I finished Cragen's POV and edited it! Tomorrow, I shall hopefully post the last chapter! I hope you enjoy this!
Cragen's POV Dead End
Was there dramatic irony here? Only for me, I guess. But when Amy said she was related to John, I knew she had opened a can of worms that could never be shut.
She was the niece of John Munch. She was related to him. And yet, I was surprised when she admitted in front of Elliot. It was like she had been keeping it from me too even though I knew about it. She had finally let it slipped, like when a child says their first inappropriate word and they somehow know it.
Elliot managed to pick her up and drag her to the waiting room. I thought he would tell the others then, but he didn't. I think now it was a question of when he would tell them. After all my years of service on the force, I know this much. Detectives talk.
The afternoon crept by slowly. It seemed forever since John went into the ER, but then the doctor came out and delivered us more bad news. John had slipped into a coma. How and why were the questions that the doctor could not answer. Fin inhaled really hard when the doctor told us this. Then he told us he might not make wake up at all and slip quietly in his deep sleep. Amy lost it and Fin almost did too, but surprisingly he took his arms and wrapped them around her. I have never seen hug a person since he joined. The only friendly contact I had seen him do was shake hands, but nothing more than that.
So now we raised the questions of how did Sanders know that he was going to get caught? Who was really the target of the shooting? Another question would come up later, but not now. We were more concern about our friend who was hanging in the balance of life and death.
Amy announced she would stay the night and watch him. I think she was living under a hope that he would wake up. I actually saw her pinch herself to make sure she wasn't asleep. It was a nightmare that I think all of just wanted to wake up from, but we knew that this was for real.
A road I thought I would never journey down again has no path to continue on. I have reached a dead end or so I thought. The next day would bring even more surprises and one act that I would do that would shake my faith as a leader of a squad of detectives.
The question that comes up tomorrow will be the most important one of them all. What is this question? Stay tuned for the fourth chapter is being typed as you read this.