CHAPTER 8

ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK

**MAUREEN**

I saw mom hit the ground, and Kathy laughed. Moms gun slid across the ground and I grabbed it before Kathy could realize what I did. She walked up to mom holding her shoulder and I smiled, mom got her. I smile faded though because she too got mom.

When Kathy aimed the gun at mom's head, I knew what i had to do.

I aimed the gun at her and fired but I missed. It was enough to startle Kathy though and she dropped her gun.

"Kat, go to mom." I told her. She nodded and went over to mom lying on the ground. I walked towards Kathy and she backed up.

"Come on Maureen, you wouldn't shoot your own mother right?" she asked nervously.

"Of course not, I love my mother." She seemed to relax a bit, "Unfortunately for you though, my mother is lying in a puddle of her own blood behind me."

Her eyes got wide, "This is for all the hell you have put us through." I squeezed the trigger again this time, this time I hit my mark. I felt the recoil from the gun and Kathy hit the ground, a whole in her chest. I stood just staring at her, I dropped the gun to my side it still firmly grasped in my hand and stared.

"Maureen," I heard uncle Fin call me, I turned around and he gently and slowly pulled the gun from my hand. I launched into his arms and he held me up.

"It's alright," I felt him pick me up off the ground and carry me. When he set me down I heard dads worried voice.

"Maureen! Fin is she okay?"

"Yea physically, it's all over though. Kathy is dead and I have a helicopter coming in for Liv," he whispered and ran off in the direction he came from.

**ELLIOT**

"Mo, are you okay?" she started to nod but then shook her head no.

"What happened?"

"Kathy shot mom in the stomach." My heart dropped. Would I get lucky enough to keep her a second time? "Okay, what happened then?" I asked.

"Kathy tried to kill mom. She walked up and pointed a gun at her head. I did the only think I could think of. I grabbed mom's gun off the ground and shot at her. I missed the first time but the second shot killed her." I pulled her into my chest and curled into me.

"It's okay Mo," I held her tight until I heard 'whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop,' I looked up and saw the helicopter landing.

"Where's Kat?" I asked.

"With mom," she answered and I nodded. Fin walked back around the corner with the paramedics following him.

"Fin, where's Kathleen?" I figured he would send her back here and he would ride with Liv.

"She's riding with the paramedics to tell them her allergies and about her previous GSW." Kathleen was smart and both she and Maureen knew Liv's allergies in case they had to tell a doctor.

The EMT's started poking around my leg. "Will you just stitch it up and let's go! It's not even bleeding anymore. I want to go get my kids and Olivia," I started to stand up.

"Elliot, sit your ass down. None of us are going anywhere until you calm down. Munch already called Casey. She is on her way to the hospital, she is going to sit with Kathleen and the twins until we get there." Cragen ordered and I sat back down.

They loaded Cragen and I into the same ambulance and Maureen rode along with us. Fin and Munch were following us in one of the cruisers.

When we got to the hospital they took me and Cragen back and patched our wounds. Neither was bad enough for surgery but I was told to stay off my right leg for two weeks while it healed. Of course I agreed knowing full well that would go against those orders. I would rather limp than need crutches or a wheelchair.

Maureen wheeled me, much to my dismay, out to the waiting room where Casey was waiting with three of my kids.

"Daddy!" the three ran over to me.

"Dad, are you okay?" Kat asked.

"I'm fine sweetie, nothing major. Are you alright?" I asked checking her over angling her neck so I could see if the blade cut her or not.

"I'm fine daddy," I gave her a hug. "How was your mom?" I asked,

"She didn't wake up; the EMT's said she did better when I held her hand though. Kathy's shot went right through the same spot as before." Kat pulled a chair up next to me and laid her head on my shoulder.

"It's okay. She's strong right dad?" she looked up at me.

"Yea sweetie, she is. Just like you and you sister." I said. I pulled them both close again. I could have lost them today. Kathy didn't care if they lived or died. She was much more worried about getting money for her addiction. She would have had no issue with them dying today, and she would have been happy to take Liv out with them.

A few hours pass and we are still waiting in the waiting room. Maureen had Lizzie and they were reading books on my phone. Dickie was firmly attached to me, sitting on my good leg, his thumb in his mouth. That startled me a bit. He never sucked his thumb.

Four hours passed and a doctor finally came out.

"Hello again," Dr. Powers walked up and sat in front of us.

"Olivia came out of surgery well. The gunshot went through the same path as before so it really just ripped through all the old scar tissue. It did rip through one her lungs and the pericardial sac around her heart. We did manage to repair all the damage and she is in a room. We had to open up her chest so she will be very sore for a while. I expect her to wake up at any time now." he stood up and waved us along to follow him.

"Elliot," he called me over again, this time I had Dickie in my arms but he didn't seem to care.

"When we went into her stomach, we had to remove one of her ovaries due to how mangled it was. The other one was badly damaged but we left it. It should heal up. Now the last time you two were in here you left in a relationship. I sort of believed that you already were but I guess not."

I shook my head, "No the kids biologically aren't hers but they are in every other way."

"Well I'm just warning you now; this will cause problems conceiving in the future. I don't foresee it being easy for her to conceive but it is still possible." I nodded. That really could cause a problem seeing as Liv has always wanted kids of her own. Hopefully it wouldn't be too hard. It would crush her if she could never have kids.

We walked in and this time she was hooked up to a respirator.

"Is the machine breathing for her?" Casey asked.

"No, it's helping her but when both her lungs collapsed she needed a little assistance. But it is in no way breathing for her."

"Okay," Casey said and looked back at me.

TBC