Chapter 5
The van is moving slowly through an old industrial estate “So where are we supposed to dump them I mean they are still alive if they live through the next few days they might talk” Dave says “ look if they live, they wont talk we have the girls and plus if they talk then we kill them and no-one is that stupid, so I say dump them near a hospital then they do survive and forever live in fear that something will happen to the girls or be looking over their shoulders every time they walk anywhere at night, actually that makes me feel quite powerful anyway if they do talk they will die” getting more and more intense and he speaks Carl seems to be even more sadistic than he was back in the house. “Ok chill man shit anyone would think this was more than a job to you, shit!” He carries on driving without speaking. The van stops Steve lifts his head as the sliding door opens, he looks around he can’t tell what is lying next to him the pain is clouding his mind as he feels hands grab him and drag him roughly out of the van as his legs hit the ground he screams out in pain it’s like nothing he has ever felt before, now in his mind he has no doubt that both of his legs are in fact broken at least once. Another body is dumped on top of him and screams out in pain once again. Pete opens his eyes he is lying on top of someone he tries to roll over and the person underneath him screams as he rolls off he looks round and can just about work out that it’s Steve, He tries to speak but can’t he grabs his throat it feels strange, a fire door opens off to the left of them and he hears “help! Doctors, nurses there is someone out here they need help!” suddenly he feels a wave of calmness come over him he can feel his heart beating his pulse racing and for a split second he feels like he is floating then everything goes black.
“Right I need two teams” says the doctor with the cute Geordie accent “team one deal with the guy with the chemical burns and team two for the guy with the broken legs!” the doctors and nurses arrange themselves and go into each of the joining rooms in the ER. “Right I need someone to asses those burns check for responsiveness and get the Blood pressure checked come on guys this is a real mess if we don’t work fast we are going to lose him” there is lots of moving around machines start to beep a drip is connected to Pete’s arm he is put on a breathing machine. Meanwhile in the other room Steve is awake and screaming as the doctors try to settle him they give him a morphine injection to try to dull the pain. “Both his legs I said, yes we need x-ray possible multiple fractures, get ready to go work on those cuts we need to stop the bleeding COME ON!” Steve is screaming out in pain but from Pete’s room all that can be heard is the beeping from various machines as the doctors try to keep him alive, get the crash cart” Pete is suddenly aware of everything he cannot speak or move but he see’s all that is going on around him the different face’s trying to keep him alive. “We are losing him come on get a move on clean those chemical burns! Stop that bleeding!” BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! “His heart has stopped crash cart now. Charging …………. Clear!” Pete’s body jumps with the voltage but it doesn’t work they carry on working on him for a further 6 minutes eventually they get him back, “ Right now get him stable. The noise from Steve’s cubicle has stopped and half of the people who were working on him have left the room a porter comes to wheel the bed to X-Ray, “What the fuck happened to this guy?” asks the porter, “no idea but if you think this guys is bad you wanna see the one next door he was dead for just over 6 minutes he has chemical burns on 50% of his body and he has serious head injuries.” The young nurse explains, “Well I’m sure glad I’m not laid in either of these beds tonight!” He begins to wheel the bed out of the room when he hears a long beep coming from the next room, the young nurse pushes past him and runs into the next room, two doctors follow her quickly when the porter gets there he sees a blood soaked bed but no body. “where did he go?” asks one of the doctors “I don’t know he was unconscious as stable as we could get him but it’s……. it’s just not possible the amount of blood he lost and the state his body was in I wouldn’t even think he could sit up never mind get up out of bed and leave room, We need to find him” says the other doctor. The porter gets on his radio and asks everyone with a radio to keep an eye open for him and one of the doctors gets on the phone and calls security direct. After about 30 minutes there has been no sign of Pete anywhere. Steve is just getting back from X-Ray he is just waking up the porter sees his eyes open “Take it easy buddy you have had a rough night but don’t worry we will have you fixed up” he smiles at Steve, “Pete!!! What happened to Pete and the girls COME ON tell me something?” Steve tries to lift his head and passes out.
