Survival:
Live or Die
By: Kary G.
Chapter 1: Vacations.
Disclaimer: The following story is based on the characters of the TV Series "Walker, Texas Ranger". The characters belong to CBS Productions, but the story is mine.
The sun was brighter than any other day and the wind was warm, the birds were chirping and flying around the sky, she stood there looking out the window with her 5 month-old son in her arms, she rocked him back and forth in her arms singing softly as the baby closed his brown eyes for the eight time. She moved to the nursery and placed him as gently as she could in his crib, staring at his son once again, she walked out of the room leaving him there knowing that he was going to wake up after 3 hours.
Sydney was so lost in her thoughts; she kept walking not looking up until she hit something...or somebody." Hello beautiful" Gage said to his wife wrapping his arms around her petite body. "Hello, Gage, what's up?" she asked looking directly at Gage's eyes knowing that he was hiding something.
"Nothing's up" he laughed at his wife's question.
"Really?, then why are you so happy?, spill it out"
"I am happy because...because..because of you, because we make beautiful kids that's all" he stammered out hugging her.
"Nice try, Francis, you know what would really make me happy?" Gage raise his eyebrows letting her know that he was waiting for her answer. "..to hear you say: "I just asked Walker for vacations and guess what?, we are going to some place far away from the U.S. and don't worry about the bad guys because I checked and they are on vacation too" now that would make things different" she laughed it was impossible for Gage to find vacations in his head since that word was not in his brain only work, family and eat, and eat.
"I hate when you are right" he said it in a funny way, whenever he tried to surprise her, somehow she would find out.
She kept laughing until the words hit her. "What?!" she said. "Are you serious?, Well, what did Walker say about this?" she broke Gage's hug.
"He said we could have our vacations"
"Oh my god! That's so great" she jumped wrapping her arms around her neck and her legs around his waist kissing him, the kiss was slow but quick, she turned around but Gage forced her to kiss him again but this time was his turn he did it slow and deep at the same time, unfortunately they were interrupted by their son Nathan, Sydney kissed him one more time "Just when I thought he was going stay asleep for 3 hours" Gage followed her and stayed there looking at his wife trying to calm Nathan.
Nathan cries we so loud, Sydney tried everything but her son wouldn't stop, Gage walked in the nursery and took him from Syd´s arms and spoke softly to him caressing his little cheek with his thumb, He smiled to his little boy in return Nathan did the same. Sydney stood there looking at her boys, a smile formed in her lips and her mind drift back when both Gage and Sydney found some interesting news about the father of her child.
Flashback
Sydney was in the kitchen staring at the envelope that was in her hands. The envelope had a date on it July 21st, 2 weeks passed and that envelope was still sealed, she just couldn't open it she was so damn scared of the results, what if Nathan was not Gage's son?, Was he going to let her alone?, Was he going to hate her?. She somehow felt guilty and unfaithful to Gage, those crazy thoughts were on her mind, but wasn't she torturing herself, the frustration was to much, she threw the newspaper with such force against the wall, she was upset, Gage entered the kitchen just in time to see her angry reaction, but what was causing it?.
"What did I do this time?" he said teasing her hoping to see his wife change her reaction but she did not smile, Gage sat next to her and saw her hands, she played with her fingers and her gaze was concentrated to the floor, "she is nervous, but why?" he thought and took her hands in his trying to calmed her and also to give some heat to her hands which were cold as ice. "Syd, what's the matter?" again nothing came out of her mouth only two words.
"I'm scared" Gage took her face and made her look directly into his blue eyes. "Scared of what Sydney" she moved her gaze to the table; Gage looked down too and saw the envelope with the hospital logo in it. He took the envelope and tear the paper reading the results, Sydney's face became pale she looked at Gage trying to read his face and the only thing that she found was a smile , was that a good thing?.
"Gage" her shaky voice brought back her husband to reality.
"Is ours Sydney, Nathan is our son" he picked her up in his arms and leaned to catch her lips, her arms moved around his neck and a sigh of relief came out of her lips.
End of Flashback
"Thanks for the help honey" she kissed his cheek, Gage looked at his wife and notice the exhausted look written all over her face.
