How I joined Jump Street

Chapter 7

Janette made her way over to Booker's desk after she was done taking with Penhall. She gave him her phone number. She smiled as she watched Doug walk back to his desk humming with a huge grin on his face. Janette stood next to Dennis' desk.

"Hello Dennis." Janette said.

He looked up to her then offered her a chair to sit in.

"Hi Jan. You wanna shed some light on what happened to Izzi?" He asked her.

"A lot of things happened and she's in a lot of pain. It was a bad case. Captain Bauhaus should have never put her on that case with those two fools!"

"So you're here with her as….?" Dennis asked.

Janette knew well what Dennis was asking. He wanted to know if Izzi was in some kind of trouble.

"I'm here as her friend. I can't tell you much about what's happening but I can tell you is that she needs you."

"What exactly happened? I heard that the other officers that were working the case with her are now in the hospital."

"They are."

"Did that guy Lopez do that to her, the bruises I mean?" He asked.

"Yes."

"Ok, how worried should I be?" Dennis asked.

Janette looked to Captain Fuller's door. Janette thought about everything she had heard and saw today. She was worried about Izzi. Dennis senses her concern. He places a hand on her shoulder.

"Jan please, tell me something here. Izzi's been gone for over two months. She comes back with fresh bruises on her face. She comes back and she looks as if the world as ended. She hasn't smiled once since she's been here. You know as well as me that isn't like her at all. She always smiles."

"I saw her smile today, once." Janette said.

"That? That wasn't her 'Izzi' smile. That was her 'things are bad and I need to put on a smile' smile."

"You really do know her don't you?" Janette asked.

"I know she looks afraid. There's more to this then what you are saying isn't there?" Dennis asked.

"There is but it's not my place to tell. I don't know everything."

Dennis gave her his famous puppy dog face. He needed to know more about what is going on with Izzi.

"Jan please." Dennis pleads.

"Oh, don't do that Dennis. I see why she likes you so much. What I can tell you is this. There are some days that I wish the two of you worked together in the same place. And there are some days like today that I wished you still worked in IAD." Janette said.

"What? Is Izzi…..?"

Panic crossed Dennis' face. Janette quickly put his mind at ease.

"No. Not her, the officers that were undercover with her are in a lot of trouble, especially John Cooper."

"What about the other one?"

"Mark Anderson is in a coma and may not make it."

"What happened to him?"

"I think he got his head crushed."

"What?"

"I don't have all the details on it. That all I can tell you. Booker?"

He knew from Janette's tone and the fact that she called him Booker that what she was about to say was serious.

"Yeah?"

"Can you take a couple of days off for Izzi?"

"Yeah. I was going to take my vacation when Izzi was but she caught this case instead. Why?"

"I think she's going need someone right now. After everything's that's happen. Like I said she never should have been on this case with Cooper and Anderson."

"But is she ok?"

"Honestly no. She won't talk about it. I tried talking to her but she keeps putting up walls. I don't think she'll even share what happened with her Uncle. The Brass knows what happened but not everything. Izzi does and she's close to…."

"….Having a break down. I got it. I've got time saved up. I can take off."

Dennis took note of the two names that Janette gave him. He was going to ask about from his friend over in IAD. He sees that Judy and Tom have walked in. Judy sees Janette and comes over to Dennis' desk.

"Janette is that you?" Judy asks.

Janette turns.

"Yeah it's me." She says back.

"What are you doing here?"

"I gave Izzi a ride over." Janette says.

"Izzi's here?" Judy says as her eyes light up.

"Yeah."

"Well where is she?"

"With her Uncle." Janette tells her.

"Oh, Janette I'm so glad you're here. I've got something to show you." Judy says and before Janette could object she pulls Janette over to her desk.

Dennis goes back to his paperwork debating rather to call now or wait. He knew whatever he was going to find out wasn't going to be good.

Dennis watches as Captain Fuller's door opens and Izzi walks out. Fuller follows her and pulls Izzi into a hug. He tells her if she needs anything to call him. Izzi tells Fuller that she will and she starts to yawn. Fuller tells her to go home get some rest and she turns to head back to Booker's desk but sees Tom Hanson with his arms held out to her. She goes to him to get her hug.

"Hey Santana." Hanson says.

"Hi Hanson how are you?" Izzi asks.

"Good. Good. You visiting I see."

"That I am Hanson."

"When you going to transfer over here?"

"One day Tom. One day."

"Where'd you get those?" He asks about the bruises.

