A/N: So, we're coming near to the end of the story now, one more chapter to go. I've had a great time writting this story and i really hope you have enjoyed reading it. Granted i'm not the best writer but this is my first fanfic and i'm in the middle of my second one. Thanks for all your reviews and sorry for the long wait in between chapters, I hope this one makes up for it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It had been a rather long day for everyone involved in the case. Jess had fallen asleep at her desk as they were waiting for news from their fellow officers. Don found it rather cute and couldn't resist the urge to take a photo of her on his phone and have it as his wallpaper. "My sleeping beauty" he said to himself as he set the photo as his wallpaper. He chuckled and walked over to her desk, not wanting her to get in trouble with the captain so knew he had to wake her up, after all she had been sleeping for the past two hours. "Wakey Wakey Jess" Don whispered into her ear as he gently shook her to wake her. She groaned and stirred a little before she opened her eyes and looked up at him. "What time is it?" She let out a long yawn and a stretch as she sat back in her chair looking up at Don who gazed into her eyes, showing his dimples as he had a smirk on his lips. "Whaaaat?" Jess chuckled. "Nothing, you just looked really adorable with some drool coming out of your mouth" Don teased and Jess thumped him playfully "I DO NOT" She laughed and shook her head and looked around her, realising the time was only 5pm "It's only 5? That is p.m right and not a.m?" Jess asked and stood up though quickly sat down again as her legs felt like jelly. "My legs are like jelly" She laughed and Don helped her up before sneaking a quick kiss. "So ah, what's the latest? Please tell me we got something?" Jess looked at him as she walked toward the coffee machine. "No, nothing as of late, there was a few sightings but they turned out to be negative" Don replied with a heavy sigh and wrapped his arms around her waist as she made them both a coffee. "Y'know with the amount of coffee I drink I could rule the world" Don laughed and stood beside her as other officers came into the break room.
William Jones wandered around Times Square. Dressed in a pair of ripped jeans and a baggy t-shirt with a faded design and a baseball cap as he carried a few bags from various shops he had gone into throughout the day. Stopping at the subway restaraunt, he looked at the menu on the window, licking his lips as he thought about what he wanted to eat. His mind was in a hundred different places. Part of him wanted to turn himself in and just end this madness, but the other part of him, was waiting for the sign. The sign that told him who he had to kill next. "Sacrifices...sacrifices... they have to be made, you must get rid of them... it's for the greater good" The voices in his head repeated over and over again, making him paranoid. He sat down on the bench outside, leaning forward with his head in his hands, letting out a few grunts as he slowly rocked his body back and fourth, begging for the voices to go away. He got up from the bench after a few minutes and walked into the restaraunt and seemed like the most normal guy in the city. He stood in the short que and chewed nervously at his nails, he knew that every cop in the city was looking for him, he remembered Jess, he appeared to her and he knew that she would do whatever she had to do.
Once he had placed his order and paid for it, he took a seat at the back corner of the restaraunt and started to tuck into his cheese and bacon roll, nervously tapping his foot of the leg of the table. He finished his food and wiped his hands carefully on the napkin before he pushed the tray to the one side and sat at the table deep in thought.
"ALRIGHT GUYS AND GALS YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO..." William's voice screamed out across the area of on going destruction as he raised his flash light and walked into the tower, so far it was still stable but he knew at any point that it could come down so he had to move fast... "CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?..." William said as he looked around the ground floor of the tower, looking for any survivors as the smoke started to fill the ground floor quickly making visibility hard. "KEEP MOVING" The team moved around the ground floor checking and looking for any survivors as William made his way up the stairwell, the rest of the team that he led in moved out through out the ground floor to check it...As William climbed the stair well the smoke got worse and worse, making his breathing become heavier as he fought for every last breath of air but he kept moving, he had a duty to do, he had the duty to serve and protect the people of New York City. "GROUND FLOOR CLEAR" The team shouted from down below, the sounds of the stair well creaking and the building slowly rocking as bits of the ceiling started coming to fall down. "WATCH YOUR HEADS" William shouted hoping the team on the ground floor could hear him in time...
"CAN ANYONE HEAR ME" He shouted as he looked around, the creaking was starting to get worse as the building began to rock to and fourth. "William get out of there NOW its coming down..." A voice came over his radio but William had blocked everything else out to even hear the voice, he looked behind him to make sure Jess was still there then made his way up the stair case hoping that he would hear some screaming...some sign any sign of life...The stairwell began to rock and fall apart, parts of it falling down as the building began to collapse, he could no longer hear the voices of the team on the ground floor and could only pray for their safety.
"WE GOTTA PRESS ON..." William shouted but he was fighting a lost cause, the building began to shake more and more which was making more and more rubble fall down, the stairwell creaked more and soon began to gave way but William kept pressing on but lost his footing and stumbled off the stairwell... "WILLIAM" Jess screamed and quickly gabbed his arm but the stairwell was rocking and rocking quickly which was making it hard for Jess to keep her grip "COME ON WILLIAM" Jess tried to pull William up but the building rocked again which caused Jess to be flung forward and lose the grip as the building began to tumble down on top of them... "" Jess grabbed on to the edge of the stairwell and could only watch as William fell to the ground, hitting his head off a rock as he landed with a thud, quickly being buried under debris, steal and metal.
