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The last thing Bonnie wanted to do was bring Billie back to this potential gun scene, but she couldn't explain her disappearing. So when she slips back through the hole in the motorcycle cover with Jay, she immediately ducks out the other side to put her back against the wall.

"Okay. Ted is in the house, holding a gun. I don't know where he got it but he said there was an intruder. Turtle was on an early, so he ought to be home, but I don't know where. If Ted's home, Stuart ought to be home too, unless it was him that ran to call the cops."

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"Got it." Jay nods, cupping her upper arm and pulling something out of a pocket in his belt. He might not be in his full armour but the jacket he's wearing will stop a bullet at anything but point blank. "Let me deal with this first."

He sprays a thin gel over the entry and exit wounds that makes the area cold as the blood clots and he rewraps it. "Think your boys will remember me from the wedding?"

Bonnie is glad she at least managed to get the glass out of the wound during her brief dash to the bar.

"Thanks. Yes, but depending on who's shooting that may not help. Could be one of the people who was at the wedding - Cassandra brought a rival gang, and Picket was there and..."

She takes a breath. "If you get in any danger promise you'll come out?"

She's beyond greatful that he's here, but terrified he'll get hurt.

He nods sharply and pulls something else out of his jacket - a stiff, dull grey piece of fabric which he wraps around Billie. "It'll protect her. Just in case."

At her comment about getting out if there's danger, he shakes his head with a rueful smile. "Bon, you know me. I'm good with danger."

He moves silently to the edge of their cover, pulling a pair of goggles down over his eyes. Sadly, not his full helmet heads-up display but at least they'll give him an inferred scan for body heat.

"Thank you." Bonnie whispers, wrapping Billie carefully.

The first heat source is crouched on the stairs, keeping still.

He slips a baton from his belt and creeps forward, keeping to the shadows. Most of his training has been in non-lethal take downs so he has no fear he'll hurt Bonnie's boys. Scare them maybe but nothing that won't heal.

He shifts a small mirror from his belt and uses it to assess the situation just inside the door.

Ted is watching towards the kitchen through the bannister. He has no shirt on, having used it to stem the bleeding on Bonnie's arm. He edges around the bannister, flattens himself along the wall opposite, and starts to creep towards the kitchen.

Jay waits till the young man is moving and follows him, keeping behind him where he can't be seen. He keeps his inferred scanner running, tracking to see where other heat sources were coming from.

Ted moves through the kitchen. The second heat source is lying on the floor, but he only hesitates for a moment before moving towards the back door.

He opens it. It's unlocked. He breathes. He shuts and locks the door, puts the key back on the hook, and goes back to crouch next to the figure on the floor.

Jay stays where he has the protection of the kitchen doorway, pressed against the wall as Ted checks on the fallen figure. He scans the rest of the house.

No other heat sources in the house.

Ted checks the person on the floor for a pulse, then moves back towards the hall towards the phone.

Jay makes just enough sound for Ted to hear as the young man come back out into the hall.

"Is it safe to being Bonnie and Billie Rae inside now?" He asks directly, hoping to short circuit Ted's panic reaction.

Ted jumps, the gun still in his hand, but doesn't fire it.

"Depends whose side you're on." he says. "Are you with her, or the other guy?"

Good, because Jay was ready to take if off him if Ted had lifted it. "I'm here with Bonnie. She asked me to back you up. I'm medically trained." He nods towards the kitchen.

Ted debates this, but it's not like it can get much worse for Turtle right now.

"Turtle got shot." he says. "I need to call 911."

"Go do that. Then let Bonnie know it's safe to come in. Once Turtle's stable, we'll come up with a plan."

He moves over to Turtle, pulling trauma supplies out of the lining of his jacket and starting his assessment.

Ted moves to the phone in the hall, not taking his eye off Jay, and dials 911. He starts giving information.

Turtle is on the floor, unconscious but breathing, with a gunshot wound to the chest. His vital signs aren't too bad, though.

Jay puts pressure in the wound and checks Turtle's breathing. Doesn't look like the bullet hit anything vital. He starts scanning for evidence as he does, still Bruce's son in some ways. "Let Bonnie know he'll be okay."

Ted puts the phone down on the table and goes to yell out that message to Bonnie, before going back and picking it up again and carrying on talking.

Bonnie comes in with Billie, comes into the kitchen, and freezes, then swears.

"You sure he'll be okay?" she asks, crouching next to Turtle and putting a hand on her husband's shoulder. "Don't you dare die on me, I am not burying anyone else."

"M'fine Red, quit fussing." Turtle mutters, without opening his eyes.

Jay lets them deal, busy keeping pressure on the hole in his chest. "The bullet seems to have missed all the important stuff. If we can fish it put and stop you leaking, you'll be fine."

It's as much for Bonnie's benefit as Turtle's. "Bon, need you to keep his hand warm. Turtle, you need to tell me if your fingers or toes start tingling."

"You're fishing it out?" Bonnie asks, looking a little bit alarmed. She hopes he knows what he's doing.

"Ted, I'm gonna need you to give me the gun and hold Billie."

Ted hesitates.

"What if he comes back?"

Jay peels back the bandages and looks. "I haven't yet, but I can. But it might be better to wait for the ambulance."

Jay looks up at Ted, touching the baton at his hip. "If they come back, we'll deal with them." There's a dark promise to his voice.

