Chapter 31. Attack
"What's going on out there?" Harvey said, irritated. Someone was shouting. Mike looked up from the files on his lap. He was on the couch with a blanket over his shoulder that Harvey had thrown at him after Mike had complained about four times that it was cold in his office.
"Yeah, what is that?" Mike asked. It sounded like the shouting was coming closer now. "That doesn't sound good." Mike said worriedly.
"It's probably nothing." Harvey looked down at his laptop again, trying to ignore the shouting from down the hall. He looked up again when he heard Mike gasp. He looked over at Mike and saw that he had backed up on the couch and had a terrified expression on his face. He was staring with wide eyes at the door.
"What is.." Harvey started to say and followed Mike's gaze. He got quiet in surprise at what he saw. A man stood in the doorway wearing a hood over his face and was pointing a gun directly at him. Shit!
"Oh, hello." The man said. "I kind of need you to come with me." He waved the gun in the direction from which he had come. When they just stared at him in shock, he yelled "Now!"
Harvey and Mike shared a look and Harvey could see the terror in the younger man's eyes. Right then and there he promised himself that nothing was going to happen to his associate. He wouldn't let them hurt him. Harvey quickly got up and went around his desk and blocked the gun man's path with Mike behind him. He knew the kid was slow in getting up and wanted to buy him some time.
"Hurry up."
Harvey heard Mike getting up behind him and something falling to the floor. He glanced back and saw that it was both the blanket and the files that had been on Mike's lap. Mike was standing behind him now and they both looked at the man with the gun.
"This way." He mentioned and let them walk past him and down the hall. He guided them into one of the large conference rooms, where a whole bunch of the firm's employees already were gathered. Jessica, Louis and Donna were all there, as well as a few associates and a couple of the other partners.
"Over there, by the wall." The man said and pointed. Harvey took a hold of Mike's arm and steered him in front him, as the same time as he steadied him. Mike was trembling. They reached the wall and Mike just sank down on the floor leaning against the wall. Harvey hesitated for a second before he got down next to Mike, the rest of the people in the room were standing up. He didn't like to be at a disadvantage like this on the floor but felt that he needed to stay down with Mike. The kid hadn't said a word since he first saw the gun man, and it worried him a bit. Although it wasn't that strange if Mike was scared. Mike was fragile to begin with, he didn't need this on top of everything!
There was another black hooded, huge guy standing next to the door pointing his gun steadily at the rest of the group.
"Was that the last of them?" He asked the guy who just had gotten Harvey and Mike.
"Yeah, I think so. Some others might have gotten away, but I think we got what we need right here."
"And what is it that you need?" Jessica suddenly asked. Harvey looked over at her and saw that she looked furious, which she probably was, this was taking place at her firm after all, right under her nose.
"Oh, right now that's none of your concern lady." They didn't even look at her.
"Will they be a problem?" the steady guy said. He didn't take his eyes of his hostages.
"Eh...I think we are okay. We just have to hurry up a bit more I guess."
The steady guy nodded and kept pointing the gun. The other one spoke.
"All right. This is what's going to happen people, we are going to need your help for a little while. You don't need to do that much. You will remain were you are right now. You will not try to do anything that we won't like. You will keep quiet and no one will get hurt. Are we clear? So, anyone got a computer?"
No one said anything.
"Oh come on, don't be like that. This guy over here," He walked up to his companion and put his gun free hand on his shoulder "And I, we are in a bit of a mess and we need your help for just a little bit."
Everyone was silent.
"Oh come, we brought guns for a reason, and you know. We would prefer not to have to use them on you. It's messy." He grimaced behind his hood that had holes for his eyes and mouth.
He walked closer to the people in front of him. They were all standing so that the conference table was between them and the men. Harvey and Mike were the only ones that was on the side, with a bit of distance from the others. It was one of the conference rooms with only the one door, and the men had made them all stand far away from it. Harvey noticed that Mike was breathing deeply next to him and glanced over. The kid was staring at the scene in front of him with a deathly pale face. Harvey still had a grip on his arm, and now he squeezed a bit to get Mike's attention. When Mike looked at him he whispered at him. "It'll be okay." He gave Mike a smile too, and to his relief Mike nodded and managed a weak smile back before he yet again focused his attention on the gun men. They were harassing on of the partners, who was now forced to step forward. Harvey gritted his teeth as the woman stumbled a bit in fear.
