How did everything change in a matter of minutes? She had just left the hospital beyond happy her boyfriend was awake, and now she didn't know what was happening. Jessica had a hand over her mouth and everything was muffled. She tried to yell for help, but nothing came out. Someone came walking towards her in the darkness. She had a hard time seeing, but one man was holding her mouth, 3 were standing there with guns, and one was walking towards her. He spoke. "You know I really did like you." She knew whose voice that was. "When you left for New York I thought I had my chance. I could give you the life you actually deserve and I thought this was my chance. And then I get a phone call from our company lawyer. He said the Shelby's lawyer dropped off paper work to end our deal. That part wasn't so much a shocker to me. I had a feeling things were not going in the direction we had hoped. What I was confused about was he said the lawyer was Jessica Swavorski." The hand over her mouth was now replaced with a hand on her neck and a gun to her temple. "Greg please don't" Jessica cried out. Greg continued to hold the gun to her head and put his mouth to her ear. "I enjoyed putting 3 bullets into your boyfriend or should I say ex- boyfriends body. Too bad I didn't get the job done the first time. I'm pretty sure when I called him to let him know I was watching you was enough." She wanted to fight back. Greg began to unbutton the top of her dress ripping the straps so the top of her dress would fall down. He started to kiss her neck and began touching her breast. "Greg please stop and let me go," she begged. He turned to look at his boys, "Don't worry guys you will all get your turn." He smirked at her and Jess spit in his face. "Fuck you," she said. Greg laughed and wiped the spit off his face before he slapped her. Her lip cracked and she started to bleed. Greg turned, "Your turn little brother." Jess just prayed someone would come by and save her.
Back at Shelby and Co., Tommy turned to the family. "Polly I need you to go to the hospital now with Finn. I need you guys to keep Michael calm." "Tommy whats going on," Polly questioned. Tommy looked at Janik, "Listen to me. Michael got a phone call from Greg. He told Michael what Jess had been wearing he was watching her. We are going to find her." Janik got up in a panic. "What do you mean they were watching her?" "Listen she was on her way back from the hospital. We know these streets and where they lead to. We are going to trace her steps and find her. Don't worry." Panic rushed through Janik's chest. He began to feel a pain shoot through. He started to lose his breath. Tommy noticed he was turning pale. "Janik, Janik are you ok?" He took a deep breath and pushed the pain aside. His main focus was Jess. They needed to find her. That bastard was following her and he needed to get to his daughter before anything happened. He stood up tall, "Yes, I'm fine lets go."
Michael paced the hospital room back and forth. It's been 20 minutes and no one has called him. Finn and Polly walked through the doors. "Mom is she ok? What happened? Where is she?" Michael panicked. Finn spoke for Polly, "Michael they are tracing her steps now and going to find her and will call us. We need you to sit and relax." "What do you mean sit and relax? What did Tommy say? Mom what is going on?"Michael couldn't stop pacing. "Michael hunny please sit down," Polly pleaded. "Mom if you wont let me leave this hospital room to go find her I cannot sit down till Tommy walks through those doors ," he pointed to the hospital doors. He winced in pain. He hadn't lifted up that arm in a while since he had gotten shot. Polly noticed. "Michael you are no good for Jessica if you can't move, sit down please. Finn go get him some water." Michael sat on the bed struggling to keep it together. Finn walked over with the glass of water. Michael leaned into Polly and started to cry.
On the streets, It was dark and cold. No one had been on the streets. Tommy, Arthur, John, Janik, and the men were on the look out. Every corner they turned they were prepared. Every alley way they knew they would look down. They were getting close to the hospital. Tommy wondered how far Jess had gotten before they had grabbed her. As they rounded the corner, they heard a slight cry. As they got closer they could hear multiple voices. "Ayy Greg I think the bitch is done." Tommy crouched down with the guys. "Listen we can't go in there and just start shooting. We don't know where Jess is and I don't want her to get hurt." Isaiah went into the apartments that the alley was perched in between. He looked over the ledge to see how many. He went to the front window and showed 5 fingers. Tommy nodded; 5 guys were there. Tommy peered around the corner and could see one man in the back smoking while 4 men were up against the wall with Jess. He motioned 1,2,3. Tommy, Janik, Arthur, and John began to fire. The men instantly reached for their guns and began shooting as well. Tommy had them cornered in an alley. There was no where they could hide.
Greg and his brother stood behind the 3 men and shot towards Tommy and Janik. They didn't realize Isaiah was up top. He shot towards Greg's bother knowing that Michael wanted to take Greg out. He shot and hit the younger Blake in the shoulder. Greg realizing they wouldn't make it out, him and his younger brother ran as the other 3 kept shooting. The Shelby's and Janik moved forward pushing the men back. BOOM BOOM it echoed through the alley. Jessica had slid down the wall covering her ears praying for it to be over. Her eyes closed, but she could hear the gunshots around her. Finally she heard a voice, "This is for touching my daughter." As she opened her eyes she watched her father put a bullet in one of the guys heads. Janik bent down immediately to grab his daughter. "Look at me Jess look at me," Janik was crouched down to her at eye level. "Its ok baby its ok," Janik rocked her crying. Looking at his daughter they really roughed her up. She had a busted lip that was bleeding, her eye was slightly swollen, she had bruising around her neck, and her dress was completely ripped along with her bra straps. Tommy and the rest walked up. "I am going to go take her back to Polly's. Are you guys going to the hospital?" At the mention of the hospital she started to panic. "Please don't tell Michael what happened. Please he can't see me like this please daddy." "Shh shh. Sweetheart Tommy is going to go to the hospital to make sure Michael is fine. Lets go back now." Jessica nodded through her tears and Arthur walked them back to Polly's.
20 minutes later, Tommy and John walked through the hospital doors down to Michael's room. When they walked through Michael immediately stood up. "Did you find her? Is she ok? What happened?" "Michael you are going to give yourself a heart attack sit down," Polly chastised him. Tommy sat down, "There were 5 guys, Greg being one of them and his younger brother. We killed 3. They roughed her up a little bit." Michael's fist started to ball up. "What do you mean they roughed her up? What the fuck does that mean Tommy?" Tommy continued, "She's ok. Busted lip, swollen eye, some bruising on her neck and chest.." Michael cut in, "Bruising on her chest? They touched her?" Michael put his hand through his hair. He couldn't' believe what he was hearing. He was the one to convince her to go to the meeting and now this happened. What had he done. He felt horrible. Tommy went on, "Michael her dress was ripped open and her bra straps were too," Michael got up and smacked everything that was on the table. "Those fucking bastards. That fucking bastard I am going to kill him." Polly got up to give him a hug. Crying, "I am going to kill him mom. I am going to fucking kill him." The room was silent. All you could hear is Michaels cries. The phone began to ring. Everyone's eyes on it. Tommy went and picked it up. "Hello?" "Hello Thomas Shelby." Greg. "What do you want Greg?" At the hearing of his name Michael lifted his head and his eyes narrowed on the phone. "You want to know the sad part? I liked Jessica. I liked her a lot. I still like her and still think I have a chance to change her opinion of me. Get her away from that deadbeat Michael. She has so much potential ya know? Imagine what I could do to Ada or Polly, women that weren't nice to my sister and I. Women who I don't like. I'll be seeing you soon." Click.