After the first shot…

This has been stuck in my head since last night. It doesn't start out happy but I promise it will have a happy ending… eventually.

I do not own All My Children and now neither does ABC – I wonder how PP feels about fan fiction?

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Marissa was smiling at the warmth and joy filling the room. Bianca's arm slipped gently around her waist and Marissa grasped the warm hand that had trailed to her hip. This, Marissa decided, was what happiness was...

The first shot was followed by Bianca's scream as her mother fell to the floor. A petite blonde woman with a gun in her hand was standing in the doorway. She had come from nowhere. Her eyes where crazed and she was ranting about Erica being her mother. Marissa's grasp tightened around Bianca's hand as the gun moved to point at them and a second shot was fired. Bianca fell, her weight taking Marissa down with her. A third shot was fired… a fourth. Screams tore around the room as bullets flew, people fell and time blurred into a strange surreal tableau. Bianca, blood pouring from her neck, Zack charging towards the blonde woman only to fly backwards like a puppet on a string, Greenlee holding back Ryan from facing in the same fate only to spin in a grotesque dance as the bullet tore into her side. And then JR was there, charging from a hidden panel in the wall, a gun raised, firing at the crazed women. As the woman fell, Marissa found herself looking directly into the barrel of JR's gun. He had a dead smile on his face and then Marissa saw his finger tighten on the trigger one more time…