"My last assignment."

"Damn."

"It's not so bad." Izzi says.

"You should take it easy."

"I plan to." She says.

Izzi sees Judy wave her over.

"I think Judy wants you." Tom says.

"Good to see you Tom."

"Same here."

She walks over to Judy's desk.

"Hi Judy." Izzi says.

Judy kisses Izzi on the cheek.

"Hi Izzi."

"Where's Harry?" Izzi asks.

"He's on vacation."

Dennis's phone rings and he answers it.

"Booker."

"Hi. Uh…Captain Fuller transferred me to you. I would like to speak with Officer Santana."

"Who's calling?" He asks.

"Dr. Rivers."

"Hold on."

Booker looks up from his desk.

"Izzi." He calls.

She turns.

"Phone call." He tells her.

She looks at him puzzled.

"No one knows I'm here. Who is it?"

"Dr. Rivers."

Dennis watches as her eyes go wide and she comes over.

"Thanks." She says taking the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hi Izzi. It's Jillian."

"Hey Jillian what's up?"

"Are you sitting?" She asks Izzi.

"What?"

"I think you need to be sitting down."

"Why?"

"Your tests results came back. But I want to tell you about Anderson first."

"Ok. Tell me about Anderson. Is he alright?"

"Anderson passed away an hour ago. He never recovered from his injuries. I was just in surgery trying to repair some of the damage to his brain. Izzi I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry too. The other doctor said that there was a chance he wouldn't make it. I didn't believe him. He didn't deserve to go out that way." Izzi said.

Jillian sighs and there is silence on both ends for a few moments.

"Your test results are also back." Jillian told her.

"Tell me." Izzi said.

"Izzi you're pregnant."

"W-what?"

Izzi sat down on the chair next to Dennis' desk. Dennis watched as Izzi's face fell. Dennis watched closely trying not to ease drop but he was concerned for Izzi.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I even checked it twice."

"¡Ah mi dios!"

"Izzi…."

"Are a-are you sure?" Izzi asked again.

"Yes Izzi. Do you know what you are going to do?"

"No I don't."

"You want to talk about it. You do have options you know."

"I—I can't not right now. I need time. I'll call you later Jillian."

"But Izzi…."

"Later. I'll call you later." Izzi said and handed the phone back to Dennis. Dennis took it from her and hung it up.

"Izzi you ok?" He asks.

"Can….can you tell Janette I'm ready to go I'm really tired?"

"Sure. Izzi, who was that on the phone?"

"My friend Dr. Jillian Rivers she…she told me that my Lt., Lt Anderson passed away."

"Izzi I'm so sorry."

Dennis came over to hug her.

"They told me it might happen but I didn't….didn't believe them." Izzi said.

Dennis knew that there was something more to the conversation but felt it wasn't the right time to press her about it. He pulled away and told Janette that Izzi was ready to leave. When Dennis turned back to his desk Izzi was gone. He turned back to Janette.

"Janette I'll meet you outside." Dennis said.

"Ok." Janette said as she turned back to talking with Tom and Doug.

Dennis made his way outside. He looks around and sees Izzi sitting on his motorcycle. He walks down the stairs. A few moments later Janette is outside she goes to the car. Dennis sits next to her.

"Everything alright, Princess?" He asks.

"The case just went so bad D.B. A lot of things happened that shouldn't have." Izzi said trying to hold back a sob.

He pulls her to him and plants a kiss on the top of her head and hugs her.

"Everything's going to be alright Izzi." He tells her.

"I wish that were true. Cause right now it isn't."

Dennis sighs. He then stands up and reaches into his pocket and fishes out a set of keys. He remembers that Izzi's keys are in his desk. He doesn't want to go back inside to go get them so he gives her his apartment key that is on his key ring.

"Tell you what, take my key and have Janette drop you off at my place. Then when I get off later we can talk more about this ok. Let yourself in and take a nap until I come. I'll even bring dinner. How's that sound Princess?" He asks.

She nods.

"That sounds ok. Thank you."

"No problem babe."

They hug each other. He walks her over to Janette's car and opens the door for Izzi. She gets in the car and he closes the door. He bends down to lean in the window.

"I'll see you later. Thanks Janette." He says.

"No problem. See you later." Janette says.

"Bye babe." Dennis says as he lightly kisses her on the lips.

"Bye." Izzi says.

