Seeing Red

Part 2: 911

“I’m sorry I got lost in thought.” I say avoiding Jack’s eyes.

“The oven is going off, we’ve been calling your name for five minutes.” Jack says, trying not to sound pissed.

“I’m sorry.” I whisper knowing Jack is glaring at me.

I walk to the oven and turn the timer off. They get back to their game and Charlie walks into the kitchen. He pulls me aside away from the stove and tries to look into my eyes. I look away not wanting to show him the tears in my eyes. His hand goes to my chin and I flinch away.

“Lizzie.” He says, his tone becoming worried and serious.

I stay silent.

(Charlie's point of view)

As I look into Lizzie’s green eyes they seem scared and empty. Her dark brown hair hangs at her waist looking as lifeless as her.

“Lizzie is something wrong?” I ask, trying to look into her eyes. I hold onto her wrists gently so she can’t walk away.

She looks up and sees someone behind me. Her eyes go wide and she pulls her wrists away.

“Yes thank you Charlie, I knew we were forgetting something from the store.” She says looking at the floor.

“What?” Jack asks wrapping his arms around Lizzie in a possessive manner.

Lizzie is looking me in the eyes, hers filled with fear.

“Charlie just reminded me that I need to get olives for dinner tomorrow.” She says not moving her eyes from mine.

Fuck. Olives is the code word for I’m in danger.

“Is something burning?” Jones yells from the living room.

“Fuck!” Lizzie yells and opens the oven.

She grabs the tray out and turns the oven off. The look Jack gives her would scare anyone.

“You know what guys, I’m sorry I think you should just come back tomorrow. It’s a rough night.” Jack says.

I can hear the anger in his voice as Lizzie starts crying. She immediately looks up at me. I see nothing but fear in her eyes when she hears Jack.

“It’s fine, it’s just the bread.” I say trying anything I can to stay.

“No really, I think you guys should go. Elizabeth needs me right now.”

“Let’s go guys. Thanks for having us tonight.” Killian says standing up.

“Of course. Please lock the door on your way out.”
Lizzie begs me to stay with her eyes as tears fall down.

“I’ll see you later.” I say looking at Lizzie then to Jack.

Lizzie starts crying harder. We all walk out but I make sure to walk out last and leave the door unlocked.

“Anyone notice anything different tonight?” Killian asks looking back towards the door.

“There is no way in literal hell we are leaving her there.” I say acting seriously.

They all stop walking and look at me.

“What?” Xavier asks confused,

“She used our code word for danger. I think Jack is-” We are interrupted by screaming.

“Jack please no! I’m sorry!” Lizzie screams.

“You stupid bitch! You had one fucking job to do! I told you to get the fucking beers and not to make a fucking scene like you always do! You can’t do anything right Elizabeth! How dare you make a fool of me in front of my friends?!” Jack screams.

“We have to go get her!” I yell then run back up the stairs and to the door.

“Jack I can’t breathe!” Lizzie yells.

I can hear her struggling against Jack.

“Fuck!” I yell trying to open the door.

He fucking locked it!

“Stand back.” Killian says then starts kicking the door.

“I don’t fucking care!” Jack screams.

Killian gets the door open and we all run in. Their back door is glass and we get in just in time to see Jack throw Lizzie down the stairs.
“WHAT THE FUCK?!” I scream and run out the back door to Lizzie.

Jack sees us and gets worried.

“What are you guys doing here?” Jack asks worried.

I assume Killian, Xavier and Jones got to him because he screams.
“Stop it! Get the fuck off of me! You know she deserved it!” Jack screams.

When I get down to Lizzie she is unconscious.

“Lizzie!” I yell and try shaking her.

“Does she have a pulse?!” Jones yells.

I feel for a pulse and immediately start chest compressions.

“Jones get down here!” I scream freaking out.

Jones runs down the steps and me and him switch doing chest compressions. I pull my phone out and call 911. Jack is trying to fight Killian and Xavier but fails.

“Charlie switch with me, I’ll talk to them.” Jones says getting tired.

I get on the floor and set my phone down. We switch our hands quickly and he grabs the phone. We switch doing compressions twice more before the ambulance and cops get here. They took Jack down to the station. We followed the ambulance in Killians car.

“You should call her family Charlie.” Jones says breaking the silence.

I pull my phone out and call her dad's number. It rings five times before he answers.

“Hello?” He asks confused.

I can tell he is moving around by all the noise that comes through the phone.

“Mr. Dawson? It’s Charlie.”

“Yes I know. Is something wrong? I’m in training right now.”

“Yes. Lizzie is on her way to the hospital-” I am interrupted by a loud noise on the other end of the phone. “Excuse me what?! I better have heard you wrong Charlie because I heard you say that Lizzie is going to the fucking hospital. I heard you wrong right?”

“No sir. I can give you more information when we get there, I thought you should hear from me first. We are going to Grace Valley Memorial Hospital.”

“What the fuck happened?! Was it Jack?! I swear I’m going to-”

“Sir Jack was taken in by the police. I can tell you more when you get here, we’re pulling in now.”

I hear him end the call in a fit of rage.

“Killian be prepared, I’ve only ever seen him this angry once before.”

We all take a deep breath as Killian parks the car. Walking in is pure chaos. Everyone is running around everywhere. The waiting room is packed with people in all sorts of levels of pain and sickness. We are moved by a nurse to a waiting room on the 5th floor. The surgical floor.

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