Chapter 33

She couldn't believe this was happening again. How much more could her body take with all the drugs he had injected into her system, she remembered Patrick telling her that they would wear off, but would they wear off in time for her to escape. The last thing she saw before the elevator doors close was Jason running frantically in the room. Her heart skipped a beat thinking about how Jason looked so worried. She knew that he would tear this hospital upside down until he found her. But would he be safe from Aidan. She couldn't take the chance of Aidan hurting him, she had to fight her own battle this time. She had to find a way to get free, she just needed to move. Looking at Aidan, she could see that he could barely hold himself up, using the elevator wall and rail as a support. He had his eyes closed as they descended to the main floor. She needed to gage the amount of drugs that he had given her this time, he said he used a muscle relaxer but how much. She could still move all her extremities, but she felt very slow and lethargic. Bending over, she used her right hand to tug the mask down and pull the towel from her mouth. Swallowing a few times to relieve the dryness, she carefully looked up to see that he still had his eyes closed. Knowing she only had few precious seconds, she quietly tugged the Velcro with her teeth and pushed the end of the strap to her hand so that she could tug on it slowly bit by bit. She just needed to distract him. "Aidan… listen to me. What… whatever you p-plan on doing isn't go-going to work…" She tried to talk through the dizziness that overtook her as she sat back up.

Aidan's eyes snapped open, aimed right at her. "Samantha… please sweetheart you must keep your mask on." He was tired, he just needed a minute to rest and then he would get them out of this damn hospital so that they could finally start their life together. Without Morgan.

As he made a move towards her, she pulled her head back and gave him her tear filled eyes, using her best pleading voice. "Please, don't put it back on, I… I can't breathe… Please Aidan, don't hurt me…" She knew sympathy was the best way to go at this point, she just needed to play him long enough to make sure that he body was functioning to full capacity so that she can get away from him. "Don't hurt me." She whispered pleadingly.

She knew she had him when he reared back as if she slapped him. He looked at her with wide eyes. "How… how can you think that I would ever hurt you…" Aidan whispered imploringly. "Samantha, I would never do anything to hurt you, I love you."

Sam did her best to not roll her eyes, didn't he realize that he had been hurting her since she met him? After everything he has done to her and to Jason. "Then please don't gag me. I'll go with you, just don't…"

Coming undone by the tears falling freely down her cheeks, Aidan hobbled towards her. Gently cradling her cheeks as if she was the finest china, Adian felt as if his heart was being ripped out of his chest by her pleading. "Oh my sweet Samantha, if you promise not to scream… I won't put the mask on." He gently brushed the tears from her cheeks. "Don't cry love, we will be together soon… shhh… I promise, we are almost free." He was in pain, a throbbing in his back and side, but none of that was going to stop him from kissing her.

It took all of her will to sit still as he lowered his head to kiss her, but Sam knew that if she could distract him long enough, she could tear the Velcro strap off her wrist. She just wished she could make enough noise to hide the sound from the straps from exposing her, she could get away quicker. But before his lips touched hers, the elevator doors opened for the main floor revealing her cousin and her mother standing there staring them with wide eyes.

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Taking the stairs down two at a time, Jason was frantic to get down to the main floor to get to Sam. But first, he needed to make sure that Aidan Devane didn't leave this hospital alive. He might have understood Robin's need to help her family but at this point, he didn't give a shit. Sam was his number one priority and anyone else was going to be collateral damage. He had to get to her and he had to keep her safe by killing that bastard.

Reaching the door out of the stairwell, Jason turned to Anna Devane's men and security behind him. "Some of you follow me and secure all exits, the rest of you check the basement." Not waiting for a reply, Jason burst through the door. Almost knocking a nurse over in his haste, he ran towards the elevators right across the main hospital entrance. He could see Nikolas and Alexis waiting for the elevators, realizing in all the chaos, he forget to tell them about Aidan kidnapping Sam again. He could see the elevator doors opening and just before he could call out to them, a gunshot echoed through the halls. Seeing Nikolas protect Alexis, Jason ran right to the doors, and the last sight he saw before the doors closed was a sight that was going to haunt him forever: Sam and Aidan fighting for the gun.

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When Sam saw her family standing before her shocked with wide eyes, she was about to scream for help. And even though Aidan just had surgery hours ago, his Special Opps training gave him the strength and speed to turn around, draw his gun and aim it at her family. Recognizing that she could lose someone she loved, adrenaline flooded her blood stream to give the extra strength to rip the remaining restraint from her right wrist. "NOOOO!" Just as he was about to fire, Sam grabbed onto Aidan's wrist and pushed her body up with all her might. His arm raised high and the shot went over her family's head. The elevator doors closed. Aidan fought to try to disengage her from him, but she wouldn't let go. She was tired of being the victim, tired of waiting for people to rescue her, she wasn't weak and despite the muscle relaxer weakening her strength, she would fight and fight until she couldn't fight anymore.

"LET GO! Samantha let go!" Aidan tried to pull his arm free. Sam tripped over the wheel chair in their fight, and with her left hand still strapped to the armrest she used his body as leverage and jerked him down. The gun shot went off two more times, hitting the elevators buttons and causing the alarm to go off and the elevator shut down.

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"DAMN IT!" Jason hit the elevator doors as they closed. "SAMM!" He almost there, he almost had her and that son of bitch. Turning to make sure that Nikolas and Alexis were fine just as Sonny ran towards them, Jason stepped back to watch the number of floors light up to see where the elevator stopped.

"Was that Sam?" Alexis asked frantically at the same time Nikolas asked, "Jason! What the hell happened?"

