How I joined Jump Street

Chapter 3

Two hours later on the other side of town Izzi walked with one of Alejandro's bodyguards Michael. Izzi had suffered a bad beating from Alejandro. Izzi had fought back it wasn't enough to stop it from happening. When Alejandro was done he demanded that she go with him to see his other side businesses. Alejandro was nearby taking money from one of the hooker's that worked the block. A patrol car pulls up besides Izzi and the man. The lights on the car flash. Alejandro sees the police car and limps off in the other direction. Izzi sees this.

"Coward!" Izzi said.

Inwardly she was glad. It would be fewer problems this way with Alejandro gone. No police shoot out and no one ending up dead.

"Izzi Santos?" One of the officers says as he gets out of the car followed by his partner.

"Who wants to know?" Izzi asked.

The second officer pulls his gun.

"Izzi Santos we have a warrant for your arrest. Get down on the ground both of you!"

Izzi didn't resist. She got down on the ground. As the first officer went to handcuff her by pulling her right arm to her back and she screamed out.

"Watch the arm!"

The officer whispered into her ear that he was sorry. Izzi thought it was odd. Did he know that she was a cop? He then patted her down and took her knife and gun. They arrested the man with her. Another car came to take the other man away as they were pulling her to her feet one of the officers whispered into her ear.

"Don't worry Santana we know who you are Captain Rosario wants to see you."

"Thank you." She says back.

Izzi sat in the back of the police car. She knew it was for show so she didn't complain. She was just happy she was closer to home, closer to D.B, a real shower, real food, a real bed, her own clothes, and off this case. Izzi was brought into the station and led upstairs to Narcotics Division. Once the three officers were up there they took the handcuffs off of her and she walked to the Captain's office knocking on the door.

"Come in."

"Captain Rosario." Izzi said.

Izzi opens the door and sees Captain Rosario as well as Maxwell Ricktor.

"Hello Sergeant Ricktor." She says.

"Izzi." Ricktor says.

"Santana come in. Please sit." He tells her.

She sits down in the chair near the Captain's desk. Ricktor sits down next to her. He takes a good look at the young officer. She looked like she been through hell. She had a few bruises on her face.

She held her right arm tightly to her body and Carlos couldn't tell if it was Santana's right arm that was broken or her ribs. Santana looked dead tired and he knew something was deeply wrong. What he found out from his superiors may have a great deal to do with it.

"Santana are you alright?" Ricktor asks.

Her eyes rose to look at him. Ricktor was an older man. He was a few years older the Captain Rosario. He had dark hair and dark eyes. To this day she couldn't tell if he had Spanish in him. He spoke Spanish better then her. She had known Ricktor for a long time. He trained her when he requested her for his department. He had taught her everything she needed to know and then some. She respected him and enjoyed working under him. She regretted the day she was transferred out to work in Narcotics. If he was here then he must have heard what happened.

Izzi then looked to the Captain. Captain Rosario was older then she was about the same age as her father Ramon. He had black hair that was starting to grey at the temples and black eyes. He was tall and didn't look the least bit comfortable in the chair of Captain Bauhaus who was shorter. She recalled Captain Rosario saying once that he was from Cuba. That he came here from Cuba. She remembered that she wanted him to meet her father who also was from Cuba.

"Just tired sir." She said.

The Captain sighed not knowing where to start. Seeing how this was a good news, bad news, worse news, and news Izzi doesn't want to know kind of deal.

"We found Cooper." He starts off.

She leaned forward a bit in her chair.

"Is he alright?" She asked.

"He was committed to the hospital he had a breakdown."

"What?" She said.

"He told us what happened to him and to you."

"He did?"

She looked at the Captain as if she wasn't sure what he was talking about. But Izzi knew what happened to Cooper. She knew what Cooper did and she knew he couldn't have told them everything. She knew Cooper stood by and did nothing when the same thing was happening to her. He didn't do anything! When it was happening to him she fought like hell to protect him. But he didn't do the same for her! Izzi stiffened in her chair as she felt anger towards Cooper boil in her blood.

