Hello, I'm so glad I got all the reaction from last chapter, this story if getting a lot of feedback I love it. Thanks for following this one the whole time, here is the next chapter. Are you ready to find out what is going on? let's go and as always Read and Review ~LNR~
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Jules Finlay heard the gunshots echo through the large building as she, Ecklie and the three officer's made their ways up to the fifth floor, and the whole way up she grew more and more sick thinking about all the danger that everyone was in and how they weren't together. They finally reached the fifth floor and with the help of Ecklie, they pried the door open and hoisted themselves in.
"There have to be at least fifteen rooms in here," Finn whispered, Ecklie began to walk but Finn quickly grabbed his shirt and yanked him back.
"We have to go look for them!" Conrad's voice was slightly elevated and it cause Finn to shoot him a glare.
"I know why do you think we are here, but first we need to be quiet and second we need to search with each other, we don't know if there are any men here." She said in a scolding whisper, Ecklie relaxed a little and stood next to her as they walked down the corridor. Each room they burst into they checked thoroughly but found that the ones they looked for where not there and they were running out of rooms.
"Maybe they are on the sixth," Finn said to a discouraged Ecklie, he looked to her a nodded, They started to make their way to the elevator when they hit a problem.
"Hey!" someone yelled from behind them, They turned to see two large men with guns, Ecklie and Jules pointed their weapons at them ready for a fight.
"LVPD, Drop Your Weapons!" Ecklie yelled to them but the men just stood and smiled aiming their guns prepared to shoot. With her finger pressed on the trigger Finn aimed and prepared but her and Ecklie didn't have the chance before two shots went off and the men dropped, behind them stood the three officers.
"Wow, perfect timing," Ecklie said with a smile.
"Yeah thanks." Finn added, the officer's nodded and gestured to the elevator doors.
"I think that the shots fire will give the other guys, our location we may want to move quick." the one man, Officer Deis said.
"Good thinking, lets go."
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They all heard it from below, it was the voice of Conrad Ecklie, identifying himself. Morgan's heart almost leapt out of her chest with excitement, they had come for them and were almost there but then the gunshots went off and her hopes as well as her heart shattered. Sara looked at her and gripped her hand and squeezed as tears fell down a terror stricken Morgan.
"I'm sure that was them shooting Frank's Men," Sara said in a hushed whisper, Morgan nodded and wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and with the other she returned the hand squeeze and gently smile. Katherine hugged both off them close with fear of her own and mostly on the man who's head laid on her lap, he was alive she could tell, though it was a warm night he shivered slightly but beads of sweat dripped down his face, his breathing was slowing and he was losing color.
"We have to get out of here," Sara whispered as she looked at Greg, he looked so small, and it killed her she wasn't going to just sit there, she staggered up and moved to the door.
"Sara what are you doing, come back here," Morgan said in a small yell. Sara turned back to the group and looked at them all.
"We can't just sit here anymore, he isn't going to make it, I have to get help." Morgan got up and moved to her.
"Sara you are injured, go sit, I'll do it."
"No Morgan, stay with him."
"I want to but you're right the only way to help him is to find a way out, you are hurt and no offense but if one of the guys catches you, you can't run so go sit with Katherine and Greg, keep him alive, I'll be back." Sara nodded not wanting to go back but Morgan seemed determined.
"Be careful, and here take my gun," Sara handed Morgan her weapon and returned to her spot next to Katherine.
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Morgan crept down the hall carefully, not to disturb anything or cause any commotion. She had made her way to the door and found that the Men still guarded it, it was a frustrating feeling, she felt so hopeless as she thought about how Greg was dying, how Nick was probably dead on the roof and her Father maybe injured downstairs it all hit her at once. She collapsed to the floor and began to silently sob, that is until a hand touched her shoulder and she quickly spun around aiming Sara's gun at the person only to be overcome with joy.
"Dad!" she fell into him giving him a tight embrace, crying into his shoulder.
"Thank God you are alright," he said with a sigh of relief.
"Morgan is it just you?" Finn asked, Morgan shook her head and signaled for them to follow, the walked the twisted hallway to the far right room.
"Sara, Katherine" She said to the women who looked down at Greg.
"Finn, Ecklie is that you?" Sara asked in excitement.
"Yeah, we came to get you but this place is riddled with bad guys, the swat team has got to be here right now making their way up. " Finn said as she kneeled next to Greg.
"He is alive but he won't be for much longer if we don't get him out," Katherine said.
"Well then let's go!" Ecklie said.
"We can't the door is blocked."
"We can use the elevator shaft that's how we got up here."
"I can't leave, not without Nick." Sara said, it was then that Finn and Ecklie realized the man wasn't there.
"Were is he?"
"The roof, he led the mob of guys away from us so that we could hide but there was some shots up there but then I heard nothing, I need to go help him!" She tried to stand only to be knocked down by the pain from her wound. The group of people looked to her with sympathetic looks and Katherine moved to her and helped her up.
"Sara, we need to get you to a hospital," Katherine but Sara stopped her.
