Song: It's just me- Blue October

Mekhi's POV:

I look back over to the ring and see this guy pick her up and from where I am standing all I see is the back of him. I'm not sure what happens but he throws her hard, slinging her across the ring. I just know he broke something. When he turns more I notice who it is. Kwan...that motherfucker.

Blood is oozing down his face; looks like she bit his nose completely off. I smirk just a little...that's my girl for you, she is for sure a fighter. He starts to walk over to her and he picks her up and hits her two more times within seconds. It looks like she is passed out. I motion all my guys giving them the single to fire. As Kwan walks over to her he goes to pick her up and once she is all the way in the air I panic. I'm not sure if he is planning on throwing her down again or killing her but I aim the red laser right at his forehead and cap his ass. I watch as he slowly falls with her still in his hands.

Guns are being fired all over the room. People that are watching the fight start screaming and running for their lives. I run against them as they come plowing through like a herd of cows. I have to force my way through to the ring. Kwan is dead but I shoot him again for the hell of it right between the eyes this time. I turn around and I see the one guy staring at me, Mateo,  that is still sitting and watch the place crumble to the ground. I raise my hand with my gun and aim it right at his forehead but someone beats me to it.

Atticus is right next to him and as he shoots I see his brains splatter all over the place. I bend down and scoop her up in my arms. The only way out is the elevator that already full and on its way up out of there or the stairway. I take the stairs. I carry her all the way up to the main floor and once outside I spot Ashton. He already has the door open and waiting for me when I run up to put her in the car. "Let's go..." I yell at him.

He jumps in and takes off. We get down the road and I see the building behind us go up in flames...the whole building erupts. I hope to god my crew is out. "Go to the fucking ER....this isn't looking good." I tell him.

I hold her so close to me and stoke the few strands of hair that is soaked in blood away from her face. I don't recognize the beauty in my arms. Both eyes are swollen shut, there so much bruising and blood from her nose and mouth. I gasp as I try to hold in the tears. I can't lose her...not like this. Ashton pulls up and I don't wait for him to open the door for me. I rush her in, holding her in my arms. "I need help...I need it now."

A few of the staff come running over. One of the guys tries to take her from me but I don't want to give her away to him. "Back the fuck off...where do you want her."I see the bed close by and lay her down. They start to take her away and of course I follow them only to be stopped at the double doors.

 I can't sit in the waiting room...I can't. I walk up and down the hallways until I hear someone call out my name. I turn to see Meagan with Sam. She comes running to me and wraps her arms around me crying her eyes out. "Oh...my God...Mekhi...dad called said that you were here...where is Scar? How the hell happened?"

I just keep shaking my head, not knowing what to say. I gesture to the double doors. "They have her in there. It's not good...it's not...I can't live without her Meagan. I won't live without her." I let go and walk over to the wall and punch the shit out of it. I turn and lean against the wall and feel my body sink to the floor.

A few seconds pass and my mom walks in with my dad close behind him. "How is she?" my dad asks.I just shrug my shoulders. I close my eyes and think about us...I think of that first time I laid eyes on her. Oh my god she was so freaking gorgeous. She was down on her hands and knees cleaning up the blood from a deal gone bad in my grandparent's restaurant. I remember telling her that she missed a spot and she brushed me off like I didn't exist. I thought about her all night and so the next day I had some of my guys search and they find her at a local café. I walk in and couldn't resist talking to her.

God that smile...and her eyes sparkled making me want to melt. I think about that first kiss...I knew then that she was mine. Shit we have been through so much in the past two years...hell almost three. If she doesn't live through this I don't know if I can go on.I hear someone talking nearby and when our eyes meet I jump up and run full force and knock the fucking shit out of him.

My dad comes between us. "Not here...not now."

"Fuck that...you come with me." I point to him and he follows me to an empty room. Once the door is shut I hit the shit out of him again and he stumbles backward a few steps. "Because of your ass she is in there...if she dies...so help me god..."

My father walks into the room and shuts the door behind him keeping the others out. "I told you not here. There is a time and place for everything."

