And the Doctor of Magic (Librarians/ER AU)

[bookbrawler]

cw: Violence, blood, medical procedures

The sounds of a struggle were lost to the empty alley. And even if someone did hear him, Jacob doubted they'd step in to help. Mostly because he was trying to fight a ten-foot orc in battle armor. He really didn't expect to be chased down the office building staircase by an orc in the first place, the clippings book didn't say anything about orcs, but here he was.

"You really--" Stone dodges a particularly nasty swipe with the two long knives the orc wielded-- "--shouldn't be working for them! Lotta bad people that work for that firm. You could--" He dodges another swipe towards his neck, and kicks the orc in the stomach, sending it reeling back. "--do your own thing, branch out, there's a lot of really good jobs in Chicago, y'know?"

One of the knives catches on his blue scarf and tears it away with a rip. That was way too close. And he's still no closer to unraveling the mystery of the firm, much less figure out why they hired an orc for security. He wonders if the building itself might be magically shielded, and the orc could have a glamour, make him look like he's fighting a regular old security guard. Either way, he had a tattoo that let him see past glamours, and he couldn't exactly take out the mirror in his pack on his back to check what regular people would see.

The orc roared, and moved just a little bit too fast--Jake wasn't fast enough, his strength lay in his, well, brute strength, but speed had always been his downfall--and one of the knives plunges in his chest.

Oh no.

"...no..."

He looks numbly down at the ornate blade.

Well. Something finally got him. A vague thought about what the Library would do right now--would it be sending out the envelopes?

That thought was interrupted when the second knife plunges into his abdomen. The orc grins, yanks the knives out, the second one leaving a glowing trail, as if the first, ordinary wound wasn't bad enough. The magic in the second knife leaves a spiral, glowing patterned trail of light around the abdomen wound.

Jake collapses to the ground as the orc simply walks away, returning to his job in the office building.

All he can do is watch as his vision swims, the pain was incredible.

No one was going to be able to rescue him from this. No one would find him before it was too late.