Mac Taylor had been spending the last five hours looking over paper work.
The crime rate had gone down dramaticly, leaving the city quite, slow and uneasy.
It had given Mac the opportunity to look over older cases and paper work that
needed to be completed weeks ago. Mac loved his Job, he liked the excitment
and the chase, not paper work. Stella had been forcing him to look over a couple
cases that had remained unsolved, but none seemed to catch the eye of Detective
Taylor. They were old news, cases that drove him mad and still haunted his dreams.
He had no intent to bring up old news. They were closed and that's how he wanted
it.
There was another reason, Mac remained inside and in paper work.
When Mac was sixteen he had fallen in love with his highschool sweetheart.
A story that his friends have heard from time to time, but eventualy let it go.
Elizabeth had moved back to New York in late January with their 18 year
old daughter, Madelyn.
Madelyn is the love child of two love struck kids from Brooklyn. Her mother
was only 18 when she got pregnant with Madelyn, Mac was 21. The love
didn't last. Mac had married and Elizabeth moved back to Michigan to
be with her family.
Mac and Madelyn's relationship wasn't the best. He sent her
presents every holiday and sent her money, but there was never a
true relationship. Mac had anger towards Elizabeth for taking that away from
him, but the other hand he understood. Mac wasn't always a stand up guy.
He had another chance now. Stella had set up dinners and lunches for Mac
and Madelyn to catch up, but they always turned out to be awkward. Mac wanted
a second chance and now he would get it. Elizabeth had to return to Michigan to
take care of her mother and Madelyn will be starting college in a few weeks.
Elizabeth requested that Madelyn stay with Mac until she returned home in a couple
days, weeks, months. Mac agreed.