In the middle of the scuffle, the police officers took Sera away from the midst of the doctors who where already tired of trying to save Jason. Sera was physically, emotionally and mentally drained. She could not believe that Jason who she had been with all day was gone forever, she couldn't remove that serious face of his from her head nor his constant concern about her safety right before and after combat situations. She was broken and nothing else seemed real to her than the imaginary world where she was with her Jason.
"Fin, make sure she gets home alright hey you clear this area i want this hospital open for regular business in 2 hours." Captain Ben said as he dished out commands. Tears escaped his eyes but he quickly pushed it away so his subordinate don't catch a glimpse of the big man in his weak moments.
Fin saw Capt. Ben work away towards the veranda where Jason, Sera and himself had spent most of the time strategizing against the attacks. He wasn't crying at the moment but he was sure he will before the day runs out.
Everybody around seemed emotional , especially the guys who had been on the case for the past 72 hours. Jason was an epitome of what a cop should be, he saw it and went after it regardless of offers and persons.
Fin walked away, the elevator was busy with either the medical team moving dead bodies in bags to the morgue on the top floor or the janitor and his team clearing debris caused by the gun fire which littered the whole second floor.
Fin chose the stairs, it did not just keep him busy as he carried his heavy body from on step to the next, it also gave him private space to cry.
Fin made it to the medical van where other members of Alpha team waited with Sera, he had wiped his face of tears and was in control once again.
"Guy's get some rest, we are done here." Fin said. as he reached for Sera.
"No we are not done, Jason died protecting Daniel. We must keep this up and make sure we get Cash, Don and who ever else is involved in this." Sera said throwing away the duvet wrapped around her.
Everybody became quiet as they looked at Fin, he had little or nothing to sway the decision their way. He too want to avenge Jason, but he too was under the command. Sera would have been able to make an argument but even non police witnesses could tell she was personally involved with Jason and so it was too risky involving her in the case any more.
"Wrap this up guys, we are done here. the Beta team will take over from here." Fin said as he held Sera in his arms, she sobbed freely as the rest of the team dispersed.
"Let me take you home." Fin said as he gathered Sera into his arms and they both began to walk towards his car.
a few minutes later Fin turned into Sera's street and he parked the car right in front of her house. He turned off the engine and tried to get down when Sera stopped him.
"I am fine Fin, i will take it from here." Sera said giving him a smile.
"Are you sure you don't want me to walk you to the front door?" Fin asked
"That won't be necessary Fin, i am fine." She said as she open the door and stepped out.
"I could have a patrol car here in case you need something." Fin raised his voice a bit so Sear could here him as she walked away. But she only waved her hand and didn't turn back. HE waited there till she was inside before he turned on the car engine and drove off.
He didn't realize he was in tears till he felt something dripping down his cheeks.
*****************************************
Cash watched the 6pm news with his boys around him, he couldn't believe his ears and he kept shaking his head.
"Report reaching our desk has established the death of the famous Detective Jason Den of the Tampa Police Department. Detective Jason was involved in a shootout that took place in the Tampa General Hospital while he was trying to protect a witness to a crime. He was in the news six months ago when his partner for over five years was shot down in cold blood and we are asking is this the same criminals who took his partners life five years ago or are we dealing with a new uprising of darkness in Tampa." The reporter said as the face of Jason filled the screen.
Cash stood up and walked to the window, he seemed to be looking at something in particular but his thoughts where running wild.
"Should I call off Bob and the boys?" Bolt asked Cash.
"No lets allow Bob avenge his friend and blood." Cash said and turned to Bolt.
"We are not done yet, this is just the beginning." Cash said as he worked back to his seat.
"We could buy our way back into the good books of Don through this capture." Cash said as he lit a cigarette.
************************************************
Don sat in the comfort of his library as he watched the news about the death of Jason. He shot his eyes and took deep breaths before he dialed a number on his phone. Shortly Rahim walked into the library.
