Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Four Brothers characters, I do however own anyone who wasn't in the movie…
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Four Brothers characters, I do however own anyone who wasn't in the movie…
Author: Ok, so there are two chapters left after this one, maybe one, I'm not sure yet! But I hope those who have read this story liked it!! Thanks for all your reviews, they really meant a lot! Here's another one….the one you've been waiting for.
Before Bryant knew it, it was the next morning. She was being violently shaken awake.
"Wake up!" Elijah yelled.
"Go away." Bryant groaned rolling over.
"Yeah for real. Shut up!" Skylar yelled from the other bed.
"Your brother wants you home at eight. It is seven fifteen. Get your ass up."
Bryant made a noise before throwing the blanket over her head.
"I don't think so. Kade went to get some breakfast. You need to be ready by the time he gets back." Elijah pulled the covers off of her body.
"ELI!" Bryant yelled.
"Shut up!" Skylar yelled back.
"This is so stupid." Bryant sat up.
"Good, now get up!" Elijah threw the covers back at her. "Come on, I let you sleep long enough. You need to go get in the shower and get ready to go. Me and Kade are going to be walking you home."
"Walking?"
"Yes, walking. It will give us some more time with you. Its just five minutes up the road."
"Ugh, but its freaking snowing outside."
"It wont kill you to walk in the snow for ten minutes."
"It almost killed you." She snapped.
"Because you wanted to have a snowball fight." He snapped back. "Get your ass up, you've done pissed me off."
"Whatever!" she retorted throwing her legs over the bed. She grabbed her bag off the ground and stormed into the bathroom.
"Never ends, even five years later." Elijah mumbled to himself.
"Can I come?" Skylar asked sitting up.
"Do what?" Elijah turned around to glare at him.
"Can I walk her home too?"
Elijah rolled his eyes. "I guess."
The door opened and in walked Kade with fresh doughnuts. "Where's Bry?"
"In the shower." Elijah pointed to the bathroom.
"What's your deal?" Kade sat the doughnuts on the table and stared at Elijah.
"Nothing, it just took a great deal of effort to get her out of the bed. This one is going to join us on our little hike back to Bryant's house." Elijah replied pointing at Skylar who just smiled.
"He's mad because Bryant told him off." Skylar chimed in.
"She did not tell me off." Elijah yelled.
"Whatever you say." Skylar threw his legs over the side of the bed. "Anyways...I am going to go with you guys."
"I think you should stay here." Kade told him taking a bit from his doughnut.
"What? Why?"
"Because I said so. We need to talk to Bryant and we don't need her brother's interrogating you. Everyone can see that you have a crush on the girl."
"Shut the hell up Kade." Skylar yelled.
"You know he is telling the truth, so don't even try to deny it." Elijah laughed.
"I said shut up!" Skylar threw a pillow at Elijah.
The door to the bathroom suddenly came flying open. "Just to let you know, I can still hear even though the bathroom door is closed. And you are out of hot water."
Kade couldn't help but laugh as he saw her standing there with a towel wrapped around her head. "Its seven thirty five."
"Good." She replied closing the door behind her again.
"She's beautiful." Skylar whispered. "Who wouldn't like her?"
"I can still hear you!" Bryant yelled from inside the bathroom.
Elijah and Kade died laughing as they watched Skylar throw himself in the bed. "I'm going back to bed." He replied throwing the blanket over his head.
"Get up and get ready if you are coming with us." Kade told him younger brother.
"I'm not going." Skylar didn't move the blanket from his head.
They heard the door of the bathroom open again with a fully dressed, beautiful Bryant all ready to go. "I'm ready." She replied wiping a piece of hair from her face.
"Let's go then." Kade replied. "Wouldn't want to keep the family waiting."
"It's good that you guys are coming, you can meet the whole family now. If Jeremiah isn't dead by the time we get there."
"What are you talking about? And who the hell is Jeremiah?"
"He is my older brother and he might die today. My brothers found out that he might have something to do with our mother's death."
"Nothing is going to happen to him…to any of your brothers. Bobby is just pissed." Elijah told her.
"I guess so." Bryant walked over to Skylar who still have the blanket over his head. She looked over at Kade and smiled. "And you, it's ok to have a crush. I have one too." She whispered before laughing. "Okay, let's go."
"I could have you killed." Kade told her closing the door behind him.
"And why is that?" Bryant turned around with a smile on her face.
"He's my little brother."
"So?"
"It's not right."
"Whatever."
"You two are going to be the death of me."