Not looking away from the lit number 1, Jason answered. "Aidan got to Sam." He knew he should be hitting the stairs again to cut them off as soon as he saw the next number light up, but something kept him in place. Something was wrong. The elevator was taking too long to move.

"Again? How did he get to her again?" "I thought you had guards on her?" "Where is he taking my daughter?"

Jason was frozen in place, he knew something was definitely wrong. Why wasn't the elevator moving? What was happening in there? What was that bastard doing to Sam? His fists clenched just thinking about Sam fighting off that bastard. He stepped up to put his ears to the closed doors and tried to listen, he could here Aidan shouting and the fight he knew was happening but he couldn't hear Sam. Not able to hear over Alexis and Nikolas' questions, Jason turned to them with fire in his eyes. "SHUTUP!" As he was about to turn back, his heart stopped as he heard two more gunshots.

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She was tiring, she could feel her body prepare to quit but she wasn't ready to lose the fight. Using the last of her strength, Sam jerked Aidan towards her as she lifted herself and rammed her knee into his rib cage. Aidan grunted and went down, pulling her on top of him with the gun firmly lodged between them. She had managed to get her hand on the gun but she didn't have the best position to fight, especially with her left arm still strapped to the chair.

"I won't let you go Samantha…" Aidan grunted. The wound on his back was on fire and his body was giving out, but he wouldn't give up. "Don't you see, we belong together, I will never let you go." He managed to get out with clenched teeth. He didn't want to hurt her, but he would if she tried to escape him.

Fighting with everything she had, Sam was losing, she knew she was losing the fight. "SAAMM!" Her heart perked up hearing Jason through the doors. "Sam can you hear me?!" Yes, she could hear him but she didn't have the strength to answer. Even though she was fighting with one hand, she used her body as leverage to keep him pinned down. "SAM!" She wanted to yell that she was there, that she wasn't going to quit fighting, that she would fight for them. Raising her leg between them, Sam found the strength to knee him in the side.

Jerking from the pain, Aidan pulled the gun between them trying to free his arm. "You belong to me Samantha, always…"

Going with the gun as he jerked her, Sam got a better hold of the gun as she stared into his evil brown eyes. "I belong to Jason." She lurched back as Aidan screamed "NO!" Flipping them over, Sam's head hit the elevator wall with a painful thud just as the gun went off. Sam didn't have to time to process the pain as everything went black.

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As the last shot went off, there was utter and complete silence. Jason could only hear the drum of his heart beating like thunder in his ears. "Jason…" "SHH!" Jason hushed Sonny as he pushed his ear up against the doors. Time stood still, everyone stood still, nothing moved, everyone afraid to breathe. Jason was slowly dying inside not knowing what was happening to the woman he loved behind closed doors. Hearing nothing, Jason faced the hospital security guards. "Get me something to open these doors." Just as they were about to argue, Jason barked at them. "NOW!" Backing up, he tried to force his hands in between the doors to pry them open. He made room as he felt Nikolas come underneath him to do the same.

"What's going on? Oh God what's happening?"

Jason could hear the anxiety in Alexis' voice but he didn't have it in him to reassure her that Sam was fine. He needed someone to reassure him that she was. This couldn't be the end. This couldn't be it for them. She was his whole world, she completed him in every way and she was his necessity for breathing. Having almost lost her once, Jason knew the pain and devastation that her death would cause him. He strained with all his might to get the doors open, but as the seconds went by at hearing nothing but silence, Jason was truly scared.

"Jason, here." Handing the crowbar the maintenance man gave him off to Jason, Sonny stepped back and held on to Alexis. "Sam will be fine. She'll be fine."

Jason placed with bar between the door and threw all of his strength into it while Nikolas still tried to pry them open with his hands. In no time the doors were open and the sight before him froze him to his place. Sam, eyes closed, was lying on her back in a pool of blood with Aidan on top of her. "Sam." He breathed her name in a prayer.

Hearing Alexis scream her daughter's name, Jason and Nikolas unfroze and dove towards the two. As Nikolas pulled Aidan off of Sam, they could see the bullet had gone through his chest. They knew he was dead. As he looked down at the woman he loved, Jason's breath hitched at seeing the blood all over Sam's hospital gown. Her left arm was at an unnatural angle and she was deathly still. With great care, Jason carefully unstrapped her left arm but didn't let go as he knelt over her. "Sam." He softly called to her. "Sam? Can you hear me? Wake up baby, please Sam." He could feel her breathing, but she was still deathly still. Checking her over, Jason let out a breath. "It's not her blood." Realizing he was still speaking softly, he looked up to the crowd and spoke louder. "It's not her blood. Get a doctor." Being careful not to move her too much, Jason brought her hand to his lips and brushed the hair from her face. "Sam, baby, can you hear me?"

"Jason move out of the way." Patrick said as him and Robin pushed their way into the elevator. Ignoring Robin's cry over her fucked up cousin, Jason backed up a step to help Patrick lift Sam and carefully place her on the gurney. As they wheeled her out, Jason kept up pace as they ran her to the examination room. Staying by her head, he gently set her hand back down so that Patrick can exam her while he stepped back.

Just as he was about to exit the room so that the staff could work on her, Jason froze when he heard the sweetest sound. "Jason?" His name was softly whispered. Running back to Sam, Jason almost broke down when he saw her beautiful brown eyes lock onto him. "Is it over?" Her voice soft asked.

His only response. "Yeah baby, it's over." Kissing her softly on the lips, he whispered against them. "Yes Sam, it's finally over."