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What The Storm Blew In:

It was a dark, stormy night in Red Wood. Most people would love to be laying in bed with it storming like that, and Alex normally would agree to that. However, tonight he was stuck on third shift patrol. To top it off his partner Nick wasn’t in today. Alex looked at his phone sighed to himself and thought, “It’s only 2 am; 7 am is never going to come.” Alex loved his job, but it was raining so hard that the only crime committed would be jay swimming. The wind sounded like multiple wolves lost their mates, and it was thundering and lightening so much one would think Zeus had a personal vendetta against Red Wood tonight.

Alex pulled out his phone and began playing a game on it. Then, it got quiet a little too quiet and way to fast. Alex was looking up to see if the storm was done when suddenly a bolt of lightening hit a transformer on a light pole causing sparks to fly everywhere. But that wasn’t what caught Alex’s eye, it was the sight of a crying young woman with torn clothes and blood mixing in the rain every step coming towards him. He threw open his door and ran to the mysterious woman. As he got to her and wrapped his jacket around her, she collapsed into his arms and blacked out.

“We have an emergency this is officer Alejandro Ruiz. I am on the corner of Rose Blvd and Ocean Ave. I have an unresponsive woman about 5’2’’ 125 lbs black hair seems to be Hispanic descendant. Repeat victim is unresponsive we need a bus.” Alex shouted into his radio. “Copy that Officer Ruiz, a bus is en route it should arrive in 10 minutes.” Replied dispatch. Alex tried waking the woman until he saw the lights of the ambulance.

Alex followed the ambulance to the hospital to give his report of the young woman, but also because he was very curious of who she was, why she was out there, and how could he help. He felt like he has seen her before. He stayed well past the end of his shift, hoping she would wake up to give some answers.

The doctor came into the room and told Alex, “Officer we can handle it from here; you can go home and rest.” Alex replied, “Thank you but I rather wait until she wakes up, her family might be looking for her.” The doctor smiled at him and said, “It’s very possible she is a runaway or even worse. She seems to be healthy, but her blood pressure is high, and her feet are bleeding showing she ran a long time barefooted.”

Alex got a brilliant idea to look up all runaway or missing people that might fit her description. He pulled up a 12-year-old cold case of a missing Kalani Martinez. He thought it might be her as it’s the only person who had similar features, but he wasn’t sure. As he was going to call his friend at the station to do an age progression on the old picture, the woman opened her eyes.