HeartsandMachineGuns

'The light that leaves this man's eyes is the pain I am forced to live." Fidelia's only thought floats through her head, taunting and ripping through her memories. The comfort when her eyelids flutter closed lasts only a moment, and is shattered when she sees his face again. Crowds are guided into the various upstairs rooms, and only Fidelia, Rose Hempel, and Antony Hempel are left next to a dead man. Fidelia's mind has turned to a blank page. Though she's dealt with so many things before, so many cases as a different person, Detective Kemmis is not Fidelia. Her emotions are vulnerable, being damaged without her facade of masculinity. Anto