bullets and bouquets

45

"Where should we go in?" Dacre radios Weston.

"The garage, Florence and Sabrina are in the living room. Sabrina needs help," he answers.

"Copy that," the gang leader answers, "What weapons do you have?"

"Stun grenades and I brought two amnesia bombs," Finn answers.

"Let's throw the stun grenades first. We don't want to give Sabrina amnesia," he says. Finn nods and they get out of the SUV. They walk into the garage with their own guns and Finn's weapons, "Go for it."

Finn throws the stun grenade out and it explodes, creating a lot of smoke. Everyone begins to cough.

"Sabrina, where are you?" Dacre shouts.

"Color of the day?" Florence shouts.

"Yellow!" he answers. His answer is a code that tells Florence they are allies of Sadie's.

The smoke begins to clear and the gunfire resumes. Dacre and Finn spot Sabrina.

"Go, I've got your back," Finn orders. The two begin to make their way over to Sabrina, who is almost unconscious from blood loss. Finn guards Dacre, taking out any men who try to shoot at him, as he rushes to the blonde.

"Sabrina, Sabrina," he says.

"Weston, we need medical," Finn radios.

"First floor, Conference Room A," Weston answers, "Carlo is..."

Gunfire sounds over the radio.

"Weston? Fuck," Finn curses, "We need to go... Now!"

Dacre picks up the blonde and they begin to make their way over to the conference rooms. Dacre takes a hit to the hip, the bullet grazing across his skin.

"Ah!" he groans. Finn grabs an amnesia bomb.

"Florence, come on!" he shouts. He throws the bomb at the attackers. Florence continues to shoot as they retreat down the conference room hall. This bomb will not only explode with shrapnel but also cause the attackers to pass out. The three work through the pile of bodies as the bomb explodes, "Here, in here!"

Carlo and the remaining medics wait inside with medical equipment. The attackers took out two of the medics in the infirmary earlier, showing no mercy on any of Sadie's servants. Florence closes the door as the gas from the bomb takes out the attackers on the main floor.

"What the hell was that?" Florence asks.

"Amnesia bomb, engineered it myself," Finn answers. She grins.

"I might have a business proposal."

***

Outside of the second level, Sadie takes out five attackers by herself.

"Uh!" another one knocks her gun out of her hand, "Shit!"

She then has to fight three intruders at once. Her shoulder bleeds but she doesn't feel the pain because of the adrenaline.

"Ah!" one grunts after Sadie kicks them. She takes out another with a right hook to the jaw.

"Ugh," she frowns as the last one punches her in the abdomen before shoving her to the floor.

The attacker goes to grab Sadie's gun, but she is quick to kick them over.

Sadie stands up but the attacker grabs her by the back of her shirt, "Ah!"

The redhead is pulled down and choked in the process. She falls to the floor and coughs, "Wait... wait! Wait! Stop!"

***

"There's no more gunfire," Jenna says. She stands up from inside the bathtub.

"Wait, there could be more," Bella stops her.

"I need to help them," the former gang leader says, "Stay here."

"Jenna! Please, don't," the brunette begs. Jenna lets go of her hand.

"Bella," she kneels down, "I'm doing this for Sadie. I have to help."

Jenna gets out of the bathtub, "Lock the door when I leave. If anyone knocks, ask for the color of the day."

"W... what?" Bella asks. Her voice shakes and she cries.

"Ask for the color of the day. Open it if they answer yellow. Don't open it for any other answers," she instructs.

"Color of the... what? Jenna, p-please..."

"Bella," she says sternly, "Color of the day?"

"Yellow," the brunette answers.

"Good. Lock the door after I leave, please," Jenna orders. She opens the bathroom door and goes into the bedroom, taking the knife and a frying pan with her. Bella quickly gets out of the tub and locks the door. She shakily gets back into the tub.

***

"She's not waking up," Dacre cries. Carlo performs CPR on the blonde on the conference room table. True works on stopping the blood flow.

"Let them do their job," Finn tells the man. He's extremely worried for his sister and nothing seems to calm him.

"How long until we can go out there?" Florence asks.

"A couple more minutes," Finn answers. The blonde woman huffs. Carlo gives Sabrina two rescue breaths.

"It's not working, oh my god, it's not working," Dacre panics. His own hip is bleeding but he still paces back and forth.

"Dacre, you need to sit," Finn says.

"I can't, I can't," he panics.

"You're getting blood on the floor," the gang leader says. He forces him to sit in a chair.

"Here," True hands Finn a roll of gauze, "put pressure on the wound."

Finn tears off a round of gauze and makes it into a pad, "Dacre."

The man looks away from Sabrina to take the gauze. He puts it on his hip where the blood is. He doesn't even groan from the pain.

"Switch me," Carlo says. True takes over CPR and Carlo goes to her abdomen, "Give me some of that."

Finn tears off another round and hands it to Carlo. He presses the sterile gauze on top of the already bloodied gauze. The bleeding hasn't stopped and it worries Dacre.

Outside of the conference room, the gunfire has ceased since the bomb was detonated. But Sadie still fights with the last attacker.

"Ah!" she grunts. She's losing stamina though with her shoulder wound becoming more serious, "Uh!"

Jenna makes quick work to move the bed from in front of the bedroom door. She then slowly works her way into the second level, making sure no attackers can blindside her. The attacker sits on top of Sadie, with her hands around the redhead's throat.

"You're putting up quite the fight," she comments. Sadie's face gets redder by the second. The attacker laughs as Sadie's eyes begin to droop, signaling that she's about to lose consciousness.

"Sadie!"