Well, thanks for the reviews. I got a lot, and more than one threat.Well, in this chapter, you will find out of Lily lives, and if Damien lives. I have been agonizing over it for a while, and finally came to a decision. I hope you like this chapter. And sorry ittook so long to get it up, took me a while, and several rewrites, to get it the way I wanted it. And another song in this chapter. I am getting into the habbit of doing that, I think I have a Musical! Hehe...

P.S. Thanks to Monica, my beta.

Lily screamed, running over to Damien's body and droping beside it. He was laying there, unmoving. His eye's were still open, and he was alive. But Liy knew he wouldn't stay that was for long. The bullet was in his stomach, and he was bleeding heavily. The man grinned evily down at them. He was going to let Damien die slowly, with no hope for life. Lily was crying, holding Damien's hand tightly.

"Lily..." He said, blood streaming from his mouth. Lily could barly hear him, but somehow managed to. Her hearing aids were on, and it made her capable of hearing slightly. He coughed, more blood coming up. Lily wanted to look away, but she couldn't. Damien was dying, and she needed to be there for him. She gripped his hand tighter. The last words he would ever say to her, and she could barely hear him.

"I-I'm here, D-Damien."

"I-" But before he could complete his sentence, he went limp in her arms. Lily reached a shaking hand out to his neck, pressing her fingers to it, feeling for a pulse. It was there, but light and weak. She looked up at the man, still crying. She couldn't hear herself as she said it.

"H-how c-could y-you?" His evil smile didn't waver. He seemed to enjoy killing. He turned to the camera.

"The boy is dead. If you don't want the girl to follow him in thirteen minutes, you give me the money." Lily held onto Damien. She knew that a eleven-year-old couldn't know what real love was, but she was sure she did. Now, Damien was dead, or would be soon. This wasn't fair, life wasn't fair. She hated the man that had took Damien from her. He turned back to Lily.

"You die next." Sheglared up at him, forgetting everyone else in the room. The children were hiding behind their parents, and the parents trying to be brave. Damien was brave too, he had given his life so she could live longer, he was still alive, and there was nothing she could do to help him. If she could get him to a hospital, he would probably live, but that man was robbing her of that chance, Damien of that chance.

"I hate you." Lily said clearly, steadily. He just laughed. Suddenlt, the phone came to life. The man left Damien and Lily and walked over to it. He picked it up and yelled into it.

"Unless you have the money, don't bother calling!" He listened to the person on the other end for a second then spoke again. "Fine. She lives. I will send her out, she will take the bags and bring them back. No tricks, or five people die." He slammed the phone down and walked back to Lily. Pulling her up roughly by her sleve, he left her standing in the middle of the room and went and grabbed five little children, all under the age of eight. Every one of them were crying, absoutly terrified. Their parents were crying as well. Lily looked down at them all. The man spoke.

"I am sending you out to grab three bags. If you pull anything funny, all of these children die. Got it?" Lily nodded as the man roughly shoved her out of the room. She walked to the front door, shaking badly. The second she stepped outside, she was met with over a hundred people. Reporters started asking her questions as a young man walked up to her and bent down in fromt of her.

"Lily? I'm Mark. Here are the bags. I want you to bring them to the man, OK?" He said gently, rubbing ehr arm in a comforting gesture. Lily nodded and took the bags from him. They were heavy, filled with the money that the men were demanding. Mark helped her back through the thick croud of people and she once again entered the empty mall. It seemed eerily quiet, and it scared Lily.

Gabriella watched the news as Lily came walking out of the mall. She had been crying, and was covered in blood. The reporters were catching all this. A young man came up next to Lily and handed her the bags. Gabriella turned to Troy. Neither of them spoke, knowing that their daughter was phisically OK, that she would be better in time if she got away from this. They were still worried, but now that the man got what they wanted, would everyone be OK?

"Why did this happen to her and Damien?" Gabriella asked, whiping tears from her face. Troy pulled her into a hug, wishing her could take away all of her pain, make everything OK. He just wanted Lily and Damien home safely. In the time that Lily had known Damien, Troy and Gabriella had grown to like the little boy.They loved himlike a son. Now, he was gone.

Lily entered the section of the mall that the man had taken over. She handed them, the bags and immedatly ran back over to Damien. He was still alive, though his eye's were closed and his breaths ragid and shallow. The men began looking through the bags. After many minutes, they seemed content. The man in charge turned back to the camera.

"Thank you. Now, me and my friends are going to leave. We are taking this little one," He grabbed the sleve of a little girl the seemed to be about three, "with us. If you try to stop us, we will kill her. If you let us go, she will be dropped of somewhere with a phone. Now, so long." The men gathered up the bags and walked out, taking the little girl with them. The mother of the little was crying frantically.

"Mommy!" Came a call from the girl.

"Emma, it will be OK." She reached out to her little girl. Emma was crying, trying to get away from the man. Her mom was standing there, knowing if she did anything, they would kill her little girl. So, she stood there. There were sounds of ambulances in the now silent background. Once the robbers were out of sight, a medic ran into the room. He bent down by Lily and Damien.

"How is he?" He asked Lily gently as he started checking all of Damien's vitals. Lily just looked at him. She couldn't hear.

They all waited out in the waiting room. Lily had been given some bandaged for a small cut on ehr forehead, but ither than that, she was fine. They were all waiting in the OR waiting room. Damien's mother had been called, and she had arrived within minutes of Troy and Gabriella. Damien had been taken straight to the hospital and Emma, the little girl, had been found, shot, a mile from the mall. She had died on the operating table twenty minutes into the surgery. Lily looked up at her mom as she entered the room. She was holding some of Lily's clothes.Lily smiled a little, taking them from her and changing quickly in the bathroom. She was now wearing a slightly tight, pink, longsleved top and kakhi shorts. Even in cold weather, she loved shorts. Jean of Kakhi, because they matched with everything.

"Gabriella, could you go into the bathroom and keep an eye on Lily." Troy asked, remebering what Gabriella had done when he was in a coma from being shot. But it was sure Lily wasn't pregnant, one difference.

"Sure." She kissed him breifly on the cheak and walked into the bathroom. Lily was sitting in one of tyhe stalls, her legs brought up to her chest. 'Hey, Lily.' Gabriella walked up to her and pulled her into a hug.Lily signed back.

'Damien said something to me when he was dying, and I couldn't hear.' She looked up, her blue eye's shining with unshead tears.

'You know, something happened to your dad once, almost exactly like this. He pulled through just fine.' Lily just nodded, looking at the ground.

'Damien told the man that he would die first, so I would have a chance to live.' Gabriella smiled faintly.

'Well, he must really care about you, sweetie.' Again, Lily nodded, not wanting to speak. 'Come on, lets go see your brothers and sister and see how Damien is doing. Your father went to check things out.' Lily allowed Gabriella to lead her out of the bathroom. Rocket and Raine were sitting in the chairs, Jarod sitting on Raine's lap. Just then, Troy returned.

"How is he?" Gabriella asked.

"As good as can be expected. He had some organ damage, and might require a transplant, but they think he will be fine." Gabriella smiled, translating this to Lily. And for the first time since everything had happened, she smiled. She knew everything was going to be OK.

THE END

Well, decided to end on a good note. And I couldn't bring myself to kill Damien. He has become like, a main character, and I like him to much. Hope you like this chapter! And as always...

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