“How was it for you?” he asked. “What happened that day, up in that collapsing building? I mean, I was there, but I don’t know the whole story. That’s only if you want to, of course.”
“You shared your story. It’s only fair that I share mine,” Julie began. “But where to begin? I guess just that morning. It was a morning like any other, or so I thought. I hadn’t been Chief of 457 for long – only a couple months, actually – but I’d been with them for a good while. Brian and I were madly in love. We went out on a call that morning, nothing more than a fender bender, and I thought that would be all.
“It wasn’t, though,” she said. She’d never talked to anyone else about this, at least not in this much detail. Sure, she’d had to see a shrink after the incident, but she’d given her t
