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Chapter 2 - Blood

"Lilly stay here!" Penny said again.

"Penny we are not going to take Lilly anywhere unless she chooses to go."

"There is no choice. That's what the book says."
"Okay I didn't read that book Penny but this is what I know about choice, okay? Gerald made a choice today. He chose to leave you. And Lilly? Lilly is making a choice. She want's to see her mum and dad. And you made an amazing choice. The most amazing choice because you just met this little girl and you are protecting her and not everybody would do that. Penny please let her choose."

"Please." Lilly whispered looking back at Penny with desperate eyes.

Jules took in a deep breath as Lilly lowered the gun just a little.
She knew that Spike was about to jump in when she had lowered the gun enough so Lilly was out of direct danger.
"She's not gonna hurt her." Jules whispered again, to make sure Sam wouldn't pull the trigger. As Spike jumped in to catch Lilly Jules knew that they made it to a dangerous point. A single shot followed Spikes actions as he pulled Lilly out of the room and into safety. Lilly screamed and in front of her Jules could feel Sam stumbling back, slowly realizing that it wasn't him who had taken the shot.

Spike didn't stop in his movements for just a second. He knew that it hadn't been a shot from Sam's weapon, but there was nothing he could do right now. Priority of life. Even if Sam had been hit by the shot, the girl was his priority now.

"Sam Jules status. Talk to me!" Sarge begged through their headsets. Jules could see the shock in Penny's eyes.

Sam felt like all the air had been knocked out of his body as soon as the bullet had hit him. He knew that Penny hadn't shot out of purpose, he could see it in her eyes, so he hold fire, not like he had been able to shot back directly. All he could concentrate on was keep standing. He knew that Jules was standing behind him, unarmed. He was her cover, he had to protect her and there was no way in the world he would let her get into such danger.

Jules couldn't tell if Sam had been hit. He had already found his balance back, shielding her briefly.

"It's in the vest." Sam said, his breathless voice full of pain.

"Sam?" Jules whispered behind him, her hands firmly on his hips to help him stabilize himself.

She could hear that Sam had trouble breathing. Still he hadn't made the shot.

"Drop your gun now or I will have to shoot you!" Sam said briefly while Penny just stared at him, at the point where the bullet had hit him.

Jules felt something on her hand and brought it back behind Sam's back, looking at it in pure shock. "Sam." She whispered as she could see the blood on her hand. Jules knew that he was holding it together because he was shielding her.

"Hurts." Sam whispered while Jules closed her eyes for a second. Sam had been hit. She had to do something. He needed medical help right away.

Jules grabbed the glock in Sam's leg-holster and stepped to the side as well.

"Penny drop your weapon now!" Jules said. She knew that there was no time to negotiate anymore.

Out of her eyes Jules could see that Sam had trouble to keep himself upright. He stumbled to the side and Jules had to fight back her reflex to put her hand out and steady him. Nonetheless Sam had his MP5 firmly drawn. Jules knew him for so long. Sam wouldn't give in as long as she was in danger. He had been special forces. It wasn't the first time that Jules couldn't believe what he could do to his body just with his strong will.

"Penny put the weapon down, NOW!" Jules said again while she could see Sam sinking to his knees slowly. "Sam?" Jules asked loudly. It was this moment where Jules slowly realized that it was serious. "I'm good." Sam tried again, but Jules could tell that he was far away from being okay.

"Officer down." Jules said into her headset to let Sarge and the rest of the team know how serious the situation was.

Penny looked down at Sam. It was just a split second but Jules didn't hesitate a second and stepped towards Penny, kicking the gun out of her hand with one move. She knew that it was risky but she knew that she had to do something. Still she didn't know which condition Sam was in. Jules tackled the screaming Penny to the ground getting her cuffed within a second.

"Sam? Talk to me. You alright?" Jules asked before getting back to her feet crossing the small distance towards Sam in a second. Penny was sitting on the floor crying silently now.

