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80. Ricochet
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The Mark 81. In His Shoes
Hours seemed to go by before anyone came out to tell us what had happened. The doctor pulled me aside into Damian's room, as they wheeled his bed back into the room. This time Damian was completely unconscious and didn't appear to be waking up anytime soon. His skin has also lost a lot of colour."What happened?" I asked, needing answers."Your brother suffered from an Arterial bleed. It is very common amongst gunshot victims. They can prove to be fatal, as they are hard to detect. We believe the first gunshot to his abdomen managed to nick one of his larger arteries. Normally, the cut wouldn't have caused any damage, but we believe that the second shot was what caused the damage. As the bullet fractured, severing the vein. It wasn't picked up in our original scans, as the bleed itself was located in a hard-to-reach area, behind the spine. We believe that he may have been bleeding for a while now. But the shift in his posture earlier is what made it more severe. This is why he stopped
The Mark 82. A Step in the Right Direction
While Jace had gone to search for Damian and Haley's belongings, a group of doctors entered the corridor just like before. However, this time pushing a gurney with Haley on it. I felt myself relax seeing her being pushed into one of the nearby rooms. She was alive. That's all I could ask for. I followed the doctors into the room, and waited for them to finish hooking everything up before I began to ask my triad of questions."How is she?" I asked, after the nurses and guards had left the room."Not good. She was shot multiple times, at various places along her body. It's almost as though someone was using her for target practice. I've never seen someone this bad before.""But the baby?" I began, but the doctor seemed to understand my train of thought."The baby's ok. By a sheer miracle, none of the bullets went close enough to injure the baby. Though we still need to monitor over the next week. Anything could happen. We've never really had a case as severe as hers, so we're unsure as
The Mark 83. Back Up Plan
"How so?" I asked."If you're right, which I'm inclined to believe since you helped design it. Then that means that Blaze isn't as ahead as I thought he was. Without you, Evanish is pretty much useless.""Mhmm... So what's our next steps?""Our?" Jace remarked, raising a brow at me."No. you are not getting any more involved in this than you already are. I will arrange to have some men come and escort you and Jessica to a safe house outside of the country. The two of you will be safe with my team, while we work on locating Blaze and the remaining Cobras.""What? There's no way we're doing that. I'm not just going to run and hide. I want this done and over with. And who's to say that they don't manage to find a hacker just as good as my brother and I, and in a few weeks are able to track us down? I won't put Jessica's life in danger.""So then what do you propose?" Jace said, teasingly, knowing far too well that I didn't actually have an answer."Why don't we use me as bait? We know it
The Mark 84. Escape
I carefully held my breath, making my movements slow and steady as I reached over to mute the machine. I managed to do the first one flawlessly. I then reached over and muted the second. Once the machines were muted, I removed the IV carefully from my arm. I used the blanket to cover the blood that came out and checked it soon after. My arm had thankfully stopped bleeding, only a small trickle had come out. I shifted my legs off the bed and tried standing up. It wasn't easy at first, but thankfully my legs began to work with me rather quickly. I looked around the room for anything that I could use. Unfortunately, the only thing I could find was a pair of scrub pants in the bathroom. They seemed to be clean and were probably there for me once I had a chance to shower. I wished there were shoes, however, I wasn't so lucky. I snuck up towards the door, and silently checked to see where all the guards were. Unfortunately, there were two guards stationed outside of my room. So escaping
The Mark 85. Mole
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The Mark 86. Stand-off
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The Mark 87. Final Stand
“All this time! You were the mole! You’re the one that split us apart! And for what?!” I shouted, no longer able to contain my fury.“For what?” She asked, suddenly looking straight at me.”“I did all this because I love you. And you used to love me before that b*tch got here!“ She shouted.“Have you lost your f*cking mind? I never loved you, and you never loved me. It was just sex and nothing more. You were nothing more to me than a decent lay. But after being with Haley, I realized you weren’t even that!” I shouted, pissed that she was the one behind all of this.Blaze laughed at my confession, which only seemed to annoy Sadie all the more.“You don’t mean that.” She whimpered.“Let me get this through that thick skull of yours. I have never loved you. You never wanted me, but the lifestyle being with me gives you. You want fame and power. You never loved me. And you’re kidding yourself now, believing otherwise.” I say.“Take it back!” She shouts.However, by this point I had stoppe
The Mark 88. Lost
...Haley POV...I felt as though I was floating on a cloud. Nothing made sense. I didn't know where I was or why I was here."Hello?" I called out, hoping someone would hear me. However, the air around me remained silent.I could hear this annoying beeping in my head, but no idea where it was coming from. I looked around, only to see nothing. I focus on my other senses, hoping to be able to pick up something familiar.Tingles begin to erupt from my skin, immediately making me think of Damian. He's the only one that has ever been able to make me feel that way. I twist myself closer to the sensation, hoping to get closer to Damian. I feel the familiar warmth of his body spread into my own and find my eyes rowing tired. I relax into the comfort of his embrace.An alarm ringing wakes me from my sleep. I open my eyes trying to figure out where the sound is coming from, only to be surrounded by darkness yet again. I cover my ears wanting the alarm to stop. What's going on? Where am I? Where
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