Paternal Bonds Shattered

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Chapter 16 (Saving the Williams Part 2)

Vincent tapped his foot anxiously while staring at the briefcase he placed next to his desk. His boss was droning on and he needed to figure out how the hell to diffuse this bomb. He was being spied on by a man in the building over, but the window didn't go the length of the wall. He knew he could work on the bomb out of sight. He just needed to somehow get this meeting over with. "So I think if we do this, we could boost productivity and-"

"Sir if I may interrupt," Vincent said politely. The man frowned and rubbed his shaggy beard. "It is 7:00, I get off at 11. I mean no disrespect, but I have to cut this meeting short."

"Why?" Vincent closed his eyes and slowly pointed at the briefcase. His boss frowned as he started to reach for it. Vincent quickly grabbed his wrist and looked away, he was beginning to break out into a sweat. "What are you up to, Mr. Williams?"

"We're being watched, Mr. Selano. Look on my desk." Mr. Selano frowned and eyed the desk. He spotted the note and read it carefully, swallowing hard. "It's set to go off at 11:00 sharp. I need to diffuse it before then. I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to do this."

"We have just roughly four hours then."

"Yes, exactly…I don't know if my family is alive right now, and if they are, I would really like to get home to them tonight in one piece."

"You can't call the cops?"

"No. And be sure to make no sudden movements As I said, we are being watched." Mr. Selano looked past the window and slowly nodded. He could actually help with the eagle watching them from the other building. He was close associates with the manager of the building over. "I believe he has a remote, and if anything goes wrong, he can press it. If he presses it, we die."

"Shit."

"My thoughts exactly, sir." Vincent's phone began to ring and he checked it. "Excuse me, I have to take this call." Mr. Selano nodded as Vincent answered the phone. "Michael, do you have any good news for me?"

"Yes, we got Vixen, she's safe." Vixen smiled and called out for Vincent. He smiled and a tear came to his eye. He was becoming greatly concerned for his own life, but at least it looked like his family was doing well enough.

"I'm happy. This paper says they're going to go after Victoria next. It's almost 7:30, she goes on a daily bike ride. I suspect that's when they're going to grab her." He knew her bike route by heart, because Victoria had always made sure to tell her family where she was. He explained her bike route to them and they nodded, they were determined to find her next.

"We'll find her Mr. Williams," Jonah said in a quiet voice. "Do you trust me with your family?"

"Save my family, and I'll always trust you. I know my daughter is pregnant, Mr. Brown…" Jonah paled as Vincent let out a small sigh. Just before she disappeared, she came to him with the news. He decided to let Valerie tell Jonah and they could come to him. Now, however, with this bomb, things were pressed to a life and death situation. "If you can save my daughters and my wife, I will believe that you can take care of Valerie and that child that she is going to have. I am willing to leave my family's life in your hands Jonah, please…save them." Jonah paused for a minute, his face filling with confidence, strength, and determination.

"I will not fail you, Mr. Williams. Thank you." Vincent hung up and sighed once more, he actually did have the confidence that Jonah and the others would save his family from destruction. He wasn't sure why, exactly, but he had faith in them. He had to, there was nothing else out there for him to have faith in right now. Vincent closed his eyes and sighed.

"Mr. Selano, can we pray?"

"Yeah, that would be a good idea." Vincent and his boss looked at each other and closed their eyes, each taking turn in prayer. This would make it appear they were conversing as well, to throw off the man spying on them.

Jonah followed the bike route given by Vincent and Vixen quickly pointed out Victoria. "There she is!" Vixen said abruptly. Jonah nodded and started to drive up to her, but something was wrong. There was a black car tailing Victoria already.

"Shit someone's already there, we have to stay back for now," Ryan said while narrowing his eyes. Henry pulled up next to them in his car and frowned as Victoria stopped to take a drink from a nearby water fountain. That's when the black car struck. Someone jumped out, grabbed her and threw her into the car.

"I see four people in the car! Let's go!" Michael shouted as the black car sped off. Jonah nodded and slammed on the gas. Henry quickly followed along with them. The people in the car hung out of their windows and started to open fire on them.

"Get down girls," Jonah said while narrowing his eyes angrily. "This is going to be a hell of a bumpy ride."

"Is Victoria going to be saved?" Vixen asked as she cuddled into Vanessa's arms.

"I guarantee it. Dad, Grandpa, get ready!"

"I was born ready!" Ryan shouted as he pointed his gun from the window. "I was a decent marksman in WW2, the Korean war and Vietnam!" Jonah smirked and accelerated a bit more.

"Good, then you take out their tires."

"No problem!"

"I want them to go into the grass! If anything, make them crash into a tree." Ryan nodded as Michael aimed his gun out the window. He would shoot at the people firing upon them. Jonah shouted and ducked as a bullet shot through the windshield. Vixen shouted out and Vanessa clutched her tightly. Ryan grunted as he opened his jacket, revealing the Kevlar vest. "Everyone okay back there?"

