Detective Dick 2: The journey begins

Segment 4 -: Chapter 7 & 8

  

       Chapter 7-: Tommy's new ability.

   Tommy had been having a bad day, his skin kept burning the more he went on a patrol walks under the hot sun.  He didn't feel good one bit, he was walking alongside his two subordinates, Eddie and Drake.

"Cap, you don't look too good, why don't you take a day off?  I am sure we can the rest," Eddie ends with a light smile,  Eddie had a dorky appearance, his hairline went deep into his scalp, he wore glasses and had a very thin body.  He looked so delicate and even the junior underlings sometimes picked on him.

Tommy turned towards him, he kept a rough facial expression.  "I always finish what I start." He says with a firm voice.
They arrived soon at the station.

"Damien, what have you got for me?!" Tommy says aloud as he storms into the room.

"Yesterday at 3 am, a neighbor reported a case of a man screaming for ten minutes straight before his voice died down, she claimed a red cloud appeared in front of the resident's house," a man answers, he was walking btowards Tommy, he held lots of papers stacked together.   He was a few inches shorter than Tommy, had long darkish-brown hair and black eyes.

"Did anyone of you go to check it out?" Tommy asks, he was pouring himself a cup of coffee from the machine.

"We would have but with the num...ber of prank calls we have been gett...ing, we felt it might...ht be a false alarm," Damien stutters, his face was fearful.

"Why did you become a cop?" Tommy sips his coffee, he wore a demeaning gaze.

"I...I...I wan...ted to serve my coun...try," Damien answers still stuttering.

"And what is the country?" Tommy asks, he dropped his cup to the table, and leveling his gaze at Damien.

"Amer...ica, I guess," Damien says after a short pause.

"Wrong, the country is the people, America is just a name we call ourselves," Tommy continues still narrowing his gaze. "The public might not always appreciate us for what we do but they reported a case and it is our job as cops to check it out."

"I a...am so...rry, sir," Damien says with a sad look.

"Don't be, I will go check it out, you will come along," Tommy says as he poured himself another cup.  "Where's the location?"

"Blackstone street."

"Then let's get going."

The duo left the station almost immediately, they get into a police vehicle.
Tommy could feel his body burning worse the more he lingered under the hot sun.
Tommy drove, he felt pains all over, the last time he had felt like this was when he was down with fever, he feels his neck for the fang marks, he couldn't find it, it had vanished.

"Cap, are you okay?" Damien asks, his attention now focused on Tommy.

"Yes, I am, just having some minor allergies," Tommy tried to keep a straight look.  They arrive soon at a bungalow, the two got down from the vehicle and walk towards the bungalow, the building was very quiet, it didn't look like anyone was home but there were two cars parked outside the house.
Tommy knew this family, they were very simple and honest, a man, his wife, and their seventeen-year-old kid.

"The Masons always takes a vehicle when they go for work and today is a school day, shouldn't Jeffery their son be in school by now.  He should have taken one of the vehicles out," Tommy mutters out, he didn't feel good about this, for a while, the physical pain he felt in his body had disappeared, it was now replaced with worry and concern.