"If you're lucky, I could be your sister-in-law." She smiled.
"That will definitely not be happening. I will be dead before you guys get married."
"I can have that arranged."
"I bet you could." He laughed. He wrapped his arms around her shoulder kissing her on top of her head.
"Thanks for walking me home." She replied with a smile. "Let's try not to get shot in the snow this time okay."
"Can we drop that?" Elijah asked.
"Come on, it was just a joke. Unless you have enemies that I don't know about here in Detroit, I'm sure you have nothing to worry about."
"I'm just waiting on one of your brothers to kill us."
Bryant laughed. "I was waiting on that too, but if they haven't already, I'm sure you are safe."
"You think so?" Elijah smiled down at her.
"Yeah, you see, like you two, I have my brothers wrapped around my fingers."
Kade and Elijah began to laugh. "Besides, they know that I love you two too much." She looked down at the ground suddenly shy.
"We love you too." Elijah touched her shoulder. "I wouldn't trade you in for anyone else."
"Good, because then I might have to kill them." She smiled. She wrapped one of her arms around her body. "So whose bright idea was it to walk to my house?"
Elijah pointed to Kade who just smiled. "I don't know why you guys hate the snow so much." Kade replied.
"Um…because your best friend almost got killed in it." Bryant snapped.
"That was a long time ago. Snow changes."
"Right." Bryant laughed. "Every time it snows, I feel like something bad is going to happen. I hate the cold."
"Snow is suppose to be pure. Like a new beginning or something."
"So poetic." Bryant replied sarcastically. "Snow is water from the sky that freezes. Its beautiful once it starts, but when it snows every freaking day of winter, it kind of gets annoying."
"Yeah I have to agree. It kind of puts a damper on things." Elijah stated.
"Like this?" Kade had a snowball in his hands and shoved it right in Bryant's face.
Bryant stopped in her tracks not sure what just happened. She wiped the snow from her face and glared at Kade who laughing. "I had to do it." He replied holding his hands in the air as if surrendering.
"Sure." She replied kneeling down. "I guess I had to do this too."
"Don't you dare!" Kade warned her. She smiled at him before throwing it in Elijah's face.
"What did I do?" Elijah yelled.
Bryant began to laugh as she took off running but Kade and Elijah were on her heels. She felt snowballs hitting her in the back but she kept laughing. She hid behind a pole waiting on them to come. Suddenly loud pops filled the air, but it wasn't close enough to be any of them.
"What was that?" she asked reappearing in front of them.
"I don't know, it seems close though." Kade moved over to her.
"Was is gunshots?" Bryant asked.
"I think so." Kade looked down at her. She looked at him before realizing…it was her house.
"Oh my gosh!" she yelled taking off running towards her house.
"BRYANT!" Elijah and Kade took off running after her. They were close to her house, she just wanted to make sure her family was ok. "Bryant stop!" Kade yelled. It was too late though. She had saw it, Jack hitting the ground, blood all around him.
"JACK!" she screamed covering her mouth. She tried to run to him, but Elijah grabbed her. "No!" she yelled fighting him.
"BOBBY!" Jack yelled tried to get out of the way. Gunshots began going off again.
Bryant broke free from Elijah's grip and took off running towards the house. Then it happened, like in slow motion. A gun was pointed straight at her, she could hear him pull the trigger, but she didn't feel anything. All she felt was her body being thrown to the ground, then nothing.
"BOBBY!" Jack screamed.
"JACK!" Bobby yelled.
"KADE!" Elijah yelled from behind a car. Bryant opened her eyes and saw Kade laying on top of her.
"Kade." She whispered as tears streamed down her face. He didn't answer. "Kade!" she cried again. Her head was killing her.
"Bryant, are you ok?" She heard Elijah's voice behind her.
"Kade." She cried, but he still wouldn't answer her.
"BOBBY!" Jack screamed again.
"Someone help!" Bryant yelled trying to get Kade off her. "Please, someone." She begged. The gunshots had stopped. Was it over? She looked over at Elijah was just staring at her.
"Bobby!" Angel yelled. Then there was a crash. What was going on? Was Jack ok? Was Kade? She finally lifted him off of her and sat up.
"Jack." She whispered. She looked over at her house, but she couldn't see anything. The van and Jerry's Volvo was blocking her view. "Kade." She whispered looking down. She put her hand on the back of her head and felt the knot forming from where Kade had jumped on her.
"You go ahead, I will take care of him." Elijah was at her side.
"Is he ok?" she asked touching him.
