I'm back with a brand new chapter - updates every day so far - three days in a row - i'm on a roll :P

A little bit of a flashback/hallucination in this one.

The ambulance arrived soon after Adam had lapsed into unconsciousness. 3 EMT's came running out to asses Adam's condition.

Mac said straight away that he had been injected with some unknown substance and stabbed in his right hand side.

The paramedics took Adam away from Mac's grasp and put him on to the gurney.

The third EMT asked if Mac was going to go with Adam in the ambulance. Mac replied with a nod, hoping that Adam would pull through this.

Mac sat quietly in the ambulance, while the paramedics did their thing.

Throughout the ride to the hospital Adam drifted in and out of consciousness.

He only caught edges of words and even they sounded distorted, that worried him a little but the pain was excruciating and he happily welcomed the darkness when it came to claim him once again.

Adam was currently being wheeled in to the hospital. They couldn't give him any pain relief until they knew exactly what was in the syringe, so surgery was out of the question, for the meantime so they had to slow the bleeding as much as they can, and give him more blood until then.

The next thing Adam heard was, "Mr Ross, can you hear me, open your eyes for me please".

Adam's eyes fluttered open, and then opened wide in horror. Whatever had been in that syringe was making him hallucinate all he could see now was the worst day of his life playing before his very eyes.

The Doctor shone a penlight in his eyes and in return he flinched away and started to try and get off the gurney.

"His pupil's are unfocused and he is unresponsive, you, go chase up the results" the doctor said to the nearest nurse.

"Mr Ross, calm down, you're in hospital" The doctor said pushing him back down.

Unfortunately her words fell on deaf ears. Adam was stuck in his own personal nightmare.

So he started to get back up again. This time all the two nurses and the doctor pushed him back down and held him there. He started to panic and began to thrash about.

*Adam's*Nightmare*

In his mind he was 8 years old, it was the day his father got fired from his job, so naturally he got drunker than normal. Normally whenever his dad got drunk he took it out on his mom and rarely hit him, but today Adam's mom told him to go hide in the wardrobe until she came back for him, as she had been informed of her husband's dismissal and she knew that he was not going to be happy, to put it lightly. Adam did as he was told as he knew the consequences of getting his father angry all too well. He sat in his wardrobe and put his fingers in his ears and brought his knees up to his chest waiting for the shouting to stop and the sounds of things breaking to cease. Then suddenly all the noises stopped. Adam pulled his fingers out and listened carefully. He could hear heavy footsteps heading towards where he was hiding and he knew it was HIM.

"ADAM! Adam get your ass out here now! Don't make me come and get you!!" His father yelled.

Little Adam climbed out of his wardrobe all in his PJ's. Before his father could say another word, Adam just got up and ran, ran to find his mom, she always protected him.

His father gave chase, tripping as he went, not doing his anger any good. He tore up every room as he went checking that Adam wasn't hiding anywhere else.

Adam stopped when he saw her. This was the worst he had ever seen her. She lay battered on the floor blood all around her. He sat right next to his mum and started shaking her.

"mom, wake up now, please, mom?!" he pleaded.

Adam didn't know what to do, his mom wasn't there to protect him from his father. He recently had learned at school about what to do if someone gets hurt real bad, he would have done that on other occasions, usually his mom had been there to tell him that she was ok, but she wasn't there to say it this time.

Adam ran over to the phone and started dialling. '9-1-1' Adam recited in his head as he pushed the buttons.

A voice started to talk to him through the phone.

"My mom, she's hurt real bad, she won't wake up"

The female voice on the phone told him to hang on for a minute while she put someone else on the phone.

Before Adam could reply to this new voice he saw his father.

"Adam! What have I said about using the phone?"

"But mommy's hurt" Adam said to both the person on the phone and his Dad.

His Dad punched Adam in the shoulder, causing Adam to let go of the phone and fall backwards hitting his head on the table as he went, knocking him out cold.

"hello, hello is anyone there" said the muffled voice through the phone.

*Back*in*the*real*world*

The Nurses had to pin him down to stop himself from hurting himself anymore.

Then they suddenly let go; Adam had passed out again from exhaustion; Mac just hoped Adam would be calmer the next time he awoke.

The nurse who went to get the results ran right up to the doctor and handed her the piece of paper.

"Good. Detective Taylor, we will be taking him in to surgery straight away" The Doctor said looking at the preliminary results.

"What was in the syringe?" Mac queried.

"Some kind of hallucinogen, nothing that we can't get out of his system and it won't interfere with any of the medication we will have to give him. We will get a more accurate result in a couple of hours".

"Thanks"

"No problem, detective"

The doctor and the nurses wheeled Adam away and straight into surgery.

Not much of a cliffhanger here but next chapter we will see some of a lucid Adam and hopefully learn some more about that person in the shadows - stay tuned it's about to get really good :D

I do apologise for my lack of medical knowledge - I am going to do a little research into it to make it a little more realistic but no flamers regarding this please.