To my Father!
I miss You so much! Only a year is gone but it seems an enernity!
I hope you'll pride of me one day!
Ti voglio bene PapĂ !
EPISODE XI: IF I SIT STILL, MAYBE I'LL GET OUT OF HERE
Jo and
Sheldon walked with resolute step towards a house
"Adam
has identified an IP address that led here!" Jo said "I just hope it
is not a trap!" she said looking at the house
"Let's
find it out!" Sheldon said, pulling out his gun "Flack covers us with
Jaime on the other side!"
Jo and
Sheldon went up the four steps that separated them from the door, Jo was
knocking on
"NYPD!
Open the door!"
"Let's
go in!" Sheldon said in the radio breaking the door and finding himself
face to face with Flack and Jaime.
The inside
of the house was empty and there was not even a piece of furniture
"Shit!"
Flack shouted kicking the door "As soon as I take this bitch I’ll make her
go through hell!"
Jaime
snorted sheathing his gun "At this point, I would interrogate Andrew
Davis!"
"There
are no other solutions!" Sheldon said
"Who is
gonna say to Sinclair about the nth hole in the water?" Flack said quietly
"Let
me explain it to him!" Jo said "It will be our excuse to distract him
from Mac when he’ll be at Liberty Island today at 10.30!"
Mac and
Danny were together in the crowds at 10.30 am under the Statue of Liberty
"I
have to get to the crown!" Mac said indicating it with his eyes
"How
can you be so sure that the Pimpernel is waiting for you up there?" Danny
asked
"Instinct!"
Mac said
"I'll
keep your guard as far as I can while you vanish!" Danny said in a low
voice "Try to get out alive!"
Mac walked
towards the statue showing his distinctive and thus arriving at climb to the
crown.
He found a
burlap sack in a corner and, worn gloves, he saw in it a letter and an intact
skull
"Another
dead?" he opened the envelope and found a message waiting for him from the
Pimpernel:
“Twinkle,
twinkle torch there above!
It’s where you
should go!
If you want to
find the next clue,
You’ll need to
delve more!
Twinkle,
twinkle torch there above!
Perhaps Horatio
is no longer in this world”
Mac closed
the message back in the envelope and put it in jute sack "I'm going to
enjoy me as soon as I will have you taken," and walked to descend.
Mac was
able to catch a glimpse of Danny who was trying to keep calm officers of the
escort
"I
swear he's around here!"
"Detective
Messer, you are hindering us in our work!" the first agent said
"What's
the problem?" Mac said quietly approaching
"Where
have you been Detective? You know you cannot go for a walk alone!" the
second officer barked
"I
just went to the toilet!" Mac said hurriedly quietly and peaceful
"You took
too long for going to the toilet!" a policeman of the police cars said
"Tell
us the truth Detective! Where did you go?" one of the policemen almost
shouted "You've been gone fifteen minutes!"
"We
know very well that you could not have spent all this time into the toilet!"
"All
right! I wanted a few minutes without you breathing down my neck! I climbed up
on the statue!" Mac snorted
"We
could accompany you without any problems!"
"Then
you do not understand! I needed to be alone!" Mac turned then to Danny "Are
you ready to go home? However, I warn you that we must first go in a place, if
you have to go to the toilet do it now!"
Danny
nodded and walked to the toilets and a kid, who was holding a photo and a
plastic bag containing a burlap sack, came out from behind and began to run
after him
"Wait
sir! I have to give you this!"
"Hey!
Who gave it to you? "Danny asked approaching and bending over to grab the
bag
"A
white man! Short hair, blue eyes, more or less in his fifties!" the boy
said
"Thank
you!" he said standing up
"You’re
welcome! He gave me one hundred U.S. dollars because thou hadst it!" the
kid said "Goodbye!"
Jo and
Flack were in the lab to discuss the nth hole in the water with Adam and Angela
"It's
an unique entertainment for her! I do not really know how to tell if the IP
address is real or fake!" Angela tried to explain
"How
long is that she no longer uses the network to send us messages?" Flack
churches
"Oh,
um..." Adam muttered "I do not remember!"
"Since
she sent us the video of Horatio and Stella!" Jo exclaimed running a hand
through her hair
"I
would like to know how long it takes on average to find an IP address!"
Flack said lamenting
"You
want to come here to do my job?!" Angela said rising from his chair and
indicating it to Flack "Let us see how good you are!"
"Yes! Come
on, Flack! Show off your computer skills!" Adam shouted
"Okay,
now let's all calm down! If Sinclair hears you, you'll be out of the case! He
is not like Mac!" Jo said trying to calm the even too much agitated minds.
