And as promised this will be the end of the bank robbery part.
Chapter 14
"Move fucking back or I will kill her right now," Chucky shouts.
I swallow looking behind him hoping someone's going to come running in.
"He's the last one, the hostages have all been freed," Bella says quickly and Chucky tightens his grip on her.
"Shut the fuck up, whore. I saw his face when Quinn talked about you; he is either fucking you or wants to badly. Now, dickhead cop, drop your fucking gun and move!" I look at Bella who looks dead on her feet.
I swallow placing the gun on the ground holding my hands up.
"Take me instead – let her go."
Chucky just laughs at me. "This little bitch destroyed my plan, the plan I've worked on for over a fucking year, and you think I'm going to just let her go?" Chucky moves forward a little. "Open the fucking door," he says harshly to Bella, and she does what she's told. I watch him drag her out of the hallway and up the stairs.
"Edward?" I look to see Jasper running my way.
"He's got Bella and he's heading upstairs," I yell, picking up the gun and following them.
"I need a sharp shooter, suspect on second floor holding officer Swan hostage, aim to kill," Jasper says drawing out his gun.
"Tell me you took care of the bombs?" Jasper says lowly, and I give him one nod.
"He must not care about you as much as what I though after all, he just let me take you," Chucky says, and Jasper and I take our spots, waiting until we have a good shot.
Bella chuckles a little and Chucky grabs her face making her look at him. "Let me guess this is where you tell me he's going to kill me?"
"No, he's not going to kill you. He'll aim to take you down but not to kill. You're going to go down for this."
"Whatever, little girl, now it's time to see if you can fly." He pushes Bella to the window and she falls forward a little and elbows him in his gut. He drops to the floor, and both Jasper and I fire off a shot, hitting him.
I move forward as Chucky tries to make a move on Bella, kicking him around and away from her.
"Hands in the air," Jasper yells and I move to Bella.
"What the hell happened?" I ask harshly, way too harshly and Bella moves away from me a little. "I'm sorry."
"He discovered where I was and started shooting at the air vent and I fell down."
I sigh rubbing my face but Bella eyes spring open.
"Dad," she says jumping up and running away. I quickly follow her and by the time we get back to her dad's office, the EMTs are there looking him over. He still looks pale, but I know he'll be okay.
"There's one knocked out in one of the safes," Bella says to Emmett as he comes over to us.
"It's fine, Bella, we've got this," Emmett says and looks at me.
"You both have to get checked out, Aro's orders," Jasper says.
Both Bella and I sigh at the same time, but I know she needs to be looked over. I pull her out of the bank and into one of the waiting ambulances.
On the way to the hospital, Bella is quiet, and I'm sad we get separated to be looked over by a doctor. I'm diagnosed as fine, but am told I'll be off duty for at least seventy-two hours. I ended up getting three stitches in my left eyebrow and told the rest is mainly deep bruising. When I'm released, I walk out heading to where Charlie is, not only to find out how my friend is, but also find out if he knows anything about Bella. I arrive to find Bella there asleep on the chair next to his bed.
"Is she okay?" I ask softly not wanting to wake her.
"Yes and no," Charlie says with a chuckle. "She's upset over taking someone's life. Well, more than just one person's life. She has cuts and bruises all over her. The worse one is the stab wound to her shoulder."
I nod at him. "And how are you?"
"Me? I'm fine."
I raise my eyebrow at him making him chuckle more.
"Okay, minor heart attack, but no real damage they say."
I sigh but nod at him.
"DAD!" Bella yells leaping up. She actually makes me jump in fright because of the way she bolted up and yelled.
I look at her wide eyes and then move to her as she pants to catch her breath.
"Isabella, everything's okay, your dad's right here and he's fine," I say to her rubbing her back. Her eyes go to mine and she gives me a smile.
"Has anyone updated you?" I shake my head and call Jasper.
"Hey, Edward, how is everything?" Jasper asks as soon as he picks up.
"Yes, I'm with Bella just looking for an update?" I say keeping my eyes on Bella.
"Oh, sorry – seven of the ten are dead; the three that are alive needed hospital treatment. We've identified six of them so far. One of them was Paul Lahote."
As soon as Jasper says his name, I knew when I arrested him. He was one of the people that were involved in the case I worked on with Emmett and Bella.
"But looks as if what Bella thought was happening was the actual plan. They held up the Stanley Bank, in order to actually rob the one just down from it. They were planning their getaway by using: fire crew, EMTs and police uniforms; we found them in the containers with the fake gold. If the bombs did go off, I'm sure they would've managed to walk away in all the confusion."
"Do you have all of them?"
"Yes, we believe at this point we do."
"Okay, keep me informed."
"Will do," Jasper says hanging up.
"I'm sorry, Sir, Madam, but visiting times are now over."
I look to the nurse who's standing at the door.
"Edward, will you make sure my girl gets home safely?"
"I will, Charlie," I say.
"Can't I stay here with you? I mean, you had a heart attack," Bella says ignoring what Charlie and I just said.
"Kid, I'm forty-nine, I don't need a babysitter, and I am sure these lovely nurses will look after me very well until you return tomorrow."
"BUT," Bella says loudly and Charlie looks at me.
"He'll be fine, and they will call you if you are needed," I softly say taking hold of Bella's arm to lead her out.
"He could've died – he needs me to stay."
"Isabella, he will be fine."
Bella looks at me and sighs. "I know you've got a big family, but he's all I have."
I go to tell her she has me, but I swallow it back.
A/N: Well they're both okay, and Charlie is good too. What do you suppose will happen next?