“Call it.”
Cuddy paced the hall heels clacking against the linoleum. The code Silver sounded out through the hospital alerting everyone to the threat of an active shooter. Through the entire hospital security was spreading out to guard her staff and patients as well as to seek out the psych patient that lost his final screw and was on the loose.
Twenty minutes later news that there was a shooting in the cafeteria had her head down there with a squad of her own security as well as policemen. One stepped forward stating that he was going to talk to him, but she held up her hand, “Do you really think he won’t shoot you on sight with that get up. You guys come with me. I’m talking.”
She was not a trained negotiator, but the one she had called in wasn’t damn well here yet. There was no way this was going to work if she just sent in a bunch of guys. With any luck they would be able to get him to calm down without anyone else getting shot.
She walked forward into the cafeteria with five armed policemen behind her, “Jonathan, I’m Dr. Cuddy.” She gave a small nod trying to ignore the girl lying behind him, “You have to stop. You’re surrounded. They want to arrest you, but if you give up now we can help you. You’re sick. Is this really the man you want to be? Let us help you.” Her voice was soft and pleading. Her eyes read of sincerity, but the policemen ready to take him down probably did not.
Jack was about to threaten the rest of the bystanders when the cafeteria doors opened once again. Turning so he could see both the group and the new intruders, Jack snarled at the woman. "I know who you are. I've been here quite often actually.", she said with a smile. When she called him sick, anger rose up in him.
Quickly lifting the gun and pointing it towards Dr. Cuddy, Jack fired off two rounds before running towards the kitchen. Looking back he saw one of the men had been hit and another had pushed Cuddy out of the line of fire. Thankfully, he had escaped from a kitchen window before and knew exactly where to find it.
He had planned on taking Lauren with him, but that was before she had needed a lesson on her behavior. Noticing it was locked, Jack smashed the window with the butt of the gun before quickly shimmying out and away from the police.














