Roy had meanwhile made the acquaintances of the conscious adults in between checking on vitals. Neal was a friend of the mayor's who had been visiting when he was shot. August was the secretary of the mayor, May was an undercover guard for the mayor (though she only whispered that to Roy, to everyone else she was just another gopher), and Lily and Emily had bought just been bringing papers to the mayor from other office holders. The mayor, of course, was Orion, well known to all in the emergency branches since he had been in office for quite some time.
As he was finishing taking Orion's vitals again, Jon entered with six kids. He quickly introduced them to Roy before heading back out the door to look for others. Seamus gave and ornery expression before saying, "I thought the guy said you were a paramedic, how come your wearing a fireman's uniform?" Roy turned to him and said, "I'm both. Often during an emergency I help pull someone out of a fire, etc. and turn right around and begin working on them."
Seamus had the sense to look contrite for being rather rude. The six teens went off and sat by themselves in the corner, as they discussed their situation amongst themselves. May was looking rather distraught at having failed in her duty to keep the mayor safe, so Roy went and sat with her for a minute. "Feel like talking about it?" he asked. "Not really." She replied. "Can you at least tell me how it all started?" he asked.
May sat there in silence for so long, he thought she was going to ignore him, but finally she said, "The guy who shot him didn't look like the "rioters" outside. I thought he was another gopher, or someone delivering papers. Than all of a sudden he just pulls out a gun and shoots the mayor. That must have been some kind of signal, because all through the building, at that moment, you could hear them come alive. Before I could even react several more had entered and ordered us to sit down and be quite or we would join the mayor. Once they were sure that we weren't going anywhere, all of them except our guard left. When you guys came along we were trying to figure out a way to get help for the mayor."
Roy sat quietly beside her for a long minute before he asked, "Do you know how many people are in here?" May shook her head, "Not many though. It's been an unusually slow day, I mean we had that group of kids touring, and of course we had the usual delivery people, the gophers, etc. But I think with this being the first beautiful day we have had in a while, a lot of our staffers and officials took the day off to enjoy it. I know the mayor was planning on cutting his day short so he could visit with Neal."
Roy nodded, grateful that that was the case. He would have hated to see what would have happened if everyone that was supposed to be here was. As it was he was really worried about Johnny and the two officers, what could be taking them so long on the first floor? Had they been captured? Roy knew he needed to get his mind off of that so he asked, "Could you roughly guess who was here? Or at least a rough number?"
May considered this before she said, "Well there were us six here in the office, the six kids and the guide on the tour, she was the only one in today, I'm pretty sure the janitor was cleaning the bathrooms on this floor right before everything happened, and we have several people taking calls in a room down the hall. I'm not too sure about the other floors, trying to keep up with the going ons on this floor is hard enough… oh and Carson, our District Attorney may be in today, but he might have left early to meet his daughter or Nancy might have been coming here, they usually have lunch together if they can."
"And he is on this floor?" Roy asked. May nodded before saying, "We had so many people call in saying they were taking the day off to surf or what have you that I honestly don't remember who came in and who didn't, it made my head swim trying to keep up. August might know more, being the secretary and all, but he will probably have it all muddled just as much as I do."
Roy paused before asking quietly, so no one else would hear them, "Is it possible that those who called in heard about what was going to happen here today?" May's eyes revealed how shocked she was that he would ask, but then grew troubled before she said, "Honestly, I don't know. I want to say no, but after this? But why would anyone want to shoot the mayor?" "Maybe it wasn't personal, the nurse at the hospital said that things like this were happening all over the city, maybe they are hoping to eliminate those in charge so that they can seize control."