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"The Trial of Leon Vorgitch"
By TwilightSparkle3562
Chapter 1
"A Disturbing Feeling"
In the criminal justice system, the people, living or dead, are represented by two separate, yet equal important groups: the police who investigate crimes and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.
Ever since she had been murdered by two thugs acting as DEA Agents, Alexandra Borgia had become one of heaven's most prominent prosecutors. It was a job that provided her with all the riches that came with being as good a Catholic as good an attorney. In the days since she came home to her heavenly paradise, Alexandra had always thought about her friends back on earth. In fact, Alexandra couldn't help but think of all of the cases that she was letting herself not take part in. She couldn't help it, they were all on Earth and she was in heaven. Still, she longed to take a case that Jack McCoy couldn't succeed in doing.
Her chance would soon come sooner than expected.
One morning, Alexandra walked into her office, going over what cases the Purgatory offices would be doing. Soon, she was interrupted by the sounds of knocking at the door.
"Come in," she called and the door opened to reveal another former assistant district attorney, Claire Kincaid, that was holding a sheet of paper. "Hey Claire, who are we prosecuting this time?"
"A petty thief," replied Claire. "Apparently died by police shooting at him. Isn't that lovely?"
Claire handed the file to Alexandra who then placed in the "to do" pile of her desk. Alexandra was honored to be one of the few prosecutors that the souls of heaven would allow to carry on as many cases. But, there were times that the cases were either unimportant or uninteresting.
"Claire, can I ask you something?" asked Alexandra, who got a nod from Claire. "Do you miss all the cases you and Jack worked on when you were on Earth?"
"Yeah, every now and then," sighed Claire, sitting on the couch of Alexandra's office. "I know that Detective Briscoe has those feelings as well. Fortunately, heaven has been kind to him despite those areas of poor judgment. I sure do long for the thrill of a case of epic proportions. They were always the most entertaining."
The two attorneys shared a small chuckle at this remark and Claire was right. They needed a case that would come to define their characters and their professions in both earthly and heavenly life. However, it wouldn't be for entertainment purposes. Both Claire and Alexandra took their cases pretty seriously and there were times, mostly for Claire, that criminals would be acquitted because of lack of evidence, poor judgment, etc.
"Well, the chance will come eventually, Claire," said Alexandra, smoothing out her red skirt suit that she was wearing. "We just have to be patient for the moment to come."
Just then, the door to the office opened and a man with a long white beard and dressed in gold robes walked into the room. This was St. John of Capistrano, the patron saint of judges and district attorneys who oversaw who goes to heaven and who goes to hell.
"St. John? Is everything all right?" Claire asked, noticing that the man had a disturbed look on his face. "You look distressed about something."
"It's something that I have never felt before in a long time, my children" replied St. John. "There is an evil on earth, greater than anything we have ever felt before."
"What is this evil?" asked Alexandra as Claire got up from the couch. "Is it someone on Earth?"
A morbid look came onto St. John's face as he struggled to describe what was happening. As the patron saint of the law, St. John had overseen many cases before, but nothing like this.
"It is," answered St. John. "He has taken an entire room of children hostage and is saying words that we would not allow in our master's heavenly paradise."
"What can we do about it?" asked Claire, worriedly. "Come to think of it, who is he?"
"He is a creature of pure evil that had escaped from his Earthly prison," explained St. John. "Had stabbed two police officers that were escorting him to another earthly prison. They call him Leon Vorgitch from what I understand."
Just then, they saw from the office window what appeared to be the souls of one woman and dozens of children come up towards the heavenly gates. The looks on the faces were of fright and fear. Alexandra couldn't help but feel sorry for them.
"It looks as if the creature has carried out his dirty deed," sighed St. John. "I will send Detective Briscoe and Sergeant Greevey to see what is happening."
Taking out a golden trumpet, St. John blew into the trumpet and summoned the two detectives into the office.
"What's going on, St. John?" asked Detective Briscoe, clothed in a long tan overcoat. "Is this related to that disturbance on Earth?"
"It is detective," replied St. John. "I want you and Sergeant Greevey to go down and see what is happening with the monster. Once you discover what is going on, report back to me on your discovery."
"Something tells me this ain't a loose rabid dog, Max," remarked Detective Briscoe. "This is a mope who killed a dozen schoolgirls. Well, he'd better have a good reason for doing this."
"Don't we all?" added Sergeant Greevey and the two detectives descended down to Earth and Detective Briscoe could see all of the parents who were all crying and sobbing over what had just happened.
This caused Briscoe to think back to when his daughter was shot to death and how he felt. Part of him was lucky that he wasn't living on Earth anymore, not having to deal with the horrors of everyday life on the streets of New York. Briscoe then noticed his old partner, Detective Ed Green leading a group of SWAT officers into the school and then soon emerged on a scene of devastation with a lone man holding a pistol in his hands.
"You can't shoot me," he said, with a smile on his face. "I'm unarmed."
Briscoe could see that Detective Green had his finger on the trigger, ready to fire a bullet into his chest.
"Why'd you shoot them?" asked Detective Green quietly, his voice filled with anger over what had just transpired.
Then, what Leon said next infuriated Detective Briscoe just as much as Detective Green.
"Why not?" he laughed as Detective Green and the SWAT officers took him out of the classroom. This caused the two heavenly men of the law to return to heaven with disgusted looks on their faces.
As they ascended back up to heaven, they couldn't believe why a criminal would do such a thing. Most criminals had a motive for doing such a thing, but something was totally screwed up and they needed to get to the bottom of this.
"I can't believe this guy," scoffed Sergeant Greevey as they headed up to heaven. "He just shot those girls and their teacher for the hell of it. Who does he think he is?"
"A sick individual who thinks he can do whatever he wants," remarked Detective Briscoe. "This guy thinks he is above the law and I know, for a fact that he isn't. Something isn't right here and I can't wait for the day he goes to purgatory. Just wait until St. John, ADA Borgia and ADA Kincaid hear about this."
"If only that day would come so soon, Lennie," said Sergeant Greevey as they approached the offices. "And when he does die on Earth, we will show monsters like him how justice is carried out in the afterlife."
However, that day would eventually soon come quicker than expected…