The Bodyguard

The Window

The boys are at her as what she said slowly sinks in. The enemy only has to get lucky once.

Before anything else can be said the officer she was being snappy with just a couple of minutes ago comes over with a pair of tweezers. Louis was surprised he actually listened to her, and still a little annoyed. 

She takes them from him after saying a quick thank you and squats down in front of the wall. She digs them in the center of one of the holes and after a minute or two pulls it back out.

"Paul" she yells, and he comes jogging over.

"Find anything" he asks.

"A bullet" she states inspecting the said bullet.

"How did we not find that" he asks himself.

"You looked around the wall not in the wall". She scoots over and does the same thing to the other two holes as everybody else stands there quietly. Louis looks the first bullet she first pulled out that is now sitting on the ground, and thinks about how that is the bullet that almost took his head off.

After she pulls all three out she looks at the holes then spins around still squating and just looks out. She them slowly stands up and Paul breaks the silence. "What are you thinking"

She stays quiet for a couple more seconds then turns back to the holes.

"Based on the location of the bullet and the way it entered the stone wall, the shooter was at a higher position then the four of them when shooting" she states. "Based on the bullet itself, the gun used looks like a type of military issued sniper rifle. The trajectory of the bullet or what I think is the trajectory of the bullet, suggests that it came from that direction" she says while pointing to a warehouse hundreds of yards away.

"Do you have binoculars" she asks Paul. 

"No I don't believe we do".

"Alright then, do you have a gun with you big enough to have a scope on it" she asks.

"Uh yeah hang on" he jogs over to somebody talks for a second the  jogs back over with a very big looking gun with of course a scope on the top. He hands the gun to her and she raises it and gets into postion as if she's going to shoot it. The odd thing that Louis noticed was the gun was probably half the size of her, yet she raised it and held it so easily and steadily, like she's been doing it all her life. As Louis glanced at the other members of One Direction he realized, that by the way she's been acting, she probably has.

She continues to hold the gun up, looking through the scope with one eye, and slowly moving the gun back and forth, then up and down. After a minute she lowers the gun and points to the building. 

"The shooter was in that window" she states very confidently.

After nobody says anything for a second, Paul speaks up. "Are you sure?" he asks with his eyebrows raised.

"Positive" she responds.

"And exactly how did you come to that conclusion?"

"When the boys described what happened they never said that they heard a shattering sound which means the window he shot through was already open when he shot. If he was smart he would have shot through an already open window or else his fingerprints would be on there".

"And if he used gloves" Niall interuppts.

"Then you would still be able to tell by the disturbance of the dust since that building has been abandned for several years. Anyway, there are several open windows in the building but you can slowly rule some of them out because the ones on the first two stories are too low based on the entry point of the bullet. The top story is two high because the bullet would have been pointed down more than it was. That leaves the third and fourth floor, except there are no open windows on the fourth floor".