write a story on words-burglars,house,horrified attacks,suspects,policeman,darkness,stairs
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The policeman, Bob, was settling down for bed alone in his modest two-story house. He had moved there, with his now estranged wife in the early 90s. He laid down and turned out the lights.
He reflected on his day at work, interviewing suspects about a series of seemingly random, but similar attacks. He shifted, back and forth, in the darkness, trying to get comfortable.
He didn't have enough evidence, yet, to arrest the man he suspected of committing the recent crimes, he just noted how nervous the man was about being interviewed, and how he looked at his feet a lot when answering the questions. He had trouble formulating an alibi for the nights in question.
Bob heard a noise, it was his front door, being tampered with.
He listened intently, the door opened and shut, there was some shuffling around, and then some crashing about...
Bob rose out of bed and lifted his gun out of its holster, which had been on his nightstand.
He stepped lightly in socked feet, down the hall to the staircase, he saw shadows moving about, he quietly slid the drawer of a bureau in the hall open and lifted a large black flashlight out.
He pointed the gun to the shadow, and swiftly shot the potential buglers with a beam of bright light. "WHO GOES THERE?" He shouted.
But he saw, it was his wife, a woman that he hadn't seen in six years. She looked almost the same.
He lowered the firearm and just stared forward.
"Hey." She said.
"W-what are you doing here?"
"I came back, just to tie up loose ends."
He noticed items scattered across the floor, including a broken lamp, she must have bumped into some things in the dark.
She quietly climbed the stairs towards him, he set his gun on the bureau, and clicked the flashlight off.
She came close, and stared quietly into his eyes, by the grey light coming in from the streetlights outside. He stared back without a word as she seemed to float ever nearer, a person he thought he'd never meet again.
The cold barrel of a gun was pressed into his belly. "Good night." She said