A Painful Past
Chapter 10
Kaylee pulled out the gun she had strapped to the inside of her thigh, and started running towards the side of the building. She saw Trowa, Heero and Duo rush towards the woods, while Quatre rushed with Kaylee to the gathering crowd. Wufei was there with a gun, but he moved to the woods before anyone spotted him.
"Everyone needs to back away! Go inside! There is nothing to see here! Move out! NOW!" Jen was shouting to the people while Hilde backed them up, moved them away. Kaylee broke through the people. What she saw made her want to faint. Tracy was on her knees on the ground, crying into her hands. Robert was right next to her, but all crunched up and twisted in a weird way. There was a gun on the ground next to him, and it had a small, short trail of smoke coming from it. It had been recently fired, explaining some of the shots but not all of them. Kaylee guesses some came from Wufei, but it still didn't account for the large amount she heard. Jen and Hilde were trying to get info out of Tracy, but she was too upset at the moment. Kaylee went over to Robert trying to suppress her own tears. She straightened him out as much as she could with out disturbing his wounds. He had taken three shots; two to the chest, and one to the stomach. His face was beaten and scratched. He was losing a lot of blood. Quatre was ripping his clothing trying to stop the blood. Robert groaned and his eyes fluttered open.
"Kaylee..." he whispered and reached out to her, then winced in pain. She grasped his hand.
"Don't move. Just lay still," Kaylee glanced around wildly.
"Somebody call an ambulance!" she shouted. "Everything's going to be all right. I promise,'' she kissed the top of his hand. Robert closed his eyes, and struggled to breath. He kept coughing and spiting up blood. Then he stopped breathing all together.
"NO!!!" Kaylee screamed. She last all reason and common sense and started shaking his shoulders, trying to wake him up. "ROBERT!!!" Suddenly she was pulled off him by a pair of strong hands and held to a familiar body, her eyes away from Robert. She immediately recognized this body as Trowa. She kept struggling, but he was stronger. He simply put his one arm around her back, pinning her arms to his chest, and put his other hand on he head. She knew it was futile to struggle. Her body went semi-limp, and she was grateful for his strong arms holding her up. A quiet sob escaped her lips, but that was all she allowed herself until she knew for certain.
"Shhhh...." Trowa whispered in her ear. She heard the ambulance pull up a saw Robert being put in while someone tried to revive him. Tracy got in too.
"Come with me, Kaylee." she said.
"We found something you should see first Kaylee," Duo said.
"I'll meet you at the hospital," she said to Tracy, and the ambulance pulled away.
"Tracy finally told us what she saw," Jen said "She said a man came up behind Robert with a gun to his back, telling Tracy to give her all her money and jewels or he would shoot Robert. She started to comply but Robert elbow punched the man. The man punched him on the side of the face, and shot him in the back. Robert was still moving, so he pulled out his gun and shot at the man. Wufei had shown up at the first shot and shot at the man while he was running away. Wufei hit him, and as the man went down, he let off two more shots, hitting Robert twice more. The man is dead, so there will be no questioning."
"The scratches came when Robert fell," Hilde said.
"But this wasn't just any robbery," Duo said, "When we searched the guy, we found Oz id's on him. There were four more people around the perimeter, so we also took them out. They also had Oz id's.
"Something's not right." Quatre said, "There had to have been more, but they just got away. Why would they attack only one person if there are scores of jewels inside. They must have planned on taking this whole function over, but someone jumped the gun early, so they scattered."
"What would they want jewels for?" Trowa asked.
"I heard of this thing happening in other parts of the world. I believe Oz needs money. They have gotten MS forces so rapidly, so this is an obvious way to get money to build them all. This group doesn't show their faces, so that's why they haven't been pinpointed to Oz before." Heero said.
"But why steal jewels? There has to be other ways to make money," Hilde said.
"Oz has never made sense before, so this just fits their style," Wufei said, showing up.
"Well we have to go find them!" Kaylee said.
"No! We don't want Oz to know we were at this party. We'll get them soon enough," Heero said. Relena poked her head around the corner. "Umm, guys? It's getting rowdy."
"Tell them all to go home, and lock up their jewels. It was just a simple robbery." Heero's said. Relena squinted her eyes at him. She knew he was lying, but she did as she was told, to keep the riots down.
"I have to get to the hospital," Kaylee said, and took off running towards the limo. The others followed her.