Author's Notes: As always thank you for all the reviews. Thanks to the reader that let me in that Steve's last name was Morgan. I hope giving him the last name Harris didn't ruin it for you. Ok, so this one has a cliff hanger you will all kill me for. Sorry I don't mean to do that, it is just how it works sometimes. Anyway I am thinking one last chapter left, maybe 2. But good news…..or maybe not, debating on doing a sequel to this. Ha ha….I'm totally tempted to write my version of Season 6 had there been one. Hope you enjoy!

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CHAPTER 7

It was as if she woke up from a trance like state, after she remotely detonated the bomb she had strapped onto Steve Harris in order to prevent him from disclosing more information to the police. She was determined to get to the abandoned area of the lake with or without Steve, who at one point was critical to her plan in helping deliver the Braddock baby she desperately wanted to claim as hers.

Nothing was going to get in her way. She had dreamt and strategized for months and had prepared all the utensils and equipment she would require to force the premature delivery of the baby from Jules. She believed after all the baby should have belonged to her and Sam to begin with, if Jules hadn't come along to wreck everything. "My baby…" Cindy Larson mumbled to herself as she pulled the car over onto a dirt road, near the area she would perform her ambush on Jules.

"Oh, think Cindy….think" She continued to ramble to herself, as she stepped out of the parked vehicle and nervously began pacing back and forth with the revolver in her hand.

"He's gone…..He's gone. But I can do this. I can deliver my baby." She muttered as she rapidly took multiple deep breaths in and out, clearly feeling distraught over the fact she had not really taken into account they would be able to find her so quickly although she had planned for it.

Everything had gone according to plan up until this point. She manipulated her relationship with Steve Harris just like another chess piece on the board, carefully calculating all the moves. She had gone on a few dates with him knowing he was still on the rebound from Jules which she couldn't understand and made her despise Jules even more. Her original plan was to get him drunk enough and force him to perform the cesarean section. Granted she wanted to do this closer to Jules due date but didn't expect her to go on bed rest at six months.

After several days of contemplating what she should do, she decided it was best to take Jules now knowing the further along she got the more Sam Braddock would hover over her, making it harder to get her alone.

It seemed all so easy Cindy thought to herself. She invited Steve over for dinner the night before and deceived him into believing it was a dinner to discuss moving their relationship to the next level. "That sucker, men are all the same except for my Sam" She quietly thought to herself as she continued to try and calm her anxiety.

Drugging and getting the bomb on Steve was the easy part, especially when you had enough money to hire some random thug off the street to help you for a small fee and some sex. But never in her imagination did she think they would ever find her.

"ARG! ARG!" Cindy screamed in frustration breathing heavily as she clenched her hand around the handle of the revolver. "I just want my baby!

"She sounds distraught and agitated" Jules whispered to Team One, as she quietly listened to Cindy rambling, while also trying to gage her location around the car by listening to the sound of her footsteps.

"She sounds irrational and starting to split" Jules continued on with her assessment for Team One, knowing they were treading on dangerous waters as Cindy began splitting blaming her verbally for everything that has gone on in her life.

"Come on guys, come on! Come on!" Sam loudly expressed his distress after hearing the fear in Jules last statement, as he gunned the gas pedal on the SRU truck wanting to desperately be in a closer proximity of taking Cindy down before she had an opportunity to confront Jules.

"Right there! Right there!" Ed Lane yelled as a rush of adrenaline began pumping through his veins as he spots the subject and the vehicle through his binoculars. "She's already by the trunk."

"Leah if she is anywhere near Jules I need you to switch to less lethal" Ed instructs Leah who was approaching the vehicle from the east side of the lake and would reach the car before him or Sam would.

"Copy that Ed" Leah responded a little nervous about Jules life being left in her hands momentarily.

"Boss, I wasn't getting anywhere with the military trying to reach Randy Caldwell's widow" Winnie dispatched to the Team as she continued to frantically do more research for them.

"But I did get a hold of Sam's father he pointed me to Cindy's sister boss, I have her on the line now." She offered knowing it was at least a good lead to help them understand Cindy. "I'm patching her through to you now Boss."

"Sam, are you up for intervention?" Greg Parker asked concerned Sam would not be able to think clearly when Jules was concerned. It didn't matter they had proven numerous times they would still be able to uphold the priority life code. Things were much different now and all of them knew it.

"Boss that is my pregnant wife in there!" Sam informed them without hesitation. "If I'm the whole reason this is happening, then it needs to be me."

"Copy that Sam" Greg sighed knowing he didn't have much of a leg to stand on. If it was his kid or even his girlfriend he knew he would make the same choice as Sam and with that resonating thought he then took the call from Cindy Larson's sister.

