Infamous 1: The Electric Ones...

Chapter 23: Light in the Tunnel

Day 19 of quarantine

Cole stood on the overlook of the hospital, looking out at the area as he replays the indecent over and over in his head. Then his phone pages and he answers it, "Where the hell have you been, Cole? I've been trying to reach you." Moya snaps at him. He sighs to himself, "Alden's gone, Moya. Transients busted him out' and killed every cop in the prison." Cole bluntly answers her.

He didn't need to know that Moya was fuming with anger on the other side of the call line. "This is unacceptable, Cole. You and Cassandra had explicated orders to keep him there. What the hell happened?" she shouts at him. "Look, don't lay this one on me or Cassie, we did everything we could. Zeke was the one who blew it. I told him to stay back and help the cops, but he wouldn't listen. Resulting in Cassie taking his place and nearly getting slaughter with the rest of the cop, had she not been a conduit." Cole snaps back at her. "It's time to cut him loose, Cole. He's become a liability, and we have no margin for error, especially with Alden back on the streets." Moya orders him and Cole rolls his eyes at her. "I'm gonna make a run on the next substation and beat the hell out of some bad guys," Cole informs her and hung up.

Cole sighs loudly, placing his hands on his hips and then looks over his shoulder at the background with a sad look, he then walks back and kneels down next to Cassie who was sleeping. He saw that her wounds had healed, but they left scars of the indecent. He gently brushes her behind her ear, seeing the scar on it. He closes his eyes and presses his forehead against her temple and held his tears back. Cassie then started to groan as he flutters her eyes open closes. Cole pulls back as she lets out a hum and looks at him. "Hey... you okay?" he asks her, she just leans her head back as she held a tired look on her face. "I feel... numb," she mutters, he lets out a strain sigh and nods. "Yeah I know, I know," he states then pulls her onto his back as he laid limply on him. "We're going to the next substation, I need you to hang on, all right?" he tells her, she nods slowly, yawns and fell back asleep. He then jumps down from the roof and started to run down the street and refusing to stop. "Cole, I'm at the hospital, I can't get a hold of Cassie at all. And Zeke is here. He's really upset." Trish informs him as she called.

Cole stops for a moment, looks at Cassie as she was sleeping peacefully then looks away as anger rose in his chest, "Well maybe he should check himself in for a while. Might do him some good." Cole snaps and started running again. "He keeps muttering stuff about the prison. What happened?" Trish asks him, "He was supposed to help the cops keep an eye on Alden, make sure he stayed locked up. But Zeke took off, and it all went to hell. Cops were dead, Cassie was beaten half to death and Alden's free." Cole informs her and Trish gasp a little, "Oh my god, is she okay?" Trish asks him. "Yeah, I have her with me and she resting right now. Look, I know he means well, but this is serious business. People are dying, and I can't protect everyone. It might be time for Zeke to take a seat on the bench." Cole tells her. "Wait, hold on. You said Cassie resting. How?" she asks him. Cole stops as he was under the bridge. "Cole? What did you do?" she asks him again. "I gave her anesthesia sedative," Cole answers her. "You gave her anesthesia? Cole, those are only used to put patients to sleep for surgery. What the hell were you thinking?" she snaps at him. "I didn't have any other choice, the pain she was in, the fear in her eyes, I wanted to help her, I didn't know what else to do. I wanted to take her pain away," he tells her and looks at Cassie that was still asleep.

Trish sighs, "I know you want to help her, Cole. But drugging her like that, she has to face the pain or she'll never be okay ever again." she tells him, he just looks down at his feet. "I know, but she's still just a kid." Cole tells her, "Sooner or later Cole, she'll grow up and you need to let her." she states and he sighs. "Yeah... okay. I'll help her through the pain." he states, "Thank you." she said, "I'll talk to you later." he said to her and hung up, he then ran into the blackout area of the last borough of the Warren and then heard Cassie groan a little. He stops and looks at her.