"How is it we killed a cop instead of the fool?" Don asked.
"My eyes in the hospital told me that the detective popped a grenade and was close to the explosion." Rahim replied
"That is not our business, is it?" Don asked as he pointed at Rahim. "You had this under control, you created a mess and to clean it up you created an even bigger mess." Don said with fire in his eyes.
"I will make this right, Boss." Rahim said and walked away.
******************************************
Capt. Ben secretly moved Daniel to one of the safe houses that was right beside the Street overlooking Tampa General Hospital. Fin had kept him abreast with the whole development right from the first day of looking for Dora's killers, Capt. Ben was familiar with the interest of societal influential caliber's in the case involving the manager of T. W Dockyard Mr. Daniel. He had lost good men in fighting the crimes these bastard brought to his doorstep, in tears he vowed to make sure that the culprits are brought to book.
During the whole clearing up of the premises, Fin and Capt. Ben had a private talk with the Janitor. Three cleaners in their cleaning gears walked into the room where Daniel was and moments later the two cops who had been with Daniel throughout the first and second wave changed into the janitor's cleaning gear. Daniel wasn't left out, he too wore the grey jump suit that had combat pockets at the side and a helmet with a nose mask to protect them from the dust still in the air around the second floor. They walked out of the ward under the chaos of men working and clearing the mess the shootout caused, Daniel and the two cops headed to the service elevator unnoticed.
Moments later the three fake cleaners entered into a van parked behind the complex and the van drove off in a careless movement not depicting any hurry at all.
Rita slipped out just the way she had slipped in, she didn't know where they where taking Daniel to and she understood it was for his own good. She decided to hang around and fight for what she believes in, running would seem cowardly but staying is the must foolish idea ever. Daniel had told her the exact thing before he left her in that ward.
"We will be together soon." Daniel had said.
"You are all i have now, Daniel. Don't die." She said in her heart as she watched the man she loves walked out looking like a janitor.
**************************************
One of the Doctor's, the one who announced Jason's death did not allow him to be bagged. He specifically accompanied the nurses who dragged Jason's body away on stretcher.
"Bring him into the surgical room." The doctor said and the nurses became surprised. "He has a weak pulse and i wanted him out of the whole cacophony." The Doctor said and helped push Jason into the surgical room.
"You lock that door, guy lets plug him up." The doctor said.
"He was close to the explosion but out of harms way, his heart is strong but his respiratory system is full of dust and he may not last five minutes if we don't get this right. Move it guys!" The doctor dished out orders.
One of the male nurse rushed back to the door and turned the lock, the other, five of them began to follow every instruction the doctor gave. The placed Jason on Oxygen and fixed pulse monitoring gadgets on his chest.
"Increase the oxygen flow a bit." The doctor said and walked over to check the readings.
"He bleed through the nose." one of the nurses reminded he doctor while trying to understand what the doctor was about.
"The blast was loud enough to make his heart pump abnormally." The doctor turned to look at Jason. "This one is a fighter he will live."
"But there is no pulse showing on the monitors?" The male nurse who locked the door said.
"Give it a few more minutes." The doctor said with a smile.
They watched Jason lay there without an atom of breathing, the nurse where beginning to feel the doctor was going crazy because they had spent over an hour monitoring a dead man.
The doctor on the other hand was not fidgeting, he kept adjusting the gadgets, he kept watching the monitors, followed the reading every ten minutes and each time he nodded to an invincible reading that satisfied him.
At exactly 7pm, a beep came from the monitors, first the nurses who had resigned from any possibility of live springing from the dead detective jump to the side of Jason.
"There was a pulse sound a second ago!" One said as they watched the monitors that suddenly reveal no pulse signal.
"I swear i heard a pulse sound." Another said but the doctor wasn't listening to them he readied the defibrillator.
Moments later the sound came again, this time it was constant and it soon became fast, the doctor approached Jason and shocked him.
"His heart beat is very fast." one of the female nurse said.