Danny
entered the laboratory with bag in hand "Guys, Mac has retrieved the head
of our Marine! Now we need to retrieve the next clue on the torch! The Pimpernel
invites us to hurry up with a message as sneaky!" he handed it to Jo.
Adam
recognized the game "She still jokes on Stella!"
"There
was also in the video I can remember it!" Flack said "Where is Mac
now?"
"He
should come into the office shortly..." Danny said "I'm going to see
how Sid is at the hospital!"
"Well!
So, let's get down to work! Sinclair wants updates for this afternoon!" Jo
said running towards Mac that was heading to his office
"Hey!
Hello Mac!"
"Hello
Jo!" Mac said opening the door to his office "Have you already seen
what Danny brought?"
"Where's
your bodyguard?" Jo asked sitting down on the sofas
"I
must admit that I was wrong to underestimate the cops chosen by Sinclair!"
he said taking seat next to her and, raising his ankle, he revealed an
electronic bracelet "Sinclair says that in this I cannot escape his
control!"
"It
seems the one of the prisoners to house arrest!" Jo ascertained
"It
doesn’t seem! It is the one of the prisoners to house arrest!" Mac said
covering it "I can move freely in an enclosed space and outside I cannot
go anywhere beyond the limit of one hundred meters away from who has the
transmitter!"
"Penalty:
electric shock!" Jo said "It seems to me that Sinclair is
overreacting!"
"I
need a favor!"
"Whatever
you want!" Jo said with a smile
"I
want you to listen to me because I want to talk to you about Peyton and Aubrey!"
he said taking a deep breath
"Have
you seen the little girl?" Jo churches concerned
"We
did the test and found out that she is not my daughter!" Mac said becoming
sad
"I cannot
understand your reaction!" Jo said looking at him and making him turn in
her direction "It should be better this way because it means that you do
not have direct responsibility over the child!"
"Yes,
but I confess to you that I had hoped a bit she was mine!" Mac said
"I could have been a father to her and help Peyton!"
"You
know to be like a father to many people, do you?" Jo reminded him
"Reed saw in you a father figure once she known you better! You are the
Godfather of Lucy and Angela saw in you the father who has never had! So, even
though Aubrey is not biologically your daughter, you will be the father she
needs!" Jo laughed "Fortunately, Christine hasn’t witnessed the whole
thing!"
"Yeah!
Christine is a strong and independent woman, I know that at this time she didn’t
look like that. It would be a challenge explain to her the things! I would have
risked a divorce!"
"I
cannot imagine you to pass the foods to your son and fight with Christine
before a judge to divide the dishes on the good service!" Jo smiled
"You love yourselves too much!"
Mac smiled
"I'm hungry! Let's see what's in the fridge today?"
Jamie had
picked up from, under the desk, the dossier subtracted from the pile of the
unsolved cases of Mac.
Flack came
back with Andrew Davis from the interrogation room
"Take
him to the Crime Lab outside the office of Detective Danville" he said to
one of the policemen in uniform "And don’t leave him alone!"
He looked
up at Jaime from afar and joined her stealthily "What are you doing?"
he said looking at the dossier and realizing the situation "That should be
onto Mac’s desk!" he said trying to snatch it out of her hand.
Jamie stood
up and escaped the clutches of her boyfriend "While you and the team are
looking for evidence to find the Pimpernel, there are other people who risk
their lives or who do not have justice because they become unresolved cases at
the edge of the desk!"
Flack
nodded "I understand! You want to take the liability of a case! That,
however, is the only recent case on which Mac can work and I do not think he
will remain watching...”
"Instead,
yes because he is too apprehensive about Stella and Horatio! Angela and I
agree!" Jaime said pointing her feet on the ground
"Then
you are not alone! I just wish you that Mac does not notice that the dossier is
gone!" Flack said sitting at his desk frowning.
Adam was on
the torch of the Statue of Liberty firmly attached to a safety cable
"Everything’s
okay up there?" Angela shouted from underneath into the microphone
transmitter
"Yes!"
Adam shouted back by pressing the receiver in his ear "-I realize your desire
to work at the forefront!- Mac told me long time ago!" he whispered to
himself "-You will see that you'll be in the middle of the action! - Mac
assured me!" he looked down" Thus, however, it is also too much! I don’t
climb a rock wall since eight years and I am tied to a helicopter flying over
this damn statue! I want to get off!" he complained
"Do you
give yourself a move, Adam? We do not have all afternoon! Tourists will have
suspicions soon!"
"You could
tell Sinclair that we had to do this operation!" Adam shouted with tears
in his eyes
"That
one would put us spoke in the wheel and, in all likelihood, suspended us! Have
you seen the Mac’s electronic anklet, right? Do you want to cause him other
problems?" Angela continued to speak into the microphone "Do you want
to see him walled in his house?"
