The Outlaws

CHAPTER TWO

South San Francisco police department

Sarah walks into the station with her head in the clouds, still playing the incident that took place at her husband's office, wondering why Ben of all people is keeping a secret from her.
She walks past her partner unconsciously, who called her and waved like he always does everyday, but she doesn't seem to notice. She walks into her office and pours herself a cup of coffee, the steam of her coffee as she pours it fills the air as it hits her face, the mist leaves an invisible mark but it seems not to hurt her.
As she pours her coffee, Michael walks in without her noticing, her mind keeps drifting to the incident of the day, wondering what her husband was hiding, not listening to Michael calling out her name. Instantly, she recalls a memory that happened years ago in her home, she thinks, a glimpse of it, images flashing in her head of a piece of memory which was forgotten, a memory she didn't think was hers but another.
She could see herself holding a baby closely, as she sees a whole house broken down, walls shattered and fire everywhere, she consciously shouts the name of her husband, crying and searching with her eyes to see if Benjamin was close by injured or worse dead. She senses a feeling behind her and immediately becomes tense, a hand reaches to touch her shoulder, she turns around and pins the person to a wall with a gun in her hand.

"Parker it's me" her partner Michael calls out "chill"

She huffs a sigh of relief, lowers her gun and returns it back to her holster "I'm sorry, you scared me"

"Really" he scoffs "I thought you weren't scared of anything"

But she didn't respond, still wondering where the vision came from and how she got it

"Hello earth to Sara"

"Sorry Mike, you were saying"

"What's up with you?" He asks her taking a seat behind her desk "is something bothering you"

"Ben and I had a fight" she says sitting next to him

"Really" he says surprised

"Yeah, a huge one"

"My god, I'm sorry to hear that" he apologizes then looks at her "you good"

"No, he's hiding something" she says then stands up to pour both of them coffee

"What are you thinking?" He asks

"I don't know, I think it's something huge and he doesn't want me to know" she says as she hands over a cup of coffee to Michael

"Is he cheating?" He asks taking the cup from her

"No, Ben doesn't know any type of woman"

He chuckles "look I know you trust your husband and everything but a guy like him could definitely be cheating"

"Have you meet Ben?"

"Yeah a couple of times"

"No, aside from the husky good looking intelligent guy who works as an FBI agent, I mean have you meet the real Ben" she takes a sip from her coffee "even I would feel sorry for the girl he is cheating on me with"

Michael chokes on his coffee as he laughs

"No this is serious Mike, Ben is hiding something way bigger than just some girl, I can feel it" she says but before he could respond a junior officer, Diana brown, walks into her office

"Detectives, the chief wants to see you both in his office right now"

"Why, what happened?" Michael asks

"Unfortunately there has been an accident on Bush street downtown, they say the truck had no breaks"

"'They'...who?" Sarah asks