1 Tragedy knocks at the Door

October 1963

"Sam, Wake up, it is 7 AM.", was what woke me up. Looking at the clock by my bedside I saw that it was still 6.55 AM. Groaning to myself at mother's usual habit of being 5 min early for everything I got up from my bed and went to the washroom to brush my teeth and to freshen up.

After 15 min I came downstairs and looked at my mom rushing about in the kitchen. She seemed to be in a rush. Looking at the calendar I remembered that there was an important meeting at her firm today and she needed to reach there by 8 AM.

Looking around the living area I did not see anyone else. We lived in London, Canning Town with my parents, Michael Ambrose my father, Isabella Ambrose my mother and my Grandparents from both my father's and mother's side. Usually every morning by the time I would come down, my grandparents would be in the living room and mom and dad in the kitchen. I had asked many times if I could help but they never allowed me saying that I was too small. I am not small. I am big enough to reach the kitchen counter and hold a knife and pan and spatula and everything. Never understood why they never allowed me in the kitchen.

Anyway, it was a surprise to have nobody in the house except for mom and me. So I asked her," Where is everybody, mom??". Without looking at me Mom replied,"Your Dad had gotten a call in the night. Something about a CEO arriving from America and that he wanted to meet him about the research he was doing. Your grandparents got a call this morning and said they were going out to meet some friends. Michael has been gone for about 6 hours now and your grandparents have been out for about 1 hour. They should be coming back soon. Anyway, I have to go soon so I will prepare the breakfast and leave. You can eat the breakfast and go to your school, the bus should be arriving soon. I don't want to listen that you missed the bus, ok?".

"Ok mom", I replied.

After 15 min, Mom gave me the breakfast. Looking at the smiley face made up of eggs, bacon and bread on the plate I had my knife and fork in my hand, I was about to dig in when I heard a crash from the front porch.

"Who's there??", Mom shouted and was about to move towards the front door when there was a 'Thud' sound and the door was flying off its hinges. 2 people dressed in some black clothing came rushing in. For a moment nobody moved. Then mom shouted," Who are you?? What do you want??". Suddenly there was a soft 'Bang' sound and then Mom collapsed on the ground. There was blood coming out of her stomach. I yelled," Mom" and was about to move towards her when somebody picked me up and threw me across the room. I hit my head and everything went dark for a few moments. When I came to I saw that Mom was lying down while the other two were pulling her hair and saying something to her.

'Is mom going to die?', I thought, as my eyes were starting to close again. However, once I had that thought, I was scared,'I don't want mom to die. NO, I MUST NOT LET HER DIE. I WILL NOT LET HER DIE.". I do not know how but suddenly I was wide awake. I could feel a rush of some energy flowing through my body. Suddenly, when I looked around I could feel as if I could move everything. I could feel everything around me without actually seeing it with my eyes. My attention went to the knife and fork that was near me. It had fallen down behind me when I was thrown. I could not see it with my eyes but I could somehow sense it same way as I could sense everything around me. I let all the energy from my body out and then let it connect with the two. I could feel the steel as if I was holding it in my hand. With a thought the knife and fork were now floating in the air and were aimed at the two standing above mom.

It was at this point that the two pointed their gun towards mother at the same time. I shouted at the same time, "NO" and using all the mysterious energy I threw the knife and fork straight towards the two as hard as I could. The cutlery flew straight towards them at a very high speed. Before I or they could even think there were two loud 'Thud' sounds from the wall facing me. I looked in disbelief at the two who had now lost their heads and there was a blood everywhere.

I was feeling a severe headache at this point and everything was going dark. "NO", I forced myself to stay awake. "I need to call the police. No, I must call the ambulance. Mom is shot. She needs to go to the hospital.". While I was thinking that, I heard footsteps. I was scared, maybe they brought some other people. If they came in .. I did not want to complete the thought.

I looked towards the table, specifically towards the 4 sets of knife and forks on it and then tried to urge the mysterious energy to connect with them again. However, there was no more energy in me. I heard the footsteps coming closer and despaired. "Sorry Mom, I could not save us. Now we are going to die".

Suddenly there was a cry and then I was surrounded by two arms that I recognized. Surprised, I looked towards who was holding me and felt all the energy leaving my body in relief. Everything was going dark again. I pointed towards mom and said to my grandmother," Hurry.... mom... shot... ambulance", was all I could manage before everything went dark again.

As I had my arms around my 5 year old grandson and heard his words, I looked towards my daughter to find my husband Moritz already checking her and heard him say," She has lost a lot of blood but the bullet only grazed her waist. She will be fine if we can get her to the hospital soon. My blood type is same as hers so I could give her some of my blood if needed. I have already called for an ambulance, they should be getting here soon.". Only then did I sigh in relief and realized I was holding my breath till then. Nodding towards Sam in my arms he asked," How is he?".

I had been checking Sam for injuries the moment I got hold of him. "Thankfully, aside from some bruises and a cracked rib he seems to be fine, exhausted but fine. There does not seem to be any internal bleeding as far as I can tell. They were from the organization, they are wearing their black ops uniform. How did they find us, husband?? I thought we were safe here and that the organization did not have any agents in Britain??".

Moritz looked up at me and gave me a sad smile," I don't know Dear, but I can take a guess. Our information is decades old. Maybe they are now large good enough for them to start putting their pieces in play in this country. After all, even a killer organization needs some funding and a network of information and also needs to expand its business. Anyway, we can be thankful that our daughter and grandson are relatively safe considering that they could be killed. How were those two killed? No kind of weapon that I know of can create that kind of destruction to a person's head except a sniper rifle. But this is a closed house. They would need a vantage point and a line of sight, none of which a sniper would get here. After all, we chose this particular house for a reason.".

Suddenly, I could hear the sound of the ambulance arriving outside. We carried up our daughter and grandson and moved towards it. I asked Moritz," Steve and Natasha will atleast get some solace to know that their daughter-in-law and grandson are alive and will be better after some time. They have already lost a son.".

Moritz looked at me in a look that brought back my memories of the time he was still working at his old job," They came after our Daughter, Son-in-law and our Grandson, wife. Looking at the sloppy way in which they sent only two operatives to both the sites I know that they do not know who we are. Once we get to the hospital and make sure that Isabella and Samuel are in the clear, we can get to work to find out about their agents. Pity, we could not capture anyone alive or you could get atleast something out of them.".

"Don't worry dear, if some of them have appeared, then there will definitely be more. I am sure we will find someone or more than one someone to use our skills on.", I replied.

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