Hi everyone
Sorry it's taken a little while for this one. I don't think I've ever had as many PMs asking me to update.
A few reviews shocked me as they wanted Christian to be the one that died! I could never do that. I'm a fan of the trilogy and the two main leads, not a hater so I don't think I could ever kill them off while they were young and healthy and in love.
To my "Stats Nazi" you know who you are. If what you said was true and all I cared about was followers and reviews and numbers, I would have given up 4 chapters in to my first story so back to the drawing board for you.
Don't forget the pins.
Cheers xoxoxo
ANAS POV
As we walk out side for a few minutes of fresh air, all hell breaks loose.
Rapid gun fire rings out across the still afternoon air. Bullets starts destroying everything around us and I don't have time to react when I am tackled from behind by Luke who starts to use his own body to shield mine.
My heart starts to go into over drive and panic grips me. My Family!
I look up just as a bullet rips through Christians chest as he shields Katie from the attack.
"CHRISTIAN!" I scream and struggle to get up but Luke is like a dead weight on my back. More shots ring out and I hear someone scream in agony. I look to my left and see Teddy laying in a pool of blood. No No No!
"TEDDY!"
Almost as soon as it started its stops and a deadly silence fills the air. I scramble to get up and its only then that I realize the reason Luke was so heavy on me. As I get up his lifeless body slumps to the side and I see the bullet hole he has right through his heart.
"NO NO! PLEASE GOD NO!" I scream but I know he is gone.
I don't have time to think about him because all I can think of is my oldest son and husband. I run over to Teddy's side and start screaming.
"Teddy! Teddy baby wake up" I start to shake him and he opens his eyes and starts moaning in pain. Oh thank God! he's alive!
Christian...
I frantically look around and see my husband slumped against a wall with Tommy and Katie trying to stop the blood that is pouring from the right side of his chest.
"SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE!" I scream just as Phoebe and Matthew run around to us. I quickly give Phoebe a once over and see that she is OK and then I go back to trying to stop the bled from Teddy's arm.
Everyone jumps into action and Blaze runs towards us and immediately helps me put pressure on Teddy's arm. I leave him in her hands and then rush over to my husband.
"Christian!"
"I'm OK, baby. Teddy, is he OK?" he pants and he seems to have trouble breathing.
"Hes OK, its just his arm. Don't you close your eyes Christian Grey!" I start crying as his eyes start getting droopy. I start to gently slap his face to keep him awake and he grips my hand.
"I love you, Anast...Anastasia" he whispers and then his eyes roll back into his head causing Tommy and Katie to scream.
"NO CHRISTIAN! DON'T LEAVE ME! PLEASE BABY, NO NO NO!" I scream and then find Grace beside me.
"Ana, move let me get to him" She starts working on him and behind me I can hear Elliott on the phone screaming for an ambulance.
"An...Ana" Christian forces out and I grip his hand and hold his hair off his forehead.
"Stay with me, baby please. Please don't leave me! Don't leave us! Fight this, Christian please!" I beg him and cry into his side.
Maggie, Kate and Mia race out of the house and each runs in a different direction and its only now do I realize that Ethan is down and so is Gail.
Please god don't let us lose anyone else!
After 10 minutes of absolute mayhem, the paramedics arrive along with an air ambulance.
They start to work on Teddy and Christian straight away because Gail and Ethan only have flesh wounds.
I start crying my heart out when I see one of the paramedics check Luke over and then slowly shake his head. Maggie, who was knelt down next to Luke starts crying and then gently covers him with her jacket.
Luke is like an uncle to my children and a brother to me. I've known him as long as I've known Christian and he has always been with me. Day in, day out. If he had not have pushed me down then the bullet would have ended up in my chest and it would be me under that jacket. He saved me.
"Ma'am, we need to get him to the hospital now! He's losing to much blood" The paramedic tells me and they lift Christian up and rush him to the air ambulance. I look around at the carnage and Elliott yells out and tells me to stay with Christian and he will look after the kids and meet us at the hospital.
The flight only last ten minutes but to me it feels like hours. As soon as the chopper touches down a full team of medical staff rush us and help Christian out onto a trolley. We all run inside but before I can follow him I am told that I have to wait out side because they are taking him straight to the OR.
I pace the waiting room and sob bitterly by myself for twenty minutes before the door swings open and Kate, Elliott, Maggie and Paul walk in.
"Teddy? Is Teddy OK? Where is he?" I'm almost hysterical at this point and Elliott pulls me into his arms.
"He's going to be OK, Ana. He's being stitched up down the hall. The bullet went straight through his arm and thankfully missed everything that would have been life threatening. Ethan and Gail are being stitched up too"
"Mom, how's Dad?" Maggie asks me through her tears and I reach out and grip her hand.
"I don't know. They took him straight into the OR when we got here. He's been down there about 20 minutes" I mutter and then ask her to take me to Teddy.
We walk down the hall and I pass Ethan and Gail who's wounds are being tended to side by side and I stop and hug them both. Things could have been a lot worse today and we're still not out the woods yet. I can't even think about Luke.
