Gracie ignored what was going on around her and followed Finn. She moved past him and unlocked the door, flipping on the lights as she moved through the building, heading to the first examination room. "Put him here, Finn." she told the man, as she dropped her bag on the table and pulled it open. She looked at the boy and sighed, "Damn." she said before looking at Finn, "What happened?" she asked as she snapped her rubber gloves in place. 

Finn just shook his head.

"No clue. Need to ask Shini."

There was more he wanted to talk to Gracie about, but she had more important things to do. Kathryn and Shini followed in closely. Kathryn spoke.

"Okay, Shini... what does Gracie need to know about this kid? Anything? And when he's sorted, you're up next."

"Well, he's pretty skinny and pale. Not the healthy looking pale either. I'm sure he's been sodomized and if the man uses a monkey wrench on all his victims. I would say he probably had a pretty good blow to the side of the head. And who knows what else. I think he got off on torture too." Shini said, not having had time to check the boy over completely.  "Plus, he was almost completely bricked in."

Gracie stared at Shini and then glanced at his wound. She rummaged through the clinic cabinets and grabbed a roll of gauze. She tossed it to Finn, "Wrap that for me, will you. I don't want him accidently bleeding out while I'm dealing with the kid." she told him. She took a deep breath and turned to the child who looked absolutely terrified. He was huddled in a ball in the corner shaking. "Oh, god," she said softly before slowly moving over to him to him slowly. "Hi there, my name is Gracie." she told him in a quiet voice. 

She crouched down to his level and said, "Can I see your wounds? I want to help them feel better, is that ok?" she asked, holding out her hand. She wasn't going to force him, but the sooner she got him on the table and possibly sedated so she could see the extent of the damage the better. 

The kid ducked his head, still shaking so she carried on. "If you want, I can give you some neat bandages and I'll let you pick the color." she told him, which caused him to look up curiously at her, "And when we're all done, I bet we can get you some ice cream or something, how does that sound?" the kid nodded his head and then reached out to grab Gracie's extended hand. "There we go," she said softly as she stood up and walked over to the table with him. She bent over to pick up him, but first asked, "May I?" and at his nod hoisted him onto the table with an exaggerated grunt as if he weighed a few hundred pounds. She didn't expect the giggle that escaped him, but she took it as a good sign. 

She started wiping away the blood and dirt from his face and other wounds, all the while talking to him quietly about what she was doing, and how brave he was being. He squirmed occasionally when she got too close to something that hurt, so she would back off. "Alright," she said to him, as she looked at the cut on his face, you are going to need stitches," she told him, and then glanced over where Shini and Kathryn were talking. "But, before I do that, I'm going to give you some medicine that's going to make you sleepy ok?" she asked him, he nodded so she pulled out her drugs and started preparing it. "Alright, go ahead and lay down, and close your eyes," she told him. Once he had squeezed his eyes shut she poked him with the needle and pressed down on the plunger. 

She set the syringe to the side and picked up the boys hand, "You are being so brave." she told him, her thumb moving over the back of the skin watching him while he slowly relaxed. Once he was out, she checked his pulse and confident that he was going to be ok she turned around and put her hands on her hips looking at the people in the room, "The bastard is dead, right?" she demanded to know. 

Shini held his hand out for Finn to wrap. When he saw the needlw, he looked away as ge suppressed a shudder. Man he hated needles. When Gracie finished knocking the boy out and asked her question, he looked again. 

"Stabbed him twice.  Second time through the eye. Can't even come back as a zombie if it were possible." 

She nodded her head, satisfied. "Good. I'd like to go back and shoot him a few times myself, but if he's dead it takes some of the pleasure out of it." she told Shini before turning to look at the boy. "You poor thing." she said to him, reaching out to push some of his hair out of his eyes and across his forehead. "Right, well if you guys don't mind," she said looking over her shoulder, "I'm going to stitch him up and give him a full examination." she frowned, "Do we know anything about him? Where his family might be?" She asked. 

Shini shrugged.  "Hasn't said one word to me or Finn. I doubt he will either. To him, Finn and I are probably the scariest people in the world to him. The whole way here he was curled up with the pup."

She dropped her head and stared at her feet letting out a string of curses that would make a sailor blush. Taking a deep breath she let it out slowly before straightening. "Alright, well hopefully I can get some answers out of him once he wakes up." she glanced over at the boy who looked so very young laying there asleep. "But now, let's see how bad this is, shall we?" she asked. 

Moving over to the bed she gently removed his shirt, or what was left of it. It was filthy and torn, falling apart in places. She gasped as she looked at his chest, covered in cigarette burn marks. "Oh, you poor thing," she whispered before she started to clean the wounds and point antiseptic on them.  Once that was done she moved to his head injury, it was a gash to be sure, but nothing life threatening she hoped. She threaded a needle and started stitching the wound closed, occasionally glancing down to make sure the boy wasn't stirring.

Once that was done she looked at Shini, "Sodomized, you said, right?" she asked him, trying to keep her voice even and devoid of any real emotion. She glanced back at the boy, bandages on his body, bruises and blood matting his hair. She shook her head once, to knock herself out of it and then moved to put the boy's shirt back on. If he had been abused like that, waking up naked was not going to be something he'd be comfortable with.  

"Yep." Shini said, watching Gracie work on the boy. "He'll need some serious help. This could very well haunt him for the rest of his life. And if things go the way they should, it'll be a long one."

Kathryn had been sitting, letting Gracie take over in her area of expertise. She rested her hands on her knees..

