Flashback to Now



Chapter 6



Liz knew it was coming. As soon as she walked towards her green Grand Prix, she felt it coming. Sully's newfound happiness with her was not going to last. He had been silent for a long time, it continued in the car. She felt it even more as she pulled up next to his apartment. And yet she still said yes when he asked her to come in. He started his attack as soon as they walked through the door.

"So what? Ty calls and all of a sudden you're back?" Sully snapped at her. "I was worried about you, Sully," Liz said. "Oh, ok, that explains it. And that's why you didn't come after 9/11?" Sully nearly yelled. "I did!" Liz yelled back indignantly. "I called the station to make sure you were all right! When I found out you were, well I didn't want to upset you more by showing up!" "But you left!" Sully cried. "So that's it? Huh Sullivan? Its because I left? Because I chose Pete's health over you?" Liz shouted. "Why did you leave anyway?" Sully finally said, too tired to yell. "Because I found out that my mother was there!" Liz shouted, then spun around and left.



Liz was speeding again. She didn't even bother to check behind her for the police. Not until the flashing blue lights were blinding her from behind. She pulled over reluctantly. "Miss...um..miss do you know how fast you were going?" The young cop stammered. Liz sighed. "Yeah...about fifty. I'm sorry Officer, um..." "Gusler, ma'am. I'm gonna let you off with a warning this time, please slow down," The young officer said and returned almost dejectedly to his car. Liz waited for the car to be out of sight before pushing it to fifty-five. She sped all the way to the hospital. Yet when she got there she didn't have the stomach to see Pete. She rushed to the restroom and retched. Then splashed water on her face as she stared at herself in the mirror. Liz looked at the red streaks on her face from crying, the puffy eyes, and splashed more water on her face. When she was satisfied that she looked ok, she left and sat in the cafeteria. She sat there for two hours, staring at one picture of a magazine she bought for no reason. A little girl sitting in a man's lap, while he read her Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Papa Bear, she thought sadly. She left, driving around the city aimlessly until she pulled up to her apartment. The flashing lights in front of it told her something was amiss.



"Lets go lets go lets go!" Lt. Johnson yelled as his men ran around the grass outside the apartment. Jimmy ran out of the apartment, an elderly woman slung over his shoulder. He dropped her by a waiting ambulance and ran back. Liz pushed through the crowd and tapped a firefighter, who was sitting in a bus with an oxygen mask, on the shoulder. "Excuse me? What's going on?" She asked. The firefighter removed the mask, "Carbon Monoxide, I'm afraid you won't be able to go in tonight," he rasped. Liz thanked him and turned back to her car. She needed a place to go, she didn't want to stay at the hospital or go to a motel. Her car seemed to turn in the right direction by itself.