Ted swaps holding the gun for the baby.

"Did you recognise him?" Bonnie asks Ted, tucking the gun safely back in Turtle's holster.

"Yeah. He was at your wedding. But I don't know his name." Ted says.

"Could you pick him out again?" Bonnie asks.

"Yeah I think." Ted says.

Jay shakes his head and holds his hand out for the gun before Bonnie puts it away, cleaning all fingerprints off it and checking the remaining ammo with practised efficiency.

Two bullets have been fired from the gun.

"Where's Stuart?" Bonnie asks suddenly. "Did he come home with you?"

"No, I skipped the last period." Ted admits. "I was afraid he and you and Billie might walk in on the man with the gun so I locked the door."

"I'll do a parameter check." Jay takes Bonnie's hand and presses it over the wound to put pressure there. "And it wouldn't hurt to have someone out front to flag down the ambulance."

Bonnie presses her hand on the wound, and tuts slightly.

"Gettin' shot indeed. Always knew you were trouble." she mutters fondly.

There is a big and a small heat source behind Bonnie's truck.

Jay works his way around the edge of the truck, baton drawn and moving silently. He drops to check under the truck, checking the number of shoes present.

Two pairs of shoes - one of a large woman in flats, one of a small schoolgirl.

He stows the baton under his jacket and steps around the truck with care. "It's okay, it's safe now."

Lucy jumps, holding Terry close.

"I saw the glass broken and the blood and I didn't know what to do." Lucy says, recognising Jay from the wedding.

Hearing the sirens, she looks around. "Oh God, who's hurt?"

"Turtle's been hurt but he's stable. The ambulance is on it's way. Bonnie and Ted are inside."

"Where's Stuart?" Lucy asks.

The drive is suddenly full of cops, who race into the house.

"Not sure." Jay steps back to let the cops by. "Head in and help Bonnie. Let her know I'll keep an eye out here." And he still wants to check the perimeter for clues. That and he's not the sort of person the cops might like hanging around.

Lucy nods and starts to take Terry inside, but the cops stop them in the doorway to ask questions.

There is a side gate, which has a bolt at the top on the inside, but that could be reached from the outside if you stood on something. The bolt is currently unlocked, and there is a broken padlock on the floor inside the yard.

Jay causally fingerprints the lock and bolt and takes photos. He stashes his gear back in the many hidden pockets of his jacket and heads for the back door, tracking the path.

The yard is pretty full of junk, which doesn't help. What perhaps looks out of place is the rather clean-looking but damp handkerchief stuffed down the side of the shed.

Jay collects the evidence and pockets it, moving quietly towards the back door. He waits to see if there's anything else to see before stepping into the open, making sure the cops can see him.

The cops eye him - Bonnie has explained that he's her friend. Stuart is by now also present, loitering in the drive, being interviewed.

The EMTs arrive and bundle Turtle into an ambulance. Bonnie comes out of the house.

"We're going to need to take the boys to the station for questioning." one of the cops says to her.

Bonnie hesitates. She feels she needs to go with Turtle, but doesn't like the idea of the boys being interviewed on their own.

Jay waits by the door, looking to Bonnie. "What'd you need?"

"I need... to delegate." Bonnie says.

"Okay. Lucy, can you please take Terry and go with Turtle? Jay, can you please ask the cops to let you have my address book and make a call to Leroy - he's one of my boys, he's a judge. Please ask him to meet us at the police station, so he can be with the boys and then I can leave to be with Turtle?"

Jay nods and approached the officers and asks for access to Bonnie's address book. He intentionally holds himself like a military man, slipping the baton to a clear and visible position. Don't want them to think he's hiding anything.

The cops give Jay the address book, after inspecting it, and his baton.

Outside, one of the EMTs is arguing with Bonnie about her needing to get her arm checked out.

"I am not having the boys interviewed without either myself or a qualified legal representative present." Bonnie argues. "They are minors.

Jay's happy for them to notice the baton, rather than the knives in his boots or the other tricks in the lining of his jacket. Frankly, he's surprised they're not more suspicious of him.

He gets the book and calls Leroy, briefly explaining the situation.

The cops seem pretty on edge in general - Turtle is one of their own - but they seem way more interested in Stuart and Ted.

"Which is the one with the temper?" one of the cops is asking another in a low voice, eying the two boys.

Leroy takes the situation calmly, and promises to be down there within the hour.

"Thanks." Jay rings off and crosses to Bonnie's side. "I can go with the boys. If you make it clear to the police that I'm there as your representative."

Bonnie hesitates, then turns to the boys.

"Are you happy fer Jay to go help you? He knows what he's doin' and Leroy's on his way."

Stuart and Ted look at one another.

"If things get out of hand can we just say no comment until you get there?" Stuart asks.

"Course you can. You've done nothin' wrong, they'll just need to suspect everyone." Bonnie says. "Thanks Jay."

[ooc: We can head towards wrap here, I'm going to do the Who Shot Turtle bit as stand-alone ooms. Thanks for your help :)]

Jay nods and follows the boys and the police. "I'll see you in the other side, Bonnie."

{ooc: fade works for me. Thanks for that.}

Edited 2016-09-19 22:56 (UTC)

She hesitates after him to give him and the boys a hug, then disappears into the ambulance with Turtle.

Billie, who hasn't cried the whole time, is just quiet in her arms.

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