Ekin wraps his arms around Nnadia trying to see if she's okay. Nnadia brushes his hands aside to see his face. "Are... are... are you.... you oooo...ok?" Nnadia asks Ekin.
Ekin is practically in tears. "I'm fine. I'm fine. You're going to be okay too. Don't worry." he cries embracing her bloody body tightly.
Ada, Joey and Kristy surround Nnadia. "Ling Jei Jei." Kristy and Joey cry. "Siu Ling." Ada cries because Nnadia is younger than her. "You're going to be okay." Ada cries trying to reassure herself even though she knew perfectly well how badly injured Nnadia was.
"Sui Yee, Sui Ru, Fun Jei Jei." Nnadia says slowly. "Promise me... Promise... promise not to... to.. t..." she stops to take a breath because she's so exhausted trying to talk. "...not let... anything... happen to.... any... any of you. You will go home." she finished.
This is the first time they've said each other'?s real names in public. Ada, Kristy, and Joey nod their heads rapidly. They were all afraid Nnadia wouldn't make it and even though they weren't sure if they could keep themselves safe they promised her anyways.
Annie is shocked. She has never seen a dying person before. Her father has always kept her protected. Frankie rushes to find his cell phone, dials for backup and for an ambulance.
Meanwhile Louis and Nic are scouting the area. Frankie joins them shortly. Everyone is now in the mansion protected only by the walls of the building. Frankie meets up with Louis and Nic.
"The shootings were coming from the west side of the building. I think they're hiding over there still." Frankie said.
"Why would you think that?" Nic ask looking out a little gap of the curtains.
"They didn't just come to shoot Ah-So." Louis explains as he looks in Nnadia's direction.
Nic also looks over and notices the pain his brother is in. They cannot bear to see this. Everyone is worried. Suddenly more bullets are shot through the window. Louis pushes Nic down to duck. Frankie ducks and starts shooting crazily out the window. The girls all huddle around Nnadia trying to protect her. Annie ducks behind a sofa.
"Fuckin' Simon!" Nic yells as he also aids Louis and Frankie to shoot out the window. They have no targets but they're trying their best to just shoot someone.
Annie though looks around. She doesn't believe its Simon. "My father wouldn't attack knowing I'm in the building." Annie protested.
"Hell you might not even be his real daughter." Louis comments because he's angry.
"I am!" Annie shouts. "Fuckin' idiot." Annie yells going to pull his gun away from him. Louis struggles with her.
Frankie, Ada, and Kristy become alarm. Afraid that the gun would shoot randomly killing either of them. They rush over to stop them. Frankie successfully grabbed onto Annie's hands. With Ada and Kristy by his side Louis couldn't fight with Annie anymore. He gave her a mean glare and she returned a nasty stare.
Now more bullets were being shot in from outside and one of them hit Louis in the upper back left hand side. Louis fell instantly. "Argh!" he yelled falling down.
Annie looked surprised. She turned to Frankie. "I didn't mean it." She pleads. Frankie dismisses her and rushes over to help shoot the enemy.
Nic is also shooting the enemy. Nic loses it and stands up to run outside because he's upset about them shooting his brother and sister-in-law. Stephen suddenly rushes to Nic's aide.
"Calm down. They're in the dark, we're in the open. Its not to your advantage." Stephen advised with his hand on Nic's shoulders
Nic looked at him. "Why should you care about me? If I die you can have Joey all to yourself." He said with an attitude and pushed Stephen's hands off him.
"You're my friend." Stephen replied. "The only friend I've ever had." He added.
Nic looked at him perplexed. Could he have blamed Stephen all this time for something Stephen was in no control of. He couldn't blame Stephen for loving Joey and he finally realized he couldn't blame Stephen for following Simon's orders to protect Joey.
Frankie is shot by an unknown shooter in the right arm. Annie rushes over to him. Stephen and Nic take cover as they try to protect the remainder of the people in the mansion but it's useless because they're out in the open and their attackers are in the dark. With them were only a few followers of Louis and Ekin who are still up and helping them in the battle.
Now about 50 men rushed into the mansion each armed with vicious weapons lead by Nicky and Kevin. Everyone thinks Kevin betrayed the Louis to help Francis. Nicky is Alex's follower and they see some familiar faces of Simon's men also. So everyone concluded it was once again Alex, Francis, and Simon attacking them.
Louis looks up to see Kevin and hollers "Traitor!"
Kevin walks up to him holding a gun against his head. "Your life is now in my hands." He sneers pulling Kristy to him but she pushes him away. He laughs despicably and pulls her back to him.
Nic tries to help his brother but he is shot down by Nicky. Even Stephen has now become too alarmed protecting Joey that he couldn't help Nic in time.
Joey screams seeing Nic fall. "Stephen help Nic!" She hollers. Stephen turns around and realizes Nic was shot in the chest. He rushes over.
Ekin is too preoccupied trying to protect Nnadia that he's an open target. Joey notices Ekin's gun near his waist and grabs it to protect her sister and brother-in-law.