I push him hard. "Fuck that...because of him Scarlett is hurt...he is the real reason why she is in there."

"I understand...but you are disturbing the whole goddamn hospital."

"I don't give a flying fuck who I am disturbing." I turn to look at Atticus. "She fucking loved you like a father and you did this to her."I watch as his whole body sinks to the floor. He is sitting there on his knees with his head down and it sounds like he is praying.

 When he looks up he is crying...the big ass man is crying like a baby. "I swear I didn't know. I would never hurt her. I would never..."

"But you fucking did. You brought that asshole in her life. If she doesn't make it I swear man...I swear I will hunt you down and I will torture your ass."

"No need...if she doesn't make it...I will take care of myself. I took an oath to protect her with my life and I let her down. Without her my life is over...believe me she is like my own daughter."

"Then why the fuck did you bring that mother-fucker into our lives?"I say loud and angry.

He looks down at the floor and it's like he is almost praying. "I'm sorry...Mekhi...I am so fucking sorry. I can't believe this happened."

The door slowly opens up and Meagan is looking in with a concerned look. "I'm sorry to bother whatever this is but the doctor needs to talk to you."

I walk past Atticus and out the door to see the doctor standing there waiting on me. "Let's go have a seat." He motions for me to sit down. I don't like the way that sounds one bit.

"Tell me now...how is she."

"Really let's go sit down so we can talk," he says again and I see the concern in his eyes.

My dad walks up beside me and grabs my arm. "Come on son...I think we all need to sit down."

"I don't want to fucking sit down...I want to know what is going on with my wife."

The doctor sits down and my dad pulls me down to sit across form him in the hard cold leather chair. He looks at me and then at my parents and everyone else in the room. "For starters...she is alive. But we have her on a ventilator, hopefully just for a few days. A rib was broke and it punchier her lung. We had to go in and fix it. She is severally bruised...so bad that her brain was swollen...we had to go in and do a ventriculostomy...to relieve the fluid. At the moment she is a coma." He stops and looks up as two cops enter the room. "By legal standards we had to turn this in. She was severally beaten to death."

I look up at the two cops coming near me. "Sir we need you to come with us?"

I stand up and look at them like they are fucking crazy. "Hell no...I didn't do a damn thing...I'm not going anywhere."

My dad steps up beside me. "I can assure you he did not do this to his wife."

"I understand but someone did this and we need to file a report." They walk over closer to me like they are ready to cuff me.

Atticus steps up. "If you need to arrest anyone arrest me. I can promise you this man here would give his life for her. I can tell you everything that you need to know."

"Ok then...come with us."

A part of me wants to stop them from taking him but another part of me wants him to be taken away. My dad looks at me along with Meagan and everyone else.  Waiting on me to say something."Look I have proof that she was taken from my home by this man named Kwan Ortega...Atticus had nothing to do with it." I pull out my phone and show him the recording. "This guy here was supposed to be her partner at work. I don't know why he had a grudge on her but he did...see he took her from my home. We went to get her back and before we could get to her he did this to her...he beat the shit out of her so you need to go looking for his ass and leave us the fuck alone to grieve for my beloved wife who apparently in a fucking coma."

"I see...we are so sorry to hear what happened. Can you send that to my phone for evidence."

"I would be glad to." I tap his phone and share the video.

He holds out his hand to shake mine."We hope your wife is able to heal from this...if possible we would like to get a statement from her."

"She's is a fucking coma...you're going to have to wait." I walk over to the doctor. "Take me to my wife and don't give me fucking attitude that I need to wait...take me to her now."

I follow him down the hall and to her room. She is in the room all alone. Machines are hooked up to her. They have a bandage wrapped around her head. I have been here before...the last time she was shot and I had to explain to her that she would never be able to have kids. This time I may have to tell her that she may never be able to walk...or fight...or freaking do anything ever again.

I slowly walk over to her side and take her hand in mine. I'm not a man that breaks often...but this one person...this girl lying right here in front of me knows how to bring me down to my knees and cry. And that is what I do. I kiss her hand over and over and lay my head on her side...and cry.