Glass

Familiar Face

Casey and David had rushed up to the hospital after hearing what had happened to Emma, Dennis was waiting for them and Casey nearly knocked him over as she ran over to hug him, tears soaking his fresh shirt as he held her tight, stroking her hair and shushing her as he rested his head on hers.

"Are you okay?" Casey asked breaking away slightly to look up at him, he had a haunted look in his blue eyes and his skin looked raw from where Casey assumed he had cleaned off the blood.

"I'm fine" Dennis murmured his eyes met David's "They say she's still in surgery, they won't let us see her, that's all I know, they said we could wait out here" he explained.

"How was she?" David asked in a soft tone, Dennis shook his head.

"Not good...we nearly lost her on the way here but she's still going but barely"

David sighed as he collapsed into a chair 

"If there's one thing I know about Emma it's that she's a fighter"

"You think she'll make it out of this alive?" Casey asked excitedly

"Maybe and if not she'll give it a damn good try" David replied.

They waited in the same room for hours, hoping that a nurse would give them some good news. It got to midnight before Dennis convinced Casey to get some sleep, she tried to say she was fine but her eyes kept closing and her head was becoming heavy so eventually she gave in and rested her head on Dennis's shoulder before falling asleep. Dennis held her close as she slept, considering himself lucky that he had the chance to, he thought that he would never be able to have this again and although he knew that the police would have to arrest him soon, he was glad to be able to spend at least a few more precious moments with her.

David sat down next to him again handing him a coffee, which he gratefully accepted but noticed that David made sure that he wouldn't be able to touch him when he did.

"Can't sleep?" David asked

Dennis shook his head "I'll sleep when I know she's okay" Dennis replied, David nodded his head in  response to that "Can I ask you something?" 

"Shoot" David said

"When you shook my hand, before I went to turn myself in you sort of freaked out and pulled away, why?"

"Ahh, I got the feeling this would come up eventually, you see the thing is I can see visions of the bad things people have either done or been through when I shook your hand those visions started bleeding through, I felt the pain you suffered the abuse you went through, but that's not why I broke away" David explained.

"Why did you?" Dennis asked curiously

"Because I had those visions before a long time ago, when I first started getting them a mother and her kid walked past me the mother knocked into me and I saw the same thing then as I saw when we shook hands, your that kid I saw all those years ago, when I first started having these visions" David replied.

Dennis had a look of shock on his face when he was told about this, he shook his head and went to wipe his eyes as the tears threatened to fall before asking "What did you see?"

"A hangar, belt and an extension chord all lined up on a table, she asked you to..." David broke before he could finish, but Dennis knew what he was going to say.

"She made me choose which one she would punish me with?" Dennis confirmed as David nodded

"I am so, so sorry I didn't help you then" David said, his voice filled with regret.

Before Dennis could say anymore a nurse came over to them with a tired and apologetic look on her face. 

"Are you here for Emma Price?" she asked quietly, David cleared his throat before answering

"Yes, what news have you got for us?"

"She's still in surgery for now but she's lost a lot of blood and her vitals are very weak, we're struggling to even find a pulse at the moment" the nurse explained.

"What do we do?" Dennis asked quietly.

"All I can say is that we're going to give her a blood transfusion and do what we can to patch her up, the only thing you guys can do is hope for the best but prepare for the worse if it comes to that" the nurse replied sympathetically as a thick cloud of grief washed over them "One thing I will ask is if she has any family would you like to call them and let them know?"

David and Dennis both looked at each other, a certain understanding passing through them, before David turned back to the nurse 

"We're her family" he declared quietly

The nurse nodded before saying "Then I'm incredibly sorry, feel free to stay here as long as you like.

"Thank you" David croaked as she nodded and walked away.

Dennis leaned his head back sighing before a group of police officers walked into the hospital led by Briggs looking for Dennis, Dennis and David both watched them approach before they spotted him. Briggs's eyes locked onto David's before they came charging towards them.

David gestured for Dennis to stay where he was saying "I'll deal with them, you stay with Casey" standing up to face them.

"What are you gonna do? they have to arrest me at some point" Dennis stated.

"I owe you after not saving you all those years ago, just let me try" David answered before walking away to talk to Briggs.

"They're not taking you away again are they?" Casey's sleepy voice muttered next to him

"Honestly I don't know what's gonna happen to any of us anymore" he replied defeatedly

Casey grabbed his cheek and pulled his head to look at her 

"What happened to Emma wasn't your fault" she stated 

"I so want to believe that" he laughed hollowly

"You two are more in common then you realize" Casey told him amused 

"In what way?" he asked puzzled

"If Emma was here and you were in there having surgery, she'd blame herself too" Casey remarked, Dennis gave a small smile at that, he didn't doubt that for one second.