I'll see you again.
DISCLAIMER- Nope still not mine.
A/N this a new story from me and Waterlooroadfan2012. You should really check out het work, she's great. Without her amazing help, imput and amazing writting this wouldn't of even got off the ground, so thank you hun your the best!
Chapter 1
Rachel Mason sat in her office, reminiscing over the last ten months of her life and what a ten months it has been.
If you had of told her that doing a few simple interviews for a job opening on a sunny july afternoon would have changed her for the better, she probably would have laughed in your face.
But here she was sat at HER desk, in HER school and making a difference although she'd tell you different.
"After everything I have been through, the reveal, the fire, her sister, eddie and not to mention the family from hell, I think I deserve a bit of happiness but apart from that it wasn't all bad." Rachel thought to herself.
And she was happy-deleariously happy. She had a lovely home- check. Car-check. Career-check and the loveliest partner/fiancée any girl could dream of- check, damn she really did have it all, the only thing that would make her life complete-a child or children. Rachel giggled at the thought.
Rachel was pulled from her trail of thought by the fire alarm going, checking her watch. Rachel was almost certain that it wasn't break time yet.
"Have I been thinking for that long?" She thought to herself.
Getting up from her desk and walking to her office door.
"Joyce, do you know what's going on?" She asked her reception.
"Mrs Mason, everyone's been looking for you, Earl Kelly has a gun and is holding his form class hostage." Joyce told her.
"Oh god! Right Joyce, has the school been evacuated?" Rachel asked her, taking charge.
"Yes Mrs Mason it has and the police and armed response are on their way." Joyce informed her boss.
"Right thanks Joyce. Go and get out of here with everyone else." Rachel told her.
"I can't leave you Rachel." Joyce told her boss/friend.
"Joyce, it wasn't a request. I'll be fine. Promise." Rachel replied.
Joyce smiled at her and headed towards the stairs and Rachel followed her.
Knowing that he might pop in, Rachel asked her recptionist.
"Joyce, if you see…." Joyce cut her off.
"I'll tell him if I see him, but you'll be fine so you can tell him yourself." Joyce replied, patting her arm.
Rachel made her way down the corridor, where she was met by Tom.
"Tom, what's happening in there?" She whispered to him.
"Earl went ballistic when Maxine broke up with him this morning, started threatening all sorts. He has a gun. Rachel. We're waiting for the police and CO19 they'll be here shortly." Tom explained to her.
"Right, have you tried talking to him?" Rachel asked.
"He says and I quote 'he wants to speak to monkey and not the organ-grinder'." Tom told her, using his fingers for quotation marks.
"Oh my god, thanks Tom." Rachel replied.
Rachel stepped closer to the door and used her knuckles to gentle tap on it.
"Earl, can you hear me?" Rachel asked through the door, raising her voice slightly so he could hear her.
"And it speaks!" Earl yells back.
"Earl, I just want to talk to you." Rachel tried to reassure him.
"What would you know?" He shouted back.
"I just want to help." Rachel tried again.
"Help? How could you possibly help? You walk around here like your God's gift and own the place, tell us all what to do, sign a few poxy pieces of paper and get a big fat check at the end of each month and you think you can help me? Get lost!'' Earl sneered back at her.
"Ok, so your problems with me ok I get that really Earl I do, but let the kids go alright and we can talk and sort this out." Rachel replied.
"Sort it out? You're a joke! What you don't a know about you and Haydock whispering sweet nothings in Max's ear and then kicking me out of your precious school to try and keep us apart. You'll pay for this Mason! I'll show you who's the boss round here!" Earl yelled through the door.
"Earl, there's no need for this. Let the kids go. There scared out of their minds in there. You let them go and me and you we can talk freely then." Rachel told him.
"Rachel, what are you doing? He'd kill you and he wouldn't even bat an eyelid. Don't do this." Tom pleaded with her.
"Tom, I have to, its me he wants. Why should innocent kids pay the price for a mistake I made?" Rachel asked him.
"Rachel, you didn't make a mistake. You were following protocol. Don't do this please. That's what he wants, for you to go in there. Your playing right into his hands." Tom told her.
"Yeah and we all know Earl Kelly and you and I both know he's not bluffing." Rachel replied.
"What about Adam? Your suppose to be getting in less than two months. I don't want to be the one that tells him his fiancee was gunned down by a teenage psychopath." Tom told her, bluntly.
"I know I'm sorry Tom. But hopefully it won't come to it." Rachel replied, realising that there was loved ones out that would miss her.
Rachel turned slowly towards the door.
"Earl, I'm coming in, but first you let the kids go." Rachel told him.
"Fine, but any funny business and I start shooting." Earl yelled back.
"Rachel, please don't do this." Tom tried again to plead with her.
"Tell Adam I love him, you'll do that for me?" Rachel asked him.
"Rachel I don't..."Rachel cut him off.
"Please Tom if I don't make it. I need to know that you'll tell him, he needs to know." Rachel told him, as the tears began to build up in her eyes at the thought of her fiancee.
"I'll tell him." As Tom finished his sentence the kids began running out of the classroom.
Rachel slowly turned on her heels and caustiously entered the classroom.