"Sam?" Jules asked again while kneeling down in front of her boyfriend.

"Come on lay down. The situation is under control. Just lay back down and let me see what's going on." Jules said with a soft voice while she helped Sam to lay down on the ground. Sam couldn't help but moan out in pain as he stretched out on the ground.

"Officer down. Officer down. We need medics in here." Jules said into her headset as she faced Sam. He was ghostly pale and Jules could tell that he was in a lot of pain.

"It's not in the vest, right?" She asked while slowly pulling Sam's vest out. Sam groaned out in pain and Jules closed her eyes as she could see where the blood was coming from.

"Sam's been hit. We need medics in here now!" Jules screamed in her headset while getting pressure onto the gunshot wound in Sam's abdomen.

Sam couldn't help but scream in pain as he felt Jules press hard against the wound.

"I am sorry. I am so so sorry." She mumbled while leaning down so she could press a kiss onto Sam's mouth.

"It's going to be okay." Sam said trying his best to focus on Jules while the whole room started spinning in front of him. He could feel his body starting to shake.
"I am cold." Sam whispered getting Jules to check his pulse.

"Sam you are going into shock." Jules said her eyes slowly starting to fill with tears.
"Where are the paramedics?" She screamed while Sarge, Ed and two paramedics entered the room just in the same moment.
"How bad is it?" Ed asked while he dropped to his knees beside Sam.

"Single gunshot wound to the abdomen. His heart is racing and he feels cold, he's slipping into shock." Jules said while the paramedics shoved her to the side to take care of Sam.

"Jules." Sam whispered as he could feel Jules leaving his side.

"I am right here. I am not going anywhere. The paramedics will do their job, I am right here." Jules said while settling down beside Sam's head.

"I love you." Sam said before a paramedic put an oxygen mask over his mouth.

"I love you too. You have to hang tight, you hear me? Don't even think about leaving me!" Jules whispered, biting back the tears that where forming in her eyes. She knew that she should have trusted the sick feeling in her gut. She had felt that this wasn't going to end well for both of them.

As Sam was rushed to the ambulance Jules was not leaving his side for a second. She was there when Sam finally lost consciousness on their way to the hospital.

Jules couldn't tell how bad Sam was actually hurt. From what she could see on the screens and hear from the paramedics it didn't look life threatening. Sam was able to breath on his own, his vitals where shaken due to the shock but they where still alright. Gunshot wounds where always tricky. You couldn't tell what damage was done until they cut you open on the table.

"Ma'am you need to stay here." A nurse said as they arrived at the hospital and Jules could only watch as Sam was rushed into the trauma room to get checked out. Jules closed her eyes before she looked down onto her hands which where red with Sam's blood. She tried to wipe it away as good as possible.

"Jules!" It was Greg's voice which brought here back to present.

"He still gets checked out. Vitals where good on the drive here, they didn't need to incubate him." "That's a good sign."

"Sarge the situation was way to dangerous in there. We should have ended it earlier. I should have ended it earlier." Jules said while she could feel Sarges hand on her back.

"No Jules, stop blaming yourself. You did great in there. Penny and Lilly are both alright. You really made a great job."

"Family of Samuel Braddock?" A doctor asked while Jules nearly jumped at the name.

"That's us." She said while looking at the doctor anxiously.

"From what we can tell Mister Braddock was extremely lucky. The vest took most of the power. The bullet did break his skin but what we can tell from the scans there wasn't much damage done on the inside. The bullet didn't went in to far. Mister Braddock is going in surgery now, we can tell you more after that." The doctor said while Jules exhaled deeply.

"Come on Jules, lets sit down until they got news." Sarge said guiding Jules towards the waiting room. It didn't take long until the rest of the team joined them, all anxious to get news on the condition of their team mate, of their friend.

…. to be continued!

Okay I know I said a two shot but I don't have time to write more today and I really wanted to post something to read some of your great reviews, so there will be 1 or 2 more chapters. Depends on how much you wanna read :o)