Getting to The Truth-66
"Stay back...or I'll kill him!" Sonny yelled as he pressed the gun to Mac's head.
Jax shrugged, "Go ahead...he won't be missed."
"You think I'm kidding Candy Boy?"
"No...I'm just saying I'm not going to weep over the fact that Scorpio is dead...and I don't think anyone else will either," Jax said, taking a step closer.
"Get back...I mean it..." Sonny said in a panic, his hand with the gun shaking.
"Dammit Jax!" Mac shouted.
"Shut up Mac!" Jax shouted back.
"Shut up! Both of you!" Sonny shouted. "Now...I'm going to walk out of here...and...and you two are going to stay right there."
"And then what?" Mel finally spoke.
"And then I'm getting off this train."
"And then what?" Mel asked again.
"And then it's none of your concern," Sonny said. "Do you honestly think you are going to take me to jail? Even if you succeeded in that, do you think I'd stay there? I ALWAYS beat the rap!"
"Do you have another Mafia Princess you can marry to get you out of it this time?" Jax snorted. "The word is out on you man....seems your fellow wiseguys don't think too highly of you..they certainly aren't going to let you marry their daughters."
"SHUT UP!!!" Sonny yelled, sweat running down his face. He pressed the gun into Mac's neck again. "I'm through talking...back off...or Scorpio here gets a bullet in his brain."
"Back off Jax...Officer Langley...do what he says," Mac stated fiercely.
"Oh the hell with this," Jax said in disgust. He looked at Mac for only a second then lowered his gun slightly. Sonny grinned...then stunned as Jax fired his gun.
Mac fell and grabbed his leg that was already bleeding profusely, "You son of a....."
Sonny stared at Jax and backed to the door, pulling it open.
"Don't move!" Mel yelled at him.
Sonny growled at her and started to aim his gun at her, she fired her gun. The gun dropped from his hand as the bullet went through his wrist shattering the bone. He grabbed his wrist and turned to escape. But ran into Jerry.
"Good shot!" Jax said to Mel, as he started towards Sonny.
"I do believe this little pipsqueak was trying to get away," Jerry said snidely to Jax.
Jax grinned at him as Sonny tried to push Jerry out of way with his one good hand. He finally managed a small space underneath Jerry's arm and slipped through.
"He's damn slippery!" Jerry said to Jax, turning to Sonny.
Mel ran to Mac to help him, as he lay in the corner still cussing Jax and trying to stop the bleeding.
Jax stepped out on the small railing between the cars and watched as Sonny made his way to the door on the next train and tried to get the door open.
"Give it up, Corinthos," Jax said. "You aren't getting away."
Sonny turned on him with a wild look in his eyes. Jax looked at him and saw that Sonny had turned into a wild animal that was suddenly caged. Jerry stepped to Sonny, but Jax pulled him back and shook his head.
A small sound started coming from Sonny as he looked to escape. His head went from side to side, searching for a miracle to get off the moving train. The sound grew louder until it steadily became an unending scream. He looked at Jax and Jerry, his mind blaming them for his predicament. It was all their fault, his mind screamed to him even as his the unending scream escaped from his mouth. He leaped at Jax, who quickly side stepped him. He fell between the two cars, his feet dragging the tracks below him. Jax went to pull him back to safety, but he shook his head wildly, then stopped his struggles...looked at his enemy...and let go.
Jax turned his head, unable to watch, his eyes landing on Mac and Mel who were sitting by the open door, watching everything that happened. Jax met Mel's eyes as they heard Sonny's screams...then silence.
Suddenly, the train jolted. Jax grabbed Jerry as he slipped and pushed him into the boxcar with Mac and Mel. Jerry grabbed hold of Jax and hauled him into the car, just as it flew off the track.
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"Help!" yelled Libby just as she was thrown across the car and landing on Miranda. Bethany, who had been sitting opposite of Jason, keeping her eye on him, suddenly found herself sitting in his lap.
"What the hell is going on?" Libby yelled to no one in particular as the train stopped moving. She used Miranda's head to help herself up and Miranda snarled at her.
Bethany realized where she was now sitting and looked at Jason, who looked back at her with cold-dead eyes. She shivered slightly and pushed herself off him. She brushed herself off then went to look outside to see what had happened.
"Oh my God!" She whispered as she stared at the destruction of the derailed train. "Melanie!"
"Bethany!" Jeff yelled opening the other door of the boxcar. He spotted her and ran to her and pulled her into his arms. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine...but Jeff...look!" She pointed to tangled cars before them. "Melanie and the other's are in that mess somewhere," she stated as she climbed down from the car and started making her way through the mess.
"Jerry!" Libby screamed as she ran after Beth.