"Maybe we will shoot you a little." The short guy said. He seemed to be a bit crazy, the way he was talking was like to a bunch of preschoolers.
"Leave her alone." Jessica was telling them then. She was apparently not letting anything happen to any of her employees.
"All she has to do is go with me and get her computer over here, while Jimmy here is keeping an eye on the rest of you."
"Damn it!" The tall guy swore suddenly, and the shorter jerked a bit. "Oh, shit. Sorry." He said realizing his slip up with the name.
"Well, we haven't introduced ourselves, have we?" He said. "Let's all do that first. This obviously Jimmy, and my name will be Jack. Jim and Jack. Those are good names, right?" He laughed a bit but then straightened up and pointed the gun to the women whose computer they wanted.
"What's your name, Madame Lawyer?"
After that he made all of them say their names, as he pointed his gun at them in order. He made fun of one of the associates name for a while and then it was Harvey's turn. The guy stepped closer to them, but before Harvey got to say his name the tall guy spoke.
"Quit playing games and just do what we are here for." He said angrily.
"Jim, it's just two more left." The other guy said and turned his attention back to Harvey.
"What might your name be?"
"Harvey."
"What?"
"Harvey."
"Weird. Sounds like an old guy's name." Harvey just glared at him. Insulting his name, what was this guy's deal? Maybe something was wrong in his head. He had turned his attention to Mike now.
"You?" He demanded, and Mike told him in a shaky voice.
"What? Come on, speak up." The guy said and Mike swallowed loudly next to Harvey.
"Mike," Harvey said then. "His name is Mike. Are you done now?"
"Mike, that's a nice name." The guy said, ignoring Harvey. "Are you scared Mike?" He asked, took a few steps closer and then pointed the gun straight to Mike's face. Harvey could feel Mike tensing under his hand, seeing the guy smiling and he was just about to intervene when the huge guy spoke.
"You done?"
"Yep." Jack said and lowered his weapon and turned away towards the chosen partner. Mike at that moment twisted his arm out of Harvey's grip and instead grabbed hold of Harvey's wrist. Mike looked close to tears, and Harvey felt so bad for him. This was exactly the kind of stress they were supposed to stay away from. Mike did not need to have a hostage situation to deal with. Harvey really needed to get him out of there!
"You are coming with me." Jack told the female partner and they left, while Jim was standing there watching them. Harvey managed to catch first Jessica's eyes and then Donna's. Jessica mostly looked angry and Donna looked very worried. Her eyes flickered behind Harvey towards Mike, and he understood that she was thinking along the same lines as he was.
"Mike?" He whispered, and Mike looked at him. "It will be fine. It will be over before you know it."
"Hey!" The guy with the gun shouted and Harvey quieted. He couldn't draw attention to himself, because that would also be drawing attention to Mike, but he needed the kid to get out of here. Preferable before Mike's heart decided to try something bad.
– SUITS –
Mike couldn't believe it where we he was sitting on the floor next to Harvey. He kind of wished that he could move further into the room. He felt too exposed here, closest to the glass walls.
The guy who called himself Jack seemed have a screw loose. He was waving his gun around as if it was a daily occurrence for him, but who knew maybe it was. The other guy was just standing there like a statue watching them all. His gun arm didn't waver even though he had been in the same position for a long time now.
As soon as Mike had seen the guy with the gun for the first time something that Harvey told him once flew through his mind, what do you do when someone holds a gun to your head? Harvey had said that you take the gun, pull out a bigger gun or call their bluff or you do one of another 146 things. However, in those first few seconds Mike couldn't think of any other things to do, and he wasn't really fit for a fight about a gun at the moment. He was the one who had woken up that morning having to rush to the bathroom to throw up his dinner from last night.
Harvey hadn't done anything either so Mike felt kind of relieved that he wasn't the only one. All Mike wanted was to get through this quickly and go home with Harvey. He wished they would just hurry up. He didn't really feel that good. And he was scared! He was perfectly fine with admitting that to himself. He didn't want to get shot! It's not strange to be afraid of big, crazy guys with guns.
