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CHAPTER NINE
Having not done my homework for the night before I was glad to discover that it was only two forty one when I woke up next. I went downstairs as quietly as I could and completed my homework before unlocking my phone and checking my messages. Seeing that I didn't have any missed messages or calls from Jasper I felt my face curl into a scowl, however I pushed my anger aside and answered the text from my various friends and listened to my missed calls. I found three of them were from Renee, the first two weren't important but the last one caused me to go still with bone chilling fear.
"Gemma you need to get to get here right away. Andrew Gibblers fiancé has escaped and the judge who sealed your juvenile record was attacked and is in critical condition. His office has been ransacked and although every file is accounted for I'm afraid that she's after me looking for you and Phil and I are in danger. Call me as soon as you get this!" Renee said her voice filled with fear and I could hear her sobs catching in her throat.
Immediately I ran upstairs and dumped my backpack out on my bed before filling it with clothes and my passport and cell-phone charger. I wrote a quick note to Charlie and Bella telling Bella that her present's would be arriving in the mail and that I was leaving and I didn't know how long I would be gone making sure to add I'm sorry I love you guys! At the bottom of the note I pulled on a pair of jeans and a green hooded sweatshirt as well as my combat boots and left, locking the door behind me. I walked down two blocks before calling a cab and taking it to the airport where I immediately took the first flight to where Renee said she and Phil were staying. The whole flight I was praying that I would get there in time, I didn't realize that I was chewing my bottom lip until I tasted blood causing me to come back to the present.
I took a deep breath trying to steady myself, "Come Gemma keep it together. You'll make it in time." I whispered to myself over and over again like a chant. When the plane landed I wanted to be the first one off but I knew that would cause suspicion so I slowed myself down until I was finally outside of the airport doors then I rushed into a cab and told them the address Renee had given me and gave him incentive to hurry. We reached the hotel location in record timing and I tipped him as promised before closing the door and rushing up to the hotel room number that Renee had given me. The door opened immediately and Renee rushed out hugging me tightly her face streaked with tears and her body shuddering with her sobs. In that moment I knew I needed to leave behind the 'new me' and become the person I had been in the past. The person I had become to deal with what I had done.
"I'm here. You two will be okay I promise." I said as I hugged her tightly walking her back into the room. After locking the front door and checking all of the windows and the closets as well as under the bed and not finding anything suspicious I had Renee sit down on the bed. "Have you told Phil?" I asked crouching down in front of her and offering her my hand to hold which she immediately gripped like it was her life line. "No I didn't want him to..freak out and..I wasn't sure how to tell him." Renee said her body jerking with the sob's that were starting to slow down.
"You have to tell him something, she's dangerous and if she did find out that your remarried she could just as easily target Phil." I said sternly but not overly harsh as I didn't want her to burst out into tears again. "I know but…how do you tell your-…new husband that your daughter-…..killed a man who tried to rape me….-when she was ten?" Renee asked stopping to blow her nose or sniffle. I sighed and squeezed her hand gently, "If you want I can tell him or you could just say that there's a psychotic woman after me and she will do anything to find me." I said offering her an easy way out. Renee immediately accepted my offer and cleaned herself up and got changed and did her makeup before we left the hotel and went to where Phil was practicing with his team for the day.
As soon as we entered the sparsely filled stands the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I knew that she was watching me. I kept my mouth shut knowing Renee would just panic. I kept my eyes in front of me and used the pretense of taking a picture with Renee to send to Bella in order to take some video footage of the area and people behind us. I brought my phone down and made a snapshot of me and Renee cutting out everyone behind us before sending it to her since she wanted a copy of the picture she thought I had taken. Then I went took off the volume and went through the video footage I found my suspicions were proven correct. She was sitting in the upper left stands right behind an elderly couple, I touched Renee's arm and said that I needed to make a phone call before I got up and walked out of the stands and down into the nearly deserted parking lot. I walked into the center of the parking lot before whirling around to face my pursuer.
"Vivian." I said my voice calm and emotionless as I watched my pursuer come towards me stopping only ten feet away. "Gemma." She spit back her face that was once beautiful was ashen and aged at least forty years not to mention her once pristine teeth were now yellowed and several were missing and her gums were an odd color. I knew she was using and had probably just shot up before she had entered the parking lot. I watched her, gauging her actions however all of my thoughts on how to act were thrown out the window as she brought out a gun and cocked it pointing at my stomach. A bullet in the gut was not something that I wanted so I held still watching her even as I heard several footsteps approaching from behind me.
A blow to my back knocked me forward and down on my hands I used my fall time to calculate the exact number and position of my opponents. I let myself curl downwards like a spring catching myself on my hands and tossing myself back up into the air arching my body over the head of the first two guys who were directly behind me. Within three minutes I had all ten men laid out and had managed to take a gun off of one of the men, checking that it was loaded I turned my attention towards Vivian and saw her heading back towards the stands. I didn't hesitate to drop to my knees and shoot, my first shot taking out her left knee, my second shot taking out her right arm. I walked forward keeping the gun trained on her I kicked her gun away from her and stared down at her bleeding form. "It's over Vivian." I stated I was surprised when she began to laugh but kept it off of my face. "It's not…nearly over…for you." Vivian said laughing even as she bled out. I raised the gun ready to finish her when something pierced me from behind. I felt two more darts hit and I processed where the darts had come from, pushing the fatigue away as much as I could I dropped and put a round in each place that the darts had come from before another one entered the back of my neck and my vision went blurry before fading away.
