Chapter Ten- Scotty
Twenty minutes earlier
Scotty Valens honked his car horn impatiently as traffic slowed to a crawl. It should have only taken thirty minutes to get to the office, but there was a traffic jam a block away from the office. As he peered around the line of cars in front of him, he realized the cause for the traffic jam appeared to be some kind of roadblock. As he approached the front of the line, an officer approached his window. Scotty rolled his window down as the officer said, "I'm sorry sir. This road is closed due to police operations. Which way are you headed? I can direct you to an alternate route to reach your destination."
Scotty pulls out his badge as he introduces himself. "Detective Valens. Philadelphia P.D. What's going on?"
"Hostage situation at the prescient on 6th. We were ordered to redirect traffic away from the situation."
"That's my team. I need to get in there."
"I'm sorry but we're not supposed to…"
"Look I'm going to get through one way or another. Either you let me through, or I run through the roadblock. It's your choice."
The officer sighs and says, "I'll see what I can do." He turns and walks back to the other officers directing the roadblock. They talk for a minute. One of the officers' says something on the radio, while two other move the orange cones blocking the street to the office. Almost immediately, Scotty speeds through the opening, waving to the officers with one hand. He arrives a few minutes later, pulling into the parking lot full of fire, EMS, and police. There are at least a half a dozen paramedics treating several wounded people. An ambulance speeds past him, sirens and lights blazing, on its way to the hospital. As he gets out of his car, he scans the parking lot, looking for any familiar faces. Suddenly, he spots Nick sitting in the back of an ambulance, being bandaged up by a paramedic.
"Nick!" He yells, getting out of his car and slamming the door as he runs towards him. "What the hell happened?"
"Will and I just got back from the field. We were at our desk and a masked gunman walks in and starts yelling and waving a gun. I tried to go over and calm the guy down and he shot me." Nick said wincing a bit as the paramedic finished tightening up the bandage. "Boss tried to help me and the gunman shot him too. Ambulance just took the boss to the hospital. He's in pretty bad shape."
"Have you seen Lil'?"
"She was in an interrogation room with Kat and some woman. They tried to get out while the gunman was shooting up half the office personnel, but gunman saw then. He went nuts when he saw the woman. She's probably the reason he came in the first place. He forced Kat, Lil, and the woman back into the room. Threatened to shot them all if anyone tried to go into the room. No one could really help anyways. Whole bunch of people wounded. Police and paramedics took awhile to get everyone out. Will's working with the hostage team now. They're trying to find a safe way in."
"How long have they been in there?" Scotty asks running his hand through his hair as he paces around.
"Probably about a half an hour. Maybe more." Nick says getting up from the back bumper of the ambulance. The paramedic moves on to the next injured person. Just then, Scotty's phone vibrates loudly. He digs around in his pocket for his phone, for a few minutes before realizing the phone is in his coat pocket. He flips open the phone, as the screen flashes and beeps.
New Text Message
From Lilly
L & I in Rm 3, left corner
UnSub & woman in front right, by door
Don't have much time. L in labor. Hurry!
K.
**************** Ooh, suspense! What do you think Scotty is going to do? Update coming soon! :D