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Heading into base the following day, Josh strides into base, looking like a man on a mission, and quickly heads into the locker room, throwing on his uniform in record time and walking into the Intel office.
"Got anything for us yet Leon?" Josh asks in a gruff voice making Leon jump in his seat.
"Ahh, no, not yet, we're working on it, how's Shannon?" Leon asks taking in Josh's appearance as Audrey walks in with a cup of coffee in hand and taking her seat.
"She's been through the wringer, hence why I need some info on who did this to her." Josh snaps.
"Alright, calm down, we are doing the best we can, but as this is in hands, I don't have that much to go by yet, I'm starting from scratch, you look like you've had no sleep." Leon says and not getting a response from Josh, he knows that he hasn't had a wink of sleep and his just going to get angrier until they find out who did this to Shannon.
"Look, we combined a list of people with motives when we got the call last night, but it's a really long list Josh, majority of people has a reason to want to cause some harm to her." Audrey says barely making eye contact.
"Hand it over." Josh says extending his hand out to her.
"Are you sure you want this, you could get into trouble for this." Audrey says cautiously.
"Give it to me." Josh says and she places it into his hands, making him walk out from the office.
"You know his going to be going after the people on that list, don't you?" Leon asks Audrey while typing away on his computer.
"I know, but he has a right to try and find who did this to Shannon." Audrey says turning her chair in the direction of her desk.
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"Josh, you look like shit." Lawson stated as he put on a police ballistics vest.
"Thanks Lawson for stating the obvious." Josh says, placing the list in his vest pocket.
"You right to be working today; you look like you could do with some sleep." Lawson said as the others geared up.
"I'm fine to be working and I wouldn't sleep anyway, so I'll be in TR1." Josh says walking off.
"Stella, Christian, your with Josh today, Michael and Sam, your with me today, I'm covering for Shannon, we will be taking the South today and you guys will take the North." Lawson said.
"Got it Lawson." Stella says walking off with Christian.
"Oh and Stella." Lawson yells out.
"Yeah Lawson?" She asks.
"Keep an eye on Josh for me will you?" He enquired.
"Shall do Lawson." She said before continuing on her way to the car.
Hopping into TR 1, Stella starts up the car and takes a glance at Josh, before pulling the car out of base.
"What's with the paper Josh?" She asks.
"It's nothing." Josh says gruffly.
"If it's to do with Shannon, you know I'll back you up right?" Stella asks, knowing its most likely Josh's hit list of possible suspects.
"Just drive Stella." He says putting the list away, making note of where they will stop off first and staring out ahead of him.
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While Michael drives TR2, Lawson pulls out his phone and call Leon's mobile.
"Lawson, what's up?" Leon asks.
"What has Josh got you doing?" Lawson asks.
"Nothing at all, he hasn't called me or anything, if he was up to something you would notice it on the tracking system, or noticed something odd about him." Leon says.
"Don't bullshit to me Leon, he can't afford to get into trouble at the moment, we are already down a Sargent, we can't risk Josh copping another suspension for his uncontrolled anger issues." Lawson says.
"God you sound like Kerry, he has a right to be pissed off Lawson, we all are including you, but it doesn't necessarily mean his going to blow a fuse or do the wrong thing, he hasn't called me so I got no idea what you're on about." Leon said.
"But you're doing your Leon digging are you not?" Lawson asks while Michael glances at him, with Sam listening in intently.
"I may or may not be doing some Leon digging Lawson, I refuse to comment on that, but if I happen to accidently stumble across something, I will keep you posted." Leon says cheekily.
"Yeah, well don't go breaking any protocols or hacking CIs computer system, I can't save you from Ethical Standards Leon." Lawson says.
"Greg said he would keep us all in the loop, so why would I hack their system?" Leon asks.
"I'm just giving you a friendly reminder Leon; I'll talk to you later." Lawson says ending the call.
