Chapter 15- Ready or Not
Bobby ran across the street horrified at what might be waiting for him on the other side.
"Bobby!" Jack yelled.
Bobby stopped in the middle of the street.
"Bobby!" Jack screamed bleeding onto the snow covered sidewalk.
"Hold on Jacky! Bobby yelled back.
"Bobby!" Jack gargled, due to the large amounts of blood clogging his throat.
Bobby ran over to Jack who was injured pretty badly. He wished he could've gotten there sooner.
"Come on Jack, don't die on me you little fairy," Bobby cried holding onto the back of Jack's neck.
Within seconds Jack was gone.
"Bobby?" Jack screamed leaning over Sophie.
Bobby continued to cross the street, he told Nikki to stay by the shop. He looked down at Jack's arms where Sophie was bleeding on Jack's jeans.
"She's hurt," Jack said referring to the gunshot wound on Sophie's left arm.
Someone from the nail salon ran outside and then ran back in to call 911.
While Jack and Bobby where on the ground holding Sophie the same black car drove back onto the street.
"No!" Nikki cried as she was shoved into the back seat.
"Nikki!" Jack yelled running after the car, as more shots were fired.
"Jack!" Bobby said warningly.
"Shit! God d…"Jack yelled kicking the snow.
"Bobby?" Sophie said quietly looking up at him.
"Sophie, you're going to be ok," Bobby reassured her.
"Eww, don't touch me," she joked.
"Yea, alright. Ima send you my dry cleaning bill, gettin your blood all over my leather jacket," he scoffed.
"Go to hell," she giggled lightly.
Two minutes later an ambulance and two cop cars showed up.
"We needa call Angel," Bobby told Jack who wasn't listening.
"Jack?" Bobby said reaching his arm out to grab Jack.
"They have her," Jack said balling his fists up and cursing underneath his breath.
"We'll get her back, they didn't hurt her," Bobby said trying to console Jack.
"How do you know? She's probably scared," Jack shouted.
"Because they shot Sophie. If they wanted to kill Nikki they would have. They're tryna eliminate the people around her first. You get me?"
"How do we get her back? She can't see Bobby! What happens if they did stuff to her? " Jack asked still kicking snow in frustration.
"Excuse me?" a short bald older white officer asked walking up to both Bobby and Jack.
"Yes, officer?" Bobby replied properly, recognizing the police officer.
"What happened here?" he grunted grabbing a pencil and notepad from his breast pocket.
"It was a drive by sir," Bobby said plainly.
"That's it?" the cop asked in suspicion.
"That's it all," he said rocking back and forth on his heals, enjoying every minute of their conversation.
"Fine, you don't wanna talk Mercer, I'll be back later," the cop hissed walking away.
"What about Nikki?" Jack asked Bobby.
"We have to do this without the cops," Bobby told him as he motioned for him to get in the car.
Mercer House-
Angel held a picture of Sophie in his hands.
"How could yall not protect her?" Angel yelled in aggravation.
"I told you, Jacky ran across the street to get in front of her, but it was too late, I'm sorry man," Bobby said as his brother went through a tirade.
"Oh God," Angel said holding his head with his hands sobbing.
Bobby and Jack were told Sophie was going to be fine when she left by ambulance. When they got home they found out that Sophie hadn't even made it to the hospital. Sophie and three E.M.T's were killed on the way to the hospital by a "hit and run". They knew it had to be Troy and his boys.
"We gotta get em," Angel said vengefully.
"I'm sorry Angel," Jack said sympathetically.
"It's not your fault Jack. You did good man," he said grabbing Jack in for a hug.
"Thanks," Jack said truly sorry that he couldn't protect Sophie.
"Yeah Jack, I'm proud of you," Bobby said watching them from the couch.
Jack got caught up in that moment. This was the first time his brothers had actually acknowledged him for doing something good. He didn't know what else to say, but he knew that they really meant it, and this alone gave him the confidence he needed to go face Nikki's abductors.
