The Cold Wind Whispers

Chapter 2: The Children are Watching

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The Cold Wind Whispers

Chapter 2

The Children are Watching

Earthquakes weren't unusual to Duke. He had been in plenty of them. His hands holding on to either side of his desk as he just rode it out as usual. He would have been out in his car right now with this new job that popped up, but...

"Is it over?" A tiny voice asked from under the desk. Duke had been tasked to take these three kids home. They had gotten lost during an outing. The eldest boy, Brody knew the address to where they lived at least. But his twin siblings Marco and Rosie were tired and complained a lot.

Duke took one look around the station and saw other heads popping up from under their desks to look around.

"Is everyone alright?" Papers and filing cabinets were on the floor. A few chairs had toppled in their rush for safety. Even light fixtures hung from there sockets.

"I'm good." Wheeler skated by and stopped by the security cameras. "But they aren't...oh man..." He looked over the city and looked up at the other police officers. Duke walked over pulling down his glasses.

"So much damage. I don't think we've ever had an earthquake this bad before Chief." Duke looked down at the twins hugging up to their big brother who was also looking out of the window. Some buildings seemed to have been ready for it. But the older buildings, and bridges.

Tom looked out from under his desk and looked at his folder that had fallen on the floor. He gathered it up and tapped it on the table a few times to straighten tha pages before walking over to the window too.

"My wife and daughter have got to be so scared. They were at the doctor's office today." He said looking around at the other officers who were picking up chairs and papers.

"Moms aren't scared. They're never scared." Brody told Tom. "They're awesome. Don't worry." Brody looked down at his siblings who still looked scared. "Same with ours." Duke smiled down at Brody.

"Phones aren't working, and neither are the cell phones. I think that's the first thing we need to establish. Communications." Tom said, looking around at Rooky and Grizzled.

"It'll be easier for you to get to any of the relay towers and tell us what needs to be done. Then swing over to the supply yard and get the engineers on it. We won't be able to communicate so you'll be on your own till then." Tom turned to Duke.

"Yes sir!" They both said. Grizzled didn't look phased by it, but Rooky looked excited.

"Take the stairs!" Wheeler called out to them as they stopped by the elevator doors.

"Get those kids home, and get out there and help people. Without electricity its prime looting and raiding time. So we'll have to do what you can. We'll just have to trust McCloud to do what she can with the fire crews with rescuing." He took a deep breath and looked down at the kids who took Duke's hand. He looked slightly uncomfortable for a moment. When he realized the little girl was scared he picked her up and put her on his

shoulders.

"We'll have to walk down the stairs. Better stay up there in the sunshine." He told her as he walked into the parking garage where his car sat. He put Rosie down next to the car. "Alright get in and put on your seat belts."

"I...don't think we're going to get far in this." Marco said pointing to the huge piece of garage that was sitting in the drive area.

"Oh...does your car fly?" Rosie looked incredibly hopeful. She was missing one of her teeth in front, and her hair was put up in a high ponytail. The only ways he could have told her and her brother apart.

"Um...yeah...I guess we're walking then huh?" He asked. Brody ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.

"Yeah...again." He looked down at his brother and sister who groaned.

"Walking...again? Can't we just take the bus?" Marco complained, taking his sister's hand.

"Yeah the bus." Rosie confirmed kicking a rock.

"I highly doubt the bus will be running during a crisis like this." He looked around at his car and sighed. "Only if it could fly..." He mused and then paused and then ran back to his car. He pulled something out and closed the door again. Walking over he deposited Cubby into Rosie's arms.

"Cubby!" Rosie hugged him.

"Now that's a loan. You need him more than me right now. So take good care of him." He told Rosie who nodded.

"Don't worry Duke. I'll take good care of him." they walked out of the garage and into the confusion that was the street. Panic, crying, screaming all around them. Duke took the twins hand and looked up at Brody.

"Lead the way kid."