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“Dammit Ashley for the third time, please stay down!” Nick pleaded while pulling his girlfriend back down behind one of the chairs as they were still surrounded. She had gotten up on her knees slightly to get a better angle of whom she was shooting at while at the same time making it easier for their attackers to get her in the process.

“I’m sorry but I am trying to get us out of here, Nick!” Nick opened his mouth to respond when they heard three guns going off in front and behind them. Nick and Ashley looked around to see that it was Kori, Scott, and Wiley taking care of their problem. Nick gently grabbed Ashley then and made it so that they were very low and he held onto her as the two of them crawled their way under the chairs closer to the door. Ashley heard a body collapse to the floor as she was crawling and Kori’s voice.

“Are there any other fuckers that are planning on trying to mess with my sister?” she asked in a very dangerous tone and Ashley couldn’t help but smile slightly despite their circumstances. She glanced at Nick who was already looking at her and he smiled too and gently squeezed her hand. As soon as they got to the end of the isle of the chairs the two of them again got to their feet and before Nick could put much pressure on his injured leg Ashley once again hoisted him up onto his back before making a run for it to the door. They made it there and had the door open just on time to come face to face with a man they haven’t seen before. Ashley froze in her moment of surprise and six guns went up all around her pointing at the stranger who stood frozen in his spot too. He held his hands up in the air in defense.

“Whoa, whoa hold it all of you” he said and Ashley looked around curiously to find Kori, Wiley, and Scott there as hers and Nick’s guard but AJ and Marcus as well. Keeping his gun pointed on the man, Nick shifted so he was still leaning against her as an aid but he stood on one foot. “I mean you no harm I swear,” the stranger insisted. “I was sent in here to help.”

“By who?” AJ asked suspiciously and none of Ashley’s guard lowered their guns as they eyed him with wary looks. “Detective Stabler?”

“No by Ben from over in the hospital wing.” The stranger watched as AJ placed his hand on the trigger and took a giant step back partly out of fear and to prove that he isn’t going to hurt them.

“No, no listen to me I’m telling you the truth.”

“It’s kind of hard to trust you with that gun in your hand,” Marcus pointed out and the man slid his gun into his pocket slowly before once again holding his hands in the air, though he looked as though he regretted putting his gun down very much. Marcus watched him as he gave the hall that he was currently standing in a nervous glance. “Ben is holding the entire hospital wing hostage. I could see him on the camera. So why would he send help for us?”

“You’ve had help all along,” the man answered and Marcus arched his eyebrow and shared looks with Kori, Wiley, Scott, and a weak AJ and Nick. “Look this isn’t the right place for us to be having this discussion – from the looks of it there is a full blown war going on and since Marcus and Q no longer have control of Sean it won’t be long until he figures out where Kori and Ashley are. So it would be best if we went into a bathroom to discuss everything as well as the next step to get all of you out of here safely.”

“How did you know we had control over Sean?”

“And how did you know the bathrooms are blind spots?” AJ added.

“I told you, you’ve had help with you all along – and besides, we have cameras and could see everything too. The point is, either you can trust me and come with me, or chance going through these halls and getting caught by Damien. It’s your choice.”

“I think we know these halls better then Damien does,” Nick insisted and Ashley felt him leaning into her a little more than usual the more that they stood there.

“Yes but he has about a dozen men waiting at every corner of the place. Just trust me all right? I know him a lot more than you do - you are going to need me.”

“I’m going with him and I’m taking Nick,” Ashley insisted when nobody spoke up. “If you guys are coming with us you better make the decision now. Nick doesn’t have time for this!”

“But Ashley—“

“--GODDAMNIT ALEX, ARE YOU NOT LISTENING TO ME?!” Ashley shouted and she whirled around to glare at her brother as tears sprung to her eyes. She is getting very irritable and impatient with the whole thing. Everybody that she loves is in the room behind her being shot at, Dakota, Sarah, and Bella are without their parents and are probably a mess by now, Nick and her brother have both lost so much blood and are weak – Nick can barely hold himself up and it’s amazing all together that the two of them haven’t passed out yet. And yet here they are standing there debating over a man who is only trying to help them. “YOU AND NICK CAN’T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS, DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT? I JUST WANT TO GET YOU OUT OF HERE WHAT PART OF THAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND? IF HE WANTED TO HURT ANY OF US HE WOULD’VE DONE IT ALREADY!” When AJ didn’t reply, Ashley slid her arm around Nick’s waist and she began to guide him toward the nearest bathroom causing the stranger to quickly move in front of her to lead her there himself as he eyed the hallway carefully for danger. Kori cursed under her breath and then gently wrapped an arm around AJ as well before hurrying after her sister the best that she could giving everybody else no other choice but to follow them too. As soon as they reached the bathroom the stranger went inside first checking to make sure that there wasn’t any danger and when it was clear they all went in afterward. Marcus shut the door behind them and Nick dropped to his knees on the bathroom floor causing Ashley to do the same and she cradled his face in her hands and looked into his eyes concerned.


