Chapter 20 – Part 1

Before they did anything, Jerry called his wife and one hour later they saw her and the kids off for their safety. Then it was decided Liz was going with Angel to help him deal with Fowler.

When they got to the neighborhood she was actually surprised that such a crook lived in such a nice house and she wondered how many people he had killed to get the money for it.

"You ready?" Angel asked her from behind the wheel and when she nodded they both got out of the car which they parked down block.

They parted by the neighboring house and Liz started to walk up the concrete path to the front door and knocked on it, while Angel, glued to the side wall, crawled from her left towards her.

After a couple of seconds the door opened slightly and Fowler looked around suspiciously. Her job was to make him open the door wider and she cringed at the mere sight of his cruel and revolting face.

"Yes?" he asked untrustingly.

"Hello officer, what a coincidence" she smiled innocently and fluttered her eyelashes "I'm sorry to disturb you but my car just broke down and my cell has no reception here so is there any chance I could use your phone?"

Fowler looked at her hungrily and she flinched inside but her efforts were not wasted when he opened the door wider.

"Why don't you come inside?"

Luckily, before she made a step towards him, Angel appeared on her left.

"I think not" he said coolly and in one swift move grabbed Fowler by his throat and put a plastic bag around his head. He then pushed him inside the house followed by Liz, who looked around once more but there was nobody on the street so she closed the door shut behind her.

"This is a big problem for you" she heard Angels saying while Fowler was struggling to get free "Even a completely calm person will suffocate in four minutes without oxygen. And you're not exactly calm, are you" he said smirking and buckling a belt around his victim's neck.

That's when she pulled her phone out and dialed Bobby's number.

"Liz?" she heard on the other side of the receiver.

"Hey, we got him"

"Is he out of the way?"

She looked down where Fowler was lying on the floor trying to unbuckle the belt around his neck .

"You wanna ask him?"

"Let me hear his voice"

"Hold on" she bent down and put the phone to Fowler's ear, which was not too easy since he was still fighting with the bag.

"Hey, man, say hi to my brother" Angel barked to him and Fowler made more squealing and whining noises.

"We got you now, bitch" she heard and finished the call.

Fowler finally ripped the bag open and desperately took a deep breath but when he sat up Angels was standing above him with a gun pointing at his head.

"People never think to go for the bag; it's always the belt first for some reason"

When she heard it a cold chill ran down her spine because from the tone of his voice she could tell it wasn't the first time he's done it.

"Get up, get over there right now" Angel pointed at the sofa while Liz was leaning on the wall praying that the whole plan was going to work.

If everything was going according to the plan, right now Sofi, Angel's girlfriend was supposed to be at the police station telling the cops that her boyfriend was about to kill Fowler. After all, they needed all help they could get to deal with him and showing them that it was Fowler, who was the villain, was another part of their job.

After a moment they could hear the sirens coming their way and a nasty smile appeared on Fowler's face despite the gun 5 inches from his face.

"You hear that? You know what that is? That's a damn beautiful sound" he smirked "Those are my boys coming"

Liz looked outside the window and there were about 10 police cars parked right in front of their lawn and dozens of police officers running around and aiming their guns at the house.

Good job, Sofi, Liz thought.

Now they had to show them somehow that it was Fowler they wanted.

"It doesn't look good for you two" Fowler chuckled.

Liz looked at him.

"Right now you're the one that can't move so shut up"

"You're so brave now, bitch? After all, all these boys were taking a good care of you" he looked at her maliciously "I wonder, which one did you enjoy doing most?"

Liz knew he was only trying to provoke her but she didn't care, she finally had to release all the fury and rage accumulating inside her.

She reached behind her, where she had her gun that Jack once gave to her, pulled it out, reached Fowler in a blink of an eye and hit him with the handle with all the force.

She noticed she didn't do much damage to him since only a trickle of blood dripped from his nose.

She bent down and hovered 5 inches above him.

"We'll see if they're still your boys after they find out you killed your partner, asshole" she said with one brow raised.

"That's your angle, huh? You gonna walk out there and tell them I killed Green?" he laughed "That's your story?"

"It has the advantage of being true" Angel said still aiming his gun at him.

"So what? I killed my partner" Liz couldn't believe how calm and merciless Fowler was while saying this "l could kill the whole damn police department if you were the only witness. You're one of the Mercer brothers. No cop in the world's gonna believe your word over mine. Sorry"

The worst thing was that they all knew he was right and they couldn't do anything about it.

Could they?

That's when she came up with a crazy idea and she only hoped Angel would notice it.

"You know what? You're probably right. Other than the ones l got outside right now in the van listening to every bit of our conversation"

Angel actually wanted to laugh out loud, that was ingenious. Of course it wasn't true but actually at the same moment Bobby and Jack were listening to what was going on with Jerry in Evan's van.

She noticed a shadow of uncertainty on Fowler's face.

"You're lying" he said but she knew he caught the hook.

"Take a look" she said with a deep satisfaction in her voice.

Angel let Fowler to get up and walk to the window, where they saw all the police cars outside.

"Okay, lieutenant" she said to her sleeve, as if she had a microphone hidden there "I'm bringing him out now"

"It's over, Fowler" she said when he was passing her but wasn't ready for the blow that suddenly came from him.

In one minute he was behind her with a knife by her throat.

"Drop the gun or I'll slash her throat" he barked and with hesitation Angel put the gun on the floor.

Jack would have killed him if anything happened to her.

"You want a real man, sweetie?" he panted into her ear and she cringed with disgust "If I'm going down, you're going down with me. And I'm gonna take a good care of you down in our cell"