Fake It 'Til You Make It - Hamliza

Chapter 5: Stalked

TW: Mention of guns and blood

"T-Thomas..." she got Philip off the monkey bars. "C'mon Pip. Let's go."
"No! We just got here!" He started throwing a fit, which made Thomas look over. "Well if it isn't Eliza."
"Stay away from me. Get away." She pulled Pip to the car. "Pip let's go."
"No!" It took awhile, but they finally got home. After Eliza tucked Philip in for a nap and started watching TV, she realized that something seemed off. It felt like somebody was watching her.

She grabbed her phone and put 9-1-1 in the phone incase something happened. That way, she could just press call right away.
20 minutes later, she heard Pip start crying which was unusual. He usually slept for an hour and just got up when he was done. She ran to his room and scooped him up. "What's wrong, baby? What happened?" She asked, keeping him and her phone at close range.

"I-I saw a man outside the window. He ran away b-but I think he's still there." She hoped that Philip was just seeing things. "C'mon, baby. You can sleep in the living room. I'll keep you safe." Pip nodded, and they walked out to the living room. She pulled a fluffy blanket over him, and he fell asleep, letting out soft snores. Her phone rang. "Hello?" Silence. "Helllooo." Silence. She hung up, "must've been a wrong number", she said warily. The phone rang again. "Hello?" This time someone answered.

"Hello Lizzie. You have something for me, don't you? Give it over and I'll leave you alone." The voice said. "Leave me alone! I don't know what you're talking about!" She said angrily but quiet enough so she wouldn't wake Pip.
"Now now, Elizabeth. No need to get all protective. Let me have the kid and you can be on your way." He said. "I don't need to give you anything." She said and hung up. Instead of calling the police, she called the last person she would have expected to.

"Hello?", Alexander answered, sounding as if he just woke up. "I feel unsafe, Alex. My ex is threatening to take my kid and he's outside my house! Please come over! Please! I'm terrified!" She was choking on her words and sobbing. Alexander let out an audible gasp from the phone. "I'll be right over."
Ten minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Eliza looked through the peephole, it was Alexander. "Come in", she cried. Her phone rang again after he walked in and she locked the door.
"You really think you're safe with another person here?", Thomas chuckled. "You thought wrong. I'm coming in." Eliza turned to Alexander. "Call the police. I'll take Philip and hide upstairs."

Alexander nodded and called the police from the kitchen phone, telling them a brief explanation and the address. He heard a window break and some footsteps but they didn't seem like they would belong to a man. He caught a glimpse of someone walking through the house and saw it was definitely a woman. A woman he knew.
"Chelsea!?" He shouted. She turned and pointed a gun at him. "Don't move." She said as Thomas walked in behind her. "Good job, love." Thomas smirked and made his way upstairs.

There was a knock on the door. "New York City police!" Alexander was about to move towards the door, "OPEN IT AND I WILL SHOOT YOUR GODDAMN TESTICLES OFF!", Chelsea screamed. "It's not safe in there, we have to break in", Alexander heard another police officer say. He heard a scream. Philip's scream. And Eliza yelled, "stop! Leave us alone!" Alexander then saw the door break down. "DROP THE WEAPONS NOW!"
"One of you please go upstairs! There's a woman and a child in danger!" One of the police officers ran upstairs and the other put Chelsea in handcuffs. "I'm innocent, you fool!"
"Sir, Hamilton? Is that you?" They heard a scream in agony from upstairs.

Alexander ran up with a cop to see what happened. Eliza was laying unconscious on the floor and Pip was beside her, balling his eyes out. Alexander rushed over and tried to pick him up but he was bleeding heavily from a wound on his leg. Paramedics arrived quickly and took Eliza and Pip to the hospital.
Alexander went with them to make sure they were ok.
Philip got 8 stitches in his leg and was diagnosed with a concussion since Eliza dropped him when she collapsed. Eliza was much worse, however. She wasn't waking up even though she had a pulse. Luckily, the doctors said she would wake up within a couple weeks.