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Sarah was a young woman of 34 years old who had just found her first job as a certified cardio-thoracic surgeon at the hospital in the small town of Broadchurch. To be fair, this location wasn't a first choice, she decided to move there to follow her husband who had accepted a new job there. As a sign of a fresh start as they had faced tormenting events not so long ago.
Today had been challenging at the hospital, one surgery, three post-op check-ups, 15 consultations and one teenager who had been check-in several minutes before she leaves. After making sure that the girl was stable and could wait tomorrow for surgery, Sarah left the building. Even though she was the kind of doctors who wouldn't hesitate to do some extra hours to save a life, right now all she wanted was to come back home to her husband. Well depending on whether he is already home or if you could called a hotel room a home. In any case, Sarah felt that she could be called at anytime to be rushed back.
When she finally arrived at the Traders, Sarah waved at Becca and had a small chat with her before heading to her room, thinking to be welcomed with a heart-warming kiss from her lover. She, unfortunately, found him asleep, on his stomach in their bed. Because she didn't wanted to wake him up right now, she instead went to the bathroom and took a shower. Once she was over and came back in the room, Sarah saw him starting to move so she approached him and then kissed him.
"Tough day at work?" she asked with a small smile.
"Not really... Nothing happened... Again... This town is boring. I'm starting to regret forcing you to come here." he replied with a bit of irritation in his tone.
"You didn't force me... I would had followed you to end of the world if you had proposed it. Now, do you think that a back rub will help to cheer you back up ?"
"Maybe... Only one way to found out." he answered with a smirk.
Sarah answered with a smile before taking off her husband's shirt. Once she was finished with it, she sat in a comfortable position and started to massage him. Those intimate moment with her man were pure gold for Sarah, it was like she was in another universe out of all her problems. She was, sadly, brought back to reality when her beeper started to ring, informing her of an emergency.
"Oh I'm sorry honey... I have an emergency at work... I need to go." she said disappointed.
"Don't worry love, I understand... Go save lives."
"I'll probably stay at hospital for the rest of the night but I'll see you tomorrow during lunch?"
"Not if I see you first." he answered playfully.
They shared a kiss before Sarah puts on her coat and left the room. Letting her husband to be alone one more time. Although he totally accepted her job and was incredibility proud of his wife sometimes he wishes that they had more “married couple time”. But hey... That's what happen when a surgeon and a police officer get married each other.
Sarah was already almost there (after all, the hospital is only 10 minutes away from the hotel by foot) when she head a noise. She turned her head to see where it came from when she saw on young boy who look like he had just fell from his skateboard.
"Are you alright there sweetie?" she asked while approaching the young boy.
"Yeah, no broken bones." he answered rapidly.
"Good to know and I have another question... What a young boy like you is doing outside this late?"
"I'm meeting a friend." he said without further explanation.
"Can't meet this friend at daylight?" Sarah asked suspiciously.
"Not really... It's complicated.... I don't even know if I still want to see him afterwards." he answered with uncertainty.
Sarah felt like there were far more informations about this friend that the boy didn't wanted her to know. Some more darker secrets, oh well she could still talked about it to her husband when she'll see him tomorrow.
"Well let me tell you something... If you're not comfortable with this friend of yours maybe you should stop seeing him."
"Yeah, you're maybe right"
"And one last tip... Try to come back home for 10 minutes before your actual wake-up alarm. Parents tend to check on their kids when they wake up."
"Okay, thanks ma'am."
Sarah nodded then watched the boy stand back on his skateboard and followed him by sight until he was out of her view. She then returned on her tracks and arrived back at her work in time to save the day.
If Sarah knew at the time that the young boy was Danny Latimer, she would had reacted differently, acted differently and since then, she imagined every night in her dreams what would had happen if she had taken Danny back to his home.