He looked over towards Donna, who was standing a bit behind Louis. She looked freaked out, but when she noticed that Mike was looking at her she smiled at him and he thought he managed to smile back.
He had almost freaked out when the guy had pointed the gun straight to his face and he had been staring down the barrel of the gun. He felt humiliated when tears gathered in his eyes, but he refused to let them fall. He did not want to let this guy know that he was afraid, but apparently he didn't have to say anything because they guy could see it on him and had mocked him in front of everyone. He tried to persuade himself that this was nothing, he was fighting heart cancer for god sakes. This should be nothing! But it was, it was scary as hell, because at least with the cancer he kind of knew what was happening and it was happening pretty slowly. In this situation though, he had no idea what those guys was going to do, and it could all be over in a second if they decided to shoot them all.
Just then Jack and the partner came back with a laptop that they put on the table and started up.
"Now, we need a volunteer that will get us what we need here." Jack pointed with the gun towards a computer. No one said anything or moved. Some of the partners looked angry. Jack sighed.
"Okay, I forgot you are lawyers, you don't like to do what you are told, you have to make deals and stuff right? We'll do like this then. The deal is I won't shoot this lady here, if someone helps me." He pointed at the partner who had gotten the computer for him.
"Fine." Jessica stepped up and started to walk around the table.
"Nice, nice. You are the boss right?" He sounded excited and pulled out the chair for her and she took a seat with a grim expression on her face.
"All right, click there." Jack said as he leaned over Jessica's shoulder. She moved further away from him on her seat, but did what he asked. "Type in that." He showed her a piece of paper. Whatever was written on it caused Jessica to look up at the guy and then Mike could see that her gaze moved over to Harvey. Jack calmly put the barrel against her throat, so she typed. Mike felt Harvey jerk beside him, and he tightened his grip on his arm. He wouldn't let Harvey do something stupid.
"Good. Good job." Jack said. "All you have to do now is to transfer all of that onto this." He put what looked like a USB stick on the table.
"Do it yourself." Jessica said coldly. "Do it yourself and let my people go. You don't need any of us for this."
"Ah, ah, ah, don't be like that. We need to be connected to your network, which means we need to be in the building, and if we let you go you will go and tell on us, and we won't get what we need. So you all need to stay here as an insurance." He waved the gun around to all of them.
"Now, just do it. Or I will have to shoot someone a little bit." He let his eyes wander around the room, apparently looking for a suitable target. He laughed a bit again. He really was crazy. Mike couldn't help but stiffen when guy's eyes ended up meeting his own. He looked away but it was too late, the guy must have seen it because he smiled and started walking towards him and Harvey.
"How about this guy here. He is already sitting down and all. Eh…Mike!" He sounded happy when he remembered his name. "Yes, Mike here. I will shoot him. Unless you start." He said turned to Jessica. He could hear Donna gasp and Harvey jerked again. Mike felt his breath starting to speed up and he didn't dare to move an inch. He looked up at Jessica and caught her eyes. She looked straight into his eyes and for a moment he was terrified that she was going to refuse still, but then she nodded and her eyes filled with compassion.
"Okay." She said and turned her attention towards the computer. Jack however remained next to Mike, and he was aware of that the gun was pointed to the side of his head. God, he didn't want die like this!
"She is doing it, now get away from him." Harvey's strained voice sounded then and Mike closed his eyes for a moment. Please don't let the guy get upset.
"Oh, and what was your name again? Old guy name something right?" He asked.
"Harvey." Harvey said through clenched teeth.
"Yes that's right. You know I think I had an uncle named Harvey."
"That's nice. I bet he is proud of you."
"Well, I think he hung himself actually."
"Oh, so you were close then."
Jack actually laughed at that. "I like you man." He said. "So you don't want me to shoot Mike here then?"
"No I don't. She is doing what you are asking so get the hell away from him."
"Did you forget the thing I said about insurance? This is the same, and you know what? Now you are getting me convinced that Mike here was the right choice. How about that huh, Mike?" And he nudged Mike's head with the gun, causing Mike to move away until Harvey got in the way. He couldn't stop himself from shaking. Damn it! He really didn't want this guy to know how scared he was. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't really get his brain to work to figure out something clever to say. He buried his fingers down on Harvey's arm instead.
