"My brother, is he going to be okay? Who is so cruel just to leave him there?"
Nicole sat in the hospital, and Angela sat beside her, holding her hand, "you will be okay. Justice will be served."
"Will he be okay?"
"I wish I could tell you, yes, it will be okay, but him being in ICU, all we can do is hope he will be fine."
Claire came running through the door. She ran up to Jack, "what has happened to him?"
"We don't have much clarity on the situation, but we do know it was a hit and run."
"Please tell me he will be fine?" Max entered the hospital, "What is he doing here said Jack."
Max walked up to Jack, "I came here to apologize to you for being such an ass."
"It's good, I appreciate it, but as you can see, Marcus is in ICU. We can sort out our differences another day."
Ping, Jack picked up his phone and texted back.
"Who is that texting you, Jack?"
Claire turned and looked at Jack, surprised at how Nicole had directly asked him who had texted him.
"No one important, just a friend."
Angela frowned, "are you guys dating?"
"Us dating? No, we are not. Why?"
"Jack, we are dating. Stop messing with them." She giggled as she tried to take his hand.
Claire looked over at Jack. He wore a blue leather jacket and black jeans. She asked Jack, "How are you coping with everything?"
"Can we go to that machine to get some soda?"
"Sure," said Jack, "Nicole, Angela, and Max. Can we bring you guys anything?"
"I haven't decided what I want. I will walk with you guys and decide. "
Angela shook her head, folding her arms, "Sure, you can come with," said Claire. The three of them walked together; Claire then took out a bunch of coins and handed it to Nicole, "there, you can help me, Coke, and decide what you want; Jack, come with me."
"Where are you guys going to?"
"Not far; we will be around the corner, your safe, Nicole."
Claire wore high heels, leather pants, and a tight-fitted top.
"Where are we going?"
"I wanted to talk to you about Nicole; you should tell her now that you are not interested; what if she builds up that conclusion to the extend where she starts believing herself?"
Jack knew she had a point, but why would Claire tell him this, "speaking of which, I know you and Tania have been out and about, but Tania is not your type.
"Interesting that you would say that, Claire." Jack placed his right hand in his pocket as he walked to the corner of the wall, looking around the wall. Nicole stood there staring at the machine. She never moved. It's as if she had frozen.
"Jack," Claire touched her soft hand over his as they stared into each other eyes; her pale skin was flawless, her eyes seemed as if it has become brighter, her red lips were perfectly shaded the same color as her lips, she had closed as he felt his heart beating faster. "Yes, Claire."
"I wanted you to know, I ."
They heard a loud banging sound coming from the passage, they looked around the corner, and it was Nicole shaking the machine. She started to scream.
Angela and Max heard the scream. Angela and Jack ran up to Nicole as Angela folded her arms around Nicole.
"Honey, it's me; you will be okay." Nicole looked disorientated as her neck twitched; she tried to pull away from Angela's grip and scratched Angela on the neck. The Nurses ran up to her holding her arms as a doctor walked quickly up to her drawing a needle and sweating her. Jack snapped and hit the needle out of the doctor's hand, "who gave you permission to do that."
"I, she was at risk to harm herself and others around her." Jack looked around. Opposite a brown bench was a little girl looking at Nicole.
A nurse ran to them, "doctor, you have to come."
"Is it Marcus?" Said Angela; the nurse never responded, and the doctor ran up into ICU.
"You can't come in here said the nurse closing the door in their face."
They stood there looking through the window, and it was Marcus. The electrocardiogram had a straight line. All they could see in the window was the doctor using a defibrillator, "clear," he looked at the machine and pushed it down on Marcus's chest. There was a heartbeat, and he had internal bleeding; they operated on him. Jack sat with his sister and Claire in the waiting room. Max was pacing up and down.
"I think we should go, Jack."
"You guys can't just leave them there?" Asked Claire.
"We are coming back, Claire. We aren't leaving them here."
"It's fine, Angela. I will stay and watch her while you freshen up."
