Daydreams
So I survived Registration and the server only crashed the one time - :) Got all the classes I needed. I am on cloud nine on that one... So okay on to the story...My daughter's been reading and complaining about Spinelli being out of character and I know he is...Would you believe the only reason he is out of character is I am too lazy to put my heart into writing his dialogue :P I love Spinelli but sometimes he's hard to write, like this time and thus his morph to more normal speech. So please over look and forgive and just take it as an AU sort of Spinelli. Anyway, thanks so much for those reading and reviewing and I really hope that everyone enjoys the update...There is only one more chapter after this one.
The Scientist
Night was as cold as the hearts of hell as the rampant storm blanketed the wreckage of sleeping bodies in drifts against a back drop of brush and scantly clad branches and trunks. Spinelli groaned in a waking state of agony as he came to his senses and bit back a scream. He was wrapped around the passenger seat his seat belt the only thing that had kept him from going further – through the windshield.
Spinelli angled back hissing in a breath as he closed his eyes, shirking out of his coat as best he could in order to inspect the damaged done to his person. "Grey? Dan?" Spin called out, trying to rouse the driver and passenger who had been his armed guards. He didn't hear a response – not even in movement and Spin licked at his lips worriedly blinking to take in their none moving states before the pain in his right leg had him looking down to find a piece of glass from the window peeking out as if to welcome him to panic.
"Dammit..." Spin seethed out out of breath as he looked back to the guards, a silent prayer on his lips for the horror of doubt running through him over their lack of response. "Grey?"
Spin hitched in a breath as he pulled himself to get a better look at the driver and his face fell further when he laid eyes on his dead eyes starring into nothing, head resting against the steering wheel at an odd angle. "God Grey."
"Dan?" Spin gave a glance in Dan's direction and swore again as he saw that he too had succumbed to the volatile crash. Spin cursed a blue streak in horror. Dammit! Proto and his guys just had to attack in the middle of a goddamn blizzard. Spinelli looked back to his side, knowing that he was going to have to move in order to survive. He couldn't radio, call, or other wise e-mail or chat for help.
Spinelli pulled the glass out, using his gloves as padding for his hands to keep from further cutting himself. He then tied off the wound with a ripped piece of his shirt and then pulled his jacket back on. He had to move...now...
Walking was like a nightmare wrought after finding two friends dead and he hugged his jacket around him shivering in the cold as he trudged down the road. Spinelli breathed against his gloved hands as if his breath could possibly penetrate to warm his fingers, but he imagined that it worked so very slightly as he noticed some light hinting at civilization down the road in a clearing. There was a single truck there and a helicopter and the four guys there weren't exactly holding their voices down.
"You got clearance yet?" One of them called.
"No, that mook's still on the roof." Another called back. "I can't get up there until they clear him off." He explained further.
"You'd think that Proto would have checked on that..." Another scoffed. "Let him fly himself out..."
Spinelli narrowed his eyes as he watched from the treeline, out of sight. They were part of the crew with Proto and his men who must have GH under attack. Specifically they had to be part of his getaway crew...Jason must have landed and Bagger was taking up their parking space.
He suspected that Proto assumed with the air traffic grounded that he wouldn't have to worry about any landings on the hospital roof keeping his own guys from getting in there...boy was he wrong. Spin looked down at his leg wondering if could sneak up on these guys and take them out one by one...he needed their radio...and it couldn't hurt to further ground them, knock out any chance of Proto from escaping.
Should be simple enough...Spinelli reached behind him feeling the gun resting at the small of his back that he'd pulled from Grey...he didn't know if it was the shock or blood loss or grief that was making him so fearless but he wasn't really questioning at the moment as he walked out of the tree line into the clearing heading straight for the guys at a fast hobble.
"Hey!" he waved frantically like any wrecked motorist flagging for help might. "Hey can you guys help? I just wrecked my car on my way into town...I've got two more injured back there..." He needed to act like a concerned family man – someone they would hopefully feel compelled to send on his way instead of killing him. "Can you call for help? Something? I can't get a signal...I can't...get anything..."
They didn't seem very amiable but they weren't outright opening fire either so there was hope. Spinelli kept on heading in their direction hoping to take them off guard when he pulled on them. "Look little man...we got nothing for ya..." One of them called to him.
"Yeah you need to just turn back and find some more help..." Another called back, the both – the only two on the approach and neither currently armed.
The other guys were out of sight in the chopper and Spin knew enough to know where the fuel tank was...He sniffed back the waning courage knowing that if he didn't act quickly he was going to lose his advantage. "Sorry I can't do that..." Spin drew – surprise his only advantage as he wasn't nearly the shot that he knew others to be as he fired two rounds, both hitting with surprising accuracy...taking them both down with shots to the head as if their deaths somehow vindicated the accident that had caused Grey and Dan's...He then took out the chopper with three more shots – finally hitting the fuel tank...
Spinelli swallowed tightly watching as the explosion lit the night storm streaked sky in a fire ball giving him a moment of pause before he started for the truck parked behind the fireball, so that he could get to the radio...
