Silent Tension

Everyone watched in surprise as Vesalius kneels and stitches N's bullet wound without anesthesia.

Emily, Orm and Lei keep their weapons pointed towards the door, waiting for anyone unexpected to come through.

Lucas stands closer to Sofia, a little further away from the three, also keeping his eye at the door.

Hiro and Sofia are both clueless and confused about the details of what had just transpired and why N was injured.

Although their curiosity was screaming at them to ask, they kept quite so as not to disturb Vesalius while he was stitching.

Vesalius completes the stitching but his face does not go back to its normal and cheerful state, rather it stays tense and focused.

He stands up, turns towards Lucas and his group and asks in a loud voice, "You bastards mind telling me what the hell happened!?"

Lucas looks over at Sofia, as if waiting for her permission to talk about the details.

Sofia notices that and nods, giving Lucas the signal that he was free to reveal all details to the people present in the room.

Lucas then starts to inform everyone of what had happened, "Me and N were having a discussion in a guest room not far from here when suddenly Orm comes and reports of Lei and Emily engaging someone who seemed to be part of Nexus."

Sofia, Hiro and Vesalius all flinch as soon as they heard the name Nexus.

Rage built up in all of them as soon as they heard Nexus came into the hospital.

Lucas continues, "I asked N to stay in the room and provide backup for Lei and Emily with Orm. After I came back, N was shot."

Hiro questions Lucas' judgement, "Why did you not take N with you?"

Lucas replies in a confident manner, "For now, N has nothing to do with Orion. I believed that they would leave N alone and consider him a random nobody."

Sofia then asks Emily for the details, as she was the person who was first attacked, "Emily, tell me in detail what happened."

Emily turns her gun away form the door, places it back onto her hip and then moves towards Sofia, while Lucas moves to cover for the position that Emily left.

After coming close to Sofia, Emily answers, "Boss, I was doing a patrol when I saw someone. I thought it was weird for someone to be in the VIP section of the hospital without an attendant so I approached him. As soon as I got close, he screamed and lunged at me with a knife."

Emily continues, "After I put a little bit of distance between myself and him, before I could think he rushed into me to continue his onslaught of attacks."

"That is when Lei and Orm approached me, they must have heard the noises. I told Orm to go and call captain because I believed me and Lei were more than enough to handle that one man. However, there was no guarantee that he was alone."

Sofia quietly listens to Emily's report. After she is done talking, Sofia thinks for a moment.

She thinks to herself, 'how was Nexus able to tell I went to the hospital and how were they able to infiltrate without anyone catching them' but to no avail as she could not think of a possible answer.

Sofia then asks Emily to continue, "Tell me, what happened after Lucas arrived. Were there more Nexus people in the hiding?"

Emily continues, "Strangely enough, as soon as Lucas arrived, that man ran away. Almost as if he was acting as bait to get our attention. And judging by how that man ran in the direction where the private room was. The room where N and Lucas were having a conversation."

Everyone turns to N, their dread and anger clearly etched upon their faces.

Sofia takes a moment and then asks N, "Can you please tell us what happened after Lucas left the room?"

N then started to retell the bizarre events that had just transpired not too long ago.

He details the person who came into the room as soon as Lucas left, "After Lucas left, a random person walked into the room. He was wearing a weird white hat, and he had some weird drawings of sorts on his hands and face."

As soon as N finished describing the person, everyone in the room felt tense.

They all instantly knew just who this person was, what none of them could answer was; why did this person come personally to the hospital.

Hiro then asks in a angry and impatient voice, anger clearly visible on his face, "What next. What did he tell you? Was he the one who shot you!?"

N continues, "He asked me what I had to do with Orion. I did not answer, so he reached his hand into this hips and pointed a fascinating thing to my head, it was golden colored and shined beautifully. It was similar to the thing that those guys over there are holding" as he points his hand towards Lei and Orm.

Sofia, Lucas, Lei, Orm and Emily all act confused, thinking, 'does he really not know what a gun is?'

But that is the kind of person N was, he still had very little information about the world that until not too long ago, was dull and void of life for him.

Hiro, to confirm the others beliefs, says "He probably has never seen a gun before. N, that thing is called a 'gun', it's a very dangerous object that can instantly end the life of whoever is comes across."

And then moves the topic along, "And what next, N. Did he randomly just shoot you?"

N continues once again, "While he had that gun pointed at my head, I remained quite. He said he liked my lack of fear and that is when the other person came running in, asking this person to retreat."

After a small pause, N remembers the last words the man said before shooting him. "Ah, and one more thing. Right before he shot me and ran away, he said 'tell Lucas Viktor said hi'"

As soon as they hear this message, everyone turns towards Lucas.

Lucas looses his composure, his mind going blank and leaking bloodlust, to go after and kill this man named Viktor.

"Lucas!" Speaks up Sofia in a loud and commanding voice, "Calm down."

Lucas then regains composure and apologizes for getting worked up.

Sofia says, "You are justified in getting angry. No one blames you given your past. However, we need to get going now."

Sofia looks at Vesalius and says, "V, the situation is too dangerous now. We need to go. You're coming with us too. Hiro, please stay close and keep an eye out for any potential attacks. We move to Orion's headquarters in exactly thirty minutes. Everyone, make the necessary preparations."