Chapter 374: What do you need?

River POV

I jump when I hear someone come in the room door. I move in to a crouch knife in hand as I get ready. I can hear a small moan and a thud. I move to the shadows waiting.

The bathroom door opens slowly as a dark figure makes it way in.

"It's me." Cliff says pushing the door open.

"It was just one guy. I got him but Sheldon's taking to long. I'm going to just go out for a quick look." He says. The nurse runs to him "No please Cliff just give it a little longer." He kisses her and then squeezes the doctors hand.

"Stay put and fight if anyone comes." They nod and he looks at me and then to my knife "River fight them." He says before he turns and leaves.

I move low and quietly to a dark spot in the room.

My eyes start drooping closed as the time passes quickly. It's been twenty minutes since Cliff left and fifty minutes since Sheldon left. I touch my lips thinking about him. He kissed me not once but twice, it was soft, nice and I wasn't expecting to feel like this towards him. He's Finn's, he's not mine. It's confusing to have feelings about him right now so I just push them down and get my head back in this moment cause we're being hunted and I for one aren't going without a fight.

I move back in to the bathroom "Are you guys okay?" I ask and they look at me like I'm crazy.

"No. We're not alright!" The doctor says.

"If my son dies it's on you!" She says moving away from me.

"I know that!" I say in a low growling voice. Bitch you think I don't know all of this is because of me! I hear another loud crash. I get ready and put myself between the others and the bathroom doorway.

"River it's me grab the others." Cliffs voice says softly. I wave them out.

"Sheldon?" I ask him. He points and I see him over a ways down the hall by another doorframe. His face and clothes are covered in blood but he looks okay.

"When he waves we go one at a time quickly but be quite." Cliff says waving us forward.

"Mom your first."

We watch as she makes her way to Sheldon then he sends the nurse his girlfriend I guess.

"River go." I nod and start making my way to Sheldon. He keeps telling me with his hand signals to keep my eyes on him but I as I reach a open door on instinct I look in before I go pass. I gasp as I see at least twenty people in there bloody and dead. Some of them striped from the waist down. I cover my mouth as the tears start down my face. I see why they hadn't tried to hide it, the door is completely ripped from the hinges.

I look at Sheldon and he's waving his hand to me. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I open my eyes and keep going to him. He grabs me tightly and kisses my head when I reach him. He whispers in my ear "Your doing great baby we're almost there."

"I'm dizzy." I say as I sway into his body. He lifts me and carries me in the room to puts me on the bed and starts looking me over.

"River are you in pain?" I nod. I'm hurting really bad now like massive period type cramps. Tears burn my eyes.

"Okay I'll carry you." He says lifting me in his arms again. I shake my head.

"No, I can do it. You need your hands free." He looks at me for a long minute then he steadies me on my feet. He takes my hand and puts it on the wait band of his pants. I quickly grab on to it tightly and put my other hand out to the nurse and she does the same to the doctor and Cliff follows at the back. We slowly start like this making our way down the long hallway till Sheldon stops and points to a door across the way. It's the stairwell. Thank god this private hospital is small. He looks around the corner into the hallway we have to cross to get to the door. He waves and Cliff quickly runs across and opens the door checking inside before he waves and his mother runs to him.

Sheldon waves the nurse forward and as she runs across a loud pop echos through the hall and she falls to the floor with a scream.

I gasp and close my eyes for a minute. Next thing I know I'm over Sheldon's shoulder and he's running across the hall. He reaches down and drags the nurse across the floor to Cliff waiting on the other side. Two pops ring out as we run through. Cliff grabs the nurse throwing her unconscious body over his shoulder as we quickly follow the doctor to the even darker basement.

I hear a few beeps as we go through a few doors.

The lights start flashing and I start to get a headache and get dizzy.

A door closes loudly behind us and I hear a loud metal clinking like a large lock being locked.

Sheldon puts his hand under my butt as he lowers me down. He looks over me quickly breathing heavy. He lifts my face to his "Are you okay?" He asks. I nod but I know I'm not I can feel the blood running down between my legs. He rushes over to Cliff and helps him lower her to the floor as the doctor finds a way to turn on a soft light above us. I look around. We're in what looks like a big metal box with a few monitors and a red phone receiver. There is shelfs lined up against the back not large but big and stock full of all kinds of things. I see cases of water, pill bottles full and boxes of things like medical stuff. There is a few couches against the wall, three that I can see lined up next to each other and a small table over by a corner.

I walk over and pull a box over to Sheldon. I see gauze and pads and sewing kits.

"What do you need?" I ask him laying my hand gently on his shoulder.

He rips her shirt off as he looks over a bloody hole in her side. He turns her a little looking under her. He grabs a small flashlight the doctor hands him and holds it with his mouth as he feels and looks at her back.

"I have a exit. Looks like a thru and thru." Cliff nods the look in his eyes is pure panic but his face is tight like he's trying to hold it together.

"That's good right?" I ask looking at them.

They both look at me for a minute and continue doing what their doing to help her.