The Next 3 Days

Exposed

"Drop the gun. Everyone drop their gun or I'll shoot her."
Everyone complies, their guns on the floor and they all have their hands in the air cautiously.
Mikel asks him to let go of me and let them just talk out the problem, Bill beings to act frantically and shoots a bullet in the air "Don't, Don't talk."
He looks at Lilian "This is all your fault"
"My fault?" Lilian questions
"YES!"
Bill begins to hit himself in the head with the gun "yes, yes, yes. It is your fault." He pushes his nose in my hair "and yours."
"I haven't seen you for years, how is this my fault?" I snap
Bill grips her neck tighter and grits his teeth "you lied to me, you wouldn't let me love you"
"You killed my mother!" I wince
"Shhh, that was necessary! She was keeping us apart, like Marcel is doing, you, you two planned to run away after this? Hm?"
I look over at Marcel and Gabriella and before I got to answer Bill, Vladimir speaks up.
"Uhh, sorry to disappoint ya hotshot but I came here for the lass, so she's leaving with me."
Bill turns his attention to Vladimir. "What? Wh-Who are you?"
"The name's Tom, Tom Bradshaw. I would say nice to meet you but you've got my lady in a tight headlock so, unnice to be of your acquaintance."
Bill pushes the gun to my head "Shut Up!"
"Would you shut up?" Vince interjects
"You're gonna make him kill her you bastard" Mikel yells
"Everyone shut up!" Bill commands
"No actually" Vladimir responds "I've got to take a piss, I'm tired and if we're all gonna be honest we know we will die before he shoots her" Vladimir walks over to the sitting room with everyone following his moves while he sits and puts his feet up and lounges in a relaxing position. Was he crazy?
Three quiet seconds past by and then Vladimir said "Now!"
Vince pushes Ava out the way and she falls to the floor behind a chair and he rushes over to me, bear hugs me and we fall to the floor, Vladimir takes the gun from behind him; his dress shirt hid it well; and shot Bill in his left arm. Bill falls back screaming in agony. Marcel and Mikel quickly rush over to Bill and drags him to the stairs.
"Quickly Lilian, go to the broom closet and get the rope" Mikel shouts
"Okay!" Lilian hurriedly runs with her heels clicking to and fro
Vince helps me up and I run over to Vladimir and hug him "Thank you! Even though for a moment I thought you truly lost your mind"
Vladimir hugs me back and chuckles "You don't need to thank me Love. I can't take you away from this mess if you're dead."

Marcel walked over to me and tapped me on my shoulder, I turned around and saw everyone embracing each other, a room so torn by love full of love.
'Can we talk?' Marcel signed.
I nod and we head over to the dining room and I close the door, sound proof, convenient.
I sighed before I looked at Marcel, I knew what he wanted to say but I was so tired, I wanted to hear the shitty excuse but I still didn't want to know why he betrayed me, how could he do that to me?
'It wasn't supposed to be like this. He took Gabriella 2 days before we went to Columbia and if I knew you were there I would've done things differently, I didn't know you were there til I saw you laying in the van, I knew I needed to get you out of there but I also needed to find Gabriella. After being there i got a text from my mom giving me her location, your dad figured it out somehow, that's how I managed to know where Ava was.'
I wanted to keep my cool, a clear head but I couldn't help myself. "You could've told me the truth Marcel!" I blurted
His eyes widened 'You wouldn't have helped. Not after what Vince did to you.'
"Are you kidding me? We are here because of Vince. We came for his WIFE!"
Marcel rolled his eyes, 'We both know you did this because you don't know where you fit; cause if you did you wouldn't have just married the first person that swept you off your feet.'
The nerve of Marcel right now, how could he? "Did you tell Bill where we were? Did you betray us? Me?"
'Seriously Elana? No! I can't believe you, he has contacts everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if your new boyfriend..' Marcel rolled his eyes in disgusting jealousy '..is his snitch and you're so broken you'd go with anyone'
What!
Elana slapped Marcel in his face. "Fuck you, Marcel. He's been the most honest person here despite his arrogance and that's way better than dealing with an already married man, who lies to me for years and the one person who I thought even after all this time would still honor our friendship. So fuck you and don't you ever speak out of turn about Vladimir, or I will break your fucking fingers. You got that?"
Marcel stood there astonished, letting my words sink in, before he could express his regret I storm to the doors.
I opened the door and as time passed by it felt slower, I was falling, why was I falling? Stress? These days have been too much. I hear faded voices calling my name but the strength to answer has left me.
"Elana? Elana answer me." Vladimir calls over me but his handsome face is the last thing I see when everything goes dark and somehow I'm at peace with this.

20 minutes earlier

Two Russians, Marc & Eric burst through Mikel's front door with guns "No one move, no one dies, we are looking for Bill."
Their request is quickly forgotten when Ava screamed out and caught Vince's attention
"Jesus Christ! What now?" Vladimir walks out the sitting area with Bourbon in a glass along with Vince and Mikel and they see the women with their hands up, Gabriella sitting down and a familiar face for Vladimir; Marc.
"Marc?"
"Vladimir?"
"What the fuck are you doing here?"
"Business."
Mikel chimes in "What are you doing in my house?"
"Where's Bill?" Eric spoke up
"Oh, look. The side kick can talk." Vladimir teases "Bill? He's-uhm- a little tied up right now so you'll have to come back tomorrow."
"Still the asshole I remember" Marc said
"You don't know me, so fuck you." Vladimir growls
"How the fuck do you two know each other" Vince asks
"Mind your business Vince" Vladimir said almost angry he asked.
"You've been in mine all day you dick."
"He was a slave for my father." Marc interrupts
The entire house goes quiet and Vladimir looks like he was one more secret being exposed from combusting. How fucking dare Marc. That was Vladimir's darkest secret and he felt exposed, naked and nasty.
Vince looks at Vladimir and then puts his hand on his shoulder in a comforting manner.
Vladimir finished his drink. "You, just like your father, are a sick dirty bastard and you disgust me and you know what?"
Marc, amused laughs. "What, Vladimir?"
"Today this madness ends." Vladimir quickly pulled his gun from his waist and and shot Eric twice in his chest and his gun was out, he rushes Marc and they fight, the room was silenced when Marc's gun went off then another gun; Vince shot Marc but the room was filed with an extra gasp and all eyes turn. Vladimir runs to her. Elana got shot.