"I'm proud of you too, but now, we need to go get Nikki," Angel said.
"Call Jerry," Bobby said grabbing his car keys.
After Jack called Jerry they met up at Johnny G's.
"I'm sorry to hear bout Sophie man," Jerry said hugging his little brother.
"Thanks bra," Angel said and then he sat down.
"So, you think they took her to the roller rink?" Jerry asked Bobby.
"Definitely. Look we gotta be careful, these ain't no high school punks were dealin wit," he said quietly.
"So what's the plan?" Jack asked impatiently.
"Calm down, were gunna get her back," Angel said sternly.
"I say we wait till everyone leaves and then try to catch him alone," Jerry said.
"We could be waitin there till like three a.m," Bobby said, "I was thinking we should just go in there."
"Huh? Bobby are you crazy?" Jack asked.
"I agree wit Cracker Jack on this one; you can't just go in the shootin up the place blind," Jerry professed.
"We ain't got any other better ideas, let's do it," Angel said nonchalantly, slamming his drink down on the table and putting on his coat.
"No matter what, these punks are just keep killing unless we get em first," Bobby said checking his watch, "It's almost nine, let's go."
"Ah," Jerry sighed as he followed his brothers out the door.
Old roller skating rink-
"You alright man?" Bobby asked, watching Angel stare at his gun.
"I'm cool," Angel replied tucking in back in his coat pocket.
"What time is it?" Jack asked clicking his thumbs together.
"Almost eleven," Bobby said hitting his clock radio on the dashboard.
"We've been out here for two hours and we ain't seen one person comin or goin," Jerry sighed groggily.
"What do we do now?" Jack asked.
"We wait," Angel said irritably, "I say we go in there and shot the shit out of all those mother fuckas."
"Look, we can't go in there with you all heated like this," Bobby told Angel, "We're sorry bout Sophie, we really are, but you need to stay focused right now. I ain't lettin any of yous get hurt tonight," he finished looking around the car.
"Quiet, look!" Jerry pointed as a guy in a black Northface jacket crossed the parking lot.
"Ready?" Bobby asked as they all cocked their pistols in unison.
They all got out of the car and closed their doors silently. Bobby ran ahead of them making sure it was safe and then they followed him inside. They walked in slowly, hearing pin ball machines, loud hip hop music, and watched as flashing disco lights lit up the dark room. There were about six tall African American and three Latino men sitting in the middle of the roller rink lighting up. They laughed as they tortured some young female who was screaming bloody murder through the duck tape that muffled her cries. Jack noticed Nikki's winter coat lying on one of the Win a Stuffed Animal machines.
"She's with them over there," Jack whispered as he and his brothers made there way by the Rent a Skate booth.
"Hey!" Bobby yelled without caution.
Eight men stood up with there guns pointed on the brothers.
"Nah, nah. Chill fellas. These are our guest," one sitting younger male smirked motioning for the guys to sit down.
"You Troy?" Angel asked forcing his way through Bobby and Jerry.
"If your looking you found him," Troy answered.
Angel ran right up to him and grabbed his collar, "Tell me why I shouldn't lay your ass out right now," and then Troy's boys all pointed their guns at Angel's head.
"You wouldn't wanna do that," Troy sneered.
"I ain't got nuttin to live for playboy, give me a good reason," Angel said holding tightly on the trigger of his nine millimeter.
"You might not have, but what about her," Troy said cocking his head to point at Nikki.
Angel just held on even tighter.
"I don't think your little sister would appreciate it," Troy said staring at Jack over Angel's shoulder.
Jack leaned forward but Jerry stopped him from going over there.
"This is between me and you homeboy," Angel said grabbing Troy's collar even tighter.
"Angel!" Bobby said warily.
"Oh, so you must be the boyfriend of that fine little Puerto Rican chick," Troy said maliciously.
