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Another medical drama

" s**t , s**t !!! ", Dean swore as he ran .

Dean ran out of the Arena but could not find any trace of Blade , nobody had told him Blade was a professional sprinter .

Dean ran all the same , he did not want to encounter three of Top dog's friends , especially when he was alone .

He ran down the school's hallway that was now quiet and deserted , everyone must have gone to watch the fight between he and Truck and they had not returned to their spots to continue to linger around in the darkness , pretending to be in some grimy film .

He was about to turn the corners when he looked back and caught sight of the three musketeers still coming after him .

Dean groaned and took off towards the approaching corner .

Dean increased his pace as he rounded the corners and began to run down the halls of this new hallway that was not only empty but dark .

Half way into the hallway , he heard something and turned around and someone pulled him into a dark classroom , the hand was different from Blade's hands from earlier .

Dean began to struggle when the person pressed their other hand on his mouth and moved closer to him , his ear specifically .

" Stop struggling if you do not want them to find us and imprint Top dog on our asses tonight ", She whispered teasingly .

Yaay , It was May and she sounded pissed at him , why was she directing her anger towards him ?

Loud footfalls began to echo around them as the three musketeers came closer , searching for when he had run past .

Their footfalls only grew louder as they came Closer but unlike in the movies , they did not stop suspiciously in front of Dean .

They simply ran past , their footfalls slowly fading away .

May released him then , letting him grapple around in the darkness as he tried to find something to hold on to that could support him .

Dean found something to hold him up , a wall and the first thing he did was to wipe his mouth first , an unconscious response to having his mouth being covered .

" Is Blade here ? ", He asked from her , worried that they might have run separate ways .

A flashlight came on in the middle of the room , Blade held the flashlight to his face .

He was smiling an embarrassed smile , Dean stretched his lips too to show him that he was displeased .

Blade rushed forward and grabbed Dean's arms .

" Come on Pal , don't be mad . I really thought you were behind me . I mean , come on you can not exactly blame me for your inability to catch up ", He said in a way that totally made sense .

Dean punched Blade's arm , making the latter stagger away from him .

" What was that for , Pal ?! ", Blade called out loudly .

Dean shrugged ," You can not exactly blame me for your inability to dodge properly ", He mimicked .

Blade began to gurgle in an attempt to laugh but soon stopped as it sounded even painful to his ears , Dean chuckled at this .

They both stopped laughing as the light from Blade's flashlight mistakenly ended up on May's face .

Blade slowly switched off the flashlight immediately but they had already seen the look on her face , she looked deranged .

Like a character out of a terrible movie , the ones with the worst costume that ended up plaguing your thoughts and dreams .

Dean slowly took a step back as he suddenly began to remember this zombie movie he had watched with Jaymie with a character like that .

They had both been unable to sleep that night , Dean had lied that he had schoolwork while Jaymie had Insisted on supervising his school work .

Even in that movie then , the virus had broken out from a school .

May walked closer to them and Dean had to hold his breath carefully , thankful that she was headed towards Blade .

But , she only walked past Blade and began to walk towards Dean , He shrunk into the corners of the room .

May stopped in front of him and the flashlight came on his face , she must have grabbed it from Blade .

Dean blinked as the light began to irritate his eyes .

" Is there something you would like me to do for you ? ", He asked softly .

May scoffed loudly and kicked his shin , Dean yelped again and exhaled softly .

For the second time that night , the air rushed out of Dean so hard that it was painful .

Dean fell to the ground as he gently cradled his foot , taking slow regulated breaths to hold the tears that had gathered in the corner of his eyes as he cursed whoever made those boots .

He also sent a quick mental telepathic apology to Truck .

" What ??? The savior of the underdog and under b***h ?!! Why is the savior feeling any pain at all ? " ,May yelled at him .

Was that why she was angry ? Because he had come in to save her ?

If that was it , she did not have to worry about it , be had not run in to save her per say ,he had just found himself running in .

" Did you think I ran out there without any plans on how to save myself ?? " , She yelled again causing Dean to step back .

