AUTHOR'S POV

The medical facility was chaos wrapped in the smell of disinfectant sterile and the steady sound of beeping monitors.

Reed laid in bed in the intensive care unit, his body barely responsive. Monitors showed vitals that shouldn't be compatible with consciousness.

His heart rate was dangerously low, blood pressure dropping drastically, oxygen saturation hovering at critical levels. Medical staff hovered around him relentlessly, running tests that showed nothing, trying treatments ...