When Daisy and Reid arrived at the hotel and pulled up to the main entrance, it was eerily quiet. Daisy turned the siren off but left the lights flashing and climbed out of the SUV. She strapped a Kevlar vest to her body before heading to the trunk to grab the medical kit she left in the SUV. She grabbed it, slammed the trunk door with a loud thud, and turned to head inside the hotel but found Reid placed his hand on her chest to stop her.
"We should wait for backup." Reid said leveling a stern glare at her.
"I'm a doctor and there's a girl in that hotel that needs my help or she's going to bleed to death. I don't have time to wait for back up so either help me or get out of my way." Daisy growled swatting Reid's hand away.
"Okay how can I help?" Reid said a bit taken aback by the icy tone to Daisy's voice.
"Make sure no one enters or leaves the hotel and notify SWAT of the situation when they get here." Daisy threw over her shoulder as she grabbed the door handle and pulled the door open.
The first thing Daisy saw when she entered the hotel was a large group of people standing in a circle, huddled together. She ran towards the group and managed to squirm and push her way through the hysterical crowed and into the center.
What she saw made her feel like someone hit her in the chest with a 2x4 and knocked all the air out of her lungs.
There was a girl lying on the tile floor covered in blood. Daisy stood frozen in shock for a few seconds before she got down on her hands and knees. She set her kit down beside her and knew without even touching her that this was a medical emergency.
"What's your name sweetheart?" Daisy said smiling half-heartedly.
"Sarah." She said between sobs.
"Well my name is Daisy and I'm a doctor so I'm going to help you but to do that I need you to help me." Daisy said squeezing Sarah's hand.
She turned her gaze to Sarah's chest and saw Adam's trembling hands holding a bloody towel to her abdomen. She un-zipped her medical kit and grabbed a BVM and placed it over Sarah's nose and mouth before handing it to Adam so he could squeeze and hold the towel while she inspected for more injuries.
It had been a while since Daisy did a full body examination for internal injuries but this girl's life was in her hands and doing one was better than not doing one. She knew if she did one and found more injuries she could tell the paramedics to look out for it and they could tell the doctors upon arrival to the hospital.
Daisy found no signs of additional internal traumatic injury and let out a sigh of relief.
Daisy knew that she needed to focus on stopping the bleeding from Sarah's wound. She nodded at Adam letting him know it was okay to let go of the towel. Daisy carefully peeled back the towel and saw a deep horizontal gash at least six inches long across the center of her abdomen. She cursed when she saw the ruptured blood vessel that was rapidly leaking blood into her abdominal cavity.
She glanced up at one of the security guards standing there trying to control the crowed.
"How far out are the paramedics?"
"About six minutes." He replied.
"Shit we don't have that kind of time. Sarah I need to stop the bleeding but it's going to hurt so can you do me a favour and just focus all your attention on Adam?" Daisy said watching for an affirmative head nod.
Sarah nodded and Daisy took that as her cue to continue and pulled a bottle of rubbing alcohol out of her kit un-screwing the cap and pouring a copious amount onto a piece of gauze. She set the bottle down beside her and slowly rubbed the gauze over the wound and felt her chest constrict as Sarah hissed in pain, tears spilling like waterfalls from her gorgeous ocean blue eyes.
She could feel the sting of tears in her own eyes as she grabbed and tore open a package of dry cotton balls with her teeth before strategically placing a handful in the wound to absorb the blood leaking into her abdominal cavity.
Daisy knew that the next part of the procedure was extremely dangerous. If she made one slip up, she could completely severe the artery and cause massive internal bleeding which she would only have seconds to stop.
Daisy called a member of the circle forward and handed him a flashlight to hold so she could see what she was doing. She eased herself down on to her chest so her eyes were level with the wound and grabbed a needle and thread from the kit.
"Sarah, this part of the procedure is dangerous so I need you to stay still no matter how much it hurts. Everyone else I need you to move back so I have room to work." Daisy said as she threaded the needle.
