A/N: Well I'm unsure of how this is going to go but I wanted to try a Four Brothers story. I want it in the beginning to be a bit Jack/Brothers seeking revenge related. Starts after Jack gets shot, only he gets shot once instead, and lives. Same theme I suppose as most stories since majority didn't want Jack to die, but hopefully it will be different. Please read and review, let me know what you think. As for the title, I don't know if it will have anything to do with the story really, I just couldn't think of a name, and I was listening to that song by Fall Out Boy at the time, so... yeah. And this shoot-out thing is changed slightly just because I didn't feel like watching the movie again to make it more exact other then the 'Jack dies' part.

Disclaimer: Four Brothers doesn't belong to me, because if it did, Jack would have lived. And he didn't... so yeah. Also the name of this story is the name of a song by Fall Out Boy, also not mine. I guess the "Grand Theft" part reminded me of the Four Brothers and their run-ins with the law, and the song name is cool... so... yeah. I don't know if it will have anything to do with the story, but if I decide it will I'll let you know in a future chapter.

Grand Theft Autumn

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Chapter One: Shoot-out at the Mercer's

"JACK!" Bobby shouted. His youngest brother, Jack, had gotten up to answer the door, but a man in a hockey mask shot at him. Bobby ran outside but quickly turned back around when more men started shooting.

"Damn it!" Bobby cursed, jumping down to the ground. His brothers did the same, and Angel threw a gun at Bobby. Jeremiah, who always disapproved of violence, was lying flat on the floor in the kitchen. Sofi, Angel's girlfriend, was on the floor in the living room. Bobby shot a few bullets outside through the window and ducked down before shouting at Sofi. "Damn it woman make yourself useful and call the ambulance!" Sofi glared at him, as she usually did when he talked to her like that. Carefully she reached for her cell phone that had fallen on the floor, but quickly drew her hand back as a glass picture frame got shot at. Shards of glass flew around Sofi but she grabbed her phone and dialed.

"There's a shootout, a young man has been shot, we need an ambulance," Sofi exclaimed. She quickly told them the address.

"YOU LIKE THAT!" Bobby shouted, shooting and successfully killing one of the men. He shot down a few more and cursed loudly as he realized he was out of bullets. Angel, meanwhile, had been upstairs shooting, but he noticed Bobby had stopped. He saw the man in the hockey mask approaching Jack to kill him, and Angel jumped out the window, rolling on the little roof of the house and falling to the ground. Avoiding the shooters as best as he could, Angel shot the man in the hockey mask and fell down to the ground. Those who had survived, ran, and the brothers didn't chase after them. Bobby and Jeremiah ran outside, Sofi not far behind them.

"Hey Jack, wake up, Jack, come on..." Bobby said softly. Jack was still breathing faintly. He moaned and Bobby grabbed his hand.

"Wake up, Jackie, Jerry's kids are going to want to get to know their uncle... Crackerjack," Bobby replied softly again, laughing lightly. They could hear the sirens from the ambulance in the background, getting closer and closer. The brothers felt a weight lift off of them, relieved that the ambulance would soon be there to try and help their 'baby' brother. Jacks eyes under his eyelids twitched, and fluttered opened. Jeremiah grabbed his other hand and Angel lifted his head up a bit to see if he had hit it when he fell.

"Your going to be alright, Jack, I promise." Bobby said. Jack smiled faintly and shut his eyes. Bobby began to panic, but Jeremiah pointed out that Jack was still breathing. The ambulance arrived, as did the police who had responded to a call from one of the neighbors. Bobby, Angel, Jeremiah and even Sofi were not allowed to go in the ambulance with Jack. The police wanted to have a little talk first.

"Bobby, Bobby, Bobby..." Green shook his head. "What happened here?" Green asked. Bobby went into detail quickly of how they had been in the living room, and Jack had gotten up to answer the door. For whatever reason he went outside, and it ended up being some sort of trap and he got shot at. Reinforcements had soon arrived, but those who survived ran off, afraid. Green looked around at the mess.

"So, do you need to take us down to the station? Because if you do, I think we should get it over and done with, you can do the fake hair routine again if you want and then we can leave. In case you didn't notice, our baby brother was shot and we want to see how he's doin'." Bobby replied. Green nodded.

