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Mathew (ml worker)
📞*sobbing*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
📞I’m on my way
Elijah Andersen (ml)
*ran outside*
Elijah didn't ended the call & kept Mathew on the line with him
Elijah Andersen (ml)
📞Breathe, Mathew
Mathew (ml worker)
📞*Breathing heavily*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
📞I’m just pulling off the gravel road,
Mathew (ml worker)
📞*sobbing*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
*stomach twisted*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
(God, don’t let him be hurt)
Elijah spotted the fencing truck in the distance. The mountains loomed on the horizon.
Elijah Andersen (ml)
📞I’m here
Elijah Andersen (ml)
*ended the call*
Mathew (ml worker)
*seated against a tire*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
*run to him
Elijah Andersen (ml)
*put his hand on Mathew's shoulder*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
Mathew
Mathew (ml worker)
*look up & droped his phone*
Mathew (ml worker)
*crying*
Mathew (ml worker)
It's Eva
Elijah Andersen (ml)
Eva.....
Mathew (ml worker)
S..amuel
Mathew (ml worker)
*choked out* Eva Samuel
Elijah Andersen (ml)
What about Eva Samuel?
Mathew (ml worker)
Over there
Mathew (ml worker)
*hand shaking & pointed*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
Over . .
Elijah Andersen (ml)
*trailed off & stiffened*
Elijah Andersen (ml)
(No.Not again)
Elijah Andersen (ml)
*swallowed hard*
Elijah just stood there knowing without asking what He was going to find.
Elijah walked through the tall grass to the corner post and climbed the fence.
Elijah Andersen (ml)
(I hadn’t been on this side of the fence in years. Not since I’d found the body)
Elijah Andersen (ml)
(The last body)
His gaze landed on a white dress. On mangled limbs. On a river of blood.
Vienna Edens (fl)
I’m going to run home and grab a new shirt
Her sleeve, stained with black coffee, was as much of a disaster as my desk.
Folders, reports and sticky notes cluttered the brown wooden surface
Vienna Edens (fl)
Will you call me if anything comes up?
Hanna (fl assistant}
Of course *about to leave*
Hanna (fl assistant}
*smile* You’re doing great, Vienna
Vienna Edens (fl)
Because I feel like I’m drowning
Vienna Edens (fl)
(She was my one and only ally at the station. Winning people over was going slower than I’d expected. Much slower.)
Hanna (fl assistant}
You’re drinking from a fire hose right now, but it will get easier
Hanna (fl assistant}
And the folks here will come around. Give it time.
Vienna Edens (fl)
*sighed* Thank you
Vienna Edens (fl)
{greet Officer Owen}
Officer Owen
{nodded & look at her}
Vienna Edens (fl)
*shrugged* Coffee attacked me
Officer Owen
That’s why I’m partial to our black shirts and pants. Hides the spills.
Vienna Edens (fl)
My uniform order is supposed to get in today.
Vienna Edens (fl)
Then I’ll be sticking to black shirts too.
Vienna Edens (fl)
*look at officer jackson*
Vienna Edens (fl)
I'm going to run home quickly. would you please call me if anything comes up?
Vienna Edens (fl)
{smile & walk out the door}
She changed her clothes and came out of her house
Vienna was slowing at the intersection when a flash of red and blue streaked by, the wail of a siren splitting the air
Vienna Edens (fl)
*pulled her phone from the pocket*
Vienna see nothing on the screen
Vienna Edens (fl)
(He’d been doing paperwork today, not out on patrol, so where was he going?)
Vienna Edens (fl)
Something had happened. Why hadn’t anyone called me?
Instead of taking the left that would lead her to the station
She turned right, following Owen down Main.
When he hit the edge of town, he punched the gas and shot down the road.
Vienna Edens (fl)
*heart hammered*
She hurried to keep pace, driving with one hand while dialing into the station with the other.
Officer Jackson (fl colleague)
📞xxxx Town Police Department
Vienna Edens (fl)
📞Hi, it’s Vienna
Officer Jackson (fl colleague)
📞*grunted*
Vienna Edens (fl)
📞I’m following Owen out of town
Vienna Edens (fl)
📞Can you tell me where he’s going?
Officer Jackson (fl colleague)
📞There was a call from out of town.
Officer Jackson (fl colleague)
📞Emergency in the mountains.
Vienna waited for more of an explanation. He didn’t give me one
Vienna Edens (fl)
📞What emergency?
Officer Jackson (fl colleague)
📞Someone found a body at the base of Ridge.
Vienna Edens (fl)
📞*gasped* W-what? Why didn’t you call me?
Officer Jackson (fl colleague)
📞Slipped my mind
Vienna Edens (fl)
📞(Asshole)
Vienna Edens (fl)
📞Officer Jackson, you and I will be having a conversation when I return to the station
With that Vienna ended the call, tossing my phone aside so she could concentrate on catching Owen
𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙙𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠
I walked through the door with you
The air was cold
But something about it felt like home somehow
And I, left my scarf there at your sister's house
And you've still got it in your drawer even now
Oh, your sweet disposition
And my wide-eyed gaze
We're singing in the car, getting lost upstate
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place
And I can picture it after all these days
And I know it's long gone and that magic's not here no more
And I might be okay but I'm not fine at all
'Cause there we are again on that little town street
You almost ran the red 'cause you were lookin' over at me
Wind in my hair, I was there
I remember it all too well
Photo album on the counter
Your cheeks were turning red
You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed
And your mother's telling stories 'bout you on the tee-ball team
You told me 'bout your past thinking your future was me
And I know it's long gone and there was nothing else I could do
And I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to
'Cause there we are again in the middle of the night
We're dancing 'round the kitchen in the refrigerator light
Down the stairs, I was there
I remember it all too well, yeah
And maybe we got lost in translation
Maybe I asked for too much
But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up
Running scared, I was there
I remember it all too well
And you call me up again just to break me like a promise
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
'Cause I remember it all, all, all
Too well
Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it
I'd like to be my old self again
But I'm still trying to find it
After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own
Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone
But you keep my old scarf from that very first week
'Cause it reminds you of innocence
And it smells like me
You can't get rid of it
'Cause you remember it all too well, yeah
'Cause there we are again when I loved you so
Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known
It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well
Wind in my hair, you were there, you remember it all
Down the stairs, you were there, you remember it all
It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well
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