"We'll come back to that later. Santana, I think you need you know why Captain Bauhaus was taken off of duty." Ricktor said to her.

"Why?"

"He was conducting investigations without department knowledge or permission including your case." Ricktor said.

"Without departmental know…..What? You mean I didn't….We didn't have to be there?"

"No you didn't." Rosario said.

Izzi raised her eyes to Carlos. Her eyes conveyed no anger but pain and confusion.

"Why? Why did he have us investigate Alejandro Lopez knowing what kind of man he is? Do you know how many undercover officers he's killed over the years and how close we all came to it?" There was no anger to what Izzi was saying and to Captain Rosario and there should have been.

"Alejandro Lopez killed a lot of undercovers including Captain Bauhaus' son. He too was a cop." Captain Rosario stated.

"His son? I didn't know he had a son. We didn't have to be there and we went through all that for nothing. Wasn't a real case…..Anderson is in a coma right now. Cooper's gone crazy and I…"

Izzi stopped talking. She couldn't bring herself to say what Alejandro Lopez or Cooper for that matter did to her. She was trying to understand what she was just told. Izzi looked off for a moment and tried her best to fight back the tears. She didn't want to cry in front of the Captain or the Sergeant. Once she pulled herself together she turned back to the Captain. This had to be some kind of nightmare.

"I don't understand. I was there for a week without back up and no one even knew that I, Anderson, and Cooper were even gone? We could have been killed and no one would have known?"

Izzi never felt so abandoned before. She never felt so lost after case and this wasn't even a real case and it felt like a real one. She put her life on the line for a case that the department had no knowledge of. She was unsure of what to do now.

"Santana, I'm truly sorry that this happened." Ricktor said to her.

"As soon as find out how many officers are on cases like yours we bring them back and charge Captain Bauhaus accordingly." The Captain said.

Izzi looked at him but didn't care about what they were going to do with Bauhaus, mainly because the damage had been done. So if he got punished he got punished. Izzi didn't feel either way about it. She just felt numb.

"What happened to Cooper sir?" She asked.

"Lopez assaulted him."

"This investigation wasn't legal we can't arrest him on anything we've gained from this." She stated.

"No we can't right now. But I've seen your notes from this case (clears throat). You keep very detailed notes." Ricktor said.

The Captain and Sergeant understood that Izzi was handling this case on her own from what the brass had said earlier to Carlos. Cooper had admitted that they, he and Anderson were making her do all the work. They even went as far as not backing her up on many times knowing that she could get killed and she almost did. It was either sheer luck or good training on her part that she even survived at all. But Captain Rosario knew that Izzi needed more the luck to help her through this.

"But we can't use my note not even to help John or Mark." Izzi said.

Why the hell did she want to help them after all that they did? Ricktor thought.

"Or you? Cooper told me what Lopez did to you Santana we can file charges against him." The Captain said.

Izzi stood up.

"No. I just want this to go away. Besides there isn't any evidence now it's been a week. I couldn't…uh….do you need me to write up a report sir?" She asked the Captain.

"No Santana we can do that anytime." Carlos told her.

"Can…..can I have the rest of the day off?" She asked.

"Santana I want you to take as much as you need." The Captain told her.

"You have been through a lot." Ricktor added.

"Ok I'm going to go get changed so I can go home."

Izzi walks to the door.

"Santana?" Ricktor says.

She turns back to Ricktor.

"Sir?"

"If you need to talk I'm here or you can talk with the department shrink." Ricktor says.

"Can you tell Janette that I would like to see her? Right away." Izzi asked.

"I'll call her right now." The Captain tells her.

"Thank you."

Izzi turned and walked out closing the door behind her. Carlos watched as she left.

"Well?" He asked turned to look at Maxwell.

"I've never seen her like this." Maxwell asked.

A surge of pain hit Carlos. He felt sorry for her. He knew he had gotten some of the story from his superiors over the phone.

