Dead or Alive?
By: Kary G
Disclaimer: I do not own Walker Texas Ranger.
It had been five months, five months since the rangers found out that Ramon Ortega was still alive and was looking for revenge. But that was all in the past now, the five months pasted quickly. Sydney and Gage finally got married and the Trivette's where expecting a baby. Ericka was healthy and getting bigger every day she didn't know if it was a boy or girl yet, but it didn't bother Jimmy one way if it was a girl or boy. Yet he had a thought it was going to be a boy. Sydney and Gage had talked about having children but work was keeping them busy every day. One day they went undercover the next it would be bank robbers there were new adventures everyday. For Alex she was enjoying watching Angela grow more and more everyday. The petite ranger entered Company B and walked up to her boss who was sitting in his chair.
"So, I...We finished all the paperwork that you gave us, what do we need to do now?" Sydney said smiling at Walker.
"Well, Sydney I think that's it for the day, tomorrow you'll work on another case, just go home, you need to rest these days you've been working hard"
"Yeah I know, well, Gage, you're ready!" she yelled at her husband.
"yes I am shorty" he said walking to his desk and taking his jacket from his chair the Gage´s said their goodbyes and went home, or at least they thought they were, driving through the road they talked about different things, rain started to fall and drops started to hit the car, meanwhile the windshield wiper started to send the water drops to the sides, suddenly Gage stopped the car looking at the red and blue lights of different police cars shinning on the night, they open the door and approach to the cop that was writing something on the little notebook that was on his hand, Sydney looking at the vehicle that was a few feet away from her, they showed their badges and identified themselves as Texas Ranger.
"good evening this is my husband Ranger Francis Gage ad I'm Sydney Gage-Cooke, what happened here?" pointing at the car
"Good night, Rangers" the cop said shaking both hands "it seems somebody were chasing these 2 persons, somehow the people following them make the car overturn several times"
"How many persons were on the car, when this happened?" Sydney said looking at her husband and then at the cop in front of him. "just 2, a woman about 32 years-old and a little girl about 6 years-old".
"What happened to them?" Gage asked looking at the vehicle.
"We called an ambulance, they're going to St. Matthew's" the cop answered his question
Sydney Gage was the next to talk "Did you see, who was responsible for this?"
"Actually Ranger Cooke, we caught somebody, you want to take a look?" she nodded her head, he make a sign with his hands and both Rangers walked to see who was in the back of the police car looking at the woman with handcuffs on her wrists.
"Mona White?" Sydney spoke looking at her husband. She couldn't believe it. It was the same Mona White, the same woman who threw a knife at the raven-hired ranger when she and Gage went undercover to bust the Raptors drug deal wide open. Her mind flashback to that moment.
Flashback
Sydney was walking trying to find the Metamphetamine lab, trying not to be seen from any member from the Raptors gang, she stopped looking at a knife 5 centimeters from her feet.
"Drop something?" Sydney said taking the knife on her hands and "giving" the knife back to Mona instead of giving her the knife in her hands, she throw the knife to the tree next to the female Raptors member.
"wow, you almost hit me with that girl..." Sydney cut her off
"the name's Ronnie, and If I wanted to hit you with it, you'd be wearing it" the lady look at Sydney a little surprised
"I'm Mona" shaking hands with Sydney "so you're new in the gang, come on, let me introduce you to the other girls"
End of Flashback
Mona looked out the window at the rangers. "Hello ranger. Guess I was stupid should have know this would be a trap." She thought back to the day when Walker and his team arrested all the Raptors members expect for Mona because she escaped.
"Yeah sorry about that, anyway, Why were you chasing this car?" pointing at car, the woman was going to respond when the cop approached to the Rangers and told them they need it to take it with them, Sydney and Gage convice the cop to take it to the courthouse to interrogate her, the cop agree with the Rangers but he said that it was late so tomorrow he was going to be early in the courthouse, Gage took his cell phone out of his pocket and dialed Walker´s number letting him know what happened, Sydney looked at Gage a little bit worried.
"Are you ok, Syd?" Gage asked
"Yes, I'm just worried for the woman and the little girl, Do you mind if we go to St. Matthews to see how they're doing and maybe ask some questions?"
"No, I don´t let´s go" climbing to the car and going to the hospital, Sydney had a bad feeling the cop didn't said any names, but Sydney knew that her sister was going to visit her tomorrow with her niece, no maybe the destroyed car that she saw at the scene was a coincidence, in all Dallas were similar cars and different colors, she just snapped out of it.
St. Matthews HospitalBoth rangers arrived to the hospital, they saw a doctor so they decided to asked if he new something about 2 victims of a car wreck.
"Good evening, I'm Dr. Williamson, What can I do for you?" the doctor said
"Good evening, Dr. Williamson, I am Sydney Gage-Cooke and this is my husband Francis Gage we're Texas Rangers we just wanted to know if you know anything about the 2 victims that arrived to the hospital maybe 40 minutes ago?"
"well, Rangers the girls is fine just a couple of bruises, and the woman is in a coma we don´t know if she is going to make it"
"In what room are they, Can we see them?" Gage asked the doctor
"of course but only 5 minutes, the room is 140, the girl is on the room 141" after that Dr. Williamson walked away, Sydney and Gage arrived to the room and opened the door looking at the woman with a lot of tubes and machines on her body, Sydney widened her eyes to see who was in the bed.
"Oh, my god Sara" she said sitting next to the woman and trying to fight the tears back "why?" she whispered being noticed by her husband who immediately kiss her forehead and put one of his arms on her back to comfort her, A nurse knocked on the door and let the couple know that it was time to go, Sydney took one of her sister's hand and in a whisper she said "Don´t give up, I love you"
Standing from her chair Sydney and her husband went to the next room. Syd knocked on the door from inside she could hear a faint, "Come in.". She opened the door and the little girl smiled. "Aunt Sydney, Uncle Gage." Sydney hugged her niece. "Aunt Sydney. Is my mom okay. I want to see her but they won't let me. I want to see her, is she okay? Please tell me mom is okay."
Looking at Gage she had sadness in her dark brown eyes. "Your mom is fine. She's sleeping right now. I'm sure they will let you see her tomorrow. You just rest for now." Sydney forced a smile.
they walked out of the room and close the door, Sydney let a tear fall, Gage whiped the tear away and embrace his wife, "she´ll be alright, let´s go home".
"I prefer to go to the courthouse" she said
"right now, honey is 11:30 pm besides there´s nobody there and the cop told us he was going to take Mona to the courthouse tomorrow morning, you need to rest" she just nodded her head and went home
Meanwhile
it was late and the bright shine from the moon was lighting up the bars from the prision, A man smiled to hear his friends voice, that man was Bolger the ex-leader of the Raptors.
"So did she kill her?" He asked to his friend Grangus (the old man who said that Ronnie(Sydney) was a person with experience to extend the lab, I don´t know if you'll remember that)
"No she didn't that stupid sister of the Ranger is in St. Matthew's she is in a coma, I hope she dies, but her daughter isn't she is fine, but why did you send Mona to kill that woman?"
"Well, you'll see..."
Flashback
The phone started to rang on Sara Cooke house, she approach to the table in the living room and pick up the phone.
"Hello?" Sara said
"Hello, Mrs. Cooke I..." Sara cut him off
"Who are you?"
"If you let me talk, I'll tell you!, your sister Sydney Cooke is in danger also your daughter but if you help to deliver something I swear I won't do anything to you or your sister, nor your daughter" Sara got scared but she couldn't scream because her daughter was watching TV, she didn't wanted to panicked because she knew that if her daughter find out who was she talking with she will call auntie Sydney or uncle Gage and was going to tell them that her mommy was in danger.
"ok, I'm listening" that's all she said
"very well, Mrs. Cooke, you will let your daughter with one of her friends and then you will meet me downtown after that I will give you the instructions and what you will have to deliver"
"Ok what am I going to deliver?" she said a little curious but guessing was she was going to sell or give "is it drug?" she said
"Very well, now if you don´t help me I swear I will killed you, now am I clear?"
