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