"Okay, I will bring you something to eat."
Jack looked up at his sister while sitting on the chair. "Max, would you mind driving with me im not comfortable driving alone at night."
"Thats a great idea, Max. Would you mind grabbing me some takeouts since we might be here all night?"
"You can leave my sister and me. We will be fine."
Claire smiled, "you not getting rid of me that easy."
"Claire, why suddenly do you care? We both know a few weeks ago. You didn't care about what had happened to Nicole!" Said Angela.
Claire walked over to Angela, "people change. I am not the same person you knew back then."
Angela nodded, "as long as your intentions are good."
Jack's phone kept on ringing, "you can answer that, Jack, I don't mind,"
"No, it's not important."
"I will see you guys soon."
Angela and Max had exited the hospital.
"Your sister has grown up beautiful. In this time, a lot has changed."
Jack's phone rang again. This time Claire saw the last four digits of the number, which looked familiar to her. She took out her phone and noted it in a notepad.
"Sorry, I probably have to take this."
Claire smiled, "that's okay, I don't mind."
Jack stood up and walked to the front door. As he exited the front, Silencer entered wearing a three-quarter leather jacket with leather pants. He had scars over his face, and four men accompanied him.
"General says, we got some cleaning up to do? What's your instruction?"
Angela looked to the ICU, thinking about how close she was to Marcus.
"I want you to find the assholes who did this to Marcus."
"Claire, it's that you, honey."
"Shit, that's my aunty. Make it look like you are asking directions."
"Directions to where?"
"Do as I say, dammit."
Her aunty pace slower when she saw the four strange men with tattoos and funny hairstyles.
"Honey, it's been so long since I have seen you, your growing up so beautiful."
"Thanks, aunt Caroline."
The aunt looked at the silencer with his tattooed eyes and took Claire's hand, "are those men bothering you? Should I call your dad and security?"
"No, aunt, they are here for a friend I know, Marcus. He is in ICU. I don't know these guys, and they ask me where the ICU is."
Her aunt looked at them up and down, taking Claire's hand. "These days, you can't trust anyone, and besides, if your friend Marcus had such friends, you might want to reconsider your friendship with Marcus."
"Aunt Caroline, Marcus is nothing like that. When you meet him someday, you will like him."
"Is he your boyfriend? Your sound extremely protective over that fellow in ICU."
"It's Nicole's brother, Aunt."
"Same Nicole, you had gone to a school with and got missing? If you ask me, these suspicious-looking fellows took her."
"No, aunt, they are the ones who found her. She is sleek."
The aunt looked at the silencer again, "did he ever look in the mirror? He looks ridiculous."
"Aunt, that's enough."
"Where is this poor child Nicole?"
"She is asleep on the hospital bed. She was up waiting for her brother."
"Okay, are you sure though they won't hurt you? Because when we went to war in the world war, we looked our enemy in the eyes and beat them up."
"Aunt, that was long ago.
Times have changed."
"Anyway, my darling, you shouldn't go home too late, these thugs around here." she looked up at Silence. "They will do anything for drugs, even sell you, so make sure you go home before 11 pm, or else I am forced to tell your dad about tonight."
"Aunt, you can't do that." Aunt Caroline smiled, "I am doing this for you, honey. Someday, you will thank me."
The aunt left, "you clowns just stood here, find the person who did this to Marcus and release them to the reaper. It's time that person sees hell for what it is."
Jack returned to the hospital and saw Claire talking to the four guys by coincidence. "Silencer," says Jack as the four men went on one knee, "Sir, may we have honor yet to kiss your shoes?"
Claire stood there dumbfounded, "what is happening here?"
"I am afraid your guys mistook me for someone else." The man remained quiet and touched his shoes, "it's an honor meeting you, sir."
"I have no idea who you guys are but thank you."
The silencer left a gold coin at Jack's foot, "we are eternally in debt to you, Sir."
Claire still looked dumbfounded, "what just happened?"