Chapter 35: Breathe

Author's note:

Originally I had this attached to the chapter before, but I feel like this next sequence is so big that it would be poor of me to include it when the chapter before it was suppose to be about mourning loved ones. So I made it its own chapter. Play Breathe 2 am by Anna Nalick. Also all the bolded parts are to signify a different perspective from the characters and give a "meanwhile" sort of feeling.

When they walked in Nicholas and Emily and Luke had been upstairs… watching the news where they had been showing the high speed chase of Alcazar and Ric.

"Have you heard from Lucky yet?" Lulu asked in concern.

"No we haven't." Emily said hoping that something wouldn't happen to him.

A news reporter which was outside of the hospital where Alcazar had been at came on with some information, "I have a live feed right now from Detective Lucky Spencer who is on a helicopter following the car right now. Lets see if he can tell us anything about what's going on."

Lulu and Dillon sat down and listened.

The news station had a camera inside of the helicopter so the audience could see the cop with his head phones.

"Um am I on? Ok the situation is that Lorenzo Alcazar is a dangerous criminal he's taken the district attorneys hostage and threatens to kill anyone that gets in the way." Lucky shouted for the helicopter was so loud that it was hard to hear him.

The pilot of the helicopter than turned around and said, "We've found them!"

Lucky turned around and the cameraman showed video of the car driving.

He instructed the pilot to get closer. The closer they got the more worried Lulu and Emily were for him.

Lucky grabbed a megaphone and started screaming, "This is the police. Surrender now!"

Ric looked up and saw the helicopter, "Ok Lorenzo what do you want to do, we have to get this helicopter off of us." Ric said as he drove.

Elizabeth and Jason had gotten back to Sonny's old penthouse… and Elizabeth was exhausted.

"I think I'm just going to take a nap." She told him.

"Ok. I'll call Audrey later and see when she wants us to pick Cameron up." Jason said.

As soon as Elizabeth had entered the room she sat on the bed and turned the TV on to the news station.

She had thought about Lucky on and off since he had left and she wondered if the news had an update on the situation. Jason was also interested in this because whatever happened impacted him either way. If Alcazar was caught then he wouldn't have to go after him and if he wasn't then he would have to go after him eventually.

Jason sat down on the couch in the living room and turned the TV on.

"I repeat pull over or we will be forced to shoot." Lucky screamed.

Jason looked at Lucky's attempt to stop them and knew it wasn't going to work.

Alcazar looked at Ric, "DO you have Spencer's cell phone number?"

Ric looked at him, "Of course I do."

"Give me your phone." He ordered for he was about to threaten the detective.

Lucky was sitting up there talking on and off to the police and the viewers saw constant cuts from him and then wide shots of the helicopter following the car.

Lucky's phone rang and he answered, but could barely here who was on the other line.

"This is Lorenzo Alcazar! Send your helicopter away or deal with the consequences!"

The police station and soon the news station would intersect that phone call and within minutes the viewers could hear what Lorenzo had just asked.

"No. Pull over or we will fire." Lucky once again ordered.

Lorenzo hung up the phone and then called his own men, "Yes do you have the helicopter in sight?"

The man on the other line confidently said, "Yes just give me the go and I can have that helicopter gone before you know it."

"Good. Let it be done." Alcazar smiled.

Then he dialed Lucky's number again.

"Detective, It's really too bad you didn't take me up on my offer. Prepare to die."

Still talking to Lucky, Alcazar had know idea that Skye was still in Port Charles and Lucky wanted to rain on his parade, "Well unfortunately for you Alcazar Skye decided to stay in town instead of running off to Switzerland. There's really no reason for you to run anymore, she told us everything." Lucky bluffed with that last piece hoping that it would convince him to surrender.

Lorenzo looked over to Ric and tried to ignore what Lucky just said, "Pick up the speed will be having a helicopter crashing our way very soon.

The news station put the camera back on Lucky in the helicopter. Lucky hung up the phone and opened the door to the helicopter trying to figure out what Alcazar meant by that.

