Later on in the day Sam was reading a magazine waiting for a phone call from the SRU. He didn't want his team to be broken up even though Jessica quit. He was also waiting to her back from either Jules or Jessica. Now that the truth was out they needed to have a talk just the three of them about how to work things out. Then he heard a knock on the door.
"Coming!" he yelled
He got up from his seat and went towards the door to see who it was. When he opened the door he saw Jules standing right there in front of him. Knowing what Jules wanted to talk about he just let her in the apartment and closed the door shut. He then stared at Jules for a long time before taking little steps to Jules.
"You're right." Sam said
"About what?" Jules asked
"It's not going to go away."
"What's not going to go away?"
"Our feelings for each other and most importantly our daughter. Those two most important things to us are not going to go away."
Jules smiled and her way to Sam
"I'm glad." Jules said
"So?" Sam asked
"So"
Sam and Jules then leaned towards each other and kissed after all these years of being apart. All those years of taking care of their daughter without even noticing she was theirs. Then the kissing became more than kissing. They started to make out more. Sam brought Jules on the counter and started to kiss her all around her neck. Jules removed her half top from her dress. Before they could do more Natalie comes in the front door and sees the whole thing. Both of them catch that and stopped what their doing.
"Oh wow I'm sorry"
"It's okay. Jules you remember Natalie right?"
"Yeah I do. Sorry about that."
"No problem."
Then Sam and Jules get calls on their phones and they had to get back to the base.
~Flashpoint~
Jules and Sam got back to the base where they find all their teammates at the reception desk. They also saw Dr. Toth was listening on their case.
"We cleared for duty?" Spike asked
"For now only." Larry said
"Who's the officer down?" Wordy asked
"It's Ed." Winnie said
"What?" Spike said
"Greg's at the hospital now."
Then all the sudden Jules and Sam phones start to ring like crazy as well as the SRU hotline.
"Hello?" Sam and Jules said on their phones
"SRU?" Winnie said on the mic
"Please you have to help!" Marrisa said on Jules' phone
"The ambulance is already here and we're on the way!" Jayden yelled on Sam's phone
"It doesn't look good!" Amy said on the SRU hotline
"What's going on?" Sam, Jules, Winnie asked the three kids
"Jessica's been shot!" the three of them yelled
Everyone heard the one thing they did not want to hear. It was bad enough Ed got shot but now Jessica was down too. After Jules heard the news she dropped her phone and fell to her knees crying. Sam had tears in his eyes but he needed to be strong for everyone's sake. So he went back on the phone with Jayden and the kids. He asked Winnie to patch in on all three calls.
"She was shot?" Sam asked
"Yeah. We were in the parking lot hanging out when a car came at us and fired a gun four times at us. We just bruises from our fall down but Jessica took a bullet in the shoulder. She lost a lot of blood." Jayden said
"Where are you guys?" Spike asked
"Everyone got rides from their parents after giving their police reports to the cops. Marrisa, Amy, and I are in the ambulance with Jessica on our way to the hospital."
"Is she awake?" Sam asked
"No. Oh wait wait a minute." Amy said
Jayden from inside the ambulance saw Jessica open her eyes. She looked around to find she was shot in the shoulder and she was in an ambulance with two paramedics and her friends.
"She just woke." Marissa said
Jules got up from her feet and went towards the desk with everyone
"Oh my god! What happened?" Jessica asked in a daze
"You were shot in the shoulder at your school. Your friends called everyone to meet you at the hospital. Well your boyfriend and your friends with us right now taking you to the hospital." one of the paramedics said
"Wait a minute. I got shot? How bad is it? What about my friends?"
"Your friends are fine. They just have bruises from their fall down on the pavement. For you shoulder it's a through and through but you lost a lot of blood and it may have hit a nerve so I need you to stay still so it doesn't get worse." the second paramedics said
"Okay. Jayden put the phone on the speaker."
Jayden pressed a button on his phone which made it go to speaker mode. Then he leaned it towards her face to talk to her parents and friends.
"Oh my god! Jess are you okay?" Jules asked
"Yeah I'm fine mom." Jessica said
"Who did this to you?" Sam asked
"I don't remember his face but I remember one thing about his shirt."
