There's No Time...

Part 4.

Hailey was nowhere to be seen. And Lucas' heart was beating faster than ever. "You wanna stop pointing that at me?" He asked, staring down the loaded barrel. "Oh do I?!" The man joked with a hearty laugh. He pushed the gun so it felt like it was scratching into his brain, it could shoot at any time...

He was completely out of control. And that is his biggest fear. He hated the thought of being out of control.

But he pushed that back, all the tears, he could shed, he pushed those back. His eyes burned, and his jaw clenched. He shut his eyes lightly for a moment, before opening them back up. "How do you think this will end for you?" Lucas asked.

The man grinned, and Lucas felt his stomach turn over and over again "Thank you for asking! Well, for starters, I'll blow apart your pretty little head, and then.. well..-", he laughed before continuing,

"Well.. you wouldn't make it long enough to care what I do to you next."

Lucas tries to keep a stern face, he tried to keep his composure, but his whole world could collapse in, how couldn't he panic?

"Oooo!" The offender squealed, "Let's play a game!" He continued. Pulling Lucas out of the room with a gun to his head. "You can't have been here alone detective!!" He lead him, as he continued. "So let's find the other little piggies and I can shoot you allll!" Lucas just listened, not daring to say a word.

"And they say pigs don't fly!" He then smiled.

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Hailey had cleared the other side of the building, and then she went to go find her partner but instead got stopped by a noise coming from the hallway. She opened the apartment door and peered out. "Lucas?" Hailey asked, gripping her gun harder, as she looked around the corner. She saw the cpd labelled vests and quickly realised they were friend, Not foes.

Kim and Kevin went to clear the garage labelled 4b. Then they made their way up to the same house number. As they reached the third floor, they had a feeling of impending doom.

When Lucas didn't come back, they went to clear the side of the building, that Lucas has been held in. They kept their mouths closed and rushed to the living room, hoping if anything that the offender had fled, and had not injured Hailey's dear partner.

The room bubbled in tension, and as the team crept around the living room,  Lucas had his head in a toilet, being held down by the tip of the other man's gun.

Hailey make her way to the bathroom door and peered in. She blinked once in fear as she readied her gun.

One shot rang out, flying forward and plummeting into the offender's side.

Like a firework the bullet exploded, the first shot wasn't fatal, but if he didn't get help quickly it could be.

Who knew what internal bleeding he had, but right now that didn't matter to Hailey. The other partners ran in, Kevin pulled the man up from the floor by his arm, Kim cuffed his other hand, and as Kevin put the other behind his back she cuffed it. Kevin put his hand on the offender's head and pushed him out.

The offender limped out, the gaping wound/s in his side still bleeding,

The beaten detective's head arose from the toilet, Hailey got to her knees and patted him on the back as he coughed up the water from his lungs. "Right.. we gotta get you to med." Hailey demanded gently, "no..no I'm fin... I just need a shower..." Lucas pleaded.

"Mhm sure thing.." Hailey slapped him on the shoulder gently and when he jumped it confirmed it. "Nope.. not buying it... so I'll drive you unless you want me to call an ambulance?"