The Architect. [The Blacklist. Donald Ressler X Oc]

Audrey.

Maggie.

I debated long and hard about dialing the person I was going to dial. I know Donald said he would have to work in a lot of cases, I knew that he was indeed working, since contacting Raymond had also been difficult.

It had been a weird couple of weeks after we came back from our trip.

The first week Donald came with a cut om his forearm, he said he was undercover, and I realized that I absolutely hated when he hurt himself on the job. It was his job, sure, but they should have some kind of policy as to the point the agents must reach before having to do something as crazy as to cut yourself in the arm.

He assured me that he got scolded for that, but it didn't faze me, I was mad still. The next few weeks had been quiet in his world.

Found out some juicy things about Liz and her husband, not only from the little Donald let out, but for the little Raymond let out when I spoke to him.

He hadn't given me any more jobs still, but we still met for coffee from time to time.

All that brought me to me holding my phone, looking at Keen's contact info, wondering if I should dial or not.

It had been a week since I've heard from either Donald or Raymond. I knew Donald could be working, but enough was enough and I had a horrible feeling about him.

So I dialed, and Liz answered.

"Keen" she said, I took a deep breath, I hope I'm not making a mistake here.

"Agent Keen it's, Maggie... Waters" I clarified since Maggie alone didn't cut it.

"Ohh... Ressler hasn't called has he?" She said with a little tone on her voice.

"No, I haven't heard from him in a week, did something happen?" I asked, now worried

"Yes, a lot has happened"

She didn't let on anything else, to which I frowned and shook my head

"OK? Mind telling me what the hell happened to him?"

"We..." I noticed that she didn't know if she should tell me, everything was classified, but fuck classification, something had happened to Don and as far as I knew I could only get answers from Liz. "There was a threat on Red's life. Everything came up perfectly for the abductors, and Ressler, who was with Reddington, got shot. I think it's better if he explains everything to you. But you have to know that he's fine, he'll need some therapy to walk again but he's been in the hospital for 5 days now"

I was tense, holding my legs against my chest while looking around the room, my eyes found my shoes, then looking around again I saw my car keys.

"And Raymond?"

"He was taken, but he's fine, currently off the grid and looking for the person who ordered his abduction and the one responsible for Luli's murder"

"Luli's dead?" I whispered. Keen hummed at me on the phone. Raymond must be fucking pissed "thank you Liz. Don, what hospital is he at?"

"I take it he's at Walter Reed in Bethesda"