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The explanation about the oblivious neighbors was towards the beginning. The neighbors never noticed anything, mostly because the guy right next-door worked during the afternoon when the boys would visit, and in addition, could have cared less about what was going on there. Also, The rave hadn't "opened" yet, so only a few people were coming and going. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Whoops….
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The equipment case lay at the other side of the baseball field. Nick and Jenny hurried over to it as quickly as they could get over there. There weren't any bugs around it yet, so they could only assume that if Hennery was in there he hadn't been in there long. "Are you ready?" Nick asked Jenny pulling yet another pair of rubber gloves on. She nodded her head in agreement.
Nick threw the case open to reveal the missing bats that the other coach had been looking for. He tossed them onto the ground. There was plastic wrap underneath the bats. Nick looked over at Jenny to make sure that she was still Ok, and then he pulled back the plastic wrap to revel a head. Jenny peered into the case, "It's Hennery O'Malley." She said and then turned away.
"Call Brass for me, will ya?" Nick told her as he pushed more of the plastic wrap back. Then suddenly, Hennery's eyes fluttered open and he gave a loud moan. Nick jumped back. "He's alive!" Nick screamed at Jenny who stood a few feet away on her cell phone. At this she looked up in confusing, and then yelled the same thing into the phone.
At this Nick frantically began pulling the plastic wrap back to try and get Hennery's body out of there. Hennery shifted a little and closed his eyes again. Nick checked for a pulse on his neck, and found one, which made him work even faster. He tried to do it in a way to preserve whatever evidence might be in there, but then he deserted that whole procedure and began ripping the paper back. Jenny came over and hoisted herself up onto the side of the case to help him.
"Hennery?" Jenny yelled, "Hennery?? Can you hear me?" she was pulling the plastic back even quicker than Nick in an obvious attempt to try and save one of her peer's lives. She had made her way down to his legs and pulled some plastic off and threw it on the ground. She wasn't concerned about the evidence as mush as she was concerned about Hennery's life.
Once enough of the plastic had been removed from Hennery's body, Nick himself jumped into the case to life Hennery up to get him out of there. He did so carefully enough to try and not hurt him anymore than he already had. He could see a clear bullet hole in the kid's stomach, and it looked like he had been punched in the face a couple of times. Jenny stepped back giving Nick some space to then jump out of the case, and he did so with as much care as he could.
Nick placed Hennery on a grassy spot a little ways away, "Hennery?" He called, "Hennery, everything is going to be okay. Just hang on!" There was nothing else Nick could do now but wait for Brass and the ambulance to show up.
Jenny on the other hand walked back to the case and picked the gun in there up.
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"I don't know if he is going to make it." The EMT told Jenny. It just happened to be the same EMT who she had argued with the night before, but now he was treating her with respect. "He's lost a lot of blood and seems to have fractured a few bones. Do you know how long he was in that case?"
"If he lives I'll ask him." Jenny said calmly. "Get him to the hospital, ok?" she said as she watched the EMT get into the ambulance and drive away with the sirens going. All she could do now was pray that he would be fine.
She stuck her hands into her pockets and wandered across the field to where Nick was processing the case. "I got a bunch of fingerprints off of the case." He said jumping out of it and taking off his gloves. "The gun has some prints too, and there are some footprints leading away from this also."
"Don't we already know who did it?" she questioned as she smiled weakly.
"Only the more evidence to convict him with." Nick replied flashing one of his smiles for her. He lingered for a moment, and the spoke, "You'd make a great CSI."
"You think?" Jenny asked. "Now I'm not sure though, I might want to be a vet."
"A vet?"
"What's wrong with that?" Jenny narrowed her eyes.
"Nothing at all, but we'll change your mind before hand, trust me." Nick said gathering up his kit. "Come on, let's go talk to these suspects again."
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Catherine sat across the table having a stare down with Luke. He hadn't said a word for nearly an hour now, and neither had she. What he had said beforehand was that he was threatening to call a lawyer and then walk out on them, so Catherine took the job of babysitting him. Her attention turned though, when she heard a commotion in the hallway, and Jenny came and rapped on the door. Luke looked up at this startled, "What is she doing here?" he asked.
"Busting you." Catherine replied with a smile and walked over to greet Jenny who was standing there with Nick.
"We found the money, some drugs, the gun and Hennery." Nick told her.
Catherine sighed relieved. "That's great." She said giving the two of them a big smile.
"But that's not the best part." Nick went on, "Hennery was alive."
"Alive?" Catherine stammered. She turned around and looked through the glass on the door at Luke who sat there staring at them. "He probably won't be too happy about that though."
