Going Home

This part is really long so I've split it in two.

Part 27a

As they stepped outside Grace looked up at Josh “you okay?”

Looking down at her Josh gave her a small smile “yeah I’m good.”

But before either of them could say anymore, all of a sudden there was the unmistakable sound of two vehicles colliding and Josh and Grace span around to inspect the crash. But at first they are unable to see anything amiss. Then as another crash occurred, giving them a better indication of the direction the noise was coming from, their attention shifted upwards. Following the wall of the building up, they watched a woman climb to the outside of the barricade of a multilevel car park. She was about three stories up and as she moved further along a ledge it became obvious from her movements that she was trying to escape from someone in the car park. Without a word, Josh and Grace ran to the building with Josh radioing Leon and Lawson on the way.  

The sound of the crash had caused all those in the surrounding area to come out and see what had happened, including Margaret Joshua. Margaret watched as Josh and Grace raced over to a building across the road and then followed their focus up and spots the woman on the outside of the building. Horrified at the events unfolding before her, Margaret watched as more police officers arrived at the scene, some of them are in the same uniform as Josh while others were in more traditional police uniforms. Her eyes focused on Josh, Margaret watched an officer dressed like he was, hand him a large bag and then both they, along with another man, and Grace all disappeared into the building. Unable to move she waited to see what would happen. A few seconds later, as she watched the woman hanging off the building Margaret noticed movement on the roof two floors above her position. Her heart hammering, she recognised that one of the two men she could see up there was Josh and that he was preparing to climb down the wall on a rope. Squeezing her hands together, her heart in her throat, Margaret watched on as Josh lowered himself to woman’s position. She was worried for him but at the same time, stunned at what he could do. As she watched Josh dangle from the rope, fitting a harness on the woman before they both make their way to the ground, Margaret held her breath. Then closing her eyes with her hand on her chest she took a deep breath as Josh reached the ground. Her relief was obvious and looking across the road Josh doesn’t fail to notice. But with her eyes closed Margaret missed the fact that Josh’s attention was on her and as she opened her eyes again his gaze had shifted away.