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She just stood there for a few seconds, dumbfounded.

She could not do anything.

Jerry looked up, thinking that Susan was joking around with him, but as he noticed the doughnut splated on the floor and the stiffness and rigidness of her body he quickly realized that something was wrong.

He walked around the desk and over to her.

"What is it Dr…" he stopped and looked.

"Abby," she cleared her throat and managed that; "OK?" she asked tentatively taking a few steps into the Exam Room.

She could tell by her close friend's eyes that she was not.

Abby was up against the patient, who was leaning against the wall. He had one of his arms, the left, forcefully wrapped around Abby's waist, just above her hips. The other arm, his right was across her chest and round to her neck, where the sharp, silvery blade of a knife was rested.

After seeing Abby's eyes look so scared and fragile she stepped forwards towards the man. She had suddenly gotten her courage back. Susan was shaking, with a mixture of fear and anger.

"Stop there!" he bellowed, "One more step and I'll…"

"OK!" Susan halted a few metres in front of them.

She quickly sneaked a glance over her shoulder when the door thudded shut. She thought that Jerry must have gone for security and the police.

His grip around Abby's waist seemed to have tightened and the light that was glinting off of the tip of the knife was highlighting how sharp it was and how much danger that Abby was in.

Suddenly the Exam Room door opened, not fully, but enough for Susan and Abby to see two rather large security guards, with Jerry in the middle. Hey stepped forward, but stopped in their tracks when Susan held her hand up behind her.

"Let her go," she said, focusing into his dark, mysterious eyes. "Let her go," she repeated.

"No!" she snarled.

"What do you want with her anyway?" Susan asked sharply. "Drugs?" she enquired.

The man flinched at this, which helped Susan come to the conclusion that he wanted free drugs from County and Abby did not oblige.

"Calm down, and let her go, she has nothing to do with our policies," Susan said, in a calmer, slightly friendlier tone, trying to strike a deal.

"Come on!" she said coaxingly.

He loosened the arm with the knife, and in complete synchronization, Susan raised hers and the security guards ran towards him, one managing to knock that knife across the floor, way out of his reach.

He still had a firm grip around Abby's waist, hanging on to her. Jerry, unable to stand back and watch this happen to one of his friends, ran forward and knocked him to one side, meaning that he let go of Abby before hitting the ground.

"Get him out of here, NOW!" Susan yelled.

She moved towards Abby who was leaning against the wall, holing onto the side of a gurney. As Susan moved forwards Abby let herself slide down the wall and come to a rest on the cold, hard ground.