Cash became restless when he got of the phone with Bob, he was cut off from the rest of the world as he couldn't access his assets and access to information seemed slow.
He was just brought to speed about the ongoing chaos in the Tampa General Hospital and he knew at once that Don was trying to clean his mess. He had tried to call Rahim a couple of times but he couldn't get through to him.
He knew Don would be hunting for his head right now and his only card to get out of Don's blacklist was Rahim, both of them had a little secret that made it easy for him to extend his death day to freedom day.
He puffed on his cigarette and stared randomly at the thick bushes around him, he needed to get his acts together or soon all hell will break loose. He was gradually loosing his empire, something he built from nothing, there is no way he would let it run out without a fight.
First he has to deal with existing and lingering issues, he has bestowed upon Bob the first step and most important task in actualizing his mission of vengeance. Jason has been his long time nemesis and for every time he had come close to bringing him to book Cash found a way to slip off.
Cash puffed on his cigarette and remembered when Jason and Steve his dead partner had always showed up at very important moments and messed up his transaction. One time he had to jump of the third floor of a building and smashed into a taxi parked right where he landed, just to get away from Jason and Steve.
On the day Steve died he had contacted a C4 dealer from the black market and he had agreed to meet up at on of Cash's establishments. right the point when the merchandize was being scrutinized there came Jason and hi s partner, weapons drawn like Texas Cowboys. Shit had gone down and there was gun shots and bodies but none was Cash's and one was the body of the partner of the most notorious Detective Cash had ever known.
Jason was hot on his tail just doing his job back then, Cash thought but now he had revenge added to it, he wanted to kill the murderfucker that killed his partner.
Cash dragged hard on his cigarette, he held it in for a moment before letting it float in the air. He took from Jason now Jason took from him too, took Bill and also Cash enterprises. As he watched the thick smoke float away in the air he got up and tossed the butt of the cigarette into the river and screamed.
"I am coming for you Detective Jason! "
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Jason kept his head down as he kept dragging the injured intruder away from his buddies, bullets flew over his head to and from the two last intruders who suddenly abandoned breaking into Daniels room and decided to rescue their brother in arms.
The intruders had superiority over the police in terms of possession of arms and the combat kite. As the bullets flew to them they seemed not to be responsive to the effect of the force or the hit, their vest kept receiving the hit as they kept on advancing. The whole corridor was filled with smoke and the dust from the shattered walls, it made visibility poor and so the assailants and of course the police where shooting blindly.
Soon Jason go to the end of the corridor and dragged the bleeding intruder into the corner of the passage.
"Who do you work for?" Jason asked him trying to unfasten the strap of the vest, he tried to release the strap of the vest to allow the intruder breath better and give him something or everything he needed to know.
"Talk to me gaddam it!" Jason screamed as he grabbed the mans bloodied jaw and kept shaking it to get him to talk.
"Get out of there Jason, they are almost on you!" Sera screamed as she kept firing into the fairly visible corridor.
Jason new he couldn't make it to around the counter which was the closest place to hide from the heavy gun fire, he also knew that if he stayed to fight he would have to score a head shot to properly have utilized his remaining three bullets in the guns magazine.
Suddenly, he noticed the fragmentation grenade hanging on the vest of the intruder he just pulled away from the shooting area to interrogate. He took the risk to be able to get little or everything about the sponsor of the entire mess. Not like he didn't have his suspect but he wanted a benefit of doubt and also a proof to nail him.
Jason quickly saw the fragmentation grenade, he knew that the effective casualty-producing radius of the device is 15 meters. Although the killing radius spans up to 5 meters and the casualty producing radius of this kind of grenade 15 meters, fragments can disperse as far as 230 meter.
Jason grabbed the grenade hanging on the vest of the dying man, without thinking he pulled the pin that protects the grenade from going off and immediately he threw the grenade at the approaching hug men in their protective vest and gears seconds later, boom! The explosion rocked the building and glasses on doors and windows shattered, blinds pulled off and loose shits and files flew from every corner. It also knocked out the two assailants and in a few minutes the dusty corridor began to dissipate and the corpse of the two intruders laid dead there.
