Moon- T. Bradford (engl. Version) [1]

Chapter five

As Naomi Parker had said, she did.

She had resigned and did so without looking back.

Meanwhile, Officer Katie Winters was operated on. Angela had quickly run to Parker and Winters and had then taken over to stop the blood with little success and then drove to the hospital together with Katie. Tim, who was able to catch one of the two perpetrators with Chen, was now also sitting in the hospital next to his also very good friend Angela and waiting together with her for Katie to come out of the op again and live.

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After hours of waiting and waiting and waiting again, the doctor who operated on Katie joined them.

"Miss Winter's operations went well according to the circumstances. The bullet has injured a muscle and it has lost a lot of blood. She will need a lot of physiotherapy so that she can successfully restore the function of her shoulder. It is not certain whether she can continue her profession as before. She is in the intensive care unit," the doctor explained to them and disappeared as quickly as she had come.

Sadly, Tim turned to Angela, who wore the same look as he on her face. That would ruin Katie. She was born for the profession as a policewoman and how should she become a detective if she was not even allowed to do this job.

Tim and Angela made their way to the room where their friend was lying. She slept deeply and soundly as they entered the room. One of the two sat down on the end of the bed and the other on the sofa that stood on the edge of the room. Which of the two sat where you can imagine.

Both were silent. They were in their own thoughts and just had no interest in sharing them with the other.

Two hours later, in which Katie was still asleep, Angela unfortunately had to go again and therefore let Tim sit alone. Chen, who was also still sitting in the waiting room, was taken by Angela to the station so that she could drive home from there.

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When Katie woke up, she immediately saw a bright light, which is why she closed her eyes again and tried again after a few seconds and her eyes had also accustomed to the light. After a few moments, she had also realized that she was in the hospital. But what had happened?? She could hardly remember anything.

She then also discovered her sleeping best friend very uncomfortable lying on the chair next to the bed. She had to laugh, but when she went through a pain that came from her shoulder, she preferred to let it stay. But the sounds now also had Tim, who was also wide awake when he also saw Katie lying awake in her bed.

"Hey. Hey, slow down. You just had surgery," he said worriedly and helped his best friend lie down properly again. Exhausted, Katie dropped her head back into the pillow. "What happened?" She wanted to know. "You..you were shot. They operated on you. The..the bullet... the bullet has injured a muscle. The..the doctor... she...she..." Tim stuttered to himself because he didn't know how to teach her that. "She, what??" Katie asked impatiently and with fear what he would say. "She is not sure if the muscle is ever as resilient as before, you will need physiotherapy forever and even then it is not sure if you will ever be able to work in this profession again," he just explained. Katie, who somehow had to understand the whole thing, started crying. Calmingly, Tim put his arms around Katie and cradled her back and forth.

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A whole three weeks had passed and Katie was now back home. Well, somehow not even, she spent half the day in the hospital for physiotherapy and if she wasn't there you could found her at the district where she could at least make herself useful by doing paperwork, either for Tim, Angela or Talia. She had the feeling in her shoulder already partly restored a little, but it was still a long way to get back to the point where she was before. If that was possible at all.

After a long day at work, full of paperwork and physiotherapy, Katie now let herself fall exhausted and exhausted on her sofa and just when she wanted to put her feet up, the doorbell rang, so she dragged herself back up and opened the front door. It was Tim. What was he doing here at that time?

"Hey...what are you doing here?" Asked the brown-haired woman surprised to see her best friend. "I... wanted to talk to you... can I come in?" He asked and scratched the back of his head nervously, nodding, she stepped a bit to the side and let him in.

"So... um.. what did you want to talk to me about?" Katie researched after she had finally sat down next to him from the sofa.

"Lately I have to think again and again about our kiss in the locker room, how good it felt. I can't think of anything else but you. And it's going crazy, because I don't know if you share my feelings or if I'm just imagining something and after Isabel..." Tim babbled continuously, and before he still suffered shortness of breath, Katie gently put her lips on his and interrupted his nervous chatter. And after a short moment of realization, Tim returned the kiss passionately and pulled his best friend on his lap and put his hands on her hip. The still intimate kisses became more and more and so the two moved the whole thing to their bedroom and spent a wonderful night together.