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Chapter 7: Please Don't Leave Me

Previously on 'A Chance At Tomorrow'

"Aww," he grinned "how sweet" he picked up his rifle. "now I think I've waited long enough. You have one choice. Either lead me to the drugs or I'll kill each of you starting with her." He pointed at Jess.

Don protectively wrapped his arms around Jess "Yea, when hell freezes over"

Then the whole team spoke up

"You'll have to get through us first"

"No way is that happening"

"In your dreams"

"Shut up"

"Not while I'm alive"

"Leave us alone"

"When pigs fly"

Right then shots started firing through the window. Shattered glass rained down on them as all the hostages ducked. Don leaned over Jess but Tyson had managed of a shot before he was killed by a bullet to the head. It had struck her in the chest.

Horrified Don cried out her name as he put his hands over the bullet hole and tried to stem the blood flow. Time seemed to go in slow motion following that action. He remembers the paramedics coming in, her being stabilized, hearing the sound of the paramedics say that she had no pulse, listening to her be shocked back to life and climbing into the back of the ambulance.

In the back of the ambulance time seemed to move in regular intervals again as the paramedics connected her to a drip full of clear solution, put layers of gauze on her chest. The only thing Don could focus on was the rise and fall of her chest as the red blood seeped through the layers of gauze placed on her chest.

As they rode through the busy streets of New York at night, Detective Don Flack only concentrated on the cold hand he clutched of his partner Detective Jessica Angell. As out on the street couples fought, people died of senseless crimes committed, people cried at the same time as couples got engaged, married, a baby is born to a proud set of parents and people smiled. He started talking to Jess as he heard the beeping noise of the heart monitor connected to her.

"You are really something Jess. Only you could have the power of making me the happiest man alive or shattering my heart into million pieces. Only you could make me smile on the day that the rain is falling hard and we would just get word that most officers are out sick and we have to stand out in the rain clearing up a crash, only you would make me forget all my worries and you are the only woman that I feel like kissing senseless whenever I see. You mean so many things to so many people and I don't think any of us would bear losing you, at least I know I couldn't. Please Jess you have to come back. Come back to this world, come back to the team, come back to continue serving justice, come back to me so that I can continue loving you." He finished his speech just as they got to the hospital. Just as tears made their way down his face.

The paramedics' eyes were suspiciously misty as they took her into the ER after hearing his heartfelt confession.

He saw them take her into surgery as he slid down the tiled wall of the waiting room and started praying that the Almighty would give her back to him.

K, I KNOW THAT THIS CHAPTER WAS RATHER SHORT AND I HEARTFULLY APOLOGIZE FOR IT. AND YES THE RESCUE OPERATION BIT WAS ULTRA SHORT, APOLOPGIZES FOR THAT TOO. READ AND REVIEW AS ALWAYS.