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Sorry for the short chapter :(
Less than five minutes after everyone had finished setting the tarps up, rain started to plummet down. And only two minutes later, JJ let out a bloodcurdling scream.
JJ fell to the ground, clutching her stomach in pain. The ten or something people who were under the tarp she was under turned to face her in surprise and curiosity. She felt as if someone had been twisting a knife inside her. Cooper turned quickly to face her before turning to the crowd surrounding them.
"Give her some space," he ordered, motioning for them to move. They moved back a bit, but some stayed to see what was going on or to help. "Zander, Kim come help me," he added. Two people relatively the same height and both with brown hair. The man had green eyes and the woman had brown.
JJ's vision became blurred as figures swarmed above her. Cooper gave instructions on how to move her. The three moved to back, farther into the covering and laid her down onto her back. She tried to move, but someone was gently holding her down.
"Where is it hurting," Cooper asked calmly. He had crouched down to where JJ was laying on the rough grass. JJ tried to take a deep breath to answer his question.
"My s-stomach," she said. She was having difficulty breathing.
Cooper carefully pulled back her shirt to examine her stomach, where most of the pain was coming from. JJ could all but barely make out a slight gasp from someone.
"JJ just sit tight for a little okay?" JJ nodded while coughing raspily; it wasn't like she could go anywhere.
"What is it?" Kim asked Cooper. Kim and Zander were siblings who had immediately helped Cooper earlier.
Cooper turned to look at the blonde woman before replying.
"Internal bleeding," he answered quietly. "I think. She is going to need help. When we stitched her up earlier, I wasn't sure if the shrapnel had split off inside her."
"Then why did you, stitch her up I mean," Zander asked. He had a southern accent.
"She would have bled out," Cooper answered, sighing. There was a silent pause that was interrupted by a coughing fit from JJ.
"She is also having trouble breathing which is leading me to believe that something could have punctured a lung, maybe her stomach as well giving her an ulcer, which could have lead to the internal bleeding. It is coming on fast. She probably moved in a way that caused something to penetrate through and in a domino effect, caused everything else," he added. He opened his mouth to say something else when a noise came over from where JJ was.
JJ leaned over and threw up onto the ground. A sickening feeling overtook her. Cooper looked almost helpless at the blonde.
"We can't do anything right now. She needs medical attention," Cooper said. "She'll die if she doesn't get it."
Cooper walked back over to JJ. The group of observers had mainly dispersed now. He reached over and felt her forehead with the back of his hand.
"Kim," he called turning back.
"Yeah."
"Get a shirt or something and pour some water on it. She has a pretty high fever." Kim nodded and left.
Cooper sighed and closed his eyes for a second. This was a lot different than working in a hospital.
"Coop-per," JJ said quietly. "What happened?"
Cooper turned to face her. He didn't want to have to tell her, but at the same time, he knew he had to. He took a few seconds to answer.
"I'm not an idiot," she said slowly. "Internal bleeding?" She guessed. It wasn't like she didn't have any medical training.
"Just tell her man," Zander said just as Kim returned with a wet shirt.
Cooper nodded and filled JJ in on what happened. He kept out the part about the severity of it and her needing the medical attention immediately. Needless to say though, JJ knew.