"What did it say?" Spike asked
"It had a logo. Sam it was a special forces logo."
Sam was shocked to hear that a solider from his unit would have the nerve to shoot his kid
"Are you sure?" Sam asked
"Yeah and he said something before he left." Jessica said
"What was that?" Wordy asked
"He said 'You should have left this alone!' and then he drove off."
"But I got the license plate and details of the car." Jayden said
"Really can you give the details?" Spike said
"Sure"
"Sam, mom, don't worry about me. Just do whatever it is you are doing and meet up with me later." Jessica said
"Yeah but Jess-" Sam started
"It's your priority. You guys can meet me later at the hospital."
"She's smart than I give her credit for." Dr. Toth said
Everyone stared at him for a moment after that comment
"We know. Just to let you know Ed was shot too today." Jules said
Jessica was shocked
"Is he okay?" Jessica asked
"Yeah just two bullets in the arm. The rest hit his vest." Wordy said
"Okay."
Jessica gave the phone back to Jayden
"Okay now give me the details." Spike said
Jayden and Marissa started giving the team every bit of detail they could remember about the shooting. After that they found out where Ed's shooter was at perviously at before he shot Ed. So they headed of to a military base where a solider might have been kidnapped by the shooter. While on the duty they were going to find Jessica's shooter too. They were not going to let this one go one bit.
~Flashpoint~
At the military base they were trying to figure what happened there. They learned that the shooter was trying to get drugs for a dealer he owed money to. Now they just have to find out what happen to him and his accomplice. While on the duty Spike was looking at the model plate numbers on his computer to find the car Jessica's shooter was in. Jules and Sam were right next to him waiting for an answer.
"Did you find anything yet?" Sam asked
"Sam give it a minute. I just typed it in." Spike said
"I'm sorry. It's just why would someone from Special Forces want to shoot Jessica? It doesn't make sense."
"Maybe he was forced to. Yeah that you think about it makes sense. Most of them are just teens and they got everything to lose." Jules said
"Like their futures if they don't have the money for college and the only people they feel they need to obey by is their leader."
"So you're thinking whoever this person really that wants everyone who knows what happened eighteen years ago out of the picture including Jessica is a leader of one of the Special Forces group?" Spike asked
"I hate to admit but yes."
Then the computer beeped which meant they found the car information and the person who owns it
"What have we got Spike?" Sam asked
"Okay we know we found the car and it's owned by a Nathan Meyers. I'm having his face on the news right now. Hopefully we can catch him and see who is his leader." Spike said
"Winnie get my military records for Nathan Meyers." Jules said
"Those could be classified." Winnie said over the mic
"Pull strings no matter what it takes."
"The police can handle the rest on Jessica's case. Now you need to be back finding Ed's shooter." Dr. Toth said
"Yeah I know it's our priority now." Sam said
Everyone went back to finding Ed's shooter. Hopefully with any luck they'll find Nathan Meyers before he leaves town.
~Flashpoint~
At the hospital Jessica was in surgery having her shoulder worked on. Marissa, Amy, and Jayden were waiting outside the operating room to hear the news about Jessica.
"Did you see who Ed was doing?" Marissa asked
"Yeah but he won't go into surgery till Sophie has the baby." Jayden said
"Did the baby come yet?" Amy asked
"No. They had to rush her into the operating room to do a c-section. The baby is not getting enough oxygen in her lungs. I just hope they can save both Sophie and the baby." Jayden said
"I hope they can get Ed in the operating room soon too." Marissa said
Then they saw the rest of their friends in the hallway and they came over to the both of them.
"How is she doing?" Kate asked
"She's still in surgery. We're waiting to hear more. How did you guys get here?" Jayden said
"Our parents but we weren't the only ones to come." Brain said
"What do you mean?" Marissa asked
"Are you kidding me? Have you've been outside?" Joey asked
"No" Amy said
"Come with us." David said
All the kids went out of the OR area and towards the entrance of the hospital. What they saw outside was beyond belief. Like everyone from their entire school was their holding signs and candles for Jessica hoping she makes it. The chorus was their singing the chorus part to 'How to Save a Life' by Lifehouse. Not only them but people from past cases have come from far over to see how the girl that helped them months or a year ago to see how she was doing. There were also people from Ed's past cases waiting to here the news about his recovery and his child being born. The news was there covering the whole thing.