"Jason, are you ok?" Sera voice rang from deep inside Jason's subconscious. "Get medic officer down!" Sera's voice kept ringing in his ears but there was something wrong, even he could tell. She was screaming "Somebody help" but it seems to be fading and the screams soon began to sound like whispers and darkness.
"Come on hurry, he is bleeding." Sera's voice came again and he did struggle to make out the words but he did make them out right before darkness engulfed him.
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Before the shooting;
"I must say that i am a bit disappointed. " Sera told Jason as they stood alone at the veranda. Just after the first attack by the fake nurse, they had inspected and analyzed the crime scene, both of them took a moment to look over the veranda at the crowd trying to make their way into the hospital. Fin had gone to the parking lot to pick something from his car and Sera kept looking at the crowd below them as it multiplied. Some where press, passerby's, families and friends of the people currently receiving treatment at the facility and probably the rest of the people hired to kill Daniel, she thought.
"Why are you disappointed?" Jason asked, trying to resist the urge to hold her in his arm's.
"For a man like Don, this was child's play." Sera replied.
"Well it almost worked, didn't it? " Jason ask as he notice a cop really shoving one man insisting he must come into the complex.
"Well, it almost worked because those guys got carried away by what was in their pants. " Sera said irritably.
"Am sure they too expected a hard core attack not a stealth mission." Jason said turning to look at her face.
"It cost them their lives, imagine how that would sound to a wife or their kids." Sera said backing the crowd as she folded her arms across her chest looking Jason in the eye.
"What? " Jason asked as he met her gaze.
"If you where stationed at that point, would you have been staring at a lady's ass while she gut u up? " Sera asked keep her gaze on Jason.
"What, am i under interrogation now? " He smiled at her.
"Am serious, you would have been dead. " Sera said with concerns.
"What are you saying?," Jason was surprised "Not all men do that. " he replied with finality. Strongly holding back on reaching for her.
"So are we done here?" Sera asked Jason trying to change the subject and reduce the torment of being so close and yet to far from your man.
"Seeing what just happened i don't think he is safe anywhere else. I have called Ben to help facilitate the court order to arrest Don and keep him in custody. We need to have a hearing as soon as possible." Jason said. "Plus i have a feeling this is just a diversion, the nurse was fast to cut their throats, those guys would have let her in alright." Jason said
They both saw Fin make his way to join them by the veranda, Jason took one look at Fin's tummy then at the fat man smiling at him as he approached.
"She is here?" Fin said
"Who is here?" Sera asked
"Mrs. Rita Don Kane."
Sera was not shocked that Rita decided to visit her boyfriend, but that she did it in the open and shortly after her husband tried to kill him.
She was about to air her opinion when they heard gun fire from around where the crowd was situated.
Jason saw men with assault rifles and protective gears getting off a van and heading towards the hospital entrance. He saw the crowd scatter as men and women scamper to save their lives.
"All unit be advised, we are under attack. Back to your positions. " Jason screamed into the radio.
He look over the railings again and counted the men he could see before edging back inside.
"I count six men heavily armed with protective gears heading our way. Fire at will!" Jason ordered.
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Back to the present.
Doctors and some nurses rushed in with a stretcher and other first aid items.
"He is not breathing!" Sera screamed. "Why is he not breathing!"
The medical team surrounded Jason who was bleeding from his nose and traces of blood could be seen dripping from his head.
"Doctor, why is he not breathing!" Sera kept screaming and trying to break through to get to where Jason laid bare chested on the floor.
"Someone get this lady out if here!" A doctor ordered looking at the rest of the Alpha team who had just come out of hiding.
"I cant find a pulse!" Another doctor screamed. "Set up the defibrillation." He said dragging the rest of the shirt away.
"WE LOST HIM! " Another doctor said with resignation. "He is gone."
Sera heard the doctor's words and slumped in the arms if Fin and the other men restraining her from obstructing the doctors.