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A/N: Mkay, it's important for everyone to know that I am not a racist or prejudice in any way. I'm actually just mirroring something that happened in my life in to my character, it's nothing generalized and I hope it doesn't come across too harsh. If you read it, an have a problem, let me know, I'll change it.
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"Thank God it's Friday" Bosco sighed, getting behind the wheel of their RMP. Faith said beside him, sticking her hat and notebook on the dashboard.
"Yea, now all we have to do is deal with the idiots who forget how to drive in the snow" Faith replied.
"Just what are you implying?" Bosco smiled from beside her.
"The guilty speaks!" she grinned.
"It was a fishtail, the road was slippery" he protested.
"Not that you were watching it" she retorted.
"Guilty, I was looking at you" he shrugged. Faith felt her cheeks go red.
"55-David, we're clear and ready to roll" Faith said in to the mic on her shoulder.
"10-4 55-David"
"That mean there's no calls?" Bosco asked, stunned.
"Guess so" she shrugged.
"On a Friday? The first snowfall, there's no calls." he started the car.
"Maybe everyone's hibernating, calling in sick to work" Faith suggested.
"Told you" he grinned slyly, pulling out of the lot and heading towards their sector.
They'd been driving for no more than five minutes when Faith spotted something. Bosco must've spotted it at the same time, though it was hard not to.
"What the hell is this?" he muttered, turning the wheel.
"Hold on Boz, just.. wait here for a second" Faith said, staring at the mob of people. Rather two mobs of people.
"What are they doing?"
"Somehow I'm doubting that they're gathering for a friendly snowball war" Faith commented. Bosco put the cruiser in park just out of sight from the groups. He turned off the ignition.
"55-David to Central, we have a possible group dispute at the corner of Arthur and Lexx."
"10-4 David, are you requesting backup?"
Faith shared a glance with her partner, who nodded, eyes still on the group of people.
"That is a positive central, we are requesting backup at this location" Faith noted.
"10-4 David, backup will be dispatched"
The call finished and Faith looked back over, studying the group. Some of the people there looked no older than fifteen or so, ranging up to roughly mid twenties. Two cars were parked nearby.
"Think it's ethnic?" Bosco asked.
"Maybe, it looks it, what race do you think they are"
"European, serbian I think" Bosco replied.
"Great, angry mobs" she commented dryly.
"Maybe they'll just stand and glare"
He'd no finished saying it when two people split from the groups, meeting in the centre. From group A, the ones Faith classified as the average white Americans, was a young girl, maybe sixteen or so. From the Serbian group it was a young man, maybe eighteen, nineteen.
Both officers got out of the car and advanced, going unnoticed by everyone, who was focussed on the events unfolding.
Faith looked around, the snow had stopped before her and Bosco had left for work, but there was still a light blanket everywhere. They were at a strip mall, rested right on the corner. There was a Coffee shop and variety store, plus a drugmart and a few other small offices. She checked back with the group.
"Boz, if anything starts, I don't think it's such a great idea to go jumping in there, there's... well there's a lot of kids there"
"I know" he insisted, giving her a look. There were footsteps behind them and they turned to see. Sully and Davis were approaching on foot, their cruiser parked behind 55-David.
"What's going on here?" Ty asked, eyeing the mobs.
"Possibly a fight, gang war or something" Faith replied, turning back.
"Stupid kids" Sully remarked, joining them.
"They aren't all stupid Sul" Faith protested, " Sometimes they have valid excuses for their behaviour"
"Valid excuses" Bosco remarked, "Kind of an oxymoron isn't it?"
"Valid reasons then" Faith changed. "I was at Emily's school a while back, and some kid got a three day suspension for backing up their friend"
"Yeah, it's called Zero Tolerance, nothing gets past the schools any more, you can't even wear a bandana without being hasselled" Ty said.
"It's a crazy world these days" Bosco spoke up.
"So, stupid question, but what are we supposed to do if these people start fighting?" Ty questioned.
"Most of them will take off at the sight of us, someone will call it, everyone will split except for maybe a few" Sully answered.
"We're supposed to chance this with four cops?"
No one replied, but the answer was clear.
"Whoa, whoa" Bosco said from beside Faith.
