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For your reward . . . a Sam-muffin! And also another chapter!
Ugh, my teeth HURT I'm def brushing tonight! (I have three cavities *shudders* dental hygiene is not my strong point and I paid for it today with Novocain and metal fillings). But compared to what other authors are facing right now, it's nothing, shout out to uniquefreak202, feel better soon!
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Spike and Lou were inside the store among a buzz of investigators and police officers, they were looking for any clues to discern the subjects' identities. Lou found a small brown square underneath the counter, and he slipped on gloves and picked the square up, it was a wallet.
"I've got a wallet," Lou said opening it up to see if there was any driver's license or other ID card in it.
"Who robs a store and leaves their wallet on the ground?" Spike asked incredulously.
"Someone who makes mistakes," Greg answered simply over the radio, "Lou, you've got an ID yet?"
"Yeah," Lou said looking at a driver's license, "It belongs to a Benjamin Larson."
In the command post, Wordy typed the name, "Benjamin Larson" onto the computer and started to do a background check on the name.
Meanwhile, Sam and Jules were in the crowds of shoppers, interviewing them to see if anyone saw anything.
"Are you sure you didn't see anything?" Sam asked one shopper.
"I'm sure officer," the man said, "All I heard was two gunshots and then a commotion. I ducked under one of the kiosks so I wouldn't get hit!"
"Alright, thank you sir," Sam said. Inside he was frustrated, there were so many people, yet no one had seen a thing as of yet.
Jules had a bit more luck with things as she questioned shoppers, a woman had in fact seen the shooters and she was more than willing to give a description.
"I saw them running off towards the Sears, and then they disappeared into the crowd," the woman said.
"Okay, thank you," Jules said.
"Boss, I questioned some shoppers," Sam said as he met back up with Jules, "They didn't see anything, they only heard the gunshots."
"Alright," Greg replied, "Jules, you hear anything?"
"One shopper saw three figures running off in the direction of Sears." Jules stated into the radio.
"Okay," Greg said and then he turned to Wordy, "Wordy, you have anything yet?"
Wordy nodded, "Benjamin Larson, he's been in and out of jail for the past few years, petty theft and disorderly conduct."
"Looks like he escalated to assault now," Greg muttered.
"He has two daughters, Sabrina and Kathleen Larson, both of them have been arrested for indecent exposure, petty theft and prostitution," Wordy said.
Ed couldn't help but let a whistle escape through his lips. It was hard to believe that two girls could rack up a large amount of charges in their childhood years.
"This is strange, there's one guy who's bailed out the girls from jail," Wordy stated, "It's a Lloyd Baker."
"Alright, do a background check on Lloyd Baker, and send a uniform to his address," Greg ordered.
Wordy nodded and immediately started typing.
"Ed, Jules, Sam, Spike and Lou, I need you to start checking all the stores near the Sears," Greg stated. "Lou and Spike, you go on the upper levels, Ed, you take the stores on the lower sections. Sam, Jules, go into the Sears."
"Copy," five voices said over the radio.
Greg decided it was time to go wide, he tapped a guard on the shoulder and took over the PA system for a few minutes, "Attention shoppers, my name is Sergeant Gregory Parker with the Police Strategic Response Unit . . ."
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Katie groaned and opened her eyes and winced, the ground beneath her was damp, she didn't know why, until the pain hit her like a collapsing building.
She rolled onto her back and surveyed the damage to her arms. The hands weren't to badly lacerated, but the arms were, it was a wonder she could move them.
'Gotta stop the bleeding,' she thought as she winced in pain. The blood was starting to clot, but there were deeper cuts. She slowly made her way out of the dressing rooms and into the main store, she spotted a few T-shirts folded neatly on a counter, they didn't have security tags on them, so she grabbed them and wrapped them around each of her arms. It should help the wounds clot.
Then she suddenly heard something that made her heart rate increase, the voice of a police officer entering the store.
"Police! Is anyone still in here?!" Sam called out. He and Jules looked at each other and then entered the store with their weapons leveled.
Katie hid behind a few suitcases in the luggage department; she looked out to the main area of the store to see two SRU officers making their way towards her hiding spot. But first they turned and went to the dressing rooms in the back of the store.
Sam opened each of the stalls as Jules covered him, each of them was empty, and then when they opened the last one, a surprise was waiting for them. Three mirrors on the walls were cracked and broken, blood was on the ground, pooling in some spots. But to their eyes, it wasn't enough to be fatal.
"Looks like we have another crime scene here boss," Jules stated as she looked at the blood.
"What do you have?" Greg asked.
"Broken mirrors and blood in one of the dressing rooms," Jules answered, "My guess is that someone didn't like what they heard."
Sam noticed a trail of blood leading out of the room, he nudged Jules, "We have a blood trail," he stated.
"Alright, Sam, Jules, follow the trail, see if it takes you anywhere," Greg said, "I'll get a few uniforms to your location."
"Copy," they both said.
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Sabrina and Ben managed to evade the cops for a while, they hid in a store and discussed their options, and Ben had to write everything down, which irritated him to no end. He never wanted a deaf child, to him that was a weakness, he wanted a son, but he was stuck with two daughters. Ben resolved to kill Sabrina as soon as they got out of this.
Sabrina could sense his tenseness, and she glared at him when he wasn't paying attention to her. He had hurt her only friend in the world, possibly even killed her, she wasn't ready to let him off on that. She saw the gun tucked away in his waist band and she had an idea.
"Come on," he said as he wrote it down, "I have a plan."
Sabrina looked at him suspiciously, "What is it?"
"I can take you hostage, that way, they'll try to negotiate, and I'll demand that they let us out." Ben looked as if he discovered the greatest thing in the world.
Sabrina nodded, this was her chance for her own plans to go into effect.
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Dun. Dun. Dun!!! Uh oh, looks like Sabrina's relying on violence (Not that I blame her) and Katie's about to get caught! (but in a sense . . . that's a good thing for her!) What's inspiring the last chapter is going to be "Wounded" by Good Charlotte, but that's all I'm telling you! Two or three more chapters left.
Btw, I made a cello cover for Sweet Child O' Mine. It sucks right now . . . but it's gonna get better!