Chapter 11: Bullets
Wolf stood there, pointing his gun at the two kidnappers. They were standing, hands up, watching Wolf and Chloe, who was in Horatio and Calleigh's arms. Mark however, was still smiling, that sick grin still there.
"What the hell are you smiling about?" Wolf growled. Mark simply laughed.
"It's not over yet." Horatio looked over at him.
"What are you on about? You've been arrested, you can no longer harm Chloe and you're going to be sent to jail. I think that is pretty much over." Wolf said.
"We will go to jail, but she's going 6 feet under." Joe chuckled, staring right at Chloe. She shook suddenly. Horatio stood in front of her, giving a death glare to the pair.
"Chloe is under our protection, no one will be able to harm her." He growled.
"Oh, is that so?" Cried a sharp female voice. Calleigh and Horatio whirled round, only to see the nurse that had treated Chloe and Horatio, gripping Chloe round the neck with the crook of her arm and a gun placed to her head. Horatio stiffened, rigid all over. Calleigh was frozen to the spot, daring not to move.
"Drop your gun!" The nurse spat at Wolf. Wolf reluctantly dropped his pistol to the ground. Mark and Joe immediately stepped forwards. Joe grabbed Wolf and Horatio, while Mark held Calleigh's struggling arms behind her back.
"Now, girl, if you don't tell us what we need to know, your friends here will all die. Do you understand?" The nurse hissed. Horatio knew this was what Chloe had tried to prevent from happening, tried to save them from this. He caught her eye, willing her run. He didn't care what happened to him, but he would save Calleigh and Wolf first. But if Chloe ran, they would all die bullets in their backs.
"Answer me!" Cried the nurse again. Chloe shook violently, but she nodded, her face turned down, accepting defeat.
"Good, now where is he hiding? And where is the warehouse?" The nurse growled.
"Let them go first." Chloe snapped back. Suddenly the hilt of the nurse's gun crashed into Chloe's cheek, making the inside of her mouth bleed. Horatio jerked uncomfortably with Calleigh and Wolf. But they realised the risk of saying something would probably kill Chloe.
"Talk to me like that again and you won't live to see another day." The nurse snarled. (I can't think of a name for her, so, we're just calling her 'the nurse') Chloe seemed to be scared, for once. But Horatio was getting angrier. He wasn't going to let any of them die, but he was going to make all of the jerks pay. But the problem was, he needed back up. He looked over at Wolf, who met his gaze. Joe was too busy laughing at the pain inflicted on Chloe to notice Wolf pass a mobile to Horatio. The thing was, all CSI mobiles were equipped with panic buttons, sending a signal to the base where all the teams phones would start beeping, if they were on. But, a thought occurred to Horatio. Did Calleigh still have her phone on? He couldn't meet her eye, since Mark was hiding her from view. But, in any case, she always had it on.
"Now, tell me everything and they get to live." Whispered the nurse. Chloe however, had seen Horatio looking at Wolf and had seen the mobile. Going along the fact that Horatio knew what he was doing, she struck out with her hand, with collided with the burses nose. She let out a cry and released Chloe, who started at Mark. He however, couldn't fire his gun with only one hand since it was too heavy. Chloe smacked him in the face with her elbow, causing him to double over with pain. Joe pushed both CSI's to the fool, knocked Calleigh out of the way and slammed Chloe into the parked Hummer, forcing her shoulders backwards, making great floods of pain wash down her back. She let out a small cry, but then plummeted her foot into his stomach. Joe reared backwards, swearing harshly. Chloe slid to the ground, but scrambled up. She saw Horatio talking loudly into the mobile. Without another though, Chloe ran for it.
But the nurse had recovered from the sudden hit and screamed out loud as Chloe rushed pass and collected her gun from the ground.
"You'll pay for that!" She roared and began to follow. Calleigh yelled something to Horatio, who began to streak after them both. They had gone out of the car park and into the ambulance park. Chloe jumped over a fence and skidded into the garage. The nurse followed, having difficulty climbing over because of her skirt. She ignored Horatio's yells to freeze and went after Chloe into the garage. As Horatio landed over on the other side of the fence, he saw that the garage was to store mechanics for the emergency vehicles. He prayed that Chloe would find some way of loosing the nurse. But he knew that the nurse had been too close behind for comfort and sprinted in after them both, gun at arms length.
Chloe dived behind a load of shelves just as the nurse came round the corner, her gun in hand.
"Where are you?" She growled. She moved forwards, her eyes gliding through every gap in the boxes. Chloe crept down into the next line of shelves, narrowly missing a pile of screws that were perched on the shelf. She didn't dare breathe. She saw someone move out of the corner of her eye, but didn't look around. She looked around her. There was nothing that she could use that would save her from a bullet, nor give her a good get away. She had to try and find a way of getting out, back to Wolf, Calleigh and Horatio. But the nurse would catch up on her, shoot all of them and… Chloe didn't want to think about it, not now. She glanced through the shelves, to see the nurse creeping as slowly as she was down past the shelves and round the corner. Quietly, Chloe shifted three rows up; making sure her trainers made no noise what so ever. But that was a hard, especially when her foot collided into a gas barrel. The ring form the hit echoed round the garage. Chloe turned and ran, straight for the door. She had given her self away and needed to get out of here. The nurse however, wasn't having that. She began to follow once more, hunting Chloe down with her gun.
What Chloe hadn't considered was that she would be out in an open space, an easy target for the nurse. Horatio saw this immediately and panicked. Raising his gun, he began to run, catching up with the nurse and throwing her off Chloe's path. But the Nurse rolled over to quickly for him and grabbed her gun. She fired, send a bullet into his arm. He let out a cry of pain and was pushed back as Chloe ran further. Blood trickled past his fingers. He heard someone screaming and saw Calleigh come racing towards him. He gritted his teeth and long blasts of pain inflicted his arm. He heard Calleigh asking him questions, saw Wolf bounding pass. But then, he saw what had happened and froze.
The Nurse had Chloe cornered against a wall, gun raised.
"Tell me NOW!" She screamed. Chloe stared up the barrel of the gun, feeling a cold feeling rush down her spine. She had seen Horatio being shot and had had enough. She saw Wolf, with his own gun raised, painting directly at the nurse's back. She had no other choice.
"I will never tell you!" Chloe shouted. The nurse bellowed something and the gun fired. Slow motion over came Chloe. She saw the bullets, racing towards her, felt them slam into her rib cage, stomach and leg. She felt her own knees hit the ground, heard more gunfire and another thump. She felt blood in her throat. Blackness overcame her and she fell onto her side, only feeling someone gripping her arm before she was completely gone.
Sometimes, I hate doing cliffies. But ut makes no sense to me that you should not make the ending of a chapter a liffie, becuase why would people even want to read on? Ah well, the mysterys of the mind. Now, whether I kill Chloe off or keep her is for me to know and you to find out. Wait for the next chapter! Please review, becuase I would appriciate it very much! Thanks, Byte!
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