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The young man slowly raised his gun. 'They will bleed for this and no one is going to stop me!', his voice rising continually until the last words were almost screamed. His face twisted with emotional pain and the thoughts of revenge he was going to carry out on the Outlaws.
Ed opened his mouth to try and convince him to surrender his weapon once again, but he didn't have a chance to even get one word out. Several things happened at once. Ed received a hard push from the left and felt himself stumbling out of the doorframe and to the ground as two shots went off almost simultaneously.
He scrambled to his feet and turned around to face the now empty doorframe, he and Spike stood in just seconds ago. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw Spike sitting propped up against the wall and seemingly looking into the room. Ed knew what happened the instant he saw him. He hoped to God and preyed to every deity he knew, that the vest caught the bullet fired at him. He wanted to check on him so badly, but he knew that his priority had to be to make sure that the subject was contained.
'Spike?', he called nonetheless, desperately hoping to get a response, as he moved through the door and into the room. 'Buddy, talk to me!'
He kept his eyes firmly on the subject. He lay next to his fallen brother, one shot center mass. The gun lay uselessly in his outsprawled hand. Ed felt for a pulse and kicked the weapon away, just to be on the safe side.
He turned around and ran back to his teammate, while calling frantically into his radio. 'SRU Officer down, I repeat SRU Officer down! We need EMS ASAP.'
Crouching down in front of Spike he felt for a pulse. 'Spike, wake up, come on buddy talk to me.', His head was lolling about, eyes closed and mouth slightly opened. Ed was nervous, when he couldn't rouse him. He quickly opened his vest and pulled it over Spike's head. That's when he saw the gaping hole in the front of his teammates vest.
'Oh no. Oh no, no, no, no!'
'Ed, status!'
He opened the jacket and ripped at the shirt, frantically trying to find the entrance wound. His hands were slick with blood and he felt as if his heart was beating itself to death in some empty hollow.
'Ed, status report!', Greg Parkers stern voice chimed through his ear.
Finally he found the entrance wound. Upper right quadrant of the abdomen. He leaned Spike slightly forward and peaked over his shoulder down his back to determine if the shot was through and through. It wasn't, which is good concerning blood loss. He pressed his hands firmly onto the wound, in a feeble attempt to keep the blood from flowing out. Spike didn't even flinch.
Greg's voice in his ear again, getting louder and decidedly more irritated. 'Constable, status report now!'
'Boss, we've cleared the first two floors. One of the subjects just shouted something about a bomb. The rest ran away from the scene. This is not looking good!', Sam chimed in.
'Do you have a visual on the bomb?'
'Yes, Boss, there is no timer, but a phone attached to it.'
'Understood, evacuate the building immediately!'
'Boss, what about Spike and Ed?'
Just as he gave the command to evacuate, he heard Ed's voice over the radio.
'Boss, Spike ..', was all Ed could manage, before his voice disappeared. His throat was so damn tight, he could hardly breathe. 'Spike is hit. That bastard had AP ammo!
Jules, Sam and Wordy stopped dead in their tracks. 'Boss, we have to help them!'
Greg didn't have much time to decide. For all he knew the bomb could blow up any second and he wasn't gonna lose a whole team. 'No, the order is to evacuate immediately! Ed can you carry Spike?'
His heart wrenched, he felt horrible to leave them without help. But he also knew that they'd both understand.
'Yeah, on it.'
'8:26 am, Constable Scarlatti shot with AP ammunition.', Lew tried his best to stay professional, but he couldn't keep the fear out of his voice and mind.
Uuuuh, that looks pretty bad for Spike ... but can it get worse? - Yep, it can.
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