The Great Escape

12

Oh god. Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god.
Jack was bleeding profusely from somewhere. There was a puddle on the carpet.
"Jack! Jack wake up!" He stirred and moved his lips a bit.
"What?" I leaned down and put my ear next to his bloody lips.
"Please don't take me to a hospital." He begged.
"Why?" I leaned back and saw that he was unconscious again.
I rushed around and ran some tub water to rinse him off so I could see where he was bleeding from.
I came back for Jack and stripped him naked and threw him in the tub.
I looked and looked for where he was bleeding, and almost gave up until I saw multiple cuts on his back and thighs.
I grabbed 2 towels and got Jack out, setting him on them and wrapping the wounds tightly.
The only thing he could wear right now was a pair of boxers. So I slipped them on and set him in bed, covering him.
Now I had to tend to Dark. I looked under all his garments to see if he was bleeding from anywhere, which he wasn't. But his face was pretty busted up.
I went to the kitchen and grabbed an icepack for him. Then I picked him up with much difficulty and set him on the couch.
I went back to Jack and looked closely at his wounds. There was so much blood... How is he not fucking dead? I mean besides Anti. But his human body has lost too much blood.
There were bruises around all the wounds on his back. There were 2 deep ones, one diagonal and the other horizontal.
There was one even deeper one on his thigh that was surrounded with a bruise that took up most of his leg. It might need to be sewn up.
20 minutes ago when Dark brought Jack home, I was strong and persistent. Sometimes the strongest people need to break down.
I set my head next to Jack's body... And cried. I cried and cried and cried for him.
I heard a voice coming from the doorway. I looked up and saw Dark. He was holding the icepack on his face with a... Sympathetic look? He masked it and sat on the other side of Jack on the bed. I dried my tears and struck up a conversation.
"What happened?" Dark sighed and laid back on the pillows.
"I glanced into the demon world, which as you know lays on top of the human realm, and saw Anti in a typical sleazy motel. I went there and I saw... I don't know. The dude-"
"Who was it?" I kept my features and voice calm while a hurricane began to rage inside me. I clenched my fists around the blankets.
"I don't know. But he had brown eyes, short black hair, an upturned nose, and small eyes."
"Jamie." I said through gritted teeth.
"What?"
"Jamie! His fucking ex! He abused him all the time. He couldn't leave because he had Anna." Speaking of, she began to cry. It's her time to be fed.
I sighed and picked up the baby next to me in the crib and left the room. I bounced Anna up and down as I went to the kitchen and opened the fridge. Finding a bottle I sat down at the table and fed her.
Fucking Jamie. I'm gonna kill him.
I kept thinking of ways to kill him until Anna finished her bottle so that I had to burp her.
I walked into the bedroom just as she burped. I saw Dark looking over Jack. It looked like he was looking at his wounds.
Anna was playful. I set her on the ground amongst a few stuffed animals and sat on the bed next to Dark.
"What happened next?" I said. I was much more calmer than before.
"He was beating and beating on him. Jack began to lose strength. He wouldn't stop until he beat him to death. I stepped in and grabbed him by his throat and threw him up against a wall. He hit me again and again until I finally hit him in the face knocking him unconscious and took Jack and me outta there." Dark slowly looked more and more almost human as he told the story.
"But why was all that blood in the bathroom?"
"I suppose that's where his legs got cut up." He pointed to the deepest cut on Jack's thigh. "That's gonna need stitches." He commented.
"I thought that too. But he doesn't want to go to a hospital."
"Hold on." Dark suddenly disappeared. But quicker than I could call him back, he appeared holding a box.
"Whoa. What's that?"
He said nothing but opened it. It held needles and sutures with guaze and tools... It was a low-quality doctors dream.
"I know basic medical training but I don't know that kinda stuff. Do you?"
He simply nodded and sat down next to Jack.
Guess we're doing this...