A Year Without You

Chapter Three

Maya's Pov

I wake up at 5am like always and start my coffee maker so it can be done when I get back from my morning run. Honestly, that is all I have done for the past year besides working my ass off, working out is the only way I have been able to let out any frustration of any kind and let's just say when Carina comes home, I don't think she is going to recognize me a little bit. An hour later I get home and smell coffee all through the house, I head for the shower and get ready for my shift. When I get to the Station the one person, I did not want to deal with was there and that was Dixon. He had been up my ass ever since Miller filed the lawsuit against PD and that made things even more stressful this year, as if things weren't bad enough. He greets me with some smart-ass comment that I roll my eyes at. "Is there a reason you are bothering me this early in the morning Dixon or do I just call you dick?" I walk in my office and he follows behind me, I turn to look at him. "is there a reason you are breaking protocol and bothering the living hell out of me?!" He holds his hands up "Hey, I'm just here to try to keep the peace between SFD and PD, also to tell you to keep a muzzle on Miller. Being Captain and all, I am surprised you're letting this lawsuit go on." I look at him ready to pick his smug narcissistic ass up by his pants and toss him out of here. Putting my hands on my desk I lean forward "Well as Captain I will run Station 19 as I see fit, so now are we done here?" He puts this smart assholyin look on his face and nods "Yeah we're done here" he goes to open the door to step out "Like the new hair by the way" he shuts the door and I feel sick to my stomach he is such a worm.

It was a slow day today thankfully after all the craziness that has been the normal around here this past year, it was nice to have an easy day. I sat at my desk doing paperwork, putting my pen down I lean back in my chair and stare at the ceiling. It's so quiet you could hear a pin drop only thing that can really be heard are the sound of the birds chirping outside. I get lost in thought thinking about Carina, just wondering what she is doing right now. Just like I have every day that she has been gone. I miss the hell out of her. Pulling my phone out of my pocket I hit the button on the side which causes my screen to light up. The lock screen on my phone is a picture of Carina and I, it just makes me so fucking mad that because of this virus and fucked up government that me and the love of my life are being kept apart from one another.

The day went on and had picked up more towards what was supposed to be the end of my shift when we had gotten called to a three-alarm fire downtown. Andy, Vic, and I rode together on the way to the scene and Andy could tell that my mind was somewhere else. Hey Maya? earth to Maya? hey!" I look at her startled "You ok?" She asked me concerned. I look back at her "yeah I'm ok I was just thinking about something, sorry didn't get much sleep last night." Andy nodded but, in a way, I knew she knew I was lying to her. Andy had known that ever since Carina had left that I was having a hard time at work I was more intense and outside of work I didn't want to be bothered or I would just go to the bar after a shift and nurse the same glass of whiskey all night. Vic chimed in next "You coming out with us to night after shift cap? Joes is having a karaoke night?" I shrugged "Yeah maybe I could use a night out I guess." Vic smiled "Yes awesome!" We pulled up to the scene and hopped out of the truck, I started giving everyone orders of what to do.

We got back to the station and all any of us wanted to do was hit the showers, how in the hell a manure processing factory goes up in flames like that and you still have your sense of smell in tack is beyond me. Vic walked in the showers and turned on the water "god I am going to probably need a hundred showers after that call today." I looked over laughing washing my hair "Oh I know it's a call like todays that makes me happy as hell that I don't have to go home to Carina yet because she wouldn't probably want to be withing ten feet of me right now." Andy was laughing in the stall next to me on my right. "Yeah, your right cause even if I were her, I wouldn't even let you in the house after the way we all ended up smelling today.'' I can't help but laugh and agree with Andy she was right it was pretty bad.