"Have y'all seen Holtzmann?" Patty asked as she walked down a set of stairs to the main floor of the Ghostbusters Firehouse. "I can't find her anywhere."
"She went out for pizza while you were asleep." Erin said, not looking up from a book she had been reading for most of the day.
"Well thanks for telling me that. It would have been nice to know before I went searching all over this damn place." Patty rolled her eyes. Abby smiled to herself and then continued to watch Kevin, who had just discovered his reflection in the aquarium by his desk.
"How long has she been gone?" Erin asked Abby as she tore herself away from her book. Abby was silent a moment, she looked at the clock on Kevin's desk.
"About two and a half hours." Abby said silently.
"Did she drive or walk?" Patty asked, worry starting to show itself in her face.
"She drove." Erin said. Her face began to reflect Patty's.
"Something is wrong, it does not take that girl that long to drive three miles away to get a pizza unless some cop finally got the guts to pull her over."
"She may be in jail if that happened." Abby forced a smile.
"I say we wait a few more minutes and see if she comes back." Kevin smiled. Everyone looked at him. The tension in the room was continuously rising as Kevin just smiled his oblivious smile. "Oh, Boss, I forgot to tell you, I was playing my little clock here." He held out the clock Abby had been using to tell time.
"What time is it?" Abby asked. Her heart jumped into her throat, Patty was about ready to strangle the stupid kid, and Erin felt like she was about to throw up. Patty look at her cellphone, she's been gone for two and a half hours." Patty sighed. Some relief washed over Abby and Erin.
"I fixed the clock, it was off by an hour." Kevin smiled.
"Can we fire him?" Patty asked Erin. Before Erin could reply, there was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it!" Kevin jumped up.
"No, you sit. You've done enough today." Patty said sternly. "Go back to staring at your reflection or something." She, Abby, and Erin went to see who was at the door.
"Hello, are you Dr. Holtzmann's family?" A man in a police uniform asked.
"I, um, yeah, we are." Erin said quickly. She once again felt sick. Her body trembled with worry. Fear and a fog began to cloud her vision. She knew something bad had happened to her beloved friend, she just knew it. Why else would there be a cop at their door?
"Miss, are you okay?" The officer asked Erin. Abby quickly held onto her right arm and Patty her left.
"Y-yeah, I I'm fine. What about Holtzmann?"
"There's been an accident." That was all Erin heard before she felt her body and her consciousness give out on her.
