Dusty's POV
I stand and watch as both women struggle for the gun. "Lucy." I call but she does not hear me. However, I hear the shot from the gun echo through out the building. It is as if I am watching a made for cable movie or something, it cannot be real. Everything is moving in slow motion. The next thing I know I see Lucy and Ellie hit the ground. Lucy first and Ellie on top of her.
I run to help them. "Lucy." I call out her name, but I get no response. "Lucy." I call again. Still no response. I push Ellie off and notice her move.
I Look down at Lucy and ask if she is all right. "Lucy Baby, can you talk to me?" I do not get any response. I lean in closer and whisper in her ear. "Come on baby talk to me. Open your eyes." I plead with her to wake up, however she is not.
Panic runs through my veins as I plead with her to open her eyes and say something. "Lucy. Lucy, say something, come on talk to me Please." I then feel her blood on my hand. Panic sets in as my breathing gets heavy. "Lucy, don't leave me."
I pull out my cell and call 911. "Yeah I need an ambulance at an old abandoned warehouse near route 14 hurry; a pregnant woman's been shot." I tell the dispatcher. I quickly hang up the phone and talk to Lucy.
"Please Lucy, Please don't leave me. Don't leave yet, you and I have to raise Nicole together." I tell her.
I try to remind her of what my life would be like if she were not in it. "Lucy you are my everything, I'm sorry I got married to Ellie I really am, I thought it would protect you. If I know she would try to kill you anyway, I would have found a better way. Another way to save you and the baby. Our baby. Our Little girl.
The thought of a little girl makes me so happy. I cannot wait until she is born. I just hope this shooting does not cause the doctors to deliver her prematurely; she is not strong enough to breathe on her own, or even live on her own. I lean into Lucy's stomach.
"Aiko, you have to stay strong for your mother." I started calling Nicole Aiko; it is a little nickname I gave her. Aiko means the little loved one or the beloved in Japanese. You might be wondering how I know Japanese huh? Well that is another story.
I hear sirens in the distant and begin to assure my two girls that the ambulance is on its way.
"Screw the ambulance." I hear Ellie talking. I turn around to say something, but notice she has the gun pointed right at me.
"Ellie, you don't want to do this."
"Dusty, leave the bitch and come on. You are my husband now." She says coldly. I look at her. Is she that crazy to leave a pregnant woman who has been shot all alone?
"I'm leaving her. Look you can have anything you want, my money, my club, my whole freaking life, but I'm not leaving Lucy." I shout at her tears flowing from my face. She does not give in. She scoffs at the fact that I am not leaving.
"Look mister, I'm your wife you do what I want." She says as she points the gun to my temple.
"Drop it." I hear the voice Hal Munson. I close my eyes. Ellie turns.
"Who are you?"
"Lieutenant Hal Munson now drop the gun and back away from the victim." Hal commanded. "Drop it now." However, Ellie was not listening.
"No, I have waited my whole life to be Mrs. Dusty Donovan and I'm not giving up on it."
"Lady I have had a very long day, and you are really trying my patients all I want to do is go home to my wife and relax, however because you and your wacky friend whom I have in custody already decided to...."
"Hal, forget about me and save Lucy." I tell him, the paramedics begin to work on her and load into the Ambulance.
As they did Ellie got distracted enough to force Hal to wrestle the gun from her and arrest her." Ellie was then arrested and put in police custody.
The Ambulance already left with Lucy. I rush to my car and hightail it to the hospital.
Tbc....Will Lucy Make it. Will Nicole make it? I will let you in on a bit of a secret, Dusty is not married. To find out how he is not continue to read the story.