"I'm sure he is. He's probably just knocked out. Go on, you need to check on Jack." Elijah rubbed the side of her face.
"Eli, I'm so scared." She cried.
"Don't be, it's over now. Go on." He whispered. "It'll be ok. He's fine."
She nodded her head before lifting herself off the ground. She slowly began walking towards where her family was gathered. She looked back at Elijah who was hovered over Kade's body. She wiped her face before jogging over to Jack.
"Jack." She whispered coming around the cars. Bobby was holding onto Jack begging him to breathe.
"Jack! Jack, look at me! Jack, you all right? Hold on. We need an ambulance!" Bobby yelled.
"Someone call 911!" Angel yelled.
Sofi came rushing past Bryant with her cell phone in her hand. "I'm calling, I'm calling." She cried.
"Jack." Bryant whispered slowly walking over to him.
"Come on, Jack, you gotta breathe!" Bobby begged.
"Bobby." Bryant cried kneeling down beside him. She began to shake. "Is he ok?" she asked with tears spilling down her face.
"I don't know. Jack, don't you die on me you little fairy. Come on, Jack. Please! You gotta fucking breathe! Come on!" Bobby grabbed Jack by his collar.
"Jack, please breathe." Bryant leaned down to him. "Please." She begged. "The ambulance is coming ok, we are going to get you help but you have to hold on a little longer."
Jack looked at his sister and smiled. He tried to say something but blood came pouring out of his mouth. "Hold on!" she told him. "Don't leave me."
"Jack!" Bobby yelled.
Jack began to close his eyes. "No, open your eyes!" Bryant yelled. "You have to stay awake."
"Jack come on man!" Bobby replied. "Open your fucking eyes!"
"Please don't die, please." Bryant laid her head on his shoulder as she began to sob. "I can't lose you too."
The sirens of the ambulance was getting closer and closer. "I can hear them. Just a little bit longer ok."
Bryant looked around her. There was blood everywhere, all over the snow. Bodies were lying all over the ground. She looked up at the house, it was a disaster. She felt Bobby get up from his spot on the ground.
"Bobby!" Angel called after him. She watched as Bobby bent down and grabbed a gun from the ground and disappear on the other side of the van. She watched, waiting for him to come back. Then she heard it. A loud pop which caused her to jump. She looked back down at Jack whose eyes opened. "Hey." She whispered with a smile. "Stay with me."
"Bobby!" Angel yelled again. Bobby reappeared. Suddenly the house was surrounded by sirens going off.
"We got it from here!" a voice sounded behind them.
"Jack, stay awake." Bryant could feel arms come around her waist and lift her off the ground.
"Step out of the way miss, we need to get to him." Bryant pulled away from the man and moved over to the sidewalk. She wiped her face as she watched the EMS workers lift her brother's body onto a gurney. She gave a sigh of relief. He was going to be ok, he had to be. She stood back almost losing her balance. She had become dizzy.
"Bryant!" Bobby yelled grabbing her by the shoulders. "I need some fucking help over here!" he yelled touching her stomach.
"Bobby!" Bryant began to panic. Her eyes were becoming blurry. She began slapping his hands away from her. What was wrong?
"What is it?" Angel asked rushing over to them.
"She's bleeding." Bobby replied lifting her shirt up. "She was shot."
"No." Bryant began fighting Bobby's hands. "I wasn't…" She slapped his hand away.
"Then whose blood is it?" Bobby looked up at her. Her eyes looked at her brother, then over to Elijah who was still in the same spot. "KADE!" she screamed. She took off running towards him. Kade's eyes were open, but blood was pouring out his mouth.
"Kade!" she yelled falling to the ground on her knees.
He turned towards her trying to speak, but his mouth couldn't form the words. Bryant grabbed a hold on his hand as she watched him gasp for air. He was trying his hardest to hold on, but she knew it was hurting him more to fight.
"Kade, please be ok." She begged. "I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have ran, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me."
"Oh baby…" Elijah replied.
"Kade, hold on." Bryant clung onto his arm as she began to sob. "I'm sorry!"
"It's ok." Elijah replied stroking the side of her face. "He did what he promised he would do since you were a little girl. He protected you."
"Why? Why did you do that Kade?"
"Because he loved you. You have to let him go now." Elijah told her.
"No, I can't. It's too soon. We didn't have any time together."
"Bry, its ok."
Kate tried to speak but began coughing up blood. The sound nearly broke Bryant's heart as she watched her best friend slowly die. "Don't move, the ambulance is over there. They are coming for you Kade, just hold on ok."
