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So many emotions flooded her that Alice wasn't able to feel any of them at all. She was unable to even move from her current position, just hoping that at any moment she was going to wake up in her apartment and everything that had transpired would just have been a horrid nightmare. She hardly noticed Adam's attempts to comfort her; so fixated on the notion that at any second she was going to hear her alarm clock ring. "Don‘t worry Ally…We‘ll stop her. We‘ll find her, and stop her. She just wants to know if we‘re here…so she can come here and…and shoot us. She wont really kill your dad. She wants to kill me." Alice registered the words he was speaking in her mind but wasn't able to muster a response. Alice wanted to inform Adam that he had no idea what the woman wanted; he had no idea if Alexis wasn't planning on killing everyone - including her dad.

When Alice snapped herself back to the present moment she saw that Adam was now in a hurry and it seemed as if he was trying to get everyone out of the lakehouse, including her. Like hell I'm going anywhere. My dad is the one being held hostage. Like hell am I going to run from her this time. She watched as Adam scurried about trying to get everything together, up until he disappeared into the master bedroom. Alice waited until he was finished whatever he was doing - figuring that it would be best not to poke her nose in there. She waited for him to rush outside so that he could round up Skylar and Cailen, not even noticing the fact that he was carrying guns as he brushed past her.

She entered the bedroom to retrieve her blood-stained sweater. Completely ignoring its state, she flung it over her shoulders and wrapped it around her body, poking her arms through. Alice took another look around the room; that was all she had with her. With that she exited the bedroom and walked back in the direction where she had come. Something was different this time - there was a small handgun on the table. Without giving much thought to where it had come from, Alice quickly snatched it up, figuring that it would be something that might come in handy later. She'd never actually been in such close proximity to guns prior to the day before, and she'd most certainly never had any practice shooting at anything. No... not the gun. Alice placed the gun back down on the table and just glared at it. She didn't expect to be so off-put by an object but after her altercation with Alexis... Alice wasn't sure that she could even fire the gun. Something about knowing how it felt to have a bullet pierce through her flesh would make it that much harder to pull the trigger. Besides, if Alexis brought along her father, there was no way that she wanted him to see her firing a gun at anyone.

"We should have called the police... none of this would have happened if we'd just called the damn police," Alice scolded herself for not making the call the night before when she had wanted to do so. If she had just been smart and gotten the police involved then nothing would have happened to her father. Alice found her gaze averting from the gun over to the telephone that just delivered the horrifying message that had just be received. It wasn't too late to call them now.... Without hesitation, now that someone from her family was involved (that Alice felt was entirely her fault for letting it happen), Alice picked up the phone and dialed three numbers.

Frantically Alice explained the abridged version of everything that was going on to the dispatcher on the other line. Spewing the words from her mouth gave the situation an entire new sensation of realism for her. A sickness grew in her stomach, realizing that there was a possibility her father was already dead and that Alexis was going to finish the rest of them off before the police had the chance to arrive. They were quite far out from the city.

Once the conversation ended and Alice was assured that someone was being sent out to her location another shot could be heard, this time coming from outside of the house. No! It's too late! Her thoughts barely had the chance to form before her feet flung themselves forward out of the front door and out to where the sound had come from. Thankfully, all she saw was a piece of bark on the ground and Adam still holding up a gun in the air, presumably taking a practice shot at the tree.

"Adam! What the hell!?" Alice called out in panicked confusion. Although it only took her frazzled mind a few moments to realize what he was up to. He wasn't going to be on the boat along with Harrison and the others. He thought that he was going to handle this situation himself. Dammit... just let the police deal with this.... At that moment Alice wasn't entirely sure what had come over her. All she knew was that the group handling the problem themselves hadn't worked out in anyone's favor at the current point in time, in fact, it had endangered the life of Alice's own father. Without having the chance to second guess her actions, Alice walked over to Adam's side and pulled the gun straight from his hand, causing it to accidentally go off and shoot down at the ground right next to both of their feet. The sound of the shot at such close proximity startled Alice and she flung the gun straight out of her hands and onto the ground. "What the hell do you think you're going to do, Adam? Take care of this yourself? Have you even fired a gun before right now? My dad could be killed because we thought we could handle this. I called the police, so stop trying to be the damn hero here and let them handle it, please?" Alice's voice was filled with anger (even if it wasn't exactly directed at Adam and moreso at the fact Alexis had her father) so the "please" at the end seemed a touch out of place. She could feel her hands shaking - not only that, but her entire body as well.