Remember

By: MysticMoonlight

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(Disclaimer: I own no part of this movie or the characters. If I did I would keep Jack all to myself! )

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Chapter 1

The family watched in horror as Jack's legs were shot and he fell straight into the snow with cries of pain.

"Jack!" Evelyn cried with tears watching as Jack crawled onto a mound of snow where he collapsed, not able to move because of his wounds. She tried to run over to him but was held back by Angel.

The Marine then got his mother out of the way as a rain of bullets was directed right to them. Angel got Evelyn into the dining room where she found cover behind the wall with Jerry next to her.

"Bobby!" Jack shouted from outside.

"Jack!" Bobby yelled.

"Bobby!" Jack shouted again in pain.

"Jack!" Evelyn cried. She had never felt so scared and helpless before. She heard Bobby yell in frustration and more gunfire was heard.

But what she heard most was Jack's cries of pain and fear. She could barely make out the sound of the guns and things breaking around her because his cries were the only thing she could hear.

"Sofi! Give me the guns!" Angel shouted.

Evelyn watched as Sofi grabbed two hand guns and slid them over to Angel who started to fire them as soon as he got them.

Quickly, Evelyn realized that she needed to get to a phone. Jack was shot and would need help right away. He couldn't afford to wait.

"Sofi. I need your phone!" she exclaimed.

The young woman reached into her pocket's and grabbed her phone. She slid it over to Evelyn who quickly called 911.

She was still on the line when Jerry suddenly got up and rushed to the back door where she watched him take out one of the gunmen with a large kitchen knife and then rush out the door.

Suddenly everything was silent.

Evelyn couldn't hear any guns, nothing breaking, but mostly she couldn't hear Jack.

She looked up just in time to see Bobby jump through the front door as he threw a piece of brick into the face of one of the remaining shooters who fell and Bobby started to punch him in the face and head with another brick in hand. She carefully inched forward and saw that another shooter was starting to raise his gun toward Bobby who was unaware of what was going on.

She was about to shout to her son when she saw Angel jump from the roof, run over and kick the gun from the shooter.

"Bobby!" Angel shouted running to his brother and tackled him out of the way and into the snow just as Jerry's car slammed into a van that nearly hit the oldest Mercer.

Right then, Evelyn stood and ran out the front door at the same time Bobby and Angel hurried off of the snow and toward the spot where Jack was lying.

"Jack!" Bobby cried reaching Jack's bloody body. "Jack, look at me. Jack? You're gonna be alright. Hold on man."

Evelyn rushed over and dropped to her knees next to Bobby. "Jackie!"

Jack looked up at his mother before blood poured from his mouth as he gasped in pain.

"Jackie." Evelyn pleaded holding onto Jack's head to both comfort him and keep him still. "Stay with me baby. Please Jackie. You have to stay with me. I can't lose you."

Jack looked up at his mother with sad and painfilled eyes. He reached up a shaky hand to her and she right away held it in hers, ignoring the blood that smeared onto her.

She saw the look in his eyes. Those blue orbs were practically telling her that he knew he wasn't going to make it. That his life would end right here in the snow covered in his blood.

The sirens were so close now but it still felt like they were so far away. Jack couldn't hold on much longer.

His eyes lids were getting heavier by the second and all he wanted to do was sleep. But they all knew that if he closed his eyes he wouldn't wake up.

"They're almost here Jack. You gotta hold on." Bobby pleaded taking hold of his brother's head while Angel applied pressure to the gun wound. "Please Jack. Come on man. Come on Jack you gotta breath! Don't you die on me you little fairy. Come on Jack. Please. You gotta f***ing breath."

Jack weakly smiled at his brother.

It tore their hearts to see him smile. He was trying to be brave for them. Here he was seriously wounded and he was trying to make them feel better when it should be the other way around.

Evelyn's tear filled eyes could see that Jack's eyes were starting to close and his breathing was getting slower.

"Jackie, please. Hold on just a little longer. Please." she begged.

Her response was Jack coughing and more blood making it past his lips.

"Hang on Jack. You're gonna be alright." Angel declared.

Jack seemed to gasp deseraptly for air and his eyes started to slowly close.

"Jack. Come on man. You gotta keep your eyes open. Please Jack. Don't close your eyes." Jerry pleaded desperatly.

A small choking sound emitted from Jack before his eyes fluttered shut and his body went limp.

"Jack. Jack." Evelyn cried when Jack's hand went limp in hers.

"Jack. Come on, Jack. Come on, please." Bobby sobbed. "Please."

Evelyn lowered her head so that her forehead was touching Jack's and her tears fell onto his face.

"Please heavenly father. Please don't take my baby from me." she whispered through tears.

She heard Bobby's breathing become heavy with anger and he suddenly got to his feet.

"Bobby!" She called watching him walk over to a fallen pistol that was in the middle of the street. The oldest Mercer brother picked up the pistol, clicked it and vanished on the other side of the van.

Evelyn turned her attention back to Jack, afraid of what Bobby was going to do.

"Who sent you? Victor Sweet?" she heard Bobby ask.

"Yeah, yeah it was Sweet." a muffled voice answered. "Thank God."

"Thank God?" Bobby repeated. "He tried to kill my mother and now he killed my little brother you mother f***er. Thank Victor Sweet."

BANG

Evelyn held back a gasp when she heard the gunfire. Not sure if she could believe what just happened. Then she heard painful cries and saw Bobby walk back over to them.

"I didn't kill him." he muttered when he was close. "Just made sure he ain't going anywhere."

The ambulance and police cars suddenly arrived out of nowhere. The ambulance pulled up next to them and paramedics flew out of the vechile and went straight to Jack.

Having been pulled to the side, Evelyn couldn't help but feel like they had gotten there too late.

Jack was gone.

"We got a pulse!"

The Mercer's snapped their heads up when they heard those words.

Almost in a flash, they saw the paramedics place Jack's limp form onto a gurney while one of them held a hand pump air mask to provide Jack with oxygen.

"Jack!" Evelyn sobbed watching the paramedics rush Jack into the ambulance.