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Date Posted: 21:07:12 09/27/02 Fri
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's message, ""Almost Fatal"© " on 21:47:12 09/20/02 Fri
Title: Almost Fatal
Author: DeeCKidd
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Gwen locks Theresa in an abandoned apartment in hopes of letting her die there. Luis comes to find Theresa, and sees Ethan standing over her with a gun.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with NBC's Passions or its Characters
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Luis somehow got separated from Ethan. It was as if he had disappeared in the night.
“Damn!” He called out several times. “Damn! Where did he disappear to?” Luis asked himself.
“Okay Luis, think! Where would they take your sister? I have a feeling that Gwen is behind this. She could’ve fooled everyone else, but not me. I knew she hadn’t gotten over Ethan. Now, where would she take Theresa?”
Luis pulled up to his house, and went inside to get his gun, because he didn’t have a clue what he was up against.
“Hi hun.” Sheridan called out to him. “How is Theresa?”
Sheridan saw the look on Luis’ face and was afraid of the answer she would get.
She walked over to him to comfort him. She placed her hand on his arm.
“Baby, are you okay?”
Luis threw his hand in his hair from frustration. He felt helpless, and didn’t know what to say as the tears ran down his cheek.
“Oh Luis don’t cry, it will be okay. She’s in a better place.”
Luis looked in his wife’s beautiful eyes as she poured out words of sympathy to him.
“No, baby, you misunderstand. Theresa’s not dead. She’s missing.”
“Missing? What do you mean? What happened to her?”
“We don’t know. Ethan, my father and I went to the hospital after leaving Gwen’s apartment…” He trailed off.
“Gwen? What does Gwen have to do with this?” Sheridan said looking confused.
“Well Ethan showed up at Gwen’s place because he thinks she’s behind the poisoning.”
“Oh my God! What did Ethan do to her?”
“He tried to kill her, but Martin and I got there just in time to pull him off of her.”
“Well, where is Ethan now?”
“I don’t know? We were in separate cars, and he ditched me. So I have no clue where he might have gone. It all sounds suspicious to me.”
“Well you don’t think Ethan is in on the plan to kill Theresa do you? He loves her.”
Luis picked up his gun and tucked it safely in his belt. “I’m not sure what to believe anymore Sheridan. Why would he leave me? He knew I was behind him. I got caught by the light, and it was a woman and her children crossing, and at first he stopped on the other side of the intersection, but before I had the green, he zoomed off.”
Luis walked toward the door.
“Well, that doesn’t mean anything. Maybe he’s just anxious to find Theresa.”
“I hope to God that’s true Sheridan. Ethan is my boy, and I would hate to have been wrong about him. I really would hate it…” He trailed off again.
“Well please promise you won’t hurt him if he is involved somehow. I know he’s not my real nephew, but I love him just as if he were. Promise me Luis, please!” She begged.
Luis put his arms around Sheridan, and kissed her gently on the forehead.
“I promise that I will do whatever it takes to protect the people we love.”
And he hugged her tightly, and left.
Luis jumped in his car and pulled out his cell phone and dial Sam at the station.
“I need to let Sam know what’s going on. I may need back up.” He said to himself.
“Oh Theresa, where are you?” Luis was going out of his mind. He kept remembering the orderly they ran into at the hospital.
“Hmm, did anything unusual happen when Ethan bumped into him? What happened? We paused for a moment. Wait! I remember now. The orderly dropped some sort of key, and Ethan picked it up. I remember the orderly being real nervous when he picked up that key.
“What was that a key of. Think damnit! Think! OMG! The docks! That’s it! I know that’s it.” He said zooming in the direction of the wharf.
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Sam picked up his phone and heard the panic voice on the other end.
“Are you okay? Where are you?” He said pausing as he heard the voice on the other end speak.
“Oh my, when did this happen? Oh I see. Well do you have any clue where they may have taken her?” He said tucking his gun in his belt.
“Yes, I know the place. I’m twenty minutes away. Just promise me you won’t enter the building without back up. Okay, I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
Sam grabbed his jacket, and car keys and headed toward the docks.
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Ethan jumped out of his car and headed up to the abandoned apartments. He was tired of this whole mess. This only way to deal with this situation was to end it once and for all.
He checked the bullets in his gun, and opened the creaky door that led toward the door where Theresa was being kept. He thought about this over and over in his mind, and he knew he was doing the right thing.
He slowly opened the door to the dark room. He crept inside trying to adjust his eyes to the darkness.
“Theresa!” He whispered loudly. His gun was planted on his side waiting to be used.
“Theresa! Where are you?”
Ethan heard mumbling across the room. It was real faint, but he knew her voice. She spoke with such sweetness and love.
Her tenderness cried out for her husband.
Ethan walked up close to her, and pulled out his gun.
Theresa lie on the ravaged couch with her hands tied behind her back.
Ethan pulled her to a seated position, still holding the gun tight within his grip.
He began to reach over her when he heard someone slam into the dark room.