"This is unbelievable. How was this possible?" Jayden asked
"That's the amazing thing about facebook and twitter. We posted both shootings to our friends and they passed on the news to their friends and so on." Kate said
Then they saw Jule's family come over and see the kids who were with Jessica
"Are you Jules' and Jessica's family?" Marissa asked
"Yeah we heard about the shooting and we came as soon as we could. I'm Richard, Jules' brother and Jessica's uncle. Here's the rest of them." Richard said
There were the three brother and their wives and kids. They greeted them one by one. One of Jessica's cousins came forward to Jayden.
"Is she going to be okay?" Samantha asked
"Yeah she going to be fine. It's just she's surgery to fix a nerve in her arm." Jayden said
Natalie ran towards the kids
"Are Ed and Jessica both okay?" Natalie asked
"Who are you?" Kate asked
"I'm Natalie. Sam's sister."
"Oh right. Yeah Ed and your niece are going to be fine." Amy said
"What are you talking about? Jessica's my friend."
"Sam didn't tell you?" Joey asked
Natalie shook her head
"Sam's her father which makes you her aunt." Jayden said
"Oh my god! I have to call my family." Natalie said
Natalie went to call her family and told them to come to the hospital. Jayden went back inside to see how Jessica was doing in surgery. All that time though will he was thinking of one thing on that day.
"I asked her to marry me and a shooter came and shot her."
~Flashpoint~
Back on the other side of the city the team got Ed's shooter was caught as well as the drug dealers. So they were on their way to the hospital when Winnie called the team on their mics.
"Guy just want to let you know we got Nathan Meyers at a bar near downtown." Winnie said
Sam and Jules sighed in relief knowing that the shooter was caught
"Good is he talking?" Sam asked
"Yeah but there's a problem. He's not the one who shot Jessica"
That relief just wiped off of both of their faces. The team was wondering what Winnie meant by him not being the shooter.
"What do you mean he's not the shooter. It's his car-" Jules started
"Yeah but he lend it to his friend while Nathan was at the bar with his friend. His friends gave him a solid alibi for being at the bar around the time of the kids shooting. On his records though it says he was part of Special Forces for a short amount of time." Winnie said
"So maybe whoever Nathan lend the car to must have wanted him to take the fall." Spike said
"So he wears a Special Forces shirt because Jessica knows the logo." Greg said
"Do you know who the friend is?" Wordy asked
"Yeah they said his name was Curtis Wood."
Jules face just went into horror mode and Sam notice
"Jules what's wrong?" Sam asked
"That's my ex-boyfriend from high school." Jules said
"So he shot Jessica?" Greg asked
"Looks like it and I found out who Nathan's team leader was." Winnie said
"Great who is he?" Sam said
"Sam it's your father."
Sam went into horror mode along side Jules. Curtis and his father are the ones still after Jessica. It was Sam's father all long who paid off the Jules' friends to keep their silence. It was bad enough that his father hated him but trying to kill his own granddaughter was beyond low. Sam then got out his cellphone and made a phone.
"Natalie it's Sam." Sam said
"Where the hell are you? Jessica's been shot and everyone in the city is basically here cheering for both her and Ed's recovery." Natalie said
"Yeah I know that but listen did you call mom or dad about this?"
"Yeah they just got here and dad brought a friend along with him."
Sam made a angry face but tried not to yell. He did bang on the door a few times to get his anger out.
"Okay Natalie call the police, get Jayden to go to Jessica's room now!" Sam yelled
"Why what's going on?" Natalie asked
"Dad's not there for Jessica's concern."
"Well then what's he there for?"
"He's there to kill my daughter!"
Natalie was shocked but did what he told her to do. She rushed over to Jayden who was with his friends.
"Jayden you have to come with me now!" Natalie said
"What do you mean?" Jayden asked
"Yeah what's going on?" Marissa asked
"It's not over. The shooter is in the hospital along with my father. They're here to finish what they started."
"Marissa call 911 right now!" Jayden yelled
Natalie and Jayden ran back inside the hospital to find where Jessica's room was. They informed everyone in and out of the hospital that their were two shooters in the hospital. So they prayed that everyone that both Curtis and Sam's father hadn't found Jessica's room yet.
