Sirens. That's all I hear right now. They can't be too far away, maybe a few hundred miles. I could be there in seconds. But do I really want to do this? Maybe I'll just go to see what happens, I'm sure the police have it under control…
"All men hold fire, I repeat hold fire!" all of the shooting stops. The guys trying to rob the bank came out to give up, or so we thought. As soon as he came out he had about 100 guns not including the snipers on him and he pushed a kid from behind him. He grabbed a kid! What kind of person just does that! He can't be any older than 10.
I watch as all of the police officers keep their weapons up but don't fire. I can't just let them get away with this… I'm not stupid. I know that either someone is gonna get trigger happy and that kid could get hurt. Or the bad guy, scratch that, bad guys. Will get away and then hurt the kid. Not to mention all of the other innocent by-standers that could get hurt with them trying to get away.
Ugh, why am I gonna do this…
Looking around I try and make a game plan. I have to be fast. Faster than I've ever been if I don't want anyone to see me or worst, get hurt.
I run, as fast as I can, first I grab the kid and run him behind a police car and continue towards the guy that was holding him, getting him on his stomach and cuffing him, before moving on to the ones still in the door way. I'm sure the cops won't mind I borrowed their cuffs.
"What the hell?" everyone looks around confused. Not me though. I'm just standing where I stood before I moved. I guess if I was them id be confused too. One second they are standing in the middle of a shootout with a hostage. The next everyone is cuffed and de-armed and the hostage is now being held by his mother who is crying like it's nobody's business.
Slowly but surely they wake up out of their stupor and start getting the guys to put in the cars. "Sir, what the hell just happened?" I hear a cop ask another cop. He must be a rookie, he looks like one. Like he was in the academy 2 minutes before this happened. "I really don't… I don't know" he looks around trying to spot something out of the ordinary. But he won't. From looking at me, you would never think I was much different from you. And I think I want to keep it that way.
"Spencer you don't have to work today, I told you to take as much time off as you want." I hear my boss talking in the background but I'm not really paying attention. It's been about a week, I would have taken more time I swear. Well… maybe. But this was too good to pass up.
How could I pass this up? I'm a journalist, I seek truth and all that other stuff journalist says all the time. Honestly I'm curious more than anything. Newspapers everywhere have been talking about an unknown figure that lurks in the dark waiting to help people.
So far no one has caught a glimpse of him, or her. Just never know sometimes. But they, whoever they are, are helping people. In fact there have been so many different situations from right here in California all the way to New York and Japan.
People don't know what to think, it's impossible to be in more than one place at a time right? Last I checked the rules of physics where still in place right? I look over at the coffee mug on my desk, maybe if I just push it off I will know. I mean if it floats than obviously… wait what? I'm so stupid sometime.
"are you even listening to me?" shaking my head out of my thoughts I look up at my boss, she's standing there with one hand on her hip and a perfectly sculpted brow raised. "of course not" I say earning a chuckle from her.
Me and Carrie go way back, we went to high school together. Except when we graduated she was forced to take over her father's business, and I went to college. Safe to say when I got out of college looking to be hired as a journalist I knew who to go to. After all she only owns the biggest newspaper of the entire west coast.
That doesn't mean I didn't work hard for it. I started off a noob just like everyone else. She said she didn't want to make it seem like I was getting "special treatment" but within a year I now have my own office. I'd like to say I worked my tail off to get this but honestly I never had to. I just attract big news. And for some reason it's been relatively easy for me to rise to the top.
"And the mysterious figure is at it again! This time all the action was caught on tape as the unidentified person saved a 9 year old boy from a hostage situation and cuffed all of the attempting robbers" they play a clip but there's not much to see, all you see if everyone holding their guns as a guy holds the kid in front of him, and faster than I have time to blink they are down on the ground handcuffed and they shoot to the kid being picked up by his mother who is crying like crazy. "I don't know how it happened, and if I wasn't here folk's id think this was all a big joke. Back to you in the stupid Jill"
"Wow…" I'm just staring at the TV as some woman, apparently named Jill. Drones on about what just happened. "Still want me to take more time off?" I look at my boss who shakes her head, still looking at the TV before she turns around without another word and walks away.
I don't know who you are mystery person, but thank you. Maybe there is hope left in the world.