Chapter 19
Returning to the building, Webb was about to enter when he heard a shot ring out. Drawing his gun he raced into the building. He saw North laying on the ground bleeding from both his shoulder and a new wound in his leg. Sam was sitting up leaning against the crate looking very pale. She nonetheless smiled at him and said, "He was getting away."
"He's one of us!" Webb exclaimed.
"Oh? Then why was he aiming at you when you were going to shoot Davis- Marciniak? He was the one that shot me!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I think I would know who shot me!" she stated sarcastically.
Going over to the man that until a few moments ago Webb thought was a loyal Agent, he ordered, "Explain yourself North!" as he was handcuffing him.
"The bitch shot me! TWICE!" North shouted.
"You should be glad it wasn't me!" Webb snapped.
"Why's that?" North snarled.
"Because if you had shot me, I wouldn't have shot you in the leg!"
Then all of a sudden they heard a rain of gun fire from out near the pier.
"AJ," Sam gasped.
Webb came back over to her as she tried to get up. Then sirens joined the sounds of gunfire. He got the gauze out of the first aid kit and pressed it to her wound causing her to moan slightly. "Can you hold this in place so I can check on Chegwidden?" he asked gruffly.
"Yes please go," she told Clay all the while praying that AJ was alright.
The paramedics arrived a few minutes after Webb left. They treated both her and North, whom they handcuffed to the stretcher they put him on.
When AJ and Simpson followed Davis-Marciniak and his two body guards they kept as low as they could using anything they could for cover. Every few steps the guards would turn around and fire some shots off as they ran for a boat at the end of the pier. They covered Zepher until he jumped onto the boat and then quickly followed him.
AJ knew they needed to stop the three of them before they could get the boat moving out to the open water. He sped up and Simpson tried to keep up. AJ was having a hard time focusing on the job he needed to do, his mind kept darting to Samantha and how she was doing.
Simpson poked his head up to take a shot at one of the guards. His shot hit the hull of the boat within inches of where the guard stood. Unfortunately the guards shot rang true and hit Simpson in the throat. AJ shot back and hit the guard between the eyes. He made his way to Simpson's side, but he was already gone. Simpson had bled out.
Looking at the boat, AJ saw Davis-Marciniak pointing in his direction. As the guard jumped over the side of the boat to come after him, AJ put a shot in his thigh. Racing over to the guy while he was still recovering from the shock of the shot he kicked the gun away from his hand.
He jumped onto the boat and ran to the cockpit. Zepher's back was to him, "Max?" he called out when AJ approached the door.
"No," he answered Zepher. "Put your hands up so I don't have to shoot you."
AJ couldn't see that Zepher was slowly reaching for a gun that was laying on the consol in front of him. Zepher put one hand in the air as he slowly started to turn around with the gun in his hand. As he came face to face with AJ he was about to pull the trigger when the gun was shot from his hand. Cussing he grabbed his wounded hand and doubled over. Because he wasn't carrying handcuffs AJ grabbed some rope that was laying on the floor of the boat and tied both of Zepher's hands behind his back even though one was bleeding.
Marching him along in front of him, they exited the boat and AJ dragged the guard he'd shot in the leg to his feet and forced them both towards the police and EMT's that were gathering at the end of the pier.
Once he was relieved of his two prisoners AJ looked around for Samantha. He didn't see her but did see Webb, so headed over to him. Webb was standing near the back of an EMT van and when AJ got close he could see that Samantha was on a stretcher being treated by the paramedic.
To be continued…