Chapter 62
The song is I Need a Doctor by Dr. Dre featuring Eminem and Skylar Grey!
(Craigs POV)
"CLEAR AND BREACH PEOPLE CLEAR AND BREACH! STAY WITH YOUR PARTNER!" Del yells through the cloud of smoke as he shoots at two guys who turned the corner. I press the button at the side of my masks and a green light came through the goggles so I can see throughout the dark mansion.
"Craig over here!" Tyler yells to me as he opens up a door. I run over to him and point my gun into the room but quickly bring it down. I step into the room and look around it. Tyler whistles for the others.
"What the fuck is this." I quietly ask myself. I hear Holly gasp behind me. I go up to one of the walls covered in Hope's pictures and look at how different she looks in each picture. Some of them look like she's still a teenager while the others are of her just last year.
"Craig we have to go. This place is huge enough as is, and apparently John and Bryce just found a basement." Tyler says behind me. I look over as Holly's looking at the different pictures with Ryan next to her. She points to a younger version of Hope.
"I remember that day, that day was when Brian moved here and we all took a selfie together, the start of our friendship," Holly says looking over at Ryan. I go with Tyler out of the room and to an open door that led to downstairs.
"They're saying it's huge down here, so keep your gun ready to shoot," Tyler says as we go down the concrete steps. We were greeted by a long corridor that had different doors. John and Bryce come out of one of the open ones and look in our direction.
"Get to looking! There's still another hallway around the corner!" John says as he lifts up his night vision goggles.
Tyler and I nod our head as we go down the hall and round the corner. We were greeted by two guys shooting at us but Tyler and I quickly took them out.
"Where the hell are any of these fuckers at?!" Tyler opens up a door and we were both greeted by a green-tiled looking hospital room. Inside was unplugged monitors, medical equipment, as well as an empty metal bed in the middle of the room.
We go to the door across from it, an identical room just everything in the opposite corner. Tyler groans in frustration as he walks down the hall and opens the next door. He drops his gun and runs inside. I run over to the open door and Hope was there laying on the metal table with equipment hooked up to her.
As soon as I entered the room a loud continuous beep filled the room, she was flatlining. I shove my gun into Tyler's arms and roll up my sleeves to my hoodie. I interlocked my hands together and start doing chest compressions, counting in my head.
"Keep guard, I can't stop until she either comes back or someone gets me a defibrillator." I look up at the heart monitor, still flatlining.
I look down at her, wake up god damn it. Tyler starts looking around the room opening up the different cabinets and cupboards in the room. I hit 30 seconds and tilt her head back, opening her mouth up and giving her three breaths. I go back to doing chest compressions.
"Could really use that defibrillator right now Tyler," I say. He yanks off my night vision goggles and turns on the light to the room.
"Working on it Craig, I couldn't see well with these things on."He says as he looks at the counter and picks up the blue and white defibrillator.
"Come on, come on! You're stronger than this Hope!" I growl out. Another 30 and I do another three breaths into her lungs. Her chances of waking up are getting slimmer by the minute.
"Getting it ready now." He says as he sets it on the medical cart next to us.
"Every minute that passes the lower her chances are of surviving. Hurry the fuck up Tyler." I snap as I look up at him.
A couple of beeps come up on the heart monitor but goes back to the flat line. He flips the final switch and the sound of it charging up fills the room. I yank off the tank top she was in as well as her bra and continue doing chest compressions.
"Here," Tyler says handing me the two plastic disks. I place one at her upper chest and one down below at her side.
"Hit the charge now." I bring my hand to my mouth and start biting my nail. Her body jolts with the electricity running through her. I look at the heart monitor as her pulse is back but still low.
"Another in 3." I wince in pain as I bring my finger away, I bit so hard I drew blood. Her body jolts again with the electricity. Her heart rate going up more, thankfully steadily.
"One more and get a trash can at the ready." Tyler nods his head as he hits the button again and goes to the door to grab the trashcan.
Her body jolts one more time and her heart rate gets around where it's supposed to be and stays that way. I yank the disk off of her and wait for her blue eyes to open back up. She twitches as she starts coughing, she turns to where Tyler is and sits up, vomiting both in the trash can and on Tyler.
I take off my glasses and wipe the tears from my eyes as I begin to laugh as Tyler groans out in disgust. She groans as she finally stops.
"And THAT'S why Evan made us learn CPR. I think I was the one who actually took it seriously while the rest of you dicked around." I say as Hope weakly looks back at me.
"You came." She says, her voice scratchy.
"That's what she said, but yeah, we're here and we need to get out of here, but first." I look at the different jars sitting on the counter and go to the one with alcohol wipes. I get out two of them and go to Tyler's side.
"We're getting that fucking tracker out of you." I tear open one of the small packets and grab onto her arm, wiping down the area where the scar is at.
Tyler steps forward and holds out his hand to her, she looks at him and takes it. He brings his free hand to his ear and nods his head.
"Hey we got Hope, she died on us for a second but we brought her back. We're getting rid of the tracker in her arm and will meet you up there." Tyler says bringing his hand away.
I let go of her arm as I open up the other pack and grab a knife and tweezers laying on the cart and start cleaning them. While I do that Tyler helps put the tank top back on her. I pick her arm back up and cut along where the scar is. She bites her lips and tightens her eyes close. Not seeing the tracker I make the cut deeper, she starts screaming without opening her mouth up.
