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“Fuck you, and it’s Marshal Blake to you”

“Yes, ma’am,” he said

He stood very still, hands up He was doing his best to not piss us off further That was great, because we needed to look in the cell and knoere calling an ambulance or the coroner How had I not looked in the cell before? The arh people shoot at you and it’s like you acquire this tunnel vision that cuts out all the unnecessary shit The exception to that rule is if someone you love is involved Then you’re fucked because you notice too much You’re never at your best if you love someone in the rooangster date night

“Ease down, Blake,” Newman said “It’s over”

I thought he lance into the cell Bobby wasn’t there What the fuck? I looked back at the sheriff to ood boy, and risked a second, longer look into the cell My eyes had registered the broken chains because when I saw them noasn’t surprised A corner of blanket underneath the bunk let me know that Bobby had taken the only cover the cell offered He was hiding under the bed like a little kid who’s afraid of the closet un, and there was nowhere to hide I had to look back at Leduc, but there’d been no visible fresh blood in the cell That didn’t mean much, but it was the only hope I had for Bobby’s survival, so I took it He could be dead later, but until I saw hi that he was alive and that we could save him

“I aer to you, Marshal Blake, I swear,” Sheriff Leduc said

“I know, because I’un at you”

He sighed hard enough for the bulk around his o up and down “May I put my hands down?”

“No If you want a different position, lace them over your head”

Deputy Wagner was babbling as Newot him on his feet “I couldn’t do it We were teammates Got all the way to states our junior year I know he’s a monster, but he’s still Bobby, too”

And there in the babbling of a soon-to-be ex-deputy was the real probleerous beasts at least once a month, but the rest of the time, they were still themselves It made it so much harder to put them down in human form, but only a fool with a death aited for the to kill them

Leduc had put his hands on his head, but it looked like it was an effort for him to keep them there, or at least his uniform strained when he lifted his ar so he actually fit into the ones he had Either way, the tight sleeves would cost hiun, which was still sitting on his duty belt

Neas calling out, “Bobby, Bobby, are you hurt?”

I risked another glance and saw an arm wave from under the bunk I hoped that was an I’m-okay wave, but we’d need to seeout from under the bunk, and what showed around the blanket still looked okay I went fro how he could have missed from that close

“Bobby, are you all right?” Newain