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Last
chapter on IE: As he attempted to push through Kyle Brody the door to
the room opened. Paige walked out ready to continue with her work
happy with the progress that she had made with the young boy. She was
ready to talk with the parents that was until she saw who was stood
there. She froze as she looked at him.
NEW
"You
have got to be fucking kidding me" He shouted, "What the hell are
you doing here?"
"Miss Matthews is everything okay?" Kyle
asked seeing Paige seemed to have drained in color and was not
looking too great.
"Maybe this should be a little more private"
Paige said, "Why don't the both of you come down to South Bay
Social Services" She wanted to continue with her job not get into
this now. She had to stay professional. She had to keep this
professional and couldn't let anything get in the way of
that.
"How about you tell me what the ... is going on?" He
shouted at Paige,
"Sir, I will happily do that at the social
services"
"PAIGE" He screamed as he reached forward and
grabbed her arm.
Paige pulled back and shouted, "NATE I'd
back off now! Before I get you arrested"
"What the hell are
you doing in there with my son? What's he said?"
"All he
needs to, now if I were you I'd take my advice and do this at the
services"
"How about we do it here" He grabbed Paige's arm
violently. Paige pushed him backwards and Kyle grabbed him.
He was
struggling in Kyle's arms, and Kyle let out a grunt, to let Paige
know that he was losing him. Paige didn't care. She ran at Nate
Parks with a force, and punched him square in the jaw. She soon came
into realization of what she had done, lost her professionalism and
was probably going to get in trouble with Mr. Cowan.
"You son of
a bitch!" Nate yelled at Paige.
"Cheating bastard!" She
retorted back.
Kyle cleared his throat, "Mr. Parks, I'd advice
you to stop, I am an officer, and I can arrest you. You're still
going to have to come to the station to answer questions, but I'd
advise you to stop harassing Miss Matthews now." Paige nodded at
him gratefully, and noticed how young he was. Scared, really. He
looked about twenty-five, her age. "And Miss Matthews, I understand
it was in defense, but lets try not to hit the father of the boy?"
Paige shook her head disdainfully, "Even with your personal
connections," He added professionally.
Paige tried to keep her
cool, but a few more words slipped out, "Ha, our personal
connections? You have to understand, this man is less than a person
to me."
Kyle sighed wearily, "I'm going to give Mr. Parks to
another officer, Miss Matthews, may I talk to you in the
hall?"
"Yeah! Arrest her!" Nate chuckled.
Kyle looked at
him with anger in his eyes, "What the hell did I tell you? Don't
say anything!" He dragged Nate to the door, and took out a
walkie-talkie from his pocket. "We've got a problem. One of the
kid's parents is harassing the social worker. Can you send down
someone to take Mr. Parks and question him? Over." He pushed the
button on the walkie-talkie.
"All right Brody, we've got a guy
for you. He'll be at the hospital in five minutes. Hang tight.
Over." A loud mechanical voice answered.
Kyle turned to Paige,
who looked nervous, "How do you know him?" He whispered.
"Don't
ask." Paige grumbled, rolling her eyes.
They waited a few
minutes before a heavyset officer appeared before them. "Hey Al!
Thanks for coming down here, man." Kyle whispered,
gratefully.
"Anytime. This the guy?" Al said in a deep
rumbling voice.
"Sure is." Kyle said, "I'm going to take
Miss Matthews into the hallway. That okay?"
"Yeah, man. It's
fine." Al grabbed Nate, and rumbled in his ear. "You're coming
with me."
Kyle turned to Paige, "Shall we?"
"I guess."
She said, unsmiling.
He led her away from Nate and out into a
different hallway, "How do you know him?" He asked.
"Why do
I have to tell you?" She turned away from Kyle so he couldn't see
her face.
"Because, from now until this case is over, we're
partners!"
Paige glared at the young man, "What!"
"Yep."
"Don't
you have another police buddy to work with?" She asked angrily.
"As
long as you're assigned to this case, we're working together. It
says that in the file." Kyle pointed to the manila folder she was
still clutching.
"I'm sorry Officer Brody," She sighed, "But
I work alone." Paige always had a bit of an independent streak. She
grew up as an only child, although she had 'found' her sisters.
Even now, she had trouble listening to them. Not only that, but she
couldn't take being the youngest child.
"No can do," He
laughed, "Your boss specifically told mine..."
"Alright
fine!"
Brody offered his hand to Paige. She didn't shake
it.
"So how do you know this guy?" Brody persisted again.
"I
don't." Paige pouted. She knew this was easily a lie.
Brody
took on a serious, almost scary facial expression. This was probably
the expression that got his clients to tell the truth. Paige knew she
had to spit it out now. "Miss Matthews."
"Officer Brody."
She said, rolling her eyes again. To Kyle, it seemed like her
trademark emotion.
He eased up a bit, "Please call me Kyle."
He waited for her to say, 'please call me Paige'. Of course, she
didn't. "Why do you automatically dislike me?"
"Because
you don't need to know about my personal life."
"But this
has to do with the case!" Kyle whined, of course, still
professionally. "There must be another reason!"
"You're a
cop," Paige said, deadpanned, "I always used to get in trouble
with the cops."
"Right, well that's the past, I guess."
Kyle smirked. "So who is he?"
"If you must know, I went out
with him a few times, okay?"
"We're getting there." Kyle
started.
"No! We're there!" She snapped. She gulped back
tears that threatened to splash down her cheeks. Nate was the one
person Paige had been trying not to remember, well one of the people.
It was just so unfair that she had to see him again, after everything
that happened. She let her hair cover her face. "I have to go."
She paused, trying not to let the tears infect her voice, "And you
know, talk to the boy."
"Wait! Miss Matthews," He lightly
grabbed her, "Will you at least tell me what information you got
from the boy?"
Paige stopped again, smoothing down her dark
green shirt, "He told me he fell down the stairs, but he seemed
weary of this information. I couldn't tell if he was lying or just
tired." She knew already that Nate was the abuser. 'Who else
could it be?' she wondered bitterly. "I think he was abused, I
really do. No doubt by that Nate rat."
Kyle winced, he knew that
she had trouble with Nate, but it wasn't really fair to make
assumptions based on what she thought of him. He tried to tell her in
the nicest way possible, "Maybe it's not a good idea to assume
things about him. After all, he might not have done it."
"How
can you think he didn't do it? After you saw how he acted towards
me!" Paige shook her head, her brown eyes fiery.
"I'm not
saying he didn't do it, Paige, I'm just saying that we shouldn't
be biased this early in the case." Kyle watched Paige's
reactions. He secretly thought she was the most interesting woman he
had ever laid his eyes on.
"Don't call me Paige!" She
snapped, turning around.
"Where are you going?" He asked,
quietly.
"To talk to John again." She said, sniffing, and left
Kyle standing there alone, only to think about the case, and her.
Dun dun dun! TBC!
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