Without you
AN: I always joked with some of my friends that Hans should have had a daughter and once we saw Live Free or Die Hard… well she had to obviously be married to Thomas Gabriel… it's not going to be marry sue is! I promise. But I own nothing, as much as I like to think I own Timothy Olyphant and Alan Rickman I don't bur I do own Katja and little Tommy.
Chapter one: "I'll see you in a few hours"
A young woman no more than 25 went to pick up her three year old son who was playing with blocks on the floor. "Tommy… come on. Daddy's on the phone." She picked up the little boy with a mess of blonde hair on his head and set him on a glass kitchen table and the young woman grabbed the phone and laughed. "He's right here Tom…"
"He little man…" said the voice on the phone. The little boy's eyes lit up like the fire works that would be in the sky later that night.
"Daddy!" The little boy exclaimed his mother smiled and kissed the top of his little blonde head. "Daddy went bye bye…"
"Yeah, I know. You take care of your mommy ok… daddy will be home later." The dark haired woman took the phone back from her son and leaned up against the wall.
"What are you doing Thomas? People are out side the house…"
"Katja, relax. I'll see you in a few hours and you and Tommy will be fine. I'm not going to let anything happen to you and my son." Katja who was often referred to as Kat, just nodded and listened to her husband's reassuring words. What he was doing was still unknown to her, he had been planning something for a fair bit of time but kept is 24 year old wife in the dark.
"Thomas just promise me you'll come home to me…" She said softly into the phone as she picked her small son up and balanced him on her slip hip. She couldn't take losing someone else she loved, it was bad enough her father was killed when she was a little girl, living back in Germany then her uncle a few years later while she was away at boarding school. Her whole world crumbled and who was there to pick her up but her best friend's older brother Thomas Gabriel, she was 16 when her mother signed the papers for them to marry.
"I promise Kat… just go pack and be ready to leave when I get there…" He sounded slightly annoyed with his younger wife but he just wanted to make sure that his family was taken care of because he was putting them in a rather precarious situation. "I have to go… I love you Katja…"
The young woman smiled and simple said "I love you too…" softly before she hung up the phone and turned back to her toddler son.
Little Thomas or Tommy as he was known to his parents was the one thing that was keeping his mother going the last few weeks. Thomas had been distant spending an increasing amount of time with that whore Mai… Katja knew her husband had to have been sleeping with her, or they were plotting destruction on a grand scale because up till four months ago Thomas was a dedicated family man. Hell they were talking about adding to their young family till the other day when Kat brought it up and he snapped and said it was not the time for such thing.
"Mommy.." The little boy exclaimed happily throwing his little arms around his mother's neck and smiled brightly.
"Yes my angel…"His mother said, there were moments that she had a distinct German accent while most of the time she sounded like any other run of the mill American mother. Her dark hair was long and down past her shoulder and she had two soft honey colored eyes. Her little boy was a sweet faced boy who she would often say looked like the spitting image of his father.
Now there were moments that Kat could sware she saw parts of her father in her son as well. Her little boy leaned forward and kissed his mother on the cheek before resting his head against her shoulder. "My good boy… now why don't you take a little nap before daddy come to get us then daddy will take us to see the fireworks… and get ice cream."
The little boy smiled and nodded. Slowly moving her way through a rather large, well furnished living room and set her little one on a large black micro-fiber couch and pulled his blanket up. Handing him a little brown teddy bear she smiled and kissed him on the forehead. "night baby.."
"Night mama.."
While her son slept Katja franticly ran around her house trying to pack everything she could into a few bags. She didn't know if they were going to come back, if her suspicions of her husband's actions were true then it was more than likely she would not becoming home.
The hours passed quickly until her cell phone rang in her pocket and Kat answered it quickly. "Katja Gabriel…" She said with a small sigh.
"Mrs. Thomas Gabriel…" A woman's voice on the other end asked.
"yes…" Katja answers lightly nervously.
"I'm sorry… but… your husband has been killed." The young woman said quickly. Katja barely had time to process before there was pounding on her front door and she fell to the floor with a heart wrenching scream.
"NO…." She cried waking her son from his quite slumber. "No… Thomas… no…"