Dangerous Attraction
Chapter 6 of my story, enjoy.
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Chapter 6
It was headline news, people were talking about it all over, and very few people could believe it. A year ago, the twin daughters of the famous horror movie director Bob Washington had disappeared. It did not take long for Hannah and Beth Washington's disappearance to be discovered as a kidnaping. Yet, despite what was initially suspected, no ransom demands were made, and as time went by, hope faded.
Bob and his wife Melinda found it difficult to adjust to life without their daughters. Their grown-up son Josh, then twenty-nine, had gone into meltdown, his psychological issues which had plagued his childhood and teenage years started to resurface, prompting him to seek professional help.
Josh had followed in his father's footsteps, directing horror movies and, according to Bob, even surpassed his father in terms of success and fame. But naturally, with the disappearance of his sisters and his subsequent collapse, there were no movies from Josh Washington for a year. It was only a quirk of fate or luck that it happened just after his latest movie had finished and he currently didn't have a new one planned to work on.
But still, the family felt as if they had been left in limbo. Even the police began to lose hope of ever solving the case. Fears had built that the two young ladies were dead. Only one police officer had never given up on the case, had refused to believe that the Washington twins were dead, unless presented with proof of such a thing. It had been that very officer who had brought the unexpected news.
Hannah and Beth Washington were alive and had been rescued, their kidnapper killed as he resisted arrest, all thanks to the officer who never gave up on the case: Police Detective Samantha Giddings.
Samantha Giddings stood, watching, allowing a small smile to show on her face. She was a woman of twenty-nine, of medium height, with long blonde hair worn in a neat bun, green eyes, and light skin. She projected, as always, an air of professionalism, her work uniform neat as it should be. Still, this was a joyous moment and she observed it calmly, but still allowed some happiness.
She was currently standing in the doorway of Hannah and Beth Washington's hospital room, watching as they reunited with their family. Both women were twenty-nine, with the same dark brown hair, brown eyes, and olive complexions. The chief difference being that Hannah had her hair longer while Beth's only reached her shoulders and had bangs.
Also present in the room was the now thirty-year-old Josh Washington, having the same hair color and skin tone as his sisters, but with green eyes. He was currently embracing the two women, all of them tearful. Bob and Melinda were only barely restraining themselves from doing the same, even though they had done so only moments before, clearly trying to give Josh this moment with his sisters, now that they were finally reunited. Seeing her standing there, Bob and Melinda moved over to her.
"Detective," Bob began, breathless, "You... We cannot thank you enough."
Melinda nodded. "Yes, you... You have rescued our daughters, brought our family back together, we..."
Sam, however, shook her head. "I was just doing my job, ma'am. Let's not...make this into something more than it is."
"Just your job? Our lives were destroyed by this, but you have restored them." Bob remarked, incredulous.
Sam sighed. "Well, I...thank you. I have to go now, however. There's still some work to do."
With that, she excused herself and left, returning to the station.
Returning to the station, Sam braced herself. She knew exactly what sort of welcome she'd receive. Sure enough, the moment she entered, the various officers around the room, even the detectives sitting at their desks, all turned to her, smiling. Then they broke into applause. She rolled her eyes and shook her head, trying to walk through the room quickly. However, her path was blocked by one of her superiors, who had the same grin on his face as the others.
"Detective Giddings, magnificent job." he remarked. "You're a departmental hero."
Sam sighed. "I'm no hero, sir. I'm just doing my job."
She couldn't understand why she had to keep stating it, since that was all that it was. But people tended to make things seem bigger than they were.
He laughed. "Don't be so modest, detective. You solved a case that many had given up on. You stuck with it the whole year, endured everything that was thrown at you. You deserve some adulation for that."
"What I need to do, sir, is prepare for my next case. There's always more work that needs to be done." Sam replied.
Shaking his head, he let her go on and she headed for her office. It was the one thing about Sam that everybody in the department saw and worried about. Her practically non-existent social life. She was married to her job. Even when off duty, she was known to look over old, unsolved cases, seeing if she could see any new leads.
In her office, Sam approached her desk. Once seated, she looked over at the top right corner. On it was a pile of files, all relating to unsolved cases. Reaching over, she picked up the Washington case file from the pile and looked it over one more time. Sighing, she made a few extra notes and then, preparing to send it away to be filed with the other solved cases, began writing her final report.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.