"I understand completely, Bobby. I don't think it will be necessary for you and your brothers to be taken down to the station. Seems to me, you and your brothers were being attacked. Acting quickly, you shot in self-defense. We questioned the neighbors, the ones who saw how it started. Go see your brother, we'll deal with things here," Green replied. Bobby nodded, grateful to the officer. He and his brothers got into Jeremiah's car and drove to the hospital.

"Who's the new patient?" an elderly nurse asked the Doctor that was assigned to the third floor.

"That, is Mr Jack Mercer. I have a feeling he'll be here for awhile healing from that gunshot wound. He's very lucky he wasn't killed! We'll have to wait until the test results come in, but I have a feeling that he doesn't have any major or serious internal injuries, it missed his heart luckily. He'll need to go in for an operation to have that bullet removed, and he dislocated his shoulder, but that's all very minor compared to what injuries most people in that situation would have suffered," The doctor replied. The elderly nurse smiled.

"Sounds like someone had a guardian angel watching over them," she replied. The doctor looked at her, but said nothing. He didn't share the same religious beliefs as this elderly nurse, but he greatly respected her and she was a wonderful nurse who had been there for awhile, and he wouldn't say anything against her beliefs if it meant discouraging her. He left to see another patient, and the nurse put Jack (and the bed he was lying on) into the room he would be considering his for the next while.

"What do you mean I can't see him!" Bobby shouted at the Doctor, who began walking away. Jeremiah stepped forward, having kept silent most of the time.

"Sir, please... he's our brother, could you at least tell us how things are going with him?" Jeremiah asked. The doctor sighed, knowing that if he didn't at the very least do that, these three brothers would bother him endlessly until he got off work. Sighing again, he motioned for the brothers to sit, and did so himself.

"Other than the fact that he has a bullet in him, he's doing much better then we expected. The only injury is a dislocated shoulder, which can be fairly easily put back in place. He'll need to go in for an operation to have that bullet removed, but its not an overly long process. After the operation is done and over with, then you can go in and see your brother. He most likely won't be awake, however, so you probably will want to head home, get a good night's rest, and come back tomorrow when he should be awake." The doctor got up and began to walk away, but Jeremiah stopped him.

"Wait, sir. How long will this operation take?" Jeremiah asked. The doctor shrugged. "Perhaps at the very least an hour. Could be more, depending on if there are complications or not. Could be less if it runs more smoothly then expected." Bobby and Angel sat down as the doctor walked away, but Jeremiah remained standing.

"I have to drop the girls off at gymnastics, I'll drop them off quickly while Jack is in the operation and come straight back, hopefully long before its over." Angel looked up.

"You better, Jerry."

"What the hell is going on? He should have been out ten minutes ago!" Bobby cursed. Angel was pacing, and Jeremiah still hadn't returned.

"I'll kill Jerry, 'Oh I'll come straight back,'" Angel mimicked. Finally one of the doctors on staff, after an hour and a half total had gone by, said they could see Jack.

Jeremiah at that moment was in the waiting room, panting, having run from the parking lot all the way up the stairs to the third floor.

"Sorry I'm late, there was a big accident and we had to wait, and then take a detour, then the parking lot was full and the elevator was broken— " Bobby stopped him.

"Listen Jerry, what's important is that you're here now. They took the bullet out... we were panicking because it was a while after one hour, and he wasn't out yet. They said the reason they took so long was because they had to put his shoulder back into place. Apparently though he broke his leg, which they didn't realize until after they started to move him. We're allowed to go in and see him now, so lets go," Bobby said. They asked a nurse what room he was in and went to it. There was a young woman inside with him, making the other bed beside him.

"Hey, I'm sorry, I'll only be in here a moment more and then I'll leave you alone with Mr Mercer. I'm just getting this bed ready for another patient, who'll be arriving later today." the woman smiled briefly and Bobby sat down on a chair next to Jack. Jeremiah told the young woman that she was no bother as she was after all only doing her job.

"Oh, this? Its not my job. I volunteer at the hospital, sometimes they ask me to do things like this to help. There," she replied, finishing adding the bedding, "I'll leave you alone now," she replied, leaving the room. Bobby smirked.

