CME Apocalypse Fiction by Blaze Eastwood

Author:Blaze Eastwood [Eastwood, Blaze]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-09-13T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Benton stepped up to the counter and approached the stressed out officer who was trying to keep the line moving as fast as he could.

“My wife and two children have been missing since last night,” he said vehemently. “She left the house to pick up my daughter from her friend's house, and they never came back home. I found her car parked in the street, not too far away from our house, but no one was inside.”

“I need to see your id,” the officer said.

Benton reached into his wallet and handed over his driver's license.

The officer jotted down all of the info onto a note card. Then he looked up at Benton, who was waiting patiently. “What's your wife's name?”

“Amanda.”

The officer continued writing on the note card. “Do you have any enemies that have been threatening you or your spouse?”

“No.”

“Any fights with neighbors or anything like that?”

Benton thought about it momentarily. “No, not recently, anyway.”

“Do you remember her saying anything to you before she left that might indicate where she might be?”

“She had asked me if I had picked up groceries, and I told her that I had. She made no indication that she was going to the store. In fact, she was relieved that it was one less errand she had to run.”

“So, she was running multiple errands on the night of her disappearance?”

Benton shrugged. “Possibly, but it's not like her to go out that late. Is there someone that can help me look for them?”

“Well, we're really backed up here. All of our computers are down, and none of are police cars are working. I'll put your report on file, and I'll notify the department of your missing family.”

“Is there anything they can do right now?” Benton asked. “If they've been abducted, there might not be much time.”

“I don't know what to tell you. We're spread really thin. We've got a lot of our officers patrolling the areas that have broken out into riots.”

Benton knew what that meant. It meant they weren't going to spend their time searching for three people who were probably already dead, especially when they had much larger groups of people to tend to.

The officer slid a note card across the counter towards Benton. “Fill out the physical description of all three of them, and we'll see what we can do,” he said, putting a pen next to the note card. He glanced past Benton at the dozens of people who were waiting in line behind him.

More concerned residents were pouring through the door, and the line of people was starting to reach outside of the building.

Benton's eyes moved restlessly back and forth as he jotted down the information as fast and accurately as he could, including their eye color, hair color, height, weight, and age. Then he looked over what he had written, tracing his fingers under the words and moving his lips.

Writing down the wrong eye color in the description could be costly, and he was struggling to remember if Katie had green or brown eyes.

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