The police jumped on Tony after the gun went off, wrestling him to the ground taking the gun from his grip and slapping him and handcuffs then throwing him in the back of the car.
"Call for a medic we got one shot." Dave heard the officers yell after slamming the car door shut.
Dave moved from the spot where he landed after grabbing a hold of Tina and throwing them both on the ground trying to shield her from harms way. He looked at Tina lying on her side in front of him, she wasn't moving and her eyes were closed. Dave moved his hand, not knowing what to do, to the side of her neck to check for her pulse. Dave breathed a sigh of relief when she opened her eyes at his touch, he then looked Tina over not seeing any blood anywhere on her he held his hand out to her and pulled her into a sitting position. If Tina wasn't shot then who were the cops calling the medics for, Dave thought to himself. His question was soon answered when he followed Tina's gaze to the body lying on the ground. Tina jumped from porch, ran over and knelt down beside the person.
Tina couldn't believe it, Hunter had jumped in front of the bullet to protect her, and he saved her life and the lives of her babies. Tina placed her hand on the side of his face; Hunter turned his head slightly her way and opened his eyes. Tina looked down at his chest and seen that his once white shirt was now blood red, quickly jumping into her doctor mood, Tina began yelling out orders while ripping his shirt open to exam the wound. With in seconds Dave had returned to her side with a bunch of his towels, Tina took one towel and placed it over the wound applying pressure to try and stop the blood.
"I need you to roll him on his side to see if the bullet went straight through." Tina ordered to Dave and the few cops that had come to help her. Answering her order, they carefully rolled Hunter onto his side, the bullet hadn't went through meaning he would need surgery and soon, Tina nodded her head letting them know they could roll him back. "When are the medics coming?" Tina asked the officers starting to get nervous. Tina knew that the bullet had to have hit arteries and that if he was going to live he had to have them repaired and soon. Tina couldn't let him die after what he just did for her, but she couldn't just open up his chest right here on the ground she didn't have any of the right instruments. Tina placed a hand on the side of his neck, his pulse was started to fade, his breathing was beginning to become shallow, his eyes were glazing over, Tina was loosing him and fast.
"Hunter you have to stay awake." Tina applied a little more pressure to his chest. "Come on Hunter I know you're tougher then this, just stay awake." Tina looked at his whitening face.
"Tina." Hunter whispered.
"Don't talk; you have to save your strength." Tina cut him off.
"Tina how bad is it?" Hunter coughed out.
"Not that bad. Don't worry as soon as the ambulance gets here, we'll get you to the hospital and get you fixed up. Then you can take a long two day vacation." Tina joked trying to get his mind off the pain. Tina noticed that Hunter had closed his eyes and his head was slowly rolling to the side. "Damn it, Hunter you can't do this to me." Tina grabbed his head in her hands trying to get him to open his eyes. She lowered her head to check for breathing then checked for a pulse. Not feeling either she began to do chest compressions, starting the motions of CPR.
"Their here." Tina looked up seeing the flashing lights on the ambulance as it pulled to a stop beside the police cars. Three paramedics jumped out of the back and ran over to assist Tina. Tina began giving them the details of the injury as one of the paramedics placed a mask over Hunter's mouth and squeezing the bag after Tina did five compressions. He then checked for a pulse it was faint but it was there, Tina told them to get an IV started before putting Hunter in the back board and loading him in the back of the ambulance.
Dave sat out in the waiting room staring at the clock; three hours ago Tina brought Hunter in to the hospital barely alive. He hadn't heard anything in the past three hours, he was dying inside he needed to know how is friend was. Dave looked up and saw Ric coming through the hospital doors, Dave stood and walked over to the older man. Dave explained what happened to Hunter and that Tina was in working on him, as they walked back over to the chairs. They sat there for other hour before Tina appeared before them looking exhausted. She walked over and sat beside Dave placing a hand on top of his.
"He's going to be just fine." Tina whispered giving the two men relief. Dave pulled her to him wrapping his arms around her placing a kiss on her forehead. "He's sleeping right now, I had to do the surgery down here because they couldn't get an operating room, but everything went okay."
"Can we see him?" Ric asked softly.
"Yeah." Tina stood keeping a hold of Dave's hand as they walked down the hall to Hunter's private room. "We had to put a tube down his throat so he could breath easier and he has an IV and is hooked up to a couple monitors." Tina explained as she pushed open the door to the room. The three quietly walked in to room and over to Hunter's bedside. Dave and Ric stood there watching as the toughest guy they knew laid there helplessly with tubes and wires sticking out of him. "He should sleep for a couple more hours, so if you two want to go down to the cafeteria and get something to eat I'll stay here with him." Tina looked from Hunter to Dave and gave his hand a squeeze. Dave nodded his head knowing that Tina was starving and he could stand to watch his best friend and mentor lie there in that hospital bed and there was nothing that he could do to help him. Once the door had shut behind Dave and Ric Tina pulled a chair up beside Hunter's bed, she sat down and took a hold of his hand and gave it a little squeeze as she slightly prayed for God to help her friend make it through, Tina had told them that Hunter would be okay but she couldn't be sure until he opened his eyes and started to breath on his own. Tina wiped away the tears that had started to fall for the first time that night, she laid her head beside Hunter's shoulders and let the tears fall, she was relieved and happy yet at the same time she was upset, she was the reason that Hunter was in this hospital he's there because he saved her and now he was knocking on deaths door because of her. Maybe Hunter was right in everything that he told Dave the night at the hotel, maybe she was nothing but trouble.
Just then she felt a hand on her shoulder, thinking that it was Dave she lifted her head from the bed and wiped her eyes. When she looked around she saw that she was the only person there, thinking that she was losing her mind she turned the attention back to Hunter. Tina couldn't believe her eyes, Hunter was awake looking at her, he brought his hand up to the side of her face and wiped away a fresh tear, and Tina took his hand in hers and gave him a weak smile. The door to his room opened as Dave and Ric walked in the room. Tina stood as they walked over to Hunter's side seeing that he was awake, Tina slowly backed out of the room and leaned against the wall closing her eyes and letting out a deep breath. A few minutes later Dave wrapped his arms around her holding her tight against him.
"It's okay baby, everything's okay." Dave whispered to Tina as she began to cry into his chest.
Sorry it took so long getting this chapter up, but after i wrote this chapter I spent the day in the hospital because my husband decided he needed a couple days off work and let a door fall on him (he didn't really let it fall it fell when he had his back turned so he couldn't really stop it) his alright just has a very deep under the skin bruise.
Well anyway I hope you guys liked this chapter and how it all worked out. The next chapter I'm going to kinda fast forward the time a little bit to the point where Tina and Dave find out if they are having boys or girls or one of each (I'm still not sure on this one myself).
Thank again to everyone who reviewed to the last chapter, from what you guys told me I might just have to make another clifhanger chapter before this story ends since i know you all love them so much. Well tell next time.