"A bit shaken, but just fine! It's time to show these bastards what for!"

"Give them hell Grandpa!" Jonah laughed as Ryan grinned happily and shot out the left rear tire. Ryan fired several shots, finally hitting the man in on the right side of the black car in the shoulder. The man shouted out and went inside the car. Jonah eyed Victoria's fearful face and growled, speeding up the car and rear-ending the black vehicle. "You are not to hurt Valerie's family, not on my watch."

"Vanessa, I'm scared," Vixen said as she covered her ears from the gunfire.

"I know sweetheart, I know," Vanessa said as she kissed the top of Vixen's head. Ryan closed one eye and fired another shot, blowing out the right rear tire of the car.

"They're driving almost on rails now," Ryan said quietly. Henry's car went ahead of them and he attempted a PIT maneuver, but the driver of the car successfully avoided him. "If Henry wouldn't get in my way…"

"No, now's your chance to take out the front tire, Dad!" Michael shouted. Ryan nodded and spotted the black car turning, having avoided the PIT maneuver. He fired three shots, two of which missed and one hit the front left tire. Michael fired another shot and disabled the other man in the backseat of the car. All in all, this chase was taking at least a good hour. It wasn't an easy task, but they were bound determined to not lose Victoria.

"Crap, Jonah look out!" Ryan shouted as he fired several shots at the car. Jonah quickly slammed the brakes and Vanessa cried out. The enemy car was driving right into a large body of water.

"Shit!" Jonah shouted out. Vixen gasped and Vanessa's eyes widened. Henry's car halted next to them as everybody exited the car.

"Oh my god she's underwater!" Vanessa exclaimed. Vixen shrieked and started to cry. Jonah narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists, the last thing he saw before the car submerged was Victoria banging on the windshield. "Victoria!"

"We've not lost yet. I'm not letting them win!" Jonah thought of Valerie and thought of how she'd react to Victoria's death. He thought of Victoria's face going under the water and quickly ran to the lake. Everyone gasped and Michael called out to him. Jonah held his breath and dove into the water, leaving everyone waiting anxiously for him.

He swam down to the car and found that all the windows except the driver's window had been rolled down. This was good, it made it easier for him. He needed to remain calm during this time. He looked up and then swam towards the back window. One man already looked dead, perhaps from blood loss or he just drowned. Jonah grabbed him and pulled him out of the left rear window, then released him. He could see Victoria struggling in a seatbelt, so he swam into the car and took out a knife. Victoria saw him and wrapped her arms around his neck as he cut through the seatbelt and pulled her from the car.

The driver was still alive. He reached around and grabbed Victoria's leg. She started to scream out, but it only released bubbles. Jonah growled and slashed at the driver's arm with his knife. The driver screamed in the water as Victoria's head fell against his back. Jonah placed the knife in his mouth and started swimming towards the surface. "Hang on Victoria, we're almost up."

All was silent, everything seemed frozen except for the fish passing by him. His arms were starting to burn, but he had to keep going. It seemed like an eternity, swimming up, but in reality it had not been very long at all. He finally surfaced and his ears exploded with noise all around him. He breathed out and started swimming towards the shore. The car was lost, as it kept sinking.

"They're out!" Vanessa shouted, tears in her eyes. Vixen had her face buried into Vanessa's dress, she was so afraid. She lifted her head and looked back, smiling when she saw Jonah. She frowned as soon as Jonah placed Victoria on the ground.

"What's wrong with her?" Vixen asked, fear rising in her voice. "Why isn't she moving!" Jonah quickly kneeled beside Victoria and held his hand out.

"Stay back." Jonah quickly began performing CPR, giving the needed chest compressions and life breaths. After a minute of doing this, Victoria finally coughed up the water. She slowly sat up and Henry brought over an emergency towel from his car and wrapped it around her. Jonah smiled subtly as he helped the shaky girl to her feet. Vixen and Vanessa breathed a sigh of relief and hurried over to Victoria, who was panting and currently very shocked and scared. Jonah turned to Henry and nodded. "Take her somewhere safe. I guess you know to monitor her and stuff…" Henry nodded as he took Victoria's hand and led her to his car. She would at least stay with him. There was no way they would let her out of their sights.

"Jonah, it's nine, we need to go get mom and Veronica!" Vanessa said quickly. Jonah nodded and everyone piled into the car. They hurried towards the Williams's residence and parked outside the house, there already seemed to be people there.

"I'm not going to let anything happen here either. Let's go guys…" Della and Amy pulled up next to them, along with a few officers they brought along. Currently this house was under risk of being held up by any number of criminals.

Inside the house, Veronica sat fearfully on the couch. She was surrounded by at least five men. These men, along with about three others had been exploring the house. She was scared, very scared, and she had been a little bit snippy with them. One of them actually hit her, so she didn't say anything after that. The five men in the living room decided it would be okay to go through other things.

