Disclaimer-I own nothing of Lizzie Mcguire or CSI
15 th PRECINCT POLICE STATION
Las Vegas, NV
9:45 pm
"OW THAT HURTS! YOU SON OF A BITCH!" the handcuffed and struggling prisoner yelled as David used the man head to push open the door to the precinct lock up area.
"Well, If you hadn't been struggling so damn much I could've took my hands off you and use them to open the door! But no you want to be a pain in the ass about this so I had use your hard ass head to do it." said David rolling his eyes at the dumb biker.
"I'm going to kill you for this you damn copper!" the biker yelled as David pushed him up to the front desk.
"Oh please" sighed David as he handed the prisoner over to the cops who would take him in the back and start putting him through the lock down process "Sing me a song I haven't heard about a million times here before."
"You'd think that at least one of them could be smart enough to come up with something new?" came the voice behind David as Rodney Stevens, David partner and one of the members of David's narcotic undercover team came in hauling his own prisoner from the biker gang that they had just busted for selling heroin. Behind him came in Monica Ortiz, the only female member of their team carrying two large suitcases. Bringing up the rear behind her came the last three members of David team. Each one of the three men were also hauling in a prisoner of their own.
"Well, if they were that smart they wouldn't have tried to sell heroin to an undercover cop." said David smiling as he started to fill out the paperwork that would transfer the five bikers under their control over to the people running the lock up area.
"HEY!" one of the bikers yelled at David "If we'd known you were a cop we wouldn't have tried to sell it to you!"
"That's why they call us undercover cops you moron." said Rodney shaking his head at the man stupidity.
After all the bikers were taken back to the jail cells Monica turned to David "What do you want me to do with these boss?" she asked holding up the two suitcases.
"Take the suitcase full of heroin to the evidence cage." said David as they headed up the stairs to the second floor where there desk were "You got about six hundred thousand dollars worth of heroin there Ortiz so make sure it gets signed it nice and proper."
"What about the buy money we were using for the sting?" asked Ortiz.
"Take that up to Internal Affairs and let them have it back." said David with even a more serious look on his face "And with them you definitely make sure it goes straight to them."
"Right boss" said Ortiz as she continued on up the stairs as David and Rodney turned and entered the Narcotics section of the precinct.
"Rodney can you start on the arrest reports while I go in and fill the boss in on what went down on the bust?" David asked turning to his friend.
"On it David." said Rodney as he sat down at his desk and started pulling out the mounds of paperwork that they had to do.
David walked over to his Captain office and knocked on the door and waited for the yell.
"Come in"
"Hey Captain I just wanted to fill you in on ......." David started to say before he noticed the other man in Captain Sinclair office "Oh excuse me sir I didn't know you were busy."
"It's alright David come in." said Captain Sinclair as he got up from behind his desk and motioned to the only empty seat in the office "David I believe you know Gil Grissom." Captain Sinclair said nodding his head toward the older man.
"Yes sir I do." said David smiling a not to happy smile at Grissom "So tell me what is so important that is has the head of CSI himself coming down here to see us?"
"I've come down here to inform you and your Captain that you and your team have been cleared on that drug buy shootout that you guys were involved in a week ago on Monrovia." said Grissom as he looked at David.
"So you finally found the bullet, huh?" asked David feeling a little better over that but not wanting to let Grissom see that "We told you the suspect shot at us before Ortiz had to kill him in self defense."
"Yes, it seems that his bullet ricocheted off one of the nearby steel support column." said Grissom nodding his head "And than it fell into a drainage grate on the floor. That was why the bullet you said he fired was not found earlier at the crime scene. It took my team awhile to find it down in that storm drain using metal detectors but find it they did. They also managed to match it to the suspects gun, that Internal Affairs bagged in for evidence."
"Well, that's good news." said Captain Sinclair nodding his head.
"Well, that's all good and all Grissom, but you could have just called us and told us that over the phone." said David still a little angry at the man who earlier had doubted his word on how the shoot out had went down "You didn't have to drive all the way down here just to tell us."
