Got desperate to write and attempted another Tara blurb.
Tara stared at the body before her; it slumped in a chair in the middle of the room and blood soaked through the shirt. It was the man whoâd picked her up and brought her to the hospital. Wesley. He was dead.Â
Wilson Fisk stood deathly still as he took in the sight. Pure rage and anguish rippled across his face; he staggered forward and gripped the back of Wesleyâs chair. His knuckles turned ghostly white from the tension.Â
âSave him,â he rasped out.Â
It took Tara a moment to realize he was talking to her. Her own blood ran cold at the demand and she wrung her hands together.Â
âMr. Fisk,â she stammered, âheâs already- I mean- Heâs beenâŚshot.âÂ
Fisk whirled around and was in front of her before Tara could react to try and run. He gripped her by her upper arm and dragged her closer to Wesleyâs body. Wesleyâs skin was horribly pale, the blood no longer leaking from the bullet holes in his chest. Tara felt tingly in fear.Â
âYou will try,â Fisk continued through gritted teeth. âThat man⌠is a friend. You will try. Now.â
There was no negotiating with that tone. Tara trembled as she inched another step closer; her fingers shook as she reached out for a clear patch of skin on his cheek. He was cooler than she expected a human who was alive to be, but not fully cold. His skin was still soft which spoke of how recent his death was.Â
And he was dead. Tara could tell just by looking at him. There was no rise and fall of his chest, his pallor was off. But still, she was afraid of what may happen to her if she failed.Â
Tara reached out, trying to feel for any sign of life that she could latch onto and foster. It was soâŚ. Empty. Void. Her breathing hitched as the fear kicked in anew.Â
What if she couldnât revive him? She was touching a dead man at a crime scene and under the threat of one of the cityâs most powerful men. Her life could go very badly if Wilson Fisk decided to pay her back for her failures.Â
So Tara reached farther, smaller, searched for anything at all that could offer some hope for her and the man in front of her.Â
Hope came in a microscopic whisper.Â
The tiniest flicker. Hardly a light at all. Something deep inside him that hadnât quite fully died yet. A cell that was slowly realizing that its work may be in vain and soon ending.Â
Tara surged for that minuscule blip of life and latched on. She pushed everything into that little cell. Life and healing and resurgence and she didnât stop as that small bit of life poured over and over into the next cell. Next organ. She didnât stop until color finally returned to Wesleyâs face and he took a horrid, gasping breath.Â
And then Tara collapsed.Â