Spiritual Investigation

Chapter 11: The Race Against Time

The familiar yelling of someone's voice causes me to open my eyes. When I do, I see the Captain behind his desk with his usual angered look and I'm sitting in a chair across from him. I slowly look around and see that everything is normal, nothing out of the ordinary. The Captain brings my attention back to him and his face gets red in anger.

"You know what Carter! How about you go home for the rest of the day! If your not going to stay focused long enough for me to explain things then leave!"

"Alright, fine I'll leave. I'll see you tomorrow."

As I make my way out the back of the station, I suddenly get dizzy and fall to one knee. As I hold my head with one hand I began to hear voices echo throughout my surroundings. It stops a minute later and I shake my head a bit wondering what the hell just happen. I try not to worry about it to much so I go ahead and get in my car and begin to drive home. As I do, the sky turns a strange reddish-yellow color and I look up at it wondering what's going on. The next thing I know, I'm at my home...my old home...I begin to realize I've been through these events before. The things the Captain was saying...then I remember he's suppose to be dead. A deep feeling of fear overwhelms my body as I look at the door. As I slowly open it, I see Catherine and my son on their knees, a man in all black with a gun pointed to there head. My eyes widen and I try to move my body but it won't even budge. I see him slowly start to pull the trigger and I begin to yell stop at him, but it does nothing and a bullet shoot's through my sons head, his body falling forward to the floor. The man then aims his gun at Catherine's head and I yell her name at the top of my lungs, a bullet going through her head as well as it falls next to our sons body. I'm finally able to move my body but I fall to my knees instead. The man then sets his sights on me, walking up to me and pointing the gun at my leg. He puts a bullet in it as I yell out in pain and fall to the floor holding it. Then, he aims it at my chest as I look up at him, begging him not to shoot. He pulls the trigger as the sound of the gun rings throughout the room. But then I sit up from a bed yelling in pain and breathing heavily, sweat dripping down my face and body. I quickly look at my surroundings and notice I'm in the stations infirmary, waking from a nightmare. Jenn run's into the room and see's I'm awake, her eye's filling with tears and she hugs me tightly.

"Your awake! I thought you would never wake up!"

"Jenn? What...what happen?"

"You don't remember? You were taken somewhere and some guy had us make a deal with him. We had to give him his daughter in exchange for you."

"...that's right...I remember now.", I try to move my right leg but flinch in pain, pulling the cover aside to see it's bandaged up and it has a blood stain on it. "Ugh...where's Cassy..."

"...Hank...she's gone...her, Dawn, Griff and Waye all left to go find Dingo and find the man who's behind all this."

"Damn it! They're all going to get themselves killed!"

I pull the cover fully off me as I swing my legs over the edge of the bed I'm in, pushing myself onto the floor. I immediately fall to one knee, holding tightly onto my leg in pain.

"Hank! Stop! Your leg isn't healed enough to be moving around right now!"