Bleed, Patch, And Keep Moving - An Apex Legends Story

Chapter 104 - Life Or Death

Octavio caught Ajay as she collapsed to the floor. Her fingers smeared the blood spatter across his face as her hand fell limp onto her chest. Renee kneeled down as Octavio cradled Ajay in his arms, "What happened?" Octavio's wet hands held her tight trying to coax Ajay to wake up as he rocked her in his arms, "Prowler. We need to get her to the hospital." Renee shook her head, "No!" Renee was shouting before she realized that she was shouting and eased her voice back to normal before speaking again, "No. We can't."

Renee helped Octavio pull off what was left of Ajay's backpack from her back. Renee then helped him remove what was left of Ajay's shirt, which wasn't much. Ajay's back side was profusely bleeding from the wounds that prowler's claw left behind just before they entered Renee's portal. Octavio caught a glimpse of muscle and bone as Renee helped to get Ajay situated. He knew that it should have been him and not her.

He silently cursed at himself and head back tears. He couldn't risk breaking down now, especially since Ajay needed him. He tried to think about what to do next since Renee had made it pretty clear that they couldn't go to the hospital. "What about Natalie and that device? She could use it to close up Ajay's wounds." He knew that too much time had already been wasted trying to come up with a way to save Ajay.

Renee looked down at the device on her wrist, "Not an option. Natalie just got out of a coma from a prowler attack. She is too weak to use her abilities and this device is only programmed to work for me. I made sure that Natalie programmed it to only work for me so that way Loba couldn't use it. Always have an escape plan." Renee sighed and thought for a moment, "We need to go back to that place and use her heal drone. Can you get her heal drone working?"

Octavio already had his shirt off and was using it to apply pressure against the wounds on Ajay's back, "Are you crazy? What if we get attacked again? I can't help her and fend off prowlers." Renee pressed a few buttons on the device attached to her wrist and opened a portal despite Octavio's opinion on the situation. The air ripped and crackled in front of them as the dark blue light over took their immediate area.

"I will take care of the prowlers, if there are any. This is our only option right now." Renee dropped her hands to her sides as she finished speaking. Octavio stood up with Ajay's cold body in his arms, "Only Che can make D.O.C. work." Octavio cradled Ajay's heavy body in one arm and gripped the cracked D.O.C. drone by her handle in his other hand. "I don't know even know if D.O.C. is working."

Octavio glanced down at the battered drone and shook his head. He wasn't sure if D.O.C. was even functional. If D.O.C. was functional he didn't know if he could wake Ajay up to activate the drone. Ajay had lost a lot of blood and she was pretty much out of it. He knew in his heart that she was a fighter but for some reason he just couldn't get her to stay with him. He hoped that she wasn't too far gone.

Renee looked down at the healing machine and sighed, "It has to work. It's our only option." Octavio stared at the cracks on top of the healing drone again. The prowler's claw nearly tore Ajay in two if it wasn't for the poor little drone taking the brunt of the attack. Renee took Octavio by the arm, "Figure it out and wake her up."

Octavio could feel Renee's hand tight on his arm as she pulled them into the portal. By the time that they made it through the other side of the portal Octavio's shirt was dripping with Ajay's blood; the shirt was now pretty much useless. He didn't know what else to do so he kept his blood soaked shirt pressed against his wife's back.

He pulled a stim syringe from his pocket as he kneeled on the ground. He placed Ajay in his lap and gently set D.O.C. beside them. He held onto Ajay tightly, hoping that he could keep her from losing any more blood. Renee stood in front of him with a Wingman in her hand as the portal snapped shut. "I'll keep an eye out for prowlers." Octavio nodded and squeezed the glass stim filled syringe in his hand; almost like he was going to break it.