Title: 'Ars vivendi'
Author: Head in the cloud
Genre: Angst
Rating: T
Summary: Tom was bored to death during his sick leave so he forced Fuller to take him back to work. Was that good move?
Disclaimer: I don't own them (Tom, Doug, Judy, Ioki, Adam, Dennis) and anything you know or recognize from the series. I only own the idea how to bring them back to life in my story and my notebook where most of it is written down.
AN 1: Reading this story you may find that its author is not English. When I started writing the story I knew English just from about one year, so first chapters you can find a bit strange, stiff and (I hope not) full of mistakes. Though as the story goes on I learned much and my writing improved.
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To all those who are not afraid reviewing great THANKS.
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Chapter 1.
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'Day like everyday'
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As usually in the morning there was big noise and move in the Chapel. Everybody was chatting, talking by phone or moving quickly from one indefinite place to another. Doug Penhall raised his head from above his paperwork he was working on and sighed deeply. The atmosphere of constant movement around as if he was inside the anthill disturbed him. Not that there could ever happen any proper situation so that he would be able to focus on the paperwork.
Finally, resigned, he decided to do something more interesting: namely he leaned his back heavily on the back rest then raised his head and started to watch ceiling above. After several minutes of keeping his head in such uncomfortable position he looked around, desperate to find another thing he could focus on.
"Oh God" he sighed desperately again. "How do I miss the work outside."
His gaze went to Dennis Booker, a guy who joined Jump Street a several months ago. He was speaking by phone in great anger and his thick brows were knitted over dark eyes. Some girls in the Chapel found him quite handsome and… how did they call him? Ah, yes. Wild. God only knows what do they mean about that. Yet Doug and Tom never had opportunity to get to like him. Dennis was extremely ambitious and distant, and usually very unpleasant. Still he was also smart and cheeky what made him good enough cop to Captain to find useful to keep him in the team. Now the new cop was on another case, which was supposed to be Tom's if the last wasn't sick at a moment. Doug was pretty sure that Dennis after fortunate finishing that case wouldn't let anybody miss the fact how brilliant he was. Again. But as Doug noticed with pleasure this case was hard piece of work.
"Listen Frank!" Dennis hissed to the earphone. "Listen carefully cos I am not gonna repeat! If you do this again I quit. You will be left alone, without protection. You could put us into great danger. If you do not think about your safety think about mine!"
"Yeah" thought Doug with malicious smile "Really hard case". Booker was lucky, though.
After that Penhall turned his attention towards Harry Ioki and Judy Hoffs who were in hot and very noisy conversation (or rather Judy's noisy monolog). The girl seemed to take the topic very seriously, for her dark, huge eyes were shining and her face expressed involvement, as if she already discovered existence of life on the Moon.
"Don't be so narrow-minded Ioki! Let's take you for example. Would you like your parents to force you to be a doctor or lawyer, even if you wanted to be a cop or somebody else?"
"I wouldn't mind Judy. Think how rich and respected would I be now..." answered Ioki lazily and winked at Doug as he realized the cop was watching them.
Tireless Judy continued despite of Harry's clearly bored face.
"And what if they wanted you to be a priest or monk?"
At that Doug almost spit out his coffee on papers lying on desk in front of him, while Ioki opened wide his eyes and mouth as an expression of mute shock and disbelieve.
"Judy! My parents wouldn't do that! They don't…"
"Ok, ok" interrupted the girl raising her arms as if protectively, and then added with lower voice, which Doug found much more pleasant to his ears. "That was bad example." She brushed her hair with hand thinking about something.
"The worst I could ever imagine," Doug commented it quietly to himself but loud enough for Judy to hear his words. He was watching her pretty face with hint of adoration but then again he was distracted by the view of her new hair style. Doug couldn't believe that it was possible to anybody to have such ruffled hair as hers. He remembered Tom joking about the bush of gooseberry on her head.
"But in past times it was very common that parents forced their kids to do things they didn't want, they even sent them to monasteries." Judy seemed to find herself again in the topic and continued with new strength raising her voice and sending in the same time balls of paper towards Doug's suddenly amused face. "Ioki, do you remember our last case? That poor boy Aaron..."
"Judy, for god's sake! How many times are you going to agonize me circulating around that case?" Ioki shouted. His voice was very irritated this time. He was really tired talking about it every now and again.
"But it is very important you to understand how important is that parents have no right..."
"Judy!" Doug and Ioki shouted at her simultaneously.
"But what about…" Judy continued pretending not to notice dangerously glances they sent to her as soon as she opened her mouth again. To their relieve she never had chance to finish, because she was interrupted by another voice.
"Penhall, Hoffs, Ioki!" Their heads turned at once towards the voice. In the door of a small office stood their Captain Adam Fuller. From the funny expression on his face it was evident he heard Judy's tiresome speech. "To my office, please!"
Doug and Ioki moved concurrently from their seats eager to run out from Judy's range of voice as quick as possible, so that when they reached together the door they almost got stuck there. Judy followed them with the dignity and raised head as if nothing happened. Though when she passed still smiling at the scene Captain she murmured to him simulating dispirited tone "Men..."
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