"Why
do we have to talk about these things?"
"Twenty
minutes have gone by since you've been there and you have not found anything
for your damned scared! Search the clue, c’mon!" Angela shouted at him.
She waited a few minutes, but there was no replies "Do you want Stella to come
home sooner? Then seek!"
Adam pulled
himself up with his arms until arriving to take an envelope adorned with a
Scarlet Pimpernel "I took an envelope!"
"Okay,
now they pull out of you! Keep still!" Angela said with a smile "Thank
God, he found it!"
Danny had
just emerged from the palace of Scientific and saw Mac sitting on the front
steps
"Hey!"
he called him approaching "What are you doing here all alone sitting on
these dirty steps?"
"But
you've just sat down too!" Mac smiled "That means, that you do not
considers them so dirty!"
"Maybe
you're right!" Danny admitted "My question does not change"
"I
have come down with Jo to take a breath of air and then Sheldon has
arrived!" Mac said
"Clear!"
Danny nodded and taking a breath he said "Sinclair is giving everyone a
day off, how about a drink you, Flack, others and I? Lindsay and I'd love to be
able to go out, to distract us for a moment! In a few days they resign from the
hospital Sid!"
"I
accept the invitation gladly Danny! You just have to get the transmitter of my
new bodyguard!" he said pointing the light signal to the ankle "Sinclair
may have given everyone a day off, but not to technology!"
"Well!
I'm going to take the transmitter!" Danny said rising "We will send
to rest even your last bodyguard! I know how to crack its system!"
Mac smiled
and looked at his friend fall within the building.
Adam on the
helicopter was reading the letter from the Pimpernel
“Look inside
your hart
there’s some
you’re missing much!
I kidnapped her
one day,
She wasn’t able
to run away!
Two for one!
I’ll keep them
alive until the next sun!”
He looked
into in the note and saw a picture of Christine "Oh no! She got her! How
is it possible that she knew where she was?! It is impossible just... no! No, I
have to stay calm! I need to stay... I gotta tell it to Jo!" he said
taking the phone and typing the number" Answer me, please! Answer!"
"Hello?
Adam, what's up?"
"Jo,
who knew besides us of the team, that Christine was still alive?" he asked
trembling
"None!
Why?"
Adam tried
to articulate a sentence "Because ... the ... the ..."
"The?
Adam tell me what happens!" Jo screamed at the limit of patience
"The Pimpernel
has reached her!" Adam said in one breath bursting into tears "She
wants also Mac! We have until tomorrow! This means that they will die and even
Horatio and..." he sobbed louder "Stella!"
Jo felt a
hand laid on her shoulder "What is it, Jo?" Sheldon asked
"Adam,
do not say anything to the Mac! I'll try to contact him!" she said biting
her lip "Stay calm! If by chance Mac is still at the lab and sees thus you,
he will guess something!"
"All
right!" Adam she said.
Jo hung up
the phone placing her hand to her forehead and clutched Sheldon and burst into
tears, he hugged her and whispered "What is it? What you need to tell to
Mac?"
"I
thought I had stashed Christine, instead..." Jo said sobbing "I have
to tell Mac that Christine was abducted by the Pimpernel!"
Sheldon
shuddered "Oh no!" he said bitterly "The date of childbirth is
these days! I'll help you telling the Mac! We must hurry!"
Jaime and
Angela were investigating the girl found dead in the lake, in a basement "There's
a smell of damp insane here below!” Angela coughed wrinkling her nose
"I
have not found a better place! I apologize to the princess of computer
technology and science!" Jaime said annoyed "By the way: Flack knows
we're stepping Mac, but he won’t tell him on one condition!"
"Which
one?" Angela asked, in response Jaime pointed to the stairs at the
entrance
"Happy
night off to both!" Flack said coming in with a case of beer "I
thought that since we have to work late, we would have happily drank something!"
he put the case into a corner and opened it "There is also the instant
coffee and a sandwich for each one!"
"We
have everything you need to survive, hooray!" Angela ridiculed by
connecting a couple of computers to the socket near the wall "Take the
dossier Jaime! Let's start!"
Jaime put
the dossier on the table "We know little about this person, but I would
say that we can reconstruct something by checking the register of missing
persons again!"
Angela
quickly typed in the address "There indeed that a new report has
appeared!"
Flack came
up to the pc "Luna Trevor! Her husband reported her!"
"Yeah!
At least we know that she may no longer be an unknown woman!" Jaime said
"We
have a phone number, Don! Do you want to contact him?" Angela asked.
Mac was in
his office looking at his phone vibrate and he saw an MMS message containing a
video and without hesitation he opened it.