Daisy was amazed at how fast everyone moved, like Moses parting the red sea. She glanced at Sarah one last time to make sure she was holding still. She could see tears falling from Sarah's eyes and Adam stroking her hand trying to distract her from what was about to happen.
Daisy took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and tried to imagine she was sewing a piece of fabric instead of a young girl's artery. She opened her eyes after the third deep breath and removed some of the cotton balls to get a better look at the artery she was going to stitch.
Daisy took one last breath before she got to work on stitching the artery. As she made the first stitch she heard Sarah scream in pain and it hit her hard enough that she felt icy tears biting into her skin. She blinked several times knowing that there was no going back and she had to continue to save Sarah. In and out that was what she did until she was confident that her patchwork would hold up at least until Sarah made it to the hospital and a surgeon could do a better job.
It didn't take long after Daisy completed the initial patchwork to suction the lingering blood in her abdominal cavity and stitch the wound closed with two rounds of stitches.
Before Daisy could say anything else, she heard the loud wail of ambulance sirens, several police/SWAT cars and fire trucks. It was only then that she realized the fire alarm was ringing and the units were responding to a fire alarm as well as a suspicious man.
She watched as the door opened and Reid came running in flanked by two heavily armed SWAT team members and paramedics. She didn't have to identify herself because she was wearing a FBI Kevlar vest and had a badge and gun attached to her belt. However, none the less she reached into her pocket for her credentials and handed them to one of the officers.
"Have either of you searched the building for the perp?" One of the SWAT members said as he quickly glanced at her credentials before handing them back to her.
"No but I posted Reid on the front door to make sure no one tried to enter or leave through the front exit and I'm sure security had men on all the other exits." Daisy replied wiping the blood on her hands off on her jeans.
"What about the victim?" One of the paramedics interjected as he glanced at Sarah.
"I have stabilized the victim and she's ready for transport to the hospital. She is showing no signs of traumatic injury other than the stab wound to her abdomen." Daisy replied her voice wavering as shock set in.
"Thank you Agent Gomes." The SWAT leader said before sending his men off in separate directions and running off himself.
Daisy grabbed Sarah's hand as the paramedics rolled Sarah onto a gurney and strapped her down
"You'll be okay because these fine gentlemen will take really good care of you." Daisy said glancing at them through her tears.
Daisy felt a surge of pride when Sarah nodded at her and squeezed her hand. Daisy followed the paramedics, jogging beside the gurney as she told them what she suspected was wrong with Sarah as they headed to the ambulance parked outside the front door.
They gave her their thanks, loaded Sarah into the ambulance, and shut the doors. Daisy broke down when she watched the paramedic run and get into the driver's side, slamming the door. She wanted so badly to go with them as she watched the ambulance leave with lights flashing and a wailing siren.
After the ambulance was out of sight, she looked around the scene and saw just how much activity this incident had caused, fire trucks, SWAT vans, police cars and back up ambulances were all parked with flashing lights in strategic locations.
She prayed that Sarah would be okay as she took off her Kevlar vest and leaned against the side of the SUV. She felt the adrenaline crash kick in and realized that she was shaking like a leaf.
When she saw, an officer let Adam out of the hotel he had mascara laced tears pouring from his eyes and he was shaking just as bad if not worse than she was. She let out a sniffle before running straight into his arms and clinging to him like he was the only thing keeping her glued together. She hadn't seen Adam in years but the warmth of his strong arms wrapped around her was comforting.
Before they could saying anything to each other Adam let her go with a kiss to the top of the head and saw Reid emerge from inside the hotel to offer the comfort he knew she needed.
"Daisy, are you okay?" Reid asked as he took the vest from her and threw it in the trunk along with his own before slamming the door shut.
"I'll be okay; this is my friend Adam Lambert and we grew up together in San Diego." Daisy said coldly at first but smiled as she said the word friend.
Daisy watched and wiped the tears from her eyes as Adam and Reid shook hands and formally introduced themselves.
She smirked when she caught Adam checking Reid out which to her didn't make sense because he was dating Sauli and would never cheat. She knew that Adam checking out Reid meant that at least for the time being he was okay. She knew though once the adrenaline wore off and it really sunk in what happened Adam would fall apart and need constant supervision.
