Chapter 11: Final Trial
A/N: Here it is, the final chapter on this story.
Paige's Pov-
I woke up on the floor in the hidden room. I had to get out of there and find Emily to tell her that she isn't the killer. I went to the door and started to push the door, but it was locked. I tried to push harder and even kick it but it wouldn't budge. So I started to lock around in the room then I grabbed the computer and smashed it against the secret door until I had made a hole big enough to get my arm through. Then I reached out and unlocked the door so I could get out.
When I had gotten out of the closet I saw that the apartment was now on fire, that maniac Alison wanted to make sure I wasn't going to leave this place alive.
I had to get out of there quickly, the smoke made it harder and harder to see anything and it was also getting harder to breath.
I forced myself to move forward trying to find the door or a window, but it got harder and harder and I felt the fire around me getting hotter, it felt like I was inside a pizza oven.
Once I reached a door I quickly opened it, the door didn't lead out of the apartment, it got me to Alison's office that was also surrounded by flames and on a desk there was something that almost made me faint. Alison had put a propane tank on her desk, once the flames reaches it this whole apartment was going to blow, I knew there was no way I could prevent it from exploding in time, I just dashed through the fires and I kicked down another door, this one lead out of the apartment.
I threw off my jacket that was burning and then I ran down the stairs to my motorcycle, good thing I had my keys in my pants pocket. I quickly got on my motorcycle and started it as I heard the explosion from the apartment. I drove without looking back, I had to get to Emily and warn her before Alison would get to her first.
Emily's Pov-
I had made it to the address I had gotten. It was an old warehouse I looked around and stared to shout for Heather. "Heather." I cried as I walked around in the warehouse, I hoped that I wasn't too late. "Heather!" I kept screaming hoping that she'd answer. "Heather!"
Please be here, please don't let it be too late.
"I've been looking for a long, long time, Emily…" I heard a voice say.
I turned around and saw a woman that was slightly shorter than me, had golden blonde hair and looked like she was around my age.
"Looking for a mother that would be able to do what mine could do, sacrifice herself in order to save her daughter." The woman said, that's when I realized that she was the Origami Killer.
"Oh, I searched, searched and searched… and then I remembered you." She said. "I saw you lose your oldest daughter so I thought that you could be the one who could save her child." The killer continued.
"All those murders… just to find a mother capable to save her daughter?" I said discussed over what she had said.
"Just to find a mother? Do you have any idea how it feels like to have a mother who is never interested in your life? Or a father that bails when things gets rough? Believe me, I've suffered… just as much as my victims." She said, she was clearly sick in her head.
"I have finished your damn trials, now give me back my daughter!" I said, angered.
"She is there." The killer said and pointed to a well. "All you have to do is open that grate."
I took a few steps back until I felt the grate against my foot, then I turned around and tried to open it, but it was locked. When I locked back at the killer she held a gun against me.
"I'm sorry Emily, but it has to end this way." She said.
The gun was fired but the bullet didn't hit me, I looked back and saw that now there was someone else that was fighting against the Origami Killer. The killer lost her gun and started to run as the other person, a guy chased after her.
"You should have minded you own fucking business Rivers!" I heard the killer shout as they disappeared.
I looked back at the grate, I could see that Heather was in in and she was unconscious. I tried to open the grate but it was deadlocked. So I grabbed the killers gun and shot of the lock so I could easily open it.
"I'm here Heather, I'm here." I said as I pulled her out of the well.
Caleb's Pov-
After I found out that the killer was a cop and pieced the clues together I knew that it was Alison who was the killer. Now I had tracked her down since the police had gotten a call where Emily was there was no doubt in my mind that Alison was going to be right there. I had sneaked into the building as the other policemen was busy surrounding the building to block off any exits.
I kept running after Alison as she ran up on the roof trying to escape me.
"You where the killer all along, that's why you where so obsessed whit framing Emily!" I shouted after her.
"You don't know… you don't know anything." She said sounding delusional.
"You're going to pay for your crimes." I said as I fired my gun in the air as a warning to her, but she kept running.
Emily's Pov-
I put Heather on her back and started to give her mouth to mouth. She was cold and she didn't react, but I wasn't going to stop now, I had fought so hard to save her she couldn't die. I tried again and again to resuscitate her but she didn't respond.
I was too late; after all I had done it was still not enough. I sat down and cried, I must be the worse mom ever, I had now lost both my daughters.
Paige's Pov-
I had just arrived to where the computer had told me Heather was, I knew that if she was there Emily would be there as well.
I got off my motorcycle and saw that the warehouse was surrounded by cops and they looked like they were ready to fire their guns as soon as Emily would exit the building.
I ran up to the closes police car hoping I could explain to them that Emily wasn't the killer.
"Hey, you there! What are you doing?" A police lieutenant said to me.
"Lieutenant, my name is Paige McCullers, I'm a journalist. I have proof that Emily Fields is innocent. She isn't the Origami Killer" I said but the lieutenant didn't seem to care what I had to say.
"Barry! What is a journalist doing here?" He asked and two other policemen walked up to me.
"Get her out of here." He said as I was escorted back to my bike I screamed "You're about to make a terrible mistake, Emily Fields is innocent and I can prove it!"
Caleb's Pov-
I had cornered Alison, she had nowhere to run now.
"Killer." I said as I put on my ARI glasses and activated the record mode so I could film her as she confessed everything.
"So you figured it out, well so what? There is now chance you can prove that I'm the Origami Killer, you got nothing that can prove that." She said.