"I came down here to tell you that Detective Gordon because you and your team were damn lucky we found that bullet." said Grissom getting a little upset "It was a one in a million that we found it at all."
"Well, that's why you guys at Crime Scene Investigation get paid the big money." said David smiling at the man.
"You do know if we hadn't have found that bullet you and your team could have been up on some serious charges right now?" said Grissom getting more irritated at the younger man caviler attitude "I've done some checking in on you and your team, Detective Gordon."
"You did what?!" yelled Captain Sinclair standing up behind his desk getting ready to blow his temper "Damn it Grissom your not Internal Affairs! You have no right to investigate my men or......."
"It's alright Captain, I'm not worried about it" said David smiling and holding up his hand to stop his Captain from going off on the man. For like he said David was not at all worried that Grissom had been checking in on him or his team. For David knew they were all clean cops "So Grissom after all of your checking what did you find out about us?"
"Your team not only has the highest count of drug bust in this city but also in the whole state. You and your team also routinely cooperate with Internal Affairs in letting them check all of your bank accounts in the attempt to find undercover police corruption. Which I must say your team always comes out clean each time." said Grissom impressed. Many times undercover agents dealing with all that drugs and money sometimes became corrupt. But as far as Grissom or Internal Affairs could find not one member of Detective Gordon's team had turned dirty or had any dirt on them.
"So I ask you again Grissom.What is the big deal you have about us?" asked David getting fed up with the man problem with him and his team.
"Because despite your high success rate in capturing dangerous drug dealers, your team also has the highest shootout rate than any other undercover unit in the state." commented Grissom.
"Well, not only are David and his team narcotics cops they're undercover narcotic cops." said Captain Sinclair "Those two things lead to a lot of shoot out with the bad guys."
"What Captain Sinclair says is right Grissom.And like you said since we are the best undercover unit in the state we get the toughest and worst cases out there." said David trying to explain this to the man who had no clue about undercover work "So most of the people we bust are not going to hold up their hands and come quietly when we try to arrest them."
"Yes, I'll grant you that small point there Detective Gordon. But maybe just maybe your team finds more violence because you Detective Gordon like to go in at full charge and with guns a blazing. Your going to get yourself or someone on your team killed one of these days." said Grissom nodding his head good-bye to the Captain as he got up out of his chair to leave, but than stopped and looked at David one last time "You know something Detective Gordon? All these risk that you take and all of these dangerous assignments you and your team volunteer for? That could lead a person into thinking you might have a death wish. You don't do you?"
"No, I don't have a death wish Grissom." said David sighing in frustration as the older man watched him for a second and than again turned and walked away without saying another word.
It's just other than my job and the men and women under my command I don't have that much to live for, thought David as he watched Grissom start down the stairs.
"How did the sting go David?" Captain Sinclair asked snapping David out of the blue funk he was in.
"Fine sir." said David turning back around to face his captain "We arrested five Hells Angels bikers for trying to sell us about thirty pounds of heroin which would have a street value of close to six hundred thousand dollars."
"Good" said Captain Sinclair nodding his head again at that good news "Everybody ok? Anybody get hurt?"
"No sir." said David shaking his head "With us and SWAT there we took them all down nice and clean.Ortiz is upstairs right now turning the money back over to Internal Affairs and also placing the drugs into the evidence locker."
"Good work David and tell everyone on your team I said so too." said Captain Sinclair "Now just make sure you get all the paperwork filled out and on my desk before you leave."
"Yes, sir." said David as he left the captain office and went to where his desk was facing right across from Rodney.
"Was that our old pal Grissom I saw leaving just a second ago?" asked Rodney when David sat down at his desk and started on his paperwork.
"Yep that was him."
"What did he want?"
"Oh well first he wanted to personally come down here and tell us we were cleared on that Monrovia shoot out." said David.
"And the rest?" asked Rodney sighing.
"Oh you know the same old stuff." said David smiling "He said that we go into to many dangerous situations with our guns firing."
"Does that guy have a bug up his ass about us or what?" asked Rodney rolling his eyes.
