Requiem For A Cop-- Missing Scene
By Megan Marie Irvin
1/9/99
 
 

Angie was coming out of the kitchen with a fresh cup of coffee when the news interrupted the TV show she was watching. It was a bombing at a warehouse. As the street name was mentioned Angie dropped her mug, it shattering as it connected with the floor, tea going everywhere.

"No." She said out loud to herself, walking over to the TV. It was the warehouse that Rollie, Leo, and Francis were at. Rollie was helping them with a sting.

The words of the reporter rang in her head. There were five victims. All but one was dead. She waited anxiously for the names of the victims to be said. Half wanting to hear it. Half not, for fear she'd hear a name she dreaded hearing.

Finally too worried to wait around watching the news she grabbed the keys to the truck. She was gonna go down there and see for herself what happened.

On the drive over she kept trying to keep her mind off what happened. She couldn't think about if Rollie was one of the victims. Four were dead. And one was critically injured.

She couldn't live if Rollie was dead or dying. He was her life. Her best friend, the closest thing she had to a father, and her boss. Angie thought of all the loved ones in her life she had already lost. Her mother to a General in Cuba. And her father to a stunt gone wrong.

She pulled up then to the scene of the explosion. Police cars, reporters, ambulances filled the scene. Getting out of the car she saw three filled body bags laying on the ground. Her stomach sickened when she saw Bluey sitting next to them. Another body was being rolled out on a stretcher. She looked at it her mind wondering. Was it Rollie? Were any of these body's Rollie?

She walked a few steps forward, trying to look into the building, through the smoke. Finally she saw him. Rollie. Breathing. Walking towards her. Alive.

"Rollie........" She said, letting out a breath of relief, walking towards him. "I heard on the news..... what..... what happened?"

"It was the only way I could tell it was him." Rollie stuttered dusting the ashes off of the pocket watch.

"No." Angie said shaking her head, hand going to her stomach. The watch Rollie gave Leo. The body that was being rolled out when she showed up........ It was Leo. Not Rollie like she had first thought it might've been. No, instead it was Leo, the man she always claimed would get Rollie
killed. But now that had ended. Leo would never be around to be any threat to her again. But, she thought to herself, Rollie is still here.

The End