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October 1983

Ziggy had taken the bus home, even though Nick was going to the Shadyside mall, she preferred to take the bus because he had to stay to analyze the scene and there was no other means of transportation.

She was a little worried that something was going to happen to Nick because just after she locked the door to his house, she witnessed a crash.

In Sunnyvale!

She did expect the place to no longer be as perfect as it used to be, but she didn't think it would happen so fast.

On the porch of Ziggy's house, Sarah was leaning on Ted's shoulder, and he was leaning on Sarah's head, almost asleep and with a pile of bags around them.

Ziggy lets out a sigh and they startle.

"We're awake!", Sarah shouts and Ted frowns, "Where were you?", Sarah squints looking her up and down.

Ziggy was wearing the same clothes from the day before, except for the shirt she had taken from Nick's closet before she left.

"And where's Major Tom?" Ted asks, looking at her in confusion.

Ziggy almost forgot, Major Tom was with Deena and Josh because they had left him inside the police car, which they had also taken.

Nick had to use his own car to get to work.

"I'll tell you later", she walks past them and opens the door "and we're not leaving today, we're leaving tomorrow", she says as they follow her.

"Why?" Sarah asks.

"Because I have to go to the police station", she blurts out quietly, heading for the kitchen.

She lets out a long sigh when she sees the broken window glass and the door cracked in half.

Yes, she had forgotten that too.

She hears nothing for long seconds, but then she hears their footsteps and their voices, bombarding her with questions she can't even undertand, but then she hears exclamations of amazement at how the kitchen is.

Ziggy would have found it comical if it weren't for the fact that she's tired, the fight with Sheila, the hour-plus walk to get out of the cave, Nick....

"Okay..." Sarah starts, shushing Ted as she waved her hands frantically

"I have a lot of questions".

Ziggy explains to them what happened, changing a few things and summarizing it as well.

She tells them the same story they had planned the day before. Sheila had kidnapped her out of jealousy, which explained the broken glass and the door, she had to tell them about Nick and although they both had a lot of questions, neither asked them because they could tell she is tired.

Then they let her go take a shower and change her clothes for one that is hers, while Sarah stayed in the living room in case someone came in and Ted went to buy a door and order glass with the measurements he had taken of the window so he could repair everything.

...

Nick looks seriously at Martin, who is in the chair in front of him.

He is making the statements and the last one is Martin, who had already finished giving his statement.

"So?" he asks, again, with a smile that just makes Nick want to kill him.

"You can go now", he replies coldly and gets up from his seat, to leave the room and leave the statements with the forms and the report with the secretary, who would take care of filing it.