“Who are they?” Kori demanded, noticing the two other men that were in there with them now.


“Good guys that are going to help,” was all he said.


“You need to give us more than that if you expect us to rely on you. Why couldn’t one of you be doctors?” She snapped somewhat as she focused all of her attention on AJ.


“I’m sorry that we didn’t manage to grab one on our way to come save your butts,” one of the other guys said sarcastically and Kori looked up instantly upon hearing his voice.


“I’ve heard your voice before…where have I heard it from?” she continued her interrogation. She refuses to give these guys a break until they’ve given her enough trustworthy information. She’s known Sean for far too long to just simply trust people, just like that. Instead of answering her, the man only continued to stare at her as if waiting for her to figure it out herself. She stared at him closer, studying his features and suddenly it dawned on her.


“Emilio...but you were one of Sean’s favorite people when I left!” She paused then, remembering something else. “And you never liked me…so why the hell would you want to help me now?”


“Yeah, why is that?” Scott added while joining Kori’s side as he too suddenly recognized him upon hearing his name. Emilio rolled his eyes.


“Of course I had to be Sean’s favorite person,” he replied as if he were explaining something to a toddler. “I’m a cop, dumbass. I was working under cover. I’ve been tracking Sean long before you and Kori ever even got caught up in his shit.”


“Oh yeah? Let’s see your badge.” Emilio eyed him for a long moment and then pulled out his badge and held it out for all of them to see.


“Fine. You are an undercover cop. But it still doesn’t explain why you treated me like dirt for years,” Kori insisted.


“You were a kid who had it all…parents who were good to you, a sister who adored you, and an all around great life. I couldn’t understand why you were wasting it. It disappointed me.”


“So you thought treating me like dirt was supposed to make it better?”


“I hoped that me being hard on you would influence you into turning things around. I was never that hard on you and you know it. I’d like to think I was like one of those strict teachers that everybody meets at least once in their life who is only just trying to get through to his student. I was trying to make a difference.”


“Why?” Kori asked while looking down at her hands.


“I don’t know, maybe I saw the good in you deep down inside.” Ashley gazed at her sister in silence for a few moments knowing perfectly well of the effect this is having on her and then she remembered Nick and spoke up.


“As nice as this little reunion is can we please focus on getting Nick out of here, please?” Kori looked at AJ then and nodded.


“My brother needs serious help too,” She added softly still feeling some emotion from the conversation that she just had. She turned her utmost attention on AJ nonetheless as he sat leaning against the wall and she gently cradled his face in her hands. “Hey…look at me. Stay with me.”


“You called me your brother,” AJ pointed out quietly and despite everything he couldn’t help but smirk at her.


“What else am I supposed to call you?” Kori asked while rolling her eyes playfully. “That’s what you are, aren’t you?”


“Well yeah, but I never thought I would actually hear you admit it.” Kori leaned forward and planted a kiss on his forehead.


“Well, you’ve earned it. But if you die on me I’m never going to forgive you do you hear me?”


“I’m not going anywhere,” AJ promised and he squeezed her hand with what little strength he has left. “I have unfinished business here. I have a lifetime of arguing with you to make up for and a baby sister to walk down the aisle when the time comes. You are stuck with me.”


“There won’t be a wedding for you to walk me down the aisle for if we don’t get you and Nick some help” Ashley urged gently from where she was. Kori hugged AJ close to her protectively and she turned and looked at Emilio.


“You wanted to make a difference in my life and help me…how about doing so now by helping us out of here?”


“I thought you’d never ask,” Emilio insisted, looking genuinely touched that Kori had finally grabbed onto the lifeline that he’d been trying to throw to her when she was young and in trouble. “We’re going to provide you all with some better guns. Those aren’t going to last much longer,” the man who had led them into the bathroom spoke up. “We aren’t normally supposed to provide you with guns, but it would be cruel not to. Again…you don’t know Damien or the men who are working for him. They’ll make Sean look tame.”


“That’s Frankie by the way,” Emilio added. “And Dean.”


“What did you mean earlier when you said we’ve had help all along?” Marcus asked as he sat there gently rubbing Ashley’s back as she sat there quietly stressing over Nick and he watched as their undercover cops began setting things up.


