Hey guys, welcome to my new story! I am really nervous about this one, I don't know how you will react. I'm just going to ask you guys to have faith in me. It is a really good story, so at least give me a change and read the first three chapters, you will love the story after that for sure. One more important thing. The first chapter takes place during the series finale. But I am making my own event out of it. So after the wedding I will use material from the show and make my own story. The most important thing to remember is that there is no city mayhem in my story. Further on, Natalie is there at the wedding, because I simply believe she should and I made Sam's father a bit more human and friendlier as in my other story, just like he was in the show at the end. Okay, well enjoy... I guess...
"Julianna Callaghan, I vow to be true, always, to give you all myself, no secrets, and till death parts us, and even after, cause I've been yours since the first day I saw you and made a fool of myself, cause I knew, right away I knew that it was you or no one, although you didn't know it yet and I had to be patient. I was right, I'm just saying."
"Samuel Braddock, I vow to always be yours… I tried to think of words, but there are so many, there are so many words, so I vow, to you, this, *kissing and clapping*."
This morning had been one she could only have dreamed of for a very long time. And then after the entire struggle they had been through, there they were, giving their vows to the other. It was perfect with all their friends and family together and her husbands hand in hers. Husband, she really loved the sound of that. It made her feel secure and safe. The baby news had a big effect on the guests and they clearly didn't saw that one coming. But it was amazing to receive the hugs and the best wishes from everyone, they were so happy for the newly weds.
The afternoon was hard though. Because Sam really wanted his father to be there, they didn't really have a choice regarding the date. He was between tours and would fly back to Afghanistan after the weekend. Sam and his father hadn't been close for a long time, but lately things changed a little bit and she knew that it was important to Sam. Not that she liked the General very much, but he wasn't a bad guy. Just not a role model father type, but he really had tried to be better in the last year and started to support Sam's decision to be a police officer. Even though it was only a beginning, he still preferred Sam to have a position in the military. But because it was kind of a last minute wedding and with only one available date, they had a shift to get trough between the ceremony and reception later that day. They would get through it; she only had to focus a bit more on the job than on her husband.
Soon after arriving at HQ they got a bomb report at the 9-1-1 Emergency Centre. A woman working there had found a bomb with 40 minutes on the ticker. They had raced over there and Spike had been able to show his skills and defuse it with 18 minutes left. It took him 15 minutes to get there and 7 to defuse the bomb. Apparently because the bomb needed to reach a certain temperature before he could safely defuse it. Within the next hour she and the boss found a possible subject and went to his house to find more information, while Sam, Ed, Spike and Leah drove to the man's workplace. He was a scientist who had access to all the material and also the capability to build a bomb like this. She wasn't sure about his motivation, but it might have something to do with him being 'Let go" of his job due to economize cuts. All over Canada people are losing jobs due to this and she knows that sometimes that will be enough to set someone off. But why he chooses the 9-1-1 Emergency Centre was still a mystery. He wasn't home though, so they went in on force. And soon it was clear that they had the right subject in vision.
"Sarge, look at this." Jules called her boss over.
"What do you've got, Jules?" Greg came to stand next to her and she showed him books about building bombs with highlighted paragraphs.
"He clearly had interest in building bombs, but that's not all of it. I have found his notebook and he mentioned the Emergency Centre in it as first location. I think he is planning more bombs." Jules informed her boss. Right now she knew this was going to be a long day and having more bombs around the city made her very nervous.
"Ed, there might be more bombs. How are things over there at his office?" Greg asked his teamleader.
"He is not here and according to his colleagues he hasn't been here all day. We are checking out his office right now." Ed replied immediately.
"Okay, search for notebooks or anything like that. We have one here that mentioned the location of the first bomb, which probably means that there are more." Greg informed them all. Two minutes later it was Leah who came with the required information.
"Boss, what are the coordinates of the Emergency Centre?" She asked through the radio, but it was Spike who stood right next to her that answered.
"43°42′N 79°24′W." Spike answered her. "The exact coordinates as he wrote as first on this paper." Spike's voice came out soft as if he was reading something, but after a few seconds it changed into a dead serious tone.
"Boss, there are four other coordinates on that paper, I'm checking them now and they are all public buildings, two office buildings, a post office and a library. I will send you the locations." Spike informed him.
"Ed get there now, I will inform uni's to start clear the building. Spike do you think you will be able to guide the others through the process? You said it was very simple as long as you knew what to do." Greg asked his bomb specialist. He didn't like it that his other teammates would be defusing bombs but there was no other option.
"If there is enough time than it won't be a problem." Spike answered.
Jules could hear that they were already running to their vehicles as he was breathing heavier.
"Jules, I will head over to Spike's location in case he needs support defusing a bomb and guiding the rest through it. When you are ready here I want you to go to his office and talk with his colleagues, I want to find this guy." Greg ordered her.
