"Hands up!"
"No."
I try to ignore the yelling around me.
My hands are covered in Chris' blood and I feel it soaking through my jeans and shirt.
It's not slowing.
"Stop!"
I hear the women yell as she pushes her way through to me.
She kneels next to me but I don't look at her.
"What were you before?"
I still don't look at her.
"Hey I am talking to you, girl!"
"Leave me alone!" I scream at her.
My hands are starting to become unsteady and slippery. Chris is starting to pale.
He's dying.
I feel warm hands moving mine aside and finally look up at the women.
"I was a surgeon."
I wipe my face if my tears but now my face is speared with his blood.
"I was a nurse."
"I can help." She looks up at Micheal, "Let me help."
He lowers his gun and nods.
"Save him."
He looks at the other three men and nods to them. They lower their guns as well.
"I hope you know what you are doing, Sierra."
"Help me?" She's looking at me again.
"I love him." My voice cracks when i speak but I know I have to let her know what he means to me.
"Okay." With one hand pushed down on the wound she grabs my hand with her other. "I will do everything I can to save him, but I won't be able to do it without your help." I know then that she is telling me the truth. She was a surgeon, she's probably
said that line a hundred times, and she's meant it every time.
"Okay." I look at Micheal. "I need my bag." He looks wearily between the strangers. He'd have to run back to camp to retrieve it.
"Scotty, go with him you're the fastest. Nick, I need my bag too. Daniel stay here and protect us. The blood will attract the dead."
The 3 men move without hesitation. Scott moves toward Micheal and they share a nod before they take off back to put camp.
Nick disappeared in the opposite direction.
Daniel moves around us with his gun ready.
I look at the women, Sierra, again.
"Maria." I say simply.
"Sierra." She says unnecessary. She gives me a small smile before she gets too work saving Chris' life.
Nick is back before the others and drops the bag next to Sierra.
She begins pulling things out and we get to work.
Micheal and Scott return shortly after.
They drop my bag next to her as well.
Everything else around me is blurred out.
I do what I've been trained for.
I save a life.
I save the man that I love.