Jeff looked at Miranda and Jason, still tied up to the side of the car, "Don't make me come after you, you won't be happy when I find you...and I WILL find you!" He threatened them then made his way after the ladies.
Bethany and Libby yelled desperately for their loved ones, trying to locate them. Bethany pulled desperately on one of the doors of a boxcar laying on it's side. Jeff reached over her shoulder and pulled the door open for her. The two searched the car while Libby went to the next one. They searched every car down the tracks until they got to the last couple of cars. Both of them were turned upside down, the tops caved in from the roll. Bethany and Libby looked at each other worriedly as Jeff tried to get the door open. Their panic forming a knot in their throats.
"I can't get this open!" Jeff said in frustration. "Go around to the other side...see if we can get in there," he instructed Libby.
She ran around as he instructed, "Jeff....the doors not even on...I'm going in!"
"Libby WAIT!!" Jeff yelled running to her, Bethany hot on his heels.
But Libby had already crawled inside, "Oh God...They're in here!" she yelled back at them.
Bethany dove for the door, but Jeff pulled her back, "Jeff...I've got to go in there. I'm a doctor...they might need me."
"Let me go first..."
"Hurry!"
Jeff climbed into the car and offered his hand to Bethany and pulled her in carefully. Libby was leaning over Mac who was groaning softly. She motioned for Bethany to check him out and moved over to Mel, who was unconscious, her arm leg positioned strangely.
"How is she?" Bethany yelled over to Libby.
Libby looked at Jeff, who was checking on Jax. He raised his eyebrow at her. She bit her lip and felt for a pulse on Mel's neck. She breathed a sigh of relief when she felt a slight thumping against her fingers. "She's alive!" She shouted at Bethany. "But her leg is sure to be broken."
Libby looked around the car and swallowed hard, "Jerry....where's Jerry?"
A loud groan coming from underneath the caved in wall of the car alerted her to his location. She tried to pull the wall off of him, but couldn't lift it. His groan grew louder. "Jerry?????" She yelled at him.
"Quit yelling woman!" Jerry's voice boomed at her then groaned again.
Jeff helped Libby lift a portion of the wall away from Jerry so that she could get to him. "Jerry? Honey?"
"Ummm...honey sure sounds good at this point..." Jerry mumbled.
Libby blushed, "Is that all you ever have on your mind?" she asked, irritated, but relieved at the same time. She pulled his head on her lap and stroked his face, while checking for broken bones at the same time.
"When it comes to you...that's all I have on my mind," Jerry said, opening one eye to look at her. "I'm okay, Love...I'll be sore as hell, but I'm sure I can still handle turning you over my knee for that well deserved spanking tonight."
"You are hopeless...you know that???" Libby said, pushing his head off her lap.
He grabbed her hand, "And you wouldn't have me any other way...besides...after the spanking I intend to make mad passionate love to you."
"If you try to spank me, you'll never make any kind of love to me again...especially mad passionate love," she stated, then spoiled her stance by leaning over and kissing him softly, "Thank God you're okay!"
He squeezed her hand, "How's everyone else?"
"Pretty beaten up. Since you are okay, I'm going to go help with them."
"I'll help."
"No...you stay here. You faint at the sight of blood," she said, making her way back to Mel and Jax.
"Faint once at the sight of blood and you're branded for life," Jerry mumbled as he tried to stand, groaning as he did so.
"Is everyone alright in here?" A voice boomed from the doorway.
Jeff turned to the conductor who had finally made his way to them, "Get on the horn and call in medical help," he shouted. The conductor nodded and left.
"This is a bullet hole," Bethany stated, taking off her shirt and tying it around Mac's leg. Mac sucked in his breath in pain. "Who shot you?"
"That Jackass Jax" Mac growled, looking over at the still unconscious Jax. His eyes landed on Mel, who was being attended to by Libby. "Is she okay?"
"Beth, what do I do? Should I move her?" Libby asked.
"No!" Beth yelled. "I'll be right there." She turned back to Mac. "Hold this tight against the wound, I'll be back in a little bit." Mac nodded at her as she turned to her sister.
She quickly checked out Melanie quickly. "We don't want to move her neck," she told Libby. "Hold her head still...but first...give me your shirt."
Libby looked at her a moment then nodded and took her shirt off and handed it to her. Bethany ripped it in two. Then looked for a couple of short boards and turned back to Mel. "Okay...keep her head still, I'm going to straighten her leg out," she told Libby.
An hour later, the train wreck site was over run by police, emergency workers and reporters. Miranda and Jason had been taken into custody, as well as the extra thugs, the injured had been airlifted to General Hospital, and Sonny's body was being scraped off the train tracks and placed into a body bag.
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End of Chapter 66
HollyJo