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Ch2: Trouble
Nick and Catherine sat on her couch both stunned; Catherine grabbed her daughter's phone.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to find out about this Danny Polo"
"And do what?"
"Kill him"
"Cath you can't"
"Why not?"
"Well the fact that you just told me makes it premeditated which means you would go to prison for at least 25 years... I can't let that happen"
"Relax Nicky I won't kill him" she said going through the photos on her daughter's phone. She stopped when she saw her daughter smiling.
Lindsay was propped up on one elbow smiling a genuine smile. A boy Catherine assumes to be Danny blowing a dandelion in Lindsay's face. In the picture Danny smiling too he had what looked to be a stylish Mohawk with a hat and a black eye.
Nick looked at the picture and saw tears well up in her eyes.
"Is this him?"
"I think so" she said releasing a deep breath, she quickly checked her watch to see that classes were starting at Lindsay's school. "I am going to introduce myself" Catherine said quickly standing and heading for the door.
"Are you sure?" he said stopping her.
"Yea so you can either come with me or stay here?"
"I'll drive" he said going in front of her making a break to the car.
This is why Catherine likes Nick he didn't try to talk her out of something she felt strongly about but he would rather back her play on the matter and defend her decision to anyone. He didn't want to know her whole life story just how Catherine didn't want to know all of his. Some parts are better left unsaid and not shared. They respected each other's space. It gave them the strongest friendship.
Catherine and Nick sat in the parking lot Catherine thought she missed him.
"Damn we must have missed him"
"Is that him?" Nick said pointing to the kid walking from the senior parking lot.
"Yea..." she said grabbing the door.
"Whoa whoa what do you think you're doing?"
"I'm going talk to him" she said walking in the same direction as Danny.
Danny looked nervous and tired but also dirty very dirty. With another black eye and a bruise on his rigid jaw line.
"You're a little late for school"
"Yup" he said briefly turning around. Then again as if he was confused "do I know you? You look familiar"
"No no we do not"
"Oh then why are you following me?"
"I'm not"
"You been in the parking lot for 15 minutes and don't get out until I come into school. Who are you?"
"How'd you get that black eye?"
"None of your business"
"You are my business now Danny Polo"
"How do you know my name? What is going on?" Danny said looking around.
"My daughter is Lindsay Willows... Listen here kiddo if I catch you by my daughter I'll kill you... Have a good day at school" she said walking away.
"For how long?" he yelled dropping his back pack turning his hat backwards.
"Try nine months" she left confusing the young man. Just then she got a text from Brass with info on a new case.
"What do we have Brass?" Catherine said walking into an abandon wine cellar.
"Say hello to John Doe" he said, the scene had cardboard all over like a rug. It was stained with blood in numerous spots probably from dozens of people. The victim was beat to pulp bruises all over his body with a deep gash on his forehead probably the COD.
"Who found the body?"
"Realtor this place going on the market today after four years of being out of commission. Realtor's name is John Jenkins found the body two hours ago"
"What is this place?" Nick asked there were trash and several beer bottles all over.
"It's an underground fight ring they have been popping up all over Vegas. It seems that John Doe was a fighter" Brass added as Dave arrived.
"Sorry I'm late guys another busy day"
"It's alright super Dave give us anything you can on this guy" Nick says.
"Victim seems to be in his mid-twenties. Blunt force trauma seems to be COD.
Rigor is fixed so that would place TOD late last night and liver temp confirms it. I can tell you more after autopsy"
"Alright super Dave" Nick said photographing the numerous cuts and bruises on the victim. Dave with the help of other coroners lifted the body on to the gurney.
"Umm Catherine you may want to look at this" Dave said Catherine looked there was a black 'M' painted on the victim's chest. Catherine photographed the mark.
"I think I got the weapon that did all the damage" Nick said holding up a broken beer bottle.
"Swab it for DNA"
"Way ahead of you"
Nick was patiently waiting in the DNA lab after stopping at the fingerprint lab. The perp left prints and DNA Nick always loved the dummies they made his job easier.
Catherine walked in at the exact same moment that a hit came across the same.
"Yes! Oh hey Cath"
"Hey Nicky" Catherine said lightly touching Nick's lower back.
"Mandy got no hits in AFIS and we just got a DNA hit to a Mr..." Nick leaned and clicked the link "Mr. Eddie Sanchez served a nickel for drugs and is currently on probation for... What a surprise drugs. He snitched on his supplier for a lighter sentence"
"We found a mole" Catherine said rubbing her eyes pulling doubles are never fun.
"Good because you will need it" Brass said "these underground fight rings are worst then gangs. There more brutal. Don't tolerate any form of snitching. And to make matters worse there extremely secretive so they are impossible for undercover operations"
"The DNA on the beer bottle matches a known snitch we gotta find Eddie Sanchez" Nick says as Catherine's phone rings.
"Excuse me" she says leaving to answer her phone as she realizes that Lindsay's school is calling.
"I'll put an alert out and check with his probation officer"
"Alright cool I'll check with local hospital he could have been a fighter" Nick said, his accent always more detectable when he was happy or excited or mad, turning back to see a confused Catherine staring at her phone "Cath are you okay?"
"The school just called me and said that Lindsay was in an altercation at school and that I should go right away"
"Is she hurt?"
"The principal assured me she wasn't... The principal said there was too much to be explained over the phone"
"Here take my truck" Nick said handing her his keys "call me if you need anything"
Catherine rushes inside school she sees Lindsay right in front of the principal's office sitting across from Danny. She walks inside the principal's office before being able to talk to her daughter.
"Miss Willows"
"What happened?"
"A male student called your daughter an inappropriate name"
"Danny Polo"
"No"
"Why is he out there?"
"He witnessed the remark and then punched him in the face that is why he is he... The male student may have touched your daughter I am not aware"
"Why didn't you ask him?"
"Danny Polo sent the boy to the hospital with a possible concussion"
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