John whipped around towards the voice his eyes widening at what he saw. Natalie was standing there looking very frightened with a gun to her head. John's heart stopped beating for a second then spend up till it was racing. It felt like it would burst out of his chest.
"Natalie!" He choked out in a straggled voice.
Rex was also shocked. There was his sister, with that psycho. He didn't know how she had gotten into the room. There must be a secret entrance somewhere, he figured helplessly. "Let her go." Rex commanded Evangeline. Evangeline just laughed at him.
Willow who had yet to say or do anything was trying to figure out how they were all going to get out alive. She knew if she let Haver go then Evangeline could just shoot them all and if she didn't Natalie would be shot. What the hell were they all doing here anyway? She thought furiously. This was supposed to be a private matter. Why were John and Rex even here. How had they found out where she even was. She shook her head. It didn't matter now. What mattered was getting them all out alive.
Evangeline who saw Willow shake her head took it to mean that she wouldn't let Haver go cocked the gun and said in a crazed voice.
"Put the knife down! I'm not joking. I will kill her!"
"Willow, Please!" John whispered in a pained voice. He couldn't loose Natalie! They needed to buy time so he could figure out how to get them out of this. He hoped Bo got there soon.
Willow reluctantly dropped the knife, stepping back from Haver. She moved far enough away so that he couldn't touch her but not so far that she couldn't attack him when she had the chance. She could still feel the rage running through her body but she had to temper it or she would get everyone killed.
Haver stepped away from the wall and massaged his throat. He looked at Evangeline and said, "Thank you my dear." Smirking he went to stand next to Evangeline he motioned to Evangeline to let Natalie go. He knew Natalie wouldn't walk out of the room alive anyway. He would have Evangeline kill every one of them if he had to. He knew getting Willow to talk would be very difficult.
Evangeline didn't want to let Natalie go however. She looked at Haver incredulously and said, "No, she's mine! She has to pay for stealing John away from me!"
Haver said, "They all will pay but for now let her go!" He wanted to gloat a bit so they needed to be free to hear him. Smirking again he said, "Bet you didn't expect the killer to be me. I fooled you all."
Evangeline had not yet let Natalie do and Haver looked at her and said softly, "don't make me repeat my self!" She let Natalie and pointed her gun in John and Rex's direction covering them both at the same time.
During this exchange Haver had motioned for the 2 other people in the room to come forward. He was smiling evilly when Willow saw who they were and paled. It was Diana, her friend that was taking care of Isis, and another armed man, obviously he was her guard.
"Diana!" Willow gasped. "what are you doing in the country? Where is..?"
Diana shook her head to stop Willow's words and said in a frightened voice, "He tricked me into coming. I thought you were in trouble. I didn't tell him a thing. He tried to make me tell him. But I wouldn't!"
Willow could see how he had tried to 'convince' her to talk. Diana was covered in bruises and welts from the beating she had received.
"Now," Haver said breaking into the conversation, "either you tell me where my daughter is or everyone in this room dies. Starting with her" Haver said to Willow, Evangeline pointing her gun at Diana's head.
Rex followed the events in the room with interest. Everyone was pretty much ignoring him. He had silently slipped his hand into the back of his pants getting out his gun. As he held it hidden, slightly behind him he slowly inched sideways so that he was positioned with a clear shot at Haver should he get the chance to take him out. Rex was hoping that Bo would show up soon. This was turning into a very dangerous situation.
Willow shook her head helplessly. She knew she couldn't tell Haver where Isis was. She would die first. Looking over at Diana she saw Diana shake her head.
"No! Don't tell him a thing! Take care of her Willow! She needs you now." Diana said.
Haver shrugged and Evangeline fired at Diana killing her instantly with a shot to the head.
Willow cried out when Evangeline shot Diana. Another person killed because of her.
"I wasn't kidding. Kill Natalie next," he said to Evangeline and Evangeline grinned evilly aiming the gun at Natalie, Haver again demanded, "Where is Isis?"
"I'm sorry, Natalie. I can't tell him." Willow sobbed. "I can't tell him!"
Natalie had never been so scared in all her life. When had gone out to get the paper and Evangeline had come up behind her and put a gun in her back. She had told her to be quiet and walk or she would be shot. On the way to Haver's office Evangeline had bragged at how she was working with the music box killer and how she would be shocked at who he was. Natalie wasn't all that shocked though when they reached Haver's office building.
She had been shocked when they got to his office and Willow had had a knife to his throat and John and Rex were pleading with her not to kill him. Natalie had never seen that much hate and rage on anyone's face before and she hoped never to see it again. She was even more afraid when Evangeline shot Diana. Natalie didn't know who Diana was but could venture a guess.
John had been doing the exact same thing as Rex. When Evangeline shot Diana he drew his gun slowly using the confusion of the screaming to position himself so that he could get a clear shot at Evangeline. John knew once Bo arrived that was his chance. In the confusion he could take out Evangeline and the other guard. John had confidence that Willow could take out Haver. All he had to do was keep them busy till Bo got there.
As Rex and John got into position to make their move Bo had arrived and was setting up a perimeter out side the building unaware that the situation had escalated to a stand off with guns. Bo called into Haver's office, "Dr. Haver! We know you are in there come out with your hands up and no one gets hurt!"
Evangeline, startled, turned her head towards the door momentarily shifting her aim. John saw his opportunity and shoved Natalie to the floor shooting the armed guard as Rex fired at Evangeline. Both went down.
