"What?!" - Chad shouted slamming both his hands on his dark wooden desk. "Ergastulum is my damn jurisdiction!"
The sound of the phone begins to shout a loud banter back as Cody just sighs in the next room over. What was going that riled Chad up like that. They had just gotten back from a successful mission with Benriya. Chad would usually be cheerful but all the colors flushed out of him with this simple phone call.
It must be from head quarters.
Cody pondered to himself the many times Chad had brushed Benriya under the rug.
"Sir! I told you I'm handling it! It ain't like I got an army down here, we're doing the best we can!" - Chad protested "I know but...no wait SIR!"
Suddenly the phone gets cut off and immediately he throws the phone right toward the bullet proof glass of his office, where Chad was sitting on the opposite window. Even though it was unbreakable, he still couldn't help but duck in fear.
Chad slumps down into his chair running a hand through his grey locks. He was really getting too old for this.
"Um...Sir? May I ask what's wrong?" - Cody spoke meekly
"We're fucked" - Chad hisses
"I...I don't follow" - Cody replies scratching his head. For a few moments, the silence just spreads into the room until Chad finally exhales a sigh.
"The higher-ups just called. They're pissed about the reports coming out of Ergastulum. I don't know" - Chad says turning to look out the window. "Something about how our crime rates have tripled over the past 3 months and now they want to send out a government agent to investigate us." - he explains "If they find out about Nico and Worrick..." - Chad trails off. His mind began to retract back into his own thoughts as the guilt began to fill his soul.
He never thought of himself as a dirty cop but...is this what he was doing? Paying off handymen to do his dirty work? But...it was all for the good of protecting the innocent.
Or is that what he just told himself at night?
"We'll have more to worry about than some stupid turf war." - Chad finally finishes pulling out a cigarette and lightning it.
"Sir, what should we do?" - Cody asks his heart began pacing while his mind flooded with all the illegal things that the two committed.
"What we always do, my boy. We make it work."
Chad gets up grabbing his coat before pulling out his own mobile phone.
"Damn it." - he grunts as the phone goes to voicemail. "Come on Cody, we need to go see those handy..."
"Off so soon officer?"
Chad's eyes glances upwards...
if the colors didn't completely drain from his face it definitely did now.
"What the hell are you doing here"
"Benriya speaking" - Worick picks up "Oh good morning my lady, how may we be of service of you today?"
He leans over the desk staring out at the sunny city.
"Package run? Of course, anything for you. We'll see you at noon." - he says before hanging up.
"Is there...anything I can help with?" - Alex asks waiting at the door for Worick.
"Hm? The only thing you can help me with is letting me have a peak at your panties" - Worick cooes which only leads to Alex retracting her question. "Oh come on, just one look"
Nick stands on the side sighing before he waves his hands.
"What job is it?" - Nick waves through his regular sign language
"Just a drug run for Big Mama. Apparently it's easier for the Corsicas to package and deliver it from Pussy or something" - Worick says grabbing his jacket "Shouldn't be too difficult"
"Where is it going to?" - Nick asks
"The doctor, probably to make more downers to sedate you with buddy." - Worick teases giving his partner a nudge on the shoulder but Nick only gives him a displeased look for his antics. "Hm, Alex how about you come along with us"
"Huh? Oh really?"
"Sure why not, I wouldn't mind walking around with a foxy thing like you" - he jokes but in reality ever since Worick and Nicolas rescued Alex from Barry, they've been given the burden of making sure she doesn't have another mental break down due to Barry's abuse and the TB drugs she was forced to take.
Taking her along to go see Dr. Theo might be good for her anyways not to mention they also needed to pick up Nicolas's celebrer.
After picking up the drugs from Pussy, the three of them walk down to district 8 where Dr. theo's Clinic was located.
"Hm? Alex what's wrong?" - Worick asks seeing the dark haired woman standing there, her eyes memorized down an alley way.
The sound of cries of help being muffled over and over again. They should be used to hearing this and going on their daily life but...Alex could never ignore it.
"We need to get these to Theo" - Worick reminds the girl again
"Right" - she answers but Worick was always good at reading people. He sighs handing over the briefcase over to Nick "Nico, you go on ahead with Ally. I'll catch up with you two later"
Nick doesn't need to reply before he just starts to walk towards the clinic.
"Huh? Worick what are you..." - Alex questioned confused
"Don't worry so much, Ally-chan you'll get wrinkles in that pretty face" - he teases. Alex knew not to really ask much from those two. Demanding straight answers from them was worse than pulling teeth.
She just nods before catching up with Nick. Worick strides down the dark alley way. Man was he a sucker for a pretty girl that he would even interject himself in the middle of someone else's problem.
"Please...stop!" - the woman cries
"Shut your damn mouth and take it!" - a guy shouts the sound of a smack is heard before a loud bang of trash cans.
"Jees" - Worick groans seeing the picture come into his visual. "You really are scum, trying to force yourself onto a helpless young girl. Tsk tsk."
The man whips around his belt half unbuckled.
"Who the hell are you?!" - the guy yells, holding up the gun to the girl's head. She kept shaking, her overly done makeup smeared over her neck while the mascara that she draped on ran down her face from all the crying "Stay back or I'll kill you and the girl!" - he threatens
Worick sighs. God what a pain this was. If it was just him, he could careless if the girl died. Ergastulum has a way of turning a good heart, black.
But before he could answer, a gun is shot from behind him right towards the man's hand. Blood spilled everywhere as he screams in agony.
"What the hell?" - Worick mumbles before he, himself is shot in the back shoulder the blast so strong it knocks him off his feet as he slams straight to the ground.
Was this a tag?
It all happened so fast that before he couldn't even react when both his hands were bounded behind his back.
Suddenly, Worick gets kicked upwards and slams right into the wall. His blue eyes focus upwards as a tight grip cuffs around his neck the hands were small.
It was a girl and suddenly, he could feel his heart stop like seeing a ghost reanimated.
he open his mouth to speak but that was only thing she let him say before a kick swung at his head was "you" before knocking him out completely.