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Chapter 2

Union Station, the main railway station in Los Angeles, was crawling with police personnel after midnight. Helicopters were flying overhead and the LAPD helicopters were trying to enforce a no fly zone over the area. As Provenza pulled up to the scene in his car, he looked at all of the activity that was happening about thirty feet in front of him. As he got out of the car, he stopped a patrol officer. "What's going on over there?" he asked the patrol officer. "Bomb squad, sir" the officer said to Provenza. "Ah" Provenza said and kept walking towards the crime tape area where Kendall and some of the Major Crimes team were located.

"What do we have here?" Provenza asked Kendall. "Multiple casualties, looks like cause of death was from the bomb blast" Kendall started to tell Provenza but then they were interrupted by the LAPD Bomb Squad coming into their area. "We need to clear this area, sir" one of the bomb squad officers said to Provenza. "Uh, why? I thought you guys already did this?" Provenza asked him. "We need to go over this area again" the officer said as he made Provenza leave the area along with Kendall, Mike, Julio, Amy, and Buzz. "Fine, fine. We'll just wait for Flynn and the Captain to get here" Provenza said as he and the team left the area and went to the safe zone that was established. "Just don't disturb the bodies or my evidence!" Provenza shouted back to the Bomb Squad.

Provenza turned around and saw the LAPD had already set up a command tent and it looked like Chief Howard was already inside there. "I filmed a little bit of the area, sir, before we had to move" Buzz said to Provenza. "Good, good Buzz, see if you can get some of the surveillance footage here, perhaps we can start with that instead" Provenza said to Buzz and Buzz went to go do that. "Mike, do we know anything yet? How many bodies there are or who's responsible for this?" Provenza asked Mike. "Not yet" Mike said as he watched the scene unfold behind them.

Just then, Andy and Sharon arrived at the scene and pulled their car in to the area. Before Sharon got out of the car, Andy placed his hand on her arm. "Sharon, wait" he said to her. Sharon looked back at him with a curious look. "What is it?" she asked him. Andy looked back at her. "Be careful" he said to her. This was the first case back for her after the whole debacle with Missy and Croelick. Andy wanted to make sure she was going to be okay out here. He didn't want to be too overprotective as Sharon was still the Captain and still in charge. Sharon nodded to Andy before she opened the door. "I'm fine Andy, really" Sharon said back to him and they both exited the car. Sharon and Andy joined Provenza and the rest of the group in the safe zone. "Lieutenant, what are we doing out here if the bodies are over there?" Sharon asked him. "Hello Captain, the illustrious LAPD Bomb Squad has decided to make sure that the area is clear, which they did before I even arrived, isn't that right Mike?" Provenza said to Sharon. "That's correct" Mike said as he was waiting patiently to go back to the scene. Provenza started walking with Sharon towards the command tent. "They've set up the command tent here, Captain, and I even saw Chief Howard was here" Provenza informed Sharon. "Yes, he texted me on our way over here" Sharon said back to him. "Did Kendall say anything about the bodies or do we know anything about the blast or the victims?" Sharon asked Provenza. "No, not yet Captain" Provenza said back to her. She nodded. "Okay, I'm going to go speak with Chief Howard, excuse me" Sharon said and then she walked over to the command tent.

"Everything okay with her?" Provenza asked Andy. "Well, let's see. Quiet evening gets interrupted by a bomb blast that kills several people and we get called out in the middle of the night for it" Andy started to say to Provenza but Provenza quickly stopped him. "Okay, okay" he said to Andy as he put up his hand, gesturing him to stop. "Ye gods" Provenza said as he and Andy walked back to join the group. Minutes later, the LAPD Bomb Squad gave the all clear so everyone returned to the murder scene. Andy looked back at the command tent and saw Sharon speaking with Chief Howard. He then turned around and caught up to Provenza. "Okay Kendall, now let's see what you've got" Provenza asked Kendall. "Okay, from what I can tell with how the blast happened, I would say this is your main guy. Body badly burned from the blast of the bomb" Kendall said to Provenza. "Looks like this guy here was wearing a janitor's uniform" Julio pointed out to them. "It looks like he is wearing something underneath that uniform" Andy said to the group. Julio took a closer look at the body. "It looks like it was a business suit, sir" Julio said back to Andy and the rest of the group.

In the command tent, Sharon sees Chief Howard and walks over to where he is standing in front of the monitors. "I want to see the surveillance cameras from the area. I want to know who was in the locker area and why" Chief Howard said to the officer as he looked up to see Sharon walking into the tent. "Chief" Sharon said as she approached him. "Captain, looks like Major Crimes is going to be handling this case" Chief Howard said to her. "We are going to leave the FBI out of this?" Sharon asked him. "Yes, until your team rules it as terrorism, I don't want the FBI involved" Chief Howard said. Sharon gave him a look. "That's a little odd coming from you, Chief" Sharon said as she started walking with him. "Yeah, well let's just say the bureau has their hands full on other things. I want to give us every opportunity we need to solve this, Captain" Chief Howard said back to her as they stopped in front of a map of Union Station. "Are you going to talk to the press about this, Chief?" Sharon asked him. "I'm going to keep this as quiet as I can to give you enough time to do your investigation Captain" Chief Howard said. Sharon nodded to him and then headed back outside to join her team.

