Chapter 2: The Brave Boy
"If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died"
"Find anything yet?" Mac asks, heading back to his dead body.
"Nope. The only thing useful here is the bullet still in the body."
"Gerard told me I need to remind you who's in charge."
"You, I know. I was just trying to preserve the scene. You have to tell him to keep out of our way if he wants this to get closed as soon as possible."
"I did; he probably won't listen though. Anyway, the next body is in the gym; I've got that one. There was one down the hall from that; Adam was almost done there. Hawkes is still outside so I guess it's yours."
Stella follows him down the hallway, peeking in the gym to see what he got. "That'll take you a while."
"Adam is supposed to help me process when he finishes with this floor; I don't think there were any other bodies until upstairs.
"See you in a while." She heads off to the next body, this one of a teacher. "Having fun, Adam?"
"Do you know if Mac has returned? He asked me to help him in the gym."
"Yes, he's expecting you soon."
"Can I leave this here?" he points to his high-tech camera system.
"Sure."
She takes a few pictures, then finds a fiber on the woman's sleeve. Carefully she bags it and stores it in her kit. This shot was a through-and-through; she glances around the hall for the bullet, a more thorough search to come later. However, there is no need; just beside a classroom door lays the bullet.
As she puts the bullet in an evidence bag, the door slowly creeps open. Quickly she steps in front of the opening, blocking the view of the dead woman.
The little boy with his head sticking out of the door looks up at her, terrified. "Please don't hurt me. Jimmy dared me to open it."
"I won't hurt you. I'm with the police," Stella smiles at him. She gently guides him back into the room. "Where is your teacher?"
"She's out there. We think he killed her," the little boy says quietly.
"What's your name?"
"Mitchell."
"I'm Stella," she tells him, finding the whole class listening.
One girl raises her hand. "When can we go home?"
"Well, I'm not exactly sure. My partners are going around asking questions so we can find this guy and put him in jail. It might take them a while. When they're done, we'll call your parents so they can come get you."
"How come you got a gun?" another boy asks.
"Sometimes the only way to stop a bad guy from hurting someone is to kill him. We hardly ever have to do this though. Seeing the gun is sometimes enough to frighten them into confessing."
"Is that the bad guy?" Mitchell points to the door.
Stella turns quickly, surprised to find Mac there. "No, that's Mac. He's also a police officer."
He joins her at the front of the room, waving. "Where's their teacher?"
"I think she's the one outside the door," she whispers.
A/N: Next chapter it gets sad. Either that or it's the chapter after that. Then five or six is really sad too. I've spent almost my whole day at school. I had to get my schedule this morning; the only teacher I know is my Spanish one because I had her last year. And the band director obviously. Then my brothers went to a friend's house, and his mother is a gym teacher at the middle school. We had this whole brownie competition a couple years ago; it was kind of funny. Except she lied and said she won when I really did. Anyway she said that my history teacher knows a lot about, well, history; sounds like I could hear some stories like last year. Except that teacher's stories half the time had nothing to do with history. After that I had band for three hours. And I have it for another three hours tonight. I hope it rains because I don't want to stand outside for another three hours. My feet hurt now. Shoot, I have to read. Let's see, I can do half an hour now, half an hour before NY, and half an hour after hopefully. Then I might be able to write some. Well I think that's it. And just so you guys know, we haven't gotten our bill yet for WOW, which is cable, internet, and phone, and my mom didn't pay it last month on time so they threatened to turn it off. So I guess they could turn it off if they don't get there money soon. But if we didn't get the bill, we can't pay it, so it's their fault, or the post offices. And she thinks she didn't pay it last month because she didn't get it then either until they said you have one week to pay or it'll all be turned off. So I guess don't be surprised if I can't update because I don't have internet. Please continue reviewing.