"I need to establish a base line for you. Give me three truths and a lie in that order." I knew the drill. No surprises.
"My name is Julianna Callaghan. I'm 36. I'm from Madison Hat Alberta. And I love quilting."
"Thank you, Julianna. Now some word association." Typical.
"Stream of consciousness." The game was on.
"That's right."
"That's left."
"You started without me."
"Try to keep up." She saw Toth's eye brow raise in surprise at my nervy answer and guessed he rarely had a subject talk back to him. This is gonna be fun.
Greg snickered from the side. I guess that means all the others had rolled over and let Toth push them around. Well that's just not how the Callaghans roll plus I have PMS.
The drill continued. "Country." "Horizon." "Bedtime." "Story." "Sam Braddock."
Ah, there it was, just as expected. Jules stopped and gave Dr. Toth a slight smile, knowing that he believed he had just set a landmine and I hadstepped on it.
"Partner," my eyebrow lifted slightly, mocking him. I didn't have to look at the line on the graph. It had stayed absolutely still, just like all the other lines…
"By partner, you mean lover?"
"Do I, Dr. Toth?"
"Just as a reminder here I am the one asking the questions not you."
"Are you Dr. Toth, are you really?
"Yes I am sure now lets get back to this, are you and Sam Braddock romantically involved?"
"I don't know what does your machine tell you?"
He looks down. A knowing look of recognition passes over his face. "Constable Callaghan may you repeat your three truths and a lie?"
I repeat them and this time the line doesn't move at all when I lie. "Constable Callaghan I believe I asked you to include a lie."
"I did, did it not show on your dinosaur aged machine?"
Toth just rummaged through his notes.
"So do you use a polygraph machine on all of your evals?" I ask with an innocent smile on my face.
"Yes, yes I do."
"Wow, I am so terribly sorry to inform you than, that you will most likely have to redo all of your evals in the past year due to the mishaps that seem to occur often with this machine."
"What are you talking about?" Toth asked. Greg just had this shocked look on his face.
"Well the latest edition of Psychology monthly stated that polygraphs are no longer an appropriate method for lie detecting and stress detecting since it is so easy to beat or it is easy to trigger causing false readings. Maybe you should look into that." I say still smiling.
Nobody says anything, ha I didn't expect Toth to take this long to find a come back, well this is boring.
"Well, if no one else has anything to say than I will just be on my way." I say standing up. Greg gets up to, I guess he was just as fed up with Toth as I was.
We walk out of the room, and the entire team is waiting outside the door for us. They must have finished their drills.
"How did it go Jules?' Ed asks.
"It went fine, he is just an ass." I say with a slight laugh. Greg is still sending me weird looks like he doesn't know quite what to think.
"Constable Callaghan!" I hear Dr. Toth call from the briefing room.
"Yes Toth?" I ask starting to get pissed.
"This isn't over- it isn't anywhere near being over!" He says.
"Is that a threat?" I ask, venom is dripping from my voice.
"No its just a way of reminding you that I have a lot of friends in high places." He states calmly.
"Really? What a coincidence so do i!" I say sarcastically.
With that he turns on his heel, grabs his belongings, and storms out of HQ.
"Damn Jules what did you say to him?" Spike asks.
"I merely told him that a polygraph machine should go back to the dinosaur age." I said.
The friendly banter starts up again and I keep quiet. For some reason I feel that Toth has some tricks up his sleeve that are not going to end well for me or any one around me for that matter.
TWO WEEKS LATER
I had to be at work by 5:30 and it was exactly 5:30 when I finally left my house. I was already having a bad day. My alarm clock decided to not go off again after I hit snooze, my toaster was broken so no toast for breakfast, the creamer for my coffee was outdated, I couldn't find my shoes, and I somehow managed to leave my keys in the front door last night. Wow, I am out of it.
I walk in to HQ for our morning workout to find everyone waiting around. "Hey guys sorry I am late- it was one of those mornings. Ready?"
The just remain silent. Greg looks at me with a look that scares me. "Um Jules Dr. Toth is back for his evals. He wants us all in the briefing room in 10 minutes." Greg says.
I stand shocked for a minute before I just nod a pull out my phone.
"Hello?" I hear a woman answer on the other line.
"I need all you have on a - he is in Canada right now. Call me back when you have something." I command before hanging up, not waiting for a response.
I walk into the briefing-naturally I am the last to arrive- Toth asks (more like commands) me to sit down.
I sit and smile my sickly sweet smile. "How nice to see you again Dr. Toth, and how are you today?"
A flicker of shock crosses his face before he realizes what I am doing: "I am very well Constable Callaghan and how are you on this fine day?"
"I am well also thank you for your concern." I reply, my team has looks of shock on their face.
"Now we may be on our way, Spike your up first." Toth says.
I see Ed and Sam get up to leave but I remain seated, I know exactly what Toth is doing.
"No- I don't think he wants you to leave, since these are team evals right?"
"That is correct Constable Callaghan you will all remain present for each others evals." He says before giving me a look. Ha. What a loser.
The evals continue Spike first, than Sam, Next Ed, Greg after that, than finally me.
I sit back in my chair and smile and Toth. "Dr. Toth may we wait a second before we start my interrogations- I mean evals." I ask using my I am so sweet and innocent voice.
He begrudgingly agrees. I double check my phone to see the time and the estimated arrival time of my secret weapon.
Not even a minute later my plan is put into action. We hear Winnie knocking on the door.
"Sarge, we have someone here from the attorneys office claiming they need to speak to Jules immediately." Winnie says.
"Fine let them in." Greg says.
In comes "someone from the attorneys office" ha ha. This will be fun.
"Dr. Toth you may not speak to my client with out her attorney present."
I just smile. "Wh-what? The psych evals don't require a lawyer." Toth manages to say with his surprise.
"This one does, especially when you ask for classified documents. Now I demand that you hand over every file you have on my client before we get the government involved in this." My "attorney" says. I just smile bitchily.
"Now hold on! What gives you the right to come in here and demand anything! I have the right to look at these documents!"
"Nope, these files were sealed by the court now hand them over."
"Wh- No!"
"Yes! I can call judge Robinson right this moment and you know what? He will side with me so hand them over now!"
Toth does what he is asked. .
"Now I want you to leave and forget everything you have heard or seen having to do with my client ."
Toth does what he is asked and runs out of the room like a scared little bunny.
I turn smiling and run over to give my "attorney" a big hug.
"Jules! It is so good to see you again. I have missed you! It is just not the same since you left to do well whatever you do now!" she says.
"Fiona I miss you guys! It has been way to long! Thank you so much for coming all the way up here to help me with this mess." I tell Fiona-the woman who posed as my attorney.
"What the hell just happened?" Sam asks, the first one to break out of his stupor.
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