Kevin and Nick laugh noticing everyone in pain and wounded. The 50 men are holding guns to everyone's head. Nicky grabs Ada and pulls her with him. Ada pushes him away but he doesn't back off. Louis tries to sit up to get Ada back but Nicky shoots Louis in the arm.
"Be a good girl or I'll actually kill him." Nicky advises. Ada stops resisting. Nicky tries to take Ada with him. He actually liked Ada.
Kevin laughs and does the same with Kristy. "If you keep resisting I'll make sure to kill Louis right now." Kristy also stops resisting. Kevin starts to grope her breast and pull up her skirt. "I've been wanting to do this for a long time." He says and kisses her sticking his tongue in her mouth.
"Let her go!" Ada hollers even though she's in Nicky's grasp herself.
Joey points a gun at him. "Let her go or I'll shoot you." she threatens.
Nicky points to Nic who's somewhat hurt and kneeling with one leg on the floor. He aims his gun. Shoot him if you'd like I'll just shoot Nic or Stephen. He threatens.
Joey is lost for words. She cannot risk Stephen or Nic's life but Kristy's more important to her. "I don't care. I want you to let go of my sister!" she yelled.
Stephen and Nic look at her in shock but understand how close she is with her sisters. Ekin is still holding onto Nnadia who is slowly losing her breath but her anger is apparent when she heard what was going on because she clenched her fist as if she was angry about what Kevin was doing to Kristy.
Now tons of police men surround the building. Probably about 50 as well. They were lead by Marco, Frankie's partner. Nicky and Kevin notice. "Fuckin shit!" Kevin screams as he stops trying to violate Kristy. He hasn't done so yet.
"There's a shit load of cops out there." Nicky adds. "Better save your fucking for next time." He advises.
Kevin gets off Kristy who is glaring at him evilly, even though he didn't rape her yet, his attempt made him more dispicable since she already hated him to death. He continued to hold her hostage trying to take her with him and maybe rape her later. Kristy struggled to get away from him but it was useless he was much stronger than her.
Ekin unexpectedly lays his wife down for a split second. He gets up grabs his gun from Joey, aims, and quickly shots Kevin. Kristy makes her get away and runs towards Louis. Ekin did this for Nnadia because he understood the look in her eyes. He knew Nnadia didn't want any of them hurt.
He then aims at Nicky but isn't as lucky because Nicky knows Ekin's ready to shoot him. Marco charges in with a few men and they all took action. Everyone starts shooting and running around again. The police shoot everyone with no intention of helping anyone.
"What the hell are you doing?" Frankie questions Marco as him and Annie are ducked behind a large sofa.
"Making sure all the rascals in this place are dead." Marco replies bluntly.
"Stop shooting at Ekin and his brothers. It's Nicky and Kevin that we want." Frankie yells.
Marco doesn't respond and even seems as if he's helping Nicky and Chris. When Stephen had his aim ready to shoot Chris, Marco aided Nicky by shooting Stephen in the waist. Stephen fell back trying to regain his strength.
Joey ran to his side. "Are you ok?" she asked with deep concern.
"I'm surprised you cared." He answers sarcastically.
Joey just rolls her eyes at him. He nods to let her know he's alright and gets up to shoot Kevin again. He's determined to kill him. Nic rolls across the floor picking up his coffee table and uses it as a shield. He aims precisely at Kevin, the traitor and shots him in the gun hand. Stephen leaps out from the hall way he was hiding in and shoots Kevin in both legs.
Kevin is down and Kristy finally grabs Louis's gun from Louis and aiming straight at Kevin's head, she shoots him. His head explodes in a bulky mess from his brains and blood flying around. Kevin dies staring at her blankly. Kristy is finally relieved she has killed him. Louis is very weak but still alive. He looks at her disbelievingly. He never imagined she was capable of killing.
Since everyone seemed to concentrate on Kevin, Nicky finally made his get away. He notices the police are also shooting at Ekin, Louis, Nic, Stephen, and Frankie so he grabs Ada and heads out the back with her. Louis notices and points in that direction. Kristy gets up running after them. Joey also runs after them. Nic and Stephen follow. But they're too late. Nicky has run off and taken Ada with him.
"Dam it!" Nic yells.
"Shit!" Stephen says.
Joey and Kristy look at each other. Now what were they supposed to do. Nnadia was dying and Ada was just abducted.
Meanwhile Frankie and Marco are still at it. They are yelling at each other and Frankie is trying to get Marco to calm down. He needed to get Nnadia to the hospital. Marco jumped over the sofa landing next to Annie. He grabbed Annie and threatened Frankie.
"Do you love her enough to kill yourself?" he asked.
"What are you talking about?" Frankie questions Marco
"If you love her kill yourself now or I'm just going to shoot her." Marco threatened.
"You wouldn't dare!" Annie shouted.
Marco sneered at her. "Why wouldn't I!" he challenges her. "After everything I've done for you! You're still able to fall for him! Why wouldn't I kill you?" he challenges.
"Don't start this." Frankie says calmly. "Let's just be reasonable about it." He advises.
"Shut up! Now either I kill her or you kill yourself." He forces Frankie.
