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[ 016 ] no control.

FOUND LANDS.

chapter sixteen, no control.
[ season five, episode fifteen ]

"HELP! I NEED HELP!" That is all it takes for Theo to come flying down the steps of their home. He rushes to the van where Eugene and Glenn are rapidly working to grab Tara.

Theo's eyes land on Odessa. She's slumped against the inside of the van, her eyes screwed shut. Her skin is a pasty white, sweat rolls down her face.

His eyes then fall to the blood that surrounds her. It all over her and the van. The shirt she held against her side fell when she passed out.

"Grab her, Theo!" Glenn demands as he and Eugene rush Tara to the infirmary. He jumps into the van and hauls Odessa into his arms. He glances at Nicholas, he sits with his knees pulled to his chest and bruise on his face.

Then he notices someone missing.

"Where's Noah?" He asks Nicholas. He doesn't answer. "Nicholas! Where the hell is Noah?"

Theo gets his answer when Nicholas shakes his head softly. Theo lets out a small gasp but he has no time to mourn right now.

He needs to get Odessa to the infirmary.

So that what he does.

As soon as he enters, Pete is already ordering him around. "Lay her on the bed!"

He does everything Pete tells him to. He assumes Glenn's already told Pete what's happened to her because as soon as he gets to Odessa he already has everything he need prepared.

Theo steps back, real panic is on his face. He watches as Pete cuts Odessa's shirt with surgical scissors.

The door bursts open. Theo turns his head to see Rick and Carl standing at the door. Carl is utterly distraught. Rick just looks at his little girl.

She's lost too much blood.

"She needs blood," Pete looks up at the two. "What's her blood type, Rick?"

"A— A positive. Like me," Rick answers.

"Okay," Pete nods. "I'm gonna need you to sit down. I need to prep you for blood extraction."

Pete cleans Rick's arm and extracts his blood. After he takes two pints from Rick and one from Carl, he clips the I.V. to a stand and allows the blood to enter Odessa.

Then he moves to her side. Theo watches as Pete cleans the area of the wound. He gasps when he sees it.

The wound is bigger than Theo expected. It's deep, extremely deep. It's at least six inches long and four inches wide.

"She's lucky," Pete speaks up. "Couple centimeters higher and it would've hit her liver. There would be no saving her then."

He stitches her wound and tells Rick she has to stay over night. So Carl sits by the gurney all night. Rick tells Carl he'll be back soon. Theo stares at the girl.

"She doesn't know," he whispers. Carl looks back at him with confused eyes. "She doesn't know about Noah."

Carl frowns. Noah had become a close friend of them all. But especially Odessa. They bonded over Beth. They grew closer than anyone expected. And now they would have to tell Odessa what happened when she wakes.

The next morning, Odessa comes to. She groans and Carl's head snaps up from where he fell asleep with his head on the bed.

She attempts to move but Carl quickly stops her. She looks at him with squinted eyes, "Carl?"