"Alex do you want a ride to school?"
"No, I'd rather walk," Alex says coldly toward Luka.
"Fine. I'll see you when you get home."
He grabs his stuff and turns back into his and Sam's bedroom to tell her goodbye. He doesn't want to go to work today but they need him and he needs to help people to take his mind off what happened to them.
Alex walks out of the apartment and walks down the steps. This is all his fault. Every bit of it. He has really screwed up his mother's life. He stops outside of the apartment building and stares up at the window of his mom and Luka's bedroom. She was still crying and Luka had his arms wrapped around her. And that's when he made his decision. He was going to leave. He turned and instead of going in the direction of his school, he went to opposite way.
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"Hold on," Jerry said into the phone. "Doctor Kovac it's for you."
"Doctor Kov…" He could hear crying through the phone.
Sam.
"Luka, Alex is missing." She says between sobs.
"What?"
"The school called. He didn't show up today."
"I'll be right there Sam. You're still at the apartment, right?"
"Yeah," she says while taking a deep breath.
He hangs up the phone and as he runs out into the ambulance bay and it feel like time has stopped. Rain beats down on him, soaking his clothes as he heads to the parking garage. By the time he gets into the car he's soaked from head to toe, his hair plastered to his forehead, his lab coat and shirt sticking to his body.
She couldn't leave: Luka had her car, since his is in the shop. The EL doesn't reach Alex's school and the cops are supposed to come here.
"Sam?"
Luka.
He hurries over to the couch and she falls into his arms. He holds her not asking questions and just repeating that they will find him. Over and over.
"We'll find him Sam, we'll find him..."