Daisies

"Bloody Daisy"

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"PAIN-FILLED GROANS and cries filled the living room, drowning out the voice of the reporter from the Tv with rushed footsteps and movements following as a female hurried into the living room, narrowly sidestepping the flowing puddle of blood, dripping from the tainted and soaked couch.

Wang Eunbin quickly handed a first aid kit to the aged woman, proceeding to hold down the writhing assassin.

Biting her already bleeding lips to subdue the unrelenting moans of pain as streams of fevered sweat coated her face and soaked the straps of her sports bra, her body involuntarily struggled, twisting and turning in hot, searing pain.

Wang kept a firm hand against the assassin's chest after tucking a muffling cloth between her lips to bite on, holding her still while another hand peeled off the blood soaked towel from her unclothed abdomen, a thin spray of blood, possibly from a severed artery splashing over her hair, nose and jaw.

Panic played on her face looking up to the older woman calmly coming back holding a traditional box.

"She's in pain" Wang Eunbin shouts, a desperate cry-laced groan from the assassin instilling more fear in her.

"That is obvious" the eld replied, brushing past her.

"Nothing's working, the bleeding won't stop and the pain, the pain is too intense for a stab from a mere tattoo machine" she removes the soaked towel to reveal the spurting, pen sized hole on the assassin's heaving abdomen, dumping it in the pile of red soaked towels, she pressed another on the bleeding stab.

"I don't..... I don't know what to do, we can't get her to a hospital or she'll be investigated as a suspect, but we'll lose her at this rate, if the pain doesn't kill her soon, the blood loss will!"

"It's poison"

"What!" brown haired Wang Eunbin focused on the older woman shuffling through the glass contents of the traditional box.

She stared back at the hurting assassin, skin ashen and hair tousled, she whispered "that's why the pain is this bad and the bleeding is excessive, the tattoo machine was laced with poison".

"A toxin this strong and able to influence bleeding is not easily cured, whoever did this must have really hated Xiamin and gave her no chance of survival"

"What!" Wang Eunbin's shout cut off the aged woman as she brushed off.

"Don't worry, the child will not die, at least not today, lucky her, I have an ancient brew to detoxify" she retrieves a small glass, setting the box aside.

"She needs to detoxify first to relieve the pain and cut the bleeding short, and someone needs to sew her up, hold her down or she'll knock down the vial"

Wang Eunbin pushed back the struggling assassin, straddling her as she pressed her shoulders to the couch with her body weight, pressing her left arm on her neck to hold her back, she collected the syringe the vial had been emptied into, nicking and pushing the content into the veins on her strained neck, she got off, ransacking through the first aid box.

A heartbreaking cry from the assassin alerted both women as her sweat beaded head fell back. eyes rolling back and eyelids weakly blinking shut as the lump of cloth between her lips fell off.

Wang Eunbin let out a series of "no's", repeatedly slapping Aemin's sickly pale face, shouting "Now's not the time to sleep you fool! Where the hell is Eliza when you need her".

As if on cue, the tires of a car screeched outside, heeled footsteps clicked into the living room causing Eunbin to pause her harsh hits on the assassin's face, turning to the door at the voice.

"Mama Mia!"

An exact replica of her walked into the living room in a short skirt, stylish dress shirt, blazer and matching vintage scarf knotted around her neck.

Eliza brought her lace gloved hands to her lower lip in a seductive gasp, childish voice resonating through the house and muffling her sister's relieved sigh.

Like a curious and excitement filled child, she stared in awe at the bleeding wound acting as the center of the multicolored, bloody, half-tattoed, incomplete daisy on the assassin's toned, exposed and blood stained stomach, she squeals.

"I would say bloody mary, but holy crap, that's one ........... ..... 'Bloody Daisy'!".