"Yes sir, I'll see you there in 20 minutes" writing on a paper the address
"Good, now don´t try to find your sister or talk to her, we are watching every move, don´t be late" after that the line went dead.
End of Flashback
"and because she disobeyed my orders I send Mona to kill her" Raptor finished
"I see" Grangus said "don´t worry I will keep an eye on Sara, who knows, maybe the day after tomorrow, her family would me mourning instead of celebrating"
CourthouseAfter all the Rangers were there, Sydney let them know that she was going to be in the interrogation room with Gage. Both rangers entered to the interrogation room, looking at Mona who was sitting on one of the chair, meanwhile Sydney sat in front of her and Gage stayed behind her.
"So you have one chance and one only, to tell me who send you and why?" Sydney asked
"I don´t know what are you talking about" Mona said smiling at Gage
"You better not lie to us Mona. Now either tell us what we want to know or you can spend the rest of you life in jail. That choice will be yours and yours alone." Walker said entering the interrogation room.
"Why do you want to know?" Mona said looking at Sydney, Sydney was so mad at the point she slammed her hands on the table. "Why do I want to know, because my sister in dying in the hospital and my niece is waiting to hear how her mom is and if you don't tell me. I swear you will go to hell and this time you will be in trouble." She left the room slamming the door and leaving Walker and Gage behind stunned at Syd's behavior.
St. Matthews Hospital
Grangus walked through the hallways of the big hospital he approached to a nurse
"I would like to know the room of Sara Cooke" holding a bouquet on his hands "I would like to give her this, her sister send me" the nurse smile at the man "She is in the room 140, but I can allow you to stay 5 minutes only"
"that's ok, thank you" He looked at the numbers of the door he finally found it, he knock on the door and nobody answer this was his time to kill her "I forgot she is in a coma so what happened if I take the tubes and the oxygen off of her" he thought "This is going to be fun" and with that he started to take all the tubes, he walked out the door and the only sound on the room was a flat line with a constant sound "beeeeep".
Courthouse
Sydney joined Alex, Trivette and Erica, "I need to go to the hospital, would you like to go? She asked their friends they all nodded her heads, Gage and Walker entered to "Company B"
"What's going on?" Walker asked
"We are going to the hospital to see Sydney's sister, would you like to go with us?" Alex asked her husband
"Yes, why not?, Sydney are you ok?"
"Yes, I am ok, well what are we waiting for, let's go" they all entered their cars and followed the Gage's but what happened next was going to cause a big impact to Sydney.
St. Matthews Hospital
they arrived to the hospital and watched a lot of doctors and nurses running to one particular room, Sydney heard a little girl's cry "mommy!, no mommy! Wake up!"
"Oh my god, Kimberly" she run to the room and saw the horror scene, the doctors trying to bring her sister back to life, everybody run where Sydney was, she entered the room with tears rolling down her eyes and picked up her niece, she took her out of the room, Gage kneel down next to Sydney she was on the floor with her niece trying to comfort her "mommy is going to be ok, it's ok, shh" rocking back and forth.
All the people who was there, were amazed to see the tough and strong Sydney fall apart, the impression was so big, that Erica started to feel dizzy, she took her husband's arm and touching her stomach.
"Erica?, honey what is it?" a worried Trivette sat next to his wife
"Is the baby, it hurts..." Erica said having trouble to breath.
"I need a doctor!" Jimmy yelled everybody looked at Trivette.
Alex gave Angela to Walker then she sat next to Erica and whisper in her ear "breath, everything is going to be ok" a doctor came and took Erica, Trivette followed the doctor and with a "I gotta go" they lost in the distance of the big hallways with his wife.
The doctors came out of Sara Cooke room, Sydney knew by the look on the doctors that something was wrong, "Mrs. Gage we tried everything we could, I'm sorry, she didn't make it" looking at Sydney, she closed her eyes and let more tears rolled down her face with a uncontrollable niece on her arms, the only thing that Gage could do at this point was hugging his wife.
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