I Disclaim

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Til The End Ch.10

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· I know you're upset, but stay with me, I do have a plan. Also I wanted to get it up sooner, but it got a little emotional.

Mac's Dujo

It was a somber atmosphere, no laughing, no talking, and no real activity at all. Just a room full of people dressed in black, still looking shocked. The same looks they had at Tuscany the night it all happened

FLASHBACK "MAC." Chloe ran to kneel by her fallen friend and picked up her hand. "CRAIG!"

Craig handed Gabriella to Nancy and kneeled down next to Chloe." Call and Ambulance." Bo nodded and took out his cell phone calling for an ambulance and several squad cars. " MAC, can hear you me." Craig leaned over to listen to her chest as onlookers began to pray.

Shawn took out his phone and began barking orders. "Wolf One, to the pack seals off the area." He glanced toward Craig and saw the grim expression and his anger intensified. " I WANT THE SERACHED NOW!"

In the distant a fait siren got louder and louder, until two paramedics ran into the room with a stretcher. Craig quickly demanded the defibrillator (?). Lucas came forward, took Chloe back from scene, and wrapped her in his arms as the tears began to fall.

"CLEAR!" Mac body jumped as the force of the shock rocked her body. Craig checked the monitor but still saw a faint and quickly fading heartbeat. "Clear!" The sound that followed was heartbreaking, as the heart monitor flatlinned.

"Sir you need to call it." The paramedic looked at Craig with sorrow, but knew it had to be done." She's gone."

The fury that enter Craig's eyes couldn't be contained as his grabbed the man by the collar."  SHE'S NOT GONE." Craig released him and turn to look at the other paramedic. "Double the voltage." Taking the pads again Craig continued to shock Mac, until a stronger heartbeat was heard throughout the room. "Now, let's go." The paramedics jumped up and began leading Mac toward the ambulance; Chloe made a move to follow Craig stopped her. "Honey, I'm going to go wit Mac, you meet me there okay?"

But Chloe gaze rest on Mac still form as she was loading into the ambulance. " Daddy, please."

Craig kissed her forehead and pushed her pack into Lucas's arms. "I will, baby." Craig turned on his heel and ran form the room.

"Wolf One come in, this is Harris." The sound was like heaven to Shawn as it replaced the horrible sound of Mac Flatlinning.

"Wolf One, here."

" Everything in a ten mile radius was searched sir, no sign of a gunman."

"WELL THERE OBVIOUSLY WAS ONE, FIND THEM!" Shawn turned off the phone and threw at the wall shattering it into a dozen pieces." I'm meeting them at the hospital." Shawn began walking toward the door when he felt a hand touch his arm; he turns to find himself staring into Belle's teary blue eyes.

"Can I ride wit you?"

"Yeah, let's go." Shawn felt into a brisk run, as he followed Chloe and Lucas as they lead the run to their cars as the room emptied of guest."

"Chloe, don't worry it's Mac, she survives." Shawn gave his cousins a weak smile as he entered his truck, and tried not to remember the last person to ride in his car.

Flashback Over

But Shawn was wrong, Mac didn't survive, she gave in on the ride to the hospital, and nothing Craig could do saved her. This brought them here to Mac's Dujo, for her memorial service. Her recruits and agents lined the wall no hint of emotion could be seen.

Everything about this day was unusual, Brady and Chloe usual anger was replaced by grief, as the once bitter exes merely hugged each other briefly for comfort. Nancy's bubbly personality was replaced with one of complete anguish; she couldn't help it the ex-mercenary had become like another daughter to the Wesley's, and the pain of her death left them missing a large part of themselves. Shawn had gone into full agent mode, yelling at recruits, threatening other agents, and demanding answers.

"Ladies and Gentlemen were about to begin." Calling for everyone's attention Greta was forced to remember the last time she did it, and a batch of fresh tears begins.

The group of mourners gathered around the center of the room, where Mac's heavy bag usually stood, but was now replaced a photo of Mac.

Chloe step forward and smiles as she looked around the room." We here today to say Honor Mackenzie Ann Red Wolf, or Mac." She used her finger to touch the frame." It's very hard to do this, not just to say goodbye to someone, but to say goodbye to Mac especially."

