Pulled Under

A simple job Max had said, quick in and out. But no he was no stuck on a bridge, desperately trying not to lose his balance. To top it all off they were being shot at.

"Max, I swear its going to be me kicking your ass this time."

"Well sorry, but I wasn't the one in charge of checking for security." She replied as looked at him.

"Your blaming Logan?" he paused "Well that's a first."

Max smiled at that but still concentrated on getting across the bridge. Having to sidestep along a bridge with guns firing at you isn't an easy task.

Max heard a gasp and turned to see Alec no longer at her side. He was hanging on the bridge, blood gushing from a gunshot wound to his arm. Looked like the bullet had hit an artery. His arm hung limply at his side, blood already dripped from his finger tips.

"Alec," Max shouted, "Grab my hand."

Alec tried to reach but his arm wouldn't move. He looked at her with solemn eyes and mouth "I'm sorry."

Max jumped as another bullet ricocheted of the bridge but her attention was then on Alec as he let go and plummeted into the slow waters below.

She stared in shock as she waited for him to resurface, but he didn't.

"ALEC," she screamed as she made the decision to jump in after him.

The water moved slowly, almost as if it wasn't moving at all. She searched for Alec, but the murky water made it hard for her to see. He had been under the water for a good five minutes now and X-5's could go without oxygen for four. Which meant she had to find him soon.

Suddenly a dark figure appeared in her sights and she swam to it as fast as she could. She grabbed it and pulled it to the surface. It was Alec.

She swam to shore, dragging her partner in crime behind her. When she finally got to the river bank she got a good look at Alec.

His skin was ghostly white and his lips blue. His eyes were open slightly and unseeing.

"No, Alec." She said as she shook her friend, but his body was limp and his chest did not rise.

Max placed her ear to his chest and listened, hoping to find a heart beat. There wasn't one and now she began to panic.

She blew to breaths into his mouth and then began to do chest compressions.

"Come on Alec… don't leave me now."

Two more breaths and then compressions again…

"Alec please," She said, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Two breaths

Cough

Water gushed from Alec's mouth as he took in a pained breath.

He gasped and struggled to take another.

"Come on Alec… that's it." Said Max as she stroked his hair.

He remained unconscious and Max knew she needed to get him medical attention and soon. The wound on his arm had begun to bleed profusely again and Max new that was a bad thing. The ripped a large piece of fabric off he coat and wrapped it around the wound in the hope that it would slow the bleeding till she got back to Logan's car.

It took a lot of effort to get Alec back to the Car. He has yet to regain consciousness which worried Max to no end.

"Max?" said Logan as he got out of the car "what happened?'

"Hit a snag and ended with Alec drowning in a river. All because you didn't check security properly." She snapped as she manoeuvred Alec into the back of the car.

"Is he?"

"Dead? No. Dying? Yes." Said Max, as she looked Logan in the eye with anger.

"What are we going to do?"

"Take him to terminal city. We look after our own." Spat Max as she then manoeuvred into that back so that Alec's head was resting on her lap.

"He needs a hospital Max."

"We take him to a hospital and he's a dead man you know that." She replied viscously.

"He's a dead man if you don't" though Logan as he shrugged and shut Max's door.

The doctors at terminal city were shocked when Alec was wheeled in on a gurney. His lips were blue and he was barely drawing breath. This was bad, really bad.

"There's a very good chance that he will suffer secondary drowning." One of the docs had said "it sometimes doesn't occur until 72 hour after the initial accident."

The intubated him and watched his oxygen stats in the hope that they would improve. This was going to be a long night.

There we go… first chapter. This story was requested by januarysunshine13. Hope its what you expected