THĒ JÃILBĪRD
Thē Jãilbīrd - Episode 89&90
(Female•In•Disguise)
★★★★★★★★★★★★★
#UNEDITED
"I'm coming with you, Addie" he whispered, falling on his left knee as the cop car zoomed to an halt.
Five cops came out of the car, but before they could even touch him, a black van screeched roughly into the square, colliding into two of the cops.
The remaining three started shooting at the van, but it's bulletproof, so they began targeting the tyres.
They still didn't get the chance to hit since the van driver is a clean professional.
It's Loud.
Andrei who's at the back of the van eventually pointed out a pistol, shooting down two more cops, then he stepped out of the van.
He's wearing a mask as he ran to Madden who's already unconscious in the middle of the square.
Masked Malik and Sin came out of the van too, and they helped him carry Madden's body into the car while the driver covered them by shooting relentlessly at the remaining one cop.
They finally got Madden into the van, and immediately they drove off, several other police cars drove into the square.
It was the remaining one cop who gave them directions, and all the cars began chasing after the van.
The road became a racing track as the chase was dangerously high.
Meanwhile, inside the van, Madden is losing a whole lot of blood from his shot stomach.
Jinx had to take off her jacket, then she collected Malik's own with it and wrapped the two together before placing it on Madden's stomach to minimize the bleeding, but the jackets got soaked within minutes.
"Hold tight, everyone" Loud said from the front, and everyone quickly grabbed something as he rounded a corner sharply, but that didn't stop them from hitting their heads.
Malik's head hit on the window, Sin's head collided with the window too, and Jinx's head crashed on the door.
They all sustained fresh injuries.
Loud drove into another street, his eyes so keen on the road as the cops went hotter on their tails, but then they saw two police cars coming in front of them.
They've obviously been double-crossed.
"Shit" Sin muttered.
"Stop the car, Loud. Let's just waste them and have our way" Jinx said.
"Do you know how many cops are inside those two cars and the ones coming behind? They're like battalions, and if I stop, it's over" Loud replied adamantly from the front
"Then what are you gonna do?" Malik asked.
"Hold tight, tighter than earlier" Andrei instructed, keeping his bloody hands on the jackets on Madden's tummy.
"No... Don't tell me you're gonna..." Jinx muttered in fright, but she wasn't able to digest it all cos Loud did a small reverse before going forward with an insane speed.
"No!!!!" Malik screamed, and Andrei made sure to hold Madden tighter to the seat cos Loud made the van jump perfectly over the police car.
The van landed on the other side of the road, and it seems like something prickled one of the tyres in the process, cos it started going down.
"You need to stop, Loud. I think the front right tyre is going down" Jinx said.
"I'm not doing that" Loud replied, stepping completely on the accelerator and speeding like flash of light down the road.
By now, they lost the cops already, so Andrei dialled Maya's line quickly.
"Hello? Did you find my brother?" Maya picked with a feverish voice.
"Yes... But...
"But what?" Maya interrupted fearfully.
"He's wounded severely on the tummy, and we can't bring him to the compound since the cops are surely coming there. Right now we don't even have a destination" Andrei explained.
"If you're still in Fili, then find a way to slip out and head to the bayou. Madden has a lake house there and the passcode is the conversion of his name to numbers. Or you can take him to the catacombs... Loud knows that place. Anywhere you chose to go, just tell me and I'll send Igor and his nurses over" Maya explained.
"Alright, but...
"What again?" Maya sniffled.
"He killed more than fifty people at the square, and 99 percent of them are politicians. If Madden gets caught, then he's spending the rest of his life in jail, or they might just kill him, and trust me when I tell you he's ready to die" Andrei replied.
"No... I won't allow him to die, and my brother is never going to jail. He killed mother too" Maya sobbed.
"What!" Andrei's eyes widened.
"You thought I was joking when I told you he's not ok upstairs? I never knew he has attached his remaining sanity to Adeline. If I knew that was the case, I'd have tied Adeline down myself and stopped her from leaving" Maya cried.
"We'll try our best, and I think the bayou is safer for now so send the address. If you're finding it hard to convince Igor, then I'll call him and make him come" Andrei said.
