“No ambulance! No ambulance!” Lito keeps struggling to say as Hernando carries him to the bedroom. “We need to go to London!”

Dani is standing next to the bed, the phone in her shaking hands. She looks close to tears as she presses the buttons. 

“No! No! We have to go to London!” Lito shouts, breaking free from Hernando’s arms to grab the phone and throw it away before she can make the call.

“Lito! What are you talking about! You need a doctor!” Hernando is at the edge of his wits here. He tries to make a compelling argument for himself, to convince his stubborn boyfriend, but he can barely think anything past the moment he saw him laying there on the floor covered in blood

“No, no,” Lito insists as he sits down on the bed. “We need to go to London.”

“Why, Lito? Why?” Daniela snaps, still shaking. 

“I’ll explain everything, but we need to go to London.”

“We are not going to fucking London!” Hernando yells, worry mixed with anger that dies down when he sees Lito curl into himself. First, he thinks he shouldn’t have yelled. Then, he notices he’s weeping. 

“We need to go. We need to go. I need to go now.”

Hernando and Dani share a worried look. Whatever is happening to Lito is bad, it’s very bad. His brain is racing in search for an answer. A concussion? An anxiety breakdown? Cancer? No. No, it can’t be that. He can’t even consider the option. 

“Ambulance,” he whispers. Dani nods. 

“No, no! I said no!” Lito jumps to his feet suddenly, pointing at Dani. His face is still covered in blood and his eyes are as intense as Hernando has ever seen. He looks like a crazy character out of his movies. “If you call that ambulance,” he says gravely, “you’ll be killing me. All of us.”

“Us? Lito, you’re paranoid, you need help-”

“No, they need my help,” Lito says. It’s like he’s not even talking to them anymore. He moves to the closet and starts pulling clothes out carelessly. 

“Lito! Lito! You need a doctor! You need to go to the hospital!”

“I SAID NO!” This time Lito’s voice is so forceful that, from the corner of his eye, Hernando sees Dani flinch. “That’s how they get you. That’s how they got Nomi, and Riley. And now Wolfie-”

“What are you talking about?” Daniela asks, in the verge of tears. 

Lito looks at them both. His face breaks in something similar to shame. 

“I will explain,” he says more gently, tears falling down his face. He looks as terrified as them, maybe more. “I promise. I will tell you everything, but we have to go now. It’s not about me... there are other lives... they need me... Please, family, I know it sounds crazy, but I’m gonna need you to believe me. I need you.”