A little bit dangerous

Chapter 54 : Gunshot

Joyce and Hopper were the only persons allowed in the hospital room. Jane was laying down on the bed, connected to machines, deeply asleep. Hopper spent his time doing back and forth between his office and the hospital, trying to find things to arrest Leonard Doyle for attempting murder on his own daughter, but the judge seemed corrupted and didn't want to hear what he had, preferring hushing the matter up. Hopper was outraged by this injustice, and more because he couldn't do anything for this! So now, he was waiting with Joyce in Jane's room for a miracle.

After an entire week, Jane began to come back to life. She felt pins and needles in her numb members before slowly opening her eyes. She got blinded by the light first, giving her a painful flashback from jail, and turned her head to see Joyce on the armchair. The mother told Hopper to call a doctor before standing and approaching Jane.

- "Hey, how are you?" asked softly Joyce.

Jane was still half asleep and didn't answer. She looked around with a frown, not understanding what she was doing here. The doctor entered, examined her, explained her why she was there, before leaving the room to let her take some rest, followed by Hopper and Joyce to talk to them.

Jane was slowly coming back to earth. Her next goal was giving her strength and determination. She sat up straight, ignoring the pain in her body, took off all the cables, swallowed some meds, and got out of the bed. There were some clothes on the chair that she put on. Once ready, she took her bag, opened the window, and climbed outside the building. She was at the second floor. She managed to grab a pipe and slid along it. Once on the ground, she had one place in her mind. She had to end this.

Meanwhile, in the hospital, Hopper and Joyce went to the teens who were waiting to tell them that Jane was awake. Only Mallory, Melissa, and Medhi were there as the others had to go to school. When the three friends entered the room, they had the surprise to see an empty bed.

- "Um, she is not here!" told Medhi to Joyce and Hopper who were a bit farther.

The two adults frowned at each other before running to the room. Hopper searched everywhere, even in the bathroom, but no one was there.

- "She ran away!" stated Hopper, upset.

- "But where? And why?" asked Joyce.

- "Oh, that doesn't smell good," pouted Melissa.

- "What? What is she going to do?"

- "She always said that, one day, she would kill her father, I'm pretty sure it's what she is going to do."

- "What!? We have to stop her!"

- "I'll call some patrols to look for her, you, you stay here in case she comes back, ok?" told Hopper, leaving the room in running.

Jane jumped on the first bus she saw. She took many others before arriving to her private stash. She took a shotgun before stealing a car and going in direction of the general headquarters of the Red Eagles. She crushed the hedge with her car, broke a wall, and quickly got out of the vehicle. Weapons were not allowed in the general headquarters; she just needed to raise her shotgun to dissuade them from approaching her. She went upstairs, took a long corridor, and kicked the only door opened. Leonard was sitting on an armchair, a cigar in his mouth and a beer in his hand.

- "Hello, Jane."

The brunette raised her shotgun to him, but she wasn't expecting him to do the same with a revolver. The father and the daughter were now holding each other's lives at the end of their barrels.

- "So? What are you waiting for? You don't kill me?"

- "I will," affirmed Jane.

- "You won't. You don't have guts."

- "You could be surprised."

- "You're just a crybaby. Your sister completely melted your brain!"

- "DON'T FUCKING TALK ABOUT HER!" got angry Jane. "You fucking ruined my life since I'm born, I'm sure mom abandoned me because of you and not me!"

- "Are you sure?" smirked Leonard.

- "Yeah...No...It's just...I think you killed her."

- "What make you think that?"

- "I dream of her. It's not clear, but I see her dying right in front of me almost every night, and I'm practically sure it's a memory and not just a dream. You killed the two persons who loved me the most; it's you, the fucking monster! Not me!"

- "You are mine. You are my thing. You do what I tell you to do, is it clear? Stop your shit now, we both know you won't kill me."

- "I will. It has to end, I don't wanna be a Red Eagle anymore, it sucks! I can't do anything like a normal teen!"

- "A normal teen!? You really wanna be like them!? You will never be a normal teen!"

- "I can try! I wanna hang with some friends, watch movies with them, go to the park with them, and, especially, I want to fuck girls in peace!"

- "Never!"

The man jumped from the armchair before grabbing his daughter and throwing her against a wall. Jane dropped her shotgun in the impact. She didn't have the time to look around that Leonard was already punching her. She rolled on her side and kicked his face before standing again. He put his hand on his nose and saw blood on his hand. He shook his head before punching her again, but this time she avoided the hit and made an uppercut in his chin. The man fell on his back, a tooth flying in the air, completely dazed. She took back her shotgun while outside there were screams, people running, and sirens.

- "This is over," told Jane. "The gang is over."

- "Maybe, but I won't let you take my life," said Leonard with a bloody smile.

He grabbed his revolver and shot.

Hopper called all the police stations he could and even the army. It was now or never to end this shitty gang of psychopaths. But Hopper's main goal was to get Jane out of here alive. The place was hidden, but thanks to witnesses who saw and heard a car driving at full speed, they managed to find the building, especially because they saw the car that had been stolen in the wall. Hopper and the colonel established a plan before surrounding the place. A sniper told them that they were not armed. Hopper had a smile on his face; it was too easy to be true. All the men and women walked to the building, guns in their hands, ready to arrest them. One of the Red Eagles saw them and yelled to his friends. The criminals began to run everywhere trying to flee, but there were too many militaries. Hopper let his colleagues arresting them and kept walking inside. He grabbed one of them and blocked him against the wall.

- "Where is Jane!?"

- "Upstairs," answered the Red Eagle.

Hooper threw him on the ground, allowing other cops to arrest him. Hopper heard a gun shot coming from upstairs. He hoped it wasn't too late. He took the stairs, ran in the corridor, and kicked the door opened. Leonard had his brain exploded on the wall, his body on the ground, the blood running from his head. Jane was on her knees next to him, punching him. Hopper entered and wrapped his arm around her, but the girl pushed him away.

- "NO! HE TOOK ME EVERYTHING! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ME! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ME!" yelled the girl with tears in her eyes.

Jane punched her father's dead body again, but Hopper wrapped his two arms this time before pulling out the struggling young girl.

- "It's over, Jane! It's over!"

Hopper dragged her out of the room and sat in the corridor with her in his arms. She stopped struggling, transforming her anger into sadness.

- "It was supposed to be me..." sobbed Jane.

- "It's ok, you're ok, I got you," reassured Hopper.

The man let his colleagues doing their work while he was trying to comfort the young girl crying in his arms. Jane wanted one thing, and Leonard managed to take it away from her, like everything else. She was cursed, it was the only explanation, but now everything was over. She would certainly go back in jail now, but she didn't care anymore.