Chapter 28 – Worst-case Scenario.
Lexi pulled the screw driver out of Calvin's leg and enjoyed the scream of pain that escaped his lips. "I've said I'm sorry" Calvin said quietly. "What more do you want from me?" he cried as blood dribbled from his mouth.
"We're way past sorry" Lexi told him.
They had been in Kelly's boat house for twenty-four hours. It had taken six hours for Calvin to realise it wasn't a game, six hours to break him, then he had turned in to a quivering mess. Lexi had used numerous tools to torture Calvin. Screw drivers, pliers to pull off each of his nails, a knife to slice cuts in to his arm, a hammer on his hands. She couldn't deny it felt good to hear him scream, see him cry, hear him beg for his life.
"Please" Calvin pleaded spitting a mouthful of blood on the floor. "Please stop"
Lexi heard the burner phone ring, it sat on a table a few feet away. She turned to answer it even though Cam was stood closer to it, knowing it would be Hank. She walked two steps toward the table as Cam shouted her name in a warning tone, "LEX" Cam's warning made Lexi turn back around.
As she twisted to look at Calvin, he was on her, plunging a broken piece of metal in to her stomach. He was already weakened from the torture and Lexi was able to knock him to the floor easily, but it was too late the broken piece of boat or whatever it was, was embedded in her lower abdomen. Cam was on her feet and on top of Calvin knocking him out with a punch in less than a second.
Lexi looked down to see the metal sticking out of her. It was in deep. The phone was still ringing. Lexi walked to the table, holding the metal steady in her stomach. She found the phone and walked slowly outside to answer the call.
She leant against the outside wall of the boat house and answered the phone. "You came looking for me, right...Stop looking. You won't find me…Neither was taking Jay to look for me…Go home. I'll be back tomorrow, you can both be pissed at me then" Lexi ended the call. She leant against the boat house behind her, she breathed heavily for a moment looking up at the tree tops and blue sky. How did they not understand that this was something she had to do alone?
"Hank came looking for you?" Cam asked her poking her head round the door.
Lexi nodded "with Jay"
"Jay's the old but new boyfriend" Cam commented pretending to be confused.
Lexi rolled her eyes and laughed "it's not that hard to grasp Cam" Lexi knew her real name was Victoria but was so used to calling her Cam, it was strange to call her by any other name.
"Jay is the super-hot Detective new boyfriend, Kelly is the smoking hot fireman ex-fiancé"
Lexi chuckled "Correct"
Cam looked down at the metal sticking out of Lexi's gut. "That doesn't look good"
"It doesn't feel good either" Lexi took a deep breath
"We should get that seen to"
"No" Lexi shook her head
"Lex" Cam began protesting "I don't want you bleeding out on me"
"Just patch me up" Lexi offered "then let's finish this, before Hank and Jay do actually find us" Lexi advised walking back in to the boat house.
"Or you bleed out" Cam remarked following her.
Lexi unlocked the door to her apartment from the street. She threw her bag at the bottom of the stairs and switched on the light. She tried lifting her leg to take the first step, but she couldn't, she was to weak, she put her hand to her wounded side and sat on the bottom step.
"Lex?" she heard Jay call from her apartment above.
"Jay" she called back as loudly as she could "help me."
"Lex" Jay said seeing her sat on the bottom step. Lexi looked up at him, he saw how pale she was as he raced down towards her. "What the hell happened?"
Lexi pulled her hand away from her right side to show blood on her palm. "I can't stop the bleeding" she explained softly, it was becoming hard to speak. "I need you to call Gabby" she told Jay. "tell her worst-case scenario, she'll know what to do"
Jay took his phone from his pocket and pushed Gabby's name on the screen, it rang three times before she answered "Worst-case scenario" he said quickly.
"Where are you?" Gabby enquired, Jay could hear her beginning to move on the other end of the line.
"Lexi's apartment"
"Okay, there's a bag with supplies in my locker at Molly's" Gabby instructed giving him the combination to the lock. "I'll be there in fifteen minutes"
"I'm not sure she has that long, hurry" Jay worried before hanging up. "I'll be back in a minute" he told Lexi putting the phone back in his pocket before turning and exiting through the door that lead to Molly's.
Jay went immediately to Gabby's locker in Molly's kitchen and put the combination in, he found the large duffle bag and carried it back to Lexi.
She was breathing shallowly leaning her head against the wall, her eyes closed. "Lexi" Jay questioned quickly. Her eyes sprang open "don't go to sleep on me" he pleaded. He needed help and he needed it now, he couldn't wait for Gabby. Jay took his own phone from his pocket and dialled his brother's number. "Don't go to sleep!" Jay told Lexi waiting for Will to answer his phone.
"Hey brother" Will answered "How's it going? I was just…"
"Will, I need your help" Jay interrupted him speaking quickly. "I'm at Lexi's apartment"
"Okay" Will replied noting his brother's urgent tone "I'm in Molly's, I'll be there in a second" Will advised before hanging up the line.
