Nick opened his eyes he was expecting pain but all he got was a swirling light above his head he went to put his hand on his head but found he was handcuffed to the bed his feet were free he began to shake the feeling back into them.

The swirling light continued and slowly he made out the ceiling he blinked and with each one he could focus more until he realised he was in a hospital bed he looked to his left and right only to see a bedside table with a jug of water the curtain was pulled around his bed and there was no one in the beds either side of him or at least he could hear no one he guessed he was in a locked room on his own.

He tried to remember how he got here all he could recall was getting home and putting the keys in his apartment door and then things went black, he could feel his head was bandaged but still no headache or pain just a slight feeling of floating and calm he was going to call out but he decided against it until he worked out how to get the handcuffs off, Handcuffs he thought he remembered his days as one of the toughest cops in Chicago feared by the criminals and respected by the rank and file hated by the bosses he smiled to himself

“Fuck them he said to himself”

He drifted off again and began to remember.

It had all come to a head when a scumbag named Tom had slashed his wife's face to ribbons and walked because he was the commissioner's cousin. Nick had waited until he left the courthouse and celebrated all night with his scumbag friends he even waited while he stopped by a local brothel on his way out he asked Tom for a light as he leaned on his car bonnet as Tom put out his hand Nick smoothly put a set of cuff on him and coshed him over the head and in one swift motion caught the unconscious Tom and opened the door and let him fall inside his head hit the steering wheel Nick jumped in and pushed him into the passenger seat and put his hat back on and let him slide down in the seat and lean against the door.

He took him to a warehouse and had him sitting in a chair when he slapped him awake as he regained consciousness Nick grabbed his face and looked into his eyes

“Cheating on the wife eh?”

Tom smiled and looked straight back at him

“You seen my wife she fucking ugly she aint even got any eyes”

Nick recoiled and pulled up his sleeves

“What's this shit motherfucker you know who I work for? You know who Im with”

It was the last thing he said Nick hit him with a pile-driver knocking the smile off his face he calmly kept hitting him counting each blow as Nick remembered he was snapped awake again this time there was a set of big white eyes the owner of them seemed to belong to a blue unicorn that was floating above him

“Nick snap out of it they are coming back”