Chapter Ten: Trial

Hans was sitting in the court room, watching the proceedings carefully. The hostages that had been in the Nakatomi Plaza were taking the witness stand one by one. Hans wasn't worried at all. He was waiting for one person and one person only. Every few minutes he would glance behind him towards the audience and try and catch Holly's eye. She would look at him for a few seconds, but then would look away and turn back her attention to the trial. Holly kept fidgeting and sliding over on the bench closer to her husband, as if he was going to protect her. Hans just smirked at her and turned back to the front.

Before the trial had begun, the FBI agents had held him in an exclusive area. He had been under a 24 hour watch for the past two weeks. They had come into his cell and questioned him relentlessly. They had become angry with him after a few hours of him not giving up any information. They had threaten him multiply times; he had just laughed at them in response. They had told him he was going to have a 'fair' trial and they were going to convicted him and he was going to spend the rest of his life in jail. Once he got there they were going to torture him until he gave up the information they wanted.

Hans really didn't care what was going to happen, or how the verdict turned out. He would be out of this place in a little while. Imelda had gotten away and she had probably told his men and family what had taken place. They would be here in a short period of time to get him. He really didn't want to be in anyone's debt but he didn't really have a choice right now. He shook himself out of his thoughts and brought his attention back on the trial.

The man that had been on the witness stand was just stepping down. The bailiff called the next witness up. "The court calls Mrs. Holly McClain to the stand."

Holly stood up from her seat and walked towards the stand. She was trying to gather up her courage to speak, because she already knew Hans was going to be staring daggers at her when she got up there. She stepped up to the bench and sat down in the wooden chair slowly. She looked down at the audience and took a deep breath to calm herself. She watched the lawyer for the prosecution get up and glide over to the witness bench.

"Mrs. McClain, on December 24 were you at the Nakatomi Plaza?" the lawyer asked.

"Yes" Holly answered.

"What were you doing there Mrs. McClain?"

"I was at a Christmas Eve party at my job, they hold it every year."

"How many times have you gone to this Christmas Eve party?"

"Just the one."

The lawyer nodded and turned his back to Holly. He was looking at the coward when he asked her the next question. "When you were at the Christmas party what happen?"

"Well everything was going fine, people were having fun laughing and talking with each other. Then Hans Gruber showed up and crashed our party."

"How did he crash it?"

"He came from the elevator, he and his men. They had machine guns. They began shoot up in the air. My co-workers started to scream and tried to get away but they gathered them all up before they could escape."

"Where you among those who were trap with Gruber and his men?"

"Yes."

The prosecution lawyer nodded and moved back to his seat. Holly glanced over to where Hans and his lawyer were sitting. Hans was whispering something in her ear. She was nodding every few seconds in agreement to whatever he was telling her. She nodded one final time and stood up and strolled into the middle of the floor.

John McClain was sitting in the audience. He watched the defense lawyer's body language carefully. He didn't like what saw. Apparently right before she had gotten up to question Holly, she had received some new information and she was going to use it against his wife.

"Mrs. McClain" the defense lawyer addressed Holly. "You state that Mr. Gruber held you and thirty other people hostage on December 24?"

"Yes" Holly answered with determination on her face. She didn't like the look in the defense attorney's eyes. She wore a small smirk on her lips and behind her Hans wore a huge cocky grin.

"Before December 24, had you ever met the defended at any other place before?"

Holly felt her mouth go dry. Now she knew exactly why Hans was being so cocky right now. He was going to busted her, because she was testifying against him. Holly looked at the judge for help. The judge turned to her.

"Answer the question Mrs. McClain" the judge instructed.

Holly looked down at her hands and whispered. "Yes, I have met the defended before."

Everyone in the whole gasped in shock. Holly looked at her husband and saw his face mirrored everyone else's in the room. Holly turned back to the lawyer and awaited the next question.

"Where did you meet the defended?"

"About two years ago out in, Las Vegas."

"What were you doing out there?"

"I was out there on business in for my company."

"Where did you meet the defended?"

"In one of the casinos. I was at the bar with one of my friends and he was there."

"What happen at the bar?"

The defense lawyer was loving this so much. She had Holly on the ropes and she was going in for the kill.

"My friend and I talked with the defended but my friend was doing most of the talking."

"What happen next?"

"After a while he got up to leave, but before he left he gave us his business card."

"At the time you met Hans Gruber did you know what he did for a living?"

Holly shook her head. "No, I didn't even know his last name. Then a few days later my friend called him and invited him to dinner without my knowledge. We had dinner and after that they both left together, while I was still at the restaurant. "

"Was that all?"

Holly glanced over at Hans. He was staring at her intently daring her to try and lie to get out of this. "No, the next day my friend and I met for breakfast. She told she had a one night stand with the defended."

Holly stopped and rubbed her sweaty hands together. She was getting nervous the lawyer was inching closer and closer to the subject she didn't want known.

"Continue your story Mrs. McClain" the judge urged.

"My friend encourage that I should sleep with the defended too, but I told her no, I was married. The next day I decided to call my husband and to check up. He answered the phone. We were talking and I heard a women's voice in the background." As she was speaking, Holly felt hot tears roll down her face. "I thought the worse, because my husband I were having problems at the time. I thought he was cheating on me."

"Was your husband cheating you?"

"No, he wasn't but I didn't know at the time. I was so upset I fled my hotel room. While I was running away I bumped into Mr. Gruber. I was so hurt, lonely and angry."

"That night did you sleep with Hans Gruber?" the lawyer asked.

Holly took a deep breath and looked at her husband with guilty look on her face when she answered. "Yes, I did."

The whole room gasped again just more loudly this time. Holly stared at her husband. He was staring back at her with pure angry on his face but it wasn't over yet Holly still had something else to say.

"Plus around the time I slept with defended I got pregnant with my second child and don't if my husband is the father to my fifteen month year old son."

The audience went crazy after hearing Holly's confusion. The judge banged her gavel and yelling for the crowd to quiet down.

"So your saying Mrs. McClain that either your husband or Mr. Gruber is the real father to your son?" the judge asked.

"Yes your honor" Holly said quietly.

Holly looked over to her husband. He was beyond furious now. He got up and stomped out of the room unable look at his wife any longer. Holly glanced over at Hans and saw the shock written on his face as well.

"Then I hear by order a DNA test to be taken by you, your husband and Mr. Gruber to found out the who the real father is. The court is adjourned."

Wow, talk about drama. So who do you think the father is? Review.