Family Ties

Chapter 5

"Why are you doing this?..." Daryl asked, his eyes wide with worry, a bruise on his temple along with a split lip. It was his own fault, he'd tried to take the baby from her while her back was turned. "Is there really a reason for doing anything nowadays?...does a family need a reason for having another child, does someone need a reason for getting a haircut, does a killer need reason to kill?..." Krya said, looking down at Madelynn in her arms. The baby wasn't crying at the moment, she had been when the unknown stranger took her from her father. And the little scuffle they got into probably didn't help. Her small lips quivered as she looked up at her sister. "Mommy will be here soon..." Using the computer that he'd brought, she'd been able to access her mother's email at the police station fairly easily. Hearing the sirens, Kyra slowly walked to Daryl and handed Madelynn to him. "Any sudden moves and i'm not above killing you or the baby...as long as she comes in by herself to talk everything will be fine..." she said, pulling her gun out of her pocket.

"We have the building surrounded, there is no where to hide...let them go and we can all go peacefully..." seemed like they were having a negotiator trying to talk her into letting them go. Moving to the window, she held up the gun so they could see but not see her. The second she moved in front of the window, they would snipe her down. Suddenly, the telephone was ringing consistently. Picking it up when she moved from the window, Kyra listened to the negotiator. "I'll consider letting them go unharmed, but Detective Cooper comes up to me....alone...anyone else and their dead...." she said before hanging up the phone and planting a bullet into it to prevent any further calls or taps. Now what will you do Detective Cooper? "Your insane..." Daryl spoke, earning a laugh from Kyra. "Yes...i've known that for awhile...but you aren't really in any position to make insults are you?..." she spoke, her gun trained on him. Within those few minutes, there was a knock at the door.

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Molly moved quickly up the building to the room her family was being held hostage in. Braves had insisted on coming with her, no matter how much she said that it wasn't worth the risk. "I'll stay out here...quiet as a mouse, she'll never know..." he said, his voice a hushed whisper through the tension. Molly couldn't convince him otherwise and they made their way to the door, her knocking. There was some shuffling and she could hear Madelynn's crying. "It's me..." she said, trying to remain calm as the door shut to show Kyra and Madelynn, a gun to the babies head. "are you alone..." kyra said, looking as far as she could without opening the door all the way. Molly nodded, not saying a word. Kyra opened the door a little more. "drop your gun and kick it inside...." Detective Cooper couldn't move, like she couldn't process what her oldest daughter was saying. "Drop the gun and kick it inside, then you come inside..." she ordered again to her mother. Molly slowly unholstered her weapon and popped the clip out, along with the one in the chamber. Laying both on the ground, she kicked them into the room. Kyra opened the door with her foot, quickly grabbing her mother's arm before the door slammed shut again and was locked from the inside.

Upon seeing her husband, with his face bruised and lip busted, Molly glared at her daughter. Kyra lowered the gun from her baby sister's head and proceeded to rock her, calming the babies crying for the moment. "It's pretty surreal isn't it mother....seeing your daughter that you threw away holding your new, perfect one.....holding the life of your family in the balance..." Kyra spoke, walking back and forth in front of the two parents. "I didn't throw you away...i gave you up to give you a better life....one that i couldn't give to you myself..." Molly spoke, her eyes tearing up slightly. Kyra merely laughed. "Oh don't give me that bullshit that you tell yourself to help you sleep at night....no mother willingly wants to give up there child without even trying to provide a life to it...i learned that from my....brothers and sisters over the years.....most of them didn't enter the system until they were a bit older...but me....i wasn't even given the chance to know my mother..." Kyra snapped at her, causing Madelynn to start crying again. In this moment, Daryl seemed to have managed to get himself up and was coming towards her and the baby.

The gunshot rang out, hitting Daryl in the leg. Madelynn screamed in fright at the sudden noise, Daryl dropping to the ground holding his new injury. Molly, in a second was by his side. "Tell them to stand down....or we all die here..." Kyra said, knowing that the shot would warrant a massive siege on the building. Molly's lip twitched in anger, but she pulled out her radio. "Stand down...there are no life-threatening injuries....i repeat...stand down, no life-threatening injuries..." Molly said. "Cooper....whose hit...." Braves spoke from the outside of the door. Molly hung her head, he couldn't have just kept his big mouth shut. Kyra looked towards the door before pointing the gun at it and fired four shots into the door. "I warned you....i told you to come alone...you never listen..." Kyra said. Though Molly noticed that there wasn't any sound from the other side of the door. There was no way that she got a headshot through the door, nor was there anyway that Braves would be able to hold it in if he was hit. "Tell you what...let my partner take Daryl and get him to our medic and the baby, then we can talk as long as you want....and when we go out of here....you can use me as a shield...they won't shoot as long as i'm here..." Molly said, trying to buy a way to get her family out of her. "I'm not leaving you here with this psychopath..." Daryl spoke up, Kyra training the gun on him again.

"I don't miss twice...you should really teach this guy some manners mom..." Molly glared at her daughter again but turned that glare to her husband. "Shut up and just get out of here so i can talk to my daughter..." At this point, Madelynn had started crying again. Kyra was beginning to get agitated both from the baby and her step-dad. "Fine..get him up....and tell your partner to get the two of them..." Kyra said, pointing the gun at the door. "Braves...come in...don't shoot...your going to take the baby and Daryl and get them to safety..." Molly called out. It took a few seconds, but her partner did open the door slowly, his own gun out and pointed to Kyra. "Just take them and get out...one wrong move and she dies..." Kyra spoke, now her gun pointed at her mother. Braves looked like he was in conflict but did as he was told. Taking the baby from Kyra in one hand and letting Daryl put his weight on his other side as he took the two out. Kyra slammed the door behind them and locked it yet again. "Ad