I carry on down the hall and find my boy being stitched up by a nurse. Blaze is sitting with him and every time he winces in pain she tells him to man up.
"It hurts like a motherfuc..." He starts but I stop him.
"Theodore, watch your mouth!" I snap and his head spins around to face me.
"Mom" he reaches out his good arm and pulls me into his embrace.
"How's dad? Is he OK? Where is he?" He starts asking me frantically
"Shh shhh, calm down. He's in the OR. The doctors haven't come out yet so I need to go back to the family room and wait for him. Will you be OK?"
"Yeah, I'll be OK. I'll walk up to you when I get done here" I nod and then walk back up to the family room with Maggie.
When I get back I find almost the full family waiting for me. The twins rush me and start asking questions about their father and I tell them the same as I told everyone else.
"Where's Phoebe?" I ask the room but it's Maggie that speaks.
"Matthew took her to the maternity ward to get the baby checked over"
"Was she hit?" I'm afraid of the answer.
"No she was OK, Matthew covered her. Ethan got hit in the shoulder and Gail got hit in the leg but Luke..." Her voice cracks on his name and I pull her to me.
"I know, baby. I know" I try to comfort her but I'm crying worse than she is.
The door behind us springs open and Phoebe walks in with Matthew looking pale. He tries helps her sit down but she shrugs him off and starts asking about her father. I calm her down and she sits on Matthews lap and cries into his shoulder. The door opens again and its one of the nurses that was with Christian.
"Mrs Grey?"
"Yes that's me. Is my husband OK?"
"He's still in the operating room, Mrs Grey but he has lost a lot of blood and he's going to need a blood transfusion but he's a rare blood type. Would any of your family be able to donate blood?" She asks looking around.
"Hes adopted, the only blood relatives he has are his children" Elliott exclaims whilst ripping his hair.
"I will" Maggie stand up along with Phoebe, Tommy and Katie.
"Pheebs you can't give blood you're pregnant!" I tell her but she has a determined look on her face.
"Also you have to be 18" the nurse says whilst looking at Tommy and Katie.
For the first time in his life my youngest son takes on what can only be described as the classic Grey CEO face.
"Listen lady! I know you're only doing your job but that not just any man in there! That's my father and I swear to god if you don't let my sisters and I give blood to help save his life then I will buy this whole god damn place and then burn it to the ground! Now let's get moving, we're wasting time!" He huffs and then walks out the room following the shell shocked nurse. Maggie, Katie and Phoebe follow him but he turns and snarls at Phoebe.
"Not you! You sit your ass down and think about your baby!" She sits down straight away and looks at her baby broher retreating abck as he walks out the door.
"Wow! Who knew Tommy had that in him" Phoebe chuckles
Almost 4 hours have passed since Christian was taken down to the OR. I feel numb inside. What if he dies? I can't live without him, Our family cant live without him.
"Family of Christian Grey" I hear from the door and look up to find a doctor in scrubs.
"I'm his wife. Is he OK?" Please god, don't let this be the end of our story.
"He made it through the surgery but I'm not going to lie, it was touch and go for a while. We couldn't stop the bleed but in the end we stabilised it and gave him 3 blood transfusions and he had to have internal stitches. He's in recovery for now and he will need to take it easy for the next week or so"
"Can I see him?" I ask with tears in my face and he nods and leads me out of the room and down the ball. I open the door to his room and find Christian in a bed with lots of wires connected to him. He is bare chested but a massive bandage covers his wounds. I cant help the gasp that falls from my mouth or the tears that fall from my eyes.
My poor Christian.
I walk over to him and gently grasp his hand. I smooth the hair off his forehead and plant a tender kiss which makes him wake up.
"Hi" He whispers softly and looks up at me with his bright grey eyes
"Hi" I sob and gently wrap my arm around him, mindful of the wires.
"I thought I lost you" I cry
"Take more than a bullet to make me leave you, Mrs Grey"
"I love you, Christian Grey, More than any woman ever loved a man in the whole world"
"I love you too" He motions with his good arm and points to his lips and I give him a lingering kiss.
"Teddy? Is he OK?"
"He's fine. They stitched him up and gave him some pain relief. Ethan and Gail got hit too but only flesh wounds..." I don't know if he saw Luke or not.
"What's wrong?"
"Luke...He didn't make it" He groans into my neck and then starts to sniffle. I feel his tears damp my shoulders and I cry along with him. Luke was not just Christians staff member. He was one of his best friends.
"If he...if he...he pushed me down and saved me" I cry and send up a prayer for God too keep Luke safe in Heaven.
"I'll get the person who did this Ana. I swear to god, they will pay" he growls.
"Elliott told me that the FBI and police were on the scene when he left. Taylor made sure Gail was going to be Ok and then he stayed to help give the officers all the information we had on Hyde"
"Was it Hyde?" He asks with a frown and I know what he's thinking.
If it was Hyde, how did he know where we were?
