WHO: Thomas, Jamie, Nerd [Serenity AND Joss] WHAT: Being arrested WHEN: Sometime in late 2014 WHERE: The Kemp home WARNINGS: Blood, past character death, language
Lena was dead.
Thomas didn't even know how to get his head around the fact that his fiance was just gone. He had come home and found her that way, her petite body crumpled on the floor, her blood literally everywhere except inside her where it belonged. His wonderful, precious Lena, beaten and then cut from groin to throat.
The EMTs had come to take her body away, and police had swarmed their apartment and they still hadn't left. Thomas was sitting in his kitchen, shaking, his hands still covered in Lena's blood. He knew it looked like he and Lena had gotten into a fight which had gotten ugly, especially since he had been accosted on the way home by a masked assailant who had blackened one of his eyes. He knew that, but the idea that this would actually be pinned on him hadn't even crossed his mind. He was still stuck on the fact that he wouldn't see the woman he loved ever again.
He heard the door open and Thomas knew, with a sinking feeling in his gut, it was Jamie returning home. Jamie didn't know, and he had come home to police everywhere, a crime scene, and a living room and father covered in blood.
"Jamie," he said, jumping up to rush over to his son. "Jamie, something terrible happened." That was putting it mildly.