His Lover's Killer

No Pain, No Gain, Right?

I didn't realize that I was in such a deep sleep until my phone started to vibrate again, so I slowly sat up uncomfortably and looked at my phone, seeing that it was almost dead. Fuck, I had to hurry or else I would be doing this more alone than I already was. I tried to get up but my body was incredibly sore, I had to take a deep breath to hold the pain in as I slowly stood up. Tightly gripping on the branch next to me and sighing of exhaustion, I've managed to get up without damaging more of my body. I had to keep going though, I've wasted enough time scouting out for that vermin. When I started to struggle to walk, that sharp stabbing pain came back, but more effective deep in my stomach. I suddenly collapsed to the ground, holding my sides tightly close and rolled on my side. It felt like I was being stabbed or shot at 20 times. As I tried to look up, my heart was pounding in my chest more and more painfully and my breathing started to shorten. How the hell was this happening? And why does it only happen so suddenly? I tried to turn back over but it felt like my whole body has froze, I couldn't do a damn thing, I was more useless than I was before. I bit my lip hard as the pain continued through my body, I didn't dare to scream in pain, I didn't want to draw attention to my pathetic self. So I just laid there, trying to bare through this unbearable electric pain that sparked my whole body.

I thought back to if I've ever been in this much pain in my life before and one imaged came up, but it wasn't as nearly bad as this one. I was on a call out for a hit and run, chasing the speeding creeps through the bumpy roads. I had back up behind me but I was closer to the runaways than they were. When they started shooting at me, I quickly dodged the bullets that managed to hit parts of my car. I was glaring directly towards them as I sped up more, not realizing that the car was already over heating. The next thing I knew, a cloud of dust was in front of me and I turned off the ground, spinning uncontrollably and seeing pitch black that very second. I could feel the throbbing of my head and the racing of my heart, but I still couldn't see a thing. I tried to move but it felt like I was stuck frozen, I was useless without my men helping me out. Other than the vege loud noises around me, I still couldn't see, hear or feel a thing. Not until I could finally hear the beeping of the cardiac monitor and the bright light (at the end of the tunnel?) was when I figured out that I wasn't dreaming. When I opened my eyes, I saw Jessica looking straight at me, her face as pale as the moonlight that was streaming down on the window behind her. Her eyes finally relaxed as she held my hand tightly and she smiled wide. 

"I'm so glad you're alive, you scared me half to death. Don't ever do that again, alright?" she said calmly, as if nothing happened. All I could do for her at that moment was smile back at her and hold her hand. That was the closest I've ever been to death and I'm definitely not gonna let that happen again to me. I had to fight this pain off inside of me, it was ripping me apart, it wanted me dead but I had other plans. So I took another deep breath, turned back sitting on my knees and strugglingly got up again. I almost lost my balance but thankfully there was a tree branch close enough to reach for before the fall. I shook my head to clear my mind, which was spinning and throbbing at the same time, not a good combination. As my vision started to clear up, I checked myself over, just to make sure everything was alright, it seemed so. After considering that it's safe enough for me to move, I put my right foot out and started walking through the woods like nothing happened. I've been through so much just within a couple of days in this case, the pain and uncontrollable struggle of this task was getting to me. But I had to focus and get to my main goal, I don't care if I'm going to die trying to catch him cause it'll hopefully be the most accomplished case that I've ever done in my life, and I'm not letting that go to waste.