Inferno Part 2

~60~ Darker

Taylor's POV

As soon as the call came over the intercom at the station, Greene, Liam, and I knew. We said nothing as we all ran with all of our strength to get into the trucks quicker than we ever have. We all drove faster than we ever have. We got to the house faster than I thought possible.

Ellie is lying limp on the ground. Nora is trying to get her head wound to stop bleeding. She is bleeding from her entire body. She's laying in glass.

Her pants are down, but not her underwear. He didn't have a chance to rape her.

Drake and Nora's replacement, Pratt, quickly get to her.

When I get to her, I see it. There's a needle jammed into her arm. That's how he overtook her.

Alex is still towering over Ben, waiting for him to regain consciousness. He's completely knocked out. I look over at him, and he is completely battered. My girl did that to him. He's close to triple her size, and she destroyed him. If he didn't have whatever it was he injected her with, she would have gotten away.

Pratt starts to go over to Ben, when I scream. "HELL NO! He can wait for the next ambulance. Focus on her!!!"

Pratt is shook, but does what I've said. Nora and Megan are completely shook. They are trying to stop the bleeding to her head while Drake and Pratt are trying to get her stabilized enough to move her. Her back could be broken for all we know. With the amount of damage done to this house, he could have snapped her spinal chord.

The four of them get her on a gurney, and Nora takes the needle out of her arm. She looks at it and shakes her head in disgust. "Tranquilizer. He couldn't take her on his own, he had to tranquilize her." She is beyond upset.

I look over at Emma and Luke, and they are so far past ok. I think they are both about to have a nervous breakdown. Trace has his arms around both of them. I can't even think about the damage seeing their mom like this is going to do to them.

I get into the back of the ambulance, with Liam and Drake, and we go to the hospital. Drake is doing all the prep-work. He's starting an IV and doing vitals.

Liam and I are just staring in horror. If I wasn't so afraid to move her, I would pull her pants back up. This isn't going to be good for Liam either. I find a sheet in one of the cubbies, and cover her lower half with that.

"Taylor" Liam sobs, about to lose his cool.

"She's strong. She destroyed him. She's going to come back to us." I say, forcing myself to stay calm. I need to stay calm for Liam. He looks like he did when he was 17 and she almost died. He's about to lose it.

We get to the hospital, and rush in. They rush her back to the back, and we are just standing, watching her leave us.

Liam immediately crumples to the ground. I almost think this is worse on him than when she was hemorrhaging. That was an accident. This was no accident. A man did this to her, and we let it happen.

Our whole entourage comes in then. Even Jake. Thankfully someone called him. I hadn't even thought about calling him.

Jake is beside himself. He's blubbering about how Ben stalked her today at the store and she came to him. He keeps saying that he should have followed her home. How this was all his fault. I've never seen Jake sob so hard in my life. I can't even think enough to go over and console him. I can't even move.

Megan comes over and hugs my waist. She and Wes guide me to a chair and force me to sit. My brain isn't working right now.

Suddenly we see Ben getting brought in on a gurney. Alex is towering over him. "I don't give a shit if he needs surgery. He's in police custody. The moment he's out, the cuffs are going back on" he's screaming at the doctor.