"We need to get you upstairs" Jay knelt in front of Lexi putting his phone back in his pocket. "Can you walk?" Lexi shook her head, she was too weak she knew she wouldn't be able to walk up the stairs in to her apartment. Jay picked her up and carried her up the stairs. He heard the door open behind him when he reached the top and assumed it was Will. "Pick up the bags" Jay called over his shoulder.
"Jay, what the hell?" Will questioned doing as he was asked picking up both bags that lay at the bottom of the stairs before following his brother.
Jay laid Lexi gently on her bed, she closed her eyes as soon as her head hit the pillow "No, no, no" Jay said sitting beside her and shaking her shoulders slightly "Don't go to sleep, keep your eyes open, stay with me"
Lexi opened her eyes, groaning slightly, she exhaled shallowly "I'm so tired"
"I know, I know baby" Jay said, "but you can't go to sleep" He said wiping sweat soaked hair from her face.
Will entered the room and saw how pale Lexi was, she was sweating profusely, her pale blue shirt was soaked with sweat and there was a patch of fresh blood seeping through on her right side. "Move out of the way" Will demanded pushing Jay out of the way. "Lexi what happened?" Will asked leaning over her and taking her pulse, it was too fast, a clear sign of blood loss. She closed her eyes again. "Lexi, Lexi open your eyes" Will pulled her eye lids up, her eyes reacted which meant she had only passed out.
Jay picked up Gabby's bag and placed it on the bed beside Lexi "Help her, please" Jay begged as Gabby charged in to the room.
"She needs a hospital" Will said standing up straight and looking at his brother.
Gabby commenced taking supplies from the bag and placing them on the bed in order they would be needed. Gabby cut Lexi's shirt open explaining. "We have everything we need." she said looking up at Will with pleading eyes handing him a pair of gloves. "We can help her here"
"She's lost too much blood" Will informed her putting on the gloves as Gabby peeled away the blood-soaked bandage from Lexi's abdomen, revealing the deep stab wound. "She needs a transfusion; do you have a couple bags of blood in there?"
"Will, please" Jay said walking to stand in front of him before Gabby could answer his rhetorical question. "She can't go to the hospital, they ask too many questions. Questions we can't answer. But this happened because she was trying to protect all of us" Jay pointed to Lexi on the bed "to protect me, please help her"
Will looked in his brother's eyes. He understood why she couldn't be taken to the hospital, but it didn't mean he had to like it. Right now, she needed his help, his brother was asking for his help. "She needs blood, do you know what her type is?"
"Kelly" Gabby answered. "Kelly is a match"
"He's in the bar" Will told Jay "Go" Jay ran from the room.
Jay raced down the stairs taking two at a time, he had to put his arms out to stop himself from crashing in to the door at the bottom. He took a second to compose himself, he couldn't race in to
Molly's looking panicked, he didn't want to arouse suspicions from anyone.
Jay walked calmly in to Molly's, he tiptoed above the crowd to locate Kelly, he was at the far end of the bar talking to Casey and Boden. Jay made his way through the crowd and locked eyes with Kelly as he approached. Kelly knew immediately something was off, Jay looked like he was going to throw up, sick with worry. "What's wrong?" Kelly asked as Jay got close enough to hear him.
"She needs your help" Jay told him not breaking eye contact. Kelly didn't hesitate, he put his beer on the bar and followed Jay back through the crowd.
"Okay Gabby what are we looking at?" Will asked turning Doctor mode on.
"It's a puncture wound, it's jagged so it wasn't a knife" Gabby explained connecting an IV drip to Lexi's arm.
"I'm going to need to stitch inside and out" Will explained kneeling on the floor beside the bed. "We're going to need to numb the area around the wound. I don't want her waking up whilst I'm doing it"
"It's all in the bag" Gabby told him hooking the IV bag on to the headboard freeing up her hands.
Kelly followed Jay in to Lexi's room to find Will knelt on the floor injecting a clear liquid through a needle in to Lexi's abdomen, Gabby stood beside him holding another needle ready for Will. Kelly could see the wound was deep and still bleeding. "What do you need?" Kelly asked
"Take off your jacket" Gabby ordered giving Will the final needle. "Roll up your shirt sleeve. Jay bring that chair over here"
Kelly followed his instructions whilst Jay throw the clothes that hung over the chair to the floor and picked it up, carrying it to the side of the bed beside where Lexi lay. Gabby began hanging another empty bag to collect Kelly's blood.
"There's no time for that" Will told her twisting a stitch in to Lexi. "It's needs to be a direct transfusion"
Kelly sat in the chair and held his arm out as Gabby wiped the crook of his arm with a sterile wipe, "you'll feel a little pinch" Gabby told him before sticking his vein with the needle she held. Kelly winced a little as the needle pierced his skin. Gabby quickly turned and did the same to Lexi's arm putting the other end of the tube directly in to Lexi's arm. Jay sighed heavily relieved as he watched the red liquid travel from Kelly's arm to Lexi's. Gabby adjusted the drip making it flow a little faster, Lexi needed it.
