Unexpected Encounter

Desperation

Words in BOLD in between "quotation marks" represent thoughts of characters.
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James was out walking, trying to make sense of what had just happened. He thought about all the reasons she could have ran away like that.

"Harry..." All of a sudden, his phone vibrated with a message from Alex. She had only one thing sent,

"Help"

James ran as fast as he could and hijacked the first car he saw moving in his direction by jumping in front of it to scare the driver and then kick him out of his own car to drive as fast as he could all the way to Alex's apartment. He passed by the guard downstairs and told him to call an ambulance, but he did no such thing.

The wait in the elevator was torturous! Not knowing what goes on in his world is dangerous. Being informed could the difference between life and death in James's reality. As soon as the elevator opened, He ran past it, all the way down to Alex's door and smashed through it.

"Alex?!"

No response. He saw that there was nobody in the living room and ran to her bedroom on the left. In it he found her on the ground, in a puddle of blood with her phone in hand.

"ALEX!!!"

He ran to her and hovered his hands over her stomach unsure of what to do. She was unconscious and could not tell him where exactly she was hurt.

"NonononononononononoNO! Alex!"

His knees were drenched in blood now, he touched her cheek then lowered his hand down to her neck to look for a pulse. It was faint but is was there.

"Oh, God..."

James placed his left hand firmly on Alex's belly to try and stop the bleeding after figuring out that where the blood was coming from. She was still in her dress from earlier in the evening. James hastily grabbed one of the pillows on Alex's bed and went back to tend to her, placing it under her head and continuing to put pressure on her stomach.

With his right hand, James took his phone and contacted the best doctor he knew.

"Hello, who is this?"

"Karen, listen to me very carefully. Alex seems to have been stabbed in her apartment, she's still alive but barely. I need you here within the next 6 minutes, faster if you can, Dom knows where, bring your blood transfusion kit. I don't know how much longer she has."

Karen was used to calls in the middle of the night from people needing help

"*sigh* I'm on my way."

James hung up his phone and left Karen alone in bed with her boyfriend.

"Is everything alright, babe?"

"Yeah, everything's fine. Go back to sleep. I'll be back in a bit. *smiles*"

She went over her contacts list and tried to call Dominic. Unfortunately he didn't pick up the first time she called. On the second time however,

"Dom, I need your help. James's girlfr-... Are you having sex?"

Karen could hear Crissy on the other line with Dominic, it was plain to tell that they were caught at a bad time from the constant humping sound made by Dominic and Crissy's cries of pleasure.

"Oh fuck! yesyesyesyesyes ooooh~~~ fuuuuuuck!!"

"Whacha need?"

"*sighs with frustration* James needs your help. Pick me up and then take me to his girlfriend's place, step on it."

"Is she ok?"

"It seems like she's- *interrupted by Cris and Don's orgasm*... It seems like she's been stabbed."

"The fuck?! *Crissy asks what's up in the background* I'm on my way!"

In no more than two minutes, Dominic was honking outside Karen's house. One of her neighbors started yelling from his bedroom window for them to cut the noise. Dominic rolled down his window and shouted at the man,

"Go fuck yourself ya twat! If I 'ave to get out o' this car, I will shove my foot up your behind!"

Karen came out of her house when he said that and got in his car.

"Step on it."

"Ya don't 'ave ta tell me, love."

Three minutes later and they were all in the same room, including Crissy who was getting angry over what was going on. Dominic was trying to reassure James while Karen was trying to get her job done.

"What the fuck happened to Lex?! You better not be fucking responsible!"

"It'll be alright, mate!"

"I need you guys to step out of the room please."

They were all talking over each other and asking questions until James looked at them with a fire in his eyes. Dominic instantly recognized it and stopped talking a split second before "it" happened. Crissy, on the other hand, did not see anything coming. Karen was setting up her tools so, she didn't care. James looked at them with such a rage in his eyes that only the people who really knew him were conscious not to push his buttons.

"Everyone, SHUT UP!"

There was silence in the room.

"GET OUT!"

Crissy was about to protest but was cut off before she could say anything,

"OUT!"

The two of them, Dominic and Crissy, rushed out like their lives depended on it while Karen simply informed James that she was ready for the blood transfusion.