The scene had erupted in to chaos. In seconds the two groups were mixing and fighting. One on one in some cases, two on one in others. But it was an all out brawl. The young girl and guy who'd stepped up to meet eachother in the middle were in the midst of it fighting.
Tierney, or Ty as people called her, felt the apprehension rise, the atmosphere change drastically as she met Vukan in the middle of the two groups. It had been a declared war between them for almost three weeks now. This would be settled today.
She didn't say anything at first, just staring at him.
"What's up Ty?" Vukan asked.
"Don't talk to me like we're still pals!" she demanded.
"Why aren't we?"
"You know damn well why, you and your little wanna-be gang members going around and jumpin' MY brothers!" she declared, pissed off.
"I had no control over that" he insisted.
"That's the problem, you can't control your people, they coulda killed my brothers, you think I want that? They knocked out Jared, broke his motherfuckin' glasses, they cost money Vukan! And then y'all confront my li'l brother, my LITTLE brother, with knives? ANd I hear about them chasing Ani at school! I want this settled, today"
"This don't have to happen"
"Your people made it happen Vukan, you talk to them if you don't like it"
"I don't like it!" he exclaimed.
"Then why'd you show up?"
"Cause I'm tired of all this, I am. You stalkin' us, we're stalkin' you, threatenin', we used ta all be friends here Ty"
"And who's fault is it that we ain't anymore?"
"I'm sorry man, some of my people, they're fucked in the head, but it ain't no reason to involve everyone"
"No man, it is reason, you said it, we're all at peace, an' then you lose control over 'em, why don't you kick them out, turn against them?"
"Cause they're from our place, our country, if we don't stick together we gonna be picked off one by one"
Ty stared at him. She was sixteen. Sixteen and leading a.. what. Riot? Gang war? She was on the honor roll in Grade nine for Christ's sake. But the police weren't doin' anything about the reports. They'd given names, dates, locations and no one had showed or questioned. Justice had to be served.
"You give up those people and we call this off" she reasoned.
Vukan looked at her, "You know I can't do that baby"
"Don't call me baby, we ain't together no more!"
He licked his lips, "I can't do it Tierney, I can't, no way"
"Then I guess this is goin' down" she rose her eyebrows.
"Why can't we just walk away?"
"I wish we could, but some of your people hurt my people, my brothers, my family and friends. They're outta control and need to be put in their place"
"Fine" he said.
"Fine what?"
"Put 'em in their place, but that ain't no reason for all us to get at eachother's throats"
She nodded, "I agree, but you know what's gonna happen Vukie, you know it"
"I know it" she shrugged.
"You need control of 'em again" she told him.
He held out his hand and she grabbed it, shaking it.
Vukan swung and hit Tierney in the nose. His anger rising so that it controlled him, he yelled out in Serbian. The two groups merged as Tierney jumped him from behind, throwing him to the ground.
"Davis, grab 55-David, bring it around" Sully yelled, starting for his cruiser. Bosco and Faith took off towards the mass of people as another cruiser pulled in to the small strip mall.
"COPS!" someone yelled as Faith and Bosco got near. They'd spotted the cruiser, and, true to Sully's prediction, most of them split and ran. Bloody knuckles, noses, black eyes all the damage that had been done in a minute.
The yell was repeated until all those left continued to fight. Faith ran to the centre, reaching the girl and guy, pulling the girl off of him.
"Break it up!" she yelled, holding the girl back. The guy didn't appear as though he was going anywhere soon, so she left him laying there, pushing the girl to the group and slapping cuffs on her. She went to the next pair.
Two minutes and they had the situation under control, ten people, five pairs, sitting with cuffs on them looking highly disgruntled. Faith's hair had been pulled from her pony tail and now hung aroud her face, but she approached the original fighters nonetheless, Bosco behind her.
"What the hell is this all about?" Bosco demanded. Neither said a word.
"You guys just planning on beating the shit out of anyone who wasn't your color?" Faith asked, staring them down.
"Them fucking serbians started it, fucking bastards!" the girl yelled, spitting towards the guy laying on the ground.
Faith was taken aback by the mouth. "How old are you?" she asked the girl.
"None of your goddamn business!" she retorted.
"How old?" Bosco demanded.
"Sixteen, stupid pig" she muttered.
Bosco nodded, clenching his jaw.
