***First Sane Day***
Detective Sebastian Castellanos stepped out of the hospital and breathed in the first fresh air he'd had in days.
Days? He wondered. Or weeks? Could it be months? But no, as he looked around at his surroundings, he had somehow missed the army of squad cars and officers aiming their hand guns, obviously ready to shoot anything that came out of the hospital, excluding Sebastian. It looked as if he could only have been in the hospital for, at most, 24 hours. All though, since it was still raining, the detective assumed he could only have been in the hospital for a few hours.
Not hospital, Sebastian thought, Ruvik's mind. The dank, dark place that would haunt his dreams forever. He would have either gone insane or turned into a Haunted if he had stayed in that place much longer, the only reason he hadn't done either while in there was because of Joseph and Kidman.
Suddenly, as the thought processed in Seb's mind, a tsunami of pain, grief and guilt rushed through Sebastian and was so strong it almost knocked him off his feet. Seb didn't cry, he couldn't after all the years of loss, but felt as if he should and also felt the enormous hole that the younger man had left in his heart. Joseph, his best (and really only) friend was gone and their was nothing he could do about it. It pained him to think that Joeseph's last moments were spent in the abyss of that insanity and were ended by his other partner, Kidman. Sebastian also wondered where Kidman might be, she hadn't meant to hit Joseph, she was aiming for Leslie, and she must feel horrible and worried about what happened. But right now Sebastian was just trying to reason out a situation where Joseph was still alive.
He trudged down the steps of the hospital and was immediately helped by one of the paramedics who wrapped a shock blanket around him. As he sat in the back of the ambulance, he thought about his friend and was trapped in a river of denial about what happened, he couldn't possibly be dead, not Joseph. For a while Seb watched the stretchers come out of the hospital and hoped. His hopes were dashed when the only thing to come out of the hospital were body bags, that was, until something else came out.