~Flashpoint~
Team One arrived where the police have scattered all over the parking lot protect the people outside. Jules and Sam ran out of their cars into the building in hoping to find their daughter before Curtis and Sam's father could do anything to her. What they found was both of them pointing their guns at both Jayden and Natalie protecting Jessica. Jessica was being released after her surgery went well. She was required to wear a sling for a month. When seeing the situation they raised their guns at them.
"Dad don't you dare!" Sam yelled
"That goes for you too, Curtis!" Jules yelled
Both men turned around and saw the two cops with their guns out while the rest of the team was outside.
"Well hello son." Mr. Braddock said
"Dad what the hell are you doing?" Sam asked
"Cleaning up your mess."
"My daughter is not a mess." Jules said
"She's my niece and your granddaughter." Natalie said
"She's no family of mine. She and her mother ruined my son's life."
"Along with mine and my friends." Curtis said
"No Curtis you did that to yourself. You drugged the drinks which led Sam and Jules to have Jessica. You only wanted to drug one drink for Jules but it got to wild and you lost control of the drugs and the drinks. You wanted to be with Jules that night but couldn't find her but you still were responsible for what happened that night. Then Mr. Braddock paid you and our friends off to keep their silence." Jayden said
"I wanted what was best for my son. When I went to pick up my son from that party I saw him talking to that woman on the roof. Later that week I hear from my sources that she was pregnant. I made sure that this mistake would not come to light in my son's life. I did this for him." Mr. Braddock said
"No you didn't. You did this for you. You made me miss seventeen years of my daughter's life that I could have spent with her. You also ruined people's lives along the way to make sure you got what you wanted. A world where I didn't have a daughter. It was bad enough when my sister died but this was like losing to family members." Sam yelled
"She's not your family!"
"I am his family and I had about enough of this!" Jessica yelled
Everyone looked at Jessica who was done hiding and was in the line of fire.
"Jessica get out of the way!" Jules yelled
"You got a lot of nerves being in front of all these guns." Mr. Braddock said
"Yeah I get it from my parents. Now here me out. I've known Sam for only a year now but a year is all that took for me to know he was my father. What I can tell you is that he is a better dad that you will ever be. The factor is you wanted your son to be you. I mean you are mad that you want to blame Sam for his sister's death, also having one night with my mother, and leaving Special Forces for the SRU but the really reason your mad is he looked at you one day and said he didn't want to be you. Oh and by the way Sam was right you are in the progress of destroying lives because you ruined his life, my mom's life, her classmates lives, and most importantly my life, not too mention the lives of my mom's family for having them watch her go through all that pain." Jessica said
"I'm sorry that you feel that way but what makes so good for my son's life?"
"Because I'm his daughter but before that I was his best friend which made our bond all the more special. He teaches me how to live life and loves that I already have a career at such a young age. However it's not his life I'm a part of. I'm a part of my mom's life, my friend's lives, my boyfriend's life, and maybe my whole community looks up to me too. I have friends at my soon to be former high school who love me the way I am. I'm the leader of photography group at my school for four years. It's sad that I'm going to be stepping down from that soon. I've been through so much in my life and if my life has to end here tonight than I guess I should say my last words here."
"Jessica don't!" Jayden yelled
Both men raise their guns at Jessica knowing that she's going to give up but Sam and Jules kept their guns up at them.
"Now what could that be?" Curtis asked
Jessica looked up to see Spike and Wordy on the last floor with gun filled with rubber bullets. She smiled and looked at the two men with her hands up.
"Rubber bullets. Fire!" Jessica yelled
Spike and Wordy fired the rubber bullets at Curtis and Mr. Braddock and that made them drop their guns. Sam and Jules dropped their guns and went to restrain them till the whole team came down to arrest them.
"Your making a big mistake son! If you do this we're done!" Mr. Braddock yelled
"We're already done. You're no father of mine." Sam said
"Yeah you're so not mine anymore either!" Natalie said
Team One arrested both the men and dragged them outside where the crowd was booing and throwing stuff at them before entering the squad cars. Jessica then looked at both Sam and Jules for a moment, ran up to them, and hugged them while crying. The three of them stayed in that tight embrace for so long that nothing could break them apart.
