Final chapter is here! Yay... I just want to say Thank you to my two beta readers for helping me out. Enjoy!


The officers step back as one of them walks sideways before he pokes his head towards the site of the gunfire, when he sees Lennie on his belly. The officer yells at the suspect to put the gun down. The man fires again causing the officer to shoot and kill him.

"We are a 10-84. 10-80 additional units, request CSU as well as M.E. unit and the lieutenant from the 27th precinct. Code 4,"

"10-4," the radio squawks.

"Okay, get up," the officer says at the same time as they put their guns in their holsters; Lennie gets up slowly.

"I request that Lieutenant Van Buren of the 27th be here. We better call all the hospitals and see if any female gun shot victim has arrived, a woman who looked a lot like Denise Bettis was wearing a wig and it fell on the floor as she stumbled then ran off," he says when the CSU unit and ME arrived at the scene awhile later.

"Okay, we have called her and she should be on her way," the officer responds, puts his gun in his holster why they walk into the living room where Lennie sits on the chair.

A few minutes later LaMotte and McNabb come in with Lieutenant Van Buren trailing behind to her senior detective.

"Are you alright Lennie?" she asks him.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Here is my gun Lieu," he states at the same time he gets up, giving Anita his gun.

Anita raises her hand with her palm facing up as Lennie plants the gun on her hand. "Thank you."

"Here is my gun as well," the officer says as he gives her his gun since he killed the suspect.

"Okay, Lennie, Robert you are on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. Robert, Shelia can take you back to the precinct where you can write out your reports."

Lennie starts talking with the detectives about the incident while the ME takes the bodies away and CSU collects evidence. After they leave, he makes his sandwich while Ed calls to ask if Lennie would stay at his apartment for a few days or until Denise was caught; Lennie accepts his offer. Ed takes Lennie to the precinct to write out his report then the next day he has an interrogation with the IAB and talks to a counselor about the shooting.

July 27th—

Lennie and the officer are cleared of the shooting, they got back to their jobs. The next day Lennie and his friends cleaned up his apartment by covering up the bullet holes with the Polly filler, new carpeting but same color and repainting. That same day, he and Ed went to a floater near Inwood Hill Park just off the banks of the Hudson River. As they start arriving at the scene, they see a woman who was decomposed and being put in a body bag by the ME.

"No ID, bullet hole, looks like she bled out but I won't know unless I do an autopsy." ME says without hesitation.

Lennie looks at the body and isn't surprised to see who it was but gives a look of relief while he sighs.

"I think I know who that is. I think that's the woman who was shooting at me with her cellmates a week ago. I better let Jack know she won't be bothering us anymore."

"I thought she looked familiar. No wonder we haven't heard or seen if she has been in New York." Ed says as the body was put in the van.

Both men go back to the precinct to write their reports, Lennie tells Van Buren that the victim may have been Denise Bettis and he leaves to go see Jack.

Jack was sitting on his couch with his top shirt unbuttoned; tie loosened and was resting his eyes with his leg on the couch.

"Hey," Lennie says as Jack raises his head looking up to see his friend with a look of relief and a little sadness.

He has some sort of feeling in the pit of his stomach, "Hey, what's going on?"

Lennie sighed then said, "We may have found Denise dead on the banks of the river,"

He gives out a sigh while he rubs his temple lightly, "Any idea as to how long she may have been in the river?"

"No but the ME thinks it's been a little more than a week and she had a bullet hole. I told Rogers to let me know if I did shoot her since I remember her in my room shooting at me." The phone buzzes, causing Jack to get up.

He walks over to it while he says, "Well, I am relieved, and I can finally sleep since I kept thinking she would come after me," he picks up the phone, "Yeah? Okay, I'll be there,"

"Well, I better get back; I just wanted you to know." Lennie says at the same time as he starts to walk towards the door.

"Thanks Lennie. I'll see you," he says as he opens the door, closes it and walks across the hall to Arthur's office where the TV was on.

Jack sits on the couch, Arthur leans against the desk, folds his arms while watching.

Anita Van Buren was speaking with Ed behind her, microphones standing near her face with reporters hushed to hear her.

"It appears the convicted murderer Denise Bettis was found in the Hudson riverbank. It is not known how long she was in the water and she did have a gun shot wound possibly from the shootout. I will only take a few questions." Anita then points to a woman reporter.

"Do you know if the gun shot wound was from the shoot out she and her cellmates had with Detective Briscoe?"

"I don't know but we should know that in a day or so," she responds then points to another reporter wondering if the reporter even heard her opening statement.

"Do you know if EADA Jack McCoy has any animosity towards detective Briscoe for the shooting of his girlfriend if it turns out Briscoe did shoot her?" she asks at the same time Lennie was walking up and standing next to Ed.

"I don't know if there is any animosity towards the two men, at least I hope not. You will have to ask Mr. McCoy about that."

"Can we ask Detective Briscoe?" another reporter asks.

Anita looks at them with a look of confusion, wondering if her senior detective is behind her or if they are imagining him being there. She slowly turns around, sees him standing behind her then turns back and smiles.

"I think Jack McCoy would be the best person to ask since his girlfriend is the one who was found on the river banks. Last question," she then points to another female reporter.

"We want to know if Detective Briscoe has met up or seen the juror who was talking about him. Has he dated her yet?" Anita chuckles a little then responds.

"I'm not going to give out any personal information about anyone due to privacy laws. " Detective Briscoe, Green and Van Buren turn around, began walking towards the precinct as the reporters groan at that moment got their microphones.

Later that night, Lennie got a phone call from his daughter Julia in Florida.

"Hi dad. How are you?" she asks while he sits in his chair with soda in one hand and phone in the other.

"Hi honey. I'm good. How are you?"

"I'm good. The kids are getting excited to see you. It's been what—since December right? Since they have seen you? Can't wait."

"Yeah, August the 12th to the 23rd right?" he asks as he writes the days down.

"Yes, they should arrive in the afternoon, and leave in the afternoon as well."

"I can't wait, I got my time off and getting the apartment ready and it's only a few weeks away."

"Well, I'm going to let you go now, Dad. I love you, bye."

"Love you too honey, bye," he hangs up then gets up to take a shower.

Hours later at a bar—

Jack was eating and drinking after hearing about Denise; he has taken a cab to the bar then just drinks heavily. His hair was messed up, disheveled then he sees on the news his interview with the news media that had been taped that afternoon on the steps of the DA's office.

"All I will say is I have no hard feelings towards Detective Briscoe, he was doing his job as was Detective Green doing the arresting. That's all I will say. Thank you." He tells them he walks away from them to his motorcycle.

Soon after he finishes his drink, shouts, "Barkeep, I want another round."


Next Sequel: Briscoe's grandkids coming for a visit. Posted sometime in late July or August.(Yes it will be past tense. None of that present tense crap.)