ZZZZZZZZZZ
"Thanks Milo, but I'm fine..." Sam whispered as she had finally caught her breath in the doorway to the ICU that everyone was now semi situated around. Max couldn't get them a clear line to the stair well and he couldn't raise anyone on the radios either so he paused to reorganize his thoughts just where the hospital needed them the most...
"Call it..." Sam frowned as her feet finally touched the floor just as Patrick Drake was calling a death for one of the patients past the doors...
"I need some help here!" A nurse called as she was trying to do chest compressions but needed to load up a syringe. She caught Carly's eyes and Carly was already moving, unable to leave the poor woman fighting for her life like this...
Sam leaned against the wall in the ICU watching as Carly, Lulu, and Maxie all went out to help those in need while Max, Justin, Daniel, and Milo regrouped...Sam was a wash with a swirl of mixed emotions...wishing she could help those that needed it...fearing for the safety of her friends and herself as she was terrified that something had happened to Jason.
It was like a nightmare in the midst of an ever blossoming nightmare...The door had fallen closed behind them and flashlight light beamed through the ICU as she tried to gain her own bearings...the transfusion and chemo and radiation before hand was still playing havoc with her recovery. She was weaker than she ever wanted to be again...Just the jaunt from her room to here half of which was spent in Milo's arms...had taken it out of her and the docs were saying it would be another four months before she could even resume normal activity...
Not ideal in the middle of a siege...
Sam leaned her head back against the wall, closing her eyes a moment a she took a deep breath...She could hear Max suggesting that they skirt the stairwells and perhaps try and climb down the elevator shafts to throw them all off. Sam made a scoffing noise under her breath wondering how she was supposed to pull that off. Just at that moment she opened her eyes, head turned at just the right angle to look out the small window that occupied the space beside the door in time to see some very scary looking men walking by...
She tried to back away from the window to blend in to the shadows but they caught sight of her and the other chaos beyond the window and she jumped as the door was suddenly thrown open...Sam blinked as she shot a glance to Max over the face mask that covered her nose and mouth, her face mostly obscured.
"I'm looking for Samantha McCall." Proto called into the room, garnering everyone's attention.
ZZZZZZZZZZ
Jason pushed open the door to Sam's room expecting to see many things...Sam in bed...Sam in the chair...Sam by the window...All varied by degrees of Max and Milo watching her and when he entered and found nothing his heart threatened to skip on out of his chest in a protest of shock and panic.
"She should be here..." Jason breathed out, his mind playing facilitator to the unspeakable in a heartbeat as he entertained what might have happened.
"Max would have moved her..." Johnny had to speak wisdom into silent panic and Jason gave a quiet nod, praying that he was right. "All of them..."
"We don't know who..." Jason started meaning to stress to Johnny that Lulu may not have been here but Johnny cut him off quickly.
"Lulu's here and so is Carly and Maxie...I stopped off a few places before coming here." Johnny explained as he met Jason's eyes...a moment of silent understanding passing between them.
"Then we don't have any time to lose..." Jason whispered as he turned on his heels and headed back out the door.
ZZZZZZZZZZ
Proto wasn't in the mood for games and the silence that met him as those from the medical staff continued to try and preserve the critically ill only served to infuriate him further. Juan stood at his side and they both peered into the room as if assessing the situation while everyone else either shot them a glance in fear or ignored them completely.
He didn't ask his question again...not at first...no first... he drew his gun and in the blink of an eye he fired a single shot taking down Elizabeth Webber in a random act of violence... "Perhaps, no one heard me... I'm looking for Samantha McCall..."
No one moved at first as he had garnered their attention completely...
Sam couldn't just stand by and watch as they killed some nurse in her name though...She pushed off the wall with a gasp of horror for Proto's action and called out in an instant... "I'm Sam..."
Proto's face lit with a smile as his gaze fell on her while Sam carefully removed her face mask to prove her point. "Was that so hard?" He asked with a smirk...
ZZZZZZZZZZ
"Mayday...Mayday..." Spin's voice was failing as he leaned against the steering wheel of the truck tiredly, the flames from the toasty chopper still warming him even as he fought to stay awake from the wounds he sustained from the wreck. "Anyone..."
He wasn't getting any sort of radio feedback and was beginning to realize that they were changing frequencies frequently...he finally stumbled onto the right bandwidth. "Where are you, Posh?" Came the question he had been waiting for...Posh must have been a nickname for one of the guys he'd taken out.
"Posh is dead...no one is coming..." Spin replied. He listened to dead silence a moment before they finally got up the nerve to talk back...
"Who the hell is this?" Spinelli recognized Proto's voice from some recordings he'd listened to of the guy.
"Doesn't matter...your guys are dead and you don't have a workable exit tragedy anymore..." he replied evenly.
"You son of a bitch...we'll see about that..." Came the reply that had Spinelli worrying over the implications.
ZZZZZZZZZZ
Sam jumped when she felt Proto's hand wind around her shoulders, drawing her close to his chest, puling her against him as he screamed into his radio at Spinelli. God it sounded like Jason had some stuff going on especially with Spinelli.