Dean thought that but he did not say so , he waited for her to say everything that was bothering her , because it seemed like she actually had a lot on her mind .

" I have been fine all those years alone and all those multiple scrapes I got into , I do not need a f*****g savior now ", She told him loudly .

Dean sighed and stood on his feet to properly look at her .

" And what if he had rimmed you ? Did you even stop to think of it ? Do you think everyone is like you and would have left after you lost the match ? No , they would have killed you and tomorrow , your face would be dropping off the sky just because you could not sit your f*****g ass down !!! If you wanted to die so badly , then you should not have done it in my face ", He yelled right back at her .

She took a step back from Dean , the light leaving his face , breathing heavily from her outburst .

Dean flexed his feet and rolled each of his foot slowly to make sure the kinks and knots from the kick were gone , his foot seemed to be okay now .

When he lifted his head , She was looking at him , It was too dark to see if she had expended all of her anger .

" Why did you do it ? ", She asked softly , her anger seemed to have been expended .

Dean had no answer because he had no reason for doing it in the first place , he had just done it .

" I did not think about it , I just saw you and the other guy and ran into the fight ", He told her and hoped she believed his truth.

Wait , the other guy ?

Dean had not noticed the other guy for a while , he looked around and back at May .

" Where is the guy ? Did he leave ? ", He asked , even as he asked , he considered the impossibility of that , seeing that the guy could probably not move .

May gasped and turned around , running to the end of the classroom , Blade followed after them .

At the end of the classroom , she had arranged some desks to make room for the injured guy to lie down .

May put the light on his face .

He was young , younger than Dean but probably older than May .

He was also still breathing , they all sighed collectively .

Dean took a look at the kid's body, he had either taken judo classes on how to fall and take hits or he had been beaten enough to realize it on his own .

Dean began to touch his body as he tried to feel for any injuries that could be life threatening .

His injuries were all external thankfully , no damage to any organs .

" He'll be okay , there's no damage to his organs or internal bleeding ".

May pointed at the Kid's swollen eyes , mouth and face in general .

" Isn't this damage to organs ? "

Dean shook his head .

" I mean internal organs , the stuffs that could be life threatening ".

May and Blade exchanged looks .

" How do you know about this ? "

May folded her arms on her chest as she turned to fully observe Dean .

" Was it from another part-time job ? "

Blade also folded his arms as he asked .

Dean rolled his eyes .

" Something like that . I'm studying to be a paramedic . Was studying ".

Dean waited for them to go back to doing what it was they were going to do but they only stepped forward .

Really ? This interested them ?

May was first .

" You are going to be a doctor ? That's so cool . I've always loved medical dramas and how those people didn't have to be thugs but could still use one tiny knife to save and end lives ".

Blade laughed at this while Dean tried to relate to the fact that she thought doctors were thugs who chose who they wanted to kill or save .

He decided it was none of his business .

" I'm studying to be a Paramedic not a doctor".

It was Blade's turn now .

" You are going to have patients , no ? Treat them ? Use syringes ? Have a license and all ? Then , you are a doctor ".

Dean did not see any future in arguments .

" We need to leave this place and figure out how to carry a full grown man with us ".

Blade and May sighed dramatically at his topic change and turned to the boy .

May raised her hand up .

" We could cut him up into little pieces and split it into three bags , would be easy to carry".

Dean took a deep breath and begged for patience before replying her , It didn't help that it was too dark to see what her face was saying .

" May , that kind of defeats the reason we saved him , you know ? The whole risking our lives thing ? "

Blade moved forward and touched the boys arms , lifting them slowly , like he was weighing them .

" I could carry him for a while , at least till we are far enough from the Arena ".

Dean could have argued but he was honestly so tired .

Exhaustion was suddenly creeping all over him .

" Let's do that ".

" May leads the way as we go and I'll come up at the rear , avoid lights and crowded places ".

They both nodded and got to work, the sound of the Commentator's droning masking the little noise that they made .