Chapter 24

                                    

                                          
Ana was standing over a body staunching the bleeding and applying direct pressure to the wound with the butt of her hand on the woman's shoulder. She had in a stethoscope and a blood pressure cuff next to her. She was in her ecru lace wedding dress. The woman was all in black with and had her ski mask taken off her head.
Ana yelled, "Cap, get Pickles to find Bucks and guard him with The Wiz! No more fuck ups! Get the men to check the perimeter for any others!" Ryan took off to find Reynolds, Taylor and Christian. Ana's Uncle George was attending the other girl in a ski mask a little ways away. 
Ana yelled, "Uncle Scott! Can you take over here and keep direct pressure on this until the EMTs arrive?" Ana's Uncle Scott took over the woman's injury.  
Ana moved to the other woman and checked her abdominal injury. She was bleeding out through her back and died right then with one heavy sigh. Ana took a pulse and there was none. There was nothing she could have done.
Ana went over to Uncle George and said. "How's it going with her?" Another woman was lying on the floor.
Uncle George said, "This one will be alright, it's a collapsed lung and it went straight through her."
Grace was at a distance on the ground treating another girl with a handgun wound.
Ana checked Uncle George's gunshot victim's vitals and blood pressure. The woman had a gunshot wound to the chest by the lung, a through and through shot.
FOUR HOURS EARLIER
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Sarah was standing in the mirror in her white lace corset, panties with garter belt and lace top stockings. She put on her robe and walked out to the guest room next to the room she was in at Bellevue to get her hair done by Franco. 
She sat in the chair and Franco said, "My dear, you are bellissima!" He kissed his fingertips on one hand dramatically. 
Ana said, "Do you tell that to all the brides that you do hair for?" He was brushing through her hair.
Franco put her hair up on top of her head and said, "No, just the exquisite ones. Why waste your time saying bellissima, if you can get away with just bella." Ana giggled at him and his fake Italian accent. 
An hour later, Ana was dressed and waiting for the ceremony to begin in a little while.
Christian was on the opposite side of the house in the other guest room. Christian said, "Dad, can you deliver this to Ana. Tell her I love her so much and can't wait to marry her." Christian hands him a small gift bag with silver tissue and turquoise blue tissue sticking up. 
Carrick smiled at Christian fondly and said, "I will go do that now, son." Carrick left to go deliver the present.
Christian was pacing and Elliot said, "Chill out, Christian, you know she's not going to bail on you. She's crazy about you. I can't figure out why you're such a tool." Christian picked up an item on the dresser and threw it at Elliot.
Christian said, "The only tool in this room is you, dumb ass." Elliot was grinning as he dodged the item. He was distracting Christian the only way he knew how, ribbing him.
Christian said, "I bet she's so fucking amazingly beautiful, like an angel. I don't know what I did to deserve her but she sure saved my life completely. It's amazing to feel this much for a person."
Elliot whined and said, "I wouldn't know, but I'd say you hit the jackpot on Ana, you lucky asshole. Now I have to find her clone, you took the original." Elliot pouted with his lip exaggeratedly sticking out with puppy dog eyes.