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Ashton Blair Freud
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Trevor
Perpetually unlucky...
She despised having to sit here and just wait for her husband to return.
It made her feel so useless, and it made every agonizing second that ticked by hurt that much more.Having grown up the daughter of a police officer, Ash knew how important those first few hours were. And she knew that CK was likely retrieving Jay right now, and everything would be alright. Except that there was some deep feeling in the pit of her gut, a feeling that she hadn't felt in twenty years, but that felt just as sickening as the first time.
Something wasn't right, and all she had to go off of was a gut feeling.
She couldn't breathe in here.
Ash opened the door to the car, and she slammed it behind her as she unlocked her phone and pulled up her father's contact. With a deep, shaky breath, she pressed the call button and put the phone to her ear as she started to walk away from the cars. The heels she wore were much harder to walk in when one's vision was obscured by tears, so she kicked them off before she kept going.
The phone rang and rang, and there was no answer. So she dialed again. And again. And again. And again.
And finally, on the fifth call through, it was answered.
"Hello?" her father's groggy voice sounded through the phone. "Do you know what time it is--"
"Jace is missing, dad," she said, and those series of words having to leave her mouth again just felt so incredibly... god, it was just fucked up. It stung, and speaking it aloud made the tears that were pricking at the edge of her vision start to pour down her cheeks, and Ash angrily wiped at the tears with the back of her free hand.
Silence.
"Ashton, that's not funny," her dad started. "You know how hard this day is on your mother and I, and it's even worse since today's the anniv--"
"No, dad, no," Ash choked on her words, "not... not your Jace. My Jace. Jay. My Jay, he's..." her legs buckled, and she fell to her knees in the gravel, "my son is missing." She whispered and oh fuck, if she'd thought the first time saying it aloud hurt, this time hurt so much more.
Silence again.
"Did you call the police? Where's Donna? And Chelsea?"
"CK's getting Donna right now, and Chelsea is at home with the babysitter. I called to make sure she's alright," she shook her head. "They... I dunno, Mason just came up and told us he was missing, and he won't answer his phone and... and... I'm so scared, dad, I'm so scared. I don't know what to do. We're getting Donna, but if he doesn't know where Jay is, I just-- I don't-- I don't know what to do."
All she really wanted was for Jay to suddenly call her back, with some dumb excuse about where he'd been and why he hadn't answered his phone, and she'd forgive him for the fear that was choking her right now. She just--
"Get Donna and go home," her father said, and she could hear the sounds of movement. "Lock all your doors. I'll get ahold of the station and handle this, alright?"
She nodded her head.
"Ash, Ashton, did you hear me?"
"Yeah," her voice cracked.
"Alright... I'll call you later," he said, followed by a brief pause, before he added; "I love you, kid."
"Yeah, yeah, same," she mumbled, sniffling, before the call ended.
Blankly, she stared at her phone, before she dropped it to the gravel and covered her face in her hands, before letting herself cry.
it's ok if you forget me
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