Annabelle Ruzek, the younger sister of Adam Ruzek, starts working for the Famous Intelligence Unit of District 21 of Chicago, Her dream finally coming true. She's smart, observant, quickthinking and has a way of understanding things about cases no o...
The pain is excruciating. The pain, like living metal staples running through my insides, pricking and scratching with their little sharp points. I felt my mind going dark. For the first time in my life, I started praying to pass out.
"Anna!" I hear a voice somewhere and footsteps approaching me. The gunshots had finally stopped and suddenly a figure came towering over my limp body. "This is an emergency! 5021 George, roll in an ambo! Officer down! I repeat officer down! In an ally at-" I stopped listening as another rush of pain spread through my whole body. Please pass out, please just let me pass out!
"Anna, you're gonna be okay, just stay with me okay!" Jay says, the worry very clear in his voice.
"Anna!" I hear another voice and more footsteps approaching. Two other figures came towering over me.
"Get that bulletproof off, I don't know if the bullet went through!" Jay says still very panicked. I felt my vest being taken off and a set of hands started inspecting my chest. Another rush of pain filled me as one of the hands touched the place where I've been shot.
"It didn't go through," Hailey said taking off her jacket and handing it over to Jay. Jay pressed the material as hard as he could against one of my wounds, sending more agony through my body. Please, let me pass out!
"She's been shot in her shoulder and thigh," I hear Kim say on my other side. "Hailey, take this and get her shoulder, I'll get her thigh," she hands a cloth or something over to Hailey. At this point my vision is so blurred, I can't even make the colors out above me. Why can't I just freaking pass out!
Finally, my prayers are heard. As they press the cloths to my wounds and another wave of excruciating agony filled my whole body, a nice deep darkness consumed me and washed all my troubles away.
The last thing I heard was the faint sound of sirens and Jay, Hailey and Kim telling me to hold on, but there was nothing to hold on to.
Hailey's POV
"Anne, everything is going to be okay, just hold on," I say, my voice trembling. Jay placed two fingers next to her neck to check her pulse.
"Pulse is weak and fading- Where the hell is the ambo?!" He practically yelled. The fear in his eyes as radiant as ever. I can understand as I'm just as scared as he is. We can't lose Annabelle. There's no way.
Moments later the sirens were blaring behind us and we heard footsteps approaching. Suddenly I felt someone grabbing my arm and pulling away from Annabelle. I was about to swat the hands away, until I saw Sylvie giving me a look. I took a step back and Kim did the same, but Jay didn't move a muscle. Sylvie tried getting him up, but he just stayed crouched next to Annabelle.
"Jay, let Sylvie do her job," I say as I pulled his arm to get him up. He stood up and gave Sylivie the space she needs, but still stood as close to Annabelle as possible.
Sylvie and her team eventually got Annabelle on a stretcher and made their way to the ambo. Jay followed them into the Ambo and as the doors shut, I heard Adam behind me.
"Was that Annabelle in there?" He asked. I turned around to look at him, unable to speak. "Is she gonna be okay?"
The realization didn't hit me when I wasn't able to speak. It hit me the moment he looked down at my bloody clothes and hands. The realization that, if Annabelle doesn't fight, I'm gonna lose my one and only best friend. And Adam will lose his sister.
I didn't even noticed I was crying until Adam wrapped an arm around me with tears in his eyes too.
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Jay's POV
"Her pulse is weakening," Sylvie says. We're currently in the Ambo on the way to med, and with everything Sylvie has been screaming this last few minutes, I'm starting to lose hope.
"Annabelle, can you hear me?" She asks, flashing a light into Annabelle's eyes. Sylvie shakes her head. "How far is med?"
"A few minutes out," The driver replies.
"I don't know if she's gonna make it," Sylvie says. You can hear she's trying to sound neutral, but there's a slight shake in her voice that gives her away. My heart sunk to into the pit of my stomach and I grab Annabelle's hand.
"Annabelle, if you can hear me, I want you- I need you to fight. Don't leave me like this. Stay with me, please," I plead. "You - You still owe me a date," my voice broke. I squeezed her hand as I dip my head down, trying to compose myself. I hate crying, and I hate it even more when I cry with people around me.
The ambo came to a stop and seconds later the door opened and outside stood nurses ready to pull the stretcher out of the vehicle. I helped them get the stretcher out and strolled it into the ED. Holding Annabelle's hand the whole way.
"Female, 27, 3 gunshot wounds, let's get her help quickly! Her pulse is weakening by the second," one of the nurses call out.
"We're losing her," the other nurse yelled.
"Sir, I'm gonna need you to stop here. You can't go any further," a nurse says making me stop and let go of Annabelle's hand. "They're taking her to the OR right now, she's in good hands. Why don't you go wait in the waiting-"
"I'm not going anywhere," I snap. I don't know why I got so snappy.
"Jay," I hear a voice behind me. I whipped my head around to see Will standing there. "Is that..." he trailed off as he pointed to the blood on my hands and clothes.
"Annabelle's," my voice cracked again. Immediately he led me to somewhere quieter. Wich I'm very grateful for.
"What happened," he asked worriedly.
"What do you think happened? Didn't you just see her?" I snap at him angrily. I know it's wrong of me to snap at him like that, but right now I have no control of my feelings.
"Jay, I'm pretty sure she'll be okay. We have the best doctors who are going to treat her, okay?" He says trying to calm me down.
"Yeah, Annabelle who has three gunshot wounds and lost her pulse in the Ambo, will be just fine," I snap sarcastically. "You know for a doctor like you, you can talk the biggest crap I've ever heard."
"Jay," he says trying to comfort me. I push him away from me and walked to the other side. At this point everything looks blurred with the tears in my eyes.
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All I wanted now, was Annabelle. I want her and I want her to be okay. The emptiness inside me is indescribable, but not just that. The first time in my life after Erin left to join the FBI, I felt like I actually can love again. With Annabelle, I feel like I can conquer the world as long as she is by my side, but now all I feel is emptiness.
And you know what is even worse?
Knowing that we would've had our first date on Friday.