"NO! I will not be told what to do anymore, maybe you have given up on Nick but I haven't!"
"Sara, none of us have given up on him but you're hurt and you are in no shape to go up and fight the men." Sara broke down again and hugged the older woman as she thought of Nick again and the horrible predicament that he was in.
"Sara, I'll go to look for him," Finn said.
"No then you will be at risk, I won't let you go alone."
"She won't," a voice behind them startled them, in the mist of their personal chaos they missed the chaos going on outside in the stairwell.
"Russell, thank god you made it here!" Katherine said patting him on the back, he smiled at the retired CSI then turned to Sara.
"I'll go with her, look for Nick and bring him down but for now the Stair case is clear, go now, you can save Greg, and get checked out, we will get him, I promise." Sara thought for a moment, she knew that D.B. and Finn would put up a fight and right now she just wanted Nick safe and also to get Greg down to the Hospital before it was too late. "Alright," she finally agreed looking with sad eyes hoping that somehow Nick was still alive.
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The Flashing lights lit the night sky as Morgan, Sara, Katherine and Greg exited the horror filled house. Ten cops raced to them, guns drawn before Katherine identified them and three paramedics rushed to them. One took Sara walking her to the nearest ambulance and sitting her on the gurney, the other too slowly laid Greg down and began to asses him. Morgan help to his hand as the placed a breathing mask over his face and began to read his pulse.
"BP 90/60, we need to get him to the hospital stat!" the paramedics worked him onto a gurney and ran him to the ambulance.
"Please can, I go?" Morgan begged, the Paramedic thought for a moment before ushering her in.
"We will meet you at the hospital," Katherine yelled to her as they closed the doors and sped away. She turned to Sara who had just finished getting her once over.
"So?"
"She will be fine, it's a flesh wound, we should go to the hospital." The female paramedic said as she wrapped the wound with gauze.
"I want to wait," Sara said with pleading eyes, Katherine looked to the paramedic who gave her the okay.
"fine but only for a few minutes then we can get you to the hospital," Sara eagerly nodded she turned her attention towards the door waiting hoping that Nick would walk out of it.
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Finn and Russell burst through the door to the roof, it was large with many obstacles, almost immediately the gunshots fired by two large italian men across the way. DB pulled Finn behind a vent for cover before turning back and firing two rounds back.
"Tricky," she said as she switched with him as he ducked for cover and she fired nailing the one guy in the chest.
"Nice!" they again switch but this time she scanned the area and found a pair of legs sticking out, Finn elbowed Russell in his ribs.
"Hey recognize those shoes?" Russell nodded and quickly they got up and ran.
"Nick," Finn was so happy to see the man wide awake but less pleased by the blood flowing from his shoudler.
"Hey Finn, D.B., so glad you finally got here." He said with a smile thought through gritted teeth Finn could tell that he was just acting.
"Go Nick how do you get into these positions?" He shrugged his shoulders instantly regretting it.
"Okay so here is my plan," Russell began after he emptied another clip. Finn and Nick looked at him full attention.
"There has to be at least five people left, I think we can take them, with two… and a half," he said eyeing Nick.
"Haha funny D.B., remind me to crack the jokes when you get shot."
"Well let's get it going, I know Sara has refused to go to the hospital without you." Nick smiled at the thought of Sara and instantly he caught his second wind.
"Lets go!"
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Morgan was a mess, tears flowed like a waterfall down her face as she sniffled and hyperventilated. She squeezed Greg's hand as the paramedic named Ross pumped on his chest. She stifled in her jagged short breaths as she tried to compose herself but with Greg in asystole , the compressions had only been happening for a minute but to her it felt like forever.
"Tyler, how long, he needs to be there like ten minutes ago!" Ross yelled to the driver.
"A minute out, get him stable!" Tyler yelled back. Ross looked to the monitor then to Morgan.
"Morgan, Right?" she nodded, she shook with fear.
"Okay listen I have to get epinephrine, I need you to do compressions," Morgan was in shock, she couldn't register what Ross had just asked her to do, she looked to Greg again, his face so pale.
"Hey!," He snapped her out of her panic state and got her attention again.
"Can you do that for me?" She nodded and sniffed again.
"O..o..okay," she said in short bursts releasing Greg's hand she placed hers on his chest and began to pump like Ross had. He got out a syringe and plunged it into Greg, then resumed the compression, the ambulance screeched to a halt and then everything happened at lightning speed. One minute she was in the back of the bus then she was following right beside Greg holding his hand, a doctor had climbed on the gurney and took over the compressions. As soon as they hit doors they forced her to let go and she was in the same spot she was in when this all began, with Greg in Danger and her left to wonder if he was going to make it.
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Yayyy another chapter, please don't think of me as lazy I think this wasn't as action packed but it's like 1:30 in the morning and I've been up since 7 yesterday morning. I hope you are enjoying this story, I have loved the comments and I hope this chapter has left you like morning, wondering if Greg will make it, or Nick, Jules, and D.B. make it. As always Read and Review ~LNR~