Chapter three: men to live up to

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Inspector Andrew Truedo stepped out his car, he was back where it had all started, he was back in San Francisco. The one place he thought neither of them would ever return to, especially not him.

Him was the reason for most things in the inspector's life, the reason for him leaving the place in the first place, the reason for a failed marriage, for leaving the one love of his life, but mostly for losing his partner.

An out of all those things not one seemed to be important than catching the only man who could help him finally get him. The man who had conned so many over the last six years, out of love, out of money, out of everything. An yet he had never gone down, not even for a parking ticket, never. But he had never met Andrew Truedo, the one man to bring him down, and bring down everything with him.

An yet it wasn't revenge for Andy, it was justice, justice for all he had lost, and all the victims he had made, all they had lost.

He stepped into the station, and automatically directed himself to a young lady who was sitting behind a near by desk.

"Inspector Truedo from the Portland unit," he said showing his badge to the nervous girl, "I'm here to see the chief about a case I'm following," he finished to the nervous girl.

"Right em…. I'll just get him, for you…. If you wanna take a seat…" but she didn't say anything else as the office soon walked away and sat on a nearby seat, making her feel even more nervous than usual.

As Andy sat he looked around the entrance, all around there was pictures of X-service men, ho had for one reason or another done something so outstanding they got their picture on the wall. And as he searched the names, he finally found the one he was looking for, 'Mark Truedo' his farther, and beside it another, 'Jonathan Truedo,' his grandfather. Both inspectors of the city, and glorious men, and both caught their man, no matter what.

Then there was him, the next generation, 'the kid,' as his dad had nicknamed him as a young boy. An today he had never felt more like that kid than that moment, than any other, for he was still the kid, the one who couldn't catch his man. Who had let it reunion it all, who seemed to always score as the whistle blow, although he always though he had so much more time.

"Inspector Truedo?" suddenly came the weak voice of the young sectary, causing Andy to jump out of his thoughts of failure and look up at her. "He'll see you now," she then went on to say, Andy tough just nodded in acceptance and after being buzzed though walked though the doors and of to his new chief's office.

Not bothering to wait for her sample directions of where he should go, as he didn't need them. He knew the station like the back of his hand, it had been where he had started his whole career as just a simple cop, and somehow always knew it would be where he was going to end it, if not by the way it had been the same for both his grandfather and farther, but though the feeling he had always got from it. Ever since he had been a little lad going to work with his dad.

What ever the reason Andy was soon outside the chief's office, and was carefully knocking on its glass. "Come in," called the voice from inside. Andy breathing in ready to face, a face he had seen since being so small, and yet it still somehow made his back straighten as it had done when he had been so small.

He slowly turned the knob and pushed it forward only to find his horror walking towards him. "Andy," he yelled as he walked towards him, and was straight away hugged the boy tightly.

Andy losing his breath, so in his last gasp said "hi…. Uncle John." For the man who was holding him so tight, was his uncle John, John Stonebanks, his father's best friend since they had been young child, and his godfather, and now he was to be his boss.

Finally he let go, and Andy saw the grey haired man in front of him, who was smiling from ear to ear at the fact that Andy, the boy who he had always treated as his own son, and had been just as happy as the boy's own farther when he had chosen to follow the two of them as a office of the law, and now here he was a inspector back in San Francisco, how proud he felt at that moment, and he didn't care that everyone could see it though his smile.

Although he did carefully begin to remove it slightly, as he returned to his desk. An Andy on the men while sat in the spare seat that was beside a man, who he hadn't noticed before, but who seemed to be shocked by the welcome he had received from his chief.

As Andy sat down, now feeling even more uncomfortable as his uncle's embarrassing welcomes, "this," his uncle carried on though. "Will be your new partner."

Suddenly Andy's face dropped not even noticing the hand that was now outstretched towards him, "what…? I mean no offence, mate," Andy directed at the man next to him, "but I told you this is my case, I work alone on it!" he snapped slightly to aggressively back at his Chief. It wasn't that he wanted the praise, or to like his farther and grandfather catch the man alone, but he didn't want anyone else to get hurt. He had learnt that lesson to many times before, and he didn't want history repeating its self.

"I'll work alone," Andy said standing up an heading for the door.

"An it's my force…. An I say you'll work with inspector Morris… now he'll show you around!" John repeated with force, but calmness.

Andy stopped dead, he knew there would be no fighting, he would have to take hi on, but if he worked with him was another story. "Fine," he practically whispered.

But John heard, "Darrel you show Andy here around and the two of you can discuss your case together, and then show him around, you know the file room and so on," he finished looking at Darrell instead of the tensed back that belonged to Andy.

"Sure Chief," Darrell answered and as he lifted himself from his seat, he heard the door close and realised his new partner, who in his opinion wasn't the most sociable animal, had already gone.

So he just sighed, smiled at the chief and head fast on his tale.

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