A/N - Thanks for the reviews - Guest - They first make love in chapter 24 – it was a double posting day so maybe you missed it. Glad a lot of you were surprised re: Luis/Manny combo. Other Guest – re: Lo at Walmart – too funny!

Chapter 32 – Bombs Away

The group split up into different rooms that night. It would be there last quiet time together before all hell broke loose, so the couples took advantage of it.

"I don't know why this feels like a goodbye," Liz said lying in Jason's arms.

"It will take a lot more than Manny and Luis to get me away from you."

Liz shivered as Jason lightly ran his fingers down her back.

"I love you so much, Elizabeth," Jason said softly.

She gazed at him and then smiled, "I love you too."

Jason tenderly kissed her and then they tried to get some sleep.

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About 1:00 am, Johnny's voice bellowed over the intercom. "Get to the panic room now!"

Liz and Jason jumped up and put their clothes on and then he grabbed his gun and walked her over to the guest bedroom. Claudia, Tess, Skye, and John were already there.

Jason opened the door. He had put another mattress in there earlier and added some more food and water. Quickly, he handed John a walkie talkie and a gun. "Close this door. You know the password. Do not open it for anyone else." Jason kissed Liz one more time.

"Good luck," John said as he shut the door and turned towards the women. "Let's hunker down," he said before walking over to the mattresses.

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Jason and Johnny grabbed some semi-automatic guns from the gunroom and then took as much ammo as they could before stationing themselves towards the front of the house where they broke out a window and put on their night vision goggles. Sonny and Max went towards the back, and Lorenzo and one of his guards went down a different wing. They had a lot of other guards stationed around the house and yard and they had set traps in various locations around the property.

The fighting was furious as they battled back and forth with a seemingly endless stream of firepower directed towards them.

"Johnny, this is not looking good," Jason yelled.

Johnny fired off a few rounds. "I'll set off the explosives." He typed the codes in his cell phone and several explosions went off around the property.

Someone was trying to breach the perimeter of the house in the wing where Sonny and Max were, so Max threw out a few grenades and managed to stop them.

On the other side of the house, Lorenzo and his guard Miguel were in a fierce battle as well. Several canisters were fired into the house and it started to fill with gas. Everyone grabbed their gas masks and put them on. It will make it much harder to communicate with each other, but it was the only way to stay conscious.

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In the panic room, John sat at the desk and watched the monitors.

"How's it going out there?" Liz asked. Tess's head is on her lap and she is trying to rest.

"Not so good. They just threw in some type of tear gas."

Liz glanced at her mother who is taking her knife and holder off her leg.

"I want you to put this on," she said.

Liz shook her head. "No, mother, you keep it."

"Do not argue with me. If Manny comes after you, then you know what to do."

"What about Luis?"

Skye's face hardened. "I will kill that son of a bitch with my bare hands before I let him touch me," she said almost growling.

John looked over at her. "No need, there are a few guns in the safe over there. It's not locked."

Skye got up and peered inside and then chose a small gun and went back and sat on the mattress.

"What's our plan if this room is breached?" Liz asked.

"We just kill as many of them as we can," John said.

"Since when are you all badass?" Tess asked.

"Since some son of a bitch tried to kill you twice," John said still as he studied the monitors.

Liz got up and got a gun.

"Fuck," John yelled, "Manny is in the room outside."

They heard a thud on the door and everyone moved into the corner and huddled there with their weapons drawn.

"Elizabeth darling, open the door. I'm your destiny," Manny yelled.

Claudia put her arm around Liz. The pounding stopped and that is when the explosion went off.

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Liz started to wake up as Manny ran through the yard. Johnny spotted them and gave chase. Jason had no idea where Johnny was going, but he did his best to cover him from his position which wasn't ideal. Liz immediately started squirming and Manny lost his footing and they tumbled to the ground.

She scrambled to get up and Manny pulled her leg and dragged her back towards him as she fought him, and when he tried to pull her against him, she slipped the knife out of the holder and plunged it into his side before yanking it out. A shout left his lips as he fell backward and Liz took advantage of his shock and started to run. He raised the gun to shoot her and Johnny pushed her out of the way and took the bullet. Liz is stunned as Johnny raised his gun and shot Manny in the head before he collapsed.

"Johnny," she yelled, "You have to get up. We can't stay here."

Johnny grimaced and she helped him into the cottage where he collapsed onto the floor. Liz perused the room to see what she could use as a barrier. Quickly, she pushed the bed in front of the door and grabbed some towels from the bathroom and brought them back to Johnny who had passed out. She lifted his shirt and applied pressure to his wound. "Please Johnny, you can't leave me," she said softly crying. The window shattered and she grabbed his gun and shot a man trying to get in.

Reacting with pure adrenaline, she grabbed Johnny and slowly was able to drag him into the bathroom. The man had dropped his gun so she crawled over to the window and grabbed it, but when someone reached inside and to grab hold of her, she took out the knife and stabbed his arm and tried to scramble away. Bullets whizzed by her and when they stopped, she spun around and shot him. Getting up, she ran into the bathroom and that is when she realized a bullet had hit her in the arm. "Fuck," she said loudly, "Johnny, please wake up." He is losing too much blood. Pulling up his shirt, she determined that the bullet had gone clean through. After locating a first aid kit in the bathroom under the sink, she did her best to bandage him up to try and prevent infection and the laid his head onto her lap and talked to him softly and waited for help to arrive.