Chapter 24: Revenge, loss, and arrivals

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~~~~~Zack's P.O.V.~~~~~

      I'm in some abandoned warehouse with Zane and Max we're waiting for the rest of the X5s to come. Logan did an Eyes only hack asking all the X5s to come here but of course we didn't take any chances and made it as fast as an X5s speed. Logan found out whoever trashed our place and shot Margaret had a barcode on the back of his neck.

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~~~~~One hour earlier~~~~~

      I sit here beside my wife's bed, I get the needle and put one end of it into me and the other end into her, I let the clip go. As my blood flows into her body I pray that this works. The doctors couldn't do anything so I am, I lost my baby I won't loose my wife. How could my own "sibling" try and kill my wife, he better have a damn good reason or there'll be hell to pay, "sibling" or no "sibling".

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~~~~~Dream Sequence~~~~~

~~~~~Margaret's P.O.V.~~~~~

      I have no idea where I am, I call out to Zack but he's not here. The last thing I remember is getting shot and now I'm here in this place that's all white and bright but very peaceful. There are people around all dressed in white and I look down at myself and I'm wearing white too. I walk to the center and see three people I could never forget. I call out...

Margaret: Mom? //Oh my god am I in heaven? //

Aaliyah: Ya honey it's me.

Margaret: Am I in heaven?

Aaliyah: No this is just a passing way.

Margaret (goes to her mother and hugs her): I've missed you so much.

Aaliyah: Same here.

      As I take her hand I have no fear I see my dad, both my dads, my biological dad and the dad who raised me and loved me as his own the one I never got to say goodbye to. I walk to him and just barely in a whisper say "daddy." Both men turn around but I only run to one and that is James.

Margaret: Dad I've missed you.

James: I've missed you too.

Aaliyah (comes and takes her hand): Come on we have to go.

      I nod my head and we start walking towards two big white doors but I hesitate cuz something holds me back. I see Zack crying asking me to come back to him. I can't go with my mother as much as I want to I can't leave Zack.

Margaret: I'm sorry I can't go with you.

Aaliyah: It's ok we understand.

Margaret: Good bye.

      I run and don't look back, now I'm at the beach and Zack is there looking at the water and I say...

Margaret: It's gone isn't it?

Zack: Ya the baby's gone.

      I go over to him and hug him and say...

Margaret: Don't worry everything will be okay you'll see. Don't worry I'm coming back I love you, I won't leave you.