"We don't know yet. I haven't heard from Taylor for a couple of hours. Welch called, he said that the jets are being readied to take everyone back to Seattle. He's hiring a team of 30 security guys to secure the grounds of our house, your parents, Elliotts and Kates and Mia and Ethan's. I've told Maggie and Phoebe that they will have to move back in with us until this is all over" I tell him and he nods.
"Tell Paul and Matthew to stay too. I don't wat them getting kidnapped and then one of the girls going off half cocked on some rescue mission"
"I've already told them they could stay. We need to get in touch with Luke's family. 25 years and he's never mentioned them. Do you know where they live or how to get in touch?"
"He didn't have a family, Ana. His parents died when he was 18 and he immediately joined the Army out of high school. We're his family and I'd like for him to be buried in the Grey Family plot at Meadow Lane"
"I agree. Im going to miss him so much" I whimper and Christian pulls me close to him again.
We spend the next ten minutes comforting each other when the door opens.
Tommy, Maggie, Katie, Teddy and Phoebe walk in and Katie and Maggie almost throw themselves at their father and both break down. My two strapping boys try to hold it but tears leak from their eyes and Phoebe sits on the bed and gently rubs Christians foot.
"Hey guys" he try's to be perky but I can see that he is very tired but before he can say anything else Katie goes off on a tangent.
"I was so scared daddy. The bullets started flying and you pushed me down and then you got hit and then so did Teddy and I thought you were both going to die and then Luke did die and I was so scared and I'm going to miss him so much and I hate the person who did this and I want them found and hung but Maggie said I had to let the cops deal with it but we need our guys on it because they're all big and strong and tough and I know they will protect us just like Luke did" she starts crying and Christian holds her the best way he can.
"You Ok, Pheebs? The baby?" He asks once Katie has let him go.
"I'm Ok and so is Blip" She says softly and Christian and I smile at the mention of the name Blip.
"I've spoken to Matthew and he agrees with me. If the baby is a boy, we're calling him Luke and if it's a girl we are calling her Sawyer"
"That's a lovely idea, Pheebs" we all agree and then Christian requests a Grey Family hug.
ONE WEEK LATER, ANAS POV
Its been a week since the shooting and Lukes death. We had his funeral this morning and I have never cried so much in my whole life. Over 150 people came to pay their respects but unfortunetly because of the amount of security we had the news crews were out in force and as soon as it was over, Welch put a lock down on all Grey family members which means we are basically under house arrest.
We flew back to Seattle 2 days after the shooting and Maggie, Paul, Phoebe and Matthew moved some of their stuff in that afternoon.
Much to my protest, Christian would not stay in bed for even a single day because he's hell bent on finding out who did it. Obviously everything is pointing to Hyde but now we are worried that he is working with someone. He came out of prison 6 months ago and has not worked since so how has he funded his vendetta? How did he get to Montana? How did he get his hands on a machine gun? Who's he working with? Those are the questions that everyone is asking.
At the moment Christian, myself and Phoebe have hundreds of bits of paper scattered all over the family room floor. Both of them have taken time off from GEH until Hyde is caught and so they are both pouring all their attention into finding Hyde.
"Damn, you gave him a real beating, didn't you?" Phoebe whistles as she looks at a picture of Hyde's face after Christian beat him up after I shot him when I was pregnant with Teddy.
"I just saw red. Your mother was unconscious on the cold floor and Ryan had just carried Mia out of a building and I thought she was dead. I grabbed him by the hair and I just started punching him over and over again until Taylor pulled me off of him"
"You should have beat him to death when you had the chance" she mumbles so her father can't hear her but I do and I give her the eye to admonish her.
We go through page after page of information until Phoeb gasps as she reads a letter.
"Whats wrong?" We both ask her at the same time.
"Whats this letter? It's a note to Baby Bird! Who is baby bird?" Her face is white as she asks and when I take the note I see its a photocopy of the note that was in the van when Hyde broke into Escala when we were first married.
"That's what Hyde calls me. Baby bird. I was in a foster home with him when we were kids. Does it mean anything to you?"
"He's been in the club! That night you guys were there, when I walked in there was a man and I threw him to the ground and stepped on his neck! That was Hyde!" She exclaims.
"How do you know?" Christian asks while he pulls his phone out and I assum texts Taylor.
"He said "So you're baby birds little chick, I'm going to fu..." Um...then he said some dirty stuff and that's when I got him on the floor" Shit!
Taylor walks into the room and he looks like he's seen a ghost.
"Whats wrong?" Oh god how much more can we take!
"My Buddy at the FBI just emailed me with the ballistics report and evidence list from the shooting"
"And?" Christian demands impatiently.
"The shooter used an AK47 and about quater of a mile up the ridge one of his guys found a scrap of paper" he shifts uncomfortably and looks like he's in pain.
"What did the paper say?" Phoebe asks and he looks at her with, what? fear? In his eyes?
"It had an in depth description of you, Phoebe. What you liked to wear. How you wore your hair most days. The fact that you would most likely have Matthew by your side and so on"
"What are you saying, Taylor?" I ask.
"It looks like the shooters intended target was just Phoebe. Everyone else was just in the way" he says grimly.
Oh my god!