“Sean asked Ben for Doctors earlier,” Frankie answered with a shrug of his shoulders. “And in order to look like we were on his side we had to send some of our guys to escort them and pretend to be there to help them for the rest of the time.”


“We didn’t shoot any cops did we?” Ashley spoke up warily.


“None of our guys interfered in you getting out of there. So anybody you shot was on Sean’s side. You had some of those in there too.”


“So, Brooke, mom, and everybody have cops in there with them?” AJ spoke up softly.


“And they should be beginning to realize it too,” Emilio nodded. Kori noticed relief displayed all over AJ’s face then and gently swept some of his hair out of his face.


“Don’t worry Jay…your mom and Brooke are pretty strong you should’ve seen the way they were handling themselves. Jaime was with them too. They’ll be okay.”


“Yeah but I don’t like the way Brooke was bad mouthing Sean. She is going to piss him off and I’m not going to be the—“


“They are under very good police protection,” Frankie reassured. “They aren’t your Detective Stabler, but they’re still really good I promise.”


~*~*~*~*~*~


Meanwhile as Jerald sat hidden in the back room with Ellie sitting in his lap protectively they suddenly heard gun shots right outside the door. Ellie tensed up and snuggled into Jerald more as she knows those were a lot closer than the ones they’ve been hearing for the past hour. Jerald hugged her closer to him protectively and kissed her forehead softly as he eyed the door worriedly and a few seconds later they heard the door being shot at. Ellie shrieked fearfully and Jerald darted behind the big metal object that they were sitting behind earlier and suddenly the door burst open and the men with guns came running in.


“Ellie…oh Ellie, I know you are in here” a man spoke up and Jerald clamped a hand over her mouth, an action that Ellie did not protest to. She doesn’t trust herself not to speak up and her Uncle Jerry isn’t as protected as she is at the moment what without a bulletproof vest and all.


“Be very quiet,” he whispered in her ear. “Do you understand me Ellie? Do you realize how important it is that you are?” Ellie nodded quietly and sunk into him seeking protection. He kissed her forehead softly and then got to his knees slightly before peering discretely around the metal barrier that they were hiding behind and saw that the men were looking around for her.


“Come on sweetheart,” another man said gently. “Don’t you want to save your daddy? You are never going to be able to do so hiding in here.” Jerald tightened his hand over her mouth then as a reminder to remain quiet and he whispered in her ear.


“It’s a trick to get you to reveal yourself. You let them know where you are and you will never get to see Sean again do you hear me? They’ll do very bad things to you.” Ellie nodded tearfully to tell him that she understands. “They’re no friends to you, no matter how much they make themselves sound like it.”


“We could help you do it. That mean Ol’ Uncle of yours is holding you back. You could be the one to save Ashley and make Dakota happy again and you know it.”


“I am not holding you back. As soon as it is absolutely safe I will march you right up to Sean myself Ellie I swear to you. I love you so much don’t let anyone tell you different.” He noticed one of the guys coming his way and quietly moved so that he was on the other side of the metal barrier where they wouldn’t be seen. Ellie turned in Jerald’s arms then so that she was facing him and she slid her arms around his neck and buried her face in it in fear. Jerald hugged her tightly and rubbed his hand over her back soothingly and when he noticed the man’s shadow nearing closer he backed up carefully only to run right into something behind him and Ellie shrieked. Jerald scrambled forward in attempt to get away from whatever he just ran into only to have big strong arms lock around him and the other man whose shadow he’d seen coming closer came around the corner of the barrier and he snatched Ellie right out of his arms.


“Got’cha!” he said with a big smirk on his face. Jerald struggled in his is captor’s arms desperately trying to free himself so he could get to his niece and Ellie shrieked and cried and kicked and bit the man holding her causing him to have to hold her directly away from himself.


“Boy, are you dumb” Jerald taunted and he couldn’t help but be amused as he watched the man holding his niece struggle with her. It was really kind of a pathetic sight to see. “You picked the wrong five year old to mess with tonight man. You may have her but you won’t have her for long.”


“Shut up!” the man holding Jerald back snapped and he punched him hard in the stomach making him wince and Ellie to shriek more. “YOU LEAVES MY UNCLE JERRY ALONE HE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!”


“Shut up you little brat, I’ve just about had enough of you!” the man who was currently struggling with her snapped and he slid his hand up to the scruff of her neck and held her by that and away from his body as she kicked and swung. Ellie who was growing furious at the man turned to look directly at him and she spit in his face instantly causing him to cry out in surprise. He let her go then in his moment of weakness causing her to start falling toward the ground but he reached out and quickly grabbed her.


