Mason
It's been two days since Damian gave me the intel about the drop off happening today.
I've gathered my team and we're already scattered into position.
The folder had said it would be at a dark alley behind a night club.
I've been behind this dumpster for the past twenty minutes, all I've been hearing for the past minutes is the dripping pipes and the distant traffic, but I'll wait, I'll wait until our perp gets here.
From where I'm kneeling, I can see my team members scattered around, we are all hidden very well from the eyes of outsiders but I can still see them.
We need to be as silent as possible, we wouldn't want to draw much attention to ourselves.
Suddenly I hear someone come, it must be our guy, the guy doing the drop off, the supplier, a few minutes later and the guy buying the product is here.
I watched-carefully of course- as they talked, probably making the deal. The pedaled hands the bag to the other guy and the other guy opens it.
He looks through it and has him a nod before he hands a bag to our guy.
Our guy opened it and searched through the bag, after a few minutes he gave the other man a nod.
The two continued talking but then I noticed our guy looking in my direction, he squinted his eyes and immediately widened it.
"Shit" I saw his mouth move. He saw me.
He and the other guy immediately made a run for it.
"They're on the move, our perps are on the move" I alerted my team.
Immediately we all moved from our positions and started chasing them.
I'm going for the supplier, I'll have the others handle the buyer.
I ran as fast as my 40 year old legs can go, I turned to my side and saw Oliver was beside me, running after the guy, we need to get him, he's my only hope to getting at least salazar's whereabouts.
We kept running and I can see he's slowing down, I turn to Oliver and he nodded towards me and made a turn, I kept chasing him and I noticed he seemed a bit distressed on where to go.
He turned around the corner and to my luck it looks like it might be a dead end, I increased my speed and I'm not gaining up on him.
Oliver bursts from the other side and with panic the guy slows down, which made it easy for me to tackle him.
We both fell and he began resisting but I held him tighter refusing to let him slip from my arms.
I brought his hands behind his back and Oliver walked over to us with the cuffs, as we began cuffing him, we read him his rights.
"you have the right to reman silent, anyting you say can and will used against you in court of law, you have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you" I said. "Do you understand these rights as I've read it to you?" I questioned him, he let out a groan and nodded his head in defeat.
"Good" I said as I brought us up, I handed him over to Oliver and we made our way to our car.
I saw the rest of my team, the buyer was already being pushed into the car.
"Good job guys, hopefully we actually get something out of them" I said before I got into the passenger side of the car and Oliver took the driver side.
He turned the car on and we drove to the precinct.
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We arrived at the precincts, "take him into custody" I told a uniform officer, he nodded and escorted the man over to where the other wrongdoers were.
"Nice work detectives" our captain said as he shook both Oliver and my hand, he had a small smile on his face.
"Thank you captain" I said.
"Can I have a word with you in my officer detective" he motioned to his door and I nodded my head, I followed him and took a seat.
I trust Oliver to speak with our perp and try to get him to talk.
"Detective" our captain said as he sat on the edge of his desk.
"I called you here to not worry you or anything, I just wanted to let you know that I'm proud of you" he said, I can't help but wonder where he's leading towards.
"I remember when your father was alive and I got the opportunity to work beside him, I watched him slowly lose himself in the salazar case and when we found out he was killed-" he stoped talking and we both gave him a short moment of silence. "It broke my heart"
"I know you might be thinking where I'm leading towards with this, but I just wanted to let you know that your father would be proud of you for trying your hardest to get him and the other victims their justice" he brought his hand to my shoulder.
"But please, I advice you to not get obsessed with this case, as much as I want to see you get this man, I don't want you to suffer the same fate as your father" he had a sad expression on his face.
When we had gotten assigned a new captain I was happy to see captain smith, growing up I had seen him a few times with my father and now he had taken the role of my guardian, he said he owe it to my dad to protect me so I understand where he's coming from.
"I promise you cap, I won't su-" *bang* *bang* *bang* I heard gun shots and made me and cap go on full alert.
"What the fuck was that?" Cap said as we both stood.
I saw the door open and Oliver's face pop in and he looked like he was in distress.
"Mason" was all he said and I was immediately out the door.
I practically ran to the cell and saw our perp laying in his blood.
He was coughing up blood.
"We need the medic, call 911" I yelled out as I tried to keep him alive.
"Where's the person that did this" I yelled at Oliver.
"Officer Rodrigo and Oliver Charles are chasing after him" he told me.
"Fuck!!" I yelled out as I watched his eyes close.
Just then a medic entered and I was forced to get up.
She did a check on him and turned to me with a look on her face. "I'm sorry detective, but he's dead" she said.
I didn't hear what anyone else was saying as I made my way out of there.
He was my only hope, Damian had put his life on risk to get this information and I blew it.
What am I going to do now.
I went outside and sat on a bench, my phone buzzed and I brought it out.
I saw it was a message from Damian.
Damian:
>Hi Mason
>did the job go well? Were you able to get a hold of the guy?, has he confessed yet?
>if you're too busy to reply, do you think we can meet for dinner today?
I watched as the messages came in and for some reason a smile found its way to my face, he's still adorable.