"Come on. It's enough!" Harvey roared.
"Yeah, and why is that?"
"Can't you see that he isn't feeling well, leave him alone. He doesn't need this shit."
On one hand Mike thought Harvey was right, on the other hand he just wished Harvey would shut up and not aggravate the man more because that was what he was doing, but he apparently didn't realize it.
"Yeah, you do look like crap, man." Jack said to Mike, ignoring Harvey. "What's wrong with you?"
Mike just shook his head. "Nothing." He said quietly.
"Are you sick?" the guy asked. He then suddenly turned walked over to Jessica, without waiting for an answer making Mike sag in relief. He looked over at Harvey, who just gave him a stern look before he looked over to Jessica as well. Mike knew that the look was not directed to him, Harvey probably wanted to beat that guy to death.
"How is it going?" Jack said.
"What do you think? It's a lot, and you are distracting me."
"Oh, I'm so sorry, mam." He said mockingly. "I'll just get back to Mike then." When he got close he crouched down so that he was on eye level with Mike.
"So what's wrong with you?" he asked, almost kindly. "You can tell me."
When Mike didn't acknowledge him, he brought up the gun to Mike's face and stroke his cheek with it. Mike swallowed hard and felt tears pooling in his eyes again, he was breathing quick with an open mouth. He tried not to let the tears fall. It was totally silent in the room. He could hear Harvey breath next to him.
"Cancer." He forced out quietly. To his relief the guy removed the gun from his face and stood up.
"Oh that sucks man. I hate cancer." No one did anything. "Don't you hate cancer, Jim?" Jack asked his partner who was still standing with the gun pointed to the people across the table.
"Sure do." Jim said.
"Yeah, that really sucks. So are you going to die?"
Mike hated him. This guy really was crazy. He didn't want to small talk to this guy, the least about his cancer prognosis in a room full of the people he worked with and kind of wanted to respect him. Now he was practically crying on the floor instead and he bet that all of them could see how much he was shaking by now. He had tried to stop doing that but couldn't relax enough.
"Are you?" Jack demanded.
"I don't know." He said, at the same time as Harvey said "No, he won't."
"Oh, well. What kind do you have?"
Mike didn't answer.
"You know." Jack said then, obviously getting tired of being ignored. "I have a gun here. And I might seem like a nice guy." Some people including Harvey snorted at that. "But the truth is I'm intending on using this if I have to." He waved it around again. "I bought new bullets and all. So, this is what I want all of you to do, all of you are going to be quiet except if I ask you a question. Then you will answer. You all got that?" He looked first at Harvey until he reluctantly nodded, then he pointed the gun around the room, until he got nods of agreement from the rest of his hostages. He turned back to Mike again.
"So, what type of cancer to you have?" he asked again.
"Heart cancer." He said.
"Oh wow! Heart cancer. You will most definitely die then." He smirked.
"Is the treatment tough?" He asked next and Mike nodded after a moment.
"Oh…" He got quiet for a while as if he was lost in thought. He glanced over at Jessica and then turned his attention back to Mike.
"That sucks for you man, "He said next. "But hey, I can help you out you know." He leaned over Mike and smiled sickly at him.
"You know, let me tell you something. My little sister died in cancer when I was twenty. You know, her last time was terrible. She would have been better off dead than going through all of that. It was for nothing too, because she still died. She died in pain. You should have seen her. It would have been better if she had just died quickly."
He nudged Mike's shoulder with the gun. Mike shrunk back as much as he could as he stared straight forward. He didn't know how to react to this. He could feel Harvey shifting his arm around underneath his hand and Harvey removed it from his grip and instead took his hand in his. Jack didn't notice.
"You know I can help you out." He said again. "Ease your suffering. Put you out of your misery." He laughed. "It will be quick. That's better." He waved the gun around in front Mike's face. "Do you want me to?" He asked and leaned forward.
"Answer me!" He yelled suddenly and Mike shook his head desperately. He did not want that! Jack really seemed to think it would be a better option.
