Chapter 10
Escaping

Tommy and Zeke were pulling up with their motorboat as they watched how Kelly stumbled backwards into the water. They had pulled the others over already and they were all safely handcuffed to their boat, waiting for the police to come and pick them up, and the babies to be taken care of. Now they speed up towards Pete, whose boat had stopped as the others drove off. Zeke stopped the boat and by the time they stood still, Tommy was already leaning over the railing, looking down into the water, trying to see Kelly. They looked after her for a second, but realized that she was not coming back up. Tommy gave Zeke a panicked look before he pulled off his jacket and did a nice swan dive into the water. Zeke decided to try to accelerate after the other boat, but his boat didn't start when he turned the key. He quickly looked the boat over, noticing the bullet holes in the tank. No fuel. They were not going anywhere. Zeke cussed high as he walked back towards the railing, looking for Tommy and Kelly. Peter and Jenny ran to the railing too, leaning over, both of them staring into the water with panic. Tommy suddenly broke through the surface, cussed loudly as he took a deep breath and then disappeared under water again.

"I'll call the coast guard." Zeke yelled over to the others, who nodded without taking the eyes off the water.

Jenny and Peter kept staring at the water, holding their breaths, praying that Tommy would find her, and soon. She had been down there way too long now.

"Come on Tom, get her up!" Peter whispered, and as if Tommy had heard him, he came through the water, holding onto Kelly with a tight grip. Peter and Jenny immediately hurried to the ladder and Peter grabbed the unconscious body from Tommy and easily pulled her up on deck. He put his fingers at her neck, but didn't find a pulse. He unzipped her jacket and quickly pulled off the Kevlar vest, noticing the bullets stuck right by the heart in the vest. Good thing he gave that to her he though for a second before he begun CPR. In the same time Zeke hurried over to the railing of his boat, as Tommy climbed up on the other boat.

"You got her?" Zeke yelled.

"Yeah, but she's not breathing and there's no pulse." Tommy said, pulling his fingers through his wet hair, kneeling next to Kelly and Peter. Jenny had backed off and was now sitting down, crying.

"The coastguard is on their way." Zeke said, wanting to get over to that boat, but wasn't in the mood for swimming, and it was not like he could help much more anyway.

"Let me take over Pete." Tommy said, noticing that Peter was getting tired from making chest compressions. Peter sat back as Tommy took over, making chest compressions and doing mouth-to-mouth, before checking her pulse, cussed and then kept doing compressions.

"Kelly, come on! Don't do this to us, come on!"

They all, except Tommy, looked up when they heard a boat arriving, and the coastguard pulled over next to their boat. In the same time as the medics began climbing onto the boat, Kelly inhaled deeply and began coughing up water. Everyone exhaled as Tommy and Peter helped Kelly roll up on her side, and then moved away to let the medics work on her.

"Take a deep breath for me?"

Kelly took a deep breath and the doctor smiled pleased as he listened to her lungs.

"Great, another one?"

Kelly took another breath, and went into a coughing fit. Tommy handed her a glass of water which she happily accepted as the doctor put the stethoscope around his neck.

"It sounds good, the heart rhythm is still a bit irregular and your breathing's a bit shallow but it's already clearing up. Just rest for a few hours or so and I'll release you then." The doctor smiled and left the room.

It was about an hour since Kelly had nearly drowned, and she was now sitting up in a hospital bed hooked up on an ECG-machine, Jenny and Tommy in chairs next to her. Her heart rhythm had been very irregular, probably due to the bullet shot from close range that had hit so close to the heart. Kelly had thanked Peter several times already for giving her the vest, and thanked both him and Tommy for saving her life. Now she was feeling a lot better, and she just wanted out of here so she could keep looking for Kris.

"So, what happened after I fell over board?" Kelly whispered. Her throat and chest hurt badly, but she pushed the pain aside.

"They took off. They blew both our boats' tanks, we weren't able to follow them. They definitely know what they are doing. But we will find them again, now that we know who two of them are." Tommy said.

"Do we?"

"Yeah, the doctor's name is Marcus Hoyt. He lost his license about six months ago due to inappropriate behavior." Tommy said. "We managed to find a connection to him and Jonathan Martin, they are good friends. Hoyt was also on scene when we found the woman that had died from the C-section, and he was there when we found the last woman. We have him on several pictures. And he's registered on the blue ford that you saw that shot Melissa."

"Okay. How do we find him?" Kelly asked, coughing slightly.

Jenny handed her a glass of water, but Kelly shook it off.

"I've had enough water for the rest of my life, thanks" Kelly smiled.

Tommy grinned at Kelly.

"You shot the clown, I saw it."

Kelly looked up at him and nodded.

"Yeah. Yeah I did, it took in the right shoulder."

"We notified all hospitals and harbor doctors and so on, if he goes to a hospital we will get him."

"What if he doesn't go to a hospital? We know that Hoyt is a doctor."

"A gynecologist, not an ER-doctor."

"Still, I doubt that they will risk anything."

"We'll see. Whatever they do, we will get them and we will find Kris. At least we have the kids and the buyers are in custody."

"Has Margaret Cole gotten her son back?"

"They are checking the babies DNA to see which one of them is hers first."

Kelly nodded and leaned back to the pillows. She didn't have time to lie here.

"I need to get to a doctor." Alan Parrish said as he clutched his right shoulder, getting into the blue ford.

"I've been a doctor, you have to settle for that."

Parrish sighed and leaned back into the car.

"Try not to bleed on the seats." Hoyt said as he got in behind the wheels.

"Are you kidding me!? I've been shot here!"