In the meantime a few meters up a head of them, Jules carefully used the trunk release cable and allowed the trunk door to open only allowing it to open by a small crack so as not to alert Cindy, but grant her enough visibility to see what was happening from outside the trunk. She assessed quickly that her aggressor was flustered and more than likely crazed. But she also came to terms with her realization she was way too pregnant with one recovering leg to contend with from the bombings three months ago, to even attempt to try and get out of the trunk on her own.

Jules contemplated at first, but then decided she was going to have to take her chances and hope to god Cindy would not fire abruptly at her and murder her right then and then there.

Out of the two scenarios her decision to remain in the trunk and allow Cindy to remove her from the trunk of the car gave her the most resolve. She would be able to protect herself and her unborn child with the wrench she hid underneath one of the pockets of her maternity clothes once she was out of the trunk and standing on her own two feet, she hoped. "If I make it out of this, I'm never bitching about the overabundance of pockets in maternity clothes again" Jules thought quietly, trying to make one last sassy comment.

Her heart continued to race, although she could hear the sounds of the sirens approaching and made one last attempt to tell Sam she loved him.

"She's coming…we both love you Sam." Jules whispered under her breath knowing Sam and the rest of the team could still hear her through her cell, as she watched the trunk door immediately lifting open. All Jules could feel were several strands of her hair being yanked practically out of her hair as Cindy forcefully dragged her out of the trunk almost slamming her to the ground outside of the car.

"GET OUT BITCH!" an extremely irate Cindy squealed as she persisted to snatch more of Jules hair on one hand while holding a loaded revolver her hand. "This is all your fault! You know that?"

"Aaahhh" Jules whaled at the onset of another premature contraction which made the pain of her hair being pulled practically out of her head seem less painful.

"Cindy please it's over look." Jules responded pointing to several SRU trucks with their siren on coming towards them at all angles. "It's over so let's just put the gun down and let's talk this out ok?"

As Jules looked the barrel of the gun in her face, she feared it would be her last breath but took an unnoticeable sigh of relief as she saw one of the SRU trucks from the corner of her eye only a few feet away from them and rapidly approaching even closer.

But not wasting any time, Jules took advantage of Cindy being distracted and swung the metal wrench across her face and then proceeding to grab her arm trying to dislodge the weapon which caused Cindy to fire the gun, luckily up in the air and not towards her.

As Cindy and Jules continued to struggle, the premature contractions triggering a sharp pain in Jules lower abdomen made her attempts instantly fruitless, and she once again found herself in a position where she looked the barrel of a smoking gun straight in the eyes.

"Move away from the girl now!" Greg Parker announced as he struggled to exit the SRU truck frustrated by his recovering injuries clearly making it more difficult too.

"I don't have the shot" Leah mumbled in concern, as she switched to less lethal. "If I take her out and that gun goes off it could hit Jules".

"No solution" Spike also followed up trying to cover Greg searching desperately to find angle also to try and take Cindy down but also frustrated he was unsuccessful.

From the other side Sam Braddock and Ed Lane finally approached and stepped out of their truck. Ed having his hands steady on the trigger of his remmy already slowing his breath down preparing for Greg to call out "Scorpio".

"Look at me Cindy" Sam interrupted sounding calmly having both of his both of his hands midway in the air, to show surrender to the subject and to get Cindy to turn her focus away from Greg and definitely away from Jules who was fighting trying not to crouch over from the pain.

"WHY IS EVERYONE SO CONCERNED AND ALWAYS FOCUSED ON HER?!" Cindy screamed in a fit of rage directing her weapon towards Jules, to where no one on team one could still get a good angle to call out they had a solution to take her down without risking Jules and her unborn child's safety.

It was at that moment Greg began relaying to Sam all the information he had obtained from Cindy's younger sister Kelly who disclosed the pressure their well to do parents had put on Cindy over the years to get married and to have children. The pressure mostly coming from their mother which ensued a lot paranoia in Cindy, resulting in her thinking the reason relationships never worked out for her was because she could no longer bare children due to an abortion she had in her early teenage years.

"Please Sergeant Parker; bring her back to me safely" Kelly Larson McCoy cried out as she continued to explain to Greg her sister's mental anguish. "15 years ago she made a mistake, a wrong choice and had an abortion that went wrong; our mother has been making her pay for that choice all her life".

"She's my only sister. I know she needs help but please, please she deserves a second chance. Please let her come home" Cindy's sister Kelly wept.

"Just try to get her to yellow Sam" Greg asked attempting to guide Sam with the negotiation.

"Eddie, we need a solution" Greg also demanded of his sniper.

"Jules and the baby don't look like they have much time" He cried out tormented over the sight of the pregnant Jules clearly in distress and about to go into premature labor if someone doesn't get to her soon.

"Copy that boss" Ed softly muttered as he focused on his target "Sam, I have it but you need to distract her and get that weapon pointing elsewhere. Jules is in the line of fire."

A few seconds later the sound of Ed releasing a shot was heard all around them, as Sam laid over covering Jules attempting to protect her from a second shot Cindy was able to fire from her weapon.

TBC