“Drop it!” Luis yelled out, as he watched Ethan waving his gun in front of Theresa.
Ethan looked over to the door where Luis stood.
“Luis! It’s me, Ethan!”
“I know who you are! Drop the gun I said!”
“Luis, what is wrong with you?” Ethan said turning and began walking toward him.
“Don’t come any closer Crane! Drop the gun, and put your hands above your head.”
“Man, have you lost your mind. It’s me, your brother in law.”
“You are no brother in law of mine. You are trying to kill my sister, and I want you to drop your gun now before I shoot.”
“This is ridiculous!” Ethan yelled. “Why would you think I’m trying to harm Theresa. She’s my wife, I love her.”
“That’s what I thought, but right now, I can’t trust anyone. Now don’t come any closer, or I’ll shoot.”
Ethan threw his gun on the couch next to Theresa, and began to place his hands above his head.
Just as soon as Luis began to walk toward him, someone from behind jumped him throwing his gun toward Ethan.
Luis fell to the ground trying to reach for his gun, but the person who over-threw him stepped on his hand crushing it.
Ethan bent to pick the gun up, but the man’s voice told him to stop right there.
Ethan slowly stood up, and Luis began to look confused.
“Get up officer, and walk slowly over to your brother in law. And if you make one false move I won’t hesitate to shoot everyone in this building.”
Luis still looking at Ethan, asked him what was going on.
“I don’t know. I suppose this guy works for Gwen.”
“But I thought you were working with Gwen.” He said rubbing his hand that definitely would need a cast.”
“No! Why would you think that?”
“Well you disappeared earlier, and I didn’t know what to think. And when I saw you reaching over Theresa just now, I thought you were trying to kill her.”
“Kill her? I love your sister. You know this. I would never do anything to hurt her. I was about to check her pulse when you came rushing in here.”
“That’s right!” A woman’s voice said filling the room around them. Ethan here was trying to be a hero, and you office Lopez-Fitzgerald ruin his plan. Such a pity too. He could have saved his little terror-sita from the evil clutches of my contrivance. But too little, too late.”
“Why you….” Luis trailed off, as he noticed the gunman pointing a pistol towards Theresa.
Gwen stepped into view so that she could get a good look at Theresa’s condition.
“She’s not going to make it you know. She believes you have given up on your love for her.” She said looking at Ethan.
Ethan frowned, and asked, “What do you mean Gwen. Theresa should know better. She knows that I love her with my whole heart.”
“Well that was the case before she saw a little scenario we shared with each other earlier.”
“Scenario!” Ethan yelled. “What damn scenario are you talking about?”
Just then the video monitor came on showing a couple sitting at a desk kissing. When the man in the picture turned around to face the camera both Luis and Ethan gasped.
“Why you bastard!” Luis cried out. “You are working with her!”
Ethan looked more confused as he saw the man in the video. It looks like him, but it wasn’t. It was kind of freaky seeing someone who was the splitting image of you, but wasn’t you.
“Luis that is not me, I swear to you. I don’t know who that is, but it isn’t me.”
“He’s right officer. It isn’t Ethan.” Gwen continued. “He’s someone I hired to be Ethan for Theresa’s benefit.”
Ethan slowly turned from the monitor and looked at Gwen.
“You bitch!” He snapped off, and began to walk towards her.
The gun-man pulled back his trigger to shoot, when Sam came bursting inside.
“Freeze!” he shouted out.
Gwen’s goon turned around and fired a shot hitting Sam in his right arm, flying the gun right out of his hand.
Sam grabbed his left arm and went crashing to the floor, and Luis jumped the gun man from behind and knocked the gun out of his hand.
Ethan reached down on the couch and grabbed his gun and aimed it at the man. But in all the commotion they didn’t notice that Gwen had walked over to Theresa and had a knife to her neck.
"Drop the gun Ethan, or your little wife here gets it."
Luis still held on tight to the goon, and Ethan slowly turned to see Gwen standing there with Theresa and the knife.
Theresa had awaking with the sound of the gun shot that had Sam wounded. And tears were falling from her eyes.
But Ethan wouldn’t drop the gun. He held it steady right toward Theresa and Gwen’s direction.
“Drop it I said!” She shouted once again. “I won’t hesitate to kill her. She ruin my life, and I will have my revenge one way or another.”
“Gwen please don’t do this.” Theresa’s weak voice pleaded.
“Shut up! Don’t you say a word! If your husband loves you at all, he’ll drop that gun!”
Still, Ethan held on to the gun. He saw how frightened his wife was and became confused. He knew that Gwen hated Theresa, and that she would killed her no matter what he did.
Ethan and Theresa locked eyes. Words of love were spoken without a single peep. And right at that moment they knew what they had to do.
Theresa took her foot and as hard as she could stomped down on Gwen’s. Luckily it was the one that was injured hours earlier with glass.
Gwen screamed out pushing Theresa toward the ground and Ethan fired one shot toward Gwen hitting her right in her chest.
Gwen felled toward the floor, and everything went quiet.
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End of chpt 19
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