AN: SM owns everything. I am just playing with her people! Enjoy.
Emmett lead us to the safe room attached to our gym. All of the rooms in our house were pretty much hidden and you would never know about them because my dad and granddad built it. So any plans the city might have do not include these rooms. And that's the only reason I believe we will live through today. In the safe room we have guns, money, food and anything else we might need to survive. Em and I go into survival mode and get everything ready for war even though we know we will have to wait and see if Charlie can make it out of this one. I pull up our house security system and see that it has not been breeched. So it must be someone who is close. That alone is unnerving because there isn't really anyone we let in. But those thoughts are for later, right now I need to focus on Dad.
On my iphone I pull up the cameras and I watch the 3 men beat my father while my brother hold my hand. This is equally hard on the two of us because we were both so close to our father. "Its going to be ok bells. Its got to be" My bear of a bother says in my ear. We know the rooms are sound proof but nether of us can speak above a whisper. They want the business and power that comes with the Swan name. We own legitimate hotels and casinos and pretty much everything in this little town. We also own half of Chicago or it seems like that anyway. That's what they are after, its what they are all after. Charlie has tried to prepare us to give nothing away. But I don't think anything could have prepared the two of us for what was coming.
"Look Mr. Swan, if you want to make it out of this alive you need to sign it all over to me now. You've been trying to take our territory for years now, and we are tired of it. This ends now or you do." The first man said. "And if you aren't alive and Renee doesn't give a shit, who is going to take care of those two kids, Charlie?" The second man had a French accent. "Oh I will take care of the girl, miss Isabella is it? Oh yeah I can take care of her real good Charlie I am sure you daughter would love to be forced into a marriage with me to save the pathetic life of her brother, don't you?" The blond man said. I could see it in Charlie's eyes he would never give up, but the thought of having to be with the blond by his worlds alone made me dizzy, and the thought of something happening to my brother, my twin was to much to bare. "I would never let him get you, sissy" Em whispered. "I know, Em but it doesn't make it anymore comforting. Especially because I cant see any of these assholes faces!" I said through clenched teeth. I knew he was feeling the same way.
"Boys my kids are not here, and if you've done your research you would know that I have sent them away at the beginning of the summer to one of our Chicago locations. But obviously you haven't been keeping as close of tabs as you thought. I will give you nothing. I have worked legally and illegally for everything that I have and you think because you hold a gun to my head I will give in? I was born in this life and I will go out the same way." My eyes began to water because I knew what he was doing. He was saving us. Everything we needed was in this room. Including one prepaid phone and one number in it. It was only to be called in the even something happened to Charlie. And I knew by the end of the night, we would be using that phone. Their body language said as much. They would not leave here without killing our father. "You think he is telling the truth?!" The French man yelled at the dark haired man. "Well obviously I cannot trust the two of you to do you jobs, because there has not been a sound in this whole damn house since we arrived! Do you think 2 17 year old kids could be so quite while they watch their father die from somewhere in this house?!" The blond man was the one in charge and he was raging now.
As he lifted his gun to Charlie the tears I had held back all came rushing out. I thought of the old times like when he taught Emmett and I to ride a bike or throw a ball. He never excluded me from anything. Or how proud of us he was the day we decided we too wanted into this life. Even if I was his little girl he taught me to be strong and fight, but now I feel weak knowing my daddy will die and not be there to walk me down the aisle or watch his grandchildren play. I feel like I am breaking, but I need to stay strong. I will fall apart later, I cant let everything my father ever told me evade me now. The blond picked up the gun and in a flash it went off. Surprisingly killing his dark haired friend and not Charlie. I could feel the panic attack coming but I willed it away. I know Emmett felt it because he pulled me to his chest so I could feel him breath and do like he did. That's been working all my life. I don't know where they came from, but they never went away. And I refused to acknowledge they were bad enough for professional help. I do not like to show weakness. "Well Charlie this has been great catching up and all, but I cant have anyone lookin' for me or any loose ends." BANG it was all it took. One bullet was all it took to end the life of the greatest man I've ever known.
The blond man started a fire in the house. Of course he had to make it seem like it was an accident. The fire was raging through the house in what seemed like seconds, and the cameras we starting to fade. But not because I could hear him say that they too were going to Chicago, and that they would find us. They left their dead friend behind to burn up as well figuring that no one would care who he was with Charlie Swan's ashes in the room. We knew the safe room was fine to be in because it was 100% fire proof. So we stayed still for what must have been hours. Emmett held be, being the strong protective brother he was. "Sissy I need to let you go so I can make that call." He pulled away from me, and my anxiety flared. I knew that call made it all real. And the last thing I heard was Emmett saying "Carlisle its happened. We need you." And then there was darkness, and it was just too beautifully peaceful to not succumb to.