She walked through the house, but there was not much Intel on his motivation or his whereabouts. While she did so, she listened to the conversations of her teammates. Sam took the first coordinate, which was an office building. It made her nervous that he was heading over to yet another bomb, but she knew that was their job and decided to switch back to her channel, which she shared only with the Sarge. Listening to Sam heading over there was distracting her and for everyone's safety she couldn't be distracted right now. After about 10 minutes she stepped back into her SUV and headed over to the man's office.
"Winnie, did you find relatives?" Jules asked the dispatcher.
"I have one sister on file which I tried to reach but no luck so far. Parents passed away and no other relatives known." Winnie informed her.
"Thanks Winnie." Jules replied back.
"Boss, the subject has one sister, but Winnie has not been able to reach her. I did not found any evidence that this man has any friends or social life. No pictures, address book, agenda or anything. He didn't kept memories around either. Everything in his house had a functional reason. He doesn't even own a TV." Jules informed her boss. But while she was giving him the information she noticed he was scared.
"Jules, go back to channel three. Now, it's Sam." Was all he said to her and it felt like her heart stopped beating.
"Sam, what's going on?" She asked through the radio. Tears were not far away.
"I've got time." His reply came. He was obviously focussing on the bomb.
"Sam, no you do not." She heard Spike telling him with an urgent voice.
"Sam, do you need to get out of there?" Jules asked him.
"It's working, I've got this." He replied to everyone on the radio, still all focussed.
"Sam!" Jules yelled a bit louder to him now.
"It's working, temperature is going down. It's minus 35 degrees." He only replied back.
"SAM, you drop your tools right now and you get yourself out of there, RIGHT NOW!" Spike screamed through the radio. His voice sounded so scared.
"Come on." Came a soft whisper from Sam.
"Sam, listen to him." Jules begged her husband.
"Minus 38 degrees." Sam informed them on the process.
"Sam, you listen to him." Jules begged him again, her voice full of tears and angst.
"It's almost there." Sam told everyone.
"Sam, we will not loose each other today." The pain in Jules voice was really noticeable right now.
"SAM, GET OUT, GET OUT! GO!" Spike continued screaming.
"Go, go, go." Leah whispered softly to herself.
"Sam! Get out of there now!" Jules screamed at him in desperation.
"Get out SAM!" Spike screamed once more, while a look on his watch told him that there were 8 seconds left. 8 long seconds with no response from Sam. 8 silent seconds followed by a loud thud and then followed by permanent silence, silence from a broken radio.
"SAM!" Jules screamed once more before realisation hit and tears came down her face. She heard the loud and painful breathing from her boss and Ed's desperate tries to hear Sam.
"Sam, talk to me." He called through the radio. "Sam, TALK to me." He asked once more but there was nothing on the other end. Jules couldn't breath, it was like something pressed on her chest and she was suffocating. She felt her heartbeat thumping so loud that she hardly heard the words from her boss, words that needed to be said.
"Okay team, team I need you to hear me right now. I need you to keep safe. Spike, Spike you listen to me right, we still need you, we all do. And whatever happened, you need to keep going. You hear me? You keep going. You all do." He told his team, but his own pain and his own emotions were lingering in those words. Spike's panting and Ed and Leah's painful confirmations came through before Jules lost it. While she kept driving she sobbed for her lost, she fought against the pain going through her body but it was taking her completely over. She didn't hear her boss calling for her; she didn't hear him begging to pull over and to tell him her location. She didn't hear the team continuing their job because life was still at stake. Nothing of that she heard. Finally she pulled over at an open parking spot and with her arms around the steering wheel and her face in it she let the sobbing take over her as well. Her body was shaking and everything hurt, especially her heart. Something was broken now and nothing could ever repair it. After a while she stopped crying and it felt like she stopped living at the same time. Voices came to her and she realised that the rest of the team had done it. Three bombs were defused, just that one bomb wasn't. The one that took her husband away in its blast, her husband for six hours.
Greg had never felt so lost. He had told his team to do what was needed, but he felt like he couldn't do it himself. How could he ask this from his team? But they had to focus and get the job done. There was no time to replace them with another team. And he needed to keep doing his job as well. He was sitting in his car in the parking lot of the evacuated library. Spike was inside guiding the team to defuse their bombs. Considering the situation he did well to get himself together and do his job. So Greg didn't want to go inside and distract him from doing it. He though of Sam but there was nothing he could do now. But Jules was still out there and not listening to him calling for her. He heard her losing her control and didn't want her to be alone on the road.
"Winnie." He quietly called for his dispatcher. He heard her scraping her voice before she answered him. She off course had heard everything and was struggling as well.
"Yes, boss?" Came a strained voice from the dispatcher.
