Ordinary Life

The Hospital

I had this nervous feeling about coming to the hospital seeing all my former co-workers. It was going to be weird seeing Justin and even Wyatt there.

Faith advised me that everyone was on the fourth floor, waiting for the chief to be put into his room. When riding the elevator, Bruno said, "It's going to be okay." He rubbed my back.

We walked out of the elevator and and made a right, down the hallway. "Genevieve, I'm so happy you could make it." Faith turned around and greeted me. "Hey Bruno." Faith said to Bruno. "Hey Faith."

"Where's Spencer?" I asked. "They're still checking on him right now. We're all in here." Faith led Bruno and I. "Faith, I don't know if I can go in there." I said. Faith looked at me then at Bruno. "Babe, it'll be fine. Okay?" Faith knew that if Bruno said it, it would make me feel better. "Okay." I retort.

We walked into the waiting room, and everyone practically stopped everything they were doing. "Genevieve, hi!" Justin stood to his feet. "Hello Justin." "How have you been?" "I've been...good. You?" "Esctatic." He said in a whisper.

"Who's this?" Justin pointed to Bruno. "Justin, this is Bruno. My boyfriend." "Nice to meet you Justin." Bruno shook his hand.
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"Hey, Genevieve, can I have a word with you in private?" Justin approached me, while I was leaning against Bruno, on my phone. I hesitated for a moment. "Go on. Faith and Charlie will keep me company." Bruno giggled. "Okay."

I stood up and exited the waiting room with Justin. "Let's go over here." Justin and I went around the corner into a hallway, away from everyone else. "First, Why'd you come strapped?" Justin asked with a smile on his face. "What are you talking about?" "Your big shirt isn't hiding it very well." Justin pulled up my shirt and exposed my pistol on my hip.

"Is something going on?" He asked. "Just a habit. That's all." I answered. "Did you get Wyatt's message the other day?" He asked. "What message? He didn't tell me anything about a message." I say leaning against the wall.

"Wyatt was supposed to ask you if you were interested in coming back to the headquarters." Justin said. "You're asking me if I want my job back?" I asked for clarification. "Yeah. Maybe we can get that case up and running again." "I was told that you closed it. Why'd you do that?" I asked. "Because we weren't getting anywhere with the case, we just felt like we needed to give up, which was wrong. I know that if we open this case back up, and you're in charge, we can get this done quickly." Justin said. "As much as I wanted to be lead, I underestimated your mentality, and...I'm sorry." I looked down. "It's okay."

"So how about it? Would you come back?" I fiddled with my hands, hesitating to answer his questions. "Justin, I don't know. The humiliation that you guys put me through, the way the whole department looks at me, like I'm some kind of monster, I can't work with that kind of energy." I say. "I understand Eve. But this isn't about them. It's about you. Do you want to sit in that office waiting for a case? Do you want to lead over all of those people? That's what should matter to you. Not what they think or how they look at you."

I hesitated again. "Genevieve, look, at some point, you didn't care about what others thought of you. You had this personality of a brick wall. You couldn't be broken nor could you be cracked. That's the Genevieve I'm looking for. I need her back. The whole department needs you back."

"Justin, just get someone else, I'm done with this." Justin grabbed my hand. "Genevieve, if I wanted to give it to someone else, I would've, but I refuse to give it all up. I want to you to run that case. Please." Justin begged.

"Okay." I say. "I'll do it." "Thank God." He said. He pulled me in for a hug and rubbed my back. "Welcome back, Ms. Reynolds." He whispered in my ear.

Justin and I walked back to the waiting room, and Bruno was sitting in the same chair with his phone his lap. "Hey babe, I'm back." Bruno glanced at me and said, "Hmm." "Is there a problem?" I giggle with confusion. "We'll talk later."
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45 minutes later

"The party for Quinn Spencer." A nurse called. The whole room practically stood to their feet. "May I speak to the closest source to Mr. Spencer?" Wyatt stood to his feet and exited the room with the nurse.

About 2 minutes later, Wyatt walked back inside the room, and everyone waited for the news. "He's gone." The room gasped, and so did I.

Wyatt appeared as if he wanted to cry. Justin approached Wyatt and hugged him. Justin walked Wyatt out of the room, to comfort him. I felt bad for Wyatt. He was very close to the Chief. Very close.

The room was extremely quiet, many people didn't cry, but we're widely shocked at the news presented to them.

"I'm going to use the restroom." I said tapping on Bruno's lap, "and after that we can leave." Bruno nodded his head and waited.

"Excuse me, where is your restrooms?" I asked the nurse at the desk. "Straight down this hall way, and it will be on your right when you reach the end." "Thank you."

I walked down the hallway, and I heard two men talking. I began to walk slowly, because they weren't even speaking English at some points. I was curious. I stopped right when I got the end of the first hall on my left.

They would convert from English to another language, and I couldn't even identify what language they were speaking. "Okay, let's go back." I quickly walked back to the waiting room before they knew I was ease dropping their conversation.

"Okay, we can go Bru." I say to him. He stood up and said his goodbyes to Faith and Charlie and I did the same. We walked out of the waiting room and Justin walked approached us. "Wyatt isn't taking it very lightly right now. When is the earliest you can come?" Justin asked. "Tomorrow." I immediately answer. "Tomorrow it is. Check in at 8 am, and I'll give you further instructions then." He said. "Thank you Justin. I really appreciate you giving me this opportunity." I smiled. "You're welcome. I'll see you tomorrow."