"Let her go Mitch!" Todd said as he stepped into the room. "Now Manning, I went to a lot of trouble getting her back! You think I'm just going to hand her over to you?" Mitch said.
"We can work this out between us!" Todd said as he inched closer. "Not another step Manning," Mitch said as he pushed the gun closer to Tess's head. "Knock it off Todd," Tess said. "How did you survive?" Todd asked as he stopped dead in his tracks.
"It will take more than you to stop me!" Mitch said.
"Jessica, are you ok?" Todd asked his neice. "My name is Tess, not Jessica! If you get this crazy SOB away from me, I'd be doing a lot better," Tess said. "Oh sounds like you and Manning don't see eye to eye anymore," Mitch said as he tightened his hold on Tess.
"Get your hands off me!" Tess screamed as she tried to get away. "Now, now Tess is it? Daddy knows best," Mitch said.
"Now Manning, if you don't want to watch her die, you'll drop your gun right now," Mitch said.
"You harm her I'll kill you," Todd said as he lowered his gun to the floor as Todd. "Now kick it over here," Mitch said as Todd kicked the gun near Mitch.
"Good, now Tess, why don't we watch Manning die?" Mitch said as he lowered his gun and pulled the trigger. Todd collapsed onto the ground as the bullet entered his shoulder; Todd screamed in pain. "Now say goodbye to Manning, Tess," Mitch said as he once again aimed the gun this time at Todd's form on the floor. "No!" Tess screamed as she grabbed a hold of the gun and struggled with Mitch over it. "Let go!" Mitch yelled.
"Tess!" Nash screamed as he came running into the room. The scene before him: Todd on the floor bleeding from his shoulder, Tess and a man struggling over a gun. As Nash started to move, the gun went off, both Tess and Mitch stopped fighting immediately over the gun both frozen. "Tess?" Nash said as he started to walk over to Tess. "Nash," Tess said as she collapsed to the floor, blood pouring out her side. "No! Tess!" Nash screamed as he came charging over to Tess's side and he fell to his knees and cradled her in his arms, rocking back and forth. As he looked down to his right hand, he saw that blood covered his hand, Tess's blood.
"You won't take her from me either," Mitch said as he aimed the gun that had just shot Tess at Nash.