The doctor shocked him again and the pulse began to reduce, the reading became more accurate and steady.
"He is stable now." The doctor said after a few minutes. "He needs a little more rest, his chest was congested, the oxygen helped him reduce the congestion." he concluded.
"But how did you know?" One of the nurses asked.
"It looked like what i experienced in Afghanistan, my Lead doctor handle it just as i did now." The doctor said with a smile.
the nurses watched Jason's steady breathing in amazement and where very glad to be part of the crazy style of saving a patient.
"Does it work all the time?" Another nurse asked.
"I don't know, this is the second time i have seen this in my life and in those two times it have worked like magic." The doctor said.
Jason began to cough, he open his eyes and grabbed the oxygen strap and pulled it away.
"Just guide him, it is fairly normal." The doctor said as the nurses ran to help Jason from falling of the bed.
After a few more coughing, he was given water and his cough reduced, Jason looked from left to right and back to the doctor.
"Where am i?" He asked
"I am Doctor Maxwell, you almost died from a blast, i and this brave ones brought you back."
Jason got up from the bed and tried to move but fell to the ground. the nurses help him up again and tried to put him back on the bed.
"Take it easy you will be up and running soon." The doctor told Jason.
"I remember throwing the grenade but that was all i can remember." Jason said as he held his hand to his head that suddenly began to bang.
"You will experience head aches for a while but it will pass, we have given you pain relief and i hope you agree to rest some more." The doctor said as he judge the young detective who was ready to spring out to action again.
"I need to make a call." Jason as he touched his pant pockets for his phone.
"You need to lay back and rest for a while, you almost died." The doctor said handing him a phone he recovered from Jason's jacket pocket.
Jason dialed a number and it rang for a while and nobody picked up.
"Are you trying to reach the young lady who was crying when u died?" The doctor asked.
"Yes, is she alright?" Jason asked with concern.
"She is fine, she was not harmed in anyway." The doctor said still looking at the restless detective.
Jason dialed Fin's line and at first it looked like he too wasn't going to take the call.
"Hello, who is using this phone?" Fin asked as he almost ran into an oncoming car.
"This is Jason meet me at the Hospital ASAP." Jason said holding his aching head with his free hand.
"I knew you are too tough to die!" Fin said in excitement as he pulled over having narrowly escaped another accident.
"How is Sera?" Jason asked
"I just dropped her off a while ago, she is shattered." Fin responded.
"I just called her she is not picking up, come get me." Jason said.
"Alright Boss." Fin said and got back on the road stepping on the gas.
********************************
Bob and his boys got out of the car and walked towards the front door of Sera's apartment.
They had seen her get of the car of the fat police driver and had worked into her apartment, they waited till the day was a bit dark to make their move.
Bob for all the reason's in the world wanted this assignment to be a success, first for revenge and secondly to step up in hierarchy among Cash's' men.
The street was not a busy one and the only time they had an encounter with any body was the few young people jogging about during the bright period of the day.
They got to the front door of Sera's apartment and knocked on the door. After a few moment of no response they knocked again.
A phone began to ring from inside the apartment and they all stood prepared to use violence if need be, but no one reached for the phone instead the door knob began to turn and Bob moved back a little. as soon as the door opened a little Bob burst it open with his leg and the three men rushed in.
******************************************
Sera heard the knock on the door, apart of her wanted to ignore it but she managed to stand up. She staggered a bit from the vodka she had been taken but she found her footing. Soon the phone began to ring and she got confuse on which to attend first but she felt that the same person on the door could be the same person on the phone so she choose to attend to the door instead.
"Who could it be?" She thought. the only person that crossed her mind was Capt. Ben. he could be checking on her to see she was fine. It couldn't be Fin, he had just dropped her a while ago.
She got to the door and didn't even bother to look through the viewing hole, she was certain it was Capt. Ben so she began to turn the knob. As she pulled the door open a force banged the door in and hit her forehead and she slumped to the ground.