Chapter 203

Even though we had very little sleep last night, I went to work on time. I was thankful it was a slow day. Jenny had left for Annapolis at the same time I left for C-town.

Marcy was going to call an office-wide meeting to fill everyone in on the events that happened at Rochester last night. We thought that everyone should hear it from one of us.

I called and talked to Janice after lunch; it was a long talk. We covered a lot of topics. I really wanted to know how she was handling the day after. Did we need to get counseling for her on Friday? Killing someone affects everyone differently. She had done it while defending herself and her friends, as well as her coworkers.

I asked, "How are you feeling, and how did you sleep?"

"My hand is sore. I had to take the pain meds last night and again today. I was exhausted after the fight; I think because of the adrenalin rush. After the pain meds, I slept very well," she replied.

"How have your friends and fellow workers reacted?" I asked.

"Kelly held the night shift over and played the video of the fight for them, and then the day shift this morning in a joint meeting. They could not believe that we beat those three guys and that I had killed one of them. They think it was impressive," she said.

"Sly and Becky walked the route earlier and a police car stopped on the side of the highway. The two policemen walked over to them and wanted to know if they were the two that were in the fight last night. They wanted to invite us to the cop's bar hangout for a free drink for a job well done," Janice said. "The captain brought back the handcuffs we put on those guys last night and the TV station was out at the entrance doing some kind of report before lunch."

"Just be extra careful; you only have one more day there," I replied.

I sent a text to the girls in the gym that Janice was up, feeling well and working the desk if anyone wanted to call and give her words of support.

Tonight was going to be busy. I had never been to a county commissioners meeting. Marcy and Lorrie had been to them several times with Jason.

I felt I had no choice but to go - after all the issues with the airport and the accident that had moved me into the spotlight - and I needed to support Lorrie. I was expecting that our fuel truck move was going to be too much for the commissioners to swallow.

We arrived an hour early. I thought the place would be standing room only and I did not want to stand for two hours.

There were plenty of news crews there. Marley with her channel 23 crew was there along with channel 14, 29 and 46 news crews. They were all at the entrance killing time, making filler video.

As soon as we were near her she and her crew ran to us. The other crews were following behind her. She asked if we had come to speak to the commissioners. "No, just to observe and to defend our actions if it was necessary and state our case," I replied.

Then she asked how I was recovering from the accident? "I am fine, just black and blue and still sore in places," I replied.

Then she said, "My station picked up a news story from Rochester about a JBG security team being attacked last night and one of the assailants were killed. Was it one of your teams from Summer's Road?"

"Yes, it was one of our teams and the report was correct that one of the assailants was killed, another in serious and the third has been downgraded to critical condition this afternoon," I replied.