"Come on," Harvey interrupted now, ignoring Jack's earlier request. "Now you know what he is going through. Leave him alone."
Jack seemed to consider it. "I was just going to do him a favor." He muttered and turned and walked back to Jessica. Mike let out a few shaky breaths and held on to Harvey's hand tightly. "Harvey…" He whispered.
"I know kid, I know. He left. It's okay." Harvey whispered back. "Try to relax, kid. I'm not going to let him hurt you." He said and Mike believed him. Harvey was there. Harvey would help him.
– SUITS –
Harvey was furious. He hated this. He hated this guy. How did he dare to talk to Mike like that? He really wanted to do something, but he was just sitting there on the floor close to Mike's trembling body, holding the kids hand. Everything he did now was focused on getting Mike through this unharmed. Preferable all of the people in the room, but especially Mike. Mike really didn't need this. He had already had a rough morning and now this day turned out disastrous. If they just could take whatever it was they wanted and get the hell out of the firm!
Why wasn't the police there by now? Surely they would be here by now, but when he glanced at his watch he realized that only about twenty minutes had passed. But still, where was the fucking help?
Jack was now standing next to Jim and whispering something to him and Jim nodded and then whispered something back, but without taking his eyes of the people in front of him. That guy was serious, unlike that idiot Jack.
Jessica was still typing. Harvey really wondered what she was doing for them. What could morons like these guys want from the firm? Whatever it was they weren't getting away with this. Harvey would make sure of it. They had threatened Mike, he was never going to forget that. He didn't get why the guy had singled out Mike of all the people in the room. Easy target maybe, Mike being on the floor and all, looking the way he did. Scared. Mike was really scared. Harvey was too, but he wouldn't let it show, Mike however didn't really have his defenses up like a normal person. Mike was practically leaning against him now and Harvey let him.
They waited for a while when suddenly things were happening fast. Too fast. Jack looked over at the computer Jessica was at and suddenly jumped forward and pulled it away from her while looking at the screen.
"What did you do?!" He yelled and banged the computer down on the table in anger. "What the hell did you do? Undo it!" He grabbed her shoulder and shook her.
"Hey! Leave her alone." Harvey yelled. He wasn't going to let that guy hurt her either. But then Jack looked up at him and the rage on his face, even if hidden underneath his hood, was clearly visible. Harvey regretted calling out when Jack came storming against him, gun raised. He felt himself tensing and heard Mike let out a whimpering sound in fright.
"You, shut the hell up! You are a pain in my ass." Jack yelled. He stopped right in front of Harvey and looked down on him and Harvey intensely wished he wasn't sitting down on the floor. Jack stared down at him but then his eye caught the sight of Mike's hand in his.
Mike was shaking and breathing hard, with his head bent down and Harvey could see that his eyes were closed. When he looked up at Jack again saw that he was still staring at their hands, and then something in his eyes hardened as if he was preparing. The gun in his hand was shaking and dread rose inside of Harvey. Something was going to happen. Jack was going to do something. And then he did. It happened in seconds. Harvey could see as in slow motion how the man's eyes moved from their fixation on his and Mike's hands and over to the left side of Mike. Then he raised the hand with the gun and Harvey saw how his fingers on the gun moved as he pulled the trigger. The shot echoed incredible loud in the room, it was short and deafening. That sound was followed by Mike's scream.
"No!" Harvey yelled himself just as it happened, just when he realized what the guy was about to do. But it was too late.
He couldn't believe it! The guy just shot Mike! Mike had been shot! Mike ripped his hand out of Harvey's grasp and his body folded in on itself as he curled up and pressed himself backwards and towards Harvey. Harvey reacted instinctively and grabbed hold of Mike dragged him towards him protectively as he simultaneously tried to see where he had been hit. He could hear a few shouts of surprise and shock and someone crying, repeating the word no. His mind registered that it was Donna without giving it more thought. Mike had been shot.
Jack had staggered away towards Jessica who stared in shock towards Mike. Jack went straight up in her face and screamed again for her to undo whatever she had done that got him so mad.
"Or that was only the beginning!" He threatened. Jessica nodded and turned towards the computer and started typing again with shaking hands.