"I guess." said David with a smile on his face. But before he could joke with his partner any more he had to pick up the phone on his desk when it started ringing. "Fifteenth Precinct Narcotics Division Detective Gordon speaking." David said into his phone.
"Gordo?" came the voice from the other end.
David froze for a second before speaking. He knew who this was on the other end of the line without her even telling him. For there was only one person in this world who he was still in contact with that ever called him by his old childhood nickname. "Hello Miranda my old pal, what can I do for you?"
"Oh dear God is that Sanchez?!" asked Rodney sighing very loudly upon hearing David say Miranda name "What does SHE want now? Shouldn't she be outside a Hooters restaurant right now holding a protest sign and chanting about their waitress clothing?"
David smiled at his partner and best guy friend reaction upon hearing that. David knew that Rodney and Miranda did not get along together at all, not one bit.Rodney being a self proclaimed man's man and Miranda a very outspoken feminist the two had fought like cats and dogs ever since they first met. But David saw something else in the two that no one else did. Those two had a spark burning between them that could light up the entire town of Las Vegas. David would bet his years salary that soon very soon those two would either jump each other bones in bed or kill each other. Which ever one came first.
"DAMN IT GORDO! ARE YOU THERE?!" Miranda mad voice yelled through the phone.
"Yeah I'm here Miranda." laughed David holding the phone away from his ear after that loud yell "Now why don't you tell me what's got you yelling so damn loud?"
"Gordo it's Lizzie." Miranda said softly and hesitantly over the line.
"Now damn it Miranda we talked about this remember." said David starting to get angry "You know Lizzie is no longer a part of my life anymore nor do I want to have anything to do with her."
"Hey uhhh I think I need some coffee right now." said Rodney as he got up from his desk after realizing his partner might want to be alone for this call "Oh yeah coffee that's what I need alright," said Rodney as he was walking away.
"Gordo she's in trouble." said Miranda.
"Of course she is." said David rubbing his forehead. He was surprised at how fast all the pain,he had thought he had buried, could come back and attack him with a vengeance. "I wasn't good enough for her to love me back in college but as soon as she's in a little trouble, she wants to run to good old Gordo.He'll take care of it for her. Typical Lizzie selfishness!"
"Gordo since you cut her completely out of your life that day there is no way you could know this but," said Miranda as she hoped to make Gordo feel something once again. For she knew that ever since that awful day back in college Gordo had started becoming a very cold person "I know for a fact that not a day goes by that Lizzie doesn't regret the fact that she chose Kevin over you."
"Right Rand." said David sarcastically "She regretted it so much that she married the bastard a year and a half later!"
"Look Gordo I'm needing your help big time here. She's needing your help here." said Miranda.
"Look Miranda you know I love you and I'd do anything for you but this is Lizzie McGuire we're talking about here and I......"
"I'm calling in my favor." said Miranda suddenly interrupting him and using her ace in the hole and getting David attention very fast.
"Oh that's low Miranda very low!" sighed David knowing now he couldn't deny her anything. Because he knew he did owe her very big.
"That may be true Gordo." said Miranda herself sighing "But the truth is you owe me a big favor and I'm calling it in right now. And my favor is that I need you to get your ass out to my house as fast as you can."
"Alright Miranda I get off work in about another hour." said David not liking this one bit "I'll see about talking to my boss about some time off and than I'll be on my way out there."
"Thank you Gordo!" said Miranda happily over the phone "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"Your welcome Miranda." said Gordo not liking this one bit "But can you at least tell me what the hell is going on here? What the hell kind of trouble has Lizzie gotten herself into, that requires that I come all the hell the way out there to California?"
"I'll explain it to you when you get here. Now hurry up and get here......." David could than hear Miranda start talking to someone from where she was on the other end of the line ".......look Gordo I have to go.Bye Gordo and thank you for doing this for her" said Miranda as she hung up the phone on David.
Oh hell what have I gotten myself into now, thought David as he held out and looked at the now buzzing phone in his hand