Seeing
Christine's face streaked with tears shocked him
-Mac… I’m sorry!- Christine was in a dark basement –I’m scared! I’d like to ask you to come
but… I prefer you don’t do it!- she trembled jolted –I don’t want you die! Please Mac, don’t come!- Christine glanced
up biting her lip -At least, save you
please! There's no hope for me or for Horatio and Stella! I love you Mac and I
wish I could tell it you in person, but I know it will not be possible!-
An address
on a black background appeared. The video ended thus.
Mac looked
in the direction of Danny who had just finished tinkering with the transmitter
and entered in “I've got to do something before coming to the bar tonight!"
"All
right! You can go wherever you want! The bracelet will send a fake signal to
Sinclair! You can feel comfortable!"
Mac stood
up and went to the elevators, he descended the stairs to the garage and got
into the car.
Jo was in
the car with Sheldon and got a call from Adam
"I've
got a video in which Stella and Horatio are in a cell and... Horatio is sick! Stella
does not know what to do... and I begin to fear the worst!" Adam said
sobbing
"I'm
also gravely concerned Adam!" Jo said "Mac is not answering his cell
phone and he is not in the lab! Danny says he has come out after they made
the sign of the electronic anklet untraceable!"
"They
went crazy?! Now, how do we find Mac?!"
Angela
looked out from the narrow window of the basement "A toast to our work in
the day off!" she said lifting up her beer in her hand
"I do
not recall ever having worked in one of my days off, especially in a
basement!" Flack smiled patting the neck of his bottle against the bottle
Angela
"Make
yourself lucky to have spent it with me!" Jaime smiled
"Speaking
of work" Angela said moving away from the window and walked over to the
computer "Let's see if we have news!" she looked at the screen
"And Jonathan Trevor is a goody-goody! He did not want get rid of his
wife! Just like I said!"
"How
is it then that he reported missing after days? Before on the phone seemed
quite self-assured! Anyway, tomorrow morning we'll know for sure something!"
Flack said looking at the monitor "Romilda Bowns instead? It seems that
she and Luna were not friends!"
"True,
but they could became it at the party" Jaime smiled
"So
you assumed an exchange of person" Flack asked puzzled "The boyfriend
of Romilda, I remind you, was already passed out because of alcohol at the time
of the murder!"
"Explain
to me how the piece of glass then was able to kill the moon!" Jaime
snorted
"I
have a theory: and if Romilda had wanted to fake her own death?" Angela
said "Well, if Romilda was not the victim, but the victimizer?"
Angela said trying on Google some useful information "She was the classic
example of -Princess of prom-!”
"She
was one of the most prominent girls in high school. We cannot say that she is
capable of murder seeing a couple of pictures!" Jaime smiled looking at
the FaceBook profile of Romilda "No wait! Come back! There's a picture of
her as a child with a woman!" she read the comment of the photo -Mommy I miss you!-
"What
was the name of Romilda’s mother?"
Angela
looked in the file of girl "Rose Marie Stewart Bowns!"
Flack
jumped "I've heard that name before!"
Jaime
looked at the data in the file Romilda and noticed the middle initial -Romilda S. Bowns-
“Do we know
her middle name?”
"If
we're lucky..." Angela said searching for information on the profile of
the girl "Romilda Scarlett Bownes!"
"And I
know who is Rose Marie Stewart!" Flack said showing the handheld in his
hand the two "Here things get complicated!"
"Oh my
God!" Angela exclaimed looking at the handheld
"Damn!"
Jaime said biting her lips and looking at the photos of Romilda on Face Book
"Little liar! Now we know who you are and we'll find you!"
Angela
picked up the phone and called Adam "Hello! What are you doing?"
"Angela?!
Shouldn’t you be at home? Jo is coming to pick up you, she wants everyone to
race in the lab!" Adam shouted
"Instead,
I am with Flack and Jaime to work secretly and we just discovered something!
Would you like to join us?"
"You
cannot tell me about it over the phone?"
"No!
If you cannot move, we will reach you! What's going on?" Angela snapped
"The Pimpernel
has raised the stakes: she took Christine and we have until tomorrow to find
her! Mac is gone and here, panic is unleashing!"
"Then
I'll send you by email the information to smooth the waters!" she said
closing the call.
Angela
looked into the eyes of colleagues "Very well! This wouldn’t have taken
place!"
"We
have to call Mac to inform him of our findings!" Flack said
"No!
We have to find him! The Primrose has decided to shooting hard to score!" Angela
said closing all the dossiers and putting them in a black shoulder bag
"Let’s go immediately to the lab!"
Mac out of
the car and looked at the architecture which was located ahead of him: the
Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. He took a deep breath and went in
drawing his gun.
He
descended the stairs and entered a disused bathroom. In one corner he saw
Horatio, who was panting and noticed that he had an ankle tied. He approached
lighting the torch he carried with him "Horatio! Can you hear me?"
