collateral chaos

Twenty-Four

Sadie pulls her gun, "Trent, what the fuck do you think you're doing?"

He chuckles and sneers, "My job."

"Put the gun down. You work for me," She orders. Cinna holds his hands up, staying motionless, the other security men behind them, in the same position.

"Actually, I don't. Why don't you explain yourself," Trent says out loud to seemingly no one. Then, a monitor pulls up a familiar face. Giorgi Romani.

"I fucking knew it," Sadie mutters under her breath.

"Apparently not, Madame Sink, as you didn't even realize you had a double agent in your Estate!" Giorgi laughs.

"What do you want?" Sadie asks, still holding her gun toward Trent.

"I think you know. You're not stupid," He states.

"I'm not going down without a fight and you know it," She spits. The redhead slowly moves to be in a better position to see the screen. Or so, Trent and Romani think. She hits the button of her walkie against the wall.

Bella listens for Sadie's voice but hears Giorgi's instead, "Then I guess we'll just have to take it from you. But I should warn you, we have Florence."

Bella's eyes widen and she quickly runs to the elevator, supporting Giovanni's head with her hand.

Giorgi moves the camera to show the blonde woman sitting on the floor, bloodied and tied up.

"Hold on, Florence!" Sadie shouts. Giorgi only laughs.

"You'll never make it in time. Not after we're done with you."

Bella goes to the apartment and bursts in, "There's about to be an attack, we have to hurry!"

The body guards stand up, wondering if Bella is serious. Her voice is urgent as she goes to Thea's room, the farthest back.

"Go, follow your mama!" Julio orders. The kids drop their fake guns and run after Bella, "Let's block the doors."

Matthew nods as they move the couch in front of the door to their apartment. Billie works by herself to block the windows in the living room with the table. They switch out their Nerf guns for their real guns that were stored in a cabinet in the kitchenette.

Meanwhile, Sadie threatens Giorgi downstairs, "You talk big game for someone who's spent all his time hiding."

"I haven't been hiding, I've been preparing," He replies, "Preparing to take you down."

Cinna catches Sadie's eye. He crouches down lower, giving Sadie an opening to shoot Trent in a place where it will hurt him the most. Trent's focused on Giorgi talking.

"You see, when this is all over, I'll be the most powerful mafia boss in Italy. And then I just have to get rid of Alexei and I'll be the most powerful in the world," He exclaims. Sadie yawns and takes this chance to move her gun down slightly, "And it's all thanks to you, Madame Sink."

"Don't thank me just yet," She smirks. The real mafia boss wastes no time and shoots Trent in the groin, Cinna rolling away. He drops to the ground and Sadie finishes him off with a bullet to the head. She shoots the monitor and Giorgi's face disappears, "Prepare for an attack! Now!"

"Yes, ma'am!" The men all leave the room and Sadie helps Cinna up.

"Can you still check the perimeter?" She asks. He nods as he takes a seat.

"Thank you," He tells her. He pulls up video feed from around the Estate, "Nothing yet."

"What's that?" Sadie asks, looking at another monitor, stationed on the roof.

"That's a jet. They're coming," He says.

"Keep in touch," She orders as she leaves the room. She runs into the living room where her men hide and wait, "They're coming by jet. Get up to the roof!"

Some of the men come out from their hiding places and rush to the stairs.

Meanwhile, on the second level, Billie, Matthew, and Julio finish barricading themselves inside Thea's room. They also shut the doors of the boys' room to throw anyone off if they try to enter.

"You're doing so good," Bella praises her children who are almost piled on top of her in the corner of the room. The three bodyguards surround the door, waiting to protect the children.

"Are the bad people gonna hurt Mom?" Thea asks.

"No, your mom is gonna be just fine," Bella says. She believes in Sadie's ability to hold her own. And if she gets injured, she always bounces back. Suddenly, they hear distant gunshots, "Okay we have to be quiet now."

On the roof, Giorgi's men land and begin shooting at Sadie's. The redhead waits on the stairs, ready to jump out and join.

Machine guns fire repeatedly and sounds of men falling echo through the stairwell.

"Ready? Let's do this," Sadie bursts out of the stairwell with thirty men behind her. She begins using her machine gun on Giorgi's men, aiming for faces.

"Ugh!"

"Oof!"

"Shit!"

Giorgi's men begin dropping like flies. Sadie begins to insult Giorgi in her head, Really? Your men are weak.

She wonders why there are so few up on the roof, it sounded like there were more. She then realizes where they went as downstairs, glass breaks.

"Take care of this!" She orders her men. They all nod and continue to take out Giorgi's men. A few of Sadie's men are dead, but that's to be expected. She hurries down the stairwell but is met with one of Giorgi's men. He shoots her in the abdomen and she falls back. He then retreats back down, "You're a little pussy! Couldn't finish me off, bitch?"

She runs down the stairwell, holding her wound as she runs. Sadie gets right back into the gun battle, even with blood running down her leg.

"Madame Sink!" Vaughn calls. He takes off his machine gun and throws it to her, knowing she's got to be getting low, "Catch!"

She drops her empty machine gun to the side and catches the other effortlessly. A bullet goes wizzing past her head and she laughs.

"You missed you piss lizard!" She insults before shooting the man in the head. She dodges bullets as she runs to the couch and ducks behind it. The mafia turns to see Vaughn sliding a gas mask to her. He holds up one of Finn's amnesia bombs as he slips the mask over his head.

Sadie takes it and quickly slips it on. She nods for him to throw it. He pulls the pin and throws the bomb over the couch.

"Shit! Shit, it's a bomb!" Someone yells. The bomb goes off with a boom. But it's no regular bomb. This bomb stuns and incapacitates anyone around it. As the gas fills the room, the men drop to the ground like flies, both Giorgi's and Sadie's. It will be easy to tell who belongs to Sadie though. They all have three dots tattooed on their inner wrist.

Vaughn and Sadie rise as the gunfire ceases, "Check them. Anyone who isn't ours, kill. I'm going to check the roof."

"Yes, Madame."

Sadie runs up to the roof, slowing down though as the adrenaline subsides and the pain sets in. She bursts through the stairwell and initially, her men point their guns at her, but then they put them down.

"Are they all dead?"

"Yes, Madame."

She grins, "Fantastic."

"Madame, you're wounded," One of them says, noticing her blood-soaked shirt.

"I'll be fine," She waves them off. In the distance they hear another helicopter or jet, "This could be a second wave, prepare yourselves."

"Yes, ma'am!" The men crouch down and aim at the helicopter. Sadie squints and sees a red heart on the side.

"Stand down! It's an ally," She announces. Her men ease up as it prepares to land on her helipad, "It's Sabrina."