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Jane was sitting in the back seat of one of the CBI SUV's, itching in anticipation as they sped down the road, in the hopes of finding Lisbon.
He was scared that she wouldn't actually be there… that they were wasting time checking out this place, when they should be using their energy into looking elsewhere. Jane couldn't shake the idea that by leading everyone out here, he was sending Lisbon to her death… but from the three SUV's filled with agents and the ambulance following in tow, Jane could tell the rest of the team thought it was probably their best idea yet.
They turned onto a country road under Grace's direction and Jane couldn't help but realise that the last time he had travelled down this road, he was in the back of an ambulance. How ironic that now Lisbon would also be travelling back in an ambulance… if she was even here.
They pulled up outside the batch, which from the outside looked to be fairly deserted. The SUV skidded to a halt and Jane was out of the sliding door, before Cho had even completely stopped.
"Jane!" he heard Grace call. "Wait for backup. You can't just go charging in there."
Jane looked at her like she had suggested they kill his puppy.
"Jane, she's right." Rigsby said taking a hold of his forearm, holding him there. "You wouldn't be doing Lisbon any favours by just charging on in there."
At the mention of Lisbon's name, Jane came back to his senses. This was no time for him to go against protocol. He would never forgive himself if she was even worse off because of him… she was in this position because of him in the first place.
"Well what are you waiting for?" he said desperately.
The three remaining team members nodded to the other agents, deciding approach tactics, before finally dispersing out into Lorelei's sister's batch.
Jane stood beside the SUV, trying his best to stay out of the way, while the agents did their job. After only a couple of minutes though, he couldn't take it anymore.
He entered the batch just as the first 'kitchen's clear' was hollered. Several more shouts resounded around from different areas of the house. Finally Jane heard the words he had been waiting for.
"In here!" It was Grace's voice.
Jane bounded in the direction the voice came from, entering a bedroom, already containing three people, several more bustling in that direction.
Grace and Rigsby were crouched next to an unconscious Lisbon who was hooked up to several different tubes.
"Get the paramedics!" Grace called to an agent who was standing in the doorway behind Jane.
Jane stood in the door way unable to move. They had finally found her. He felt a wave of relief wash through him, followed by a sense of impending dread as he took in her appearance now. They had turned Lisbon over into the recovery position, being careful of the tubes sticking out of her arm. She also had a feeding tube up her nose, connected to a bag containing a clear liquid.
The EMT's, a male and a female, came into the room― Grace and Rigsby making room for them, and started checking her over. The female recorded her vitals while the male got to work removing the tubes from her body.
"Heart rate is below 80― pupils pin point and unresponsive, BP is tanking…" the female pinched the skin on the back of Lisbon's hand. "…and she is extremely dehydrated." She looked at her colleague before addressing the agents and Jane. "We need to get her to the hospital ASAP."
"What's he got her on?" Jane asked, finally finding his voice.
"We're not completely sure." The female replied. "From the look of things he has her on some form of opiate… probably a sleep narcotic."
Jane nodded.
Grace looked up with a look of sheer horror on her face. "She had Prerenal ARF…" Grace said trailing off.
The paramedics looked worriedly at each other.
"Let's get her on the gurney." The male said, indicating for the agents to help lift her.
Jane knew that because of the severe dehydration, she would most likely have some serious damage to her kidneys.
They had successfully transferred her to the gurney and placed an oxygen mask over her face, before making their way out the door. Jane followed in a kind of stunned stupor, stepping into the ambulance without permission and sitting to the side, just watching her.
"Her temps at 102.3"
The male got in the front, turning on the sirens and pulled away from the batch, speeding towards the hospital. The female got to work putting in an IV line and adding a saline bag, getting started on the rehydration straight away. Jane sat there, watching Lisbon, glad to get away from the stress of finding her, but also dreading getting into another full forced nightmare… he needed her to be ok.
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On arrival, they whisked Lisbon away and Jane was ushered into a waiting room. He sat down on one of the chairs, only to stand up again moments later to pace the room. After his fifth lap of the room, he sat down again. He continued this process until Grace showed up with a worried glint in her eye.
"Jane!" she exclaimed as soon as she saw him. "What's going on?"
Jane sat down beside her with a huff.
"They haven't told me anything since they took her through."
Grace hung her head.
"She has a really high temp… indication of infection… I want to know what the bastard had her on."
Grace reached out and tentatively took Jane's hand. They weren't usually ones to show any form of comfort, but Grace could see Jane was near his breaking point. He hadn't slept properly in over a week and the stress lines were beginning to show through his mask.
"Was there any evidence of his presence… at the batch?" Jane couldn't help but ask. He felt guilty for even thinking about Red John while Lisbon was in such a state, but his mind has been tuned over the years to relate everything back to Red John… it was almost second nature by now.
Grace shook her head.
"Nothing. It seemed as if he set Lisbon up and then left."
Jane couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he couldn't dwell on that feeling too long, because at that moment Doctor Howard walked in― the same doctor that helped Lisbon when she was admitted the first time.
"Are you guys here for Agent Lisbon?"
Grace and Jane jumped to their feet.
"How is she?" Jane asked.
"Perhaps you should sit down." The doctor said, motioning to the seats.
Jane couldn't help but feel the cold snake of anxiety slither though his veins.
"Agent Lisbon is in a very bad way. It seems her captor had her on some form of sleeping narcotic, which is making it very hard for us to wake her up."
Jane nodded, remembering the paramedics mentioning that. The doctor looked seriously at them. They could both tell that he hated this part of his job.
"The captor had Agent Lisbon hooked up to a feeding tube… that contained salt water."
Jane heard Grace's intake of breath. He himself felt nauseated by that fact.
Salt water dehydrates the body.
He must have known about her kidney damage. Jane thought to himself. He was dehydrating her on purpose.
He felt a rage surge through him, that he had never experienced before.
"That sonofabitch." He heard Grace state.
"Because of the damage already inflicted to her kidneys, the dehydration has damaged the right kidney beyond repair… they are prepping her for surgery as we speak."
Jane stared at the doctor, unsure of how to respond.
"Mr Jane… at her last stay, Agent Lisbon named you her medical proxy. We need your signature to go ahead with the surgery."
"W-what are the risks, of living with only one kidney?" Jane stuttered, finally finding his voice.
"She will have to go on dialysis… her left is still damaged. Until we can find her a transplant kidney, she will have to come to the hospital several times a week."
"Is there any other way?" Grace asked, knowing full well this disability would cause inconveniences with Lisbon's job.
"I honestly think this is the best course of action to saving her life. She will survive on dialysis. The kidney is irreparable… and she already has a full blown infection."
Jane nodded finally, taking the clipboard from the doctor and signing his consent.
"You save her. No matter what it takes."
Ok so that turned out to be a bit longer than I thought =] as always please review! I LOVE getting them =P
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