A/N Hello my lovely readers! I have returned with an update for you all. :)
Thanks to all Reviewers!
Dedication: to kungfukitty2006 for her lovely review! :)
Disclaimer: I claim no rights to the characters (other than the evil ones, but who wants them anyway).
Frank had been left a bleeding mess on the floor of the room, after Marion left a few hours ago. Since then he had slipped in and out of consciousness, the knife still embedded in his leg. His face was badly swollen from being hit with the gun, and he was bruised in several other areas from the beating Marion's underlings had given him after Marion left the first time. The former detective was currently more lucid that he had been for the past while, although he was unable to move much, not that he had any desire to do so given the amount of pain he was experiencing from the stab wound in his leg.
The door to the room opened and Marion entered accompanied by a man Frank had never seen before. "This is Dr. Salino." Marion noted. "He's here to make sure you don't bleed to death before I'm done with you." With those cheerful words Marion stormed out of the room leaving Frank with the doctor.
"You should really try not to anger him." The doctor noted as he dug through his bag of medical supplies in search of the necessary tools.
Frank still mostly out of it from the pain and blood loss did not respond to this suggestion. The doctor moved on to examining his leg and began to curse loudly. "I'm not a miracle worker." Dr. Salino complained. Frank who had finally passed out again did not respond. The doctor left the room in search of Marion to discuss the situation.
"Excuse me, sir?" He said upon reaching the terrorist's office and granted entrance.
"What is it?" Marion demanded.
"I don't think that I can provide Mr. Hardy with the necessary care, with the knife embedded in his leg he needs to have an x-ray done to make sure he's not going to start bleeding to death when it gets taken out, and it may require surgery to remove."
"Pull it out." Marion decided bluntly.
"Excuse me?" Dr. Salino demanded in a shocked tone.
"Pull. The. Fucking. Knife. Out." The terrorist exclaimed through gritted teeth.
-Story Break-
"Do you have any news yet?" Callie demanded anxiously of the Network agent who had stepped into the hall to take a phone call.
"They have managed to disarm three of the seven bombs so far." The gray man replied in answer to his question. "It should only be a few more hours."
"Frank could be dead in a few more hours." Joe burst out, saying what everyone else had been thinking. The question of Frank's current state of health was the proverbial elephant in the room.
"I'm sorry." The gray man responded.
"You should be." Joe shot back. "I'm going for a walk." He added rising from his seat and storming out of the apartment, slamming the door shut behind him.
-Story Break-
"I can't just pull the knife out." Dr. Salino protested.
"Why not?" Marion asked leaning back in his office chair and glaring at the doctor.
"Because it could very well kill him." He pronounced gravely.
"So?"
"Mr. Marion, I took an oath to do no harm." The doctor exclaimed.
"Let me put it to you this way, either you pull the knife out, or I pull the knife out and put it in you." Marion offered. "The choice is really yours."
"I'll just be going to take that knife out, shall I?" Salino said after paling dramatically.
"I thought you'd feel that way." Marion said smiling benignly at the doctor as he left the room.
-Story Break-
"You disgust me." Callie Shaw announced in a shaky voice moments after Joe left the apartment. "Frank already risked his life getting you the information about the bombs, if he had been caught they would have killed him. And, now after he did that you're just leaving him with those people for even longer, because you're worried they will escape if you tip them off or whatever it is you think..."
"Callie-" Mr. Hardy began. She shook her head refusing to let him interrupt her.
"Frank deserves better than this." The blonde said before storming out the door after Joe.
She found him pacing back in forth in front of the apartment building. "I thought you'd be joining me." He said smiling grimly down at her.
"Frank saved me. It's my turn to save him." Callie replied. "Besides, if the Network isn't going to do anything then we'll just do it ourselves."
"Let's go rescue my big brother, shall we?" Joe queried.
"We can take my car." Callie said dangling the keys in the air.
"Operation Rescue Frank: Officially Commenced." Joe said jubilantly.
-Story Break-
Dr. Salino made his way back to the room Frank was being kept in with a decidedly melancholy air. He had consented to work for Marion, or consented as much as any of his employees had truly consented, but he had never agreed to go about making medically-unsound decisions
He knelt beside Frank and proceeded to wrap the wound with a sterile dressing around the knife placing pressure on the area near the wound. He then elevated the effected limb propping it up on a low chair. Frank groaned in pain and Dr. Salino felt a pang of remorse for what he was going to have to do on pain of death,
He gripped the handle of the knife with one hand and placed his other hand on Frank's leg to stabilize himself as he prepared to pull out the knife.
A/N Review! Sorry that the update is late. :(
Yesterday was my birthday and I was having a family party so I didn't get the chance to write the chapter. Update should be next Tuesday. :)