Nate casts a cautious glance at Sam, feeling the way his heartbeat is growing softer underneath Nate's fingertips, the way the blood seeping from him has started to slow. He's almost dead and Nate is still just sitting here, not doing a damn thing about it.
But Beth is still talking to him, telling him he's been drugged, asking what he's eaten, what he's drank. There's a haze settling over Nate's brain and he fights through it. For a split second, when he blinks his eyes, Sam is gone. There's no blood on the pavement and it's like he was never there, but then Nate blinks again and he's back, his pulse fading.
"What..." he struggles to get out, trying to shake the fog. If he's been drugged it would maybe explain this, make it easier to deal with. But if she's wrong and he lets Sam die...
"I had a bottle of water," he remembers. He remembers it splashing to the ground as he ran. "Then I saw him running, before." Before this, before he got shot and died all over again. But the water had come from a vending machine and it had been sealed. There's no way someone could have snuck something into it when he wasn't looking.
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But Beth is still talking to him, telling him he's been drugged, asking what he's eaten, what he's drank. There's a haze settling over Nate's brain and he fights through it. For a split second, when he blinks his eyes, Sam is gone. There's no blood on the pavement and it's like he was never there, but then Nate blinks again and he's back, his pulse fading.
"What..." he struggles to get out, trying to shake the fog. If he's been drugged it would maybe explain this, make it easier to deal with. But if she's wrong and he lets Sam die...
"I had a bottle of water," he remembers. He remembers it splashing to the ground as he ran. "Then I saw him running, before." Before this, before he got shot and died all over again. But the water had come from a vending machine and it had been sealed. There's no way someone could have snuck something into it when he wasn't looking.