Two:

She held him up and he held her for ransom

"Let the girl go now." Sargent Tanner said his eyes on Brian who couldn't tear his eyes away from his little sister. Roger shook his head and dug his gun deeper into Sophie's back.

The younger O'Connor sibling whined and tried to jerk away from him.

"Stop moving now." Roger hissed.

"Soph?"

"I am okay Bri." Sophie returned holding her hands up and offering him a shaky smile. She was anything but fine, she just didn't want him to worry more than he already was.

He nodded his head once and looked at Roger who smirked, "Isn't it sweet that he still cares about his little sister after he hasn't seen her in so long. I mean after you turned your back on your family and became a cop that is."

"How the hell do you know that?"

"We have been listening to all of your conversations sweetcheeks. Even the ones you didn't think we would hear. But you knew that."

"But why would you care what we talk about during our downtime? I get that you want us to leave it at the door but why does it matter? We are trying to give each other some stability." Janice asked. "Because they are involved with the mafia." Sargent Tanner answered, "they think you would be selling trade secrets." "We don't know shit. And Sophie doesn't know anything! She just started like 6 months ago."

Brian's eyebrows raised in surprise, he wondered exactly what happened from the time he left Barstow until now. And how his 17-year-old sister ended up working at a shady ass strip club.

Roger shook his head and thumbed the trigger lightly enjoying the way Sophie yelped and flinched away from him. He yanked her back and reached his free hand up to smooth her hair back away from her face. For her part, she didn't cry out or let the terrified tears that welled up in her eyes out.

"See, we knew this was going to be too good to be true. And especially when she came waltzing in here." Janice shot a panic looked to her friend than to Brian then back. "We knew that she was going to be the end of all this.' Roger said, what he was saying wasn't necessarily true, his partners thought nothing of Sophie and thought she was a good hard worker. It was him who had the conspiracy theory going on.

Sophie was going to be the end of them all.

And he wasn't going to go down without a fight.

"Release the girl now," Tanner ordered again, he had enough of listening to this man's rambling, they had come to shut it down and it had turned into a full-blown hostage situation.

"Over my dead cold body." Roger returned as he squeezed the trigger, sending a bullet into Sophie's side. She cried out and collapsed onto the ground causing Janice to rush to her side. "Soph?" The blonde didn't answer instead she pressed her hand into the wound that was starting to bleed, shocked that she had actually gotten shot.

There were several loud bangs followed by a dull thud of Roger's body hitting the ground. "Sophie! Answer me! Are you okay?" Janice asked, her stomach clenching violently at the sight of blood and Roger's dead body. She usually had such a weak stomach when it came to this kind of stuff but she wanted to help take care of her friend. The only one that really seemed to make an effort to do anything with her or anyone. All the girls wanted was a family and she was just looking for it in all the wrong places.

"I am okay. Am okay." Sophie muttered as Brian dropped down next to them and pushed Sophie's bloody hand off of her wound and covered it with his black-gloved hand. "We have an ambulance coming." One of Brian's fellow cops said standing behind him. Brian nodded his head, "Stay with me, Sophie. You hear me, stay with me."