~~~~~End dream sequence~~~~~

~~~~~Present where Zack is~~~~~

      One by one they all came we had our hellos and hugs and everything. Everyone is here Krit, Jondy, Brin, Syl, Tinga, Ben, Jace, Tyson, Bella, and Jacks. Nobody new why they were here well except for maybe Zack, Max and, Zane.

Zack: It's great to see everyone but we have to get down to business. (Taking out a picture of Margaret that was taken on their honeymoon she was standing in front of the Eiffel Tower.) This woman was shot and is in the ICU now I have a source that tells me the person who shot her had a barcode on the back of their neck and I believe it was a male.

Jacks (showing no fear and in a solider monotone): I did it and the bitch deserved it if you ask me.

Zack (taking all of his efforts not to pounce on Jacks right now): Why?

Jacks: She killed my wife two weeks ago. I could tell you the exact date and time too. It was Friday October 5th, 2025 at one in the morning.

Zack: I see.

      Everyone else just standing there listening to there conversation.

Jacks: What's it to you anyway?

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~~~~~Hospital~~~~~

      The heart monitor for the patient in room 214 goes off in the nurses station they all go in there to check on her but they are surprised to find an empty bed, empty closet, and no Mrs. Hanover.

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~~~~~Back to the X5s~~~~~

Zack (not answering): Do you have proof?

Jacks: Two witnesses who Ided her there. (Repeating his question again). What's it to you anyway?

      Before Zack could answer the warehouse door opened and Margaret came walking in.

Jacks (stunned but don't show it): How could you be here, Zack just said you were in ICU?

Margaret (pissed): Well sorry to disappoint but you gotta do better then a bullet to keep me down.

      Everyone else was stunned including Max and Zane but not Zack because he knew that his revved up Manticore blood did the trick. Now everyone except Zack, Zane, and Max encircled Margaret all in a fighting stance because to them she was a threat and had to be eliminated.

Margaret: Now, now you wouldn't actually hurt someone who just came out of the ICU, who's not genetically enhanced, and who unfortunately is outnumbered?

Jondy: Not usually but when someone murders someone we care about we make an exception. Besides how the hell did you know we are genetically enhanced?

Margaret: I don't know wild guess? Or maybe because my brother and husband are both genetically enhanced. I think you know them Zane and Zack? Zane's my big brother and Zack's my husband.

      All still standing in there position not moving but clearly shocked well except for the obvious people and we all know who they are.

Tinga: Zack is that true? Is what she says true?

Zack: Ya it's true. Everything she said it's true, she's my wife and Zane's her adoptive brother.

Krit: How can you be married to someone who killed your own brothers' wife?

Zack: NO! She didn't kill anyone.

Syl: But there is proof.

Zack: Well they made a mistake cuz the night Jacks's wife died my wife and I were in----

Margaret (cutting him off): Wait one sec. who's wife do you all think I killed?

Jacks: Mine.

Margaret: And you are?

Jacks: Jacks Angelo. Detective Jacks Angelo.

Margaret: You're wrong I didn't kill anyone nor will I ever.

Tyson: Why should we believe you?

Margaret: Why would I take away someone's loved one when I know first hand how it feels to lose someone you love?

Jace: What are you talking about?

Margaret: Look, I lost my dad when I was eight, I lost my mom when I was fifteen, and I lost my step dad when I was eighteen. So I wouldn't be talking. When did you say your wife died?

Jacks: Two weeks ago. It was Friday October 5th 2025 at one in the morning.

Margaret (not calm anymore): Oh my god could you be anymore wrong? What Zack was saying before was that the night your wife died Zack and I were in bed choosing baby names for our son or daughter. Now thanks to you I won't even know if my baby was a boy or girl.....cuz of the bullet you put into me, you took away my child, now who's the murderer?

Jacks: No that's not true. I don't believe you.

Zane (tired of being quiet): Believe it! Cuz it's true! Now stop hassling my sister she's been through enough don't you think? You're blaming her for something she didn't do. That's not even fair besides who the hell told you she killed your wife?

Jacks: I got an anonymous call.

Margaret (eyes warm and caring now): Look everyone I'm sorry for everything that has happened. Especially to you Jacks I wish your wife hadn't been killed cuz I know the feeling of loss all a little to well but blaming me...killing me won't bring her back. Just like me blaming you won't bring my baby back. I am truly sorry and I wish that I could have met all of you on much better terms but I guess this is the way it had to be.

Bella: Ya but it just doesn't add up why would those people id you there if you weren't there it can't be possible.

Zack: Maybe it was a setup. The killer probably knows you and wants you dead so in order to do that he or she has to kill someone very loved for someone in the person's family to want revenge and the only way they'll get that is if they kill the murderer.

Jacks: Just the way I did or try to do.

Jondy: Do you have any enemies?

Margaret: Not really there's like three. Let's see there are Shawn, Amber, and Lydecker.

Ben: Wait how do you know Lydecker?

Margaret: Long story but that can't be I haven't seen, talked, or done anything to Deck and the last time I did see him was when I was eight. So that counts him out. Then it has to be Shawn or Amber.

Zack: Okay hold up I wanna get these bustards as much as you do but you're still hurt so we'll do this when you get better.

Margaret: Fine, fine calm down.

Bella: But that still doesn't answer my question how could they id her if she wasn't there?

Max: The murderer probably paid them off. To lie and say that she was there but wasn't.

Brin (stepping forward): I think we *all* owe you an apology.

Everyone: Ya.

Jacks: Especially me I'm sorry for everything.

Margaret (small smile): Forget it I already have 'sides we're family. (Going over to Zack and kissing him hard.) Thank you for not giving up on me and saving me. I love you so much.

Zack: I love you too. Thanks for not leaving me even though you'd make a perfect angel up in heaven I need you here on Earth as my angel.

      They both smile and kiss each other again and you could hear the others making fun of them by making "ewe" noises.

Max: Okay people here's the plan Krit, Jondy, and Brin you'll come with me and stay at my place. Syl, Tinga, and Ben you'll go with Zack and Jace, Tyson, Bella, and Jacks you'll go with Zane.

Tinga: Ok but I can only stay for a couple of days cuz Case and Charlie are waiting for me.

Jace: Same here Max and Victor are waiting for me.

Max: Alright now that's settled let's move out troops.

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~~~~~TBC~~~~~