A/N: OMG 22 REVIEWS! I HEART YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm ill and I still had to go to school - but I forced myself to write this chapter so I apologize if it's dodgy...
Me... (kinda) impale J.D again...? Moi:innocently blinks:
Amberjunk: Oh, he'll feel guilty alright lol. All I can hint for the next chapter is this: Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of life's little problems... :chants: Bonding, bonding, bonding, bonding, bonding... ahem..
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I did just end that chapter there.
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Ahem...
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(Dr. Cox)
By the time I manage to get the stupid, damn, cheap, locked door open the window is wide open and the room is completely empty. Oh crap... I lean out of the window and squint through the dark night to see if Newbie's been carried off somewhere but I obviously can't see anything. I hear something to the left of me and turn round. Then suddenly my blood runs cold as I see him lying on the ground, half covered by shadows. His clothes are stained red, as the immediate floor around him is covered in blood. His eyes slowly opened, as he looks at me, gasping in ragged breaths. All I can do for a moment is stare, before I fall to my knees beside him, suddenly at loss at what to do. Some Doctor I am. He looks up at me desperately as I turn him onto his back. I look for the source of all the blood and quickly spot a knife embedded deep into his side. Oh my God... I wince somewhat as he reaches up and closes his fingers around the sleeves of my lab coat, clinging onto it in a death grip as he fights for each breath.
I've seen stuff like this before and I've been relatively okay with it. Pressurized, yeah, but never as shaken as I am now. I can feel Newbie's fingernails digging into my arm... Surprising how much that hurts, but I know that whatever pain he's in has to be much worse. He's still panicking, gasping... obviously not getting enough air. I grip his shoulders and position my face directly above him and lean in close, a hand on each side of his face so that he can definitely see me and so he has no excuse for not obeying my commands.
"Look at me, Newbie," I say firmly as I watch his wandering eyes. I shake him gently, "I said look at me."
He eventually looks at me, locking his gaze with mine. He gasps again and cried out from a probable surge of pain from the knife.
"Breathe. Just keep your eyes on me and breathe," I say gently but again, firmly. He tries to comply but I can almost feel him slipping away. I turn to the door, about to shout for someone when I realize that the door is shut. I prize myself away from him and hurry over to the door. Oh for God's sake it's locked... but didn't I break the lock when I came in...?
"D...D...Doctor. C-c-c-cox...!!!" Came a rasping voice from behind me. JD has somehow pulled himself into a slumped position against the wall and was feebly pointing at a man with a balaclava... and blood stains all up his shirt. I'll kill him with my own bare hands...
"Hello, Perry..."
Holly crap I recognize that voice... I can feel my face displaying my surprise and somewhat absolute horror and I quickly work on making my face neutral.
"Jacob...?"
Balaclava guy ignores me and moves towards Newbie. He instinctivly tenses up and grimaces as he pulls on his side.
"Don't go anywhere near him." I snap angrily. Look at me being all noble and standing up for Newbie.
"What's he to you?"
I paused, then decided not to answer that question, "What are you doing here?"
Jacob chuckled, "Coxie, coxie, coxie... think back about seven years ago... you had a patient called Briggs... Lola Briggs."
I think back. How the hell am I meant to remember one patient seven years ago...?
Jacob rolls his eyes, "Multiple chest and head injuries from a car accident about eight miles from here. You may remember her as my mother...?"
Ah! That was it... Is that what this is all about?
"I remember her... she died, didn't she...?"
Jacob nods fervently and ripped off the balaclava to reveal a young face aged by obvious deep running madness and grief. Guilt almost along with the emotions obviously stored within the once muscular but now skinny body. He suddenly pulls a gun from his pocket and points it directly at me, grinning madly. I roll my eyes as I mockingly raise my hands.
"You were my friend! And you killed her! I trusted you! And you just let her die! But I got my revenge," he laughed insanely, "I've been tracking Dorian for a while now... and look what your little mistake all those years ago has lead to!"
I go cold inside as his words hit home. JD had absolutely noting to do with this and yet he was paying for my mistake. My big mistake. Oh m God, if he dies...
"Say, Jakey boy," I say, feigning neutral emotion, "Did it ever occur to you that the whole screaming of 'CLEAR' and the big zaps coming from her room at the time was load of Doctors trying to save her? It's called a defibrillator. Clever piece of machinery. Did it also occur to you that JD over there has absolutely nothing to do with this and killing him wont make you feel any better."
"Oh, I'll feel better alright... Simply in knowing that you'll feel so guilty when I pull the trigger..." and to my horror he aims at a half-awake Newbie.
(Okay - I was going to end it here, but seeing as I'm so nice...)
At this, his half awake eyes widen as he presses his back against the wall. That's it... this is getting old now. I grab the bedside lamp and pull at it until the plug rips out of the socket, I then run and swing at Jacob's head. There's a sickening crack that makes JD visibly cringe and he falls to the floor. I simply step over Jacob and shove him into a corner before opening the door after much pushing. It's strange seeing the corridors so normal and busy. As if nothing had happened. I find myself simply staring at it in disbelief. Laverne at the nurses' station, gossiping on the phone. Nervous Guy making a beeline to the nearest closet. Carla walking past with an armful of paperwork which she quickly shunts onto Barbie.
I run a hand through my hair before coming to my senses.
I take in a few breaths before shouting, "I need some help in here!"
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TBC
See you got a few extra words there ;)
Not my best so far... :S
Oh, yet again, big thanks to taby42 for a few icebreakers in the fic xD