"Sam! Sam!" He hit the floor with a horrid thud…and he wasn't moving. "Come on Sam! Please! You can't do this to me!" I was terrified. Why would Sam even try a move like that with a head wound like that!? He was more impaired than I'd feared…and I'd already seen that he was not himself.
There was no way Sam in his right mind would have had to wait for me to figure out what was going on in that monsters head and get him to leave…
And now…now I was tied to a chair and helpless. I'd like to say that I was brave enough to try what Sam just did, but I wasn't. I was afraid to move for fear of doing further damage to my injured shoulder. Just staying still with it pulled behind me was agonising. I was afraid it was dislocated…I'd seen what was involved in getting a shoulder back in. I shuddered.
Finally Sam groaned and started moving. "Oh, thank god. Sam!"
"What…?" Sam tried to move, but was of course stopped by the fact that he was still tied to the chair.
"Sam, you are injured and tied to a chair. You need to cut yourself free with the glass near your hand." I couldn't help him until we both got free… I just hoped he was with it enough to follow instructions. At least he'd managed to aim surprisingly well, possibly through sheer luck, and there was a decent shard of glass right next to his hand.
"Glass." He muttered, feeling around within the limited range of his hand.
"That's right." I confirmed, "Just a little more to the left."
He paused for a moment, then managed to follow my instructions and move his hand over the shard. That was a good sign.
I cringed as he picked up the shard, but even in his impaired state, he managed to avoid slicing his finger open.
"Now cut through the rope, Sam. Careful." I tried to keep the fear out of my voice as I wondered how on Earth we were going to get out of this place once we were freed. I wasn't sure I'd even remember the way back to the path, and I was fairly certain that Sam hadn't even been conscious when he'd been dragged here.
Then Sam was free and sitting up, gently moving his wrists and arms around assessingly.
"Sam?" I asked.
Finally he looked up at me apologetically. "That…didn't really work as planned."
I blinked, then couldn't help but laugh. "No shit."
He smirked, and slowly worked his way onto his knees and stood up, swaying slightly.
I watched him, worried that he was going to go crashing to the floor again.
He saw me watching and gave me a smile that was meant to be reassuring…but didn't quite succeed. "I'll be fine." He told me, making his way over to me and moving to the back of the chair. He was at least starting to look more alert now that he was up and moving.
"Glad you didn't try and tell me you are fine." I told him, trying not to think about the piece of glass so close to my wrists or the movement that would come next. "Or I'd have to call you a liar."
He chuckled. "Well, I wouldn't want you to have to do that would I?"
I felt the rope give way and stretched out my good arm before gritting my teeth as he very gently moved my injured arm around to the front of my body. It didn't stop more tears from falling down my face.
"I'm sorry." He said gently as he examined my arm with expert fingers. I just nodded, afraid that if I opened my mouth to speak I would scream. "You know it's dislocated?" I nodded again.
He sighed, "You have two choices. I can relocate it now…"
My eyes went wide and I shook my head emphatically.
He nodded with a frown, "Yeah, I thought you might say that. Ok then, let's get it in a sling."
I nodded, whimpering a little as he gently moved my arm so that it was across my chest. "Can you hold it there for me?" He asked.
I nodded and cradled it with my other arm while he folded my shirt up to offer the arm some support. I sniffed, "I thought I was supposed to be the doctor…"
He chuckled a little and winked. "I'll let you play doctor when I'm done."
I was caught off guard by the comment and burst out laughing despite the pain I was in. He grinned as he looped the rope from the chair carefully around my wrist, and I got the impression that that had been his goal. "Cheeky boy." I commented wiping my eyes with my now free hand.
He shrugged, "It has been said." He looped the rope around the back of my neck and secured it again to my wrist. "There you go. It's not the most comfortable arrangement I'm sure, but it'll keep it secure till we can get you to a hospital."
I slowly let the makeshift sling take the weight of my arm and nodded. "It'll do fine, thank you."
He smiled and helped me to stand up.
Once I was sure I was steady on my feet I pointed to the chair. "Your turn. Let me at least check that head wound of yours before we go stumbling through the woods." I cut him off before he could protest. "Now. I'm not having you collapsing on me. I can't carry you."
He made a noise that was half laugh and half frustrated huff, but he sat down.
I moved around behind him and gently parted his hair over the wound, wincing in sympathy as I saw him tense. "Sorry…" I murmured as I prodded the area as gently as possible.
Once I was satisfied that there was no skull fracture under the mess of blood matted hair I moved back around to the other side of him. "Follow my finger." He rolled his eyes at me, but he followed my finger with them as I moved it around.
"Can we go now Doctor?" He asked.
I rolled my eyes at him, "Yes we can go. I have no doubt you have a pretty serious concussion, and if we weren't hunting a monster I'd be insisting you went to a hospital…But I know that would be a waste of breath just now."
He stood up and patted my good shoulder, "I know, and I promise we will both be going to a hospital as soon as we stop that shape shifter from hurting Taylor or Dean, or anyone else."
I sighed and nodded, "Come on, let's find our way out of here."
Hi everybody! Hooray, another chapter! Even though I have the key points of the story mapped out, it's still just as much of a surprise to me as it is everyone else how we get there! lol And I do love writing injured characters (who knows what that says about me! ;) )
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