"Everyone shut up and stay were you are." Jack said, forcing himself to calm down it seemed. "Damn it." He swore and looked towards Mike.
Harvey needed to access the damage. His heart was beating hard in his chest as he tried to get Mike to uncurl a bit for him to see. "Mike, Mike, hey Mike…kid. Let me see." He hushed. Mike was almost hyperventilating and was making pained sounds that broke Harvey's heart and filled his chest with guilt. The only thing he had set out to prevent had just happened. He could see how blood was spreading on Mike's shirt. Was he shot in the chest? Please no! But he couldn't have been, the angle hadn't been right.
"Please, Mike, buddy, let me see. I know it hurts. I know." He murmured against Mike, hoping to get through to him. It seemed like he did because Mike removed his left arm and held out his shaking left hand. Blood was dripping down onto his legs from a gushing wound in the middle of his palm. He had been shot right through his hand!
"Oh shit." Harvey breathed out, and Mike moaned. He could hear gasps from the others next to him. "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts." Mike then slurred, staring at his shaking hand. "Harvey it hurts." Tears were streaming down his cheeks now.
"I know, I know. Mike." Harvey stared at the hand as well. Blood was flowing from the ugly looking wound, down along Mike's arm and dripping down in his lap. Harvey didn't know what to do. He had nothing to use on the wound, nothing and Mike needed him to do something not just sit there.
Mike pressed his hand against his chest again, collaring his shirt dark red with blood. His other hand had a death grip on Harvey's suit jacket. His whole body was shaking against Harvey. He was most definitely in shock. Harvey was terrified for him. This was way too much stress for Mike's heart. This could cause a heart attack or something! Harvey had one arm around Mike's back and the other wrapped around him protectively.
Then he heard sounds next to him. "Give me that." Someone was saying and the person was walking towards Harvey and Mike. It was Louis, and he had a purple scarf in on hand.
"Hey! Shut up over there. What the hell are you doing?!" Jack screamed and then another shoot echoed through the room causing people to duck down and scream. Mike who had been whimpering closed his mouth and went rigid.
Harvey looked up and saw that the bullet had lodged itself in the wall a little to the right of Louis's head. He was standing perfectly still where he was but turned against Jack and Harvey saw something he never seen in Louis before.
"I'm going to help them." Louis said calmly. "He might go into shock as a result of what you just did. And you know that he has heart cancer. You will let me help him. Now." Louis said coldly.
Jack stared at him for a long moment and the shrugged his shoulders. "Fine. Help him. Nobody else moves." He said and turned to Jessica.
"Hurry the hell up!" He yelled. "I don't want to have to shoot all of your employees."
Louis knelt down in front of Mike and Harvey. He exchanged a look with Harvey who whispered "Thank you." Louis just nodded before turning his attention to Mike and his hand.
"Hi Mike. Will you let me take a look at that?" He said calmly. Mike didn't react, just sat there with his hand in the same position as before. Louis then carefully reached out and took a hold of his arm and turned it a bit to look at the damage on the hand. Harvey tightened his arm around Mike's shoulders. Mike didn't make a sound and just let Louis do what he wanted.
"You know, it looks worse than it is Mike." Louis said. "You will be fine, but you are losing a lot of blood, so I will just tie this around your hand, okay?" He asked and looked at Mike's face. Mike met his eyes and nodded. That was good, the kid was still aware of what was going on.
"It will hurt a bit." Louis said as he prepared the scarf. "Just hold on to Harvey." He said calmly and Harvey immediately offered him his hand, and Mike grabbed it. Harvey felt Mike's grip tightened as Louis began to wrap his hand. Mike was shaking like he was crying, but didn't let out any sounds, tears were flowing down in cheeks and Harvey shushed him, until Louis was finished a minute later.
"All done." Louis whispered and patted Mike's shoulder. The kid nodded and brought his wrapped hand towards his chest. Louis sat down on the other side of Mike. Harvey felt incredible grateful towards Louis, he had really showed guts right then and really helped out. This had to be over soon, and then they could get Mike to the hospital and get him fixed up. It would be fine, Harvey told himself as he hugged Mike a bit harder. Tears were still streaming down the kids face, but he had calmed down somewhat. He looked awful and terrified as he had his eyes fixed towards Jack and Jim.
