divulgence // luke hemmings au

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[TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS OF GRAPHIC CONTENT PLEASE READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION]

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It was a pretty uneventful friday shift. A lot of minor non life threatening calls happened al through out the morning and afternoon — you know your typical cuts, bruises and colds.

It was 5:17pm now, less than two hours prior to shift change when a massive call came through prompting the lights and sirens to go on.

Elliot and Luke arrived in under five minutes,  the police already lined the street causing them to park in the middle of the street getting out seconds later with a bag approaching the crowd of neighbors and police.

When Luke saw what house was having the emergency he was taken back whispering "oh my god" to himself.

The two men approached the scene,  hearing the police officers speaking in careful yet stern terms.

Luke caught a glimpse of what was happening through a space in between officers and what he saw immediately broke his heart.

Her name was Skyler Miller, she was a girl on Elsie's gymnastics team. Although they weren't necessarily close, both girls did hangout a couple of times after school.

Skylar appeared to be having a crisis, she was in distress holding what appeared to be a firearm. Officers were trying to talk her down as well as her parents who were standing near her holding onto each other very emotional.

Apparently this standoff had been happening for nearly thirty minutes now they thought they had convinced her to drop the weapon the first ten minutes but they were wrong hence why more police were now on scene and why medics were paged too.

Luke stood there putting on gloves waiting for the right moment.

Another thirty minutes had went by, more medics arrived on scene as well as a fire department crew. The entire street had been shut down, people were sitting on their stoops and in the street watching and waiting feeling bad for their neighbors daughter.

Luke finally decided that it was time for him to make a move whispering something to the sheriff in front of him, they exchanged some words and suddenly a couple of the officers moved back allowed Luke and Elliot to squeeze through.

Now the two paramedics were front and center Luke inhaled real hard.

"Skylar, Skylar, look at me, remember me? I'm Mr Hemmings, Elsie's father. I know you really don't want to do this."
Luke spoke softly yet firmly gesturing his arms basically motioning her to put the weapon down.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" She shouted pointing the weapon at Luke now.

Luke put his arms up, "I'm not going to hurt you Skylar, I'm here to help. You don't want to do this."

She still had it pointed at Luke. "Don't tell me what to fucking do!" She yelled, tears running down her face.

"Do not do anything that can hurt yourself or others. Put it down. We just want to help you." He spoke, hands still up he tried to not visibly shake.

"Don't come near me!! I'll...I'll.. pull this trigger if you do." She threatened, Luke backed off going silent slowly putting his arms down.

She seemed to ease up a little after Luke shut up.

Luke stood silently hands at his sides for roughly forty more minutes as officers once again went back and fourth with the distressed teenage girl.

Skylars parents even tried to ease up the situation.