"I will find proof even if it means I have to search through everything you own." I said, I kept quiet about my ARI since then Alison wouldn't know she was recorded.
"Good luck with that, I blew up my apartment to get rid of any proof and to kill a nosy girl who had figured out that I was the killer." Alison said.
"You're still coming with me." I said and walked up to her.
"Like hell I am." Alison said and threw a brick at me, I dodged it but then Alison tackled me so I dropped my gun and my ARI glasses.
She tried to push me off the roof but I grabbed a pipe on the roof and hit her thigh with it so she tripped and we were both lying down on our back.
Emily's Pov-
I sat down next to my daughter and cried. "I'm sorry Heather… I'm so sorry." I said as I held her hand and cried.
Then I hear coughing, I looked back at her and she was opening her eyes and breathing loudly.
"Oh, oh Heather. I thought you were gone." I said feeling happy for the first time in ages. I held her close to me never wanting to let her go.
"Mom… I knew you'd come and save me..." Heather said.
I hugged her tight then I remembered something, I was still going to die from the poison, I looked at my cellphone and saw that I only had 10 seconds left.
I broke the hug and med her look at me. "Heather listen. You are the best thing that's ever happened to me in my life. I want you to know that whatever happened, I love you more than anything in the world." I said then I heard to cell phone beep, hinting that the time was up.
"I love you." I said and hugged her again one last time, then nothing happened.
Paige's Pov-
"Fields didn't do it!" I shouted one last time but the police didn't listen to me.
I decided that I had to do something else to prevent them from shooting Emily when they see her.
I got on my motorcycle and I drove around the police officer's blockade making sure to catch their attention. As I drove in front of the policemen I noticed that it was too slippery to make too sharp turns and I wasn't even wearing my helmet.
"HOLD YOU FIRE!" I heard the lieutenant shout as I fell off my bike, but instead of trying to talk to them again I ran inside the warehouse knowing that now I wouldn't shoot on sight.
"Emily! Emily are you in there?" I said as I was inside the warehouse.
Emily's Pov-
I heard Paige's voice, I didn't know why but I heard it. I looked around and saw that I was still in the warehouse.
"I'm not dead." I said confused. "I took to poison over an hour ago and I'm not dead…" I started to laugh as I realized that the poison was fake.
"Oh, Emily thank god you're here." I heard Paige say as she ran up to me.
"Paige? What is going on?" I asked confused to see her here.
"The cops. They're out there. They have the building surrounded." Paige said sounding out of breath.
"They'll shoot you if you go outside!" Paige warned.
"I'll go out alone. I'll explain." I said as I started to walk towards the door.
"You'll be dead before you even open your mouth!" Paige said as she got in front of me.
"Look, we'll all go outside together, with our hands in the air. They can't possibly shoot us." Paige said, then she held up a notebook. "I have evidence that proves your innocence, Emily." She said and looked concerned at me.
"Paige listen, I'm sorry I didn't trust you. I was only thinking about Heather and I thought…" Then I looked back and Heather who was sitting down on the ground freezing.
"That's ok. The only thing that matters is that you save her." Paige said.
Caleb's Pov-
I looked at Alison who ran towards me ready to push me off the roof. I quickly sidestepped and Alison almost fell over the edge but I grabbed her arm in the last second and pulled her back to the roof.
"Thank you." She said, but when I turned my back to her she stabbed me in the shoulder so I fell to the ground.
"What? Did you think I was going to just go any confess everything, no way I'd rather take care of all lose threads, starting with you." She said and was about to stab me again but I grabbed my gun that was right in front of me and shot her when she tried to stab me for the second time.
She took a few steps back holding her hand over her stomach where I had shot her, then she looked at me before she fell over the edge to her death.
I grabbed my police radio and tried to call any nearby police units to get me some help.
Paige's Pov-
Emily was holding her daughter in her arms as I looked at her.
"Are you ready?" I asked.
Emily just nodded then we both walked out, I was a few steps in front of Emily so the police wouldn't risk shooting her. I looked at Emily and said, don't worry. This will soon be all over.
A mount later:
Emily's Pov-
After that night Paige had shown her proof to the police and then a FBI profiler named Caleb had showed some other evidence as well that proved that I wasn't the Origami Killer.
The days after that night had been a bit challenging but Heather got adjusted pretty fast and she got very great along with Paige, mostly because Paige would drive her around on her motorcycle. Paige and my relation got serious very fast, after a few weeks she had moved in with me and now I had brought her and Heather to a house I thought about buying for all of us.
I was showing it to them now and they were both in awe as they looked inside the house.
"Let's say a friend of a friend let me jump in line. If we like it… well, then it's ours." I said.
Heather started to laugh as she ran around the open space and wanted to check every room, Paige walked up to me.
"Well, what do you think?" I asked Paige.
"It's perfect, Emily… We'll be able to forget what happened." She said as she held my hands and looked out the window.
"We'll have a normal life and one day, it will all just seem like a bad dream." She said as Heather pop her head out from a room.
"Hey, mom. I think I've found where I want my room." She said and laugh as she kept ruining from room to room.
"We've earned to be happy now, Emily… all three of us." Paige said.
Then I saw Heather coming out of another room and I smiled at Paige and said. "Let's get her!" Paige and I then chased after Heather who were laughing every second. This maybe wasn't the life I thought I'd have two years ago, but it's what I'd never trade for the world.
The end.