"Gracie, when he's stable, check that kid somewhere where they can help him- and somewhere they'll let him keep the dog. Send me the bill. He's going to need a lot of help to get through this. Shini, time to get your  hand taken care of. I obviously care about this kid, but we're not going to ignore your injury. Gracie."

Kathryn nodded politely toward Shini's hand.

Gracie sighed, she knew that tone. She wasn't going fast enough for Kathryn who was edgy and ready to see this day finished. "I'm checking him now, and here." she told Kathryn putting her hands on her hips, "While he's sedated. He's been through enough, and I'm not about to let another stranger have a go at him." She frowned and turned back to the boy to finish examining him. Occasionally she muttered a curse and would patch up another wound, but after about twenty minutes, where she could feel Kathryn staring holes into her back she pulled the boy's clothes back on and fetched a blanket from the cupboard. Covering him, she pushed the hair away from his face and then checked his pulse again. 

"Right, he'll be out for another twenty minutes or so, so let me see your hand, Shini." she said moving towards her friend and unwrapping the gauze. she let out a low whistle, impressed. "When you decide to do damage to yourself, you really do damage to yourself, huh?" she asked him as she gingerly started to clean the wound. The fingers hung lifelessly and she shook her head, "Look, I'll put some stitches in, and wrap it. But you're going to have to come back and get a cast." she looked at his fingers and winced, "And I don't even know if that's going to work. I may have to operate, but there's no time for that now." she told him. 

She got her needle out and said softly to Shini, "Look away, you know the drill." Before she doused the whole thing in antiseptic and started stitching it closed. "you have got to stop letting weapons go through you like this." she joked, glancing up at him to make sure he was alright. She quickly moved her needle and thread through his skin before tying it off. Flipping his hand over she did the same to the other side. "Right, that's done." she told him before getting to her feet to get another roll of gauze and some tongue depressors. 

She made a makeshift splint for his hand rather quickly and then wrapped the whole thing. Taping it in place she eyed her handiwork and sighed. "It's not the best, but its what I can do now given the time frame. Honestly, I don't know if you'll ever be able to use your hand again," she said to him, with a sad look. Stepping back she looked at Kathryn, "Right, medical bits taken care of. I'm going to get on the phone and see what I can do about the boy and the puppy. 

She walked over and took the puppy out of the other person's arms and stroked its head, "Thankfully you're not injured," she told it sweetly before depositing it on the bed next to the sleeping boy where it curled up, rested its head on his leg and went to sleep. "Right, lovely to meet you too." She muttered before turning back to the trio standing there. "Anything else I can help you with?" She asked them as she started to pull her gloves off. 

Shini looked away when Gracie warned him. He felt the shot for a moment, adding a bit more pain to his hand. The medicine didn't take long to work and before he knew it, Gracie had the knife out and the holes stitched up. He then heard her move to the side of his head and take care of his head wound as well. When he heard her thoughts on his hand, he shook his head.

"It has to. I'm right handed. And let's try the cast first. I'd rather not have surgery. "

She nodded her head, "Ok, well if you want to try a cast first we can sort it out tomorrow. I'm not prepared here to do any sort of cast at the moment." She glanced down at the hand and sighed, "But its gonna hurt like a bitch beforehand." she smirked, "Pun not intended but appreciated." She said before carrying on, "I am going to have to feel the fingers and see how bad the damage it. But Kathryn is impatient, so now is not the time to do this." She glanced at her boss, "Although you may want to start practicing with your left hand." she said to him. 

"I'll come back later. I'm kind of tired out anyway." Shini said before looking at both of them. "Sorry for making you two worried but I don't think I would've found the boy if he hadn't tried to knock me out."

Gracie let out a bark of laughter and then turned to look at the boy to make sure he hadn't been disturbed, "Wait, this little guy is the one that brained you?" she asked, motioning towards the small figure laying with the puppy on the bed. "This tiny little thing here who would probably weigh 60 pounds soaking wet?" She shook her head, "Forget poison as a self-defense, you should probably just learn some hand to hand combat instead." she told him with a smile. 

Shini raised a brow at her. "Gracie,  if he had hit me with a monkey wrench, it would've barily hurt." He said,  shaking his head. "The man who kidnapped him did."

Her eyes widened, "Ooooh." she said putting her hands on her hips, "Ok that makes way more sense." she told him. She crossed over to her chair and took a seat. "I don't even know how you guys are still going, I managed a few hours of sleep, but this middle of the night cloak and dagger stuff, it's exhausting." She leaned back and put her feet on the table, making sure not to jostle the boy too much. 

"I'm usually still awake."  Shini said, giving a curious look. It didn't surprise him that Gracie wasn't a night person. 

She yawned loudly, covering her mouth with her hand. Her eyes watered and she reached up to rub them. "I don't know how you do it." she told him, "Let me guess, you don't drink coffee, either?" she asked as she sunk lower into her chair. She looked at Kathryn, "Well, as much fun as this has been, I need to make some calls and then get back to bed. I have a full day tomorrow and honestly if Idon'tt get another few hours of sleep I'm going to die." she frowned, "Probably not literally, but it won't be pleasant regardless." she told her. 

"Shini, stop by whenever you have a chance and I'll take a look at your hand and we'll make a plan. I'll try to get the stuff I need to be delivered tomorrow." She stood up and stretched, before looking at Finn. She frowned slightly and then headed out of the room to her office to get started on calling around to see what she could find out about the boy. 

"I don't. Coffee's nasty and sugar makes me more tired than what I am." Shini said as he nodded. "Sure thing. Get some rest I'll come by in a couple of days." He said then looked st Kathryn.