"Mac?"
a woman's voice, hoarse and weak, asked from the other side of the bath
"I'm not crazy! It’s really you!"
"Stella!"
Mac said reaching her "Your hands are covered with blood! Let me see!"
"She
is here! Find Christine, take her with you and run faster as you can!"
"I won’t
leave anyone here! Where is Christine imprisoned?" Mac asked
"Mac
behind you!" Stella exclaimed, but Mac did not have time to turn around
because he was struck on the head and fell to the ground unconscious.
"I do
not care! I will also wake up Sinclair, if it is required!" Jo growled
over the phone "Mobilize every cop in New York! Say we’re seeking
Detective Taylor!" she hung up the phone doing back and forth in her
office "Damn Flack!" it was then that she saw on her computer a
message from Mac, she clicked on it, but it was impossible to see its contents
"Adam ! Call me Adam!"
Adam rushed
with Angela Jo "Here I am! I am here! Angela explained everything to me!
Romilda Bownes is the Primrose! I have already sent her identikit to all
districts!"
"Perfect
and Mac told us where he was going! You just have to be able to see the text of
the message!" Jo explained to him
"Damn Pimpernel!"
Angela snapped "You won’t have won!" she said sitting down at the
computer
"Adam
help her! I'm going to make a phone call to Sinclair!" Jo said leaving
them working
"Jo,
wait!" Danny ran after her "I have to tell one important thing to you!"
"I'm
listening!"
"I
have tampered the electronic bracelet of Mac!" Jo looked at him with a
menacing look "I know I've made a disaster because at this hour we would
have already found him!"
"What's
done is done, Danny!" she said "Now I have to call Sinclair!"
Mac opened
his eyes discovering to have slightly blurred vision and his head was heavy, he
looked around trying to get up and at that moment he realized he was tied to
something with his arms
"Please
stay still Mac!" a familiar voice said to him
"Christine?!"
he said trying to turn around
"Our
handcuffs have been jammed, Mac! You're hurting me!" she said gritting her
teeth
"How
are you?"
"She
wants to kill us Mac! She said she would come back with the necessary! She have
also injected morphine into your neck! I'm afraid that this is the end!"
Mac blinked
for a while and the view seemed back to normal "Okay, now listen to me!
We'll be fine! I sent a message to Jo and the other before coming here! Have
faith!" he looked at his feet and saw that they were securely chained to
the ground "Even, you've got your feet tied, Christine?" he suddenly
felt him to pull back and heard a sharp cry of Christine "What's the
matter?”
“Not now!
Why now?!” she said crying
“What not
now?” Mac wanted to know
“The waters
have broken!”
“That
wouldn’t had really to happen!” Mac said
“I’m feeling
cold!”
“I’m
feeling cold too!” Mac said “You’ll see that they will find us!”
“Yes!
They’ll find you! Both dead!” a girl said coming in.
Mac looked
at her surprised “Romilda Bowns?”
"You
have a good memory Detective Taylor! How are the after-effects of morphine? Are
you still so hight?"
"Let go
of my wife! It's me who you want!"
Romilda
came forward holding a knife and pointing it at him in the throat "You of
the police contributed to kill my mother! I will make you suffer as I can, until
midnight!" she stepped back "But if there's one thing I cannot stand
are the cries!" she said taking two bandages "I hope you like
shotguns! At midnight, Detective, you will take a shot in the forehead!" she
said placing the weapon in front of Mac and moving with a second gun on the
side Christine "While our beloved Christine will take a shot in the chest!"
she stood in front of both with bandages in her hand "The nice thing is
that no one will hear you scream!"
"It
works! Come on, come on! Come on, message reveals you!" Adam prayed
looking at the monitor
"Is it
working?" Angela asked
"Yes!"
"Why I
was not able to do it?"
"Because
you were wrong with refinements!" Adam smiled seeing appear the message
"Warn Jo and Danny and report to Flack the location of Mac! Let's go on a
mission!"
Flack saw
the message on the phone and took of stroke the transmitter "To all units!
Head to the Smallpox Hospital in Roosevelt Island! Possible seizure of an
agent! I repeat possible seizure of an agent!" he set the car in motion
and turned on the siren "We are reaching you, Mac!"
Jaime
beside him got ready gathering her hair "I cannot wait to get my hands on
Romilda Bowns!"
Jo was
headed with Sheldon Danny and Adam at the old mental hospital
"The
only missing is Flack with Jaime!"
"It's
you who direct the case Jo!" Danny said "You know that the longer we
wait more we risk!"
"Then
we enter!" Jo ruled
"Not
you!" Sheldon said firmly "You serve us here in case something
happens!"