"Before you came I was on the phone with the brass for two hours trying to get an idea on what happened. I had no idea how much hot water Bauhaus, Cooper, and Anderson are in. It wasn't even a real investigation. To put officers lives in danger like that…." Carlos said.

"There's no telling what she's been through. She's strong but she still shouldn't have been there."

"I agree." Carlos said with a sigh.

Carlos had gotten all the gritty details of the faux undercover assignment. But he knew deep down that Izzi knew the whole story. He wondered if she ever tell what happened while she was undercover. He saw the tears that she was fighting not to shed. He saw the sadness in her. But there was something else he could put his finger on.

"Do you think she's going to be alright?"

"I wish I knew that answer to that Carlos." Ricktor answered.

Izzi walked past her desk and sat down. She just sat there with her hands in her lap looking at them. It wasn't a real case and they all could have been killed and no one would have known it. No one knew they were gone and Izzi didn't know how to feel about that. Captain Bauhaus' son was killed by Alejandro and he just sent us in to do what? How were we supposed to bring him down if the department didn't know about it? How were we going to do that?

Izzi picked up the phone and dialed she needed to hear his voice. She needed to call him. She needed to let him know she was back. She needed to know someone out there still cared.

"Booker." He answered.

"Hi….D.B….I'm back." Izzi said devoid of feeling.

Dennis was so excited to hear her voice that he wasn't even listening to the tone she was speaking in.

"Hey Izzi! When did you get back babe?"

"Today. Are you ok?" She asked.

"Yeah I'm fine. Are you ok?"

"So-so." She answered.

"Did you make the big arrest?" He asked.

"Not…..exactly." She said.

Dennis knew from the sound of her voice something was up. He just didn't know what.

"Everything alright, Izzi?"

Upon hearing the sound of his pet name for her she wanted to be in his arms right now and just cry.

"Uh….." She said unsure that she could keep the tears in. She closed her eyes tightly.

"I just needed…..I needed to hear your voice D.B. I really miss you."

"I missed you too."

"How was your day?" She asked knowing it would get him talking he wouldn't ask so many questions.

Dennis started talking about his day and everything she missed since that last saw each other. Izzi just listened to him. She didn't really discern how much she missed him until he was telling her about the case he was on. She loved him dearly and she loved being a cop. But this case or what ever it was changed her and she loved being a cop a little less now. She wondered for a moment what her life would be like if she quit. If she gave it all up right now. She sucked in a breath and she was reminded of the pain in her ribs. Izzi let out a small whimper and Dennis heard it over the phone.

"You ok Princess?" He asked.

She gasped a little at the pain before answering.

"Izzi?" Becoming a little concerned.

"Yeah. Listen, D.B. I'm going to swing by later. I got to see Uncle Adam."

"Ok sounds good."

"I have to go. See you soon?" Izzi said.

"I love you Izzi."

"I love you too D.B." Izzi said into the phone before hanging up.

She put her hands into her lap and just stared at them. What was going to happened now? Was she going to get in trouble for following Bauhaus' orders? Was Anderson and Cooper going to be all right? Why…why did Alejandro do that to me? Why did Cooper tell him to do that? Why? Why? What is my next step? What do I do?

Izzi turned on her computer and began to type. After 10 minutes she printed it out and put it into a folder. She then shut down her computer and continued to sit there with her head down.

Izzi sat there for an hour and someone went to the Captain to ask if Santana was alright she hadn't moved for over an hour. Before Captain Rosario could come out of his office his phone rang. He answered it was the brass to fill him in on something. He put his hand over the phone and asked if Maxwell could talk with her. Maxwell got up and left the office walking over to Santana's desk.

"Santana? Santana?"

Izzi looked up at him. Her light brown eyes shining wet with tears.

"Santana? Are you alright?" He asked softly.

Izzi looked to her desk and she saw the report that she had just written for the fake case she was on. She slowly picked it up from the desk and handed it to him. The Sergeant looked at it oddly. He was sure that this was her paperwork giving her two week notice.

"What is this Santana?" He asked.