“FUCK! You little shit!” He roared and he grabbed a handful of her hair and yanked on it hard causing her to cry out in sheer pain. “If that’s the way it’s going to be, let me show you what happens when naughty girls misbehave.” He then turned her around to face Jerald and he gave the man holding him back with great difficulty a look. The man shoved Jerald into the nearest wall then and forced him around to look at him and to Ellie’s horror; he began punching him and kicking him right before her very eyes. Ellie began to sob as she reached her arms out toward Jerald and struggled with the big mean man holding her back in her attempt to get to her uncle.


“Awww…it sucks when you’re bad and other people get punished for you doesn’t it?” the man asked. “Perhaps you should listen to me better huh? And then maybe your most favorite uncle in the world won’t get hurt.”


“YOU MEAN OL’ BASTARDS MY DADDY WILL KILLS YOU FOR THIS!” she shouted tearfully. “DADDY!!!!! DADDY HELP ME!!!!!!!!! DADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”


“Shut up kid, your father is never going to hear you,” the man insisted and Ellie ignored him refusing to believe so.



Meanwhile in the auditorium, Sean and Trevor were in the middle of a shootout with a few more of Damien’s men who were purposely doing everything they could to distract him. The war that had first begun in the auditorium had managed to spread and was now going on throughout the entire building minus the hospital wing. The two of them were using chairs as their shields while Damien’s guys were hidden behind the stage. Sean managed to take out two of the guys and by the time he had, his gun was empty. He threw his gun into Trevor’s hands and grabbed Trevor’s gun instead while he refilled his empty one.


“I could really go for a fucking machine gun right about now,” Sean growled.


“Hold on while I call the Detective up and ask him for some,” Trevor said sarcastically and Sean rolled his eyes.


“Are you going to be bitter with me the whole time or can’t you just get over this and help me kill these guys?” When Trevor managed to finish refilling the gun he sat up slightly and began to help again.


“I can do both. You will find that I can be a pretty talented man.”


“I already know that you are. It’s why I love you so much.”


“Now who is buttering who up?”


“Yeah yeah…so why doesn’t my Trevor put his talent to some more good use and find us a way out of this?”


“I don’t know love, the deeper trouble you put us in the harder it gets for me to think.” Sean opened his mouth to respond when suddenly he felt a familiar feeling from somewhere deep down inside him. Where the hell is it coming from? He paused in his shooting then and brought his gun down causing Trevor to look at him concerned.


“Baby? What is it?” he asked worriedly, instantly recognizing that look right away. It’s Ellie. No one else could ever put that kind of look on his face like Ellie can. Sean sat there in silence for a couple of seconds and then that look Sean gets like he might want to murder someone right this very second formed on his face.


“Ellie is in trouble. Whoever the fuck is messing with my daughter now is going to get a very brutal ending I swear to it!” He said, and then he stood up with his gun, pointed it at the three guys that were left hidden behind the stage, and in their moment of surprise that he’d come out in the clear open he shot each and every one of them one by one and as they all three fell limp to the floor he darted for the backstage where the room Ellie and Jerald were hiding in is located. How he knows where to look, well he can’t exactly explain it but they could hear Ellie screaming once they got closer proving his instincts correct. Trevor was hot on his heels and when they both made it Sean flew into the room with his gun at the ready and witnessed one man still beating Jerald who was now lying partly against the wall and on the floor with a bloody nose, two black eyes, and a bruised body and Ellie was just in hysterics as the other man forced her to watch.


“You fucking bastards!” Sean growled and he pointed his gun at the man beating Jerald and wasted no time in shooting him in the back of the head causing him to fall over on top of him. The man holding Ellie turned to run then causing Sean to shoot him in the leg and Trevor to jump out and grab Ellie before she could fall to the floor. Sean leaped forward and pounced the man then and he turned him over and as he held him down he glanced at Trevor.


“Trevor grab Jerald and get her out of here! Far away…Now!” he ordered and without asking questions, Trevor did just that knowing perfectly well that what Sean is going to do is not something Ellie should ever witness. He gently pushed her face into his chest then and as he went to grab Jerald he spoke to her gently but urgently.


“Cover your ears Ellie – cover them tight and close your eyes. While you do so sing me your favorite BSB song okay?” he asked and as she did so and began to sing All I Have To Give he grabbed up Jerald gently, wrapped his arm around his waist and he began to lead them both out of the room and far away from the pain that Sean was about to inflict on the man who’d dare try and mess with his little girl.