The container

"2011," Kirsty said uncertainly, like it was defiantly not the year she thought they were in.

"Kirsty," Lenny prompted, "what year did you think it was? What the last thing you remember?" he questioned, wanting to know what she was thinking.

"2010." She drew out not knowing what to say next, she couldn't exactly tell him that her last memory was of her husband laying into her.

'Work, what was the last thing I remember about work?' Kirsty questioned herself silently. 'That's it, the shooting at the college and Simone.'

"I remember the shooting at the college, and they brought in a young girl called Simone." Kirsty spoke softly watching Lenny carefully for his reaction because she knew that that was almost a year ago now, if it was the 5th of august.

Lenny's face fell, that was almost a year ago and so much had happened since then. She was bound to start asking about her husband again, and then about why and how they were here and he was going to have to try and explain it all to her and he dreaded having to do this and then consequently having to comfort Kirsty afterwards.

He just didn't know how to do it. He had never been one who was good at giving people bad news and now he was trapped in a tin can with nothing but bad news to give.

The ED

"Have a seat." Adam solemnly told the rather large police officer in front of him, before taking his seat on the other side of his messy desk next to Tess. All three of the small office's occupants wore gloomy expressions as they fell into a sombre silence.

"Right," the deep gruff voice of the policeman interrupted a couple of seconds into the sombre silence, "can you start from the beginning."

Tess and Adam exchanged nervous glances as they silently fought, trying to decide who was going to share the information they had. It was decided, by Tess, that Adam was going to be the one who explained and he guessed that this was because she knew he knew more about the situation than he had told her; so he took a silent deep breath and began.

"Well, two of our colleagues have gone missing in the middle of their shifts." He started, but then stopped. He didn't know what to say next and was rapidly trying to sort through everything he knew to find his next thing to say.

"Is this unusual behaviour for either of them?" The policeman asked as he tried to pull his notepad out of the back pocket of his trousers. He let out a little grunt, as with one last tug, the notepad came free and so did the pen from the binder and it clattered loudly to the floor of the quiet office.

"Sorry," he apologised as he got down on all fours to retrieve the pen from where it had fallen under the desk.

Adam and Tess couldn't help but try and conceal their laughter as the pen popped up over the edge of the desk grasped by four fat sausage fingers and a very stubby thumb.

"Got it," he almost panted before his head popped up long side his pen and he looked at it as if he wasn't the one holding it.

After a second or two of pointlessly looking at the pen the policeman hauled himself of the floor and sat down again with a huff. He then loudly flicked through his notepad before stopping at what looked like the nearest empty page. He then poised his pen over paper before looking up expectantly at a bewildered Adam and Tess, waiting for their answer to his earlier question. Adam soon caught up.

"Yes, well no it isn't but they've been gone for over five hours and, we've forgotten Nita." Adam cut his explanation short and directed the last bit at Tess looking at her worriedly before flicking to the clock to find it was a couple of minuets to eight. Nita would be getting ready for school and wondering why her mum wasn't home yet.

"Sorry," Adam said scrapping his chair out from under him, "I've got to go and see if she's alright and fill her in on everything that is happening." And with that Adam had disappeared out of the door, but Tess wasn't letting him go that easily and she was hot on his heels.

"But Adam, you don't even know her, you don't know what's happened to Kirsty either. What are you going to tell her?" Tess shouted at him.

"I know a lot more about her than you give me credit for, probably more than most of her friends, and I'll tell her the truth, she deserves that much." And with that he picked up his speed and was pulling out of his parking space before Tess had had a chance to locate which row Adam had parked his car in at the beginning of his shift.

Adam sped towards Kirsty's house ignoring most of the speed limits on the way. He forcefully pressed on the brake coming to an abrupt halt just out side Kirsty's front door. He jumped out of the car locking it over his shoulder as he raced to the front door and began knocking on the door.

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