Dennis heads back inside and goes straight to his desk. Dennis picks up his phone and calls his friend over at IAD. He knew that Janette gave him those names for a reason. She wanted him to look into it what was going on, and if Janette couldn't say much about it because Izzi was now her patient.

"Josh Miller."

"Hey Josh its Booker."

"Booker long time, no hear."

"Didn't we just go out for drinks just last week?" He asks.

"That's was you? How's it going?" Josh asks.

"Ok. I'm wondering what you heard about LT. Anderson and Detective Cooper."

"Yeah I just heard Anderson passed away today." Josh asks.

"He did. I don't know much about what's going on but from what I hear it was bad. I was hoping that you could fill me in." Dennis says.

"Between you and me they should have fired those two idiots years ago. How they manage to be on a case with Santana is beyond my understanding." Josh says.

"Why do you say that?" Dennis asks.

"Santana's a good cop. You know that you've worked with her before. She's by the book. Those two aren't. And teaming them up like that is like wanting her to get killed and that happened a few times while we had Cooper under surveillance."

"Why did you have Cooper under surveillance?" Dennis asks.

"You remember that case while back where those officers went missing?"

"Yeah. Everyone heard about that." Dennis said.

"We think he had something to do with that. So we started following him about two months ago around the time he went undercover and saw him break a number of laws. But we couldn't find anything to tie him to those missing cops. Listen Booker, what I'm about to tell you has got to go no farther then you. Ok?" Josh states.

"This is for my own information." Dennis tells him in understanding.

"Good. And I know you know Santana well like I do. So I can't tell you everything."

"I understand. Just tell me what you can."

"We have evidence that Cooper killed two prostitutes while undercover, and he also (clears throat) hurt Santana."

"What do you mean hurt?" Dennis asks.

"He assaulted her. (Sighs) If you see her you tell her for me I'm sorry that this happened to her. If I was in charge of the investigation I would have stopped it from happening." Josh said.

Dennis heart dropped when he heard that.

"Why didn't they?"

"Whoever was in charge didn't know she was a cop. They thought she was just another dealer and these who were investigating were told not to interfere. By the time they knew that Santana was a cop another order came not to blow her cover. When we tried to arrest Cooper he went missing. We believe he was tipped off. Maybe by Captain Bauhaus we don't know. We found him a few days later in hospital claiming he had a breakdown. Captain Bauhaus had no business putting Santana there and then leaving her there like that." Josh says.

"What do you mean 'leaving her there'?"

"After Lt. Anderson went to the hospital and Cooper went missing Captain Bauhaus gave the order for Santana to stay undercover with Lopez."

"Lopez as in Alejandro Lopez?" Dennis asked.

"That would be the one."

"Shit!" Dennis says into the phone.

"My thoughts exactly. The Captain knowing put Santana's life in danger. She had no back up and when Bauhaus was removed from duty he didn't tell us she was still undercover. Booker, I got to go."

"Yeah. Listen, Josh thanks for the info." Dennis says.

"Yeah, yeah no problem, man. Goodbye."

"Bye."

Dennis hangs up with Josh. Dennis puts his face in his hands. He sighs. How could this have happened? Dennis couldn't believe what he had just heard. He was in shock by it. IAD had been looking at Detective John Cooper for years but couldn't pin anything on him. He assaulted Izzi but he didn't know if Cooper just beat on her or did other things. He didn't ask Josh but he didn't think Josh would tell him either way. Dennis got up and made his way to Captain Fuller's officer to ask for some time off.

After Janette drops Izzi off she offers to stay with her until Dennis arrives. But Izzi convinces her that she wouldn't be much company if she's taking a nap. With that Janette leaves Izzi at Booker's apartment thinking she will be fine on her own.

As soon as Izzi is inside Booker's apartment Izzi paces. She finds she can't sit still. When she does sit she's up again pacing. Her mind plays back the events of the undercover assignment. Izzi now angry finds Dennis' bottle of Jack Daniels and she pours herself some and drinks it before pouring herself two more glasses. Having not eaten anything all day the Jack Daniels goes straight to her head. She's about to pour herself another when she decides to take a nap instead leaving the bottle and glass on the kitchen counter and goes into the bedroom. Izzi then lies down for about half an hour she has a nightmare.

She dreamed she was at the abandoned hotel that Lopez took over. She heard her name being called. She woke up in a cold sweat she got up and noticed she had her gun in her hand. She walked over to the door and opened it looking out of the door. She saw Cooper standing in the hallway. She looked at him.

"Do you know what time it is John? What do you want?" Izzi asks.