"My paperwork." She said.

Izzi pulled a set of keys from her desk draw she stood up and started to walk away while Maxwell looked over the papers. He looked up and saw that she was walking away. He walked after her and grabbed her right arm gently turning her around to face him. She winced at the pain he had caused her by touching her arm.

"Santana? Izzi, where are you going?"

"To the locker room. I have to get out of these clothes. Put this case behind me." She said.

"I want you checked out by a doctor today Santana."

"I will."

"Santana if I was in charge this-this won't have happened to you none of it." He tells her.

"I know."

He watched her walk away he started to skim through the report as he walks back to Carlos Rosario's office. He hands the file to him and sits down. Carlos looks at it and he hangs up the phone.

"What's this?"

"Her report of what happened." Maxwell says.

Carlos opens the file and reads the complete report. Carlos went to the filing cabinet and pulled one of Izzi past reports and read it.

"What are you looking for?" Maxwell asked.

"One of her old reports."

"Why?"

"I need to see something."

Both were very detailed the only difference was the tone. The one that Maxwell just handed him was grim as if Santana lost something during this case. But the theme of the report was clear she felt abandoned.

"I can't believe this happened to her. She lost something on this case. Brass doesn't have a clue to what went down there." Carlos says.

"What did the Brass have to say?"

"They want to know what she knows about Cooper."

"Cooper? Why?"

"There's an investigation involving him. Cooper and Anderson abandoned her and the force might lose a good cop over it." Carlos said.

"We won't let that happen."

"You know Izzi Santana worked two cases for me in homicide and even worked with an officer from IAD named Dennis Booker. They seemed to work real well together. I remember how she acted on those cases. She was bright and bubbly and always, always had a smile on her face."

"Yup that's Santana." Maxwell said.

Though she was a little too quiet for his taste but spoke up when she thought she needed to.

"The young woman that sat in front of us just moments ago wasn't that smiling and happy creature. She looked uncertainty and fear in her eyes." Carlos said.

"She's seen some things on this case that isn't in this report." Maxwell said to Carlos.

"That soft voice of hers was empty of all feeling. She was eating whatever she was feeling pushing it down within her. I think she may…." He looked down at her report not wanting to finish the sentence.

"I agree. I think we may have to call Fuller." Maxwell said.

After reading the report all the way through again Carlos became concerned for Izzi. He wondered if he should call Fuller but thought against for now it and called Janette instead.

"I think I should call Janette first."

"I think you should too."

Dr. Janette Baker was sitting in her office going over some paper work when her telephone rang.

"Dr. Baker." She answered.

"Janette its Carlos."

"Hi Carlos how are you?"

"Ask me that later. Were you by chance filled in on what's going on with Bauhaus?" He asks her.

"Yes. I heard. I even saw Anderson in the hospital. The doctor's say he may not pull through. Were they able to locate Izzi?"

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. She was brought in today. She asked to see you right away. I don't think she is doing well at all. I and Ricktor only sat with her only for a few minutes but something is off with her. I read what happened to her, Anderson, and Cooper. It was bad what happened to her." He tells her.

"I see." She says.

"Is there anyway you can talk with her today?" He asks her.

"Sure."

"I think she wants to quit. But I'm more concerned that she may take her life."

"Do you think she is a danger to herself?" She asks. It didn't seem like the Izzi she knew.

"I'm not the expert you are. I'm just going by her report and how she acted in my office."

"How did she act in your office?"

"Distant. Empty. I'm not sure how to explain it. After something like this she should be angry. She should be showing some kind of emotion. She wasn't like that. She was like a zombie." He said.

"Where is she?"

"In the locker room."

"I can make sure I see her today."

"Thanks."

"Can you call Adam and him a heads up just in case I miss her?"

"The Brass says I can't share what I know about this case." Carlos states.

"Tell Adam what you can. But he needs to know."

"I'll do that now." Carlos says.

"I'll clear my schedule and down as soon as I can."

"Thanks a lot Janette."

"You're welcome."