Jack seemed to be riled up because he couldn't stay still and instead paced back and forth behind Jessica. Jim was still pointing his gun, steady as ever. Suddenly Jessica nodded. "It's done. Now leave my firm." She said removing the USB and holding it out.
Jack stepped forward and grabbed it from her hand. "Oh, thank you. It wasn't that hard was it? You just needed a bit of convincing. And no harm done anyway" he said grimly. "That kid is as good as dead anyway." He said and laughed out into the silence in the room. Harvey tensed as Jack stepped towards them. What the hell?
"You are never going to survive Mike." Jack said with an indifferent voice and pointed the gun towards the kid, making Harvey too afraid of doing anything else then just sit there like a coward as the man harassed his young friend.
"Jack." Jim said behind him. He was slowly backing towards the door. Jack looked over to him and nodded. "One second." He said.
Then he towered over Mike and looked into his eyes as he pointed the gun at his chest. "You know, I should just shoot you now, but I won't." He said. "Later though, you will think of this moment, and you will wish that I had pulled the trigger."
He stood up and started to turn away, but stopped himself and came back, causing Mike to let out a sob and push against Harvey, but he kept his eyes locked on Jack's face.
"You know what Mike? I will stop by later at the hospital and help you out. End your misery. When you least expect it. I come. I promise."
With those words he turned and walked to the door. When he stepped out, Jim was already waiting for him, and the two of them started to run in the directions towards the elevators, disappearing out of sight.
For a moment no one spoke or moved, but then the tension in the room seemed to be released at the same time, because people started to move, to talk to each other. Some people picked up their phones and Harvey hear how they talked about the police and ambulances. Jessica and Donna both made their way towards Harvey, Mike and Louis who all remained on the floor.
Mike refused to let go of him. He didn't say a word, but pressed himself hard against Harvey, pulling at his jacket. He was breathing so heavily through his mouth that Harvey could feel the gushes of air against his neck. Mike had his eyes closed and pressed his forehead hard against Harvey.
"Hey, Mike. Sweetie." Donna said with a shaking voice. "It's over now."
"Mike?" Harvey asked, but the kid didn't respond. He still had his eyes tightly closed. He hadn't said a word and that worried Harvey enormously.
"Mike, I'm so sorry this happened to you." Jessica said quietly, she had kneeled down in front of them. "Is he alright?" She asked and looked worriedly at Harvey, who just shook his head. Mike was far from alright.
Louis was starting to get up, and looked down at Mike. "Let's not crowd him. Give him some space." He said, and the people that had gathered close to them stepped away.
"Did they leave?"
"Is the police coming?"
Harvey could hear questions being thrown around and someone was crying. Donna, who had tears in her eyes, had taken Louis's place on the other side of Mike now. She started to slowly stroke his back while mumbling quiet reassurances to him. "It's going to be okay. You will be okay. It's over sweetie." Were some things he heard.
Harvey himself felt a bit dazed. At the moment he felt content with just sitting there with Mike's trembling body close to his while Donna's whispers were washing over them. She was right. It was over. They had left. The whole thing had only taken about half an hour. But it felt like a lot had been damaged during those minutes. He would never forget the last words Jack had uttered to Mike. Sadness filled him at the thought of that neither would Mike.
The next minute the room flooded with police officers and a couple of paramedics. Apparently they had been on standby outside the building, the police preparing to make contact with their kidnappers. But it had been over before that. Unfortunately the two men hadn't been caught. Harvey let out a deep sigh when he heard that.
Donna moved to the side as two paramedics kneeled down in front of them.
"Mike and Harvey right?" One of them asked and Harvey nodded. "This is Mike." He said.
"I understand that you are hurt Mike," the paramedic said. "Would you let me take a look?"
"He has been diagnosed with heart cancer a while ago." Donna said, and the paramedics shared a shocked look.
"We better get you to the hospital then Mike." The other paramedic said. "We just want to take a look at you first."
Mike's only reaction was that he pressed even harder into Harvey as he quietly started to sob against him. Harvey stroke his back, and felt tears rise up in his own eyes. He felt so sorry for Mike at the moment. "It's okay Mike. It's okay. It's okay now. Nothing bad will happen to you."
