THE FINAL LEAP

7 hours passed

Steve is waiting in the same seat patiently waiting for his

son to come. He gets a call from Martha but ignores it. After the

third call, he gets a bit worried and takes the call. Martha

panicks and cries in the phone and asks him to come home

immediately. Steve rushes immediately and meets Martha.

Martha says something has happened in school and that she got

a call. They're not mentioning what actually is happening right

now. It's all over the news. Steve felt his heart sunken and pulls

himself together. Steve rushes to the school along with Martha.

They reach there and it's absolute chaos. The place is

surrounded by police and fireman. Steve tells Martha to wait

and that he'll be back. Martha cries in disbelief and shock of

what she's witnessing. The police set up a parameter and didn't

allow anybody to enter as the police explains that there has been

a school shootout going on and the perpetrator has not left the

school building yet. Martha has a mental breakdown and

becomes unconscious. Steve makes an entry through the back

entrance. He hears shooting in the first floor. He slowly moves to

the first floor. He is crying but holding on to himself as he

musters up courage to save his son. He goes to the first floor and

he sees the killer who looks like a high school student. The killer

is holding Joshua by his shirt and is about to shoot him. He

quietly moves from the back of the killer and pulls out his

Beretta which he had used 30 years back. He takes a good aim at

the killer and takes his shot hoping it would be enough to save

his son. His 6-bullet Berreta is nothing compared to the machine

gun the killer has and so every shot of his counts. The son

notices his father on the background as he's crying. The killer

quickly notices Steve and turns around.

* 6 Gun shots fired *

Steve closes his eyes and makes the shot. He successfully

shoots the killer but also ends up with shooting Joshua at the

split second the killer turned around. Steve screams

"Nooooooooooooooo" Steve runs up to his son and carries him in

his arm and he checks for his pulse. Joshua dies on the spot as

the shot was straight to the head. Steve holds on to his son's

uniform filled with bloodstains and the yellow hanky which he

gave now turned red. He is crying with excruciating noise and

the police quickly come in and de-escalate the situation. Steve

comes out and everybody claps at Steve for shooting the killer

and saving the other kids of the school. Steve won at being kind

but lost his son by his own hands. No matter how hard he cleans

his hands, the dirt of killing his own child will never leave Steve

forever. Martha is admitted in the hospital after she passed out.

Steve carries his son's body to the hospital. They announce him

deceased and temporarily place Steve in the obituary. As Steve

ended up saving the children of the school by shooting the killer,

he wasn't charged with anything as he used the gun for self-defense and for good purpose.

People including the police believed the killer killed Joshua and not Steve. Steve however

couldn't forgive himself. Steve is traumatized by what just

happened and plunges himself through the mirror and hits

himself so hard, he blacks out yet again.