Back outside in the blast area, Amy and Julio were checking the bodies for any type of identification on them so that they could notify the victim's family members. As they were doing that, the bodies were being placed in body bags and were being sent to the morgue. Kendall approached Provenza and Andy who were standing overseeing everything. "Lieutenant, we are taking the bodies down to the morgue, Dr. Morales should be getting back to you within two hours I would say" Kendall said as he then walked with the bodies to the van for transportation. "So much for another quiet day" Provenza said to Andy as he looked over the sight in front of him. Andy looked over everything that was in front of him. Buzz came back with the surveillance videos. "Sir, I have the videos you requested. Chief Howard also requested them, but I managed to convince Amtrak to give them to me instead" Buzz said to Provenza. "Okay, Buzz. I need you to start filming everything again" Provenza said to him pointing in the direction of the blast. "Yes Sir" Buzz said as he grabbed his camera and followed Andy around, filming everything.

Sharon joined Provenza at the area. "So, Lieutenant do we know anything yet?" Sharon asked Provenza. "Yes, Captain. We do know that it appears one person was right in front of the locker that went off. His body was badly burned but he was wearing a janitor's uniform over a business suit" Provenza started saying to Sharon. "That's odd" Sharon said back to him. She looked over the scene to find Andy but she couldn't see him. Amy and Julio started walking towards them and they had IDs for every body that was at the scene. "We ID'd all of the victims except for the main guy, Captain" Amy said to Sharon. Sharon nodded as she took the piece of paper from Amy's hand. "They're all local" Amy added. Sharon looked at the paper and then looked back up at Amy, Julio, and Provenza. "Give this list to Chief Howard, he will do the notifications to the families" Sharon said as she handed the paper back to Amy. Amy then left the group. Sharon was still looking to see where Andy was at. "Kendall said give Dr. Morales about two hours for him to be ready" Provenza told Sharon. She nodded and walked over to the main blast area and shook her head. 'What happened here?' she thought to herself. Sharon saw Mike measuring the blast point and writing some notes down with the help of Julio but still no sign of where Andy had gone to.

Sharon turned around with almost a panic expression on her face but before she could ask Provenza where Andy was at, she heard his voice coming from behind her. She turned around and saw Andy walking with Buzz through the rubble. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him. Andy walked up to her as he and Buzz were finished filming the area. "You okay?" he asked her with a concerned look on his face. Sharon cleared her throat. "Yes" she said quietly and then turned around to face the rest of her team. "Okay, let's head back to the office and figure out what exactly happened here and why" Sharon said to them and then started walking back to the car with Andy.

Sharon glanced at her watch. It was now 2:25 in the morning. "Hopefully Rusty and Matthew are still sleeping" Sharon said to Andy to break the silence in the car. "I'm sure they are" Andy said and paused for a minute before speaking again. "Everything okay back there?" Andy said to her as he pulled into the parking garage and then pulled into his spot. Sharon paused for a moment before answering him. Why did she panic back at the crime scene? Andy looked at her and placed his hand on top of her. She took a deep breath. "I guess I panicked back there when I didn't know where you were" Sharon said to him. Andy looked at her and nodded slightly. "I knew, I just" Sharon didn't know what to say but then Andy squeezed her hand and she looked back at him. "It's okay, Sharon" he said to her. They both paused for a moment before exiting the vehicle. They headed towards the elevator to join everybody up in the Murder Room.

As they walked into the Murder Room, Julio was putting up the pictures of all of the victims except the main guy as they still don't know the identity of him yet. Sharon went straight to her office to put her things there before returning out to the room. "Do we know anything about the main guy that was hit?" Sharon asked her team. "No ma'am. We are still waiting for his fingerprints to come back as he did not have any kind of ID on him at the time of the blast" Julio said to Sharon as he sat back down at his desk. "Where are Buzz and Mike at?" Sharon asked. "They are setting things up in the video room" Provenza said to her as he was looking over a preliminary report from SID. Sharon walked up to him. "What's that you're reading?" she asked Provenza. "The prelim report from SID" Provenza said as he handed it to her. She leaned up against a desk and started to read it herself. "Captain, the video is ready for everyone to watch" Buzz said as he came back into the Murder Room. "Thank you Buzz" Sharon said as she stood back up and started walking over to the video room. Andy followed right next to her and when they entered the room, he held her chair out as she sat down. He took the seat next to her and Provenza sat across from them. Everyone else took their seats. "Are we ready?" Buzz asked. "We're ready" Sharon said and Buzz hit the play button.

TBC