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I hear the scream and know that she has done something and the time is now to act. Thankfully, the sniper is in place. I kick the door open allowing for the sniper to take a shot if he can. Luckily he takes the shot and Lilly runs out the door. I catch Lilly in my arms as the rest of the team goes in to secure my father.
I take Lilly into the kitchen and sit her down. The team called for an ambulance and I am going to take her to the hospital to be checked out. She may be hurt and not know it, or the baby may be traumatized. I just want to know that everyone is okay.
When the EMT’s arrive one of them immediately stops at Lilly and starts to assess her. Thanks to Chris who directed them to her. The other heads to where my office is at to assess my father.
Lilly’s blood pressure is a little high at the moment, but the EMT tries to calm her down. While he’s talking to us everyone from the response team comes and makes a wall blocking us from the view of what is passing by. I know why they are doing this, I’ve been one of the wall before. It’s to prevent the victim or victims from seeing the deceased body. It usually means the sniper’s shot was a head shot and it’s gruesome.
Lilly is too dazed to know what is going on, she thinks the guys are just hanging around to visit with me. I’m appreciative of that for now, but I know later she’ll ask about why they stayed and I’ll have to tell her. I can’t lie to her, I just can’t.
One of the guys informs me that my father had escaped from prison a few days ago. They had tracked him to just outside the city when his trail went cold. Apparently he’d managed to throw off the dogs. The rangers that were hunting him had chosen not to tell me that he’d escaped since I am also a cop and I might have used my badge to hunt him down. He’d remembered where my uncle’s house was and somehow had gotten past the gate system. He didn’t know that I’d made some changes to the house when I inherited it. The back door that used to be off the third wing was removed since we no longer used that wing very often I closed it off so that burglars wouldn’t have an extra door to break in or escape out of. That had been my father’s down fall, and it had gotten him killed.
The officers finally start to dwindle out of the house while one of them takes Lilly’s statement before she goes with the EMT’s to the hospital. Chris is going to stay at the house with Luke so that he doesn’t have to be woken up.
I know it’s going to be a long night for Lilly it’s on to the emergency room, and since she isn’t an emergent case she will be pushed back by the more emergent cases, and once she is examined and released by the hospital its on to the next stop, the police station. There she’s going to have to give her statement again as well as sign a printed copy of what happened tonight.
I also have to give my statement of what happened as well as my role in the events. Thankfully, neither Lilly or I fatally injured my father so the review won’t be as intensive. The poor sniper that took the fatal shot will be reviewed and hopefully cleared sooner rather than later. In my personal opinion it was a clean shoot.
The EMT’s finally load Lilly into the ambulance and I climb in with her. They spend the whole ride to the hospital hooking her up to all kinds of monitors as well as IV’s for access if the doctors need it. There is some blood on her clothing I don’t know if it’s hers or his, but I’ll make sure it’s collected for evidence.