Getcha Back – The Beach Boys
Interstate 40, right outside of Sanders, AZ
June 6, 2019
8:30 PM
Bryce gasped for the thousandth time since he started driving. It had been the longest two and a half hours of his life, driving from Albuquerque to Sanders, a minuscule town, just outside of New Mexico. He finally spotted the emergency room entrance and parked halfway in two parking spots, not caring at the moment.
"How can I help you?" Asked the nurse working at the desk, without looking up.
"There's a bullet in my arm. How do you think you can help me?" He asked through his clenched jaw. She looked up in surprise.
"What?" She asked blinking furiously
"You didn't hear wrong!" He roared, regretting it instantly as it made his arm hurt worse.
"And how did that happen?" The woman asked, shuffling some papers around to hand him what he needed to fill out.
"I was practicing in my back yard for hunting season, and my gun went off, now let me in." He lied.
"Well, Sir, I will once you fill this out."
"LADY! My arm has a BULLET in it! Do you think I can actually use a pen! Besides this is an emergency room!"
"Yes, but if you're not in critical condition, your treated as an urgent care patient."
"I have lead in my arm!"
"You, Sir, are standing, and it looks as if you did a well enough job on bandages that your not going to die of blood-loss. Now, I can get you in as soon as we have your name on record, and your insurance information." The woman snapped.
Bryce weighed his options. Could he fake passing out? He didn't have his ID on him, so it might work.
He debated with himself for a few more moments and put his best acting skills to work.
Albuquerque, NM
"Do you know where the key is honey?" Gabriella asked Ryan as he and Robby sat on the floor in front of her crying.
"No." He sniffed. "So is daddy really our daddy? The man here said he wasn't and that he was!"
Gabriella was astounded, yet knew she shouldn't be. She rolled her eyes before talking. "No, your daddy is Ryan
Evans, not Bryce Kubin."
"What about the picture?" Robby asked, even more confused.
"What picture?" Gabriella asked, confused.
"He had a picture of Mommy and him!" Ryan said.
"Really?" Gabriella was shocked that Bryce could still have such a thing with him when he cared nothing For Abby. At least he didn't towards the marriage, "Listen, back before your mommy and daddy met, Your mommy and that man did know each other, and they were going to live their lives together like any mommy and daddy, but then he turned into a bad guy, and your daddy saved your mommy. And your mommy and daddy got married and then had you two."
"So Daddy's like Ironman?" Robby asked
Gabriella gave a small laugh, "I guess in a way, yes. Your daddy is like a super hero to your mommy."
"So daddy is going to save us from the bad man too and be a super hero again! It just takes a couple of cartoon days to do it because he needs to find out the bad guy's hide out!" Ryan exclaimed.
"I hope so." Gabriella nodded, hoping that Ryan, Troy and the cops will come for them soon, and hoping that Abby and Kelly were alright.
Rio Rancho, NM
Bolton Home
Troy passed his living room, his eyes constantly crossing over Kelly as she slept on the couch, her hair still wet from a bath and in fresh pajamas. Her small body was curled around a doll that had used to be Gabriella's, and a picture book by the name of My Icky Picky Sister by by Beth Hazel and Jerome Harste, another hand-me-down from Gabriella's childhood, hung from her hand, soon to fall off the couch. Troy was afraid to let her from his sight, yet his mind was also torn to thoughts of his wife. How had he found his baby girl only to loose his wife to those two good-for-nothing criminals?
He jumped as he heard a cry from the baby monitor on his belt, then sighed realizing it wasn't even Luther, but Alma. Sharpay or Zeke must have put it on the same frequency as their's. He tried not to cry while he heard Sharpay shushing Alma... Gabriella should be doing that to Luther. He decided to call Ryan to see how Abby was first before he went to check on Luther again.
"So how is she?" He asked once he heard someone pick the phone up.
"She'll be better physically, but mentally it was pretty brutal." Replied Ryan in a monotone.
"Have you talked to the police?" Troy replied in a whisper as he went back to make sure Kelly was still there, and then to check Luther.
"Yes, nothing new. They talked to Abby for a long time yesterday, but it didn't help much. It's not like they're stupid enough to go back to the warehouse. No one has been to an emergency room in New Mexico with a gunshot wound either."
"Have they tried Texas, Colorado, and Arizona too?" Troy asked as he covered up Luther with another blanket and smiled sadly as he opened his eyes briefly and looked up at him.
"No, they don't think he would've done that. Too obvious." Ryan replied quietly.
"I don't think that." Troy responded angrily. "I'll call you back later, I'm going down to the station. Either that or I'm driving to Arizona."
"Tro-" Ryan replied quickly, but was too late as he heard Troy hang up.
Danforth Residence
Rio Rancho, NM
Chad and Taylor jumped as they suddenly heard the cry of a baby.
"Whas goin' on?" Chad groggily asked, as Taylor stood up and walked out of the room, confused too.
Taylor walked down the hall to Billy's room and noted that he was thankfully still asleep. However, when she walked to the guest bedroom, over to the sound of the cries, she found Luther in his crib looking up at Kelly, who was trying to shush him.
"Kelly? What are you two doing here?" Taylor asked tiredly, wrapping her robe tighter around herself as she walked over to the two of them.
"Daddy brought us over because he went to go talk to the police." She responded sadly.
"How did you get in?" Taylor asked, even more confused.
"Daddy came in the back door. He figured Uncle Chad hadn't locked it." Kelly responded, doing her best to keep her eyes open.
Taylor shook her head. "Why did daddy go to the police office at this time of night?" She asked, picking up Luther, but very confused since it was almost 5 in the morning, "How long have you been here?"
"I don't know, I've been sleeping." Kelly responded, doing her best to keep her eyes open.
"Okay, you go back to sleep and I'll take care of Luther." Taylor responded, starting to turn back to go to her bedroom.
"Can I sleep in Billy's room?" She asked, obviously afraid of being alone.
"Yes, you can." Taylor said, smiling sadly at her.
"Why are Luther and Kelly here?" Chad asked, walking in the room. Taylor handed him Luther.
"Your best friend decided that he needed to go to the police station... again. I'm going to call him." She responded before going to find a phone as Chad moved the crib and Luther to their bedroom.
"Hello?" Asked Troy, as he picked up his cell phone.
"Why in the world did you break into our house and leave your kids without telling us? We're more than willing to take care of them, but why in the middle of the night?" Taylor asked irritated. She wanted to find the twins and Gabriella too, but they had to sleep sometime.
"They weren't checking all the hospitals they should have." Troy responded darkly. "I'm on my way to Arizona where a man went into the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the arm."
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