Chapter 173
"Booth, I'm afraid it won't be an early night we need to do some surveillance starting in half an hour. Illegal street racing going down" Liam said when Ryan walked into his office and he blew out a long steady breath. It's his first day back on the job and he was really not looking forward to having a late night especially surveillance.
"Do I have to go with you? Can't you ask one of those recruits who started today?" Ryan bargained but Liam shook his head. "If I could I would, so it's me and you. And a service vehicle and some sirens. Come on it'll be fun." Liam smiled enthusiastically and Ryan looked at him with the opposite look on his face as he was not nearly as excited as he claimed to be. "Come on, when it's done I'll stick you for a beer." Liam said throwing one of the FBI SUV keys in Ryan's direction that he caught just in time. "It better be more than one." Ryan said making his ay downstairs to looking for Alex.
"I need to surveillance with O'Connor tonight some street racing thing going down. I'm not sure what time I'll be home." He apologized since they had plans of having a lazy evening together while Phoebe was asleep. "Okay it's fine. I'll deal with the new tantrums your daughter might have tonight then." She said kissing him as he handed over the car keys to her and she made her way out.
Ryan walked back to the parking lot to pull the service vehicle out front while he waited for Liam to arrive with the details and the location. "You do know these kids just wanna have fun right, and now we're showing up spoiling the fun they might have and the they're gonna end up hating all FBI agents just because you were the one who came up with this bight idea." Ryan moaned as soon as they figured out where they were going. "Hhhmmm makes me wonder what you got up to when you were a teen, probably also racing the streets illegally." Liam looked over at Ryan who fastened his seatbelt as they took off. "Hotwiring your mom's car and illegal driving isn't nearly the same." He said as he pulled away seeing the surprised look on his superiors face.
Alex pulled up to the day care looking for her daughter where she laid sprawled out on the floor watching TV. "Your daughter is so much fun to be around." One of the other educators said when she saw Alex walk inside. "You're welcome to keep her here." Alex laughed as Marci walked closer.
"Marci I've been meaning to ask you how is she since we got back from India? She's been spending a few days with my grandmother and has been spoiled because she has the new tendency of throwing tantrums whenever she doesn't get her way." Alex said looking at her as she watched cartoons not looking like the child she had a food fight with or the one who laid crying on the bathroom floor the night before. "No she is totally fine, there is no problem with her. It's just going to take some time to get her back into routine after the week she's been away." Marci explained and Alex was wondering if they were talking about the same child. "Okay, come on Phoebe let's go home. You're gonna be a good girl for me tonight?" Alex asked as she gathers her things and looks at her mother with a smile nodding her head. "Yeah we'll have to see about that one." Alex laughed as they walked out of the day care center.
Ryan came to a stop at a red light while Liam was busy on his phone. "You told me this is teamwork and now you're no your phone?" Ryan asked looking over at him.
"I'm trying to find the exact location, Booth." Liam explained as they pulled away. "Okay so when you see a bunch of pimped out cars racing I need you to hit the lights, while I try and track them to the location on the phone." Liam explained and Ryan nodded as they cruised down the streets. "How was India? More importantly how did you deal with the in laws?"
"India was nice man, opened my eyes up to a new world to see where Alex grew up and how different things are there compared to here. The in laws are fine, they're nice people except for one aunt. She was like the devil couldn't stand me." Ryan told Liam as he laughed. "Yeah besides the fact that it was an aunt that sounds like my mother in law you're describing."
Without seeing anything they heard it first, when a bunch of cars raced past them their turbo engines sounding, as other vehicles moved out of the way so they can pass. On queue Ryan hit the lights and followed a bunch of cars that were on the street above them keeping an eye on them whenever they saw them at an intersection. Liam was directing him to the place where they might gather while he kept his eyes on his phone. "I've lost them." Ryan said when he neared another intersection and when he looked right there were no sign of the car as he sped up approaching the last one before the turn off, when he heard a car honking and brakes slamming before a crash sounded and their vehicle landed on its side, as an oncoming car hit the passenger side of their car.
