A Hero’s Death - a short but sad story

TW: DEATH

A Hero’s Death - a short but sad story

I always fantasized about dying a hero’s death, i never thought I would get one. Let’s backtrack first. It was my first day of being out of the police academy. I was so excited to get out there and help bring peace to families whose loved ones were taken from them. I needed to get my uniform on first though. Afterward, I headed downstairs to see my lovely husband, who normally sleeps in, with breakfast on the table. Our very sassy adopted 9-year-old runs up to me, and the big black wolf-dog follows. She hugs me, well hugs what she can reach up to. “Good morning sweetie,” I say. I walk over to my husband, “Good morning my love,” he says to me right before I kiss him to say good morning back. I ask if the dog is fed and he nods yes. He looks at me with the same eyes that I get to look in every day, “Ready for your first day?” “Well it’s not only my first day but it’s Claire’s first day of 3rd grade” I reply. “Dad, is it time to go yet,” Claire says pulling on the end of my husband’s shirt. “Ok, I should probably not let the little one be late, please be careful,” he says with a kiss goodbye. I finally get out the door and get into my Mazda Miata with little pop-up headlights. I get to the station to meet my training officer and get a case. My first case happens to be big. A man murdered his wife and kids and is now on the run. His last known whereabouts were in a big old abandoned landscaping warehouse. My TA and I get in the car and ride over to the warehouse. My hand immediately goes to my gun when I hear a bang from inside. I figure out a way in and we scope out the place, finding evidence everywhere.  I hear another bang, like a box falling over. I pull my gun and aim at where I believe the noise came from. “Police! I am going to need you to drop any weapons and surrender Mat,” my TA yells. “Another person is helping me, I will tell you that,” Mat yells back. We hear a window break from the other side of the warehouse. My TA runs over there and just as he gets there sees someone jump out of the first-story window onto the sidewalk right below. My TA runs after him leaving me alone with Mat. I curse my TA under my breath for that. I hear yet another box fall. I spin around in the direction of the noise. I was wrong. I feel i sharp pain in my back. I scream out in pain. Before I even got to see what it was, Mat ripped the knife from my back. My TA hears my scream and rushes back to me. “What happened!” he yells. With blood starting it pile in my mouth, I drop down to the ground and manage to say, “Get my husband”.  My TA rushes off to get my husband who works close to the warehouse. I hear on my waki that my husband is on the way and that my TA went after the other guy. I hear Mat run out of the back door right as my husband is running in the front.  “Bell!” he yells as he sees me losing consciousness on the ground. “I’m so scared” I mutter with blood spilling out of my mouth.   He runs over scooping my torso into his arms.  There is blood everywhere.  He rips my vest off and holds the wound, not knowing the knife went all the way through my body. I start to pass out again. “No stay with me Bell, you’re not leaving me!” “Take care of Claire for me,” I whisper.  “No, we are taking care of her together!” he yells, starting to cry. I hear the sirens in the distance. I know I won’t make it though. As I slip into death, I say to him, “ I love you, don’t forget me.” I breathe my final breath and slip away. In my last moments of life, I heard my waki say that Mat and his partner were apprehended. I also hear my husband crying, telling me that he loves me too and will find me in the afterlife.