"I need to know how that building looks like. If there is anything left from it, survivors, anything." He asked her. He knew it wasn't much of a question but his own silent prayer that Sam survived. But all logic told him was that he couldn't have survived. Even if the building was still standing and everyone else who weren't evacuated yet survived, a man standing next to the bomb simply couldn't.
"I'm on it sir. Is there anything else I can do for you?" She asked him.
"Yes, have team 4 ready and informed. As soon as the bombs are defused I want them to take it over, we will be heading to HQ then. And track Jules cellphone so I can pick her up." He asked her.
"Yes sir." She replied while sending Jules location to his cellphone. He drove off to the location while keeping his ears open to the conversation between Spike, Ed and Leah and trying to block out the painful sobs from Jules. But before he arrived she stopped and was completely silent. In the mean time he received from Spike first and then Ed and Leah that the bombs were defused.
"Good job guys, I want you to leave it to team 4 now and meet me at HQ." Was all he said, no words left. A soft copy came from his three team members, before he parked the car behind Jules.
Ed picked Spike up on his way back to HQ. Leah had the other SUV with her. Spike stepped into the car and didn't say a word or would even look at his teamleader. The ride to HQ was in silence and when they arrived Leah was already there. She was sitting in full uniform in the briefing room staring into nothing. Winnie was behind her desk handing information via the radio to team 4. Ed took place at the table as well while Spike took a stand against the wall, face away from everyone. Ed wasn't sure if he should say anything, but even if he should have he just couldn't. He couldn't think about Sam, or Jules, or this whole situation. Not without the walls around him breaking. So he kept staring at his remaining team, while they all waited for the boss and Jules to return. After a little while he heard footsteps in the hallway and turned around to see Donna walk in. Her shift was over and she was dressed in an evening gown. Ready for a party, ready for Sam and Jules party, he thought to himself. She didn't know it, he noticed from her face. But her face showed concern. He really didn't want to tell her, because that meant that he had to think about it, but someone should and he knew that someone was he.
"Ed, what happened?" She asked carefully and her voice was full of concern.
Ed looked at Spike and Leah and stood up to guide Donna out of the briefing room, just so they didn't need to hear it again. Outside the briefing room he leaned into the wall and stared for a second into her eyes before he turned away. He felt the tears burn inside and started to shake his head, a signal that almost said enough.
"Who?" Was the only thing Donna could say and when Ed looked at her again he saw that her face had turned pale.
"Sam." He said, and with that the first tears came down. His knees felt like breaking under him and he wanted to sink to the ground. But two pair of footsteps told him to be strong, strong for Jules and he recompose himself just in time. Greg and Jules walked down the hall and Jules walked past him to run into the girl's locker room. She didn't look like the Jules he knew. Suddenly she was a lot smaller and so much more vulnerable. Greg looked at him and then at Donna.
"Donna, can you stay for a moment, we can use your help." He asked her and Donna nodded. Tears were in her eyes and she looked like she couldn't speak, not yet.
"Come Eddie." He pointed Ed back into the briefing room and they all took place at a chair, except for Spike, who was still leaning at the wall with his back turned to the others.
"We did everything we could for Sam, okay. But right now we need to be there for Jules and their family before we can all go home and deal with this. We need to be strong for a little while longer." He told his team.
"At this moment their family is already at the reception, so I want to go over there and talk to Sam's parents there and to make sure they will get to their hotel safely. But we also need to talk to Jules father and brothers in private and the then the rest of the guests. Ed, can you call Sophie to pick up Jules and take her home with her. Jules shouldn't be at her place right now. Leah, I want you to go with them and keep an eye on Jules." Greg said. Leah nodded her yes and she tried to recompose herself a bit.
"Ed, Spike and Donna, I want you guys to come with me. Spike, while I talk to Sam's parents and sister, you can maybe talk to Jules father and brothers. You have met them before and they would like to hear it from you I think. Ed and Donna, Wordy is already there, so inform him and with his help I want you to talk to the other guests. Stay around until everyone has gone and got the needed assistance. Make sure everyone gets home safely." He said. It hurt him to talk about Sam and his family. When he said the name it felt like his heart skipped a few beats. Just before he walked over to Jules SUV, Winnie informed him that there wasn't much left of the building and with that every last hope that Sam was still alive shattered in millions of pieces. He wanted to go home and get drunk and never open his eyes again, but he couldn't. He had a responsibility to his team and his family at home. But his team wasn't complete anymore and he lost another member. But this was different, Sam wasn't just a member, Sam was so much more. Before tears started to well he shoved that thought far away and concentrated on the things he could do.
A/N: So please don't hate me! I know it is very sad, I cried while writing and rereading it. Next chapter is sad too, but also very beautiful. Chapter 3 will be this day from Sam's point of view and you will understand him. There will be more chapters after that. Please don't put voodoo on me, I really love Sam too! But you can let me know what you thought of the chapter. The more reviews the sooner the update.