"You're sixteen and getting in to street fights? What the hell is wrong with this world" Faith asked out loud.
"How'd this thing start?" Bosco turned back to the girl.
"I tol' you already, you deaf Cop? Fucking serbians!"
"I'm sorry but that just doesn't cut it as a description" Bosco replied, pushing the girl's head to the ground.
"Boz, she's sixteen"
Bosco let go, "How'd it start?"
"These assholes jumped my brothers! I got two of 'em, one older an' one younger and these fuckers jumped 'em both. Knocked out my older one, broke his goddamn glasses, confronted my li'l brother with a fucking knife!" her voice began to get louder.
"They jumped yer brother?" Faith asked, disgusted.
"Brothers, and twice" the kid spat. Because that's all she was, a kid.
Faith bit her lip and looked at Sully, who shook his head and shrugged.
"All of ya are gonna be getting assault charges" Bosco finally spoke up, "Next time, call the cops"
"Why, so y'all can hassel us an' do nothin' about it?" the girl asked. "I call who I trust, and I sure as hell don't trust you people. We called you before, ya don't do nothing, ya sit doing nothing, helping the people who can help themselves, you don't bother with us"
"And who's us?" Bosco asked.
"Us. The people from the other side o' the tracks, the ones who walk everywhere, who can't afford no schooling past sixteen, US, you don't give a damn, all ya do is hassel us, tell us we're wrong and shake yer heads when something does go down" she shot back.
Faith pulled Bosco away, she could tell he was getting fairly angsty about this one girl, but she didn't know how angsty until he turned around and punched a cruiser, denting the passenger door.
"Boz, calm down alright?" Faith told him.
"Sorry" he apologized, "I just.. sometimes this job is maddening, no one pats you on the back, or thanks you when you help 'em out, you get yelled at for not bein' able to help the entire world at once"
"Boz, it's always been like that, hell, you pick it up your first day on the job"
"I know, but I usually block it out" he paced.
"You don't have to hide everything" she stated.
"And what if people don't like what they see"
She looked in to his eyes, "Boz, I may not like everything you say or do, but I'll always love you okay, I know there's someone there that's caring. I don't care what other people say, you should know that by now" she eased.
Bosco stopped pacing. "Have you ever thought about quitting?"
Faith laughed, "Millions of times" she said. "When Fred pressured me, when something happened with the kids, but when I see what I accomplish every day.. it's satisfying. This is who I am. I help people. I go.. solve problems, I like doing that, it makes me happy"
"I've only thought about it twice" Bosco swallowed. "Once when there was that biker sniper and the seventy-million jackpot that day, you remember that? I asked myself if I'd quit if I won that lottery. I said no. The second time was just now"
Faith didn't say anything, but waited.
Bosco bit his lip, "But everyone has doubts, right? I couldn't quit. I don't think I'd know what to do with myself if I couldn't do this job any more"
"I'm sure you'd find something to do. Drive the highways all day and call in DD's or walk the streets looking for hoodlums and calling the cops"
"Calling the cops, now why would I do that?" he asked, smiling.
"How about we get these people down to the station and get the full story on this." Bosco finally sighed.
"We're gonna be doing paperwork for years" Faith replied, turning back to the teens.
"We'll always be doing paperwork, if there were a day without paperwork... I'd.. I dunno what I'd do"
"I'd cry" Sully commented, overhearing.
"Cry?" Davis asked.
"Tears of joy" Sully laughed.
Faith turned back to the kids in handcuffs, her eyes resting on the girl who had her head resting on the ground. She looked... proud.
"Where are yer brothers?" Faith asked her.
"Jared's in the hospital because of these fuckers, they jumped him las' night... and Ani's layin over there" she nodded her head.
"How old is Ani?"
"Fourteen" she replied.
"So you proud of yourself now"
"Yea, I am actually" the girl met Faith's eyes. "I served justice, put 'em in their place, now they gonna leave us alone" she nodded.
Faith stood there, looking in to the girl's eyes. How much they reminded her of Bosco's. The pent up anger, the mouth running. Faith looked at the sky, taking it all in, then lifted the girl to her feet, walking her over to 55-David. The girl ducked in to the cruiser as if she'd had practice with it, and Faith sighed.
