Hi Everyone,
First let me say a few things... I have just recently got back from holiday where I have survived 12 days cut of from any form of technology and that means laptop and phone so everything is a bit hectic. Next week I will be starting my second year of college so if updates are a bit slow I am telling you all the reason for it now.
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I am stopping this story at 100 prompts and after that I am thinking about starting a 50 prompt chapter about Frank's children when they were little so let me know if any of you are interested in that.
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Now that's over on with the chapter-and a few things you might need to know-
First off-This story contains drug and alcohol abuse by two minors so if that creates a trigger or is upsetting to anyone now would be the place to stop.
This story also contains drug overdoses-I am not an expert so If any medical issues are wrong I apologise in advance it was not my intention.
This is a direct Sequel from Chapter 16 Bail Conditions which was prompted by Caragh, I struggled to write that one but I hope this one makes up for it-I know I said a friend at a party but a close friend of mind asked for Katy's version of Scared Straight and this scenario popped into my head. Also I mentioned The Bronx in this prompt-I am not an expert being British but if I mentioned anything wrong let me know and I'll change it.
The character of Casey Gold becomes important in later prompts because even though he was only in Katy's life for a brief few hours I think in her head he changed her life.
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Disclaimer-Katy and Casey are mine nothing else is
Overdosed
When she's back at the precinct Katy meets a strange boy who changes her outlook on life for the better. But It ends in tragedy and Katy learns first-hand the damage drugs can do.
It was nearly an hour before Katy arrived at Danny's precinct and the aftereffects of her throwing up her vodka dinner were showing. She was slightly more coherent and she had stopped trembling which Danny viewed as a plus. A quick check over gave him the impression that while she had drank her own body weight in alcohol she had, had the sense to stop there and not take any kind of drugs and for that Danny was thankful. He did not want to be the one that called Jamie to tell him that his daughter had taken prescription pills or any other kind of narcotic or worse-that she had overdosed from them.
Gormley thankfully was out sick and Maria who was on Desk Duty shot him a look but thankful didn't make a comment about Danny's niece who looked like she was about to pass out asleep, Danny tucked her into the corner bed and winced as he caught a look at what she was wearing, he would have a problem if Linda wore this dress let alone if his thirteen year old daughter. Once again he reminded himself that this was why he was glad that he had two boys.
From the looks of it however, Katy wasn't the only underage teenager being brought into Major Crimes drunk off her ass. A boy came in about the same age with a wave of caramel covered hair, he looked tiny and reminded Danny of Jack when he was thirteen and so clearly drunk (and maybe high Danny couldn't tell) of his head. The thought of Jack now at basic training all alone, like this kid so clearly was forged a lump in Danny's throat. The cells were filled with the local jackasses and scumbags and Danny sighed to himself, it would be like sending the lambs to the slaughter.
Besides he thought bitterly-even drunk off her ass his niece could still hold her own with anybody let alone a skinny ass kid off his head.
Katy looked up as the door was opened. In staggered a kid that looked vaguely her age and he was clearly drunker than her. Sitting up she hugged the blanket closer the sleep and tears making her eyeliner blur. The boy sat down on the top bunk opposite watching her closely "I'm Casey" he said finally "Katy" she said gazing at her lap as Casey tilted his head watching her with wide blue eyes the pupils dilated heavily "So" he drawled his accent reminding Katy of someone living near The Bronx "What did you do Katy?"
"Got drunk off my ass and threw up all over my father and uncle who are both cops" she paused "Oh and my Grandpa is the Police Commissioner Reagan" Casey gave a short barking laugh. "Well, shit" he said finally "You'll be in major trouble if the press get wind of this."
Katy paused-in all honesty she hadn't really thought of that, she hadn't really thought of anything except proving to Andrew Mitchell that she could hold her own liquor and if he had seen the display with Uncle Danny she thought grimly then the whole night had just been shot to hell.
Casey giggled at the look on her face before leaning back against the wall sweating profusely even though the room was still cold. "Does your Dad love you?" he said his quiet voice carrying across the room. Katy blinked at him in surprise "Yeah" she said unsure of what else to say. Casey nodded "Mine doesn't" he said flatly "He keeps working so much after my Mom died I practically have to fend for myself, it doesn't really matter" he said seeing the look on Katy's face stretching before climbing off the bunk until he was in the same one as Katy looking intently into her face.
