Anything To Let Go of Him

Chapter 10

Chapter 10-

  Brittany, Sebastian, and the SWAT member were frozen. They didn't know what to do. The SWAT member tried to negotiate with the unknown person holding them at gun-point. "Please, don't do this. There's no point. You won't get away. Just tur-" he tried talking the shooter out of doing something that was meaningless.

  "Shut up or I'll blow your effing head off," They said sharply. "Turn around slowly."

  The SWAT member turned around first. He was shocked at what he saw. For the shooter was just a boy. No younger than 17 or 18.

  "Now you two," he said calmer.

  While turning around, Brittany and Sebastian felt something familiar about his voice. And when they saw him, they were shook. It was Sam. Sam was the shooter. Sam was holding them at gun-point.

  "Oh my god," Brittany said, awestruck. "Sam? What are you doing? WHY are you doing this?"

  "Shut up," Sam said, furious. He was getting worked up. His fist not holding the gun was clenching. Then you could see his nails around the handle turning white. Then he mistakenly pulled the trigger. And shot the SWAT member. Brittany screamed. And Sebastian was so scared and he backed away to the wall.

  Then the moment next, SWAT members from every direction were running into the scene. One tackled Sam and forced the gun out of his hand. Three were knelt by the one shot down. One ran out and returned with several paramedics and a gurney. And the rest, exited outside, unloading their suit as they walked. One paramedic escorted Brittany and Sebastian out to the parking lot behind yellow police tape. They hugged each other tighter than ever before. Soon after that, the shot SWAT member was brought out on a gurney by paramedics. Then students were flooding out of the school doors. Brittany and Sebastian impatiently waited for Blaine.

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  Blaine had been laying against the choir room wall. Anxiously waiting everything to be over and see his best friend and boyfriend. Then he heard another shot. And he popped up faster than a flying mosquito about to be hit by a human palm. He heard a scream just after. A moment later he heard yelling. And then on, he couldn't make out anything else. And then a short time after, SWAT team members were knocking on doors and giving the 'all clear'. While the glee club huddled into a group hug, Blaine ran to the auditorium. He ran onto the stage, lifted the hatch lid, and when Brittany and Sebastian weren't in there he looked in all the classrooms nearest to the auditorium. They weren't in there. So he ran outside. And there they were. Right behind yellow police as everyone else were in little separate groups far from the tape. Brittany and Sebastian had their eyes locked on the school doors so they saw him once he stepped into the light. They ducked under the tape and ran to Blaine. Engaging in a group hug the moment they reached him, that lasted several long moments. Sebrittaine was finally reunited after a life or death incident.

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  Brittany and Sebastian were sitting in the hospital room of the SWAT member that was shot. His name was Toby Cooper. His condition wasn't critical but he wasn't conscious. Brittany and Sebastian brought him flowers. Toby's doctor filled Brittany and Sebastian in on his condition as they were there. He was shot in his right shoulder. Nothing major.

  "Do you know anything about the boy who shot him?" Brittany asked. "And what's going to happen to him?"

  "You know what," the doctor said. "Let's speak in my office."

  Sebastian and Brittany followed the doctor to her office, where she closed the door and the blinds, suspiciously. When she sat down, she asked, "So, before I tell you this, you have to understand, that this cannot be told to anyone. The only reason I'm telling you is because you were witnesses."