A/N: Mkay, it's important for everyone to know that I am not a racist or prejudice in any way. I'm actually just mirroring something that happened in my life in to my character, it's nothing generalized and I hope it doesn't come across too harsh. If you read it, an have a problem, let me know, I'll change it.
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"Thank God it's Friday" Bosco sighed, getting behind the wheel of their RMP. Faith said beside him, sticking her hat and notebook on the dashboard.
"Yea, now all we have to do is deal with the idiots who forget how to drive in the snow" Faith replied.
"Just what are you implying?" Bosco smiled from beside her.
"The guilty speaks!" she grinned.
"It was a fishtail, the road was slippery" he protested.
"Not that you were watching it" she retorted.
"Guilty, I was looking at you" he shrugged. Faith felt her cheeks go red.
"55-David, we're clear and ready to roll" Faith said in to the mic on her shoulder.
"10-4 55-David"
"That mean there's no calls?" Bosco asked, stunned.
"Guess so" she shrugged.
"On a Friday? The first snowfall, there's no calls." he started the car.
"Maybe everyone's hibernating, calling in sick to work" Faith suggested.
"Told you" he grinned slyly, pulling out of the lot and heading towards their sector.
They'd been driving for no more than five minutes when Faith spotted something. Bosco must've spotted it at the same time, though it was hard not to.
"What the hell is this?" he muttered, turning the wheel.
"Hold on Boz, just.. wait here for a second" Faith said, staring at the mob of people. Rather two mobs of people.
"What are they doing?"
"Somehow I'm doubting that they're gathering for a friendly snowball war" Faith commented. Bosco put the cruiser in park just out of sight from the groups. He turned off the ignition.
"55-David to Central, we have a possible group dispute at the corner of Arthur and Lexx."
"10-4 David, are you requesting backup?"
Faith shared a glance with her partner, who nodded, eyes still on the group of people.
"That is a positive central, we are requesting backup at this location" Faith noted.
"10-4 David, backup will be dispatched"
The call finished and Faith looked back over, studying the group. Some of the people there looked no older than fifteen or so, ranging up to roughly mid twenties. Two cars were parked nearby.
"Think it's ethnic?" Bosco asked.
"Maybe, it looks it, what race do you think they are"
"European, serbian I think" Bosco replied.
"Great, angry mobs" she commented dryly.
"Maybe they'll just stand and glare"
He'd no finished saying it when two people split from the groups, meeting in the centre. From group A, the ones Faith classified as the average white Americans, was a young girl, maybe sixteen or so. From the Serbian group it was a young man, maybe eighteen, nineteen.
Both officers got out of the car and advanced, going unnoticed by everyone, who was focussed on the events unfolding.
Faith looked around, the snow had stopped before her and Bosco had left for work, but there was still a light blanket everywhere. They were at a strip mall, rested right on the corner. There was a Coffee shop and variety store, plus a drugmart and a few other small offices. She checked back with the group.
"Boz, if anything starts, I don't think it's such a great idea to go jumping in there, there's... well there's a lot of kids there"
"I know" he insisted, giving her a look. There were footsteps behind them and they turned to see. Sully and Davis were approaching on foot, their cruiser parked behind 55-David.
"What's going on here?" Ty asked, eyeing the mobs.
"Possibly a fight, gang war or something" Faith replied, turning back.
"Stupid kids" Sully remarked, joining them.
"They aren't all stupid Sul" Faith protested, " Sometimes they have valid excuses for their behaviour"
"Valid excuses" Bosco remarked, "Kind of an oxymoron isn't it?"
"Valid reasons then" Faith changed. "I was at Emily's school a while back, and some kid got a three day suspension for backing up their friend"
"Yeah, it's called Zero Tolerance, nothing gets past the schools any more, you can't even wear a bandana without being hasselled" Ty said.
"It's a crazy world these days" Bosco spoke up.
"So, stupid question, but what are we supposed to do if these people start fighting?" Ty questioned.
"Most of them will take off at the sight of us, someone will call it, everyone will split except for maybe a few" Sully answered.
"We're supposed to chance this with four cops?"
No one replied, but the answer was clear.
"Whoa, whoa" Bosco said from beside Faith.
