AN: If any of you watch GH, yes this is the Jesse Beaudry from the show. I think he is really hot and I had to add him in.

Ch. 28

A big mistake

Both Paul and Babe were unaware that Jesse Beaudry was sneaking into the building from the open window, but Tad wasn't. He saw Jesse and he smiled, it was time to get out of here.

Paul again heard Derek's warning, "Let everyone go and you won't get hurt!"

Paul scoffed, knowing that if he did he would be carted off to jail.

Jesse glanced down and saw Tad looking up at him, and he put a finger to his lips signaling for him to be quiet. Tad nodded. Jesse carefully stepped on the balcony, and around towards the stairs in the back. He reached the stairs and slowly started descending them.

Derek said through a microphone, "Babe Carey, Tad Martin, are you in there? Are you ok?"

Babe waited for a second and then screamed, "DEREK HE HAS A GUN! HE SHOT…" Paul covered Babe's mouth and she bit him.

He grunted in surprise and pushed her to the ground, and she started screaming. Tad knew she had made a mistake when she first opened her mouth the scream. Paul pulled out his gun and fired a shot.

Tad yelled her name as Paul laughed.

Outside, when JR heard he say Paul had a gun, he felt relief, anger, and fear rush into him at once and hit him like a brick. He was relived Babe was OK, but he was angry Paul had a gun and he was terrified of what he might do with that gun. He already shot Amanda, what is to stop him from now shooting Babe.

When JR heard Babe's scream a second time, he started running towards the building. He scream was so filled with fear… JR never wanted to hear anything like it again. When he heard Tad's worried yell and then a shot, he almost fell over. The cop JR had been talking to earlier, Reynolds, grabbed him and hauled him back.

"Babe! BABE ANSWER ME!" JR screamed, thrashing against Reynolds's grasp.

He almost succeeded in getting loose, but then more officers came up and grabbed him, barely even allowing him room to struggle. Why wouldn't they let him go? Didn't they understand that the woman he loved and the mother of this child was in that building, possibly hurt?

"JR, JR stop! Don't make this any worse!" Jack Reynolds yelled in his ear.

Derek picked up the microphone, "Babe, can you hear me? Answer me!"

There was no answer. Everyone stopped and was quiet, straining to hear her voice. For JR, time had stopped. Everything was going in slow motion. If Babe wasn't OK… if she didn't answer… he couldn't even think about it. He wouldn't imagine life without her. She had to be in his life, in her son's life. He couldn't have another mother leave her son like Dixie had. JR and little A couldn't make it without Babe. JR needed to see her smile in the morning and her smile right before he went to bed. He wanted to see her rock her son to sleep, and talk to him and feed him and see her laugh as she bathed him and he flung the bubbles everywhere. He wanted her to fight with Adam; it was always so entertaining when Babe and Adam went at it, and Krystal and JR cheering her on from the sidelines.

JR regretted every mean thing he ever did to her as he sat there, listening. Tears sprung to his eyes when he thought about everything he would miss if she… died. The laughter in her eyes when she knew Adam was too angry to say anything, or when Krystal developed a new nickname for JR's father. He loved how she was so ticklish. JR would never grow tired of walking into the kitchen in the morning and seeing her eat Little A's cereal right beside him in her pink fuzzy robe he had gotten her back when they were married. He knew that when they made it out of this, he was going to ask her to marry him again and they would be married as soon as possible.

"Babe!" Derek called again.

Inside Tad was fighting the urge to call out to Derek to tell him that Babe had been shot, and that it was very bad, but he couldn't blow Jesse's cover.

Now that Babe wasn't near Paul, Jesse pulled out his gun and yelled, "Drop the gun, damn it, and put your hands up! NOW I said!"

Paul spun around as soon as he heard the voice. He threw the gun to the side and grinned manically at Jesse.

"Can you move?" Jesse asked Tad, but Tad was already on his way to check on Babe.

Jesse advanced on Paul and grabbed for one of his hands, and grabbed his cuffs in his pocket, not noticing the wicked looking blade in Paul's waistband.

"How is she?" Jesse asked.

"Babe, Babe can you hear me? Oh god…" Tad cried looking at Babe's wound.

"What, what is it?" Jesse asked, loosening his grip on Paul's hand.

"Babe no, Damn it!" Tad yelled as the ground he kneeled upon was becoming red with blood.

Paul grabbed the knife in his pants and turned on Jesse, aiming the tip of the knife straight at his heart.