She felt the cold metallic death of a gun meet her temple as she rested in a breathy quiet against Proto's chest looking for her out in the scrutinized comfort of their surroundings. The door opening again did nothing to settle Sam's nerves...nothing...
Carly was doing chest compressions on a patients fighting for life...Lulu was holding pressure on the nurse that had just been shot's wound...and Maxie was scrambling to help with another patient with some nurses aids...So the door opening was still a shock with so much happening...including her being taken hostage...
Justin and Daniel looked ready to jump Proto but Max had called them off and Mili was waiting on Max's orders...
When the door burst open Sam half expected to see more of Proto's men, securing his position, but a smile lit her lips when she met Jason's eyes in the darkness there...
She felt Proto take a deep breath against her back and steadied herself against him. "It's about time, you got here." Proto smiled to Jason as if he had the upper hand somehow.
"Release her..." Jason was terrified as he met Sam's eyes, seeing the fear pleading through from a single glance. "Let her go and we'll talk..." He promised him.
"I'm not an idiot...she's my only way out of here..." Proto chuckled softly assuming that Jason had ordered the hit on his escape convoy.
"And I swear I should have a voice in all of this..." Sam piped in, knowing that they were all in a stand off.
"You don't..." Proto cleared up for her at once as he kept eye contact with Jason which was a horrid mistake as Johnny hid just under the radar...to make his point though Proto tugged Sam tighter against him, choking her voice off as he started to strangle her with his forearm looking to Jason to back down so that he could make his escape...
Jason was coming apart at the seams the moment that Proto choked Sam into submission, ready to tackle him and tear him apart, but scared to death that Sam would get hurt in the process. God if he ever got his hand on the man without risk to Sam...
"Let her go..." Jason warned him, watching as Sam's face turned red under the stress of Proto's grasp.
"Like hell..." Proto threw back as he started to move backwards out of the room, his two remaining guards with him.
It happened so fast...
Sam all at once elbowed the hell out of Proto just as Jason realized what she was about to do and he channeled his aim to take out the guards that remained with Proto...Just as Johnny rose up from no where to take out the other guard...Sam was the one that remained standing in a moment of shock and horror as everyone else around her in the hallway fell all around her and she met Jason's eyes in horror of the gun fire...
He moved quickly to take her to the floor to get her out of the line of fire...as the threat that had been against them so long was finally gone...
"The Scientist: by Coldplay
Carly sank to her knees around the bed of the patient she was trying to save as bullets began to fly all around them...she covered her head, trying to preserve herself for her children as she screamed out in horror of the situation...
"Come up to meet you...tell you I'm sorry...you don't know how lovely you are...I had to find you..tell you I need you...tell you I've set you apart...tell me your secrets...and ask me your questions...oh, let's go back to the start..."
Lulu moved in slow motioned as soon as her eyes lit on Johnny...her heart quickening to the realization that he was still alive in one horrific moment of gun fire where in she covered her belly with both hands as though that would provide some protection for their baby.
Her face was crumpling in in a mix of emotions she couldn't possibly explain as she finally saw him rise, the fire fight over...and she got to her feet, tears streaming down her cheeks as she stumbled forward.
"Running in circles...coming up tails...heads on the science to part...nobody said it was easy...it's such a shame for us to part...nobody said it was easy...no one ever said it would be this hard...oh take me back to the start..."
Johnny met her...and Lulu collapsed against him in tears of joy as his hands wound around her and held her upright against him. "I thought..." She breathed...
"You thought wrong..." Johnny whispered against her ear. "I'm never going to leave you again, Baby.." he promised her...
"I was just guessing...at numbers and figures...pulling the puzzles apart...questions of science...science and progress...do not speak as loud as my heart...oh tell me you love me...come back and haunt me...oh and I rush to the start..."
"Are you alright?"Jason whispered.
Sam peered up into his eyes where they now lay on the floor where Jason had thrust them to get out of the line of fire. "I'm fine..." She promised him, letting him know that Proto was way overconfident to try and take on him and his guys...
Maybe Jason and Sonny's guys...who knew...either way the threat was over and they were face to face waiting on word that they had a chance of beating this...
"I'm wonderful..." Sam whispered...Seeing Jason smirk at her smile.
"You are..." He smirked.
"Are you?" She asked him worriedly as her smile waned.
"Oh Yeah..." Jason promised her.
"Running in circles...chasing our tails...coming back as we are...nobody said it was easy...it's such a shame for us to part...nobody said it was easy...no one ever said it would be so hard...I'm going back to the start..."
Hugs all around went unnoticed as everyone made up with the stain of heartache behind them. With the horror of a hostage crisis behind them.
Carly hugged Sam the next day as she was released from the hospital after so long...and they were all able to go home, to their own homes...with out the threat of someone coming after them...
Carly's hug led to Lulu and Maxie's and soon Jason was a permanent fixture at the apartment so that everyone was ready for Jason and Sam to make good on their engagement...
"Nobody said it was easy..."