Person Of Interest: The Struggle

Chapter 7: The End (?)

    Dominique woke up with a start and held onto her bullet wound then laid back down with a flop. She sighed and looked around at all of the books along the walls, she heard some footsteps and looked up to see Finch walking in with a cup.

     "Good morning" he said when he walked in, "How are you feeling?" He gave the cup to Dominique and she drank it,

     "Hot chocolate!" She thought to herself. "I'm feeling better" she replied to Finch. He looked at her bandages and nodded then got up and walked to where his desk was. Dominique stood up and walked out and saw Finch typing on his computer and Reese cleaning one of his guns.

     "How many times do I need to ask you to not do that here, you know I don't enjoy weapons Mr. Reese" Finch complains to Reese.

     "And how many times must I tell you that I can't clean my gun in the park anymore" Reese replies back, continuing to clean. Finch sighs then looks away and smiles.

     "So what are we gonna do about our mystery  man?" Dominique asks. Reese looks up and explains,

     "We will find him without a doubt but it matters more on....finding him, you know?" Reese looked at her with determination in his gaze. He then looked down and continued to polish his gun. Dominique nodded and sat down on a nearby couch,

     "Hey, whatever happened to the other two kids I saw here?" Dominique questioned.

     "They went home back to their families." Finch said not turning away from his computer screen.

     Dominique looked at how much he looked at his computer,

     "You like computers Finch?" She asked curious.

"Well being a highly experienced hacker," he turns and looks at her, "I would say yes." He then turns around and shrugs with a small smile.

Dominique just thought about how they could find the Mystery Man.

"I've just got an idea, what if we return to the original scene of the crime and see if we can find any clues to his whereabouts." She looked at them and the looked towards each other then turned back and Finch said,

"That's not a bad idea, if we were to go back there again we would have to bring more," he shuddered a little, " weapons..." Reese nodded and grabbed a duffel bag and walked into the other room.

Later that day, Reese, Finch and Dominique stood outside the abandoned warehouse. Reese pulled out one of his machine guns and ran inside searching the area to see if it were safe.

"Clear!" Reese called after a few minutes of silence. Finch and Dominique walked in and looked around the enormous warehouse.

     "It's strange, that a giant warehouse is just sitting out here in the open." Dominique said. She stopped and looked down at a dried up blood puddle. She rubbed where her wound was and walked over it.

     She walked into an empty office near the entrance and saw a bunch of papers laid across a desk with pictures of the library and Reese with Finch.

     "Found something!" She called to them. Reese walked in and examined the photos. He found a paper that had a small apartment building on it,

     "56 Carroll drive," He said, "that must be where he is hiding." Reese then walked outside and grabbed his duffel bag. "Let's go!" He called.

     The car drive was silent as they were driving to the house. Dominique could tell they were uneasy from the photos. Once they arrived, Reese jumped out of the car and walked up the porch. He read the list of names,

     "Finch," he said, "there's an apartment here with no name." Reese opened the door and walked in, they went up the elevator because Finch couldn't climb the stairs. When they got to the top Reese walked out, gun out. He walked to the door that he hoped the Mystery Man was behind.

     Reese kicked the door in and ran inside with his gun. Dominique followed behind him. She turned the corner after entering a hallway and saw a man sitting in a chair, facing away from them.

     "Well, it's about time you showed up." He said but no longer with his robotic voice. The chair turned and there was a young boy, early twenties. He had dark brown hair and piercing eyes. "Now you know what I look like, since you were all so curious." He smirked.

     Reese held his gun high, "What do you want from us?" He demanded. The boy sat there for a short while then finally said,

     "Your lives." He then grabbed a gun out of his holster and Reese and the mystery man shot at the same time. The mystery man slumped back a bullet in his chest, he was wheezing. There was a thump and Finch froze.

     Reese looked down and Dominique laid on the floor with a bullet directly in her chest. She caught another bullet for him.

     "Dominique..." Finch froze, "oh god." He limped and stood over her then kneeled, he didn't care about the pain he was feeling. Reese looked up angrily at the Mystery Man and walked over and held the gun right to his face.

     He chuckled, "Do it, please...do it." He coughed up some blood and chuckled again. Reese cringed and punched him in the face until face bled more. He stopped and turned around to see Finch look up and shake his head. He looked down and saw Dominique's eyes were closed and she was limp. Reese froze and turned around to look at the man.

     He finally held up the gun to his face and fired.