"Will," Jay began "How bad is it?"
Will chanced a quick glance at his brother and could see the worry in his face. Jay was watching the love of his life slip away, but Will couldn't lie, he needed to be honest, prepare Jay for the worst. "It's bad" Will confirmed "but we're going to fix it. The cuts deep. But I've stopped the bleeding" he assured his brother speaking to him as a doctor. "I just hope she doesn't have any internal injuries."
"I don't think she does" Gabby told him sounding hopeful holding Lexi's wrist checking her heart rate. "Her pulse is stabilising"
"Good, that's good." Will sighed placing another delicate stitch.
Jay heard a phone chiming, it was going off every minute to notify there was a message waiting to be read. He followed the sound of the phone as he heard Will give Kelly instructions to notify him if he felt sick or dizzy at any point. Jay located the burner phone in the rucksack Lexi had bought back. He read the unread message that had caused the chiming.
Cam: I had fun. Glad it's done. Until next time, kisses!
Jay shook his head at the message, it was so casual, 'kisses' like they had met up for brunch or something not killed a man.
"What the hell happened?" Kelly asked looking to Jay.
Jay exhaled deeply and walked back to lean against the wall, his legs were going to give out on him as his adrenaline depleted. He ran a hand over his face. "Calvin. She got him"
Gabby's head shot up from checking Lexi's pulse to look at Jay. "She got the bastard?" Gabby asked for confirmation.
Jay nodded "Yeah. It's done, it's over"
Gabby's eyes filled with tears as she looked down at Lexi. "That's my girl" Gabby said kissing Lexi's forehead.
Will washed his hands in Lexi's bathroom sink, washing her blood down the drain, he watched the red tinged water swirl down the plug and looked up in to the mirror to see Jay stood in the doorway watching him.
"Thank you" Jay said softly his hands in the pockets of his jeans.
"Don't thank me yet" Will said drying his hands on the towel and turning to face his brother. "She's not out of the woods yet. She could have an infection from whatever was used to stab her, internal bleeding, a reaction from the transfusion" Will listed a few potential complications exiting the bathroom.
Gabby and Kelly were in the kitchen, getting Kelly something to eat and drink, to refuel. Will checked Lexi's pulse, counting it off using his watch. "She needs antibiotics"
"Gabby got some, there in the bag" Jay told him
Will shook his head laughing lightly "are there any supplies left in the hospital?"
"Nope" Gabby answered walking back in to the room carrying a bowl filled with warm water and wash cloth.
The brothers laughed at her as she sat beside Lexi and began moping her forehead with the cloth.
"I'm sorry I dragged you in to all of this" Jay told his big brother, he was sorry he had drug Will in to the whole situation, but he was so thankful that Will had been there to help.
"Don't sweat it" Will smiled "I'm glad she got the guy and I'm glad I could help"
"I owe you"
"You both owe me" Will said raising his eyebrows looking from Jay to Lexi. Will inhaled deeply "okay I need a drink. I'll be in the bar if you need me" Will said as Jay hugged him.
Kelly sat at Lexi's breakfast bar eating a bag of chips and drinking a can of Pepsi as he had been told to do so by Gabby. He needed to get his blood sugar levels back up after donating his blood to Lexi. Jay entered and went to the fridge taking out a bottle of water.
Jay took a long drink from the bottle before looking at Kelly. "Thank you"
"Don't mention it" Kelly told him taking a swig of the sugary drink. "Wanna tell me what happened?"
"I know what you know" Jay informed him leaning against the fridge. "she took off in the middle of the night two nights ago and…"
Kelly interrupted him. "You weren't with her?"
Jay shook his head "No. She sucker punched me and ran" Kelly smirked at the mention of Lexi punching Jay "thought you'd like that bit" Jay chuckled.
"Sorry man" Kelly laughed "couldn't help it"
Jay shook his head laughing. "I tried looking for her, but she didn't tell anyone where she was. She even lied to Voight"
"Wow" Kelly said looking shocked, it wasn't something Lexi would do lightly, without prior thought or doubt.
"Yeah, he's pretty pissed at her" The mention of Voight reminded Jay he hadn't called him to update him. He knew Voight would be worrying about her just as Jay had. Jay took his phone from his pocket and dialled Hank's number as Kelly spoke.
"I think we all have a reason to be pissed at her" Kelly said.
Jay was going to ask what Kelly had to be pissed at her about when Hank answered his call. "She's home" Jay told him immediately. "She was hurt, Will and Gabby patched her up." Hank told him he'd be right over before hanging up not giving Jay chance to explain she wasn't currently conscious and up for visitors.
"GUYS" Gabby called from the bedroom.