Then Lucky squinted his eyes and saw a light flashing fast his way. He looked in panic and then looked at the cameraman.

"Turn the camera off, cut the feed!" Lucky knew that there might be an explosion and everyone would see it on there televisions if he didn't warn them.

"What's he doing?" Emily said wondering why Lucky looked so scared.

"I'm sure it's not what we think," Nicholas said trying to be strong for Emily and Lulu.

Lucky turned around to the pilot, "Fire at the car! You heard me FIRE!"

Lulu, Nicholas, Emily, Luke, Elizabeth and Jason watched as Lucky had fear written on his face. They heard him order the pilot to fire.

"Something's wrong!" Lulu said more panicked now.

"Just calm down Lulu I'm sure everything is al…right." Nicholas had started to say until the television screen went fuzzy and all they could hear was gunshots.

The tires blew out and Ric lost control of the car, "Damn it!"

"Get control!" Lorenzo ordered.

Elizabeth silently cried as she saw a man she cared for very deeply in a very dangerous situation… as she heard the gunshots and heard Lucky screaming at the Pilot and the Pilot shouting, "I can't! Oh shit!"

The rocket that one of Alcazars men had fired at the helicopter couldn't be stopped. When the pilot cursed the rocket came in contact with the helicopter.

"Enjoy the fireworks! Damn it Ric get control of the car." Lorenzo shouted.

Ric almost had the car under control until a piece from the helicopter flew onto the car.

"Fuck!" Ric shouted as he crashed into the side of the road with the helicopter following closely.

As the helicopter went down the video camera was still on only showing the viewers a tilted camera angle. When the news station cut the video they didn't realize that the audio was still being heard.

Lucky was not immediately hurt... by the explosion for it hit the tail of the helicopter but as it fell the viewers could here him talking to the pilot.

"Are you ok? Shit watch out! Get control! No not into the trees! We're going down!" Lucky screamed as the helicopter was on fire and with out the tail of the helicopter it wouldn't be up in the air much longer.

"Oh my god Lucky!" Lulu shouted at the TV.

The news station went off the air and then came back on, "I'm sorry you all had to see that. We don't know the severity of the explosion, but there are fire trucks approaching the scene as I speak."

Elizabeth repeated what she heard, the cry for help, the gun shots and the explosion… tears strung down her eyes. She couldn't watch anymore of it. She turned the TV off and buried herself in a pillow. For some reason she thought that if she went to sleep and took that nap that she had told Jason she was taking that maybe it would change what she had just seen.

Jason looked at what had happened and his first thought that came to mind was how he was going to tell Elizabeth. He knew that she still cared about him and he was afraid that if he told her that it would stress her out putting her and the baby in risk since she was still on bed rest.

He turned the TV off and quietly walked up the stairs.

Opening the door he saw her on the bed and as he joined her on the bed she spoke to him.

"He's not dead. He can't be." She said surprising him for he thought she was asleep.

"How much did you see?" He asked knowing that she had just watched the news.

"All of it." She disappointingly said.

Jason grabbed her hand, "Maybe it's not as bad as it looks."

"Or maybe it is? Which is why… maybe I should go to the hospital. They're going to need extra nurses and Lucky…he's going to need me and…" She said panicked.

"You've been on your feet all day. I'm sure will know in a half an hour whether he is alright." He said trying to tell her that she couldn't do anything to change Lucky's fate.

She pushed away from him and got off of the bed, "But Jason its Lucky! He could be hurt or even worse…oh god he could be dead. Jason I have to go over there." Elizabeth yelled at him as fear rose over her.

He climbed over the bed to her and tried to hug her to prevent her from getting closer to the door, he knew she was scared, but he knew that there would be nothing she could do. She was still recovering and there would be no need for her to tire herself out when her appointment with the doctor was coming up.

"Elizabeth. Please calm down. This stress isn't good for you or the baby…If it means that much to you I'll take you to the hospital." He said seeing how disappointed her face was when he told her that it might not be a good idea.

She looked up at him, "Thank you Jason that means a lot to me."

They walked downstairs and out there door making there way to the hospital just like the rest of Lucky's family.