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I nearly lost it for a second titone filled my ear When I’d answered, Ford had told me that someone had shot Pace

Noas ency rooht to be there

I looked down the hallway, first one way, then the other, and then spottedto another officer

Justice, ood friend’s son

I walked straight up to them and said, “How is he?”

Justice and Ford’s eyes both turned to me

“Shot in the chest, right underneath his collarbone He would’ve been fine, perfectly in and out, but a bullet fraged deeper in his chest When heand it collapsed He…”

A co on had us all three looking in the direction of the yelling

Justice had his hand on the handle opening the door when a series of loud thuds filled the air, followed shortly by an ‘oh fuck’

When we rounded the corner, it was to find an officer on his face in the hallway, blood s the floor all around him A nurse was on her knees beside the officer, and Justice freaked

“Runner, where the fuck is Jackson?” Justice barked

Runner, who I assuroaned and turned over

“He just took a metal fuckin’ clipboard to the face,” the nurse said “He’s not going to be able to talk right now But make yourselves useful and follow that combative patient that just ran down the hallway…”

“His gun is gone,” I said, feeling sick to my stomach

All of us got quiet for a few long seconds, then Ford was running

He didn’t get there in time

None of us did before the bullets started sounding

Bang Bang Bang Bang

I rounded the corner in ti halt

I’ll never forget the feeling

I was running toward the shooter who had a handgun in both hands

In one hand, he was ai it into the roo at the same time

There were bodies on the floor all around him

One of those bodies—Pace—was crawling toward a mass in the corner of the room

Arh his own blood, as a matter of fact, as the shooter had a shoith the security guard at the other end of the hallway fro

He was bleeding froauze that was taped to his chest was soaked through with blood, and he looked so fucked up that I was honestly surprised that he was able to move

But knowing that Pace wouldn’t be ht now if that lump in the corner wasn’t ihter under there

I could also see shattered glass and exploded plaster behind the lu that shots had hit extremely close to her at one point in time