Frankie could see the anger in Marco's eyes as if he had planned this night. Frankie looks at Annie whose now terrified not knowing how to react to a situation like this. She's never been in one.
Frankie aimed his own gun to his head and was ready to pull the trigger. "No!" Annie screamed. "If you kill yourself now what will happen to me. You think he won't make my life miserable?" Annie questions. "You can't do this to me!" she yells kicking and moving from Marco. She really didn't care if she died but she didn't want Frankie dead.
Frankie takes this opportunity to punch Marco forcing him to drop his gun. Marco is upset and lunges at Frankie. The two fight for what seems like hours but is only 2 minutes. The police stop shooting now that both Frankie and Marco seem not to be on top of the operation. Everyone else is dead. Only Ekin who is now sitting back with Nnadia and Louis who is lying on the floor in a pool of blood seems to still be alive.
"You're going to be okay." Ekin tries to convince himself more than he is convincing her.
Nnadia smiles for one last time. "Thank.... you... you for saving Kristy." She said trying to thank him.
Ekin shook his head. "She's my sister too." He said. "I'll protect them for you." he said still crying.
Nnadia looks at Ekin and forces a smile. "Take care... care of... your...yourself too." Nnadia stutters before she finally lost all her consciousness.
"NOOooo...!" Ekin hollers. The police advised the ambulance team to come in but its too late. Nnadia has died in Ekin's arms.
Kristy and Joey runs back in just as they hear Ekin screaming. They fell to their knees beside their sister. Joey and Kristy hug each other crying terribly. The ambulance tries to take Nnadia's body but Ekin refuses to let it go. He embraces her in his arms as tears flow uncontrollably from his eyes.
Frankie and Marco are still fighting. Annie grabs one of the guns and shots it up in the air. "Stop it already!" she shouts.
Frankie has Marco in a bear hold. He releases Marco sending him flying across the room. Marco is pissed off and lunges for his gun. Frankie notices and does the same. They both go after one gun right and are struggling. Other police officers don't know what to do. They want to stop them but they're afraid of hurting one of them. Finally they hear a gun shot.
Frankie falls off Marco. Marco lies their stunned. Annie runs over to see if Frankie was okay. Frankie was okay. Marco was shot in the abdomen. The paramedics rush to get Marco into the ambulance.
Meanwhile other paramedics were already loading Louis into an ambulance. Kristy gets up to follow them. Nic and Stephen is taken into another ambulance with Joey following behind. Ekin is still sitting there holding tightly to Nnadia's body. Frankie who is also hurt and aided by Annie walks up to Ekin.
"Let's go." Frankie advises. "She wouldn't want to see you like this."
Ekin nods and lets the paramedics put Nadia into the ambulance. They cover her whole body and face with a white cloth. Ekin pulls it off "How's she going to breath if you cover her face." he yells still in denial that she's pasted away.
Frankie tries to hold Ekin down to calm him down. "They're going to take her to the hospital!" he shouts.
Annie has a hard time helping Frankie as Ekin pushes the paramedics. She twisted her leg and almost bent her arm but she doesn't tell Frankie.
Ekin's heart is torn the women he loves so deeply is dead. He wasn't even able to tell her he truly forgave her wholly and completely before she pasted away. He hated himself.
"Let's go to the hospital." Frankie said calmly.
Ekin finally gets himself into the ambulance staring at Nnadia. He looks back at his mansion in ruins. He looks out the window noticing his brothers are all hurt and loaded into other ambulances. He thought back through his life and couldn't figure out how everything ended the way it did tonight.
Frankie and Annie got into a police car and everyone headed for the hospital. Frankie was talking to one of his cadets about what to put in the police report. The guy responded that they didn't have to because Marco prepared one already. Frankie asked them to bring it to the hospital for his review. He thought that was strange that Marco prepared one already. Annie gave him a suspicious look. She didn't trust Marco.
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Nicky who had abducted Ada takes her to an abandoned warehouse 30 minutes off the 15 north freeway. The abandoned warehouse is loaded with crates and carts of rusty metal. There is an old shed located on the right side and there is this musky smell to the area.
Ada looks around. "What are we doing here?" she asks.
Nicky sneers at her. "I would have loved you more than any man could but you had to betray me like this!" he said slapping her across the face.
Ada fell back a few steps holding onto her right cheek which is what he slapped. "You can't kill me because I'm your hostage." She smirked.
"But I can still have you for fun." He smirked.
Ada shook her head and laughed. "Do you think that would have an effect on me?" she laughed. Nicky gave her a nasty stare. Ada continued. "I've been fucked by you more than once and each time I imagined you as Louis."
Nicky slapped her again. "Then imagine him this time too." He shouted angrily trying to rip her clothes off.
Ada didn't even resist him. She's lost all hope. Ever since she was a child she's been used to sleeping with men she didn't love or care about. Her body was just another toy for men. She knew she could never be free of it unless she died.
Nicky was about to pull down her pants to rape her but a male figure appeared in front of him. "Stop it this instant." The man commanded.
Nicky seemed afraid and immediately let Ada go. Ada looked to see who it was but before she could see who he was she was knocked unconscious by one of the youngsters.
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