Chapter Two
Am I Dead?
Lucy felt like she was watching her life from a distance. Memories filled her as the doctors placed an oxygen mask on her face and tried to save her life. She felt a hand rubbing her head and holding the side of her face as she slipped from reality and back into the past. She stood watching as she entered the private banquet hall. She watched as Kevin got down on one knee and asked her to become his wife. She saw herself dressed in white and her husband in his tux. She looked so happy and yet now she felt so sad and as if that was a different person getting married as if that was a different woman looking down at her beautiful daughter. As if that little family was a different family as if Kevin and her hadn't created that beautiful family. She began to wonder if she was dying. She wondered if this was what it was like to die.
She felt separate from her body as if she'd left it behind. Maybe she had maybe she hadn't. Maybe she'd just lost part of herself.
"Lucy Kinkirk." Kevin told the woman at the counter frantically, "My wife. I want to see my wife."
"Please take a seat, Mr. Kinkirk. Dr. Manson will come and speak with you on your wife's condition." the woman said.
"I won't sit down!" Kevin roared, "I want to see my wife now! I want to know what's going on now!"
"Kevin." A voice came up behind him. Kevin turned to find his old boss Capt. Michaels, "Kevin take a seat."
"No I want to see Lucy now."
"Sit down." Michaels said and Kevin listened finally.
"What happened?" he asked.
"There's been an accident."
"What kind of accident?" Kevin asked, "Did Lucy fall are something? Was their a car accident? And why are you here?"
"I'm here to talk to the Special Victims Detectives." he said.
"Special Victims as in rape?" Kevin asked shaking his head and flying up, "No! No! Where's Lucy? I want to see Lucy!"
"You can't see her right now." Capt. Michaels said putting a hand on Kevin's shaking shoulder.
"What happened?"
"I'm not sure you're ready to hear this."
"What the fuck happen?" Kevin yelled, "Answer me! Tell me what happen."
"Mr. Bentley was out walking his dog when he heard moaning. He went to look and found Lucy by the dumpsters behind the church. She was beaten up pretty bad."
"No." Kevin said shaking his head, "Was she? Was she raped?"
"Kevin, don't make me answer that." Michaels begged.
"Answer the question!"
"Yes there was vaginal trauma and pelvic bruising." he said, "I'm sorry. We're going to do everything we can to catch the Bastard that did this."
