Chapter 16: Too Long to Wait

One year later

"Jacob, has Ronald said anything about who's behind this? It's been a year now and I've gotten very tired of all this waiting." Alex said walking up to Jacob.

"Ronald refuses to say a word about anything except that he is waiting for it. I don't know what it is, but believe, he isn't going anywhere." Just then Miss Hanson came running over the two. "Miss Hanson, has he said anything?"

"He just received a call and then a picture of someone came on screen." The three rushed over to the big screen just outside the room that Ronald is in.

Alex looked up and then found Evilini in a room with Justin being held by Evilini and his family in chains. Then she heard Justin start screaming as he struggled to get free. "Alex, please help me, I need you." Justin was then thrown to the ground and Evilini spoke. "If you want your brother back alive Alex, come get him." The screen then went black.

"We'll look up the location of Evilini; you need to go find her." Jacob said sending Miss Hanson off to get on it.

"More important, I need to find my brother." Alex turned and started to turn and leave.

"Why would you want to help him, he doesn't very well like you, I would have thought you could care less about him?" Jacob asked.

Alex turned around angrily but not because of Jacob's question. "I'm angry with him but I don't want my brother hurt. He still is my brother after all and he apparently has a child now, in case you didn't notice. As much as I dislike both him and Gigi, I can't let their child go without a father despite how I feel about Justin." Alex then turned to leave but stopped when she heard Jacob speaking.

"You're a great person Alex; you've earned a lot of respect you know that right." Alex simply turned her head around and smiled and then turned her head back around and left in a hurry. "I wish I could have saved my brother, but I was too angry with him to I guess it doesn't matter right now." Jacob thought and then left to help Miss Hanson.

Alex rushed home and grabbed some things she would need. Then her parents came over to her. "Alex, what's the hurry, finally found out who is doing this?" Jerry asked.

"Yeah, it's Evilini and she captured Justin and his family. I need to go and get them back." Alex said getting some things together.

"I'm so proud of you Alex, helping your brother when he wouldn't help you." Theresa said giving Alex a hug and then Jerry joined in.

"Yeah, I still hate group hugs so if you could let me go?" Alex asked but got ignored. "Ok, ah what the heck." Alex said hugging back. They finally broke the hug and Alex continued to get her things together. "I'm ready for this whole thing to be over with." Alex said slowly putting some guns away and hated the thought of killing people again. A few tears slide down her face at the thought and then she went over and flipped some pillows off the couch angrily.

Jerry quickly went over to her daughter and wrapped his arms around her. "Alex, this is war. It's what happens, ok so it's not exactly a very big war but it's what happens anyway. Forget about killing people; think about your brother who needs you. Be there for him when he wouldn't be there for you." Jerry said bitterly toward Justin but it hadn't mattered what he said to him, Justin refused to help out Alex.

"I know, I'm the bigger person here but I just wish that everything would go back to normal." Alex sat down sadly. Soon Alex's phone beeped and so she picked it up. Alex looked and saw that Evilini is at an old warehouse. "Why do people always insist on going to warehouses to hide?" Alex asked standing up. "I'll be home soon, I love you both." Alex gave her parents another hug and then teleported to the warehouse. Alex went up to the front door and tried to push it open. It opened alright but very noisily. 'So much for the sneaky approach.' Alex thought walking in the room but no one is around. Alex snuck around but wasn't finding anyone but she didn't relax until she saw a big open area with Evilini standing in the middle.

"Come on Alex, come here." Evilini said noticing Alex creeping around. "So you finally made it here. I wondered how long it would take for you buddies to find out my location." Evilini said turning to face Alex.

"Ok Evilini, where is my brother?" Alex said walking over to Evilini.

"I let them go; I knew that you were on the way, so I had no reason to keep them here." Evilini replied to Alex's question with a smirk on her face.

"Whatever, I can't really say that I'm surprised but what why wasn't I attacked. That is something that I don't exactly understand. I'm glad that no one has had to die but I'm still confused. Did you just bring me here to talk or what?" Alex asked confused.

"What do you think were doing now but anyway, I'll be seeing you later, maybe." Evilini said and then disappeared behind some boxes.

"Evilini wait!" Alex yelled out but Evilini wouldn't. "Well this was a big waist of time." Alex turned to leave when gates came down around the opened up space. Alex quickly found some boxes that gave cover to all but one side and got behind those. 'Well played Evilini.' Alex thought keeping an eye on the open spot and then pulled out a machine gun. Alex then saw five people walk out and quickly killed each of them before getting back into cover. Bullets went flying over her head from all directions. "I've got one option here. Alex lifted her gun and blind fired off in the direction that the bullets are coming from. Alex heard four screams before she had to reload her gun. 'I really need to not miss so much.' Alex thought before going back to blind firing. After a while she felt a sharp pain in her hand and retracted it back toward her. Her hand had been shot and is now bleeding. Alex said a small spell to help the pain in her hand reduce. Soon Alex was shooting again and a few more bullets managed to hit her hand before she killed off everyone. 'Blind fire is a horrible way to go. I used up a whole stash of ammo before killing everyone. I should have had six hundred bullets instead of five hundred.' Alex had to laugh at herself for a second. 'My hand got shot multiple times and I'm complaining about almost running out of ammo.' Alex could then hear claps coming from somewhere.

"Very good Alex Russo, I'm very impressed but it appears that you didn't come out completely unharmed. You're hand seems to be in pretty bad shape right now. Anyway, you may want to go see your brother, he is going to want to see you and I'm sure that you want to see how he is doing." Evilini then left happily.

"She is right; I need to check up on my brother. After all, he is my brother and no matter what happens, I love him." Alex said rushing back home. 'I should probably take Evilini in but I can do that later.' Alex thought.

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