Shane has been kneeling calmly with me in the corner.  One of the masked men stops Morris’s track and points a gun to his head.  

“Shane, no!” I whisper lowly to her.

She closes her eyes in agony and stays down.

“Please don’t!”  Morris cries loudly.  You can practically hear his voice trembling with fear.

“That’s it!  Stay here Carmen.”  She stands up and holds her hand up at the thieves.

“Leave him alone, he is only an old man.”  Shane shouts loudly at the man, inching forward.

 “Stay down!”  When another man in black points his gun at Shane, I nearly have a heart attack straight away.  Shane just cannot stay away from danger!!  I so want to tear her head off myself!

The police are arriving, sirens are piecing into my eyes, blue and red lights are flashing like no tomorrow.  A mechanic voice is telling the thieves to surrender as they are now surrounded by at least a 100 hundred policemen.  I have a really bad feeling about this.

“Let him go!”  Hearing Shane’s voice brings me back to my biggest worry.

“I said stay down.  This is your last chance!” The gun man is getting increasingly nervous and starts to shift his weights left and right.

“You are here for the money. I know you don’t want to hurt anyone!”  Shane is still negotiating calmly with the men.

“You have 30 seconds to surrender, otherwise, we are sending in the SWAT team.” The police are giving them the ultimatum.

“We have to go, stop wasting time on this old man and this crazy bitch.” The leader orders the gang to retreat.  The mask man who is threatening Shane turns to leave.

“What do we do with them?” The robbery who is pointing the gun at Morris asks.

“Shoot them!” The leader says.

“I can’t!” the man replies.

“What the fuck!  Just go!”  The leader shouts.

 They all run to the side door and the leader turns back to fire at Morris.  Shane is running to push him to one side.  The SWAT team burst in at the same moment, everything is in chaos.  From screaming of the customers, the police, the thieves and possibly my own to gun shots from every direction.  I turn my attention back to Shane and my heart stops.  She is lying on her back motionlessly with Morris hovering over her.

“No!”  I run towards her without caring about my own safety.  All I can see is Shane.

I cannot feel a pulse and start performing mouth to mouth resuscitation on her.  She chokes suddenly and jerks up before I even press my hands on her chest.

“Thank God you are alive!” I hug her so tightly until she protests.

“Not for long Carmen!”  She struggles to get up.

“How?”  I check her body and find a bullet stuck into a bullet proof vest.

“I promised you I would wear one.  See!”  She smirks mischievously.   

“You are so lucky this time! I thought I lost you for real!”  I slap her chest hard.

“That really hurts!”  Her face twists painfully.  I carefully remove her vest and see an ugly bruise on her chest. 

“It maybe a bruise but could also be a fracture. I need you to take an x-ray at the hospital.”  I say worryingly.

“I like it when you talk the med lingo!”  She flashes me a wide grin.  I cannot help but roll my eyes, she will forever be the cocky Shane as long as she is alive! 

Morris thanks Shane for saving him and whispers something into her ear.  She nods happily upon hearing the news.  I help her to an ambulance. 

The police managed to gun down one of the thieves but let the others got away.

“Never, never play the hero again!”  I warn her gravely.

“I am fine!  You were there! I can’t let them shoot the poor old Morris!”  Shane protests.

“What about you?  I don’t want you to be shot either!”  I am still somewhat angry at her.

“I know, princess.  I know.”  She kisses me gently and the kiss turns into a feverish one very quickly.  Luckily there is no paramedic with us as I told them that I am a medical doctor too.

I thought this was the end of this horrible day, how wrong was I….

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tbc…