"I'm so sorry!" Jessica cried
"It's okay. You're okay that's all that matters." Jules said
"Yeah you're everything to us. Don't ever doubt that for one minute." Sam said
"I love you guys."
"We love you too sweetheart."
"That goes for us too!" people in the back said
They turned around to see the whole team, Jules' family, Sam's family, Jessica's friends, Jayden, and everyone they could think of was possible there. The team came up and came into their group hug.
"Wait a minute. Jessica how did you know they were up there? Sam asked
"While I was hiding behind Jayden and Natalie I was looking up to see Team One was up there. I gave them some hand signals we I learned from the boss and told them to go less lethal. So while they were doing that I did what the boss would do. Talk before tactics." Jessica said
"She is some sneaky kid." Jules said
"Yup she is." Greg said
Jules' family then came up to see Jessica one by one. Samantha the cousin Jessica knew the most was glad she was fine. All her uncles were happy their niece was safe from harm. Natalie gave her niece a kiss on the check and gave her a big hug. Then Sam's mom came to see her granddaughter. She cried while hugging her. Why would her own husband do this to her own son? Having no daughter in his life. She was already saying she was going to divorce him. All the friends from school were their talking to Jessica about her recovery and what was going to be done about it because the whole school offered to help her out if she needed time off from school. Lastly Jayden came up and kissed her on the check.
"Jessica there was one thing you forgot to do." Jayden said
"What's that?" Jessica asked
"Oh were you going to say yes?" Marissa asked
"Say yes to what?" Jules asked
"I call dibs!" Amy said
Everyone then started talking random ways but Jessica couldn't take so she said her answer.
"Yes!" Jessica yelled
Everyone stopped talking after what she said
"Yes to what?" Sam asked
"I'll marry you, Jayden." Jessica said
Everyone had stunned looks on their faces. Then Sam and Jules then looked at both Jessica and Jayden
"Not now but after we did some years at college." Jessica wanted to conform
"I asked her before she got shot in the parking lot. Now I'm asking for is your blessing to marry your daughter in the near future." Jayden said
"You don't have to ask me twice." Jules said
Sam and Jayden shook hands
"You really make my daughter happy. Take care of her when that day comes." Sam said
Everyone gave their blessings to the teens and then turned around to see Ed and Clark coming down with his new daughter in his arms. Everyone came up to him and were in awe of the little baby. Then it was time to take Ed to surgery on his arm. Clark took the baby and the nurse took Ed to the OR for surgery.
"Well if you guys don't mind I really want to go home." Jessica said
"Yeah we could all us a days rest." Greg said
Everyone left the hospital to go home. They did get a cheer from everyone in the crowd outside waiting. All of them waved goodbye and headed for their cars. Jessica, Sam, and Jules were heading off to his apartment. This was a time they needed to be together as a family.
~Flashpoint~
Sam opened the door to his apartment and let Jessica and Jules go in first
"Well that was a day I'll never get out of my head." Jessica said
"Why's that?" Sam asked
"Because I got shot, Ed got shot, Sophie had the baby, Jayden asked me to marry him, your dad gets arrested, and the whole city was there to support me and Ed. I kind of feel sad for you in a way. You gain a family member and you lose one in the same day."
"Hey my father made his choice. So you have nothing to feel bad about. You are my first concern and you will always will be."
"Same with me." Jules said
Jessica smiled and hugged her parents
"I'm going to bed. Oh by the way I'm taking the whole week off so my friends are going to drop by now and then to give me my school work I missed." Jessica said
"That's fine. Night." Jules said
Jessica left for her room leaving Jules and Sam alone
"This was one crazy day." Sam said
"Yeah but in the end our family stood in tack." Jules said
"So you are saying we're a family now?"
Jules smiled and nodded
"About earlier are you sure about this?" Sam asked
"There's no place I would rather be." Jules said
Sam smiled and leaned in and kissed Jules. Then the two of them went into Sam's room for their own time together. What they didn't know was their daughter was hearing them talk from her door. Jessica thought to herself that she was one lucky girl. Her family was back together, her and Jayden got engaged, she was somewhat famous in her community, and Ed was going to be fine along with his family. She from here on in things will get better.
