Page 54 of Lucifer's Revenge
“Holy...” Nurse Judy didn’t get any further as she fainted at the sight coming toward them.
Hawk looked up, grinned, then took in the situation and became serious. He ran forward, barking out orders, and called out, “Bring her in here, Lucifer.” He patted the bed, and watched as Lucius placed Lilith on the bed.
“What happened?” Hawk asked, but frowned when Luc passed him two plastic baggies.
“According to Prospect Joey, Lilith was hit in the arm, that syringe was found near her car, then a guy grabbed her from behind and put something over her face. That’s the rag in the second bag. Bandit thought you could run some tests on them or something.”
“Yeah, he’s right.” Hawk looked up and swore. “What the fuck happened to you?” He saw the condition of Prospect Joey’s face and the way he was cradling his arm to his stomach. Hawk looked at Lucius and his entire persona changed, he wasn’t a member of Hell’s Coffin now, he was a doctor.
“I’ll get these up to the lab now, as long as Lilith is stable, I don’t want to do anything to counteract any drugs she might have been given. I don’t want to go in blind here. She’s safe, I’m going to work on Joey.”
“Do what you have to, but I’m not leaving Lilith’s side.”
“That’s fine,” Hawk said, and turned to Joey, who had been put in the bed beside Lilith. The only thing Hawk did was pass two blankets to Lucius so he could cover Lilith with something besides Vampire’s cape.
“Are there any more coming?”
“Probably,” Luc said as he covered Lilith. “I don’t know about the bitches, but a guy soiled himself and passed out. Bandit said he hit his head, but was still alive.”
“Got it. Can you tell me what the fuck happened?”
“Ask Prospect Joey,” Luc said as he stood on the other side of Lilith so he could watch Hawk work on Joey. As he worked, and did his exam, Joey gave the entire tale of what happened, and by the time the ambulance arrived with the guy who had kidnapped Lilith, Joey’s face had been cleaned, and both Hawk and Lucius winced at the broken nose, and two black eyes. He was taken away to have his arm x-rayed, and the lab results had just returned.
“Good, but not good,” Hawk said as he looked at the chart.
“What’s that mean?”
“It means that the drugs weren’t lethal, like in death, but they are knockout drugs. Chloroform on the rag, that will knock you out, and the syringe is Ketamine.” He looked at Lucius with a shake of his head. “Basic horse tranquilizers. It will knock youout. I’m waiting on the blood draw to see how much is in her system. From my physical exam, I didn’t find any trauma.”
“What about the cuts on her stomach?”
“What cuts? Oh, that wasn’t blood, it looked like candle wax.”
“Thank god,” Lucius sighed and looked up when he saw Bandit standing there. Both Lucius and Hawk stepped out into the hall when the EMTs came rushing into the hospital and the guy was yelling and screaming about demons. The gurney stopped, the guy looked at them, screamed at the top of his lungs like he had in the woods, and proceeded to pass out again.
“What the hell?” Luc asked and looked at Hawk with a scowl when the other guy gripped his arm, and took him to a room down the hall. He turned Luc and pointed.
“Look at yourself,” he said with a smirk.
Luc turned and saw an entire wall of mirrors and he stared in shock at the actual red demon with fangs, horns, and wings staring back at him. He reached up to stroke his beard, then walked forward and leaned in to inspect his face.. He turned to Hawk with a gigantic grin. “Damn, Starr did good work.”
“You think?” Hawk chuckled, and they went back out in the hall, and he shook his head when he had to walk through a group of vampires, gargoyles, skeletons, werewolves, and someone that looked like his face had been stitched back on using at least a dozen pieces of different skin. He heard another scream and looked up as Nurse Judy hit the floor again.
“You guys are going to have to go back to the waiting room,” he told his brothers and they all pointed down the hall. Luc and Hawk turned and saw a nurse pushing Joey in a wheelchair. The nurse handed the envelope of x-rays to Hawk, and took Joey back into the room. When several police officers arrived, Bandit broke off and went to talk to them. The first thing they did was to walk into the room the man had been taken to and put a setof handcuffs on his wrist, and attached the other one to the bed railing.
“How bad?” Luc asked Joey as he pointed to his arm in a sling.
“No clue, they won’t tell me.”
Everyone turned to Hawk and he slapped the films up on the light board, then winced. “It’s a spiral break.”
“What’s that mean?” Luc asked.
“It means that someone twisted his arm until it broke,” he said, and took Luc’s arm in his and mimicked the motion. He looked at Joey. “Do you know what hit your face?”
“Brenda had a rock in her hand.”
“Ouch,” several of them said, then backed out and went to wait where they were told. They had only stayed long enough to check out on their man to make sure he would survive his injuries.
