We all need a little sadness to appreciate the happy. So what if Vigil had worked out differently? Everything is the same until Stef and Lena's conversation in their room after dinner.
"Don't you think we should call the police?!" Lena questioned franticly as her partner readied her gun.
"What do you think I am? Beside she technically hasn't committed a crime so I'm just going to get Jesus and leave"
"Fine but I'm coming with you. " Lena stated crossing her arms"
"What? Lena I'll be fine" Stef paused as she watched Lena grab her jacket.
"I know, and we are partners, we do things as a team, so I am coming with you."
Stef looked Lena up and down and sighed, rushing out past her to get the address from Mariana. " Mariana we will be back, we expect an explanation as soon as we are back understood?" Mariana nodded quickly as she handed Lena a scrap of paper with the address on it. She followed them both downstairs and stared out the window as they pulled away in Stef's car."
The cop's face was scrunched and her skin tight as she wove through the city streets. "Should we at least call Mike?"
"No Lena we don't need to call Mike , I am perfectly capable of-"
"It's not that I don't your capable Stef it's just that-"
"This is it." Stef opened her door and climbed out, looking at Lena over the hood. "Could you at least stay in the car Lena? Please? For me. "
Lena searched her wife's eyes before sighing, "Okay, but if you aren't out in five minutes I'm calling the police. "
" Okay" Stef turned and approached the house, knocking before creeping in. The house seemed empty but a crack pipe still smoked on the coffee table. Clutching the gun on her hip she rounded each corner before seeing a scruffy man huddled in the corner. She quickly pulled out her gun and they stared at one another. " Look " Stef spoke in her most quite but authoritative voice. " I just want my son, Jesus, just tell me where he is and I'll be on my way. "But the man just looked at her with glossy eyes.
Lena sat in the passenger seat nervously rocking her leg. She had set her phone to a six minute timer and her breathe quickened with every passing second. Suddenly Jesus' name and a picture of the two of them at his volleyball match flashed onto her screen. Puzzled she answered quickly.
Stef spoke again, this time with more anger. "Put down the gun. I don't want to shoot you. I'll put mine down too ok?" She could tell the man was high out of his mind. "I just want my son. I won't arrest you" Just then Lena's voice pierced the eerie silence.
" Stef come on Jesus is downtown" She was walking closer, Stef could hear the click of her heels, her eyes grew wide. People always talking about big moments taking place in slow motion. Stef wished the next moment was 10x slower. Then she could of warned Lena or shot the man first or jumped in front of the bullet. But it happened so fast and before she could do anything Lena walked into both of their line of vision and the man was spooked and fired his gun.
" LENA!" Stef yelled as she turned to face the man and shot him several times before rushing over to her love who lay in the hallway, her eyes wide open and her breathing shallow.
" Stef , Stef" Lena clutched the blondes arm while talking barely above a whisper, " Jesus is ok"
" So are you. You are fine Lena. Focus on me ok?" Stef whispered grabbing the phone Lena was clutching in her hand and quickly dialing 911. "Hello yes this is Officer Stef Foster two people have been shot at 663 conrado street. Yes it is safe to enter please hurry. " Stef turned back to Lena, a red stain was forming on her lower abdomen.
Lena couldn't breathe. Her eyes were fuzzy and her mind was spinning her body hurt like it had never hurt before. She could see Stef's outline and felt warm salting water falling onto her face. It was Stef's tears. Stef was talking to her but it sounded muzzled and fuzzy. And then she felt tired, and she was scared , scared that it was getting dark. She gripped Stef's arm tighter and chocked out an I love you before everything went dark.
"Lena!? Lena love you gotta stay with me ok? Stef was balling now that Lena had closed her eyes. She put her ear to her wife chest and heard her heart beat. The sound was music to her ears, she was still breathing. Just then the paramedics busted into the house , pushing her to the side as they worked on her and the man.
"Hello are you the person who called in the shooting?" An officer she barely knew asked.
" Yes, that's my wife I have to go with her" Stef tried to push past him to follow the stretcher that Lena was being carried out on.
" Has the shooter fled the scene officer?"
" No I am the shooter, Stef said almost absent mindedly as she walked."
" Then we need to keep you for questioning"
" Look I am going to the hospital with my partner, you can follow me or ride in ambulance but arrest me later ok"
" Officer foster that isn't protocol"
" I don't care." Stef stormed out and hopped into the ambulance, sitting next to Lena and grabbing her hand, it was still warm. She hadn't realized how much she had been crying until now, as the paramedics worked on her and they sped to the nearby hospital. So many things were uncertain now and her mind was going a mile a minute but all Stef wanted was for her wife to open her eyes again.
Ok so this will either be a 3 or four part story , tell me what you think. If you want it longer let me know!
