Okay, so here is chapter four, it may be the last one, if not, chapter five will be. I hope that you keep on reading it!

Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own General Hospital. I try to buy it all of the time but they will not accept anything but money and I would never have enough to afford the price they are asking

Chapter 4

Anything For You

Sam watched in horror as Patrick, Liz, and Nadine fell to the floor. Sam then saw Lucky coming in from her peripheral vision and knew that the man would not hesitate to shoot him too. The next thing that she did she did not even have time to think about it before doing it. She jumped onto the man's back and attempted to wrestle the gun away from him. Before Lucky or anyone else knew it, the two of them were on the floor and another gun shot went off and everyone was still and silent. It seemed like hours until the man was pushed off of Sam. Lucky let out the breath that he did not realize he was holding and thanked God that Sam was alright. She looked over at him, panting, and then she gave him a smile and Lucky shook his head. She hurried up and then the two of them went over to check on the ones who had gone down. Leyla, Monica and Matt were checking on them and Liz had just been grazed in the arm, Patrick had been hit in the lower arm and Nadine had been hit in the shoulder. The other three determined that Nadine had gotten the worst of it, but they could still take care of her. Lucky helped to get the three of them out of the room and turned to look at Sam as she was walking over to the man. She walked around him and went to retrieve the gun that she had kicked out of his hand when she felt a hand on her ankle and in the next second felt herself hitting the floor hard. She grabbed her own gun and turned to fire it but it was knocked out of her hand and before she could think of the next thing to do, she felt the man on top of her putting her wrists above her head. He used one hand to do this and with the other he grabbed her gun and aimed it at her chest. She saw the blood that was soaking his shirt but she could not determine where it was coming from; obviously it was not a fatal shot.

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Lucky watched in horror as the man grabbed Sam and brought her down. He had not even had time to react. He then went to pull out his gun and shoot the man again when he saw that his gun was aimed at Sam's heart. He froze.

"Hey! Hold it right there! Let her go!"
The man turned and looked at Lucky and sneered. "Or what? You will shoot me? Does it really look like I care what happens to me anymore?! This bitch lied to me, she deserves to die just as much as those other ones. It is her fault that they are not all dead as it is."

Sam pulled her leg up under him and tried to kick him, but he deflected it and responded by pistol whipping her in the face. She cried out and this only proved to anger Lucky further.

"I mean it, let her go!" Lucky aimed his gun at the man's head. The man looked at him and what Lucky saw in his eyes made him sure that the man was going to kill Sam and Lucky shot without anymore hesitation and realized that the man had fired at the same time. Everything seemed to freeze and stand still as the only thing that Lucky could hear in the room was his own rapid breathing. He saw that the man had fallen off of Sam and lay next to her and he also noticed that she had blood all over her and her eyes were closed. He rushed over to her and felt everywhere for a wound. Sam opened her eyes slowly and looked at Lucky. "Hey, now is not exactly the time babe."

Lucky ignored her and continued looking for the wound. "I'm looking for where all this blood has come from. Is it yours?"

Sam nodded and Lucky felt his heart drop even lower in his body. "Where Sam?"

"My lower left side, but it is no big deal."

Lucky once again ignored her as he found the wound and realized that it was deep and he figured that the bullet was still inside of Sam. "Hey! I need some help in here NOW!"
Patrick came running into the room with a bandage wrapped around his lower arm and he stopped short as he saw the situation before him. "Oh my god." Patrick did not waste time asking what happened, he just rushed to Sam's side and pulled up her shirt to look at how bad the damage was. He looked at an anxious Lucky's face and then back at Sam. "It's pretty bad Sam. We need to get you into emergency surgery immediately."

Sam just nodded her head and looked at Lucky. He grabbed Sam's hand and brought it up to his lips and kissed it and told her everything was going to be okay.

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Lucky had been waiting for over an hour. He could not believe that he had let his partner get shot. She is not even healed from the last time that she got hurt. Damn it, she had better be okay. I wish I would have killed that son of a bitch. God knows he would have deserved it. Lucky looked up and saw Mac talking to Robin at the nurse's station. He knew that he would be coming over to talk to Lucky once again. He had already told him everything that had happened. The man's name was John Eckhart and a month ago his wife and child had come into the emergency room after being in a car accident. The doctors and nurses who had been working on them had done everything that they could but the two had still ended up dying. There was nothing that could have been done and John had gotten angry and decided that he was going to find all of the people who had worked on his family and make them pay. Liz, Nadine and Patrick were all fine and had not payed the price that John was hoping to accomplish. Lucky just hoped that Sam would not have to be the one to pay for something that she had not even known about. Patrick walked out of the double doors and headed straight for Lucky, who stood up as soon as he saw him. "She's going to be okay. We got the bullet out and stitched her up without causing any more injuries in the process. She also had to get a few stitches on her temple. She has a slight concussion, but as long as she takes it easy for a while, she's going to be fine."

Lucky hung his head in relief "Thank God. Thank you Patrick."
"I should be the one thanking you. And Sam. If the two of you had not done what you did, none of us would have made it out of there."

"It was all Sam."
"What's going to happen with Mr. Eckhart?"

"He is being worked on right now, and then once he is better, Mac says that they are going to have someone come in and see if he is mentally sane. If he is, he is going to jail, if not, then he is going to a mental institution."
Patrick shook his head. "I hope that he has to go to jail, for the rest of his life. Going to an institution would be letting him have the easy way out. I swear that we did everything that we possibly could to save the woman and that little girl. As though we did not feel bad enough about it already."
"Hey, we know that you guys did everything possible, and so does everyone else. Don't worry about it Patrick. You are okay, Sam is okay, Liz and Nadine are going to be okay. It wasn't a great day, but at least it did not end in absolute disaster."
Patrick nodded his head and lead Lucky into Sam's room. Lucky walked in and gave Sam a small smile when he saw her. "Don't you think that you have been in here enough?"
Sam laughed. "I have been in this hospital enough to last me for the rest of my life."

Lucky kissed her gently on the lips and pulled back. He swallowed hard and looked Sam directly in the eyes. "Sam, we need to talk."