It was two in the morning and the halls of Pine Valley Hospital were eerily quiet. Every so often a nurse would walk down the halls to check on a patient.

Inside the waiting room family and friends fought sleep but many had lost that battle. Every time the sound of shoes echoed past the room someone's eyes would spring open in anticipation only to watch a nurse walk past them.

Jesse, Brot, Natalia, and Adam walked down the halls towards the waiting room.

Before they entered Adam stopped Jesse, "Do you think now's a good time to tell everyone? Maybe we should wait until there's been more news."

Jesse put his hand on his shoulder, "Yeah, Adam wait till morning. No need to add more stress to these people."

The two men walked into the waiting room and stood watching everyone sleeping. Krystal had heard the footsteps and noticed that they had stopped at the entrance. Her eyes slowly opened and she noticed Jesse and Adam standing there watching everyone. She noticed the somber look on their faces.

"Adam," she sat up, "Is everything ok? Has there been news?"

"We haven't heard anything yet Krystal. Try and get some sleep." Adam hoped the guilt on his face wasn't showing.

Krystal looked at him and noticed there was something somber in his eyes, "No! No, something's wrong isn't Adam. You need to tell me is something wrong with my Marissa?" Krystal's voice rose with each syllable.

As Krystal's voice became frantic the people all round her started to stir. They noticed Krystal standing in front of Adam begging for information. Everyone began asking Adam and Jesse questions all at once.

Jesse took control of the situation and tried to calm everyone down. "Hey! There hasn't been any news about Greenlee, Brooke, or Marissa but there has been some developments in the case."

Tad looked at Jesse, "Do you know who shot everyone Jesse?"

"We have theory as to what happened. A very strong theory."

Jackson stood up, "Who did this Jesse?"

"There's a lot more that went on tonight then just the shooting. There were some events that no one knew about that are a direct result of the shooting." Jesse sat down and asked everyone else to do the same.

Jesse really wasn't sure where to begin and just started with what he knew, "Sometime between 8 and 9 tonight someone broke into the Slater home and kidnapped AJ Chandler."

Once again the room irrupted. People were screaming at Jesse, how could he keep that from them. Where was AJ now? Who took AJ? Questions were flying all over the place.

Jesse paused before starting again, "Please let me tell you everything I know and then I promise I'll answer all your questions."

They all sat back and listened as Jesse told them everything.

"As you all know the shooting started around 9:30 last night and only lasted thirty seconds. The shooter emptied what we're guessing is a ten shot revolver. Before the fled the scene they dropped the empty shell casings onto the tunnel floors. About 9:45 a black Escalade was driving towards town going in speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour. There's a blind turn about a mile and a half from the mansion. The driver of the SUV never slowed down in the turn and lost control of the vehicle and flipped the car causing a five car pile-up. Which is why the EMT's took so long responding to the shooting. The Escalade is registered to Adam Chandler Jr."

Jesse paused as he watched the shock on their faces. He then continued, "Both JR and AJ were in the car. Both were injured in the accident and are here at PVH. I sent Brot and Natalia to investigate the scene of the accident after I learned that AJ and JR were also here. They found a revolver in the SUV and it's at the lab now being tested along with the shell casing we found at the scene and I have a warrant for any bullets that they remove from the victims. We believe that JR told Tad and Dixie he was leaving town but instead he took AJ from the Slater home. After getting AJ he returned to the mansion. We don't know if he went there with the intent on killing anyone or not either way we'll know within the next few days if the gun in JR's car is the same gun that was used in at the Chandler Mansion."

For a moment everyone sat in shock. Bianca asked how AJ was.

"Both JR and AJ are in stable condition. Both suffered broken bones and internal bleeding that the doctors were able to repair. AJ is in the pediatric ICU just so he can be monitored closely and we've moved JR into the prison ward."

Erica, who had been fairly silent sense the shooting stood up and walked towards Adam. She slapped him and started punching him in his chest, "People were shot because of your son? Because you abandoned him. I almost got shot Adam. Jackson's daughter could die. My daughter could lose the woman she loves. I can't stand Brooke but I don't want her dead. My other daughter was shot and your nephew could have been seriously injured because your drunk of a son!" she pounded on his chest over and over again.

Jack grabbed her off of him and held her close to his own chest. "Erica stop. It's not Adam's fault."

The tears streamed down her face. She had sat there consumed in her own guilt thinking that the person that had shot all these people were after her not that JR Chandler had shot everyone because of his anger at Marissa.

"I'm so so sorry everyone. I'm sorry that JR did this" Adam collapsed down into the nearest chair laying his head into his hands sobbing at all the damage his family had caused.

Once again they were interrupted with the sounds of someone walking down the halls. They all held their breath as Joe walked in the room. He walked over to Bianca and Krystal.

"Would you like to go somewhere a little more private and talk" he wasn't sure if they would want to find out infront of everyone else or needed time to process everything before seeing everyone else.

Krystal shook her head worried about what the older doctor was going to tell them, "No, Joe just tell us here."

Joe motioned for them to sit down as he pulled a chair next to them. Krystal and Bianca held each other's hands tightly afraid of what was to come.

"As you know the bullet hit Marissa in the abdomen. The bullet missed all her major organs but did cause an extensive amount of internal bleeding. We got her into the OR and worked fast to stop the bleeding. We had to push 4 Units of blood into her to offset the blood she lost. As we thought everything was under control we started to close her up when her heart rate and blood pressure plummeted. Her heart stopped."

Krystal gasped throwing her hand over her mouth not wanting to hear what was coming next.

"We worked fast to try and restart her heart. We shocked her multiple times. Just when we thought she was gone something brought her back. Her heart and blood rate are normal. Maria's got her in recovery now."

Bianca looked up at Joe shocked not sure if she heard him right. She had braced herself for the worst possible news but she believed Joe had just said she was out of surgery and was in recovery.

"So she's going to be ok Joe?" praying she had heard him correctly.

Joe placed a tender hand on top of Bianca's, "She's not out of the woods yet. We're giving her antibiotics to ward off a infection but we have every reason to believe she'll be fine."

Krystal and Bianca embraced one another grateful to finally have some good news in this chaotic night.

They looked back at Joe as he got ready to leave, "When can we see her Joe?" Krystal asked.

"She'll be in recovery for a few hours then we'll move her into her own room you can see her then."

They both thanked him as he left the room.

Joe walked down the halls towards the elevators to head back up stairs but was stopped by a man's hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see Jackson behind him.

"Joe what about my daughter?"

"Jack I'm sorry there's been no news."