A hollow laughs leaves her tear stained face." How do you say goodbye to someone like Mac, everything that comes to your mind seems so inadequate."  "? You can't say that she was a great friend with a heart of gold, because she wouldn't have liked that, and you can't say she was cold and uninvolved because we all know it's not true, and they're doesn't seem to be a medium compliment for Mac." She turns and motions for Shawn, who comes forward. "So we decided to do what Mac did for her fallen agents."

Shawn steps forward." Mac would tell a story of how her father Hank, would sit her on his knee, and tell her stories of her ancestors."

"He would tell her how brave, loyal, and wise, they were, and how it wasn't the blood that made them this things, but their sprit." Shawn turns and glances at Mac's picture." Today we add new traits to the list in honor of Mac, Red Wolf's are brave, loyal, wise, determined, humorous, and noble, not because of blood but because of spirit."  " The Red Wolf Society will continue, smaller then before, but with new determination."

"Damn, I was hoping with the bastard dead, you would just fold up and go away." Alexandra DiMera walked through the stunned crowd, uncaring of the gasps and shocks that here arrival caused.

Chloe eyes narrowed at the entrance of Lexie, she hurt her family to often to be allowed to walk around without guilt in Salem. Chloe shook off Jason's restraining hand and as she moved to stand eye to eye with pure evil.

Lexie laughs at the fury in Chloe's eyes." Poor Chloe, lost your husband and now your friend, whatever will you do?"

"Well I could take a page out of Mac's book, and kick the ass of the first bitch I see." Chloe steps closer so that she is merely inches from the woman,

"Now, Now just because you were being groomed to be a DiMera, doesn't mean you take one on." Lexie smiles and it's full of deceit and malice.

Chloe saw her lips move, but couldn't hear the words over sound of blood pumping in her head, and not caring about the consequences, she balls her fist and gave Lexie the right cross that Mac had taught her.

Lexie saw the fist coming but couldn't move out of its way. She hit the floor with a loud thud as the room erupted with laughs and sounds of pleasuring at watching a DiMera knocked out of the floor. From the doorway Lexie's guard took steps toward Chloe as the several members of the Red Wolfs closed in around her.

Lexie struggled to stand up and felt her chin and found blood on her lips and glared at Chloe, as she made a move to get closer when Shawn step in front of her with hatred plainly seen in his eyes.

"Leave Now." When Lexie made no move he step closer and towered over her. "You either walk out or you get carried out, in two seconds I decide which one." Lexie's guard helped her to her limousine. Turning back to group, Shawn puts a smile on his face. "OK, I think it's time we toasted Mac." The crowd murmurs agreement as the scene in put in the back of their minds.

Chloe walked upstairs and went to the kitchen, and took out some ice, for her hand.

"Nice right cross, Lane." Brady had seen Chloe sneak away, and followed her without thinking. "Mac would have been proud."

"I don't think so, she always said if you were going to strike out in anger then you should kick them, because your foot was harder to break then your hand." She looks at him with a small smile. "I think she would have liked to see, my roundhouse kick, but I couldn't do it in this dress."

 "I think Mac would be proud of whatever you did." There was tone in his voice that Chloe hadn't heard in a long time, it was her Brady, the Brady she fell in love with and the man she married."

"Thank you, Mac would be proud of you too." She sees the surprise on his face. "She really would Brady."

"Hey Chloe… Oh." Bo and Roman Brady came into the room, and stopped at the sight." Uh, we need to get fax of some important police document, and Shawn said they was a fax here." Bo looked at the couple and cursed himself, he could tell something was happening, but they needed the fax.

Chloe nods her head." Yeah, the fax is through that door." Chloe turns to point at Mac's bedroom. "We'll leave you alone." Chloe walks past them and is followed by Brady leaving the two officers to their business.

Bo walks through the door and hears the whirling of paper and goes to stand over the machine as the fax prints out. "What is this suppose to be Roman?"

"According to our snitch, that is the new crime boss, he's international connection is shocker, shocker, Lexie DiMera."

"Oh my god." Bo looked at the picture but can't believe his eyes.

Roman rushes over to his brother and takes the picture. The face looks like it's aged, and the goatee, adds a dangerous edge, but the red hair makes him instantly recognizable. "Patrick O'Neil."