Chapter 15
"Tank I am sorry, but I had to call you in." The chief told him.
"What is the status?" Tank asked the Chief.
"Okay people listen up, you all know the background of Detective Sherman, and the past few weeks the place has ran much better then before. So, until Captain Thompson returns. Detective Sherman will run this unit. Eddy I am calling in a favor from L.A. you will be getting someone to help you with the stabbing cases, while Tank runs this unit."
All of a sudden, he saw Jake Teagan come in. "I all be damn." He walked right up to Jake.
"All right everybody, I can tell by the look on all your faces. That you don't like this. I don't like it either but for now we have to follow orders. Let's find our captain." Tank told everybody.
"Eddy, Jake the office now" Tank told them.
"Okay you two are going to work together, on the stabbings and the murders of Detective Morelli and Jake Thompson. Yes, sir." Eddy, this Jake Teagan my ex-partner from L.A. take care of each other out there. Stay out of elevators." Tank told them.
Jake starting laughing. "Did I miss something?" Eddy asked Jake.
"Yeah, I will tell you in the car." Jake said as the two of them walked out.
"So what is this in elevators." Eddy asked.
We were in a elevator in L.A. working a case, when all of a sudden the elevator stopped working. We were on the eighth floor had to go to the fifteenth floor. The out of order button was not working. So, what does Tank do, he takes the ceiling the elevator off, and climbs up the cable to the fifteenth floor. Looks down at me and says, "You coming?"
"I look up at him and just shake my head at him." Jake Teagon told him.
Detective John Andersson came inside the office. "Are you going to sit in that chair?" He asked Tank
"Nope, because we are going to find Thompson one way or the other." Tank walked out of the Captain's office, "Okay check his house, his hang outs, and forth everyone that he has contacts with him." Tank told everyone.
A few hours later, there was a knock on the Captain's door. "Yeah," Tank said.
"Are you ever going to sit in that chair?" Tim Gonks said.
"Not yet, not until we find our captain." Tank told him.
"Right, well I found a few of our Captain's hang outs, and they are in the bad part of Trenton." Gonks said.
"So, in other words South Stark Street" Tank told him.
"You have a problem with that" Tank told Gonks.
"It is South Stark Street" Gonks told Tank,
"It is in our district, so that means we go. Find our Captain" Tank said through closed teeth.
"Gonks take three other bodies with you, after all it is South Stark Street." Tank told him.
"Got it and thanks." Gonks told him and pointed to Jack, Thomas, and Paul. All four of them left to go to South Stark Street.
All three of them got to the Bar on Lower Stark Street. They saw the Captain at a bar stool drinking his ass off.
"Captain," Jack said.
"You found me huh." Thompson said.
"Where have you been? The whole squad has been worried sick. The Chief made Tank acting Captain until we found you." Thomas told him.
"Maybe that is for the best, I just put in my papers this morning." Thompson told the three of them.
"I already lost my wife, because of the job, and now my brother. I am through" Thompson told him.
All three of them listened to their Captain. Jack got on the phone to the Precinct. "Jack what do you have." Tank said as he put it on the loud speaker so the chief could here.
"Thompson is not in a good spot; he is at a bar in Lower Stark Street." Jack said.
"Okay Have Thomas, Paul come back I am on my way." Tank told him.
"Got it" Jack told him.
Jack and Thomas came back to the Precinct, and noticed that Tank was gone.
Tank saw Thompson, on a bar stool by the counter.
"Hey Captain, let's talk." Tank said.
"Okay, not everything is in my jacket about my wife's death." Tank said as he continued, "I was working a big case back in Los Angeles. I had gotten a couple of threats on my life, but I thought nothing of it. I had just finished my shift and got home. When I bumped into my wife. She said she was going to get dinner, she got into the car, backed out of the driveway, and a car was coming in the wrong lane hit her car head on. Boom I saw my wife of two years gone. Just like that. The job knows how to take stuff away from its men and women. But I have to ask you are you going to become the newest victim of the job. Or are you going to come back and fight?" Tank told him.
Tank left the stool next to his captain. "Make sure he gets home Paul" Tank told him.
"Hey Tank did they catch the creep?" Thompson asked him.
"No "Tank said to both Paul and Thompson.
Tank got back to the Precinct and everyone was looking at him. "I don't know ladies and gentleman, but for now let's catch some bad guys." Tank looked at the crew of the Precinct.
A few hours later, Tank's shift was done. He drove back to his house. Saw Bob and Rufus playing in the fields. "Hey there, how did work go today?" Stephanie asked as she walked up to him. "Hey little one." Tank said. He gave her a kiss, when there saw someone drive up to the house.
"Get inside Little One." Tank said.
He looked at the car, and zoomed in on the picture. He saw it was Captain Thompson's car.
He let the Captain through the gate. "Hey Captain Thompson, how are you doing?"
"Better Tank, thanks to you. I did put my papers in. I can't work right now. So, you will have to keep working as Captain until further notice." Thompson told him'
"This is not how I wanted you chair." Tank told him.
"I know and I am sorry about that." Thompson said as he got in his car and left Tank's place.
Tank walked back into his house. Stephanie walked into his arms. "Come on Little One, lets go to bed."
The two of them walked into the bedroom and went to sleep for the night.