"I want the doctor that dares get in my way. Take me to him!" the man replied as he pulled out a gun from in his jacket.
"I would've thought you would have waited to come back," Rae told him.
The man shook his head.
"No, the police would think that I'd wait to do that again. Instead, I'm taking the direct apporach, swiftly and easily. Now take me to him! Or else you will see even more dead among yourselves because you're helping him and my children!" he yelled at the two.
The two walked out of the room with the man following them. On the way, he placed his gun back into his jacket as to not draw attention to himself as a woman walked up beside him.
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Nick awoke with a cold sweat on his face. He looked from side to side. He saw that nobody was there. Seeing that, he laid his sore head back down on the pillow. Everything seemed to hurt from his head to his leg.
"Nick?" came a questioning voice.
Nick looked at the door to see Rae and Harriet standing nervously in the doorway.
"What's wrong?" he quietly asked them.
"We're what's wrong," came an angry voice.
Nick's eyes widened as he pushed himself up to his elbows to see a man closing in on him and a woman keeping an eye on Harriet and Rae.
"You will pay for this dearly. I will get what's mine," the man said as he reached into his jacket to grab the gun.
Only to find it wasn't there.
"No, you will pay for this. You taught us too well for your own good. Now your own tricks are being used against you," came a voice.
The man twirled around to see Sarah at the door, holding his gun in her hands.
"Get away from him Henry," she coldly said.
The man laughed at her.
"What are you going to do if I don't? Shoot me? Besides, your fingerprints will be all over the weapon now, not mine," he said with a laugh.
"No, they won't. Yours will be though. I kind of borrowed a pair of gloves from here at the hospital. I think it's a good thing they didn't ask why I needed them," Sarah said with a smile.
"Sarah, what are you doing?" asked Harriet through gritted teeth.
Rae nodded in agreement, both hers and Harriet's eyes were wide in anticipation..
"Doing something my brother and I should have done years ago. Done something about this man," she replied as her brother walked into the room behind her, also wielding a gun.
The two doctors got out of the line of fire as the two guns were aimed at the man, who held up his arms. He slowly took off his bandana to reveal Henry, the man who showed up at the hospital the day after the accident.
"I taught you two really well. Though you'll never get away with this. Who do you think they'll believe? Me or you?" he snarled at them.
"Us, of course. They'll have to realize that something's wrong when the kids have to resort to violence and they despise their parents enough to leave home at such an early age," Patrick replied, advancing towards the man.
Henry ran around Nick's bed and pulled out a knife from an inside pocket,placing it against NIck's throat.
"Get any closer and I'll finish the job here and now," he warned them.
Hannah, the woman who joined them, took her gaze off the two doctors to watch the scene, allowing Harriet to quietly get out of the room.
The brother and sister stopped and looked at each other. Sarah looked back at Nick, who was innocent of any crime expect talking to her.
"Should've seen the knife Pat but I didn't. Got the gun, had no time to get or see anything else," Sarah sighed.
"It's not your fault," Patrick replied. "I think you did really good to get what you did because of the condition your wrists are in."
"Give it up Sarah. It's not worth it," Nick managed to tell her.
"No, I won't. We won't see anymore suffering by the hands of this man any longer. We have for years and you won't die now because of him," she said.
"You can't defeat me. You're a pitiful teenager and so is your brother. You were the perfect pawns. You were easy to manipulate at such a tender age. Too bad you were against it all along. Don't know where you got it from," he said.
"What? A conscience? Good, you're left out of the picture for once. Your abusive ways were too much for us and you should be in jail right now and we have a feeling you will be soon enough," Patrick said.
"Only if they catch me dear Patrick. Only if they catch me," Henry smiled.
Matt and Jules ran to the door to see the scene, thanks to Harriet managing to warn somebody about the situation.
"Oh my God," he said as a few police officers that stayed behind ran up behind him.
"Drop the weapons, all of you!" cried one of the officers.
The three did nothing for a moment until Patrick gave up his weapon to the police.
That left Sarah and Henry, who still had his knife to Nick's throat.
"Drop it now or else see your friend here die," Henry warned her, putting the knife even closer to Nick's throat.
Nick froze as he did so before he felt a wave of nausea and pain swarm around in his head.
Sarah kept the gun raised for a few more moments before lowering it to the ground.
"There. Is that what you wanted Henry? Are you happy now?" she snarled at him.
"Sarah," Patrick told her.
Henry laughed at them as he slowly put down his knife and Sarah and Patrick ran over to Nick. Sadness and fear were in her eyes.
"The question is are you two happy now?" he asked them as he put his arm behind his back.
The police reached for their guns as Henry pulled out another gun and aimed it right at the teenagers. Nick glanced at him before shielding them as the gun went off.
TBC...
