The emergency room was chaotic with passengers and others being treated from the melee in the airport. All three agents were taken to the emergency room where Mulan and Emma checked out ok only minor cuts and bruises but Killian was just barely hanging on. The medics had started his heart by defibrillation and with drugs. Agents and police waited as the doctors worked on their colleague.
Victoria, Mulan and Emma stood just outside the curtain as they watched the doctors' work on their friend.
"We need a chest tube…" one of the doctors barked out.
After the tube was inserted "He's bleeding internally we need to get him up to OR stat!" another said urgently.
They rushed Killian up to surgery as the three women stood and watched. One of the doctors came over to talk to them.
"We're taking him up to surgery on the fifth floor." The woman doctor told them.
"Is he going to be ok?" Victoria asked.
"It's too hard to tell right now…I can only tell you that we are doing everything we can for him right now. The surgeon will be able to tell you more once they are done with him. I'm sorry…" the doctor had compassion in her eyes as she looked at Victoria.
"Thank you" Victoria said trying to control the emotions she was feeling at the moment. She turned to Emma and Mulan. "Let's go up and we can call Quantico and let them know what is happening while we wait for word."
The younger women nodded with solemn expressions on their faces as they followed Victoria toward the elevator.
Quantico
"Don't worry I'll take care of it; everything is going to work out. He just has to be ok…you know how tough he is…yeah ok I will, I'll see you later." Graham hung up the phone and informed the rest of the agents in the office of what had happened.
He walked over to the hospital to Zelena's room he knew they had to be told what happened before they heard it on the news. He just prayed that Killian pulled through.
Los Angeles
Victoria had hung up the phone after making the phone call to Killian's brother, she had sent some agents to escort him to the airport and he would be here in a few hours.
Mulan watched the world go on with its day as if nothing had happened as she looked out the window.
Victoria hung her head and rubbed her temples as Emma came to sit beside her. The blonde knew this was very hard on her mentor as it was on her. Killian was like a brother to her and she would do anything for him.
The young woman put her arm around Victoria and squeezed her gently. "How are you holding up?"
"This is the part of my job I hate the most when I have to call the family of an agent who has been seriously injured or killed in the line of duty. I just hope it doesn't come to that…" her voice trailed off as she fought to keep her composure. "I'm going to check to see if they found anything about that custodian or if they can tell where David got his phony credentials from."
Emma nodded and sat there and waited in silence.
An hour later Victoria was on the phone again and the surgeon came out; the older woman looked up from the phone and knew by the look on his face that he did not have good news.
"I'm Dr. Water's…" he introduced himself "I'm the surgeon who operated on the young man who was brought in…is his family here yet?"
"No not yet, his brother should be here in another hour or so…how is he doctor?" Victoria asked with fear.
"I'm afraid his injuries were too extensive…we did everything we could for him but it wasn't enough."
"No!" Emma gasped and put her face in her hands as she tried to fight back the tears, she grabbed onto Mulan who was standing by her side.
All three women were in shock from the news, but Victoria regained her senses and spoke to Mulan and Emma. "You two go to the hotel and get some rest. As soon as his brother arrives the Doctor and I will speak to him."
"But Victoria we can stay and help…" the blonde said as she saw the pain in her surrogate mother's eyes.
Victoria took Emma's hand in hers and held them "I am the one in charge of this unit and it is my responsibility…but thank you. Besides I have some more questions for Dr. Water's…" she hugged the blonde. "Now go and get some rest…I'll be fine and I promise to check in with you later."
Emma knew that her mentor was hurting as much as they were but she had to finish her job here and that would be with telling Killian's brother what events happened that led to his brother's death. "We'll be waiting…" her voice caught and she turned to leave.
When they were driving to the hotel Emma asked Mulan a question "Did you happen to get a license plate number on that car before it took off?"
"No but it was black Mercedes S600…but this is California land of the rich and wealthy so there must be thousands of them." Mulan looked at her fellow agent and saw something in her eyes. "What are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking we go back to the airport and take a look at security video to see if we can get a break with the license number."
"But Victoria told us to go to the hotel."
"I know but I can either go to the hotel and go over and over what we might have done differently to keep Killian from dying or I can do something useful like try to find his killer. I'm doing this with or without you…Killian was very important to me and this protector of David's has answers that I need."
"Fine by me…" Mulan merged back onto the 405.
Emma and Mulan met up with agents from the local field office when they arrived at the airport. Emma talked to the head of airport security while Mulan set to the task of getting the security tapes from earlier in the day.
"Tell me sir just how is it that no one checked on this custodian?" Emma asked angrily.
"Agent Swan, I assure you he must have had the proper identification to get into restricted areas. I don't know what happened we're checking all of the ID's issued in the last six months to see if we can find a match." He said as a bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face. "I'm sorry about the agent who was here earlier…"
"Do you have a clear picture of this man anywhere on the surveillance videos?"
"Only one he knew to keep his face down and covered with his hat…here this is the best one we got off of the tapes."
"Carl…" Emma motioned for one of the agents to come over to her, she handed him the photo. "Get this sent to Quantico ASAP and tell one of the techs to run it through the facial recognition software program to see if we get a match."
"Yes ma'am" he said and took the photo to the scan it.
Emma walked over to another agent "Fitzgerald do you know if we were able to retrieve any fingerprints off the luggage cart or the gun?"
"No, he must have worn gloves"
"Thanks, let me know if you find anything else." Emma said before she walked over to the room that Mulan had gone into.
"Are you ready?" Mulan asked the blonde when she walked into the room.
"Oh yeah…" she sat next to the woman agent "Now let's get this guy…" the blonde said as they started reviewing the tapes on several screens.