"I know it hurts, but we have to get this thing out of you," I grimacingly tell her
I grab the towels sitting on the counter and wipe the blood away from her arm. I open up the wound more and her screams become external instead of internal. I see a small circular metal disk and pick the tweezers up, pulling out the tracker. I lay it on the cart and wipe at her arm some more.
"We'll stitch it up back at the warehouse, right now we're just going to hold the towel to it because we have to go, now," Tyler says as he picks her up.
I grab our guns laying on the ground and peak out in the hallway, still clear. I haven't heard gunshots in a while so that should be a good sign. I hold my gun out as we walk out into the hallway and jog back the way we came. I peak into the other hallway, empty again, not even John or Bryce are in it.
"The other insurgent left already, Holly's waiting by her's for us," Tyler says as we run up the steps.
"Any word about Brian and Evan?" I say as I clear the last step and was back on the main floor.
"I haven't heard anything no, but remember, there are still two insurgents, Jon's and his group, and Lui and his group," Tyler says as we stumble through the debris from the hole in the wall and to the waiting Insurgent.
Holly looks up at us as she gets inside the Insurgent and starts it up. I open the door for Tyler and get in, he hands me a groaning Hope as he runs around to the other side and gets in. We close our doors and Holly starts driving to the meeting place. Ryan sighs in the passenger seat.
"I feel like we shouldn't leave them, who knows what will happen if we aren't there," Ryan says as he looks out his window.
"Ryan they weren't anywhere in that whole mansion unless they have a bunker or something and were just hiding and waiting the attack out," Holly says looking over at Ryan.
"They... haven't found Evan or Brian yet..." Hope asks quietly. I give her a reassuring smile.
"I don't have an earpiece in so I wouldn't know, but I bet they're close to finding them soon. We had to get out of there fast you know. How's your arm holding up," I say changing the subject. I look down at the bloody towel as she sighs.
"It's not my arm that I'm worried about." She lays her head on my chest and closes her eyes. I look over at Tyler as he looks up and at Holly and Ryan as they look at each other.
"You two... heard that correctly... right?" Tyler asks, the couple nod their heads in a confused manner.
"Jordan only wants Hope, Seth wants revenge. I think it kind of makes sense," Holly says as she turns right rather sharply.
"But letting them go, just... watching them without doing anything is what gets me confused," Tyler says sighing.
"Care to explain to the rest of us? Del didn't give me an earpiece remember?" I ask looking at the three of them.
"Jordan sat on the couch, drinking whiskey while Jon and Marcel helped Evan and Brian out of the basement and out of the house. He just... let them go, not saying anything, not even holding a gun." Tyler says. Hope smiles as she burrows her head deeper into me.
"This war is far from over, he did something to either Hope or one of them." Tyler looks over to Hope and I.
"Not to mention James is helping them out now so who REALLY knows honestly." I pitch in. Tyler nods his head as he looks down at Hope.
"You don't feel like killing us do you?" He asks her. She lets out a chuckle and shakes her head no.
"I guess we can only tell when we reunite with everyone up here," Holly says as she points up ahead to the parked Insurgent in the abandoned parking lot.
She parks the Insurgent and turns it off. Luke, Bryce, John, Brock, and Autumn were standing around taking off their armor. I open up my door and slide out from underneath Hope with the help of Holly. I take off my hoodie and start taking off my armor. Autumn runs over to Holly and I and looks at Hope.
"First off... are you okay? Don't die on us please, you're not allowed to. Second, let me just say how dare you shoot me." Autumn says in an offended tone. Hope softly chuckles as she turns her head to look out of the Insurgent.
"It worked, they're alive, aren't they? I saved them, I saved Brian and Evan." Hope says happily. I get my armor off and let out a sigh.
"I guess I underestimate you sometimes don't I?" Autumn says as she starts to chuckle as well. Tyler walks to my side and looks at the two.
I turn my head at the sound of a heavy vehicle coming our way. We all turn our heads as another Insurgent skids to a stop on the road. The passenger door opens and Marcel hops out and yanks off his monkey masks. I reach behind me and unholster my pistol from my waistband, keeping it ready. The drivers' side door opens and closes and Del lifts up his masks as he wipes the sweat from his face.
"Yeah, we didn't see Seth or James, just Jordan, and he just... fucking let us go. Watched us like we were nothing. I don't get it." Del says looking at us.
"Where are-" Tyler goes quiet as the rear passenger door opens and Evan slowly climbs out looking worse than hell.
"Where the fuck is she at?!" Evan yells out. I keep my hand on the handle as he looks around at us. Brian slowly walks around the Insurgent looking just as worse as Evan.
"She's... laying down in here. Craig had to give her CPR and cut the tracker she had from her arm." Autumn says as she moves out of the way so Evan can look at her. His eyes dart over to the insurgent as he walks up to it. I slowly take my pistol out of my waistband and now hold it at my side.
"Craig... what are you doing?" Brock asks behind me. I watch as Evan pushes Tyler away and goes to the open door.
Hope let out a surprised gasp but was soon followed by her choking. I bring up the pistol as Tyler grabs ahold of Evan and yanks him away from Hope. I click the trigger and watch the dart land in Evan's neck. Evan was out, Tyler still holding onto him.
"There was no way Jordan would've just let you walk on through without doing something to one of them." I click the safety and look over at Brian. As Autumn and Holly run to help Hope out of the truck so she can breathe.
"What the fuck did they do to you guys?" I ask Brian. He runs over to Hope and holds onto her, hugging her instead of choking her.
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