Here's chapter 12 guys, its a little shorter than some of the others but I hope you like it?
What the hell is going, it's black totally black, and cold. But above all this I can feel burning. My stomach is burning. I could hear voices around me, there anxious tone making me tremor. I could feel my body shaking wildly, uncontrollably, and hands grabbing mine and my name being called, over and over. I wanted to grab my stomach and scream but no one was letting me. Suddenly shadows and faces came into view, but I couldn't focus, It was all slow motion and black and white to me. All of a sudden it was hard to breath, the pain was too much, the burning sensation was spreading and I could feel pins and needles in my arms and legs.
"Charlie?" Jack held my face to his and opened one of my eyes shining a light into it. I recoiled in pain of the bright light. He placed two figures on my neck and shook his head.
"I'm dieing aren't I?" I managed to form words in my dry mouth. "Jack just tell me"
"No" Jack seemed determined, the look on his face said it all, "Just breath deeply and slowly." he said to me even though his voice was fading into the distance and my eyesight was darkening.
What the bloody hell else does he want me to do? I took a slow and ragged breath but it seemed to catch at my throat and I coughed. I heard someone shout something but I couldn't make out what. Then the coughing worsened, I couldn't breath, it felt like Ethan was hanging me again. The voices around me then panicked, I could feel the fear around me. There cries and shouts faded into nothing and my vision disappeared, this is it I thought, this is the end.
"Jack?" Kate looked from Charlie to the doctor who was still working away hard to remove the bullet from the wound.
"Jack" Kate demanded the doctors attention. Jack looked up worriedly at Charlie, his eyes where slightly open and he was shaking widely, almost like a fit. Jack lent over him and opened one of Charlie's eyes further to check his response. "His pupils are dilated" Jack shook his head and looked up to Kate and Claire who was sitting next to her, Kate had wrapped a blanket around her and she had remained silent since the procedure had started.
Charlie whispered slowly forming words, "I'm dieing aren't I?" Jack shook his head again.
"No" Jack lent into him, "your not dieing, just breath for me." Jack looked back at Sayid who was helping the doctor. "where nearly there" Jack continued quickly and within a few seconds he held it up. A shiny silver bullet. "Jack?" Kate checked frantically for Charlie's breath, "Jack he's stopped breathing"
"Here" Jack handed a large piece of thread and a needle to Sayid, "Stitch him up" Sayid looked at the needle and thread.
"But I don't know how?" Sayid cried.
"Just copy what I did!" Jack looked back at the man, his face was filled with shock. "But"
"We haven't got time Sayid!" Jack snapped. "Just do it"
The doctor turned back to Charlie and placed his cheek close to his mouth. Kate was right he had stopped breathing. Jack sealed his lips over Charlie's and filled his lungs. He couldn't believe how many times he had done this in the last two days. "Come Charlie breath!" Jack tried again but to no prevail. "Come on!" he shouted and tried once again and checked his pulse to find little. "Please?" Jack was almost in tears, "come on" Jack tried once again and Charlie gasped weakly. The doctor lifted his head up slowly and supported it on his knee.
"Don't do that again" Jack exhaled loudly. His patient shivered and shook but didn't seem to regain consciousness. "What the hell is wrong with him?" Kate looked down at Charlie's shaking body. "He's in shock, he's lost a lot of his blood" Jack cried placing another nearby blanket over him. "He needs to rest for a while"
Tears gather in Kate's eyes. "I thought he was gone" she cried, "I'm sorry" She hugged Jack tightly and then Claire who was still silent.
"Come one Claire" Kate beckoned her to stand, "you need to rest" Claire stood slowly up and followed Kate out into the main caves. It was now early morning, the sun was up and people were up. Most unaware of the proceedings in Jacks infirmary. As Claire and Kate came out everyone stopped to stare, some whispered amount one another. But Claire didn't care, they could think what they wanted, for all she cared, the whole thing was her fault she thought.
Back at the infirmary Sayid was almost finished.
"Do you think he'll be ok?" Sayid asked looking worryingly at Charlie's white deathly pale face.
"I don't know?" Jack whispered brushing Charlie's hair back off his face, "But I'll do whatever I can to make sure he is!" Charlie was still shaking quiet uncontrollably, Jack was worried by this, he had seen it in patients that had lost too much blood, it was a type of shock. But Jack knew for well the truth, shock could kill.