(GUS)
I'm woken up after only 45 minutes of sleep. My bedside clock reads 3:35. Lassie had sent me home after staying up late trying to find out more with Shawn.
My phone blears its standard tone. Groaning, I reach for it.
"Hello?" I say, suddenly awake. The caller ID said Lassiter.
"Guster?" the familiar voice calls for.
"Yeah? What's the matter?"
"You need to get down here. Hurry!" he commands.
"Oh...ok. I-I'm on my way!" I rub my eyes, throwing on a pair of jeans and not-so-wrinkled shirt. Stuffing the phone in my pocket, I slam the door on the way out.
I find Lassie with O'Hara in the waiting room, worried expressions on their faces.
Rushing up to meet them, I say the thing that had been on my mind the last five minutes.
"Did you find them? Are they alright!" I ask.
"Woah, Gus, calm down there." Juliet tells me.
"Alright. Just tell me." I say.
The detectives glance at each other, not sure who should say what.
"I don't know how to say this, so I'm just going to put it all out there," Juliet starts, taking a deap breath.
"The first night they were out, some guy knocked them out and tied them to trees. He stabbed Henry in the stomach and arm. He also punched and kicked him several times. Even hit him in the head with a shovel. Shawn was forced to watch it all." he eyes tear up.
"Shawn was punched in the jaw, stabbed three times, and knocked out, hard. Unfortunately that's not all. When... when Shawn escaped about an hour ago, he darted into the street and was hit by a car. He has several broken bones. The doctors didn't give us much, but said he's in surgery right now. One of his ribs punctured some organ." Lassiter says, taking over.
"Oh-my-god!" I whisper, collapsing in a chair.
I take in what all just happened to my best friend and his father.
"Can I go see ?" I ask.
"I don't see why not. He's resting, so the doctor said only a few people at a time. Would you like to go alone?" Lassiter says. I nod. "Room 204."
As I head towards the room, I prepare myself for whatever he looks like. I have to be strong.