"I want to show you something."

"What?"

He grabs her arm and pulls her down the hallway.

"Where are we going John?"

"I'm going to show you something that will blow this whole thing wide open." He tells her.

"You can't just tell me?"

"No! Come on."

He takes her to another room down the hall where the door was open and he pushes her in. She finds Alejandro is the room with no shirt on. She turns to John pulling her arm from his grip.

"What is this John?" Izzi asks.

"A gift for Alejandro."

Izzi didn't like where this was going at all. Izzi lifts her gun and points it at John's head.

"What the hell is this John?" Izzi said in a near yell.

She could feel her heart beat faster. It was bad enough she had to worry about Alejandro but she never thought she had to be on guard against John Cooper a follow cop.

"Alejandro wants to make a deal. I offered him money for the name of his associate that wants to make you a partner but he didn't want the money." John said.

"Stop playing around John. This isn't the time for your jokes!" She demanded.

"This is isn't a joke Madre. I made a deal. I offered something Alejandro might want." John said.

"Le pedí.1 I wanted to know if John or Mark was your man. But they just work for you. I'll give you what ever you want for a night with Madre Santos. Sólo una noche es todo pregunto."2 Alejandro said.

Just one night is all I ask Alejandro says. Izzi's stress level hit the roof. Oh, this can't be good.

"Hell no! I don't mix business with pleasure. Things get messy when you do."

"John says….." Alejandro starts to say.

Izzi cocks her gun.

"John what the hell did you tell him?"

"I told him you've never been with a man before. I told him that you prefer the company of women. That excited him a lot." John said.

"That isn't his business or yours. Screw this! I'm going back to bed." Izzi told them both.

Izzi lowers her gun thinking that John is playing one of his jokes again she turns to leave. He picks the sickest jokes to play. Joke or not she was going to leave. She should have known that was a mistake. John snatches the gun from her hand as Alejandro grabs her when Izzi's back was turned to him. Never turn your back on Alejandro bad things happen when you do. Alejandro pulls Izzi's arms behind her while placing a hand over her breast to fondle her. She watches as John gets undressed. Izzi struggles to get herself free.

"If you fight me I'll be forced to knock you out. And I have not problem fucking you that way." Alejandro said.

A chill went down Izzi's spine. This could not be happening to her.

"This is going to be fun." John says.

"What are you doing?" Izzi asks John.

"What do you think? I'm not going to pass up a chance like this."

John reached out and ripped the front of Izzi's shirt. Izzi couldn't believe that this was happening. As a last resort she started to scream.

"Mark! Mark!"

But he didn't come he never comes.

Izzi screams in her sleep before waking up. She gets up and goes into the living room she starts pacing before going back into the kitchen to finish the drink she left on the counter.

Dennis was on his way home. He had picked up some food for his apartment as well as dinner. He thought about picking up flowers but Izzi was never a flowers type person. The few times he was in trouble with her he'd gotten fruit as strange as it seemed it always cheered her up. So he picked up blueberries and strawberries for her. He was getting out of the car and walking up to his building when he passed one of his neighbor that told him he heard a scream from Dennis' apartment. Dennis entered his building. He shifted the bags in his arms so he could get out his keys. He then placed the bags on the floor near his door and got out his gun. He put the key in the door and opened it slowly. He stepped into his apartment to find Izzi sitting at the counter with her head on it.

"Izzi?" He calls looking around his darken apartment.

Dennis turns on the light eyes still searching his apartment. She lifts her head and he sees the bottle of Jack Daniels on the counter. He also sees that she's been crying. He puts his gun away.

"You ok?" He asks.

"I couldn't sleep." She says.

He then gets the bags that he left outside the door and brings them in and closes the door behind him.

"My neighbor heard a scream. Are you ok?"

"I'm sorry. That was me. I had a nightmare." Izzi says.

He walks over to the counter and puts the bags down then goes to take off his leather jacket and throws it on the couch.

"I see you found the Jack."

He then sits next to her.

"You wanna tell me about?" He asks.

Izzi looks at him then wraps her arms around him and starts to sob. Dennis puts his arms around her and let her cry.

"He….he raped me."

"Did Cooper do it?"

"Yes but Alejandro Lopez did it too. Cooper told him to! He raped me and now I'm pregnant!"

Dennis was speechless. He held her in his arms and let her cry. He knew she had a long road ahead of her before she was better. And he wanted to be there for her.

1 I asked for you.

2 Just a night is all I ask.