[[tuesday]]

It's been a quiet evening for Bill and Kate. They've had dinner, the dishes are done and dessert's been had and now the two of them are winding down in the living room.

Kate's on the couch with her feet tucked under a cushion, working on her laptop. Bill's sitting in an arm chair, watching TV, a stack of Oreos sitting on the coffee table beside him with an almost empty glass of milk.

Cracking up at the sitcom he's been watching a breaking news alert flashes across the screen and he reaches for his glass, ready to use what's probably just a weather watch to go and get a refill. He's halfway out of the chair with his mouth opening to ask Kate if she wants anything when the news anchor's words snap his attention back to the screen.

"A South Carolina state trooper is dead tonight after a gunfire exchange on Route 10."

Bill drops back into his seat and the glass falls to the carpet unnoticed as his eyes lock on the screen and the report playing across it.