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| Across town, Brodick and Ivy are walking back to Ivy's car. "Are you sure your car will even be there? You did kind of leave it there." Brodrick says to her. "It better be!" Ivy says sternly. "If it's not I kicking someone's ass." Brodrick laughs at her. "Brodrick?" he hears Gwen's voice in his head. "Where are you? We need your help?" "Where are you?" Brodrick asks. Back in the ally, Gwen Jade and Alaina are now surrounded by thugs. The men begin to move in closer to the three of them. "We are so screw!" Alaina says under her breath. "Alaina." Gwen says to her. "I want to hear you say something positive." "Ok, this sucks!" Alaina says putting her thumb in the air. "Alaina!" Gwen scolds her. "What? I gave you a thumbs up! What more do you want?!" she yells toward Gwen. "Don't raise you voice at me!" Gwen says forcefully. "Don't tell me what to do!" "Ladies!" Jade butts in. "What!!" they both scream. Jade points to the gang infront of them. "Ok, now your just changing the subject!" they both scold him. The girls look forward, and then back a Jade. They scream. "Cooper!" you hear Brodrick yelling as he aproaches the ally. He runs up out of breath. "Cooper. Leave them all. You're here for me." he walks up to one of the men. "Let them go, and take me." The man nods to the others. They walk Gwen, Alaina, and Jade out of the ally. Gwen looks over at Jade. "Now what, we can't help him from here." Alaina buts in. "Yeah, we would need a tank!" "Did someone say they needed a tank." they hear Ivy say as she pats the hood of her car. The three of them look at her slightly confused.. Back in the ally. "Brodrick." the dark hair man begins to speak. "You've been trying to get away from us for quite some time." he pats brodrick on the shoulder. "You're the last." he removes brodricks hat, and then his bandana. He raises his gun to Brodrick's face. "It's all over." the sound of a car horn cuts through the air. "What the hell!" Cooper looks aways for a second to see Ivy plowing her car through the mass of people. Alaina and Gwen in tow. Jade is following behind stopping anything that is still moving. Brodrick taking advantage of this moment grabs the man's wrist pulling the gun away from himself. He punches Cooper in the nose. As blood pours down his face he drops the gun. Brodrick quickly picks it up and points it at him. "I thought you were a good guy?" Cooper says spitting blood at him. "I never said that did I?" Gwen jumps out of the car and jumps at the sight of Brodrick pulling the trigger. Bang.....Bang...Bang....the body hits the ground. The rest of the thugs crawl away. "Oh my God." Gwen wispers to herself. The next day at Gwen's house. "You don't think I'm a murderer do you?" Brodrick looks at Gwen as they sit at her kitchen table. "I can't pass judgment. That's not up to me. Do you feel that you are a murderer?" Gwen says to him. "I'm sorry to say it Brodrick but you took a man's life. Granted Ivy ran a few people over but they lived. At least she didn't turn them into swiss cheese." Brodrick looks down at the floor. "Yeah, I guess I am...." he begins. "A good man that only wants to protect his friends." Gwen interupts. She pats his shoulder. "Don't worry about it. If you were a bad person I'm sure you would have payed for it by now." Gwen stands and starts to leave the room. "I go back to work today." Brodrick says alload. Gwen turns around to face him. "That's good. I'm glad to hear that. The city does need a good cab driver." she laughs softly. "Good luck with that." she says to him as she walks into the livingroom. "Good luck." Brodrick walks out of house. "Bye Brodrick." Alaina says while waving to him. "Bye Alaina." he says back. He jumps into his car and drives off. "So, where to?" Brodrick askes as a women jumps into the back of his cab. "5901 West Preston Street." the woman answers. "Ok." he begins to drive. They turn the corner and the cab is stopped by traffic. Brodrick looks up at the street sign. "Madison." he wispers to himself. "What was that?" the woman askes. "Nothing." he says back to her. She searches through her purse and takes out her cell phone. "Yeah...I'm stuck in traffic. Yeah, I know you'd think they do something about this." the woman says talking on her phone. Brodrick pulls the car up about an inch and then stops again. He looks over to the left of the cab to see a man running from the ally way. "What the hell?" the man is followed by a younger man who begins to fire off a few shots from a gun. The woman ducks down in the back seat. After a few minutes she sits back up. She looks to see that the car infront of them has moved. "Hey, are you going to pull up?" she says to Brodrick. "Hey!" she says to him again. "Sir?" she looks over to see the window is busted. "Sir?" she screams at the sight of blood running down his face. A tear drops into the fountain as Ellie sits looking down at this scene. "Brodrick." She continues to cry. "No!" She falls off of her seat. The rest of the council runs to her side. "Why! You've taken everything from me! Why! Why!" Alieen walks over to her fountain. "Jade, Brodrick's dead. I'm sorry." The End. |
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