The Rarest One

Stay with Me Part 29

(Scott)

"Always," she whispered through her pain, and her head dropped to the side.

"Find me every medical kit here now!" Adrian put pressure on the wound, as a pool of blood spread around us.  Puck ran off to find medical gear, while Kira and Victoria watched silently.  Hugh piled up the unconscious men.  

"Crystal?" Ethan's voice was soft and scared.  He jumped off of the bed and ran to her side, taking her hand in his.  

"Get him out of here, and someone find a car, because once Adrian and I get her stable we have to get out of here," I ordered, helping Adrian cut her pant leg away, with him still holding pressure to it.  Kira grabbed Ethan's hand and lead him to the other room while Victoria went to find a car.  Hugh knocked out an ex-military man with the same lamp that Crystal used.  Puck ran in with medical kits, laying them by our sides.  

"Let's lay her flat," Adrian spoke with Puck helping us and Hugh standing by just in case.  "Scott, work on a IV, I'll need a needle and disaloble thread, iodine, gauze pads, and wrap." Adrian removed the rag and blood spurted immediately.  "It's an artery, most likely the femamarol artery," he spoke as his fingers caught the artery, stopping the blood flow.  "Hurry up, man, or she's going to bleed out."  Puck's hands were shaking.  Hugh pushed him aside, and got the needle and thread ready, handing it to Adrian, who proceeded to sew her artery closed.  He did it quickly, and when he left go, no spurting blood.  He cleaned the two wounds, the front and back of her leg, with iodine swabs, continued to sew the skin together.  I helped him put a heavy duty white pad on the top side of the wound, and lifted her leg to put a special pad on the backside that doesn't let air through.  He then grabbed white wrap and circled her leg with it, holding the pad on her wound on top of her leg.  The top was bad because of the artery, but the underside of her leg was a clean slice.  

Hugh knocked out yet another guard.  "Come on guys, I can't keep knocking these boys out.  They have hard heads."

"Okay, IV is in," I told Adrian, putting tape over the needle which would hold it in place.  He took her pulse, and listened to her heart with a pair of not very good stepaothes that came from a medical kit.  

"Pulse is steady, and heart sounds strong, she is okay to move," Adrian confirmed as Victoria appeared at the door way.  

"I have a car, let's get out of here," Victoria went to grab Kira and Ethan.  

I lifted her into my arms, as Adrian told Puck to stay with me and hold the IV bag up, while he gathered all of the medical supplies to take with him. 

I followed Victoria and Kira, who held Ethan's hand, out to the new car.  Ethan kept looking back at his sister with a tears in his eyes.  Puck walked close to me the IV bag u in the air.  Hugh and Adrian followed closing the door, and urged us to move faster.  We did, and made it to the car.  A grey, Honda with black tinted windows.  I carefully placed her in the back which Victoria had padded with a lot of blankets to make a bed.  I took the IV and hung it up above her on the "Oh Crap" handles.  I sat beside her with Adrian crawling to the back with us.  I tried to smile but I couldn't.  

"Hey man, she's going to be alright.  She's one tough girl," Adrian tried to assure me, but I shrugged off his hand, taking her hand in mine.  I raised it to my mouth and kissed it gently, as Ethan crawled to me and sat on my lap near his sister.  Kira drove, and for once I didn't care where we were going.  I just wanted her to be okay because I couldn't lose her when I just found her.  I held her hand to my lips, breathing in her lavender scent.  Eventually, Adrian left and sat in the middle seat between Puck and Hugh, with Kira and Victoria in the front seats.  Ethan and I stayed with Crystal.  She was so pale, and clammy.  She was so weak.  

"Don't leave me, Crystal.  Please, I need you and so does Ethan," I whisper softly, my voice unusually shaky.  I lay Ethan next to her and I rest by Ethan with him in the crook of my arm, my hand still clasped with hers.  I fell asleep shortly after listening to Ethan breathing in between us.  I startled awake when the mini van stopped.  I glanced up and saw we were at an run-down hotel with its lights flickering in the parking lot.  Kira got out and opened the back up.  I scooted Ethan towards Adrian and gathered Crystal into my arms.  I got out and Kira followed with the IV bag while ordering everyone to stay in the van.  We checked in with the over-weight, bald man who could care less that I was holding a passed out girl.   We went into the dingy room.  I set her carefully on the bed, taking the IV and hanging it an a tall lamp pole.  Kira changed her bloody, torn clothes while I went into the bathroom cleaning myself up.  I walked out, and checked her IV.  I turned to Kira, "I think it's best if the team splits here." 

"It's dangerous to split up," Kira studied me with her intelligent grey eyes.

"No, its not," I bluntly spoke, checking her IV bag.  "We can't stay together, not with Gates determined to kill her.  She already has a bounty on her head."

"Kill her?! I thought he wanted to capture her again since she survived," Kira exclaimed, confused for once. 

"Her little brother survived it too, and he said Ethan has more potential," I clued her in.

"Because he would be able to malipulate him way easier," Kira put two and two together.

"Yea, Kira," I grabbed her shoulders.  "You have to get Ethan to safety.  You have to take him far away from us, do you understand?"

"Yea, of course, but, what about Rowan?" She walked to the door.

"Don't worry about him, I have a feeling we will be taking care of him soon," I motioned to Crystal and I.

"Be careful, okay?  And don't worry about us, I'll make sure we get to a safe haven," She opened the door and left.

I locked the  door, and pulled up a chair to sit by her bed.  I leaned forward, elbows on my knees, and my chin on my hands.  I waited, waited, and waited.  I stood and walked around the room, pacing back and forth.  I finally sat back down, grabbed her hand in mine.