CODE RED (Book 1)

When You Hurt I Hurt Too

When You Hurt I hurt Too-63

Yogi stopped the car in front of a tall brick building that was known to be the police station. He stared out the window for what seemed like minutes, watching the people that passed in their own cars and those who walked the side walks. But all of them had passed him up not even with a moments notice.

Eva sat in the passenger seat next to him not saying a word. Her face hard with unacceptance. She looked down at her lap and shook her head before turning to look at the back of Yogi's head.

"I can't believe you acted the way you did today. I expected so much more from you." Her voice was harsh and it hit him hard. Hard enough to make him understand what he had done was entirely wrong and selfish, hell the poor kid hadn't done anything to deserve the heated conversation they had had.

He only went to Gareki's school to make sure that the teen had been okay from the shooting last night not to cause a scene that had gone out of hand.

He sighed and felt nothing but contempt with himself and his actions. He could remember Gareki's face like it had been glued into his mind permanently, telling him of the stupid shit he had said to put the boy into so much of a dilemma.

He remembered the nervous look crossing over Gareki's face. He remembered the color draining out of Gareki's face once he had told him that his father hadn't been found. The harsh way he had said those words to him. And most of all he recalled the cold and accusing glare Gareki's boyfriend Alex had given him once Gareki had fallen on the floor unconscious.

He turned his head to look down at the steering wheel. What had happened to him? What had possible gone wrong to tick him off so much that he had caused Gareki to have another anxiety attack?

"What was wrong with you?" Eva asked. She had been speaking to him the entire time but he wasn't listening. He had been too caught up in his thoughts trying to decipher what had happened to him during that meeting.

"I'll tell you what was wrong with me," He said flatly, turning to her. Eva still gave him that hard look as if she were concentrating on his next choice of words." I wasn't myself, something that I can't figure out just snapped in me during that meeting."

Eva stayed silent for just a few seconds. Studying him with her judgmental eyes before she blinked and said."That still doesn't give you the right Yogi to just—"

"I know," he interrupted quickly as his hand lifted away from the steering wheel to silence her for a second before gripping it back on." And I'm sorry, but there isn't anything I can do about it now. What's done is done, there isn't any way that boy—no, Gareki will let me near him again."

Eva crossed her arms in disbelief at his words. Was he really calling this case off because of one mistake?" You're right, what's done is done but that doesn't mean you still can't try and make things right. There's also a saying that says" When there' s a way there's also a way to fix things— and you're going to fix this. It's your case Yogi and you can't let Gareki, a boy who's already gone through so much at his age go like this. You're a smart man, don't let your occupation down, you chose this job for yourself and for those you want to protect and help, and I'd like to see you go through with it like a loyal officer like you had done when you signed up for this job in the first place."

He closed his eyes thinking and hanging onto every word she had said. She out of everyone else besides Hirato was the only person that actually hadn't given up on him when he quit the squad in working with multiple police officers on one case He had chosen to work solo and apparently his last team didn't like his decision.

They never talked to him again besides the point of giving him specific cases to work on, but he didn't mind it one bit. But now he was finding it hard to only have two people accepting what he had chose to do for himself. Maybe the whole situation with Gareki had been a bad decision because he just wasn't cut out for taking this case. It would have been better if they hadn't met in the first place.