"We need some help!" Bobby yelled running over to the ambulance.
She leaned down and kissed him on the cheek as he lifted his hand and grazed the side of her face. "You were so brave Kade, I love you so much." Bryant looked up towards Elijah when something caught her eye behind him. It was beautiful, something she's never seen before. It was her mother. Bryant's body froze, almost paralyzed from moving. She just stared at the glowing light.
"He's safe now, just let him go." She whispered. "Just let him go."
Tears came pouring out of her Bryant's eyes as she turned her head away from her mother back down to Kade. He was suffering, he was holding on for her. She knew what she had to do. She took a deep breath, knowing what was about to come out of her mouth was going to kill her. She closed her eyes and leaned down next to him. "Its ok, you don't have to fight anymore. I'm safe now. You can go to sleep…" She covered her mouth as she watched Kade smile one last time before closing his eyes.
"Kade." She whispered as she felt his hand slip out of hers. She bowed her head as tears fell to the ground, immediately creating a puddle.
"He's gone sweetheart." Elijah told her. "He's gone." Elijah whispered again laying his hand on her arm.
"I'm so sorry." She sobbed. "I just let him go."
"Bryant." She heard Bobby's voice behind her.
"Bry, he's gone." Elijah told her. "You did the right thing."
"No." she snapped. "It shouldn't have happened this way. I should have made him hold on longer."
"He was suffering, he was in a lot of pain."
She felt arms wrap around her shoulders. "Kade!" she sobbed "I'm sorry."
"It's ok." Bobby whispered in her ear.
"Please forgive me." She fell back onto her butt.
Elijah moved over to her and touched her arm. "It's ok." Bobby whispered again.
"Kade, no. What have I done?" she sobbed. She laid her head back against Bobby who tightened his grip on her body. "Ma, help me." She whispered.
"I need some help over here." Bobby looked up and saw a man standing beside them.
"What do we have?" Another appeared beside them.
"He's gone. There's nothing we can do here."
Bryant closed her eyes. "Kade." She whispered.
"Get a body bag. We have a mess on our hands."
"Don't act like we aren't fucking here. We can hear every word you are saying you dumbass!" Bryant snapped.
Both men looked at her before nodding their heads. "Sorry."
"Come on, we need to move out of the way." Bobby replied lifting her off the ground.
Bryant looked over at Elijah who just stayed kneeled down beside his best friend.
"Eli." She whispered. He looked up at her.
"Bobby!" Angel yelled.
"I'll be right back." Bobby replied letting go of Bryant.
"Eli, I am so sorry." She replied walking over to him.
Elijah watched as they brought a body bag over to Kade's body. "You know, he talked about you pretty much every day after he talked to you on the phone that night. It was the night of your mother's death. He told me he would die for you, just to spend one more day with you. He missed you like crazy. All he wanted was one minute just to hold you in his arms. He got what he wanted."
Bryant sniffed back the tears. "What do we do know?" she asked.
"I don't know." Elijah lifted himself off the ground. "I guess go back to West Virginia."
"No." she cried. "Don't leave me."
Elijah walked over to her and embraced her in a hug. "I would never leave you." He whispered in her ear.
"Stay here." She told him. "You don't have to go back to West Virginia."
"What about Skylar?"
"He should be eighteen soon. He can transfer here."
"Bryant." Elijah whispered.
"Elijah please. I don't want to lose you too."
"You aren't going to lose me."
"If you leave then I will have. I wont ever see you again."
"Don't say that."
She pulled away from him. "How are we going to tell Skylar?" she felt the tears begin to stream down her face again.
Elijah sighed before rubbing his hands over his face. "I don't know."
Bryant looked down at the body bag laying in front of her. "Why did he do it? Why did he jump in front of that bullet?"
"Because he would have killed himself if he had let that bullet hit you. He wouldn't have been able to live knowing that you died instead of him."
"Jimmy, I got this!" Green's voice sounded behind her which caused her to turn around.
"No." she replied letting go of Elijah and walking towards her house.
"What is it?" Elijah asked.
"What happened here?" Green asked.
"Sweet did this." Bobby spat.
"And how do you know that?"
"Because his friend in the body bag over there told me."
"Okay, well I will get a statement from him."
Bryant felt Elijah's arm come across her shoulders. She gave a gentle smile before laying her body into his. "Come with me. Lets go to the hospital." He whispered. "Jack should be wanting to see you."
"Jack." She whispered.
"Come on, lets go."
She nodded her head before moving with him as they began to walk towards the hotel.
