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Chapter 16: Bleed for me

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Jude breathed slowly and choppily. She had her hands covering her mouth in shock. "Oh… my… God…" She managed to stutter. She looked down at the person in front of her. Tears started falling from her eyes as she began to sob. She dropped to her knees.

"Jude…" Tommy muttered just as shocked. He grabbed her shoulders.

She kept sobbing. "She… she jumped… in front… of me. She… saved… me."

"I… know," he replied somberly. He gripped her tighter, frightened by the body in front of him and Jude.

"EJ, wake up!" Kwest was saying to her.

Chaz had dropped the gun out of astonishment and backed away.

Georgia was standing off in the corner, sobbing quietly.

"The police are on the way, it'll be okay, Jude," Tommy told her.

She looked to the floor and a few feet from her was the gun, sitting in all its wicked glory. She reached for it, picking it up and standing. She held her arm out, aiming towards Chaz.

"Jude, don't!" Tommy yelled at her.

"But he deserves it!" She cried. "He shot EJ!"

Tommy grabbed the gun from her and let it hit the floor. "Don't, Jude. He shot EJ, I know but if you shot him, then you'd be as bad as him."

She turned around and buried her face into his chest, clutching onto his shirt.

He lowered slowly to the floor, taking her with him. He wrapped his arms around her and leaned her head against his shoulder. He rocked back and forth, trying to calm her down. "Medical help is on the way, someone will help EJ soon."

"It's not fair," she sobbed.

"I know," he replied. "I know."

The paramedics entered G Major and left with EJ in their custody. They didn't say anything to anybody; they just took her and left.

The policemen came in next to take Chaz away. They cuffed him and said, "Ms. Harrison, you'll have to be a witness a the trial. You too, Mr. Quincy."

"Right," Tommy replied.

"Jude, EJ shouldn't have been shot," Chaz told her as he was being pulled away. "You should have."

"Go to hell, Chaz," Tommy shot back.

"You won't be able to protect her forever, Quincy, and when that day comes, you'll be sorry."

"Keep moving!" The cops snapped at Chaz as they continued pulling him away.

Tommy ran his fingers through Jude's hair and just sat in the middle of the lobby floor.

"Tommy," Jude mumbled. "I was so scared for you."

"Why? He wasn't trying to shoot me."

"But he made it seem like he was going to, I thought I was going to lose you."

"No, don't be scared for me. Be scared for yourself, he actually shot at you, you could've died."

That thought made her cry harder. "EJ, could be dead… She's going to be okay, isn't she?"

"I don't know, Jude, I really don't know."

"I want her to be. I don't want her to die because of me."

"She won't. I promise." I hope she doesn't.

AN: Thanks for the reviews! I hope you enjoyed it, or cried at the fact that EJ got shot. Please review and everyone knows how I like people to be brutally honest. Coming up: EJ in the hospital and Chaz on trial.