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“He just opened his eyes” Haet in and get out”

Onetords from that bastard — his first name and his last I pushed open the doorsight

Hawk’s body was lashed down in four-point restraints so that he couldn’t flail and undo the work his surgeons had just done Even his head was restrained IV bags dripped fluids into his body, a chest tube drained ooze out of his lungs, a catheter carried waste into a canister under the bed, and he was breathing oxygen through a cannula clipped to his nose

Hawk looked bad, but he was alive

Now I had to get him to talk

I touched his hand and said, “Hi there My name is Lindsay”

Hawk’s eyes flickered open

“Wheream I?” he asked me

I told him that he’d been shot, that he was in a hospital, and that he was doing fine

“Why can’tI move?”

I told him about the restraints and why he was tied down, and I asked for his help “I need to call your family, but I don’t know your name”

Hawk scanned e on un underI had to strain to hear

“My work here is finished,” Hawk said

“No,” I shouted, gripping the kid’s hand with both of reat doctor We all want to help you, but I have to know your name Please, Hawk, tell me your name”

Hawk pursed his lips, starting to forh an electric current had taken over his body, his back bowed and he went rigid against his restraints Si of an alarm filled the room I wanted to scream