The both looked up at the hotel in front of them. "I don't think I can do this." Bryant wiped the tears from her face.
"We have to do it." Elijah replied.
"I can't believe this is happening."
"Come on, Sky's waiting."
He wrapped his arms around her shoulder and brought her into him. "We are going to get through this together."
They slowly began to climb the steps towards the hotel room. Elijah took in a deep breath before opening the door. Bryant couldn't move from her spot. She put her hand on the back of her head and felt something wet. She slowly brought her hand back in front of her and saw the blood. She looked up, no one was looking. She quickly wiped it on her shirt where there was already blood.
"Hey, I was wondering when you were coming back." Skylar jumped off the bed. "Can we go eat? I am starving."
Elijah moved towards him. "You couldn't stay away from me huh?" Skylar asked smiling at Bryant who just stared down at the ground. "Where's Kade? I know he has to be hungry. That boy is always hungry."
"Sky…" Elijah whispered.
"Let me grab my coat and we can go."
"Sky…" Elijah whispered again, but he didn't listen.
Bryant moved into the room. "Skylar!" Elijah yelled.
"What?" Skylar appeared again. "What happened to you guys? You look like shit."
Bryant tried to laugh but covered her mouth as a sob escaped.
"What is it?" Skylar walked over to her.
"We were walking home when we heard a loud noise from far away. We didn't know what it was at first…" Bryant turned away from him.
"Eli." Skylar looked at the boy standing at the sliding door to the balcony.
"It was gunshots Sky. There were shooters at Bryant's house shooting up the place and we got caught in the crossfire."
"So what does that mean?" Skylar moved over to him. Elijah turned away. "What does it mean?" Skylar grabbed Elijah by his shirt, getting in his face.
"Kade was shot!" Bryant yelled. "He was shot." She whispered as tears streamed down her face.
"Where is he?" Skylar asked letting go of Elijah. "Where the fuck is he?" he yelled.
No one said a word. "Where. Is. my brother?"
"He's dead." Bryant slide down the door, suddenly becoming exhausted, as she listened to Elijah. "He didn't make it. He was shot in the back and it went through his chest."
"What?" Skylar looked away.
"Sky, we are going to get through this ok." Elijah walked over to him and grabbed him by his arm.
"Don't touch me." Skylar pulled away.
"Sky." Elijah grabbed him again. Bryant just watched from the door.
"Why?" Skylar covered his face and moved away from Elijah, but Elijah pulled him back. He pulled him into him and wrapped his arms around his body.
"It was just the wrong place at the wrong time." Elijah whispered.
"Why?" Skylar stood stiff as he put his chin on Elijah's shoulder. "My brother didn't do shit to no one."
"It was because of me." Bryant cried. "He died because of me."
"No." Elijah replied.
"He was shot because I tried to save my family. He caught me in his arms when the shot went off and caused the bullet to hit him instead of me. If you want to blame anyone, blame me okay." Bryant covered her face. "I just let him go." She whispered.
Skylar covered his face as tears began to stream down his face.
"I might have lost my brother too." She sobbed. Skylar moved over to her.
"I could never blame you." He replied kneeling down beside her. He reached over as she moved into his lap. "I don't blame you at all."
"What are we going to do?" she sobbed.
Elijah moved over to them. "We are going to get through this together." They all three embraced each other as they began to cry. "We have too."
"Where are we going?" Skylar asked wrapped his scarf around his neck.
"My brother, Jack, was shot too. They took him to the hospital." Bryant replied.
"Is he ok?"
She shook her head. "I don't know."
"What the hell happened?"
"I don't know that either. We were just walking when we heard shots. My family has been in this crap for a few weeks after my mom died. My older brother's found out that my mom was killed on purpose. They've been trying to find out who killed her ever since. I guess word got out. There were so many people at the house. I felt like I was in a war movie."
Skylar put his arm around her shoulder. "You're brother is going to be ok." He replied.
"I feel bad that you are coming with me to see how my brother is doing when you just lost yours."
"I don't think I can be alone right now. Plus, you might need someone by your side." He smiled at her.
"Thank you." She whispered.
"Come on, I'll drive." Elijah replied softly holding the door to the passenger side open. Bryant got in first letting Skylar have the front. Elijah stopped him. "You are a good man Skylar Grant. Your brother would be proud." Skylar gave a weak smile before wrapping his arms around Elijah, slapping him on the back.
"I love you man." Skylar replied.
Bryant smiled as she leaned back against the seat and closed her eyes. This was going to be a long week, she could tell already.
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