The Bodies One By One

Chapter 48

Graves looked over the footage, he watched the car speed off and he had a clear view of the number plate. 

'Gotcha you mother fuckers'.

He said softly and he flicked through the information, everything had they had back home, 'is everything okay? Did you find them?' Melissa joined his side, 'we've got their car, and I know what they look like and this was shot not that long ago'.

'So we'll be able to find them'.

'Exactly'. 

'We've got more codes right? Try the right locations if we can, I think I can do that'.

Graves kissed her on the forehead, 'you can do that for me sweetie, remember, these were the guys that killed your mother, I want you to take them down through the system'.
Melissa smiled and her eyes widened with excitement, 'this is going to be fun'.
Ms. Malloy hid in the corner and Graves could tell that she was having second thoughts, 'sweetie, there's no need to be afraid, come here', he held out his hand to her and she was hesitant at first before she reached out to him and allowed him to pull her onto his lap. 

'This is only some small business that I have to sort out and then we'll be all good, we could even go to Hawaii sometime, would you like that?' 

She said nothing but smiled, everything will be alright, he rested his head on her chest, closed his eyes and listened to her heartbeat. 

Leo hit the breaks and the car skidded to a stop, and the two of them sat there in silence, only the sound of their labored breathing were heard. 

'We're so fucked'.

Marcus said as he looked out the window, 'they know what we're driving, what we look like', he raked his fingers through his hair, 'what're we gonna do? We can't run forever, we can't even leave the country because we'd be all over the news by now!'
Leo's heart was pounding against his chest and his gaze began hazy, fuck, Marcus's voice was drowned out by Leo's heartbeat and it became very hard to breath. The car was small, he had to get out, to breath the fresh air. His hand shot out and grabbed the door handle, almost breaking it as he wrenched the door open.

'Leo? Leo, what the hell!?'

Marcus quickly got out from his side and rounded the car to get to Leo, who had fallen on his knees whilst clutching his chest. He was struggling to breath, and even the fresh air wasn't helping. Marcus knelt down next to him and grabbed him by the shoulders gently, 'that's it buddy, big breaths'.

'I can't breathe! Why can't I breathe properly?'

'Leo just keep breathing, you're having a panic attack so you just need to breath'. 

At least a few minutes until the sound of Leo's breathing died down and he sat there staring at the ground in shame, 'hey', Marcus gently shook him, 'it's okay, I've got you', Leo looked up at him and Marcus could see the tears that were threatening to fall, so he wrapped his arms around him. 

'We've got this, we're going to be okay'.

Though they both knew that it was a lie, for only this moment, they just wanted to hear that for the time being.