Helena heads to the door, Reese following behind.
She knocks at the door a few times.
"Cole, are you there?"
She knocked twice more, then turned to Reese.
"I guess not, let's go."
They were turning to leave when Helena spotted some marks on the floor.
"Hang on." She said. She looked closer to see blood stains on the carpet.
"Reese, it's blood. And the trail leads into his apartment. I'm going in"
"Ok, just a second" said Reese. He pulled out his gun, and then walked to the door.
"What are you doing?"
"Look, you don't know that it isn't Ventroxa setting a trap. We should be prepared for anything"
"Fine."
Helena picked the lock, then the walked in.
"Cole? Are you here?"
They walked in further, and as Helena walked around the corner she bumped into Cole, who was sinking down the wall due to the huge gash on his stomach.
"Oh my god, Cole!"
Reese ran to see what was going on. He then proceeded to help Helena get Cole to his bedroom. Helena then helped Cole lay down on the bed.
"Are you ok, what happened?"
"Do I look ok?"
"Right, sorry. Alright, let me see how bad this is, ok?" said Helena, as she reached over to undo the bandage.
"No, don't."
"I've seen worse then this, trust me"
"I said don't," said Cole forcefully, but then added "please" softly at the end.
"Ok Cole, we need to get you to the hospital"
"No, you can't. It's not safe there. They'll find me"
"Who will find you? What's going on, who's after you?"
"I don't know. I never saw who it was"
Cole sat up in bed.
"Are you sure, you never saw anything? You have no idea who could be after you?"
"No, but I'm a lawyer, could be anyone" said Cole. He then doubled over in pain.
"Ok, lay back down. We're going to get you some help, ok?"
"No, you can't. Helena please, just leave it alone, ok?"
"NO! I'm not gonna just sit here and watch you die Cole. We'll be back. Please be here when I get back"
Helena walked over to Reese, motioning him out the door.
"You think it was Ventroxa trying to get to me?" she asked Reese.
"I don't know, he seems to go after everyone else himself, I don't understand why he would get to you through him"
"I don't know, but call Barbara, have her send some kind of help."
"Ok, just a second"
Reese dialed the number for the clocktower.
"Barbara, its Reese. We got to Cole's apartment, and Helena found him on the floor with an extremely bad wound to the stomach."
"What? Do you have any idea what happened?"
"No, Helena seems to think Ventroxa is behind this, but I don't know. The whole Cole situation is getting more strange"
"Ok, well Alfred's on his way with a med kit right now. As soon as he's fixed up you two need to get to Dinah, she met some street thug on the street, and he managed to tell her that Ventroxa isn't the only one who is after us. He said that Ventroxa is paired up with someone else, they both used to work for some underground crime ring known as the Conclave. I guess the Conclave was worried that they failed, and are hunting down Ventroxa and the other one, which is why Ventroxa is trying much harder to kill us."
"He want's to prove his loyalty and get back on the Conclave's good side"
"Seems like it, but now we have to worry about the other one too."
"Great. We'll head to where Dinah's at as soon as Helena's done here"
"Alright, Oracle out."