"How are you feeling, Dawn?" Agent Snipe asks me. We are outside my family's house, where there is a lot of ambulances, WOA Agents, and police officers surrounding the house. I am sitting in the backseat of an ambulance car where nurses are checking to see if I am alright, while Snipe was standing close to me. The reason why we are outside because a lot of people are trying to remove all the unconscious bodies and take a lot of photos of the crime scene.
Jacob, Agent Seni, and all the agents involved are being checked out by different nurses for any injuries. Jackie has been taken to jail and will be placed behind bars. Graves was taken to a mortician.
"I should be celebrating that we defeated Jackie and ended this whole situation. But I am still not in the best mood to be fully satisfied." I tell him.
"What you, your family, and all the Agents went through was traumatic." He said.
"It is not just that. But I just wish everything turned out differently and this situation never happened." I said.
"What do you mean?" He asks, sitting next to me.
"On the day during that mission, I wish I did not get too confrontational with Julian and I put my gun away. So that I would not have killed him, made Jacob runaway, and have Jackie cause a home invasion attack on me and my family." I tell him.
"I understand how you feel. There have been a lot of times in my life where I wish did things differently. But sadly, we can never go back in time and fix things. We do not have the power to do such a thing. All the power we have is what we can do today and how it will change our future." He comforts me with his words and him hugging me by his side. This feels nice and I needed him to comfort me.
"What can I do to fix things and change my future for the better?" I ask him.
"Just think about the positives. I know things went off the deep end and a lot of negatives happened. But let's focus on the good things that have happened. I finally arrived and brought a lot of backup, we finally stopped Graves and Jackie, and your family and fellow agents are being taken care of at the hospital." He tells me.
Honestly, that was a great thing he just told me. I should focus on positives, despite everything that went on. If I just focused on the shootings, breaking and entering, getting knocked out, my family members and agents getting hurt, and all the violence, then my mental state would be a lot worse than it already was.
He was not telling me to forget, because how can anyone forget about this traumatic experience. This felt like a real life nightmare. Not only this affected me, but it affected a lot of people involved and not involved as well.
Nothing will truly ever be the same after today. Yes, we could change things for the better and move on from it. But the long lasting effects will forever live on and things will never go back the same way that it was.
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Gunpoint Avenue
ActionOne of the best spies in the United States suffers Post Traumatic Stress breakdowns and almost dying on the job. She goes back to her hometown to spend winter break with her family members and to take care of her mental health. Things are going well...