"I
will get in from back within a couple of men! You, Sheldon, go from here in
front! If something moves wait to fire! It may be Mac or someone else!" said
this, Danny stepped forward and began the descent.
The
corridor was deserted until they saw a woman to appear in the shadows
"Don’t
shoot! Please, don’t shoot!”
"Who
are you?" Danny asked pointing his flashlight on her
"Romilda
Bowns! That crazy woman is just gone!" she said advancing full of blood on
an arm
"Pick her
up and carry her out! She is a victim! Let her be visited and take her in a
safe place for the night!" Danny said to two policemen who were following
him and continued into the hallway going down a narrow spiral staircase and
entered a dirty bathroom. In one corner he saw the figure of Stella and Horatio
in the opposite direction
"Agents
Bonasera and Caine found! They are injured! I repeat they are injured!" he
walked over to Stella who was unconscious and, after checking that she was
alive, he whispered "Come on Stella don’t give up!"
"Hey
Messer!" Horatio said quietly "Find Mac and Christine!"
Danny left Stella
with an agent and went to Horatio "Are they here, too?"
"Yes!"
he nodded "I realized too late that there was poison in the water that I
drank!"
"Don’t
tire yourself! Stay calm the ambulance will be here soon and you will be safe!"
Sheldon
walked with a firm step, making light with flashlight, inspecting one by one
the rooms that were ahead of him "Clean!" then he caught a glimpse of
something deep in the hallway "NYPD! Raise your hands!"
"Sheldon
calm down! It’s Flack and with me there is Jaime!"
Sheldon
sighed and lowered his weapon "Look in the room where you walk next!"
"Danny
said that Mac and Christine are certainly here!" Flack said
"What
time is it?" Sheldon asked
"23:50!"
Jaime said opening a door of an old medical laboratory "They're here! come
here!"
Flack
rushed inside with Jaime and Sheldon broke into a run to reach him
"Don’t
worry Mac! Don’t shake like that! " Flack said freeing him from the chains
on his feet and then move to the handcuffs helped by Jaime, who was releasing
Christine.
As soon as
Mac had his hands free tried to take off the bandage to his mouth and found
that it was tied to the one of Christine. He tried to wave his arms in vain,
Flack did not understand what he meant.
Jaime
examined thoroughly Christine "Don! Christine is about to give birth! Call
Hawkes!"
Flack,
released Mac and Christine from the gags "Now can you tell me what's
wrong?!"
"Get away
from where I am, Flack!" Mac shouted
"What?"
Mac shifted
Flack standing up and covering him with himself. Fractions of a second after it
warned two shots
"Mac!"
Christine screamed terrified
"Oh,
no Mac! Let me see!" Flack said looking at the shoulder of the Mac
dragging him away and making him sit on the only chair in the room "You
still have the bullet inside!"
"What
hurt in my back!" Jaime said "Luckily I had my jacket! How is Mac?"
"Fine!
I'm still in one piece!" he said rising and looking Sheldon enter "What
timing, Dr. Hawkes!" and he fell back sitting on chair.
Sheldon
leaned on Mac and Flack called with the radio Jo "Jo, we found them!
Where's the ambulance?"
"Are
they injured?"
"Mac
yes, to the right shoulder, and Christine is delivering!”
“But now we
need to get out of here!” Mac ruled
Sheldon
tore off a piece of his shirt and laid it on Mac’s wound folded in four
"Flack hold it down and, if you can, take away his jacket!" he left
them in the corner of the room and examined the conditions of Christine "Christine
will not move from here! I can see the head of the baby! The ladder from which
we descended is narrow and spiral! We cannot carry her in these
conditions!"
“So the
baby will be born here, are you trying to tell me this?” Mac asked
“Exactly!”
Flack
looked at the blood get out of Mac's shoulder and helped him to take off his
jacket and then go back to press on the wound "You need a doctor's Mac!
You gotta get out!"
"No, I
won’t leave her here alone!" he said gesturing with his head Christine
panting
"Mac,
where are you?" Christine cried
"I'm
here! Calm down! I won’t leave you alone!" Mac rose from his chair and,
done quickly few steps, he leaned to the side Christine "It'll be okay!
Have faith!"
She nodded
and added “Mac, I’m scared!”
"What
does it mean that you are scared?" Mac told her incredulously "Is
there something troubling you?"
“I don’t
want to lose McKenna!” she confessed to him
Sheldon
took off his jacket "It's better if you lie down! Do not worry and
everything will be fine!" he assured her “I can catch a glimpse of the
head!” he turned toward Jaime “Have you ever helped a woman in delivery or
assisted to it?”
