "Danny."
"Is he alive?"
Luis checked Danny's pulse. "Yeah, but barely. Come on let's go."
"But what about Danny?"
"We'll get him, but right now we have to get out of here, before we all die."
"No, I'm not leaving here without him."
"Mary…"
"I'm not."
Luis took a deep breath and walked back over to Danny. He grunted as he picked the man up and once they were outside he set Danny down on the grass. "Go up front, see if the ambulance is here yet."
Mary did as she was told; the ambulance pulling up as soon as she hit the pavement. "Luis they're here!" she said shouting back to them.
The paramedics rushed back to where Danny lay when Mary instructed them where he was.
The put him on a gurney checking his vitals all the way to the ambulance, while Luis led Mary to his car. She stopped before she got in.
"I want to go with him."
"Mary, I don't think that's such a good idea."
"I want to go with him!" Mary shouted at him.
"Fine, you can go, but promise me you'll see a doctor." Mary nodded her head and got into the back of the ambulance, where she grabbed Danny's hand.
Luis stopped a paramedic who was about to join Mary and Danny in the vehicle. "I want you to make sure that she gets checked out by a doctor. If there's any news about any of the victims, I want the hospital to contact me," he said giving the man his card.
"Yes, detective." The paramedic got into the ambulance, and it soon drove away. Luis also got into his car and drove away, praying, just praying that Danny was going to be okay.
Las Vegas Hospital…"We need x-ray down here stat. May have one or two broken ribs, we need to get an IV into him, get some fluids going through it and into his bloodstream. Nurse, get me some Silvadene for the burns. Also have life support on stand by," a doctor called out.
Mary followed the gurney down the hallway, until a man stopped her. "I'm sorry miss, but unless you're immediate family you can't come pass this point."
Mary stopped in the hallway, right where she was. She watched as Danny disappeared into a river of doctors and nurses. "I love you, Danny," she whispered softly.
One of the paramedics walked up to the male nurse. "She needs to be checked out by a doctor. She was the other victim in the fire."
"Alright. Miss, can you come with me?"
"No! I have to be with Danny."
"Ma'am please, we need to make sure you're all right." The two men got Mary into a treatment room although it was against her will. "A doctor will be in here shortly, is there anyone you need me to contact?"
Mary thought of only one person. "Detective Luis Peres."
"I'll be right back, don't go anywhere." The nurse walked out of the room, while Mary remained sitting down. She was starting to feel pain all over her body, so she laid down.
Luis entered the hospital and ran straight to the front desk. "Where can I find Mary Connell?"
"Room 5678, sir. She's located in the burn unit because of the severe burns on her hands."
"Thank you." He power-walked to her room where he found her and a doctor talking.
"It seems you may have a slight concussion, Miss Connell. Do you have a headache?"
"Yeah."
"Do you remember anything before the accident? Maybe what you were doing."
"Not really, just a little bit."
"Alright. I'm gonna prescribe some acetaminophen for your headache caused by the concussion. Now you need to get a lot of bed rest and drink lots of fluids, okay?"
"What about these burns?" she asked lifting up her hands.
"Just rub some Neosporin on it daily and the burns should go away in about three weeks to a month."
"Okay," the doctor walked out of the room moments after she wrote Mary a prescription.
Luis sat down in a chair. "You okay?"
"I guess so."
"You know, Mary, I need to know what happened tonight."
"I wish I could tell you, but I really don't remember anything."
"You gotta remember something."
Mary thought hard. "All I can think of is Danny mentioning something about a bomb in the phone…um, you showed up and Danny made me stay in the bedroom. That's it."
"How did Danny figure out about there was a bomb?" Luis asked looking for answers.
"He never told me."
Luis kept writing notes on a pad of paper. "How did you end up at Danny's house?"
A tear slipped from her eyes and she swallowed hard. "The guy took me there, said I was going to stay with Danny for awhile."
"Who's this guy?"
"I don't know."
Luis put together the facts he already knew. Mary hadn't actually died, someone just had kidnapped her. Someone who wanted to kill Danny. "Does he have a reason for killing Danny?"
"Yeah," she said looking away from Luis. "He killed Linda, who was his wife or his sister."
"Do you remember Linda's last name?"
"Uh, I think it was Mercedes or something." Luis wrote the name down.
"When did Danny kill her?"
"When he was he was out the country serving as a marine. He killed her in a 'friendly fire' accident." Luis sighed in relief, Danny hadn't intentionally killed someone.
Their conversation was soon interrupted by a voice on an intercom. "Code Blue, all available nurses and doctors please report to room 5645, I repeat Code Blue."
"What's a Code Blue?" Mary asked as she saw doctors rushing by her room. Luis didn't answer her question, knowing exactly what it meant and whose room they were all rushing to.
The doctor rushed into room 5645 and was followed by a crash cart. She grabbed the paddles once they were charged and yelled, "Clear!"
The man didn't respond.
ooOoo
an: lot of time on my hands right now because I fractured my rib (ow!) the other day and my doctor has sentenced me to bedrest. (Ain't that swell?) And then my best friend, Jess had to be rushed to the hospital because one of her lungs collapsed (pray that she gets better please) Anyways, chapters will probably be longer and all medical info in this chapter is correct, I researched all of it. Pleaz review!
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