"Don't worry, I know how to persuade him." Maya assured.
"Stop crying" Andrei said.
"Hmm" she replied, and he hung up.
"Godmother is dead?" Jinx and Malik asked at the same time.
Andrei didn't reply, he just squatted beside Madden's body and placed his ear on his chest.
Madden's heart is still beating, but it's so faint that he could barely hear it.
Maya sent the address finally, and he showed it to Loud who sped out of the district immediately.
He didn't take the main road since it's sure the cops will be there, so he took another road, the same shortcut Madden took the bayou the other time.
Sin got his phone out of his pocket and went to the news again to watch the bombing video.
"Don't play that" Jinx told him, wiping the tears in her eyes.
Sin ignored and continued watching repeatedly, then he saw something new.
In the bombing footage, he saw Trixie too, at the other side of the road.
He saw her crossing the road, and he saw her getting hit by a car at the background.
"No!" He spranged up.
"What's going on?" Malik stood with him.
"Trixie... Trixie too... She's... she's.... I think....
Jinx pulled him back to his seat, bringing his face to her shoulder so he could cry on it.
Malik sighed same time as Andrei.
"Days like today should better not come again" Malik muttered.
In the front, Loud is crying as he drove too, but he's trying not to blur his eyes with tears so he won't get them all killed.
He drove the car smoothly despite the tyre that's lessening every second.
He finally arrived at the bayou, and it wasn't hard to locate the house. It's like a mini version of Madden's manor at the clan.
Surprisingly, they met Igor and his nurses waiting in front of the building already.
Igor looks so sick, and it's obvious. He's even shaking with cold.
"Bring him in" he said, and no questions were asked cos Sin did the passcode immediately, and they went in.
*
CLAN,~ SELESTA'S APARTMENT*
There are lots of mobsters in there with Zoya and Sergei plus Ksenia.
They're in the underground segment where Selesta controls her walls from.
She knew this would happen today, so every single screen has been destroyed, even the wires were severed so there's no way to trace her.
After she left with the kids through the cathedral ground earlier, every underground escape tunnel in the compound were combed, but none has her or the kids.
Whichever way she went, she's the only one who knows it, thanks to Erik for giving her that much power.
Zoya is still crying, and right now even her soldiers are useless.
Sergei couldn't even add anything., and Ksenia only watched with crossed arms.
"The fact that she was always trembling whenever I called her to ask about Angelika when I was still in Morocco... I always felt her shaking through her voice, so it was all an act? Gawd... She should be an actress!! I want my kids back" Zoya stood, and Sergei held her back.
"Calm down...
"Don't give me that crap!" Zoya pushed him.
"You knew she was Nazeera all along, and you didn't tell me she's a devil? You allowed me to leave the kids in her care? I hate you!!" She yelled.
"Erik threatened me." Sergei said in defence.
"After Erik's death, weren't you supposed to talk?" Zoya glared.
"I didn't know she had plans with Erik! Trust me I thought she was just a harmless maid, and also...she took good care of Angelika...
Zoya punched Sergei in the face at this point, and Sergei staggered.
Thanks to Ksenia who quickly caught him before he could fall.
"Zoya!" She shouted.
"Tell him to stop giving excuses it's fuçking my head up! Now my kids are gone, my wedding is ruined, the election got cancelled, and Madden is going crazy killing people around including Klara!!!" Zoya cried again.
"Go blame Ivan and Erik in their graves. They're the sole cause of this, and you should be thankful that father was decent enough to not join them in the sèx slave stuff. At least we have our own mother who unluckily died after birthing me... Stop blaming father" Ksenia defended, and Zoya punched her too.
Ksenia almost returned the hit, but Zoya's soldiers held her back.
"In 24 hours, father...if you don't find me my kids, then I'll kill you" Zoya threatened and left the segment.
"You ok?" Sergei asked Ksenia, and she nodded once.
*
HOUSE OF ORLOVS, KLARA'S ROOM*
Klara's body was carried here by her guards after Maya summoned them.
Her head was gathered back and wrapped up with a bandage since her brain is already out.
Maya used warm water and towel to wipe the blood on her skin clean, then she wore her favorite white silk dress for her.
