What's Happening?
Jo's POV
He slowly limped in. For the past few days Jo had noticed that Henry wasn't his normal self. He had dressed in darker colours than usual, dark greys and blacks, and his scarfs were up higher than usual on his neck, covering all below his jaw. Henry's usual confident and know-it-all posture had flattered, his steps taken with caution and his eyes didn't shine as they usually did. Everyone from Lucas to Hanson were worried but either Henry was just going through a rough patch or something else was wrong but he wasn't willing to burden anyone. Jo hoped it was the first.
"Ah Detective Martinez there you are! I believe that our John Doe over here died from a simple accident with a fireman. You see…" Henry trailed off, finally noticing that Jo wasn't listening but looking at his face or rather the gigantic bruise adorning his right eye. She watched as he heaved a giant sigh and saw that he was about to come up with a cockbull lie about how he got it.
"Look Henry I don't want to know. It's easy to see that you're lying so what's the point listening to some on-the-spot story. Now what was that about the John Doe? Accident you say?"
Jo noticed for a quick second that his façade slipped slightly but soon recovered. If he didn't want to tell her, so what. His life was his own. But she might just need to speak to Abe about this. Jo tried to concentrate on Henry rambling on about how their victim was shot by someone on accident, most probably a child in his opinion. But she couldn't for some strange reason and left without a word leaving Henry in the middle of the empty morgue, startled.
The rest of the day was pretty much peaceful, doing paperwork with Hanson and getting a toxicology report from Lucas when he came up from the morgue to steal from the vending machine. That was until she saw Henry exit the building looking suspicious. He kept glancing at his pocket watch and looking around the bullpen like he was either going to go back down to the morgue or go out. He decided on the second and started heading outside the precinct. Jo decided to follow him, just for a little bit.
He walked east of the building, turning a left on the corner and stopped by a black mini-van with tinted windows.
"Hey Henry wait up!" Jo called out, running towards him. "I just wanted to know, are you okay?"
"Jo…I'm fine. Just a little tired that's all." Henry spoke quietly, looking at the van like he was afraid.
"Oh okay." She pretended that she was walking back to the precinct but when Henry had turned back around to the car, she silently darted into the alley way behind the car and gazed towards what was happening.
A man hopped out of the van and had started talking with Henry. She inched forward and tried to listen on their conversation but when she was close enough to hear them, she couldn't understand what they were saying.
The man, who was dressed in a whole black suit he was a business man from Wall Street, snapped at Henry in some language, to which Henry seemed to shrink into himself, whispering something back. He then grabbed Henry by the arm and forced him to the car only letting go when Henry opened the passenger door. He all but ran to the driver's side and started the car and drove as fast as he could down the road.
What the hell just happened? Jo thought. She had just seen her friend, no best friend get into an argument and was just driven away with some guy who she had never seen in her life. She guessed it was time to speak with Abe and Lt. Reece.