“No, never
ever!” Jaime admitted
“You’ve
only to count the seconds between the contractions! Trust in me!” then he
turned to Mac “Raise her head and make her feel comfortable!"
Christine
cried by leaning with her head on Mac’s legs
“That was a
strong one! At the next one, Christine, you have to push, all right?” Sheldon
explained
“Yeah!
Understood!” she answered looking Mac’s eyes
“The head
is nearly out! Hold on!” Mac told her after he leaned out to look “You’re doing
it well!”
Christine
took a deep breath and pushed
“Don’t
stop! Don’t stop!” Sheldon said keeping off his jacket “A bit more, it lacks
little!” Christine cried strong squeezing Mac’s hand “Very good! The head is out!”
Sheldon said with enthusiasm
"Oh my
goodness!" Flack gasped "Remind me to never see again such a
thing!"
Christine
looked at Mac right in the eyes “I can’t do it!” she said crying
“Yes
instead! Hold on and don’t give up!”
“The baby can’t
go back! You’ll see that now he will be born! Push!” Sheldon encouraged her.
Christine gritted
her teeth catching her breath and pushed shouting
“He is
born!” Sheldon said by wrapping the baby in the jacket and a wailing filled the
room.
Mac glanced
up to look at the baby who ended in Jaime’s arms “But I can’t hold babies!”
“You’re
just doing it!” Sheldon said returning on Christine and announcing “There’s
another head! In a few minutes also the second will be born!”
Christine
looked at Mac, as surprised as him, and she panted “Are they seriously two?”
Mac
squeezed Christine’s hand “They’re two!
Common! It’s almost over!”
“I’m tired
Mac!”
“I can see
it! You will hold them lather!” he kissed her sweaty forehead “I’m here with
you!”
Christine
felt a contraction and she pushed as strong as she could with a shout, she had
to stop for a while up shivering. With a last push also the second and
unexpected baby had born and the second wailing didn’t long in coming.
Mac smiled
and kissed Christine on her forehead “You have been good! I’m pride of you!”
Flack keep
immediately out his jacket and handed it to Sheldon who laid carefully the
little bundle into Mac’s arm “Look here!”
Mac moved a
bit aside the jacket “Christine! It’s a girl!”
Christine
smiled “May I see her and McKenna?”
Jaime came
up “C’mon take him! I think he wants his mom!”
Christine
looked at the baby taking him in her arms “Hi little one!” Mac showed her the
baby girl who was holding firmly with his left arm.
Flack
leaned down and looked at the babies with a tenderly look “Congratulation Mac
and Christine! They’re really wonderful!”
Danny arrived
out of breath “The ambulance is here!” he stopped in the doorway looking at Mac
hold a baby with only a arm and Christine another one “They’re two!” he smiled
“Wow! It’s incredible! Congratulation!”
“Let’s make
quickly! Mac must be operated and the umbilical cordons are still related to
Christine!” Sheldon said
"The paramedics will arrive here as they
can because of those narrow stairs!" Danny said putting his hand to the
radio "Jo's me! Are the paramedics coming down?"
"They
don’t manage Danny! We cannot demolish the place because the structure is
unsafe! You have to get out somehow! Can bring Christine in the arms? Was the
baby born?”
“Jo, we’ve
got two babies! We should manage to get out!”
“Two
babies! It’s incredible!” Jo said excitedly
Danny
laughed “We’re arriving!”
Stella was
about to be charged on the ambulance and Adam was going with her when Jo
approached her
“Mac
officially became dad!”
“Really?”
she smiled
“Yeah!
They’re twins!” Jo explained her smiling
Adam said
moved “Wow! Mac must be proud of it!”
“But now
go!” Jo said “We all will reach you soon!”
Meanwhile
Mac and others had come out they had been assisted by paramedics
“There they
are! Even this bad adventure came to an end!” Jo whispered “Only one thing is
remaining to understand: where’s the Pimpernel?”
“Find her
please! Horatio has been brought at the hospital in bad conditions and now
there are also two new lives who need protection!” Stella exclaimed.
Sinclair
came up to Mac with a menacing look "Taylor! Why doesn’t this thing work?!"
Mac looked
down at his ankle "What makes you think that has to do with me?"
"Do
not play dumb with me!" the other one attacked him
"We
can talk about this at a later time? When you will catch Romilda Bowns maybe?"
Mac said while a doctor stopped the bleeding at the shoulder "I would
place also an escort to the hospital, if I were you!" Sinclair nodded and
let Mac get in the ambulance with his wife and looked at him letting him know
that he knew that the situation was serious.
Christine
looked at Mac “Are you fine?”
“Now that
McKenna and the little girl were born and we’re going to the hospital, yes!” he
looked at the newborns lying on the breast of their mother, the male opened his
eyes a little bit and he almost seemed to stare his father with curiosity “Hey
number three! What’s up?”