She placed Klara's body in bed and sat beside it, letting her tears fall freely.
"I told you I was gonna eat you raw if you affect my brother in any way. Why did you die before I could even eat you? Why did he kill you before i got the chance to chew you out?" She sobbed, sniffling.
"Now that you're gone, you can attack father in hell and cut him to pieces for all the havoc he caused for us. The most painful part is that Madden carried the heaviest part of it. First he was born mute, second he took my shots and his own for years... Now he ran mad after you sent Adeline to her death... I can't even think straight" she grabbed her face, crying into her palms.
"Nazeera was right under our noses as Selesta but no one noticed, and now she promised to come back. What if she comes back for me? What if Madden dies?" She sniffled, standing up.
She checked her phone, and she gulped.
Igor and the nurses left for the bayou over an hour ago, so why hasn't Andrei called yet?
Maybe Madden didn't survive the shot.
Is Madden dead?
Oh no.
She can't be left alone.
Maybe their next family reunion is in hell.
She slid her knife out of her gown, and without thinking twice, she raised it ho her own neck.
Before she could stab, someone snatched it from her.
She stood and turned back to see Ksenia.
"Give me my knife!" She walked fast to her, but Ksenia hid the blade.
"Give my knife to me I have to go meet them all in hell!!! I can't be late to the reunion!! Give it back!!!" She pushed Ksenia around, trying to take back the knife.
"Come back to your senses, Maya! Please!!" Ksenia pushed her back.
Suddenly, cops entered the room. Four of them, armed.
They stopped then they saw Klara's body, and Maya stopped struggling with Ksenia too.
"How are cops able to enter the compound?" She mumbled.
"There are more than hundred cops in the compound as we speak" Ksenia replied, and Maya gasped.
"Madden Smirnov, where's that criminal hiding?" The cops demanded.
"He left the compound more than two hours ago" Maya replied.
"Of course, y'all aren't the type to speak up easily. Finally it's time for The Bratva to go into oblivion. Bunch of criminals, rebels, anomalies, animals, and all other sins... You both are under arrest" the cop said, and the others got the cuffs.
Before it could happen, guards of the house rushed in in multitude, and another showdown started as they struggled to get Maya and Ksenia out of the room.
Overall, they lost six guards before they could be snuggled out of the room, and when they stepped out of the house, the compound is in ruins entirely.
It was a war zone cos almost all the buildings are on fire, and mobsters are fighting back, but a larger percentage are running for their lives since the cops are far too angry right now.
"It's over... it's over" Maya sniffled.
"Let's go" Ksenia pulled her.
"No...we go through the back gate" Maya replied, and they maneuvered through the ruins to the back gate after five long minutes.
Every building in the compound might be on fire, but Madden's manor still stood gallantly on the mountain.
Maya smiled sadly and hopefully at the same time.
"We'll be back... He will be back" she muttered, and Ksenia pulled her away finally.
*
THE BAYOU*
Igor finished removing the bullet and stitching Madden up not long ago, and he's currently resting on a couch while the others walked around the room.
"When is he waking up?" Jinx asked.
"Maybe in five months? Ten months? A year? He's not waking up soon" Igor replied tiredly.
"But you said the bullet didn't hit any vital organ! Jinx snapped.
"Yes but he's not willing to wake up!" Igor snapped back, spranging up.
"What do you mean?" Loud replied.
"For patients like him, it doesn't only take the doctor's efforts, but also the patient's willpower. If he's willing to wake, he should wake up in like three days, but his unwillingness is obvious with the faint beating of his heart. He wants to die so bad" Igor replied.
"Shit" Sin muttered.
"I don't care if it takes ten years before he wakes" Maya said, stepping in with Ksenia.
Everyone faced them cos they're not alone.
They came in with the body of a guy on Ksenia's shoulders.
Ksenia dropped the body on the ground, then she flexed her shoulders.
"He's heavy" she muttered.
"What's this?" Andrei asked.
"I stole his body from the square. He's the most pitiful of all the people Madden killed. He was a cobbler, and he's luckily handsome... His name was Vernon Petrova" Maya replied.