Sending a sms, Leon places his phone back on the desk and gets back to searching up some information and jobs for the team to attend to.
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Looking at his phone, Josh sees a text from Leon.
Opening it, the message reads watch yourself, Lawson is onto you.
"Stella, let's make a pit stop, 61 Boundary road." Josh says.
"What's on Boundary Road?" She asks while indicating to get there, with Christian looking up directions.
"Trade link." He answers shortly.
"Why are we stopping there?" Christian asks.
"Maybe I'm looking at getting a new bathroom or some form of plumbing done." Josh says glancing at Christian as Stella took another turn.
"Can't you do this in your own time?" Christian asks sensing there is more going on.
"Not really, we have nothing on anyway, it won't take long, and you guys can take a break." Josh says as they pull up.
"Well I'm coming in with you; you could use another person to help you pick out your bathroom." Stella says parking the car and hopping out.
"I rather you stay with Christian, I'll only be a couple of minutes." Josh says before walking towards the building.
"This is going to get ugly isn't it?" Christian asks stretching his legs.
"I don't know yet." Stella says while looking through the shop window.
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"Hi, I was wondering if a George Simpson was working today." Josh asked.
"Ahh yes, his just over there." The woman on registers said while pointing in the direction of where he was.
"Thank you." Josh says before quickly striding over to him.
"George Simpson." Josh said approaching him.
"Yes, what is with the visit?" George asked.
"Would you happen to know anything about an attack that took place last night with Sargent Henry?" Josh asks while glaring at him with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Oh shit, is she okay?" George asked.
"She will be, but do you know anything about it?" Josh asked again.
"God know, I have no reason to attack her." George said.
"So you deny any involvement in the incident." Josh said.
"Of course I deny it, I may have been charged with possession of illegal substances, but she was the reason to me becoming clean and staying on the straight and narrow." He said.
"Do you know anyone that might have a reason to hurt her?" Josh asked.
"No, but I hope she makes a speedy recovery." George said.
"Well thanks for your help, keep up the good work." Josh says before walking out.
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"So what went on in there?" Stella asks while getting back into the car.
"Nothing." Josh says abruptly.
"Josh." Stella says warningly.
"I said nothing." He repeats more firmly.
"Well Lawson was asking why we had stopped." Stella said.
"What did you say?" He asked as she pulled back onto the main street.
"I said we stopped for coffee so you don't pass out on us, he seemed to buy it for now, but Josh, we can't keep covering for you, especially with big mouths like Michael and Sam." She said.
"She's right man, you gotta open up to us, or someone at least." Christian says while smsing Annie.
"Just drop it will you guys." Josh says looking out the window.
"Hey we are all just worried about you and Shan, it wouldn't be the first time you went after someone who hurt her, we all know about the taxi incident." Christian says looking up from his phone to see Josh looking angry and staring out of the window.
"Lawson or Kerry will probably send you to counselling." Stella said.
"Let me worry about that will you." Josh says as Leon's voice filters through theirs coms to give them a job to attend to.
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Walking into the hospital later, Josh gets some flowers and a teddy bear before heading up to Shannon's room.
"Hey Shan, how are you feeling today?" Josh asks placing down her bag of stuff from home along with her flowers before walking over to kiss the top of her forehead.
"Feeling a little bit better, my eyesight has improved by about 10%; I'm a bit high on painkillers." She says grabbing a hold of his hand.
"Well that's good to see you being treated properly, I got you some things." He said sitting on the edge of her bed.
"Like what?" She asks
"Like your bag of things from home, some flowers and a teddy bear for when you get lonely in the hospital and you need some comfort." Josh says.
"Thanks Josh, you didn't have to." She said.
"But I wanted to." He said.
"Promise me something." She said.
"Promise." Josh said.
"Promise me you won't let the guilt consume you or the revenge side please." She pleaded.
"You know I can't Shan." He said.
"You said you would so you will." She insisted.