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CHAPTER 3
A CITY ON EDGE
Jamie Reagen was racing to the scene to help pick up the kidnapped child. He was running at high speed down 149th Ave when he noticed a fireball off to his left. His stomach tied up in a knot like it did when his partner Vinnie Cruz was murdered 2 weeks earlier. His new partner, a rookie right out of the academy asked "What was that?" Jamie stopped the car just in time to hear the loud blast. He knew that the playground was in that general vicinity. He also knew that D'Angelo was on the scene. He picked up his mic and said "12 Georgia to 13 Able?" "12 Georgia to 13 Abel, do you copy?" He heard no response so he hit the gas when all of the sudden a brown unmarked unit, running code (meaning they were running with lights and siren), cut him off. He got in behind them and looked at his partner and said "maybe they are going to the same place." He saw excitement in his partner's big brown eyes as she looked through the windshield at the smoke. She said "Do you think that the boy is all right?" Jamie said "I hope so."
In the unmarked unit that had just passed Reagan's unit Detectives Eames and Goren were very nervous about what they were going to find when they got to the playground. They turned on to Trinton Ave and saw three marked units wrecked and on fire. Alex's heart sank and she started to cry. They got as close as they could and exited their vehicle leaving the lights and siren going. The officers in the unit behind them did as well. The four of them ran as fast as they could to the wreckage. Jamie found an officer from his precinct, a friend of his, Patrolman Danny Milner, just breathing his last breaths. He knelt down and said "Danny what happened." Milner, with a raspy breath said "D'Angelo said the kid had a bomb strapped to him, and he tried to disarm it. Please tell Vickie and the kids I love them." Then he died This was too much for Jamie; two weeks earlier his partner died, now six more officers, one of which was a friend of his, have died. All because of some crazy running around with no value for human life.
Suddenly Jamie's new partner, Alice Benton, doubled over . Jamie yelled "Alice what's wrong?" Alex and Bobby were looking around what had been the playground, but was now a crater when Alex cried out in pain and went down. Bobby saw a bullet go right through her from her back through her stomach on her right side. Bobby yelled "Sniper, everyone down!" He crawled over to his partner and turned her over and saw that she was still alive. He said "Don't move Alex, I need to stop the bleeding, but I need to get you out of the open." With that he picked her up and the two of them made their way to the wrecked cars. He hid her behind them. He saw Jamie Reagan bringing his partner to their location. She had been shot as well. He took his portable two-way out of his coat pocket and called "4736 to Central, rush." The reply was "All units stay off the air 4726 has rush traffic. Go ahead 4736." He replied "We are at the playground on Trinton Ave. We are under sniper fire. We have two, I repeat two female officers down." We need back up and two bus's immediately. Also the Duncan kid is no where to be found, but it looks like a bomb exploded. Six other officers and two civilians are also dead.. Get help out here now."
The dispatcher started dispatching ambulances and backup officers to the scene. Her supervisor came over and said "ask him who he has that has not been injured." The dispatcher pushed the button on the mic and said "Central to 4736, who do you have with you that has not been injured?" Robert looked at Jamie and he said my call number is 12 Georgia. Robert keyed the mic and said "4736 to Central 12 Georgia is with me. His partner has taken multiple hits. The one she took to the chest was deflected due to her vest. However she as two to her abdomen. My partner 3798 has taken a through and through from the back. I am trying to stop the bleeding, but I am not having much luck."
Fear ran through Danny Reagan's spine when he heard Jamie's badge number called out by Goren. He hit his lights and siren and told his partner, Detective Baez, to buckle up because he was going to get there very fast. Danny had been driving fast through the streets of New York City since he was a kid when he used to race is 69 SS, so fast driving was no stranger to him. But his mind was on his youngest brother being under sniper fire, he was determined to get there.
Robert finally got Alex's bleeding stopped and she regained consciousness. She whispered "What happened?" Robert said "You were shot by a sniper." "No," she said "I mean to the playground, where is the boy?" Robert looked at her, wanting to lie to her, but he knew that he would have to tell her the truth sooner or later, and said "l don't know, it looks like a bomb." Jamie stated "I know one of the officers that died here, and he was still alive when we arrived, and he said that the boy had a bomb strapped to him, and D'Angelo was trying to disarm it when it blew." Tears came into Alex's eyes and Robert held her close to his chest. They could hear the sirens nearing, and a helicopter was buzzing overhead.
The ambulances stopped at 149 and Trinton and would not go any further until it had been cleared. Police put up a barrier to keep anyone from getting through, when a brown unmarked police car (running code) broke through. It was Danny Reagan and his partner, Maria Baez. They continued up the street. When they parked, Danny shut off the siren. The sirens from Jamie's car and Goren's car were still blasting. Danny and Maria hunched down along the side of the two cars, opening the passenger doors, turning off the sirens. Then they made their way to where Robert and Jamie were protecting their partners. Two more sniper shots whizzed over their heads, and they were able to make it to safety. Just then Alex's cell phone rang, and Robert answered it. "Hello?" "Is this Bobby Goren?" came the distorted voice. "Yes, it is. Why did you kill that boy? Why are you shooting at us? I am here just like you ordered, so why are you doing this?" The voice then said "I am not shooting at you anymore. But I will be shooting at other people. New Yorkers will live in fear. This city will be on edge, and it's all your fault Bobby. The only way to stop me is to find me and kill me. But I couldn't let little Ronny Duncan identify me now could I. By the way C-4 makes quite a bang, don't you think?" and the line went dead.
Robert laid there and shook as he held Alex close to him. He looked at Danny and said "We are in for hard times until we find the freak."
An hour went by with no further activity so the ambulances came and started working with the two injured officers. Alex was very critical and Alice was near death. Jamie had lost one partner this month and he desperately didn't want to lose this one. When Jamie arrived at the hospital, Frank was there to greet him. After a brief embrace Frank said "Alice died 20 minutes ago." Tears came to Jamie's eyes as he said "Dad, this was her first day out. She was only assigned to me this morning?" Frank looked at him and said "It's not your fault. It happens."
Robert sat in the waiting room waiting on word from the doctor concerning Alex. Finally the doctor came out and said "Eames family." Robert got up and said "I'm her partner." The doctor said "We've done all we can do, the rest is up to her and God. We have repaired all the damaged tissue and organs, but she lost a lot of blood. So we won't know anything for 24 hours. I suggest you go home and get some rest." Robert said "Can I see her?" The doctor thought and then said "only for a minute and don't try to ask her any questions. Ok?" Robert nodded his head and followed the doctor into Alex's room. He bent down over her body and whispered in to her ear "You get well, don't leave me I love you, please remember that, I love you." He then kissed her on the lips lightly and walked out of the room, out of the hospital and got in Alex's car and headed for the city with one thing on his mind: Find The Creep Who Killed That Kid and Shot Alex. Dead or alive he was bringing him in, and right now he was rooting for dead.