Willow spun around when she heard Natalie hit the floor and didn't see Haver pulling out a gun as well. When she glanced at him again he had aimed the gun at John, ready to pull the trigger. Willow knew Haver was to far away at this point to disarm him before he shot John so, yelling, "John! NO!" she flung her self in John's arms just as Haver pulled the trigger.
Rex spun around when he heard Willow's scream. He turned around just in time to see Willow take a bullet in the back. He screamed "WILLOW!" before instinct took over and he shot Haver 5 times in the chest. Throwing down his gun he ran to John and Willow as she collapsed into John's arms.
Natalie lay on the ground near Evangeline when she saw Evangeline struggle to her feet still holding her gun. Natalie grabbed John's gun from the floor, where he had dropped it when Willow flung her self at him, and fired 3 shots as Evangeline pointed her gun at her intent on killing the redhead. 2 shots went into Evangeline's chest and stomach and the third in her forehead right between the eyes.
She heard Willow scream "John!" and dropped her gun running to Willow. As she went down in John's arms Natalie felt her heart seize up. Yelling "Oh God NO!" Natalie dropped to her knees next to John and Rex who were already there. please be Ok Natalie thought to herself frantically.
When Willow screamed his name John spun around just in time to catch her in his arms. His gun flying out of his hands, he felt her body jerk as the bullet tore through her back. "Willow," he cried out as he saw Haver go down from Rex's shots. He could feel the blood pouring from the hole in her back. Everything seemed like it was in slow motion to his shocked senses.
Willow clutched at his back and gasped, "I couldn't let him shoot you!" Blood streaming down her back onto the floor she said, "Love.. you.. big.. brother, Don't.. .. grieve... for.. me." Her knees going week she collapsed into John's arms. She coughed weakly blood coming from her mouth.
Bo and his men came bursting in just in time to see Natalie take out Evangeline and John lower Willow to the ground. He motioned for his men to check room and ran to John and Rex, who were kneeling next to Willow.
John barely looked up at Bo, he just shouted for Bo to call an ambulance. As John clung to Willow's hand he whispered to her, "hang on Will, we'll get you out of this." He felt like he had just taken a bullet to his chest as well. His eyes were tearing up and he was barely holding it together. "Don't give up Willow, Please hang on" he begged in a choked voice.
If John was barely holding it together Rex had lost it. He was openly weeping. Holding Willows other hand in on of his, his other feeling for a pulse. "Willow! Please hold on. The ambulance is coming. I love you, you can't leave me alone. God Willow! Please stay with us!" Rex sobbed out.
Willow could hear John and Rex pleading with her not to leave them and in a voice barely above a whisper said haltingly, "Tell Michael and Mom I'm sorry that I love them," she paused and then choked out, "Find.."
"Shh.. Save your strength." John said. He was relieved that she was alive. But the blood was pouring out of her and her skin was loosing color. John knew if the ambulance didn't get there soon she would die. "Where is that ambulance!" he shouted behind him.
Willow was having a hard time breathing but she needed them to find Isis. "Find.. Isis" she gasped out finally. "Please!"
"Well find her," Natalie said reassuringly. "Just stay with us. Lanview wouldn't be the same with out you. Rex wouldn't be the same with out you." Natalie said urgently getting more scared as Willow skin got paler and paler. John was trying to stem the blood flow from Willow's back but it didn't seem to be working she was loosing blood very rapidly. The puddle of blood on the floor was steadily growing larger and larger.
Rex, having gotten some control back after hearing her speak asked, "Where is she?"
"She is.." Willow said and whispered the address to them. "Please find her. Give her this." Willow reached up to take off her hair clip but her hand fell back to the ground weakly. "Give her...Give..Hair.. Clip.. She ..will. know.. its.. safe." She managed to say, her eyes blurring and her breathing became more shallow. "Sorry Natalie. love..you..li..like a..sister."
Bo called in the address as John took off Willow's hair clip, Surprised at the weight of it. There were small jewels in it. The Hair clip probably was worth more then he made in 2 months John thought absently. He would find Isis for Willow he thought looking at Bo and said, "I'll find her. As soon as we get Willow to the hospital I'll find her."
"Come on Willow stay with us, you are my best friend and I need you Willow, please stay with us." Natalie said, tears running down her face, as she knelt next to John on the floor. Hearing the ambulance she said, "The ambulance is almost here, just hang on!"
Willow could feel herself getting lighter and lighter her vision getting darker. She knew she was dying. Lifting her hand to Rex's face, "Love.. You.. Rex.." she got out as she dropped her hand and passed out.
"WILLOW!" Rex cried out. "Wake up, come on wake up baby!" He pleaded, tears streaming down his face as he frantically felt for a pulse.
Natalie pushed his hands away and searched for a pulse herself. "She still has a pulse. It's very weak. But she is still alive!" Natalie whispered, openly crying. Rex and John sighed in relief.
Then the EMT's got there and started to assess the situation. "She has a pulse!" one said as they loaded her onto a gurney, "very thready."
John, Rex, Natalie and Bo followed the EMT's as they rushed Willow out to the waiting ambulance. "Who's going?" One of the paramedics asked as they were hooking Willow up to all the monitors.
As they looked at each other then at Rex who said, "I'm going with her!" Just as Rex said that Willow's monitors began to go crazy. "She's crashing!" one of the paramedics shouted. Rex jumped into the ambulance and they took off.