The call for help

It was around 11:25 pm, I had just begun my shift. The grave yard shift, " Great there goes my sleep schedule," I muttered to myself. As I pulled out of the station a black vehicle past in front of me swerving left and right. "What in the world." As I began to follow it continued to move left and right , I turned my sirens on and pulled them over. I parked my car right behind them to conduct a traffic stop. It was a black Bmw m550i with tinted windows.

As I got out of my car a strange sense of dread and anxiety hit me. Why was I scared? I've done this hundreds of times now. I've been on the force for 2 years now I shouldn't be getting like this anymore. This was the first car of the night, I can't be getting these feeling all night. "Snap out of it ," I told my self . " Do you your job." But as I got closer to the vehicle my heart started to pound more and more .

Pulling my flashlight out, I shined it in the back passenger window, but the window tint was so dark all I could see was a silhouette. The driver side window lowered down and a man called out to me.

"Hello officer did I do something wrong? I know I wasn't speeding."

"No but you were swerving," I replied. "Have you been drinking or under the influence of anything else?"

"No sir I just dropped something and got a little distracted is all."

"hmm a distraction of any kind is dangerous while behind the wheel, especially this late." License and registration please." As I looked at the man his face seemed very pale, his movements seemed stiff and his hands shaked as he reached for the registration.

"Is there anyone else in the vehicle with you?" I asked.

" N-no sir, it's just me." he replied

I remembered as I was walking by I saw the silhouette of someone in the back seat. It was dark so I couldn't see well from the driver side window.

"Do me a favor and roll down the back window please."

"Officer is that really necessary?"

"Yes now roll it down."

Just as he was about to roll it down I heard a scream that shaked me to my core.

"Pleeaaaaseee heeelp meee!"

As soon as I heard the scream of a woman I turned and reached for my pistol when..

"BANG!"

"BANG!"

"BANG!"

Three shots were fired but they weren't mine.

As I laid there I began to scream in pain with a pool of blood forming around me. The car started and darted off in the distance. I had a wound on my femur, my arm, and on the side of my neck. I reached for my radio trying to squeeze something out of my mouth.

"s-ss-hots f-f-f i-red."

"o-o-of-icer down."

Putting as much pressure as I could on the hole in my neck I started to feel warm and then cold almost at the same time. My vision blurring and my senses wavering I couldn't understand the voice over the radio anymore. In the distance bright lights approaching me before everything went dark. As the darkness enveloped me I heard a voice in the distance.

"Hᴇʟʟᴏ ᴍʏ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ɪ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇʟᴘ."