Scene7 Shoot Out

She woke up that morning to the sound of voices downstairs. Bobby and Sofie were fighting...again. But then she heard Angel yell something about cops. This woke up Jack who rolled out of bed and headed downstairs. Jordan got up and got dressed. She walked downstairs just as the cops were leaving.

"What was that about?" She asked Jack as she headed into the kitchen to put on a pot of coffee.

"Nothing to worry about. The cops were just wasting time when they should have been doing their jobs." Jack replied sullenly. Jordan could tell from the cocky smirk Bobbywas sporting that he had told the cops as much to their face.

Jack and Bobby had decided that they were going to go and try to dig up some more information by searching the house of the guys from the night before. Judging from before she figured they would be gone most of the day and judging from the fight escalating between Angel and Sofie she had better get out of the house. She didn't want to be there for the screaming and she definitely didn't want to be there for the making up.

She was walking out to her rental car when she passed a man walking towards the house in a suit. "Hi, I work with State Farm and I had some questions about Mrs. Mercer's insurance policy for her sons. Do you know if they are in?"

"Well one of them is. Good luck." She replied with a smile as she pointed towards the front door. The insurance agent gave her a puzzled look as she climbed into her car and he continued on towards the door.

When she got home late that night Jack was already there. He told her about what Angel had discovered about Jeremiah and seeing him paying off one of Sweet's men. He also told herhow he was coming over the next morning. She did her best to assure Jack that there was a perfectly good reason behind all of this but it was hard to convince him when she herself was not so sure.

The next morning she was in the kitchen doing dishes while the guys were confronting Jeremiah in the living room. Jordan jumped as she heard crashing but she knew it was better to leave them be. She just hoped that Jeremiah could explain his involvement with Sweet. She didn't want to believe he was involved with Evelyn's death but all information seem to point that he was. Jordan heard a pounding on the front door but she decided toignore it. She would have to walk through the living room to answer the door and she wasn't about to do that. However, shortly after the pounding on the door she heard Bobby frantically yell for Jack followed closely by the unmistakable sound of a gunshot. Jordan froze in her spot. She heard Bobby scream for Jack again and it spurred her into action.

She ran to the side door and saw Jack stumbling away from a man holding a shot gun as Bobby and Angel started shooting back from the front porch. As if in slow motion, she saw one of the guns on the table that Bobby and Jack had retrieved the day before and she grabbed it and ran out the side of the house. As she rounded the corner a second guy had taken aim at Jack as he was stumbling away. The original man standing over him had fallen due to the gunfire from the brothers. Jordan didn't even think about what she was doing. She had never shot a gun in her life but that didn't stop her from pointing the gun she had grabbed and firing at the shooter.

Her bullet barely grazed his arm but it is enough to distract him. Her amazement from shooting a gun was quickly replaced by fear as the man turned to shoot at her. Jordan dodged back behind the wall as bullets zoomed past her. She could see Jack out of the corner of her eye. Her distraction had given him enough time to duck behind Jerri's car.

"Jack!" she yelled as she saw him collapse on the ground next to the car. He wouldn't be safe there for long. She desperately tried to spur him into action. "Get your ass inside now! I'll cover you!" The words just flowed from her mouth. She would cover for him? This wasn't some cops and robbers movie. She had just shot a gun for the first time in her life and now she was going to lay down cover fire? Well here goes nothing she thought as she pushed the doubts from her head. She leaned around the corner of the house again and began to shoot wildly in the direction of the masked men. She saw Jack stumbling towards the door out of the corner of her eye. Her half cocked plan was actually working! Jack had just made it to the back door as a bullet grazed her arm.

"Fuck!" she screamed in pain as she dropped the gun.

"Jordan!" Jack yelled as he say her fall to her knees. He rushed to her side. "Bobby! Help us!" He pleaded for his big brother.

"I'm coming Jack hang on!" They heard the reply from somewhere at the front of the house.

"I'm fine Jack! Just get inside!" She wasn't about to wait around for someone to come and get her. She looked down at her arm and saw the white stuffing of her coat tinted red from blood. It was just her arm she would be fine. Jordan pulled herself to her feet and together she and Jack started stumbling towards the door both leaning on each other, unaware of the guy sneaking around the back.

They crossed the threshold of the house. Jordan had forgotten all about her pain and was now more concerned about Jack. She still hadn't seen where he had been hit but she knew he had. She was frantically searching for somewhere out of the line of fire to examine him when she heard a primal scream from behind her. She spun around to see Jerri attacking a masked man who had obviously been about to shot her and Jack in the back. Jack fell to the ground on the spot and began coughing, the adrenaline wearing off and the bullet taking its toll. Jordan looked down and saw his blood swelling through his shirt. The bullet had gone right through his stomach. She gasped as she frantically grabbed a towel off the counter and held it to his stomach in a vain attempt to stem the blood.

The shooting continued out front and she was vaguely aware of Jerri leaving out the side door as she cradled Jack in her arms and reached for the phone to call an ambulance and the police. She doesn't remember anything of the phone call she just sat there frozen in place staring down at Jack. She came to with a start as she heard a loud car crash and she dropped the phone. One more gun shotwent off and then the kitchen was flooded by the other brothers. She looked up at them crying as Jack reached up and grabbed her arm and squeezed it in pain. "The ambulance is on its way." She dully informed them, not able to think of anything else to say.

They dropped to their knees around him. "Hang in there you stupid fairy, you are going to be alright!" Bobby cried to Jack as he takes Jordan's place holding Jack up. Jordan just stared at the scene in front of her unable to comprehend what was going on. Ambulance sirensfilled her ears as they wereheard fast approaching. Angel ran outside to direct them to Jack. Paramedics rushed in and once again Jordan was pushed out of the way. She saw one hook Jack up to an IV as another ripped his shirt to get at the wound all while putting him on a stretcher. Bobby looked at Jerri and her, "You two go with him, we'll stay and take care of this. Call me the minute you know anything!"He ordered. Jordan just nodded mutely as she followed the stretcher out to the ambulance.

Jerri and Jordan sat in tense silence as the paramedics worked furiously around them, Jordan could only stare at Jack as he passed out from the pain and the medicine.