All three of them tensed when they heard approaching footsteps. All three of them turned around and came face to face with the rest of the team.
The look on Hotch's face was alarmingly straight.
"Daisy, what the hell were you thinking?" Hotch snapped his voice laced with frustration and anger.
"I followed my instincts and because of that a young woman is on her way to the hospital instead of the morgue." Daisy snapped back.
"You broke protocol; if your attitude doesn't change I will have no choice but to pull you from the case considering what you've been through." Hotch, fired back.
Daisy's eyes darkened and Reid could see what was coming; it was the same thing that happened at his apartment.
"Leave my past out of this." Daisy shouted her voice laced with dangerous and icy venom.
"You need to..." Before Hotch could say anything else, Daisy interrupted him and started screaming in Danish.
"Hvorfor er alt jeg gør aldrig godt, nok. Jeg er ved at være træt af det. Kan folk ikke bare lade mig være for helvede. Jeg bliver sindsyg, af alt den pyldren. Jeg ved godt reglerne et der til at hjælpe os men nogle gange er de sgu mere i vejen end hvad godt er. Hvis i ikke passer på så æder de fucking lorte regler jer. Jeg gjorde hvad jeg følte var rigtigt og hvis det ikke er godt nok, at man redder en pige istedet for at vente på at folk gider lette deres røv." Daisy snapped without even noticing she was speaking in Danish. She just looked at everyone and them at her because they did not understand a word she said.
"What the hell was that? I'm so confused." Morgan said scratching his head.
"Well that was Danish which I normally use if someone pisses me off." Daisy answered, glaring at Hotch.
"We should head back to the precinct and debrief." Hotch said through gritted teeth.
"Daisy I suggest you ride with me." Adam said fishing his keys out of his pocket.
"She's riding with me because she's proven to me that I can't trust her." Hotch said glaring at Daisy.
"Adam does have a point, Hotch. He needs someone to ride with him and make sure he stays safe. He's a celebrity and this is probably all over the news by now. I suggest letting Daisy ride with him because they are friends and maybe she can talk him in to giving us a statement." Reid said trying to defuse the situation.
"Fine! Daisy you can ride with him but you and I are going to talk." Hotch snapped before walking away towards his SUV.
"Oh Daisy you really did it this time." Adam said watching Hotch's retreating back.
"Let's just go." Daisy said through gritted teeth as she grabbed Adam's arm and dragged him away from the SUV towards his car.
Daisy rested her head against the back of the seat and took a few calming breaths trying to let go of the anger. Daisy turned her glance to Adam as he got into the car shutting the door behind him. She knew that it wouldn't be long before Adam suffered an emotional breakdown and fished her Blackberry out of its holster. She pressed 1 on the key pad and held the phone to her ear.
"You've reached the office of the all-powerful oracle so state your quest." Garcia said with an edge of cheeriness to her voice.
"It's Daisy and I need you to grab the book I gave you before joining the BAU."
"What's this about?" Garcia said.
"I request the assistance of the all-powerful oracle with a very big quest." Daisy said trying to humor Garcia.
"What might this quest be?" Garcia asked sounding intrigued.
"I need you to hack into the DA's office and issue a federal arrest warrant for "The Fisher" on grounds that he's a witness in a federal rape/murder investigation. Have Viper and Night Hawk pick him up." Daisy said.
"You do realize that you are asking me to break the law?" Garcia said seriously.
"I know and I wouldn't ask you to do this if I didn't think it was necessary." Daisy said pleadingly into the phone.
"Okay but you owe me big time for this missy. I will get right on it and call you back when I have arranged everything." Garcia said.
Daisy hung up the phone and shoved it in her holster struggling not to laugh at the perplexed look on Adam's face as he drove through late night Vegas traffic.
"What the hell was that about?" Adam said his voice betraying his obvious confusion.
"Oh nothing you need to worry about." Daisy said a mischievous smirk appearing on her face.