☯︎︎𝕆𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕌𝕡𝕠𝕟 𝔸 𝕋𝕚𝕞𝕖☯︎︎

Death and its Friends

As I step into the hospital I can feel my stomach go into knots again.

Something wasn't right. My stomach was never in knots like they have been throughout the whole day.

I smiled weakly as I turn the corner to see Zola and her dad playing on the ground in his office.

"Daddy look!" Zola gasps. "It's the secret agent!" She gets up and runs towards me with her arms open.

I smile and kneel down to her.

"Hey I thought we were keeping that between us!" I laughed. I wrapped my arms around her and stood back up.

I felt my phone vibrate as I reached into my pocket to answer it.

Emily Prentiss

"Hey what's up?" I ask as I brush a strand of my hair away from my face.

"Kara listen carefully ok? Promise me you'll stay calm." Emily sounds panicked. She sounded like she was in a car.

"Uh ok why what's going on?" I walk out into the hallway waiting for Emily to respond.

"Are you in the hospital?" She asks.

"Yeah why?"

"I need you to go somewhere safe. Now." Emily's voice now sounded stern and serious.

"Emily tell me what's wrong first." I demand rocking back and forth on my feet. I glance into the window to see zola and her dad still playing.

"Someone's got a gun in the hospital." Emily barely stops as she takes a deep breathe.

I freeze. I feel the adrenaline start to rush through my veins as I glance down the hall to see if anyone was there.

"Kara? Kara are you ok?" Emily's voice shakes.

"Yeah I'm still here. I'm ok does anybody else know?" I ask trying to keep calm as I walk towards the door.

Dereks eyes meet mine as I enter the room. Zola looks at me with a smile and reaches for her juice box.

"What's wrong?" Derek asks reaching for his desk to help him up.

"Um, hey Zola! Why don't we play a game for a second ok?" I ask quickly. Derek looks at me confused. I nod a little assuring him I will tell him what's going on.

"Ok!" Zola giggles.

"Ok the game is I need you to cover your ears and hide under your dads desk ok? Then, your dad and I will talk and see if we can remember where you went ok?" I start fiddling with my watch.

"Ok." Zola brings her hands up to her ears and crawls under her dads desk.

"Derek, there's an active shooter in the building." I quickly whisper. I watch as his face drops. I feel my stomach churn.

"Where." He starts reaching for his phone.

"They don't know right now. My team is on their way." I look at the door and grab my phone.

"Kara are you ok?" Reid's voice floods into my ears.

"I'm fine Reid. Do you guys have a location on the shooter? Any information about them?" I ask while I peek my head out the door looking for anybody in the hall.

Click.

I feel an object press against my head. I loose my breathe as I hear a voice begin to talk.

"Hang up. Now." The voice was stern.

"Kara is everything ok? Did you hear what I said?" Reid asks through the phone with his voice full of concern.

"I- I um- I gotta go Reid." I quickly hang up the phone and drop it on the ground.

"Walk." The voice yells as I step out of the room.

I quickly turn my head to check where Derek and Zola were.

I didn't see anybody in the room. There was no sign of blood, which was a good sign. It could mean the shooter didn't see them.

"Turn around. NOW!" The voice wails as I raise my hands and begin to turn my body.

The shooter was an older man. He had a serious look on his face. His eyes cold as he looked at me.

"Do you work here?" He asks. Pointing to gun at my face.

"No." I replied my voice shaking.

"Are you telling the truth?" He walks towards me moving his finger towards the trigger.

"I'm an FBI agent. I do not work for or at this hospital." I try to respond with a stern voice. I felt a tear stream down my face.

"Let me see your badge then." He points the gun towards my bag. "If your an agent, prove it."

I slowly bring my hands down to my bag. I pull open the top and feel around it.

I feel my badge but continue to rummage through it.

My gun. Where's my gun. I begin to panic.

I feel the smooth hard bottom of my gun as I grip it.

I begin to pull it hoping he wouldn't except it.

I quickly pull my hand out of the bag and try to fire the gun at him.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

I quickly feel a sharp pain in my stomach and arm.

I keep my eyes on the man as I feel myself begin to fall.

"Nice try. You think I'm stupid enough to let an agent dig through their bag like that?" He chuckles as he walks towards me.

He picks up my gun from my hand and laughs again.

"Thanks for the extra gun though." He smiles as he steps over my legs.

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"Kara? Oh my god." I hear Dr. Shepherd quietly whimper as he silently rushes towards me.

"I'm fine really. Are you and Zola ok?" I try to tell him as I try and sit up.

"Zola and I are fine. You need to keep pressure on your abdomen. I need to go get you to an OR." He tries to hold pressure on my arm as he pushes his other hand onto my stomach.

I whimper.

"I tired to stop him." I give up on trying to sit up and lay my head down on the ground.

"I know. I know. It's going to be ok." Derek tries to assure me as he begins to lift my body off the ground.

He carries me towards the stairs and looks up and down the corridor before heading up several levels of stairs.

"What about Zola?" I ask trying to keep my grip on his collar with my good arm.

"She's hiding she'll be ok. I need you to stop talking. You need to keep breathing and try to stay awake." He opens a door and peeks his head around the corner of the hall.

"Fine" I huff as he peeks into one of the OR rooms.

"Dr Shepherd?!" I hear a voice whimper as he enters the room with the door closing behind us.

"Yang. I need your help." He frantically whispers as he sets me down on the operating table.

"Oh crap." Christina whispers as she stands over me.

I feel my body begin to go limp as my eyes begin to shut.

"No no no. Kara you gotta stay awake come on." Derek begs as my eyes close.

His voice fades away as I feel my body go fully limp. Crap. No. I wanna stay awake. Come on.