I surprised myself and wrote this and following three chapters today. And then the story is finished! :O
See - Di - I kept my promise, now you keep yours? :D
Chapter 24.
Sandra and Janet decided to go to Jenny's before they went to the airplane field, and Janet drove there, and parked outside. They walked up and rang the doorbell. A few minutes later they heard the door chain being unhooked and Jenny opened the door, standing in it dressed in pink sweatpants, a pair of big pink bunny slippers and a dark blue robe tied around her. Jenny who usually dressed to impress looked rather odd in these clothes, and also her black, long hair was hanging lose on her shoulders, not the usually pigtails.
"Hey guys."
"Hey! How are you doing?" Sandra said, putting her hand on Jenny's arm.
"I'm fine, come on in." Jenny smiled.
Sandra and Janet walked inside the house, and followed Jenny into the kitchen.
"Coffee?"
"Would love some." Janet smiled, Sandra agreeing.
As they waited for the coffee Jenny sank down by a chair.
"Okay. What's going on? Tommy told me Kelly got shot?"
"Yeah. She took a bullet to the upper abdomen, but she's recovering well."
"Then there was a shooting at the hospital this morning, Joe Danworth fired a rifle from another building into Kelly's room. Luckily she managed to get herself out of bed before he fired. Kris is still with her." Janet added.
"Oh gosh. Is she okay?"
"Yeah, I think so." Janet smiled.
"So now what?"
"We've recovered the diamonds, so now we need to get Danworth. We've gotten information that he could be at an airplane field up north. So we're gonna get Kris and her team, and then we'll catch this…" Sandra stopped herself, trying to find a word except all the bad ones that were running through her head. "… this man."
Jenny nodded.
"I hope you get him."
"We will get him, one way or the other, we will."
Janet and Sandra went to the hospital after they had met up with Jenny, and they walked towards Kelly's room. They found Kris pacing back and forth in the hallway, biting the nail on her thumb, holding her other arm around her stomach. Tommy was sitting down in a chair along the wall, trying to get his fiancé to sit down.
"Kris, come on. They'll be out soon. Sit down."
"No." Kris just said flatly, as she kept pacing. She looked up for a second when Janet and Sandra reached them, then looked back down towards her feet, walking up and down the hallway.
"What's wrong?" Janet asked worried. They could both immediately see that something had happened. Kris looked like she was going to fall to pieces. Kris didn't look up at them, she kept pacing, biting her nails. Tommy rose and motioned for the girls to sit down. Janet and Sandra sat down next to each other, taking the other's hand.
"I was sitting with the two of them for a while, then Kelly woke up, complaining about some real bad pain in her abdomen, I went to get Dr Sow, and then they just rushed her to surgery. They said something about internal bleeding." Tommy explained quietly, looking up at his fiancé.
Kris stopped dead in her tracks, like if it was the first time she heard those words, and Tommy watched her knees buckle underneath her. Tommy immediately jumped up and managed to catch her before she fell to the ground. He lifted her up into his arms and walked over to the couch, sitting down, keeping Kris in his lap. He held one around her waist and put his other hand towards her head, pushing it down towards his chest, holding her as she cried.
Janet and Sandra looked at each other, both of them scared. Just because Danworth wasn't here didn't mean Kelly was safe, and that scared the both of them. Kelly had to make it through surgery. She had to.
They all sat in silence except the occasional sobs coming from all of them, for almost two hours before Tara appeared in the hallway. All for of them immediately rose and Tara gave them a short reassuring smile.
"She's still with us."
Kris clapped her hand that wasn't holding Tommy's over her chest, and Janet and Sandra smiled happily to each other.
"But she's very weak, I'm not going to let anyone into her until she's stronger. That may take several hours, we have her heavily sedated." Tara said, her eyes locked with Kris'.
Kris nodded, and wiped away some tears.
"Thank you, thank you so much."
Tara smiled and walked away, Kris leaned against Tommy who pulled her closer, kissing her forehead.
"Kelly will be okay."
"Yeah." Kris whispered, sitting down in the couch.
Janet suddenly remembered why they had even gone to the hospital.
"Oh guys. We need your help with something, but I understand if you two want to stay here."
Kris looked up at Janet, curiosity in her eyes.
"What?"
"We know where Danworth might be hiding, but we feel that we need more backup if we're gonna go there." Sandra said.
"Where is he hiding?"
"He could be at an airplane field up by Ridgefield."
"I'll call Zeke, tell him to send the team here."
"Thanks." Sandra smiled as Tommy walked away to find a phone.
Sandra looked at Kris and then slid down next to her in the couch, putting her hand on Kris' back, gently rubbing it. Kris looked up and met Sandra's eyes, and gave her a grateful smile for just being there. In situations like this, it meant more than Kris could ever explain.
"Are you going to stay here?" Sandra asked, still rubbing Kris' back.
Kris thought about it for a second, then shook her head.
"No. Tara said there will be several hours before Kelly can have visitors, and I wanna kill that man."
Sandra gave her a knowing look and Kris smiled at her.
"If you don't want to see him dead, you just have to stop me. That scumbag deserves to go down into the underground with his head first."
Sandra smiled at her, but still looked at Kris like a teacher looks at a misbehaving child.
"Kris, I want nothing good in life for this man either, but we need to get him to jail. Don't shot him unless we need to, and no unnecessary abuse. That's what let him out the last time."
Kris nodded. She knew Sandra was right. But she wanted this guy dead so that Kelly could rest peacefully. So that she could rest peacefully. She hoped she would be given a reason to shot him between his eyes.
Tommy returned to their sides, putting his hand on Kris' shoulder.
"The gang is meeting us outside within a few minutes. Are you gonna stay here sweetie?"
"Nope, I'm coming with you."
Tommy nodded, that's what he figured.
They all began walking outside, Kris found Tara and told her to call Kris the minute something changed – good or bad. Tara gave her promise and Kris followed the others outside. The FBI gang was already there – José, Mica, Joanna, Peter and Zeke. They were handing out Kevlar vests and checking their guns, making sure they were all loaded and all of them were carrying extra bullets. They were not going to let this sucker go. Sandra, Janet, Kris and Tommy also put on the Kevlars, before getting into 3 different cars, Janet was driving hers.
They stopped about two miles from the airplane field and got out of the cars. Peter pulled up a map over the area, and they all talked through how to get to him without losing him. They knew there was several airplanes in the area, they didn't want to risk him have a chance to run away. If he skipped the country they might never get him.
They knew there were two buildings there – the airplane hangar and the small house. They decided to split up and check them both at the same time.
When they all were clear on what they were doing, they got back into their cars. Luckily both the hangar and the house were placed close to the woods, so Tommy, Janet and Zeke parked the cars hidden behind the bushes, before all of them walking out. Zeke signed to them to move in.
Janet, Sandra, Tommy and Kris walked towards the airplane hangar while the others walked to the house. All of them already kept their guns in front of them, just waiting for Danworth to show up.
The car Danworth had left in from the hospital was standing outside the hangar. Janet pointed towards it and then smiled to Sandra.
"Ready to rumble?"
