Author's Note: So second chapter here we come. Thank you to all the nice things people said about this. I really enjoyed writing it even the violence was kind of hard to stomach. It's hard to look at it objectively if you know what I mean. Anyway, please review again! Thank you.

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John versus Jack

Chapter 2 –

Will heard the scream. He streaked out of his office like his hair was on fire and pelted down the corridor towards Magnus' office. He'd never heard her scream before but he'd know her voice anywhere. The door was closed but Will pushed it open without pausing to knock. What he saw, however, stopped him in his tracks.

Magnus was flat on her back on the floor with Druitt crouched over her. Will had arrived just in time to see him strike her across the face. Her head rolled to the side; she'd lost consciousness. Blood was pooling around her and Druitt was in the process of pulling a knife out of her stomach. Before he was aware of what he was doing, Will had sprinted across the room and thrown himself at Druitt, forcing him away from Magnus' still body. He felt something tear at his shirt and he felt a slight sting at his arm. He punched Druitt in the side of the head, funnelling all his anger and fear for Magnus into it. Druitt's body jerked before slumping back onto the floor.

Will was frozen for a second, staring at Druitt's body, covered in Magnus' blood. He glanced at Magnus but before he rushed to her side, he swiped her radio off the desk.

"Henry? Kate? Big Guy?" Even he could hear the fear in his voice. "Guys? Somebody?"

When there was no immediate reply, he dropped it on the ground and crawled over to Magnus. He touched her cheek. It felt like ice. "Magnus?" he tapped his fingers against her cheek. "Magnus, I need you to wake up." There was a dark bruise already forming across her left cheekbone, indicating how hard Druitt had hit her. The fury bubbled up again but Will forced it down as he turned his attention to the two stab wounds. They were close enough that he could keep reasonable pressure on both at the same time. He pressed down, his hands getting covered in blood.

"Will, what the hell is going on?" It was Henry's voice, coming from the discarded radio.

Will yanked off his shirt and balled it up, pressing it against the wounds as he reached for the radio. "Henry! Druitt went after Magnus. We need to get Druitt into high security and Magnus to the OR right now."

"What?" Henry sounded stunned for a moment. "Yeah, right. I'll grab Biggie and Kate and we'll be there ASAP."

Will could hear the unspoken question. Henry wanted to know whether Magnus was going to be alright. But he didn't know. "Henry, she'd out cold with two deep stab wounds. We need to be fast."

"Got it." There was a crackle on the radio as Henry raced off.

Will turned his full attention back to Magnus. Her face was pale and she hadn't moved a muscle. Her chest rose and fell shallowly and her breathing was slow and ragged. Will pressed harder on the wounds, his desperation and impatience showing. His shirt was quickly turning from white to red and the sight of it made Will's stomach turn over.

"Come on Magnus. Wake up. Please, Magnus. I need you to wake up." Will begged. He watched her face intently but there was no change. No movement. No life.

The tears were burning in his eyes when he heard the clatter of a gurney being pushed down the corridor. Henry burst through the door at breakneck speed and slid to a halt. He visibly paled at the sight of Magnus' blood all over the floor. Kate and the Big Guy appeared behind him. Will blinked forcefully and took charge, not moving from his position.

"Henry and Kate, get Druitt into a cell. Highest security. I knocked him out so I have no idea when he'll wake up..." Before he could anymore, Kate manoeuvred her way around the Big Guy and Henry and raised her gun. The light that indicated that they were tranquilizers was on and, for a moment, Will wished it wasn't. Kate fired, remorseless as Druitt's body twitched. That motion made Will's lips twitch in some semblance of a smile. Her readiness to shoot the man showed just how loyal she'd become to Magnus. But as nice as it was, they didn't have time to dwell on it.

"Big Guy, we need to get Magnus to the OR. I don't know if the knife hit any organs but there's a hell of a lot of blood."

The Big Guy nodded and reached down to scoop Magnus up off the floor. Her head flopped back and her arms dropped to dangle by her sides. As soon as he'd laid Magnus on the gurney, Will was kneeling over her, keeping pressure on the wounds. The Big Guy didn't pause to let Will steady himself but instantly began pushing the gurney out of the room, heading for the elevator, leaving Henry and Kate to haul Druitt down to the cells.

When they got inside the elevator, Will pressed his fingers against Magnus' throat and counted the beats. After fifteen seconds, he looked up at the Big Guy. "It's slow but it's stronger than I thought it would be."

The Bug Guy grunted. "She's strong."

Will nodded and readjusted his hands over his shirt on the wound. The panic was still swirling in his stomach but now they were moving, now they were doing something he felt slightly better, like they weren't just waiting for her to bleed to death.

"Will you be able to fix this?" Will asked, his eyes holding all the fear he didn't have time to deal with.

The Big Guy just nodded, his eyes on Magnus again. She was losing colour by the second and right now, every second counted. They had to make sure that knife had not caught any of her organs and then they had to stop the bleeding, before she died. A shiver ran down the Big Guy's spine. He really hoped this went well.