It took some time for Liam to get a look at what happened and trying to make his way out of the car. He brushed most of the pieces of glass from himself and then looked at Ryan. He was shaking, his hands still on the steering wheel as Liam tried to get the airbag out of the way. Moving slowly since he wasn't sure if he was hurt or anything he managed to get to the back door and opened it after sometime.
"Ryan. Ryan!" He yelled the second time louder when Ryan looked up at him. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?" he asked and Ryan looked around him. "I think I'm fine. The, the other car?" he asked and Liam shook his head. "I don't know we'll have a look now, can you try and get out the back?" Liam asked and Ryan managed to get out of the back door that Liam opened looking at the car that hit them, while they called it in. Between the two FBI agents they have no idea how they ended up with some bruises on their faces. Ryan's shirt were torn on the one side where the car skidded across the road and a shard of glass went into his left arm but other than that they were fine. Liam seemed to have a broken arm from the impact and a blue eye when the airbag hit him.
They walked over to the other car. A teenager were driving the car while his mother was shotgun. The boy on the other hand seemed to be in a pretty bad condition. His face was covered in blood and the drivers side of the vehicle were crushing his legs. Ryan felt all the blood drain from his face as he looked around for witnesses who saw what happened, because he wasn't even 100% sure of what just happened. It was all so quick.
The police showed up to the scene followed by the ambulance and the fire department as they got the car apart to try and free the boy. His mother was in too much shock to know what was going on. And Maranda Shaw rushing over to their side. Ryan had no idea how much time passed since all of this happened but he knew for certain that whatever the outcome of it this may be, it's not gonna be pretty.
"Liam what happened?" Maranda asked.
"We were onto that street racing thing trying to shut it down, a car came out of no where and hit us. Is that boy going to be okay?" He asked looking over to the car as they worked on stabilizing him.
"I don't know. Who was driving?" She asked looking around as the crowd of people grew and started yelling accusations at Ryan and Liam.
"Ryan was." He said softly and Maranda called him over.
"Ryan what happened?"
"I..I don't know, they came out of no where. I had the sirens on I couldn't come to a controlled stop, but I kno…"
"Between you and that car who had the light?" A police officer asked looking at him.
"We did." Ryan answered running a hand over his face as this thing just keeps getting worse.
"Are you sure? Witnesses are stating otherwise." The officer said with a raised eyebrow looking at Ryan.
"If it wasn't green then it was yellow. But it certainly wasn't red."
The police officer scoffed as he wrote all of this down. "So you're not sure."
"Booth have you seen the light?" Maranda asked raising her voice.
"I must've. I know I did, it just all happened in an instant Maranda I wasn't reckl…"
"Oh my god." She mumbled walking towards the officers to find out if the boy was going to be okay.
He walked over to the curb and sat down, when the same officer who took his statement asked him if he had been drinking as he was ordered to do a breathalyzer test, that came back negative. They've asked Lima if he had seen anything but since he was on his phone looking for their location it seems like a dark road for Ryan at the moment. Ryan was called over to the ambulance so they can check out what has been going on with him and treat his arm and some of the scratches on his face when Liam joined him, and the same officer who has been questioning them for a while now. "Is the boy gonna be alright?" He asked hissing in pain as the antiseptic made contact with is open wound. "It doesn't look good for him right now." The pareamedic answered honestly. "How old is he?"
"Sixteen."
The officer looked at them. "Okay, so here is my conclusion that neither of the two drivers saw the light. Or let me rather say the two of you have amnesia and don't wanna take the fall for a sixteen year old boy who might not live through the night."
"Look man." Liam said getting up and standing face to face with the officer. "I trust Ryan Booth. If he says the light was yellow then it was. Had it been red he would've come to halt to check for oncoming traffic before he proceeded."
"Yeah well that is not what the witnesses are saying. Ryan you're going to have to come with us." The officer said once the EMT was done covering his wounds. He nodded and watched as they loaded the teenager onto a backboard and put him in the back of the ambulance. The mother seemed to have recover and made her way over to Ryan. "You piece of work! I hope you rot in jail." She said hitting Ryan's chest as some of the people restrained her while Ryan got into the back of the police car so they can take him in for further questioning.
Guys! Thank you for reading. Lovies-S