Two men walked into the kitchen to make some food for themselves while one man walked into the master bedroom. He wanted to try on some of the suits that he found. The two men that remained in the living room stared at Veronica with smirks on their faces, they wondered how much more fear they could give her.

"Have you ever seen what it's like to look down a barrel of a gun?" One man asked quietly. Veronica tried to move her wrists, but they had tied her up. She wanted to know why they hadn't killed her yet and had just been walking around for the past thirty minutes. "It's like this." The man put the gun right in her face and her eyes widened. She froze as he cocked the gun. "Pow…right in between the eyes." He pulled the gun away and Veronica sighed with relief. Her heart was already beating faster than she'd ever felt.

"What do you want? Why are you here?" She asked with a low growl. "Why don't you leave!"

"Well you see sweetie, we're going to kill you. We're going to kill your mother, your father, and your sisters. Oh, and while we're at it, we're gassing this place. Starting with the basement…"

"You assholes! I hope you rot in hell!" The man sighed and smacked her in the head with the butt of his gun. She screamed out as a small trail of blood trickled to her eye. It wasn't anything more than a cut, but damn it hurt.

"Come on Ted, don't torture her too much," The other man said with a sigh. "We're going to kill her soon enough." Suddenly, bullets rang out and the windows shattered. Veronica screamed and bowed her head as Jonah kicked the door open. Michael and Ryan ran in with Della and Amy, all firing into the room. "Shit! I've been hit!" Ted looked over at his partner to see he'd been shot in the upper leg.

Michael ran over to the partner and quickly struck him in the head with the butt of his gun. Ryan fired a gunshot into Ted's back, and he fell to the ground. Veronica gasped and looked up as the two men ran out of the kitchen. Before they could do much of anything, Amy and Della opened fire upon them. They screamed out in pain as they hit the floor. Veronica's body shook as she looked over to where the master bedroom was. The man walked out, dressed in her father's purple pinstriped suit. He had what looked to be a rifle. He dropped quickly opened fire upon the group, but Henry had managed to slip in through the master bedroom's window. The man turned around just in time to be cold-cocked. He moaned and fell to the ground.

"Make sure they're all out!" Jonah shouted as he walked over to Veronica. He frowned and placed his hand under her chin, tilting her head up and looking at the blood and bruise above her eye. He scraped his thumb across the small wound and the blood, and frowned. Anger was rising even more inside him. Someone had drew blood of one of Valerie's sisters. That man must pay. "Who did this to you, Veronica?"

"That man on the floor…Ted…" She looked at the man who was lying face up on the ground. Jonah walked to him and saw he was still conscious.

"Ted, is it?"

"Y-Yeah, what of it?" Ted asked in a slightly mocking and wounded voice. Jonah slowly took his gun and pulled off his mask.

"You drew Veronica's blood. You physically injured one of my woman's sisters. The blood of her sisters was something I hoped not to see…." Jonah lifted the gun into the air and Ted's eyes widened. Jonah narrowed his eyes and swiftly brought justice down upon Ted, slamming the butt of the gun into his head. Ted screamed out as Jonah dropped the gun next to him and stood up. The man held his face and started shaking from the pain, the wound on him was much worse than that inflicted on Veronica. "Where is Mrs. Williams?"

"You fucking bastard! You bashed my face in!"

"I said, where is Mrs. Williams! Do not piss me off." As if he wasn't pissed enough.

"She's downstairs, in the basement!"

"You fucking asshole! You put a handicap woman downstairs!" Jonah swiftly kicked Ted and the group ran to the basement door. It was bolted shut. Just then, three men appeared out of nowhere. Jonah turned around and groaned as the men opened fire on him. Fortunately, he was wearing a vest, but it didn't stop the impact from blowing him back against the wall. "Shit…"

"I don't think so," Henry said while striking one of the men. Della and Amy subdued the other two.

"It's too late!" Ted's voice screamed from the living room. "The gas is set to go off any second now!"

"What?" Jonah screamed as he took the rifle from his grandfather and started shooting at the bolted locks. After a few shots, the locks were off. He quickly opened the door and heard a hissing sound, the gas was going. "Mrs. Williams!"

"Jonah? Is that you?" Viola asked weakly. She had tried her hardest to get out of the basement. She had even attempted to climb the stairs. They just turned the gas on and she was starting to feel faint. "What's going on?"

"Come on, you're coming with us," Henry said as he pulled Viola up and carried her in his arms. Della and Amy rushed over to Veronica and untied the girl. Just then, gas jets were starting to go off throughout the house. The group covered the mother and daughter's mouths with whatever cloths on their body they had and quickly exited the house. Henry and Jonah ran to the police car and placed Viola on the car seat. She coughed as Veronica ran over to her mom.

Next is the final part, a couple close calls in this chapter, some really close calls. So far so good, though. I imagine Valerie would be pleased about this. Now, it's down to one family member left.