"Why don't you go to sleep?, don't worry about the children or the luggage" he coaxed her.
"I can't..." she tried to protest but Gage was not giving up that easily.
"Yes you can and if you don't go I swear Ranger Cooke, I´ll drag you to bed"
"Really?" she challenged him.
"Yes, really" Gage placed Nathan in his crib now that the baby was asleep once again and ran to where Sydney was swinging her up in his arms and taking her to bed. Sydney struggle to free of Gage's arms.
Sienna heard all this commotion and went to see what was going on, the moment she opened the door of her room she saw her father with Sydney in his arms. She giggled and went to her parents' room. "Mom, if I were you..." only to be cut off by her mom.
"Sienna Gage!" when Sienna heard her full name she went back to her room closing the door knowing that whenever mommy used her full name meant problem.
"Why are you so upset about? You look tired why not going to bed?" Gage told his partner.
"Because I don't want to and besides I need to pack your children's´ stuff and I have to clean downstairs, the kitchen is a mess."
"Since when are you so worried about the mess in the kitchen?"
"Since now" Sydney told him, once again standing up from bed. Gage blocked her way by putting his arms in her waist, he sat her down in bed and rubbed her shoulders the moment he started to massage her shoulders, she complained, the pain was horrible.
"You are so stressed out, please take a nap, you deserve it"
"Gage, I..." she tried to find an excuse but couldn't.
"Honey, being a mother and a Texas Ranger doesn't mean that you have to take care of every little thing that happens in the house or out the house, you need to have a time for yourself, since Sienna was born is always work and work and sometimes you need a break and I think this is the time, please?, besides I do not want my wife to obsess with cleaning the house every single day"
"Ok, I'll take a nap" she finally gave in.
"Thank you, Syd" Gage kissed her, he covered her petite body with the covers and waited for a few more minutes until Syd was asleep.
****
A woman sat in the hard bed of her cell, her inmate Jessica Brown next to her. The 2 women laughed hysterically reading for the tenth time the newspaper in their hands, the paper was neither new nor old but the dust in it said other things. A yelled was heard in the distance, the 2 women ignored it, they kept laughing and the male got out of his cell and walked to where the 2 women were.
"I am trying to sleep!" the angry male said kicking the cell making Jessica and her friend jumped out of the bed.
"So what?, go back to sleep we don't care" one of the woman fired back hoping to sent Bolger back to his cell, he was going to complain once again but something caught his attention, his eye focused in a picture of Michael Turner's dead body covered with blood, 2 bullets in his chest, his eyes closed and his lips open, above his picture there was a headline with black bold letters. THE TEXAS RANGERS WON THE BATTLE ONCE MORE AGAINST MICHAEL TURNER".
"Hey! I knew that guy, when did he die?" the confused man asked still looking at the picture.
"Five months ago..and the person responsible for that was me" A proud Jessica said to the man next to her.
FLASHBACK
Sydney hugged Matthew and rock him back and forth, Michael burst into the room, "Get dressed we are getting out of here"
"Why?" Michael took her by the hair and dropped her to the floor with such force that she cried. "Why? you want to know why because the nurse called to the rangers and they are on their way but if we go now, they'll never find us"
"No! I'm not leaving with you. No! Leave me alone!" Michael took Matthew out of Syd's hands and ran out of the room Sydney heard a shot fired and she screamed. Walker kicked the door down in the nick of time. "Freeze!" Ordered the senior ranger. "Put the gun down now!" Jessica did what she was told as Walker moved towards her and put the handcuffs on her wrists and read her, her rights.
END OF FLASHBACK
"I would love to pay a visit to those rangers" the second woman spoke with a very sweet tone of voice but there was also a feeling of revenge mixed with it.
"Don't worry my friend, we will, today's our last day in here" the first woman said.
"What are you talking about?, Who the hell is going to take me out of here?" the second woman replied.