“How have
you just called the baby?” Jo asked stepping to the ambulance surprising Mac
“I’m coming to the hospital with you! I’ll be your -escort-” she said coming up
“Let’s go!” she ordered to one of the paramedics.
Danny and
Flack ran with a group of colleagues at Trinity General
"We
are dealing with a potentially armed and dangerous subject! Pay the utmost
attention!" Flack explained picking up his gun and entering the hospital
"Don,
let's go inside the halls of emergency! Certainly they have done her a checkup!
She wasn’t seriously injured!" Danny suggested
Flack ran
followed by Danny while the policemen were clearing that area of the hospital.
Flack and
Danny entered the room and found the doctors bound and gagged. Danny lifted the
gag to one of them and this one exclaimed "She ran away! We could not do
anything! She was armed!"
"Flack!
Branch off a general alarm! The chase begins!" Danny said "I was a
fool to let her go! It's all my fault!" he growled.
Mac and
Christine were together in a hospital room with the kids and he had his arm
immobilized
"Faith
Trinity!" Mac smiled
"We
have reached an agreement! I cannot wait to see the faces of my parents! To
them I steel dead, now we will shock them even more with twins!" Christine
smiled in return
"Mac,
go in your room to rest! I know that sleep is a word unknown to you, but you
must do it! We have made anesthesia to remove the bullet from your shoulder!"
Peyton said entering
"Five
minutes?" Mac asked imploring
"If
you tell me what you were talking about!" Peyton smiled
"We
decided to call the little girl Faith Trinity!" Mac said
"We
were not aware of having twins!"
"The
important thing is that you have chosen a name together and in record time! To
choose Aubrey it took me a lot: two days!" Peyton smiled "Five
minutes past the Mac! Go to bed!"
"At
your orders doctor!" he said greeting with a kiss Christine and looking Jo
enter. He greeted her with a nod "Take care of Christine while I'm not
there!"
"Go to
rest!" Jo said looking at him to get out and then she took a seat next to
Christine and observed the kids in their cradles "You’ve been lucky!"
"Really
much lucky! Both you and the babies ran a big risk!" Peyton had put great
emphasis on those words
"I
still have not figured out how you are related to the Mac..." Christine
said
"Well,
Mac and I have been in a relationship for almost a year! I decided to break up
with him and when we meet again in May three years ago... it seemed that we
could start over, but I ran away, again!"
"You
said to have a daughter..." Christine said
"I
confess that, until recently, I did not know she wasn’t the daughter of Mac!"
Peyton said "But I did not wish that Mac would deal with her in any case!"
Jo smiled
amused "To make him suffer, you’ve done it good!"
Peyton
glared at her and decided to change the subject "Can I ask you a private
question, Christine?" she asked and Christine nodded to her "Mac has
ever called you Claire?"
"No!
Never!"
"Then
yours is really a relationship that will last a long time!"
Mac
listened to doctors in the hallway from his bed
"We
need to inform relatives and friends that Lieutenant Horatio Caine is
dead!"
Mac began
to cry in silence "I'll take Pimpernel! Thou shalt not ever hurt anyone!
Wait till I get out of here!"
It was six
o'clock in the morning and police cars turned in all of New York City looking
for Romilda Bowns: -The Scarlet Pimpernel-.
However, No
one could find her until a police cruiser saw her body impaled on a fence
"Here Sergeant Randall! We have the subject! Call those of the Scientific!
It seems that someone has arrived before us!"
"Roger
Sergeant! To all units! Suspend the operation! I repeat, suspend the operation!"
Darkyanna Dec 13 2013 on EFP
ReplyDeleteCongratulations though I feel sorry for the death of Horatio.
You have exploited marvelously the revenge for alleged wrongs and the consequent desire to make suffer those presumed responsible, a perfect plot that deserves full advantage of the video transposition.
Anyway wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)
king_23 Dec 14 2013 on EFP
ReplyDeleteCiaoo! Sorry for the delay.... since I haven’t had time to review the previous chapter I’ll do it now. Both chapters are very exciting and interesting and you manage to surprise me every time with some new detail that always manages to leave me stunned! According to me the fundamentals (which I appreciate very much) are suspense and surprise that help to create the right system for the story.... then add your fantastic ideas and we get a masterpiece! Returning to the chapters you made me take a number of strokes: the first when Mac discovers he has a daughter with Peyton (I didn’t expect her to be back), the second when the Pimpernel manages to kidnap Christine (and there you have made me jump off the couch) and then Horatio’s death caught me without notice. I’ll conclude by making you my warmest congratulations and best wishes for a Merry Christmas!
the next (look forward to updates in January).
King_23 :)
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