"It's not what I'm thinking, is it? Cos trust me I'm not trying facial reconstructive surgery again" Igor said bluntly.
"Sweetheart you'll try it. When Madden finally wakes, he'd have to live his life in hiding cos of the politicians he killed, but with a different face, that'd change. Perform the surgery, change his face" Maya said.
"I said no! Do you know what happened to the first person I tried facial reconstructive surgery on? He died on the table! I can't do it!" Igor insisted.
"But you have your nurses, and if I'd have to kidnap two more plastic surgeons to join you, then I'd do it" Jinx said.
"We'll do it... We'll get two more surgeons to join you" Sin said.
"It's still a big no!" Igor snarled and went inside.
"Igor!" Maya went after him, but he shut the door on her face.
*
COLORADO, APEX SYNDICATE HOSPITALS*
The calculated beeping rhythm of the monitor woke Trixie up, and her eyes opened with a white blur at first.
She tried turning her bandaged head, but she felt pains, so she stayed still with a groan, but then she felt a sting in her leg, and the memories rushed back.
Adeline getting bombed and herself getting hit by a car.
Her eyes widened at once, and she sat up quickly.
She's in an hospital ward__a private ward, and she's the only one.
"Adeline.... Adeline" she muttered with her heart in her throat, removing the Pipes on her wrist and pushing the IV stand away before getting down from the bed.
Her right leg is bandaged, and she felt the sharp cutting pain in the leg again, but that didn't stop her.
She began limping out of the ward, meeting two nurses at the door.
"Miss! You can't be out of bed yet!" They held her back.
"Where's my sister? Where's Adeline?" She asked breathlessly.
"Go back to bed, Miss Trixie" the nurses instructed, but she pushed them away.
"Get out!! Adeline!!" She limped out of the ward, looking so pitiful as she held the wall down the place, crying.
She was peeping at each ward till she entered another hallway where she found a different room with so many people inside.
She pushed herself into the room, the smell of burns and antiseptic choking her cruelly.
There are four burnt human bodies on stretchers inside the room, bodies of the people who were also beside the car before it was bombed.
When Trixie saw them, she cried more.
"Adeline!!!"
She started checking the bodies out one by one, but how would she even recognize Adeline when they're all burnt?
"Trixie?" A voice called by the door, and she turned to see a tall guy who's obviously a doctor, but he looks dangerous with tattoos inking his forearms.
He's chewing gum nonchalantly, so his jaws were contracting hard.
"Follow me" he ducked his head and left. Trixie quickly followed him, and he took her down that same hall to a different room.
Inside the room, there's a another body.
There are several burn scars on the arms and legs, but the face is badly scarred with burns.
"A... Adeline" Trixie covered her mouth in shock, crying out.
"Adeline!!! What's gonna happen to her?" She faced the guy.
"Please save my sister... Please save her!!" She went on her knees, but he quickly pulled her up.
"Her saving grace was that she already took a step away from the car before it blasted, so she got less injuries than the others, and that's why she's still breathing unconsciously" he said.
Trixie nodded.
"It's all-over the news that you were running from The Bratva in Russia before the bombing, so I reported her death to the reporters already, for her own good. Right now everyone thinks she's dead" he further explained.
Trixie nodded again.
"Her condition has a solution, but we're talking about billions of dollars. We'll have to carry out skin graft on her body, then facial...
"Facial reconstructive surgery on her face" Trixie interrupted.
"Yeah" he shrugged.
"But she'd need the face of a dead person. How am I gonna find a new face for her and how am I gonna find money? I don't know" Trixie sobbed, and he smiled.
"I can help"
"How?" She blinked.
"I lost my wife last month, and her body is still at the morgue. I'm willing to give her the face of my wife, and I'm willing to get professional surgeons to carry out the surgery, but on one condition" he said.
"What condition?" She blinked.
Without answering, he left the room.
Trixie took another look at Adeline before limping after him.
He took her to his office where she sat in front of him, and he set a paperwork agreement in front of her.
She took it and read...
"AFTER THE SURGERY, ADELINE WILSON WILL TAKE OVER THE ROLE OF TESSA AS DOMINIC'S WIFE. ADELINE AND TRIXIE WILL LIVE ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF THE DOUGLAS FAMILY"
After reading, she slowly looked up to meet his eyes.