"That is a surprise Holly,"
A cop called the first woman to one of the interrogation room, the moment she heard her name knew that she was going to meet this surprise that her friend had for her, she stood up from the bed and walked in front of the cop until they were in the visit room, she was put in a room, she sat there in a gray chair, the room was a darker gray it felt so sad, there was also big windows which she was not able to see through them. She was snapped out of her thoughts hearing the door open, a young man entered the room, he was in his 30, curly blonde hair and his eyes were blue and warm but it had a little bit of coldness, he sat in front of his "client" and with a smile in his face shook the hand of the woman. "Congratulations, after all this months you are getting out of here". she was silence who was this man, she kept staring at him and a picture came to her mind. "No, he's dead" she thought. "Do I know you?" she asked with a confused look.
"Sorry I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Roger Turner, your new lawyer and Michael's brother"
****
The airport was full with people, the kids believe it or not were happy even though outside was still dark, Alex looked at her cell phone, it was 6 a.m. in the morning but that was no excuse for the 3 older kids to be happy about this trip. Sienna, Angela and Max sat in the floor that was covered with a dark green rug and together the 3 kids looked at the planes fly away, Matthew was asleep in Gage's arms and Nathan in Sydney's.
The adults were keeping an eye on the kids this airport looked like it was going to explode with lots of people in it walking to every direction, running, eating, reading, it was crazy!.
"Are we the only ones to take this trip?" a confused Sydney asked looking around her, the only people that she saw was her family and friends but there was no more people other than the pilot and 2 flight attendants.
"Yep, Trivette and Walker helped me to have our own trip, in other words this is our private plane" he said looking at everybody.
"Mom, what are we waiting for?" an impatient Sienna caught Sydney's attention.
"I- I-..." Sydney was speechless until her husband talked.
"Come on, Syd...Let's go, I am hungry!" Gage almost yelled full of excitement.
"Sydney I hope your control Gage, if not he'll eat everything in the plane" he ran until he was almost inside the airplane that's when he called to his buddy. "Hey, Gage!, let's see who eats first" Jimmy laughed going inside the plane.
"Jimmy!" Erika called to her husband almost laughing.
"Gage, you are such a gluttonous!" Sydney shouted at Gage, Alex and Walker along with the kids were trying not to laugh. Gage ran too and yelled at Trivette. "Trivette, you are cheating!" Everybody burst in laughter and hurried inside the plane.
"Roger Turner?" the woman repeated his name for the second time not believing what he was saying but he was not lying, he looked a lot like Michael, at the same time she wondered how exactly he was going to take her out of jail.
"I heard that you had a problem with Ranger Sydney Cooke, is that right?"
"Yes, I stole her daughter and it was so fun watching all the pain that she was going through.." she smiled so evilest to this man in front of her, Roger was not surprsied after all she needed to make suffer Sydney one more time, he needed to see the blood running in the Gage-Cooke family, no, not only for them for all of them and he was not doing it by himself he needed help and he knew exactly who to call for this.
"Well, I think death is a more powerful word, don't you think?" the woman nodded. "How are you going to take me out of here?" she asked trying desperately to read her "new lawyer's" eyes.
"I can see that you are worried but you don't have to worry about anything, the judge is my friend he'll take you out and other friends of yours by mid-night" he turned on his laptop and placed it on the table.
"And how are we going to find Ranger Cooke?"
"Don't you worry your pretty little head about that, let me find that out" He pulled out his cell phone and dialed to Ranger Headquarters.
****
The phone from Company B started to ring, nobody was picking up, he was going to hung up when someone took his call. "This is Ranger Travis, How can I help you?" The male ranger greeted at the person on the other line.
"Hello, I'm just calling to speak to Ranger Cooke" he asked, he didn't know what he was going to say once Sydney picked up the phone but to his surprise she was not there in the office.
"She is not here right now, she is on vacation, do you want me to give her a message once she gets here?"
"Not I just wanted to ask for her to fill some papers but I'll call her later, almost forgot, I do not have her cell phone, do you mind..?"
"No, not at all" Roger took a pen and wrote the number in his hand, once he had the phone he gave the thanks to the Ranger and hung up the phone, he laughed and looked at Holly, she understood the message. "Fool" he said laughing once more. Again he took his cell phone not after tracing the number in the computer finding the location where they were, he dialed a few numbers and give orders to the person that he was talking to, he then shut his phone and put it on the table. "Sydney Cooke prepare for your death,"