Angel ran forward and slammed Troy against the wall. He heard one of the men behind him take the safety lock of his gun. He looked back and it was pointed at Nikki. When he turned back to Troy someone's gun went off and so did the most of the lights. Troy fought the gun out of Angel's hand and it hit the ground.
"Get Nikki out of here!" Bobby yelled to Jack as everyone started shooting.
It was so dark that Jack couldn't see his hands in the front of this face.
He heard Nikki's cries coming from the corner. All of a sudden someone stepped on his foot.
"Pop," Jack heard, he looked down and saw one of the Latino men at his feet and he heard Jerry yell, "Go!"
Bobby could see two of the men over by the snack machines and shot in their direction. Bobby had shot the machine's fuse and it exploded in their faces. Angel fought with Troy on the ground as he tried to feel for his gun.
Jerry felt a bullet flew past his ear; he shot in that direction and then he heard someone scream in agony as their gun feel to the floor.
Jack searched in the dark corner of the rink and could finally see Nikki. As he approached her she yelled forcefully through the tape.
"Pop," he heard again. Nikki screamed even louder as another man hit the floor. Bobby yelled for Jack to get the hell out of there but he couldn't hear him over all the shots being fired. Jack scooped her up and ran towards the door.
Angel and Troy were still struggling to find Angel's gun. Jerry had shot two men that were sneaking up behind Jack and Nikki. Jack didn't stop he just kept running. As he made his way outside someone tripped him. Nikki went tumbling into the snow and Jack stood back up quickly. The man laughed as he brought his gun to aim it between Jack's eyes.
"Night, night whitey," the man chuckled as he turned off the safety on his gun.
Jack's mind raced, he had a second chance at life and he wasn't going to give it up. He kicked the gun out of the guy's hand.
"What the fuck?" the man yelled.
Jack punched and wrestled him to the ground. After a minute of beating the man in the face Jack picked up the gun and looked at it.
"You don't have the balls," the beaten man slurred wiping his bloody lip.
Jack held the gun in both hands and pointed it at the guy.
Back inside, Bobby was fighting with one of the two men left in the building.
"You little shit!" Bobby yelled punching the guy just for fun and then he shot him.
"Bobby, Bobby. Angel needs us," Jerry yelled from across the rink. Bobby tried to follow his voice but he couldn't. Angel was still fighting with Troy. By the time Jerry had found Bobby someone yelled, "Oh shit."
Angel was sitting on the floor as Troy aimed the gun at his head.
Jerry and Bobby had run out of bullets but Bobby could see the glimmer of light that the silver gun gave off in Troy's hands. He ran over to his brother without thought.
"Shit!" Bobby yelled as a bullet pierced his right shoulder.
Jerry ran over to Troy and tackled him to the ground and another shot went off.
Jerry stood up and walked over to his brothers.
"Is he?" Angel asked Jerry.
"Troy's dead," Jerry said encouragingly.
"Where's Jack?" Bobby asked holding his bloody shoulder.
"You need to get to a hospital. What the hell kinda Jackie Chan move was that?" Angel asked chuckling.
"You lucky I'm made outta steel little brother," Bobby grunted trying to get up.
As they helped Bobby out of the roller skating rink, Jack was sitting by the doorway in shock.
"What the hell happened?" Jerry asked Nikki as he looked over at Jack and untapped her mouth.
"He did it," Angel said pointing at the dead man lying in the snow.
After Jerry helped Nikki up she said, "I heard a gun go off."
"Jack, Jacky," Bobby said shaking Jack while he still sat on the ground.
"Where's the gun?" Angel asked Jack.
"Over there," Jack said breathless.
Angel grabbed the gun that was almost fully covered by snow. He helped Jack up and they got in the car.
"Jack?" Nikki said softly.
"I'm here," he said still overwhelmed about what he did.
"You were just protecting me. It's ok," she said as he held her tightly.
Ok, It took me 3 days to make this chapter. I kept deleting it trying to make it better, PLEASE tell me what you think! Thanks! Only one more chapter to go! please bare with me