He got up off the chair and left subway and headed in next door to Starbucks. Standing in the que once again he ordered himself a coffee and a donut, the one thing that cops seemed to live on. He paid for his items and took a seat by the window as he sat staring, watching the world go by. Taking a sip of his coffee he let out a soft sigh as he once again sat deep in thought
Darkness. That's all there was to be seen. He thought about whether he was in hell or not, it sure felt like he was, he was unable to move and it was hard to breathe. He struggled to reach to his pocket to grab his flash light, groaning loudly he suddenly screamed as a sharp pain shot through his leg. "HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPP" He yelled out, must have been a few hundred times, but no one had come, he coughed, spewing up blood. "JESSIIEEEEE" He yelled out and coughed again, his entire body aching. He didn't really care about himself, he just wanted to make sure that Jess was ok, but he got no response from her after he yelled her name half a dozen times. Messages began to send to his brain that she left him there do die and save her own ass. He let out a loud sigh, then once again, nothing but darkness as he lost consciousness.
"Yo, dude, are you ok?" A passerby asked. Though William didn't respond. The passerby walked on ahead and got on with his own business. Jess walked into Starbucks to get herself and Don a coffee as the machine back at the precinct wasn't working. She stood in the que and looked around her, a frown appearing on her face as she scanned the room, her eyes immediately locking on William. "William..." Jess looked at him, then at the photo that Adam gave out then back to the man sitting by the window, it was a perfect match. She pondered about what to do, not wanting to alert him so she grabbed her phone and called Don, though whilst she was doing that, William got up and bolted out the door "WILLIAM!" Jess yelled as she bolted out the door after him and chased him down the street. "NYPD! OUTTA THE WAY" Jess yelled to the people of the city as she ran down the street after William, this had gone on long enough and she was going to get some answers. Pulling out her phone she called dispatch. "Control this is Angell, in pursuit of suspect William Jones, heading down West Times Square, urgent back up required" She shouted as she turned a corner and looked around for William, trying to figure out where he went as she lost him for a brief moment. "William, I know you're around here, just show your face and come out" A loud scream came from behind her, before she felt an object hit the back of her head, making her fall to the ground as William continued to make a run for it. Jess groaned and picked herself up off the ground, running on adrenaline, she was not going to let him slip through her fingers.
She must have been running for what felt like hours though it was only a few minutes, her head was pounding as she looked around her, her eyes scanning the area, she sighed heavily as she was back to Ground Zero, she just hoped she wasn't about to witness a murder. She ran into the grounds to find William standing in the middle. She looked up at him and sighed "It's over William, this crusade has to stop, and it has to be right here, right now" She said placing her hand on her gun as a precaution. William looked back at her, a bright light was shining over her, he knew what he had to do. "She left you to die...she must be dealt with"..."No...it wasn't her fault"..."Kill her... kill her...she left you to die"...The voices in his head played over and over. "TALK TO ME DAMMIT" Jess yelled out to him and sighed. "I gotta take you in William, I called for back up and they're gonna be here really soon, you remember the protocol right?"
William looked at her, cocking his head to the side as the voices in his head kept telling him to kill her. "You ruined everything, and now you must pay". Jess looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "I... what do you mean I ruined everything?" William bent down and picked up a shovel and walked toward Jess who began to take a few short steps back before unholstering her gun and aiming it at him. "DROP THE WEAPON NOW" She yelled to him, though she hated to do it, but if she didn't act then he would kill her without realising due to his mental state. William continued to move toward her, his grip on the shovel becoming tighter. " I SAID PUT THE WEAPON DOWN NOW" With one fatal swoop, William swung the shovel around in attempt to hit Jess, the voices in his head getting louder and stronger, as the light around her became brighter. "YOU LEFT ME THERE TO DIE, HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?" He yelled back to Jess with tears streaming down his face. Jess looked at him with a shocked expression on her face. "What? No...William you slipped from my hand... you fell, and before I could do anything the tower collapsed, I thought you were dead"..."WELL I WASN'T...I was under there for HOURS...HOURS...yelling for help...I have to kill you, for what you've done to me" He yelled back to her as he swung her shovel around, Jess ducked and swung her leg around as she kicked the shovel out of his hand. "There was nothing I could do... the stairway began to give way and I was flung forward, I held on as long as I could but...you fell..." She sighed heavily and aimed her gun at him "Get down on the ground with your hands behind your head" Jess said as she put her finger on the trigger, she didn't want to shoot him, but if she had too, she would. William looked at her before he dived onto her, knocking them both to the ground. Jess groaned and there was a struggle, soon the sound of a single gun shot was all that could be hear ringing through the air...
