Chapter 7:
Sue rolled over as she felt Levi jump onto her bed. She turned to look at the clock, which was blinking just after 3am.
"What is it Buddy?" Sue said tiredly. She turned to see her blackberry buzzing on her bedside table. She picked it up to see a message from Jack:
Sorry to wake you – We might have found the house where they might be storing the bacteria. They need everyone in as soon as possible. See you soon. Love, Jack.
Sue hurried and grabbed some clothes out of her drawer when she saw Levi jump up on her bedroom door. She went to open it, to see Lucy standing exhausted on the other side, already dressed.
"You got the message?" She said, as Sue nodded.
"I'll be right out." Sue got dressed as quickly as she could, throwing her hair up into a messy ponytail and heading out her door.
"Are you okay?" Lucy said, looking at her concernedly. "You look a little pale."
"I'll be okay. Its just lack of sleep – if nothing's happening, I'll either leave early and take a nap, or go to bed really early tonight. I'll grab a granola bar for the ride there." Lucy nodded as she watched her friend grab some food, before they both headed into the empty, dark streets to Lucy's car.
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"We leave in 20 minutes!" D said quickly, as he made his way out of the buzzing bullpen.
"What's happening?" Lucy asked as she walked over to her desk. Everyone gathered around where Jack and Bobby were standing.
"We have a lead on a house where the bacteria may be stored. It would be hard to weaponize it somewhere other than a laboratory, so we don't know what form the bacteria is in as of right now." Bobby explained. Jack added in,
"We followed a shipment of materials that could be used in making a biological weapon to a house not far from here. We have word that one of the men has the capacity to weaponize the bacteria. We need to get in there fast, and be careful as to not spread anything, whether it's been weaponized or not – the house is located in a populated area. I think we all know what could be at stake here." Everyone took this as a cue, and started to grab their things to move out, Lucy sitting at her desk with her headset, getting ready to help from the bullpen, and typing furiously at her computer. Jack went over to Sue's desk as she grabbed her things.
"I'm sorry to have woken you up, especially after promising no more work tonight." Sue gave him a small smile.
"It's okay, terrorists don't tend to run on our schedules."
"You okay? You're a little pale." Sue nodded. She knew that she had to watch her limits, especially after being diagnosed with hypoglycemia. The lack of sleep was hard for her sometimes, especially after many sleepless nights in the last month and a half, but she knew as long as she made sure to eat something and get a good rest later, she would be fine.
"I'm okay. I'll either take a nap later or go to bed really early tonight. Don't worry – I ate something on the way here." Jack nodded and grabbed her hand as they made their way out of the bullpen quickly.
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"Okay – whatever you do, do not take off your masks. Lucy contacted Metro PD and they are making calls and visits, trying to get people from the area to quickly start evacuating quietly. Hopefully, most of the residents from around here should be gone by now, incase the worst should happen." The rest of agents and SWAT team pulled on their masks and started to move into position. Jack got Tara and Sue's attention before they started to move towards the surveillance van.
"If anything wrong happens, I want both of you to put your masks on right away." They both nodded, and Tara started to walk to where her and Sue would be staying. Sue turned and looked at Jack, before saying quietly,
"Be careful."
"I will." He kissed her and gave her a quick hug before heading over to the rest of the team. Sue made her way into the van, only across the street from the house they were planning on invading.
"Let's hope they find who and what we're looking for and get this case over with…these terrorists work way to early for my taste." Tara said trying to lighten the mood, as Sue nodded with a smile. Tara started talking into her microphone, Sue watching through the TV screens for any sign of activity from their terrorists.
"On my count…one…two…three."
Sue watched as the men carefully made their way into the large house. She could see Bobby's lips moving, yelling,
"FBI! Freeze!" Sue suddenly got very confused as the cameras filled with smoke and she could no longer see what was happening. She turned to look at Tara, who looked at her, trying to mask the worry on her face,
"The men are shooting." Sue took a deep breath. Why did she and Jack have to work in such a dangerous job? Every time this happened, she was scared of the news she might receive. If something did happen to Jack, she didn't know what she would do. Suddenly she felt very claustrophobic in the small van, feeling like she had to strain for each breath but she knew she couldn't say anything about it to Tara. She needed to focus and do her job. Jack would be all right. He knew what he was doing.
"Have they found the bacteria yet?" Tara shook her head no, continuing to watch the screen. She suddenly froze as she heard Myles's voice yelling.
"He's a suicider! Abort – everyone get out of here! NOW!" Tara looked at Sue frantically.
"There's a bomb!" She said, hardly knowing what to do until she heard Jack's frantic voice, as he was obviously running to get out of the house.
"Tara, Sue! Get on your masks and RUN!" Tara turned to Sue, who was looking completely confused before grabbing the two masks, and quickly saying,
"We've got to run!" Knowing that they needed to get out of that van immediately, the two women quickly hurried out of it and started to run as fast as they could, not yet having had a chance to put on their masks when Sue felt the heat of an explosion on her back as she and Tara were flown into the cement pavement.
It took Sue a few seconds to level herself again. She saw Tara lying unconscious on the ground, a gash bleeding from her head. Sue crawled over to her, feeling her pulse which was still strong, and coughing in the smoke and debris, noticing the two masks in Tara's grip.
"The bacteria." Sue whispered to herself, horrified, as she grabbed one of the masks and carefully put it to Tara's mouth, slowly making sure that she didn't upset her wound. She grabbed hers as she looked around in the fog, pulling it over her own head. She reached up and felt a deep cut near her hairline, the warm blood soaking onto her fingers.
"I need to find Jack." Sue thought to herself. As she tried to stand up, Sue felt the world start to spin and her eyes start to unfocus. Her eyes started to close slowly, as she rested her head on the cold pavement, and fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
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A/N – hehe! I told you it was going to have to get angsty sooner or later!