The scene had erupted in to chaos. In seconds the two groups were mixing and fighting. One on one in some cases, two on one in others. But it was an all out brawl. The young girl and guy who'd stepped up to meet eachother in the middle were in the midst of it fighting.
Tierney, or Ty as people called her, felt the apprehension rise, the atmosphere change drastically as she met Vukan in the middle of the two groups. It had been a declared war between them for almost three weeks now. This would be settled today.
She didn't say anything at first, just staring at him.
"What's up Ty?" Vukan asked.
"Don't talk to me like we're still pals!" she demanded.
"Why aren't we?"
"You know damn well why, you and your little wanna-be gang members going around and jumpin' MY brothers!" she declared, pissed off.
"I had no control over that" he insisted.
"That's the problem, you can't control your people, they coulda killed my brothers, you think I want that? They knocked out Jared, broke his motherfuckin' glasses, they cost money Vukan! And then y'all confront my li'l brother, my LITTLE brother, with knives? ANd I hear about them chasing Ani at school! I want this settled, today"
"This don't have to happen"
"Your people made it happen Vukan, you talk to them if you don't like it"
"I don't like it!" he exclaimed.
"Then why'd you show up?"
"Cause I'm tired of all this, I am. You stalkin' us, we're stalkin' you, threatenin', we used ta all be friends here Ty"
"And who's fault is it that we ain't anymore?"
"I'm sorry man, some of my people, they're fucked in the head, but it ain't no reason to involve everyone"
"No man, it is reason, you said it, we're all at peace, an' then you lose control over 'em, why don't you kick them out, turn against them?"
"Cause they're from our place, our country, if we don't stick together we gonna be picked off one by one"
Ty stared at him. She was sixteen. Sixteen and leading a.. what. Riot? Gang war? She was on the honor roll in Grade nine for Christ's sake. But the police weren't doin' anything about the reports. They'd given names, dates, locations and no one had showed or questioned. Justice had to be served.
"You give up those people and we call this off" she reasoned.
Vukan looked at her, "You know I can't do that baby"
"Don't call me baby, we ain't together no more!"
He licked his lips, "I can't do it Tierney, I can't, no way"
"Then I guess this is goin' down" she rose her eyebrows.
"Why can't we just walk away?"
"I wish we could, but some of your people hurt my people, my brothers, my family and friends. They're outta control and need to be put in their place"
"Fine" he said.
"Fine what?"
"Put 'em in their place, but that ain't no reason for all us to get at eachother's throats"
She nodded, "I agree, but you know what's gonna happen Vukie, you know it"
"I know it" she shrugged.
"You need control of 'em again" she told him.
He held out his hand and she grabbed it, shaking it.
Vukan swung and hit Tierney in the nose. His anger rising so that it controlled him, he yelled out in Serbian. The two groups merged as Tierney jumped him from behind, throwing him to the ground.
"Davis, grab 55-David, bring it around" Sully yelled, starting for his cruiser. Bosco and Faith took off towards the mass of people as another cruiser pulled in to the small strip mall.
"COPS!" someone yelled as Faith and Bosco got near. They'd spotted the cruiser, and, true to Sully's prediction, most of them split and ran. Bloody knuckles, noses, black eyes all the damage that had been done in a minute.
The yell was repeated until all those left continued to fight. Faith ran to the centre, reaching the girl and guy, pulling the girl off of him.
"Break it up!" she yelled, holding the girl back. The guy didn't appear as though he was going anywhere soon, so she left him laying there, pushing the girl to the group and slapping cuffs on her. She went to the next pair.
Two minutes and they had the situation under control, ten people, five pairs, sitting with cuffs on them looking highly disgruntled. Faith's hair had been pulled from her pony tail and now hung aroud her face, but she approached the original fighters nonetheless, Bosco behind her.
"What the hell is this all about?" Bosco demanded. Neither said a word.
"You guys just planning on beating the shit out of anyone who wasn't your color?" Faith asked, staring them down.
"Them fucking serbians started it, fucking bastards!" the girl yelled, spitting towards the guy laying on the ground.
Faith was taken aback by the mouth. "How old are you?" she asked the girl.
"None of your goddamn business!" she retorted.
"How old?" Bosco demanded.
"Sixteen, stupid pig" she muttered.
Bosco nodded, clenching his jaw.
