bullets and bouquets

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The attacker loosens her grip on Sadie's neck to turn around and be knocked out by Jenna and her frying pan. The attacker thuds to the ground. Jenna quickly rushes down to Sadie's side.

"Sadie, Sadie! Fuck!" Jenna shakes the redhead, but she doesn't wake. She taps her face a couple of times and the redhead gasps, "Oh, Jesus Christ. Thank god."

Jenna helps her sit up.

"Thank you... thank you," Sadie gasps. Jenna looks at her shoulder.

"Your shoulder, Sadie," she comments.

"I know," Sadie tiredly answers. She pulls out her walkie, "I need medical on the second level."

"Sadie, it's Dacre, we're in Conference Room A," he replies.

"Where's Weston? And Denmar?" Sadie asks. Dacre doesn't answer because he honestly doesn't know. It's radio silent for a minute.

Trent answers, "They're gone, Madame."

"Gone?"

"Denmar received a bullet to the head. Weston and the security team were ambushed," he explains. Sadie sits still for a moment. She can't process the information. She throws the walkie at the wall and it breaks.

"Fuck!" she yells. The others in the mansion didn't need the radio to relay Sadie. They could all hear her with her volume.

"Sadie..."

"No! Leave me alone!" she screams. Jenna backs up. She's afraid. Sadie is spiraling and she's moments away from losing all control. The black-haired woman quickly runs inside the second level. She knocks on the door.

"Bella! Open up!" she shouts. Bella jumps at Jenna's voice, holding the frying pan up in defense.

"Color of the day?"

Jenna blanks for a moment, being more distracted by Sadie's spiral, "Yellow! Yellow! Sadie needs you, it's an emergency! Please, open----"

Bella slams the door open and pushes past Jenna.

"Where... where is she?" Bella runs out of the second level to find her girlfriend next to the stairs. She's bawling. Pulling at her hair. Blaming herself for all of these deaths, "Sadie. Sadie! Stop!"

Sadie's head is underwater. She can't hear Bella. All she can hear is the piercing sound of gunfire. Gunfire that's killed over half of her men. That's killed Denmar. Killed the man that's been with her since she was three years old.

"Sadie! Stop!" Bella takes the girl into her lap. Sadie sobs harder when her hands are pulled away from her head, "Stop, it's okay! It's okay, I'm here. I'm here."

Sadie doesn't resist. Her mind knows that Bella is there, even if Sadie doesn't know it at the moment. She relaxes into her arms. Jenna sits down next to them and the three cry. Bella's never seen Sadie like this and Jenna's only ever seen Sadie this upset one other time. When she left her ex. But this time is even more serious than the last. She lets herself break.

***

"Where's Sadie?" Natalia arrives at the Estate with Robin. Weston had called her as a last resort, moments before the attackers ambushed the security room.

"Conference Room B," Finn answers. It's been four hours since the attack ended. There are bodies all over the mansion. Blood stains the carpet, the floor, the walls, everywhere. The two girls walk to the conference rooms. Sabrina lies on the table, stable now, with Dacre watching over her in Conference Room A.

The next room, Conference Room B, is where Sadie lies. Bella sits next to her, holding her hand.

"Natalia, Robin, how... how did you?" Bella trails off.