Eve looked at Doc several minutes before she spoke.  Her eyes were red and tired.  She brushed back a few strands of tangled tresses cascading loosely around her pretty face.  She bit her lower lip as she whispered softly to Doc.  "Zach does not have any time left.  I have to try the serum now." Doc laid  his hand gently on her arm.  He could feel the fear she was holding back.  She reminded him so much of his own daughter.  A lovely young woman like Eve also  blessed with  brains and beauty.   Full of dreams and hope and like Eve struggling to find her way up the corporate latter. Wanting more from life as fast as possible. "Lets begin." he said. "Its his only chance."

Eve filled a syringe with the serum she had mixed together.  Her hand trembled slightly as she pushed fluid to the tip.  Zach, her colleague and friend life was now in her hands.  This was her only chance to save him.  It had to work she thought to her self. It just has to. Doc helped roll up his sleeve so Eve could get to a vein in his forearm.  He carefully wiped a spot clean on the young mans  arm. He also examined the bite again on his hand.  It had stopped bleeding now.  But a dark red ring had formed around the wound.  A ring that concerned Doc.  He also noticed his  breathing had become more shallow.  He no longer felt warm to the touch and his color was so pale, almost gone. Zach laid motionless with his eyes still shut as the needle pierced his skin. "Now we wait and pray".  Doc said as he put his large aged hand on her shoulder and gently gave it a squeeze.  Eve hung her head down and rubbed at her  eyes. ' Please God'. She  felt her self whisper.  "Please let this work." This gruesome  nightmare could begin to end  if this worked she thought to herself.  Everything was riding on Zach being saved.

Upstairs Cody and Josiah carefully laid the sheet down next to Blake.  "On the count of three we slide him onto it". Josiah said.  Blake cried out in pain as the two men adjusted his body on to the large cloth."  "'Give me your tie".  Cody yelled to Tony who stood watching.  "I need to make a tourniquet to keep his leg from moving while we transport  him."  Tony handed him his tie with out hesitation.  Cody slipped the piece of wood he had taken from the lab under Blake's leg.  "This is going to hurt like hell but, I have to try to set your bone straight before I can tie this splint on." Cody had to help splint a few dogs before on the ranch that had become  injured.  He only hoped what he knew from those experiences was enough to help Blake now.   Josiah gave  Blake his belt and told him to bite down  while they straightened his leg.   Blake bit down hard on the leather and screamed through his clenched teeth.  The  pain almost made him pass out. Quickly the two men tied the tourniquet on and then let him rest for a few seconds.  Tony stood waiting for an order.  Not knowing what else to do. The three men slowly lifted the sheet and began carrying Blake down the stairs.


Eve was the first to notice twitching in Zach's left hand.  The side they had given him the shot.  She watched silently afraid to move for another twitch.  She called to Doc.  "I think something is happening.  His hand moved - I saw it twitch a few times."  Doc squeezed her hand slightly as they waited together watching for signs.