"You're... Dominic Douglas? Only son of Apex drug syndicate kingpin? You're the son of Baron Douglas?" She muttered in shock.
"Obviously" Dominic rested back on his chair with a scoff, rolling his bubble gum on his visible tongue ring.
Trixie swallowed immediately.
"Are you saving your sister or not?" Dominic asked.
Trixie swallowed again and picked the pen with shaky hands, signing for her and Adeline.
Right now, she's not even thinking about how he found out her name and Adeline's name at all.
All that matters is saving Adeline.
"You're a good sister, Trixie" Dominic stood, taking the document.
"I'll gather the surgeons. Stay here and someone will bring you something to eat" he said, walking out of the office.
As he strode down the hallway, he dialled his father's number on his phone, smiling dangerously as it rang.
He bit his lip slightly when Baron finally picked.
"Hello, son?" Baron's voice came.
"I just found a way to start seeing my wife again. I'm gonna give her face to another woman" He said, smiling again.
"I'll be waiting to see how it goes. An addition to the empire" Baron replied, and Dominic hung up.
Gathering the surgeons wasn't hard.
His father's empire owns this hospital anyways, so it was fast.
That same night, Adeline was pushed into the VIP theatre with ten surgeons in total.
Trixie stayed by the door, watching them file inside. Dominic was the last in line.
"Trust us, your sister will come out alive, and her new face will be prettier" he said.
"Thank you" Trixie smiled nervously, and he nodded once before joining the others inside the theater.
Trixie couldn't even sit again.
She faced the wall and rested her forehead on it, praying silently.
*
RUSSIA, BAYOU~NEXT DAY*
It's 5pm.
The population of the mobsters grew so much, and they're currently 70+ in the mini manor right now.
The clan has been burnt to the ground, so everyone had to hide somewhere, and the mobsters are definitely scattered around Russia right now.
There won't be a reunion till the cops calm down.
Sin sat on the couch, staring at the pictures of Trixie and him when Loud settled beside him.
"You're missing her already?" He said.
"A lot. And the fact that she was even mad at me before leaving, and now she's..." Sin sighed with deep melancholy, and Loud patted him.
"Pretty sure you miss Adeline too" Sin faced him.
"I'm even scared to miss her despite the fact Madden is currently unconscious " Loud replied, and Sin chuckled dryly.
Malik joined then shortly.
"I just want all this to get over soon" he groaned.
That instant, Andrei and Jinx came into the manor, holding two surgeons as hostages.
Their faces are blindfolded.
Everyone gathered around immediately they were pushed down.
"We got them from Vladimir hospitals" Jinx said.
"Good, but Igor is still not coming out" Malik said.
Andrei went to Igor's door, meeting Ksenia and Maya there.
They've been begging since daybreak.
"Are you really gonna keep this up, Igor?" Andrei hit the door.
"He won't come out till we break this door" Ksenia said.
"Then get an axe or something" Maya replied.
Andrei turned around to go get it, but then the door opened, and Igor stepped out.
"If he dies during the surgery, the fault is not mine" he said.
"He won't die" Maya assured.
"I need food" he replied.
Jinx immediately brought food for him, and he ate together with the kidnapped surgeons who were forced to eat too with guns to their heads.
A part of the living room was demarcated, set apart and covered with curtains.
From the ambulance outside, the various equipments and tools were carried in by the mobsters, all new.
The preparatory set-up took more than four hours, and when everything was eventually set, Igor looked back at Maya.
"This place will never be found out by the cops, right?" He asked.
"Trust me... Why do you think this place has it's own network? It's a safehouse so chill and start" Maya replied.
"Leave" Igor said, and Maya slowly looked at the dead guy, then she turned her eyes to Madden.
"Please... Don't leave me alone" she muttered, finding it hard to leave.
It was Andrei who finally pulled her out, and Igor wore his surgical gloves, mask, gown and cap smoothly.
The others dressed up at the same time, standing in the right positions.
"Time is 10:30. The FR surgery for Madden Smirnov shall now start" he announced as the surgical lamps came on brightly.
TBC.
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