"That's awful" Katy said hoping that Casey couldn't smell the contents of her vodka dinner, Casey shrugged reaching out to brush a bit of hair back from her eye "Why are you here?" he mused more to himself "Why are you drinking when you have everything to lose?" Katy shrugged slightly "A boy" she said truthfully trying not to be memorised at the very blue colour that was Casey's eyes and how black and large his pupils were. "I want him to notice me" she continued.
Casey tipped back his head and laughed again though this time it was a lot softer than before "Oh Katy," he said gently "You don't need to get drunk to get a guy to notice you, you are by far the most interesting girl I have ever met and I've only known you for five minutes."
"You probably don't meet many interesting girls then" Katy said looking at the wall opposite feeling Casey's eyes on her. "Oh trust me I have" he said his breathing becoming shallower "And I'm a good judge of character" he slipped of one of the plaited bracelets on his wrist and slipped it onto Katy's tying it tight "You're like fire Katy" he whispered "Your golden and you will never need to impress a man, the men will need to be impressing you"
He leaned forwards at that point and gently he brushed his lips against Katy's. It was her first kiss and unbeknown to the both of them Casey's last.
He pitched forward suddenly his hand on his chest eyes wide and blown with fright his lips desperately forming words "I'm glad" he staggered out gasping for air "That I met you Katy Reagan" he took another gasp of air "Thank you" he muttered before passing out his head in Katy's lap.
And then Katy started screaming.
It was some time later when Jamie came in. He had thankfully been told what had happened by Danny who had rang him in advance and told him and he had swung by the hospital after his shift to make sure that he had something to tell Katy. Danny had told him of the little thirteen year old boy who had overdosed in the holding cell next to his daughter leaving a single father with a dead child all alone in the world. A part of him had wanted to yell and scream at his daughter but another part of him realised that he was exceptionally lucky that he wasn't Casey Gold's father.
When he came into the prescient he caught Danny's eye and the look that was shared between them was of the grim determination that came with years on the job.
Katy was in one of the holding cells Danny having moved her while Gormley was processing the "crime" scene. The Sgt had said in an undertone that he would do all he could to keep this in house, the Commissioner's granddaughter and a thirteen year old boy in one of the bunk rooms wasn't something that the press needed to know but everyone seemed to silently agree that the two kids had been safer in the bunk room rather than the holding cells. As Maria had said they weren't called Major Crimes because the people in their cells were nice kind members of society there were people that would eat two thirteen year olds alive.
Katy looked like a mess. Her hair had been mussed up and her eyes were red. She wasn't crying but her blue eyes were fixed on the wall opposite her and she was biting her thumbnail. "Hey Katy-Kat" he said silently sliding into the chair next to her.
"He's dead isn't he?" Katy said her voice devoid of any emotion. Jamie blinked in surprise "Yeah" he said gently and Katy nodded more to herself than to him "He told me that I didn't need to get drunk to prove I was worth a guy" she said her voice barely above a whisper "That they would be proving it to me"
Jamie stared at her and suddenly felt a strong wave of gratitude to Casey Gold for giving his daughter the gift of self-esteem. It was something he had long ago realised when Katy had hit puberty that he couldn't do himself. "He was right" he said quietly. Katy's hand strayed to the bracelet on her wrist before turning to look at him her eyes so blue, and so wet "I'm sorry Dad" she choked out.
A part of Jamie knew he still had a long way to go. A part of him knew that Casey Gold had unlocked the puzzle that was his daughter before he could and a part of him knew that the innocent child Katy had been before this night had died in that room with the boy who had changed her perception of herself. But as he drew his daughter into his arms and felt her sob into his shoulder he remember the look on Casey Gold's fathers face as he looked at his son's lifeless body and knew how grateful he was as sick as it may be that it wasn't him and Katy in that situation. "I'm so sorry princess" he muttered soothingly unheard over Katy's crying "But I'm so glad that it wasn't you"
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Next Chapter-Jamie and Eddie learn that they are having a girl.
