The Devil and his Dove

Every Good story starts with Death and Orphans.

Ok. Let's get one thing out of the way. This is not Matt's story. This is mine. This is my life after one of the worst things ever to happen to me, and how it got worse. Im not going to lie this part sucks. But so dose life. So here we go.

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I snapped my head up from my book hearing the knocking at my door, and my heart immediately began to race, I looked at the time, 10:48 pm. I got up from the couch slipping a pillow under Mia's sleeping head as the knocking grew more frantic. Walking over to the door I picked up the first thing I had unpacked from the move, A silver metal t-ball bat. Glancing into the peephole I let out the breath I didn't even know I was holding, seeing a head full of red curls. Sam. I unlocked and opened the door speaking softly

"Sam, what's going on? What are you doing here" The look on his face made my heart drop. I've never seen this usually cheery guy so devastated.

"Alex," He whispered his voice shaking. "You need to grab Mia now. Anthonys hurt bad, he's in the Hospital. "

"W-What do you mean he's in the hospital? What happened?" I whispered trying not to wake up Mia. Sam ran his hand through his hair shaking his head,

"I don't know what happened we working then everything went crazy, Sarge sent me to grab you and Mia, I know he hurt pretty bad so we have to go Alex" I nodded, turning around I knelt by the couch shaking Mia to wake her. She opened her eyes blearily looking confused.

"Mia...Mia, you need to wake up honey" She blinked her eyes open stretching her arms above her head and letting out a groan.

"Aunty what going on" I pulled on her arms so she was sitting up so I could help her with shoes explaining as I slipped them onto her tired body, her head lolling forward.

"Mia, Daddy got hurt at work, Ok? Uncle Sam is here, he's going to take us to the Hospital so we can see what's going on." I looked up from tying her shoes to see her face completely confused.

"Did Daddy get a cut again and need stitches?" I swallowed not wanting to lie to her.

"I don't know baby but we need to go ok" I pulled her off the couch helping pull her jacket over her Iron-man Pajamas before swinging her on my hip and walking downstairs with Sam to his police cruiser. He pulled open the back door as I set Mia in buckling her in before getting in to the passenger seat seeing blood on his vest that he shoved into the floorboard. My panic hit me harder in my chest. Sam took my hand in his as we drove.

The entire ride was filled with tense silence as Sam and I tried to keep calm and not make Mia panic. When we arrived at the hospital I was shocked at the influx of people in and out of the emergency room doors. I tugged Mia's small frame tightly to my side and took Sam's hand again slightly to comfort them but mainly to tell myself that we were ok. We were safe.

"Sam." I whispered " What happened"

"We were at the Hammer expo., the one in Queens" I nodded my head remembering that Anthony had mentioned that earlier when he dropped off Mia. The Sargent volunteered his precinct to be security, Anthony was supposed to be in charge of security and crowd control "and the bots that Hammer was showing went haywire and started shooting at the crowd, and I lost Anthony until I saw him getting in the ambulance then I came to get you" My mind flashed back to the blood on his vest, and I gripped his hand tighter. We continued pushing through the crowd making our way to the c reception area and finding a nurse with a clipboard who was announcing names. Sam tapped her on her shoulder Speaking loud enough for her to hear his voice  "Mame do you know what room Officer Anthony Angelo is in '' see turned seeing pity on her face for a moment after hearing his name.