Lonely Boy(by dyjonn)

Part 17 Crisis

He was sitting with his back to the huge bamboo and the sun was gently warming his back, feeling very happy and content he suddenly spotted Biro emerging, with that slight waver as he crossed over.  His straw-colored, hair glinting in the sunlight, full lips slightly parted. He smiled happily at Sawyer as soon as he spotted him, and he beamed back at him, realizing just how much he really loved this otherworldly boy.  Suddenly Biro's face contorted in fear, as some unseen force began dragging Sawyer backward away from him.  As Sawyer was pulled further and further back he saw Biro's form beginning to waver again. "No! no, he screamed, let go of me!  please!"  He snapped his eyes open trying hard to focus, so much red water! why? where was he?  He remembered, and he knew, he was dying.  He  couldn't do this to Biro, but it was too late, what had he been thinking, what was he doing?"

"Brad!" called Karen, "go and tell Sawyer to come down here right away please love, tell Finn to come as well, let's get to the bottom of this right now."   As Brad stood up to do as she bade him there was a loud knocking at the front door.    "Oh get the door first and whoever it is get rid of them pronto."  Brad opened the door and before he had time to react a strangely dressed woman and an equally strange looking teenager rushed in.  "Who the hell are you?"  a furious Karen started to ask, "where's Sawyer,"  was the frantic reply. "What's it to you?" Karen snapped, with a touch of panic beginning to grip her heart.  Suddenly the strange boy, who as yet hadn't uttered a word practically hurled himself up the stairs and now she could hear him shouting something to Finn.  How could he even know him? Brad also ran upstairs and she and the woman ran up behind him.  The boy was hammering on the bathroom door and screaming her son's name through a torrent of tears.  Suddenly they heard a sound from within, "help me!"  Brad picked up a stool and started swinging it hard at the bathroom door, and Karen was already dialing 999. With a splintering crash, the door flew open and the scream that came out of the strange boy's mouth was truly blood-curdling.

Brad lifted his son's arms from the water and instantly gripped the bleeding wrist tightly, "let the water out Finn, Karen, get a blanket and a pillow."    Karen rushed and snatched the items from the bedroom and draped the blanket over her son's body, then she gently lifted his head and placed the pillow under it. "Don't die, don't you dare die," she whispered to Sawyer.  Biro hesitantly crept over to where Sawyer lay, "don't touch him, son,"   Brad said kindly, "wait for the medics, they shouldn't be long now."  On cue two paramedics entered the bathroom, Quickly assessing the situation the older man said: "can everyone leave the room please, we need some space to work, not you sir, you keep that pressure on, you're doing a good job there."  Outside the bathroom Karen was shaking Finn's shoulder, tears streaming down her face, "what have you boys done?  tell me! why would he do this, and who are they?"  She swung around to Biro and Mia, but stopped dead in her tracks,  the boy was slumped on the floor with his head in his hands, his body wracked with silent sobs that were shaking his whole frame and his face looked as white as death.  The woman she presumed must be his mum was sitting next to him on the floor with her arm protectively around him. Instinctively she just went and sat down next to them on the floor, and they waited. Now she could hear more people entering the house, and two more men appeared carrying a stretcher up the stairs and they went into the bathroom also. The elder medic came out and he said to Karen, "he is stabilized now and we are taking him to Kings Oak hospital."

As the medic finished speaking the door opened again and the two ambulance men appeared maneuvering the stretcher with an unconscious Sawyer now on it, out of the bathroom. "One person can accompany him in the ambulance, whoever else needs to go along can follow behind,"  the driver told them. "It's best you go, honey," Brad said to Karen, we will follow in the car and meet you there."  The boy, who was now clinging to his mum, and looked like he needed an ambulance himself suddenly broke away from her and dropped to his knees in front of Karen, with his hands steepled as in prayer  towards her, tears running freely, and his face the most piteous sight she had ever seen in her life.  It was the hardest thing, but she knew what she had to do. "Go!" she said,  "I think he would want that."  Biro nodded gratefully, not in control enough of his emotions to speak. As they carried the stretcher slowly down the stairs and into the waiting ambulance, with Biro trailing along like a lost puppy Mia turned to Karen and hugged her tightly, whispering "thank you, thank you."