"You're sixteen and getting in to street fights? What the hell is wrong with this world" Faith asked out loud.
"How'd this thing start?" Bosco turned back to the girl.
"I tol' you already, you deaf Cop? Fucking serbians!"
"I'm sorry but that just doesn't cut it as a description" Bosco replied, pushing the girl's head to the ground.
"Boz, she's sixteen"
Bosco let go, "How'd it start?"
"These assholes jumped my brothers! I got two of 'em, one older an' one younger and these fuckers jumped 'em both. Knocked out my older one, broke his goddamn glasses, confronted my li'l brother with a fucking knife!" her voice began to get louder.
"They jumped yer brother?" Faith asked, disgusted.
"Brothers, and twice" the kid spat. Because that's all she was, a kid.
Faith bit her lip and looked at Sully, who shook his head and shrugged.
"All of ya are gonna be getting assault charges" Bosco finally spoke up, "Next time, call the cops"
"Why, so y'all can hassel us an' do nothin' about it?" the girl asked. "I call who I trust, and I sure as hell don't trust you people. We called you before, ya don't do nothing, ya sit doing nothing, helping the people who can help themselves, you don't bother with us"
"And who's us?" Bosco asked.
"Us. The people from the other side o' the tracks, the ones who walk everywhere, who can't afford no schooling past sixteen, US, you don't give a damn, all ya do is hassel us, tell us we're wrong and shake yer heads when something does go down" she shot back.
Faith pulled Bosco away, she could tell he was getting fairly angsty about this one girl, but she didn't know how angsty until he turned around and punched a cruiser, denting the passenger door.
"Boz, calm down alright?" Faith told him.
"Sorry" he apologized, "I just.. sometimes this job is maddening, no one pats you on the back, or thanks you when you help 'em out, you get yelled at for not bein' able to help the entire world at once"
"Boz, it's always been like that, hell, you pick it up your first day on the job"
"I know, but I usually block it out" he paced.
"You don't have to hide everything" she stated.
"And what if people don't like what they see"
She looked in to his eyes, "Boz, I may not like everything you say or do, but I'll always love you okay, I know there's someone there that's caring. I don't care what other people say, you should know that by now" she eased.
Bosco stopped pacing. "Have you ever thought about quitting?"
Faith laughed, "Millions of times" she said. "When Fred pressured me, when something happened with the kids, but when I see what I accomplish every day.. it's satisfying. This is who I am. I help people. I go.. solve problems, I like doing that, it makes me happy"
"I've only thought about it twice" Bosco swallowed. "Once when there was that biker sniper and the seventy-million jackpot that day, you remember that? I asked myself if I'd quit if I won that lottery. I said no. The second time was just now"
Faith didn't say anything, but waited.
Bosco bit his lip, "But everyone has doubts, right? I couldn't quit. I don't think I'd know what to do with myself if I couldn't do this job any more"
"I'm sure you'd find something to do. Drive the highways all day and call in DD's or walk the streets looking for hoodlums and calling the cops"
"Calling the cops, now why would I do that?" he asked, smiling.
"How about we get these people down to the station and get the full story on this." Bosco finally sighed.
"We're gonna be doing paperwork for years" Faith replied, turning back to the teens.
"We'll always be doing paperwork, if there were a day without paperwork... I'd.. I dunno what I'd do"
"I'd cry" Sully commented, overhearing.
"Cry?" Davis asked.
"Tears of joy" Sully laughed.
Faith turned back to the kids in handcuffs, her eyes resting on the girl who had her head resting on the ground. She looked... proud.
"Where are yer brothers?" Faith asked her.
"Jared's in the hospital because of these fuckers, they jumped him las' night... and Ani's layin over there" she nodded her head.
"How old is Ani?"
"Fourteen" she replied.
"So you proud of yourself now"
"Yea, I am actually" the girl met Faith's eyes. "I served justice, put 'em in their place, now they gonna leave us alone" she nodded.
Faith stood there, looking in to the girl's eyes. How much they reminded her of Bosco's. The pent up anger, the mouth running. Faith looked at the sky, taking it all in, then lifted the girl to her feet, walking her over to 55-David. The girl ducked in to the cruiser as if she'd had practice with it, and Faith sighed.