H20Vanoss: Can Anybody Hear Me!

Part 7

Part 7
Vanoss POV
Truly I was lost. There was no way I could get back to my body, I didn’t know where it was. The only way I could go back to my body would be if I knew. For now I was just as lost as Delirious.
Glancing to my side I saw him pacing back and forth along the path of the “Do Not Cross” line. He was nervous waiting for our friends to arrive and help us out with finding the one thing I needed to stay alive. My body.
I knew I needed to calm him down so I rested my arm on his back and began to move my hand up and down. He paused and calmed down. Grabbing his hand he mumbled quietly. Back to our little game.
“Do you know what will happen the longer you are away from your body?”
Two squeezes. No.
“Will you stay with me as long as you can?”
One squeeze. Yes.
“Do you think we’ll find your body?”
Yes.
“Is it possible others can feel your presences as well?”
Three squeezes. I don’t know.
“Did you leave your body on purpose?”
No.
“You were forced out?”
Yes.
He gave a sharp gasp of surprise. Turning to the side to look in the direction of where I was. Seeing only nothing.
Out of nowhere a woman burst out in front of Delirious startling both him and me. Both of us jumped before resting again.
W: are you talking to someone special?
D: what do you mean?
W: can you feel the presence of someone who is still alive but not with you?
D: yes.
W: are they beside you?
I tapped him squeezing his hand once showing it was ok to tell the woman before us.
D: yes. He is. We have a game going one squeeze yes, two no, three I don’t know. How do you know this?
W: I have seen it before. And I have projected myself.  That’s what the man beside you is doing. Projecting.
D: if you know so much about it, can you answer some of our questions?
W: of course. Question away.

H2O Delirious POV
He heard the woman before him tell him to ask the questions he had been burning to learn. He could tell by the desperate grasp of Vanoss beside him that he wanted those questions himself.
Thinking the first question that came to mind, seemed at the moment the most important to both of them.
D: ma’am how long can a person project out of their body for? Or if anything happens at all.
W: the person can only remain outside of their body for 24 hours. Then the body begins to shut down and die. In total the body can handle upwards to 28 hours before it dies off.
The tears fell slightly and the hand around his hand squeezed even tighter, showing the signs of being scared himself.
Delirious looked at the time Vanoss had called on his phone and set a timer to go off. It had already been close to 2 hours gone by, meaning he only had 26 hours until his death.
D: is there any possible way for the person pr-projecting to track down h-his or her body i-if they have no idea where it is?
W: No.  If they do not know where it is then they have to search in the same way that a normal person would. Why do you ask?
D: My boyfriend. The one projecting beside me he passed out in the fire and was forced out of his body. He was found by fire fighters and transferred to 1 of 7 hospitals and we have no idea where it is.
W: that is unfortunate. You better hope to be able to find his body soon. You don’t want him to slip between your fingers.  By 10 hours he will begin to feel it. He will get weaker. His grasp won’t be as tight. And you’ll know it.
With this she turned and walked away from the pair. One that was seen and one that could only be seen by himself.

Vanoss POV
I had 26 hours to find my body before I died, 22 before my organs shut down and 8 before I began to feel weak in my projection state.
Those were not good odds for me. I was terrified out of my wits to say the least. There was no way in hell that anybody would let me die. But there was also a chance that I may not make it to my body in time.
Looking at the timer on Jonathans wrist I cursed to myself. Kicking the ground I almost tried to pick up a rock and chuck it. Remembering that I couldn’t even pick it up prevented me from trying. 
26 hours I thought to myself pacing waiting as my friends finally got close to arrival.
Arriving they parked the car and ran over to Delirious. They then noticed the hysteria written on his already paling face.
B: what’s wrong?
D: I found out what Vanoss does when he leaves his body. It’s called projection. He has... 26 hours until he dies. He’s beside me right now. We don’t have much time. There’s 7 hospitals that he could be at. We need to split up and head to each hospital. It’ll help us cover more ground and hopefully we will find him in time. 
Nodding they all agreed to what he was saying. Looking at how many people in their group he split them up into groups of one or two. In the end it was...
1. Delirious and me at Margaret General Hospital
2. Wildcat and Mini Ladd at Leslie Way Memorial Hospital
3. Lui Calibre and Nogla at Penny General Hospital
4. Basically at Granton General Hospital
5. Moo Snuckle at Harrison Memorial Hospital
6. Terroriser at Harley Medical Centre
7. Panda at Sandra East Medical Hospital
Nodding everybody went in their groups to the hospital that they were assigned to.