FLOWERS

Peony

"You sick bastards!" "You've endangered are children!" "You monsters!" Within forty minutes there were screaming mothers, fathers, priests, librarians, prostitutes, hundreds of people, banging at the Columbus police station doors. The roads were overflowing with people throwing bricks and rocks and trash cans, basically whatever wasn't permanently stuck to the ground and even then, at the entrance of Ohio's finest. It was utter chaos.

It had started with a facebook post of the location of all of Alonzo's targets. The post spread all over the internet fast, like a virus. In a matter of forty minutes.

Inside the police station, police officers were holding back the doors and trying their damndest to not let anyone through. Sounds of gunfire and screaming and distruction filled the air to the point that nothing else could be heard.

Allon, Ameilia, Betty and Trevor were shuffled off into the basement of the police station, locked inside for their own safety. Allon paced back and forth, thinking and planning, trying his best to come up with some way that this situation could be stopped. But nothing was coming to mind. Trevor was huddled into Betty's arms, terrified of what was to come. Betty was doing her best to hold herself together, but she was also scared and she wasn't hiding it very well. Ameilia kept her eyes on Allon, silently, and inefectivly, trying to send calm energy his way. She stood at the door of their safe room, which was a broom closet that was being blocked by a file cabnit, trying her best to keep calm and think positivly, but there was no positve in this situation.

"There's no way this is actually happening." Betty felt sweat beed on her forehead as she tried her best to keep herself from shaking. "How did he know..? How could he have possibly known? We had just came up with that plan, literally this morning. In less than a day, he has all of America at our doorstep."

No one responded, but her words hung heavily in the room. Allon walked up to the wall and lightly laid the side of his fist against it. "It's obviouse. He has a rat in the police station." He slammed his fist againt the wall much harder. "Dammit... I'm such an idiot. I should have seen it, I'm a damn detective!" He sighed to himself. His disapointment in himself was feirce, but Allon didn't mess up often. When he did, he felt like the failure he never wanted to be. He pulled his pistole out of the holster at his side and aimed it at Ameilia. He cocked it.

"Holy shit, Allon! What are you doing?!" Betty screamed.

Trevor looked up to see the comotion. "Shit Allon! She's not the rat! She's on Alonzo's kill order too!"

"Yeah, I thought about that. Ameilia just kinda showed up today with all the answers and then right after we had come up with a plan, Alonzo called us out. That makes this pretty clear to me."

Ameilia had to admit, the situation didn't look very good for her, but she knew that she didn't really have anyway of denying it. "It's not like that, Allon." She honestly didn't know what to say. "I honestly don't know what to say.

"Good, that'll make this easier." Allon put the gun to her forehead. "On your knees, please." He stated calmly.

Ameilia calmly did as he asked.

"ALLON! What are you doing!?" Betty jumped to her feet.

"Fixing my mistake." Allon took in a deep breath.

Ameilia felt tears build in her eyes. "I promise you, I'm not a bad guy." She felt her body shake as fear took over her being.

Allon didn't say anything for a moment and then pulled the gun away from her. "Cool, that's all I needed to know."

There was a long pause as Allon walked away from Ameilia.

"ALLON WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Betty screamed. She ran up to Allon and shoved him. "You just pulled your gun on someone for no reason!? That's so messed up!"