Something Gained

Chapter 38

Everything came flooding back, I finally remembered what had happened..what led me here. Drew helped him, Drew was the reason why I was here.

"That's right, your friend Drew was in on this" Price walked up to Drew and put his arm around his shoulder

"how could you?" I forced the words out, and when I did I broke. The tears finally made an appearance after so hard of forcing them back

"You're the one that chose this Rachel. You chose Damon, even Tanner tried telling you the danger he would put you in" he defended himself, with the most stupid excuse

"But he didn't put me in danger, you did" he didn't know how to respond, he just stood there watching me as I cried 

"This is what you chose" he repeated

"bull crap" I spat, earning myself a punch in my ribs from Price. I winced at the pain, I had never experienced abuse before.

"shut up already" Price clasped onto my jaw, forcing me to look up at him "say what you want, but you're as good as dead" 

I heard gunshots, Price immediately looked at his men and gestured to one of them to stand at the bottom of the stairs and watch the door, the other still holding me. I heard the door open and immediately shots were fired, It wasn't long until the man at the bottom of the steps was shot and down on the floor. 

In my fogginess I saw multiple feet coming down the steps, guns still going off. Drew ran to a corner, defenseless. I felt the man holding me bring a gun to my head and pull me against him, Price stood a few steps in front of me until a bullet pierced his skin and knocked him down in front of me. 

A man in all black hovered over him as Price dropped the gun in his hand, kicking the gun away. Another man in all black stood in front of Drew with a gun pointed at him, and another man stood in front of me and the minion behind me. I don't know whats going on and I can hardly stay conscious. 

More steps are heard coming down the steps, my blurry vision making it difficult for me to see who it is

"let her go" its him, his voice. I tried to force my vision to focus with little luck. 

"I'll kill her" The man behind me screamed, his voice ringing in my ear

Damon and his men surrounded us, 3 guns were pointed at the man behind me while the other 2 watched Drew and Price. Damon turned to Price

"Tell him to let her go!" he switched spots with the man that was hovering over price 

"You don't deserve her!" Drew yelled from the corner

"Shut the fuck up!" he shouted without looking away from Price "Tell him!" 

"You took Tessa from me!" Price yelled as he held his abdomen "Why should I tell him to let her go!?" 

Just then, I heard a loud gunshot. It sounded close, I felt the gun move down from my head, it brushed against my arm and another shot was heard. 

I felt a burning in my arm before falling to the ground as the man behind me let go of me. I closed my eyes and flinched in pain, it came from everywhere, my head, my back, my arm, my ribs. I felt arms wrap around me and pick me up, I opened my eyes a bit and saw Damon looking down at me. I rested my head on his chest as he ran

"Don't worry babe, I got you"

Beep...Beep...Beep

My eyelids felt heavy again, not just that but my body felt heavy. You know that overwhelming tiredness you feel after a long day at the beach, how it feels when you have to carry things back to the car. Well that's the best way I could describe it, my body feels tired. 

I slowly opened my eyes to a brightly lit room, it took a while for my eyes to adjust. I looked around and realized I'm in a hospital room, I have IV's in my arm and an oxygen tube in my nostrils. I looked down at my hand and saw Damon, his hand was holding mine as he laid his head on his arm. I squeezed his hand to see if he would wake up, he did. He looked up at me and his face lit up

"Rach" He cupped my face with his hand and leaned in to kiss me

"What's going on?" I asked as he pulled away from our kiss

"The doctor hasn't come in yet, the nurse said they're running some blood work. You got shot in the arm, the bullet went in and out of your arm and luckily just barley missed your veins and tendons" he spoke quickly

"you're awake" I turned towards the door to see Alisha running in with Tony behind her, she engulfed me in a hug "I'm so glad you're okay"

"why do I have oxygen on me?" I remember everything that happened but don't know how severe everything is 

"The nurse said your oxygen was going down and they wanted to make sure it was stable" Damon spoke reassuringly, at this point I had Damon holding one hand and Alisha the other 

"Oh good, you're awake" A man in blue scrubs walked in the room "My name is Doctor Bellings" he introduce himself to everyone, he had a folder in his hand and he began to flip through the pages

"I'm just going to go over everything with you very fast" he smiled as he made some form of eye contact with all of us "so first of all we ran some blood work on you, most of everything is looking good but we ran a test to check your vitamin D and its looking a little low. Normally it wouldn't be so important but it also looks like you're pregnant"

a very audible gasp escaped my mouth, Alisha and Damon both looked over at me, both visibly shocked. I couldn't think of anything to say, so I just asked 

"pregnant?"