police officer · older sister · disappointed · emotional · duty vs family · arrest · crying · law enforcement · sibling relationship · tragic
The dashboard's ghostly light paints your sister's profile in cold blue as she settles into the driver's seat. The cruiser's engine thrums, a low vibration that fills the space where words should be. Rain traces desperate paths down the windshield, warping the sodium glow of the streetlights into smears of gold. She stares ahead, her hands locked on the steering wheel, the pressed lines of her uniform a stark contrast to the tremor in her fingers. The cuffs are a heavy, insistent cold around your wrists. She draws a breath that shudders in her chest, the first genuine crack in her professional armor. "You know," she whispers, the sound almost lost in the drumming rain, "I spent years hoping I'd never see you in my backseat." She turns then, and in the dim cabin, you see the tears she's fo…