Chapter 10
Gage was starring out of the kitchen door when Roy walked up to him, concerned by his partner's mental absence. "Hey Johnny are you alright? You have been really quiet since that last call. Did something happen I don't know about."
"I'm fine Roy. I just can't shake this feeling that something is wrong."
"What do you mean wrong? You think the Phantom has something in store for you?" Roy knew his partner well and was perplexed.
"No, it's nothing to do with that." He didn't even take a moment to trash Chet. "I just don't know how to explain it, it's like something really terrible has happened but for the life of me...I just don't know." His frustration was mounting.
Roy was just about to open his mouth to try and comfort his friend when they were dispatched for an injured person, from a fall. The introspective debate would have to wait.
"Squad 51 responding." Captain Stanley gave his usual response to County. He gave no thought to where Squad 110 would be right now, since they had left before his crew.
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Captain Morgan was finishing up some of the paperwork for the shift. Most of his crew had no idea the amount of this crap he had to deal with every single shift and that was if there were no injuries of any kind. When one of his guys was involved in an accident, there was a massive amount of paper pushing that had to be done.
He glanced up at the wall clock in his office, "I would have thought that the squad should have returned by now." He figured that since the call was out in the canyon area it could simply be taking them longer to get to Rampart and then report back.
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Dr. Joe Early was sitting in the doctor's lounge, taking a break and reading one of the latest medical journals. Suddenly his thoughts turned towards memories of A.J. as a child. Their family was close knit and he had spent lots of time with her. He loved all of his nieces and nephews and he had plenty of them. He and Ruth, A.J.'s mother had six other siblings. However for some reason he always had this connection with her. Even when she was little she would look out for and defend the smaller children when they got picked on. She always had a spirit of a protector and healer. He just couldn't imagine what life would be like with out her in it.
"Now what on earth made me think of that?" He remarked out loud.