Stella felt Aiden's tight grip on her hand loosen as she slumped from her sitting position. "Aiden, Aiden open your eyes." No response came from Stella's plea. Stella's eyes glanced down to between Aiden's legs and immediately saw the problem; a dark crimson stain was beginning to revile itself through her pants. She moved quickly spreading Aiden out carefully on the floor and placing the jacket Mac had given her firmly between Aiden's legs.
Mac's phone rang immediately after he finished giving the 911 operators all the information they required. "Mac," Flack's voice resounded in the usual tone. "I just got a 911 call to our own station house, what gives?"
"We have a situation, Stella and I are handling it," Mac said in a flat tone before hanging up and turning his attention to Stella. "How is she?"
"Pulse is within a normal rang but she's losing a lot of blood." Stella had one hand on Aiden's wrist the other was holding the jacket firmly in place.
"I'll go meet the bus out front," Mac said before running out of the room. He left with such speed that he almost ran right into Hawkes. "Sheldon."
"Mac? What's up?" Sheldon knew that Mac rarely ran and was never flustered but in this case he was doing both.
"Go help Stella!" Mac's voice left no room for an explanation, which Hawks knew, meant it was serious. He opened the door to the crash room and rushed in to find Stella franticly trying to help her friend.
"What happened?" he asked knelling down beside Aiden taking over checking her vitals.
"She came up to me in the front room. I noticed that she was a little shaken up. I brought her back her, she said she was raped, then she passed out." Stella started to become more aware of what had really gone on and she couldn't believe it. Someone had not only attacked a member of the NYPD but her friend and co-worker. She snapped out of her daze when Aiden began to stir. "Aiden, it's Stella, can you hear me?"
"Stel?" Aiden said in a daze her eyes fluttering open slightly.
"Good girl, help is on the way." Stella noticed that now her own hands were shaking and she couldn't make them stop. Seconds later she was pushed aside by the paramedics. She was supposed to be stronger than this, she was supposed to be calm in this sort of situation. Now she was sitting on the floor with Aiden's blood on her hands unable to move as Hawkes helped the paramedics. They left in a rush leaving the bloody jacket next to her on the ground.
"Stella! What the hell happened?" Flack asked running into the room. "I just saw Aiden going out on a stretcher with Mac and Hawkes. "Stella?" Stella didn't give Flack an answer, she couldn't, she was in shock. Flack noticed her body shaking he took off his jacket and put it around her shoulders. "It's okay," he said sitting down next to her pulling out his handkerchief cleaning the blood off her hands.
"She was raped," Stella finally managed to force out as she got her shakes under control.
"Aiden!"
"We should get to the hospital. You're going to need to get her statement." Stella got up of the floor and washed her hands in the sink. "We should call her family, get her contact card. Someone should go tell Danny he'll want to go to the hospital, we need to get someone covering our cases. Someone covering Hawkes in the morgue…"
"Stella!" Flack yelled breaking her out of her trance. "Relax, it's okay. Now I'm going to take you to the hospital and then I'll come back her and take care of all that stuff but right now you just have to stay calm. Okay?"
"Okay." Stella said nodding her head heading out to the car with Flack. "I just don't understand it. Why Aiden?" Stella asked once they began to drive.
Flack didn't talk he could feel his rage building up as he drove. "DAMMIT!" he yelled as they got stuck at a traffic light. "That's it." Flack pulled the dash siren out from the centre consol in the car and turned it on almost throwing it through the front windshield. After five minutes of very creative driving on Flack's part they reached the hospital. "Call me the second you hear anything. I'm going to go back to the station and make sure everything is taken care of and get Danny."
"Thanks Flack." Stella smiled before getting out and heading into the hospital. "How is she?" she asked when she finally found Mac in the waiting room.
"We haven't heard anything yet. Sheldon went back with her when we got here."
"Who would do this?"
"She'll be okay Stella." Mac said sitting down on a hard plastic chair. "She's tough."
"I know, I know." Stella chewed on her bottom lip and looked back and forth between the emergency room doors and talking with Mac. "Flack is going to get…" Stella trailed off as Hawkes came into the waiting room. "How is she? Is she okay?"