Chapter one: Not what it looks like

"Hey Linds, I'm at the jewellery store, you want anything" I asked as I browsed the jewellery store. "Again?" Lindsay asked as I chuckled "Yes again, I'll see you tomorrow, I am not wasting my day off! Goodbye" I hung up and was about to put my phone away when I saw 3 women walk in dressed as Holly Golightly. I frowned, knowing as a detective this couldn't be good.

Suddenly, they pulled out guns and held one to a security guards head "Take it easy and you get to see your wife tonight!" He was forced to his knees as another turned to us "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a robbery! Do exactly as we say and nobody will get hurt" As she told us to get down on the ground, I noticed the third one spray the security camera with something. I laid down on the ground, near an old lady and her dog, she looked terrified. As they continued to shout, the display cases exploded and I felt some glass hit my face and exposed arms "Shit" I hissed quietly.

The three women started loading jewellery into their "I heart New York" bags. As one man lunged for one woman, I acted as a police officer. I leaped up only to be kicked down by another, landing near the old lady again "Are you okay?" A woman laid on the floor next to me whispered "Yeah, im a police officer, I've had worse!" I whispered back, grimacing.

I looked back to the commotion, noticing the man now on the floor in pain and one gun on the floor. Another man hit the alarm and it started blaring. The women started to run past us as the gates came down. As they hit the floor a gun went off, hitting the man who had lunged in the first place. I shot up, checking him over. I was like that for a few minutes before more police officers came in and took over. I was taken to the back of an ambulance and checked over. I had a few cuts but at least I was alive.

About 10 minutes later, Flack and the crime lab turned up. Lindsay, knowing I was there, literally ran over "Oh thank god you're okay Grace!" She pulled me into a hug, letting go straight away when I winced "Got kicked" I said as an explanation. As Lindsay left to process the scene, Mac and Flack came over with the old lady and her dog "Grace, this is Matilda, she wanted to say thank you." I frowned as the old lady started talking "If you hadn't leapt up then I would have been dead, I moved away when they kicked you." I smiled as Mac led her away. Flack glared at me "Leapt up? What were you thinking" I shook my head "Like a police officer" Flack walked away and I got up to see the scene.

I caught the last of Stella's sentence "… I'd say it was an accident." I spoke up "yeah it was." All three people looked at me "He jumped our perp and she dropped the gun, as the gates came down while they were escaping, it was shot off." I sighed, knowing that his wife had only just given birth. "I had a conversation with him. Said he recognised me from the papers, the day the bomb went off and told me I could have anything half price. Told me I was a hero." I shook my head as Lindsay spoke up "Vic was killed during the commission of a robbery, makes this felony murder." Before leaving, I spoke up once more "Wait til you see the perps" I walked off, towards Mac and Danny.