"What have you done Gabrielle?!" Nico practically shrieked. "How could you do that? What is wrong with you?" he went from straining against the restraints to falling back against the bed.
What had she done? What am I going to do? Has she lost her mind? Is Dani dead? Oh my God, if there is a God please, please, please don't let her be dead. I know I haven't ever been the religious type but please don't take her so soon. There are people who need her. I need her. Please.
Gabrielle turned to Nico, smiling like she had just won the war. "What I have done is take out the trash. I have resolved the problem, the one that has been distracting you from my attention. Now you will have nothing better to do with your time than spend time with me" Gabrielle purred, tracing Nico's hipbone. He flinched.
"And what makes you think that I will stay. That you aren't the distraction. The problem?" Nico spat, trying, unsuccessfully, to move away from Gabrielle.
"The problem? The problem? You've got to be kidding me Nico. You have loved me for two decades! You were my longest and sweetest affair! I could never be the problem" Gabrielle stroked Nico between the thighs this time, calming towards the end of her declaration.
"I don't love you Gabrielle. I don't know what else I have to say. I told you that at the club. I told you that time and time again and you still don't listen. I love Dani. Whether dead or alive I will always love Dani" Nico told Gabrielle finishing with steel in his voice "I will never love you".
"Well I can fix one problem" Gabrielle said marching across the room gun still in hand "I can assure that our dear Dr. Santino is truly dead. Then maybe you'll come to your senses".
"This is me coming to my senses. You used me Gabrielle. We fell out of love a very long time ago. There is no going back. You made your choice and I have made mine" Nico said resigned, watching as Gabrielle crossed to Dani's body.
Surely she is dead. No one could survive two shots to the chest. But then there is no blood. Nico looked at Dani curiously. It couldn't be. She didn't. She wasn't.
Gabrielle bent to check Dani's pulse and just as she did Dani brought her head up to connect with Gabrielle's face landing her forehead in direct contact with Gabrielle's nose resulting in a satisfying crunch.
Nico just smirked from the bed. Point Dr. Santino.