"Stop by anytime, sweetheart." he muttered. He heard Jack groan and his attention was once again focused 100 on him. He looked at the wound, all bandaged up. It appeared that Jack had lost a lot of blood, even to say he had been shot. Bobby tried not to let it worry him, but he was only to well aware of how the doctors at the hospital liked to sugar coat the truth when it came to the family of the patients.

"Think he'll wake up while we're here?" Angel asked. Jeremiah shook his head.

"No way. He was in a lot of pain when he got shot. They would have to give him a sedative, put him to sleep while they removed the bullet. He'll probably be out for quite awhile," Jeremiah replied. Bobby paid no attention to this, however.

"Bobby... you can't stay here all night," Angel replied. Bobby held Jack's hand for a moment, then stood up.

"Why the hell not!" Bobby shouted. Jack groaned again and Bobby lowered his voice.

"We can't just leave him here alone..." Bobby looked down at Jack again. Jeremiah sighed.

"I know how you feel, man, but what can we do? I can bring you guys back first thing tomorrow." Jeremiah replied. Bobby shook his head.

"Not yet. You take Angel back, I'll try not to be too long, I'll find a way home. And Jerry? We're still going to stop Victor." Bobby promised. Jeremiah sighed, nodding and went over to Jack.

"You better get well soon, Jackie," he replied. Angel went over, said some words, and left.

"I'm gonna get a picture of ma for him, this room is depressing," Angel replied, and he and Jeremiah left.

Bobby woke up, wondering where he was. He saw Jack lying in the bed and remembered he was at the hospital. The was now a little girl in the bed beside Jacks. She was watching a movie with a bunch of animals in a zoo. Bobby wasn't a big children's movie fan, but he looked at the case lying on the table and saw that the movie was called Madagascar.

"Well, at least someone woke up," the young woman from earlier replied. She set down coffee next to Bobby. "Thought you might need some coffee," she replied. Bobby thanked her and drank it. She walked over to the little girl and set down a tray of food for her. Bobby looked down at Jacks face and sighed. He thought back to when he, Angel and Jack had gone to find out what gang shot up the liquor store. "What do I get?" Jack had asked. "Here you go sweetheart, poke 'em with this." Bobby had handed him a crowbar. He regretted now some of the things he had teased Jack about... like his tongue ring, saying he was gay although he didn't think that his little brother was gay. Deciding that he should start heading home, he grasped Jack's hand before leaving for their mothers home... the one he was starting to consider his again.

Bobby and Angel were pacing around outside the house the next morning waiting for Jeremiah. He had said he would be there at 8:30 and it was now 8:31. Yeah, they were a little impatient and panicky. Jeremiah pulled in at 8:33 and Bobby jumped in the van.

"What took you so long?" Bobby asked. Jerry looked at the clock on the radio.

"I'm three minutes late... how is that considered taking a long time?" Jeremiah asked. Bobby shrugged. Angel, sitting in the back (Bobby had called shotgun), spoke up.

"After we visit with Jack for a bit, are we going to deal with Sweet or what?" Bobby looked back from the front.

"I think it may be best if we plan this through. 'Winging it' won't do. Jackie getting shot has really opened my eyes. Losing ma was tough, but almost losing Jack was worse. It made me realize how important family is, and it makes me regret not coming back more. All those holidays I missed spending with you guys... I regret it, I really do. If anything happened to you guys too, I don't know what I would do." Bobby looked out the window, and kept silent for the rest of the ride. No jokes, no 'witty' remarks... just silence.

When they arrived at the hospital, nurses and doctors were running around. Bobby, Jeremiah and Angel looked around. What was going on? It wasn't until they saw the doctors coming out of Jack's room that they panicked and tried to get in. Some doctors held them back.

"Sir please, wait out here." the doctor replied. Bobby stopped trying to get in, and banged his hands on the wall, tears coming to his eyes. He couldn't lose Jack... he just couldn't. The doctors finally left the room, and the three brothers ran inside.

A/N: Oooo a cliffhanger ;) I'm evil, I know. I'll try to get the next chapter up ASAP for you guys, but don't worry... I don't intend to kill Jack off, so there's no need to panic... but I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Its my first attempt at a Four Brothers story, and I'd appreciate any tips, comments or errors pointed out greatly. Thanks bunches

- Jess