The Job 5

Part 40: Stardust Chords

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry" said Milo now to himself, still sitting on the floor with Diego's lifeless body in his arms and failing to slow his tears.

He was planning on staying there for a lot longer, wallowing in his sadness until either his friends arrived to find him or Carlos came back to finish the job. To be honest, Milo was sort of hoping for the second option right now because all he could keep thinking was 'what's the point?'. Milo was just about to move himself so he was lying down next to Diego when he heard some yelling and then another gunshot sounded through the air, making Milo jump slightly. Milo looked towards the door of his office just someone started he recognised the voice of began groaning in pain. He then turned back to Diego and thought about what to do. He could either go see what had happened or he could carry on sitting here with someone that was no longer really there. Milo knew what he had to do because it's what Diego would have expected him to do. He sighed before lowering his head and placing a soft and final kiss to Diego's increasingly cold lips. Milo carefully moved his arms so he could gently lower Diego to the ground and then took a deep breathe as he stood up and walked out of his office. The growing urge to turn back around was extremely strong but Milo knew that if he did that, then he wouldn't be able to be moved by anyone no matter how hard they tried. Milo walked into a room that was quite a large space and was usually used for packing the product up before it was taken to the drug drop locations. There, lying on the floor but trying his best to move, was agent Waldron. He was still groaning in pain and now it was clear why. One of his hands was clutching his right thigh but that obviously wasn't doing a very good job at stopping the blood from escaping. Milo pretty much strolled over and just looked down at a struggling agent Waldron, a blank expression on his face.

"You're doing a bad job at controlling that" said Milo, slightly surprising agent Waldron who quickly turned his body a little to look up at Milo. "What happened?"

"Carlos shot me in the god damn leg as he was leaving" replied agent Waldron through gritted teeth, taking in the image of what was in front of him. "Who's blood is that?"

"It's erm... it's... erm" said Milo, swallowing hard and lazily gesturing in the direction he'd just come from.

"For another time" replied agent Waldron, reading the atmosphere but also noticing Milo had been crying.

"Why are you even here?" Asked Milo, sniffing and wiping his face a little.

"I was watching the building for any massive activity and I saw Carlos walking in with a gun" answered agent Waldron, now placing both hands on his thigh. "I did my job... I tried to stop a bad person from doing something bad."

"That bullet has caught your femoral artery" said Milo, speaking quite calmly. "If you don't stop the bleeding... you'll die."

"I know what'll happen but what do you suggest I do about it" replied agent Waldron. "We aren't exactly in a hospital."

"Try not to move as much" said Milo as he walked over to a near by table and grabbed some duct tape that was normally used for sealing the product packages. He then walked back over to agent Waldron and crouched down. "Help me with this will you."

"Hang on... what are you doing?" Replied agent Waldron, stopping Milo when he tried to start unbuckling his belt.

"I need better access to the wound" said Milo, giving agent Waldron a certain look because he obviously knew what had happened to him in the past. "Don't worry, you'll be fine."

Agent Waldron only nodded a little before removing his hands from Milo's, lying back slightly and trying to slow his heart from beating faster than it already was. Milo placed the duct tape on the floor next to them and then made quick work of unbuckling agent Waldron's belt and then undoing the trousers. He told agent Waldron to try to lift his hips the best he could before Milo hooked his fingers in the top of the trousers and the pulled them down his legs until they were just above the knee. Milo did his best to inspect the damage, trying to go as quickly as possible because there was still large amounts of blood leaking out. It appeared as though there was a bullet hole of either side of the thigh, meaning the bullet had gone all the way through and Milo would have to dig it out of agent Waldron's leg. Milo didn't even bother to wipe away any of the blood because more would just replace it instantly. Instead he folded agent Waldron's boxers up until they it was just below the groin and he had better access and space to wrap the duct tape around. Milo instructed agent Waldron to bite down on his scrunched up tie or something because this was probably going to hurt. Once he was doing that, Milo stuck the end bit of duct tape over the bullet hole and then proceeded to wrap it around the leg multiple times, making sure to cover the exit wound as well and only stopping when it was obvious no more blood was coming out anywhere. Milo then ripped the duct tape and stuck the last piece down before looking around the room for something.