"Just shut up! The FBI is definitely on us now. They might even know who all of us are by now. We need to kill their agent and skip the country. We have the money and with the agents baby we'll be rich enough to leave for good."

"We need to help Parrish before we kill her." Martin said, looking back to the backseat were Parrish was about to pass out from the blood loss.

"Yeah. He's got all connections, we can't let him die." Hoyt sighed. "We'll take him to my place, and you help me stabilize him. Once we're finished you go and kill the agent. Unless the kid is almost out, then let her finish it."

Kelly was sitting in the bed when Zeke, José, Mica, Joanna and Peter walked into the room.

"How are you feeling Kelly?" Zeke asked.

"I'm fine." Kelly smiled, just wanting to get out of there.

"Good to hear. We have a lead on where they are." Zeke smiled.

"You do?"

"Yeah. A friend of mine followed them when they reached the harbor. He followed them to an apartment on 16th, building seven. He's watching them, they all went into the house. We're going over there in several cars to make sure if they go anywhere, we'll follow."

Kelly sat up in the bed and swung her legs over the edge of the bed.

"I'm going too."

"Not until your doctor releases you."

"I need to be there if you find Kris! I lost her, I need to find her, I can't just sit here and do nothing!" Kelly yelled angrily, she had definitely gotten her voice back by now, it had been two hours since she had been hospitalized.

"Yes you can, as long as you haven't been released, you're staying here."

"But, you cow, I want to be with Kris, is that so hard to understand!? I need to be there, I can not stay here!" Kelly mouthed back, and when she saw the FBI boss' angry eyes staring back at her she bit her lip. "Sir."

He rolled her eyes, and then walked out of the room.

"Everyone, you're with me. Garrett, you stay here."

Tommy gave her a sympathetic smile and then left the room together with everyone else. Kelly sighed and leaned back into the bed, before a thought struck her mind.

"Jenny, do you think you can do me a favor?"

"Anything."

Kelly reached for her bag, and pulled out her house keys. She grabbed a napkin and a pen and wrote down three addresses.

"I need you to pick up the girls, take them to my house."

"I'll do that. You sure you'll be okay by yourself here?"

"Of course. Please just take care of them so I don't have to worry about them."

"I will." Jenny smiled and then left the room.

Kelly smiled devilish as she watched Jenny leave, and then she carefully pulled out the IV, ripped off the ECG, grabbed her bag with her wet clothes and other things, and hurried out of the room before a nurse had any chance of getting there. She jogged down the hall and found a closet where she found some green scrubs that she quickly changed into, then took the elevator up two more floors, and walked into Melissa's room where she found her two angels. There was also an elderly couple in the room, sitting on Melissa's right side. The woman was holding onto Melissa's hand, carefully stroking her hair. Neither she nor the man seemed to have noticed Kelly entering the room, but the angels did. They looked her from down and up, confused looks on their faces.

"Why are you wearing scrubs?" Sandra asked.

"Oh, nothing, got shot and almost drowned. I need your help."

The angels were just staring at her, and for the first time, the couple looked up too. Sandra looked at them, then signed to them. The couple rose to their feet and shook hands with Kelly.

"Kelly, this is Melissa's mother Clara and her father John. Don't worry talking to them, they are amazing at reading lips." Sandra smiled, and Kelly smiled at her and then at the parents.

"It's nice meeting you, I wish the circumstances could have been different though." Kelly then said.

Clara smiled at Kelly, and then both she and John turned to Sandra. Sandra signed to them, Clara signed some back, and the elderly then walked back to the bed and sat down.

"You speak sign language?" Kelly asked.

"Some, just the basics. She told me to tell you that's it's nice to meet you too, she's heard a lot about you." Sandra smiled.

Kelly smiled, then turned serious.

"I can really need your help, we're kinda getting a lead on where Kris is, but I don't have a car here."

Sandra signed to Melissa's parents and they nodded and smiled, and the angels followed Kelly. Kelly looked carefully to her right and left before walking out into the hallway, and then walked with quick steps down the hall.

"Kelly? Are you hiding from someone?" Sandra asked confused. Kelly didn't answer, she just got into the elevator and they took it down to the parking floor. Kelly walked quickly to Janet's car and they all got in, Kelly in the passenger seat, Sandra in the back.

"Where are we going?" Janet asked.

"16th." Kelly answered, looking out of the window.

"Kelly, what has happened, what's going on?" Sandra asked.

"We found the babies, we caught the buyers, the three baboons got away because they shot up our boats. One of them hit me in the chest, but luckily I was wearing a Kevlar, but the force sent me flying over the railing and I think I passed out in the water, don't remember much. Tommy pulled me up and performed CPR and then the coastguard took me to the hospital. Now the FBI is watching this house, and I want to watch it too. Soon someone will leave and go to Kris and we'll follow. Stay on the back side of it."

"Kelly?" Janet said, looking at Kelly as a teacher would look at a kid who hasn't done her homework.

"What?" Kelly said innocently, putting on her puppy eyes.

"Have you been released?"

"Yes, of course." Kelly said, still with the puppy look on her face.

"You so have not."

Kelly sighed. Darn. Ella and Sarah can always get away with puppy eyes, why couldn't she? Growing up was not fair.

"Okay, maybe I haven't. But I need to get to Kris."

Janet sighed and kept driving, parking on a safe distance from the back entrance of the house that Kelly had gotten the address to. Kelly noticed that no one from the FBI was there, and she guessed they were all on the main street. Kelly smiled and leaned back in the seat, pulling up a pair of binoculars from the glove box, carefully studying the back entrance. These guys knew that they were followed, they would not walk out on the main street. And there was a van parked by the entrance.

We're getting clooooser ^^ Reevieew ! :D