Mike shook his head against him. "Will you let me look at your hand? I just want to help." A paramedic asked.
"Mike please." Harvey whispered. Mike slowly uncurled a bit from Harvey then and offered out his hand. He kept his grip at Harvey's suit jacket though.
Harvey watched as they removed the scarf from Mike's messy hand. Mike hissed as the last part was removed. It had gotten stuck in the wound. They made quick work of bandaging it and Mike was given something against the pain, an oxygen mask was placed over his face. They let him stay where he was, slumped against Harvey. The whole time Mike didn't let go of him. He also didn't say a word.
However things changed when the paramedics wanted Mike on a gurney and for them to go to the hospital.
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Mike just let them do whatever they wanted to him, as long as he didn't have to move from his spot next to Harvey. Harvey was great. He let him hold on to his suit without saying anything about it. He came with comforting words sometimes during the wrapping of his hand. It really hurt. He just wanted to scream, but was too tired.
He wasn't sure that he had realized yet that the whole thing was over. It felt like he had lost control of what was happing around him. He felt like he barely knew where he was. He just knew that Harvey was there and some paramedics. Donna was there too. She was standing behind them. Every time he looked at her she smiled at him, but he just couldn't smile back. There was no force at all inside of him at the moment that was able to manage that. He was also aware of that he was crying and that other people was there in the room as well. He didn't want to cry, but didn't know how to make it stop.
He couldn't see Jack and Jim anywhere. He was pretty sure that they had left. Or were they outside? Did they go to the hospital already? Jack had said that he would be there. Jack had said that he was going to come to the hospital and kill him when he least expected it. To help him out. He didn't want Jack to help him. He didn't want to go to the hospital! He was scared. He didn't want to go there. Jack was going to be there. He didn't want to die. He just didn't.
But it seemed like the paramedics didn't get it. They told him that they were going to take him there. He shook his head no, but they didn't care. They kept telling him that they were going to help him there. He just shook his head and shied away from them. He leaned into Harvey and shook his head. He didn't want to go there. They didn't care though.
Harvey started to move behind him. People were talking to him but all he did was shook his head. They were saying that everything was okay, but it really wasn't. Why couldn't they understand that?
"Noo…" he whispered to Harvey, who for some reason seemed to be happy when he did. Why?
"I know Mike. I know that you don't want to. But it's going to be fine. They won't be there." He said. "You have to go buddy." He patted Mike's back, and then started to get up from behind him.
"No, no, no, Harvey, no." He whispered, wishing with all he had that Harvey would hear him out, but he didn't. He tried his best in keeping Harvey on the floor, but he failed at that too.
"I'm going too Mike. Please." He said. Then he was helped to stand up and was lead towards a gurney. Mike let them do it, but started to cry again. He couldn't fight back, even though it was all he wanted. He just couldn't do anything to stop it. He was so damn helpless. He didn't have any strength at all. They laid him down and started to roll him away. Harvey and Donna followed him, and they got into the elevator. He was terrified. He still had some hope that they were just getting out of here, but then he saw the ambulance parked by the side of the road. He noticed briefly that the area around the building had been sealed off and policemen was standing guard, keeping people at bay.
Then they reached the ambulance and he just panicked. He tried to get off the gurney. He wanted to run. He didn't want to get in it. He needed to get away! But hands were holding him down, too hard, he couldn't get up. He just couldn't even though he tried all he could, strong hands was most likely leaving bruises on his body, they held him so hard. He started to cry really hard when he realized that he wasn't going anywhere except where they wanted him to go. He was so helpless against them. It was getting hard to breath, he was crying so hard. No one was helping him. He wasn't even sure if Harvey was there or not. He called out for him. A lot. He didn't know if he got an answer. He just felt so alone. He needed help! But then suddenly someone was holding his good arm in a hard grip and something pinched him. Everything faded after that. He was dying and he was sure of it.
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This is a slightly different chapter. I just felt like doing something else. Poor Mike gets hurt of course, and after this he won't really like hospitals. I feel so sorry for putting him through this, on top of everything. What did you think?
Thanks for reading and for your lovely reviews!