Bone Wires by Michael Shean

Author:Michael Shean [Shean, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781620070680
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2012-08-06T05:00:00+00:00

Gray spent the better part of the day holed up in his office, just as he’d thought he would. Now that he was a Tier Four employee, he got some new perks. Food ordered in from the executive cantina, things like that. He allowed himself the luxury of a seafood salad with real lump crab meat and tank shrimp while he went over paperwork, going over reports from the lower-ranked Homicide detectives. Guys older than he was, Carter’s age even, doing the slum beat in the Verge. And there he was with his real meat salad safe in Central going over their reports.

There but for the grace of serial killers, he thought. Lovely.

There was something else in his inbox that he had seen, something that he had been dreading to look at all day. Given that he’d walked straight into a slaughterhouse the week before, Administration had guessed that Gray had been most likely having nightmares and generally experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress – which of course was accurate, as his little hallucination back at the Cyclops Lounge demonstrated – and requested that he go in for psychological evaluation. It was the kind of thing that happened any time that something major went down in the line of duty; if you saw a really bad crime scene, for example, or if you shot a suspect. Or maybe you saw someone die doing their job. Shit, Gray had seen all three. They couldn’t force you to do it, but if you didn’t they sure as hell paid closer attention to what you were doing when you were on the company clock. That being the case, for an ambitious boy like Gray it would make sense to just go talk to the shrinks.

Thing was, of course, talking to a psych tech just wasn’t going to make him feel any better. If anything it was just going to make him talk about the whole damned thing, and then the company was going to hear about it because ‘doctor-patient confidentiality’ was complete bullshit. They’d ask about Angie, they’d ask if he had any doubts concerning the murder case. They’d get a lot of answers they probably wouldn’t like, and then his chances holding on to his newly-won badge would instantly become a lot narrower. Even worse, if Moody could pull strings to get Gray a fucking Cerico, he could probably get his hands on psych data. That kind of leverage was something that Gray did not want him having. Call it paranoia, perhaps, but a tinfoil hat wasn’t a bad thing to invest in just now.

So taking all of that together, Gray accessed the network and declined the request that he go in for examination. He could feel himself tightening up as he touched the confirmation button on his terminal’s holographic display, as if something within himself strained to resist such professional self-injury. He told that part of him to go fuck itself, finished up overseeing the junior detectives’ reports, and by four o’clock was ready to go and risk his career all over again by driving over to see Marowitz.

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