Ajay walked into the exam room with a tray to stitch up Nox, "Heard you got a nasty gash too." She injected some Procaine in his arm and began to stitch him up. Nox's eyes roamed around the room, "Not to be intrusive, but did Ms. Blasey come in yet?" He waited for a response. "The only two I have seen have been you and Tavi." Ajay replied as she continued to stitch his arm. He slightly paled, "She insisted she take the artifact over to the bar then would come. I believe she was trying to hide the fact she was hurt, but I saw that prowler attach to her side." Ajay looked up, "I'll call Elliot to see if she is still there." She walked over to grab her phone and pushed the name Elliot. Nox watched as she had a hurried conversation and ended the call. "He said she left about thirty minutes ago." She scrolled down her phone to Wraith and pushed the contact. She paced the room as the ring continued to a not set up voicemail. "She didn't answer." She looked back into his expectant gaze. "Let me finish you up and I'll call Natalie." She finished the stitches and grabbed for her phone again. After ringing for a moment a sleep laced voice answered the phone, "Hello." Ajay took a steadying breath, "Is Wraith there?" Ajay waited as the phone shifted around, clearly Natalie was checking for her girlfriend. "Non, she hasn't been back yet." She groggily stated.
"Natalie, I need you to check to see if she's home." Ajay quickly stated. "What's going on Ajay?" Natalie asked with concern. "She may have been hurt on that mission and didn't come in for medical treatment." Ajay heard Natalie move, "Ouch." Natalie grumbled as she stumbled through the darkened room. She opened the bathroom door and flicked on the light to emptiness. "She hasn't been in the bathroom. I'll check down the hall to see if she is on the couch." Natalie walked out and flicked on the light, "Oh god. Renee." Ajay heard her drop the phone, "What did you do? Renee wake up please!" Natalie choked out. Ajay swallowed thickly at her friend's desperate plea as the phone shifted. "She's here and there is blood." She urgently replied. "You need to find the source of the bleeding and keep pressure on it. I'll be there soon." Ajay hung up the phone.
Natalie let her phone drop and rolled her girlfriend to the side. She gasped as the angry red hole in her girlfriend's side oozed with blood. She grimaced as she pressed her hand down, watching for signs of discomfort from the skirmisher. She isn't even reacting to the pain. Where is this water coming from?/ Natalie looked at the droplets of water falling onto her girlfriends pale face. When did I start crying? Natalie choked back a sob. She wiped the tears from her face and kept pushing on her girlfriend's side. "Mon amour, What did you do?" She watched as the blood oozed around her fingers. "Shit." She whispered out as she pulled her shirt off to apply more pressure to the wound.
What felt like hours to her was only minutes as she held her shirt against the oozing wound. "Mon amour, You can't leave me too, please." Natalie whispered out as the front door opened. "Where is.." Ajay started to ask as her eyes focused on the pool of blood around the fallen legend. Ajay sunk to the floor to pull away the makeshift bandage and hesitated when Natalie's locked arms didn't budge. "It's okay Natalie, I need to look at it." She lightly pulled on the defensive legends arms. She grimaced when she pulled the makeshift bandage away. "Go and get changed. We need to get her to the hospital." Ajay stated quickly looking at the large gash on the skirmishers side.
Natalie was sitting in the waiting room focused on the floor trying to hold her composure as a tear fell down her face. "Natalie." Ajay caught her attention as she sat down. "The wound was worse than they thought. It seems that she may have some internal injuries." Natalie looked at her friend, "She has to have surgery?" Ajay nodded as she reached out to grab her hand. "She is getting worked on by a friend of mine, and he is the best in the field." Natalie nodded as she started to break down. "What if I didn't answer the phone?" She sunk her face into her hands. "You did answer the phone though." Ajay softly said.
After what felt like an eternity to Natalie the surgeon came out with a stoic face. "Ms. Paquette, may I speak to you for a moment." She followed him away from her friends that had congregated in the waiting room. "Your partner is in stable condition, but we had to do a transfusion because she lost too much blood. We did have to repair a laceration on her liver, but that should heal in about 2 weeks." He wiped his forehead. "Can I see her?" Natalie quietly asked. "Right this way." He guided her down a hallway and pointed to a room. She walked in and froze at the sight of the skirmisher.
Natalie felt the tears fall down her cheeks at the sight of her girlfriend hooked up to tubes. She walked over and pulled the chair in the room next to the bed. Natalie looked over the skirmisher as her eyes flicked up to the heart monitor. She's alive. She's not leaving me. She thought to herself as she looked at her girlfriend in the bed. She tentatively reached over and grabbed Renee's hand. "I was so scared I had lost you." Natalie choked out as she looked down and their connected hands.
"We just started our lives together, and I don't know what I would do if I lost you. The crushing feeling I had when I walked out to find you surrounded in blood." Natalie sobbed. "I can't live in a world that you don't exist in. I love you so much." She laid her head on their hands and let herself cry. She didn't notice the tears falling from the skirmishers face as she let the world slip away.