A/N. Prompt #2 for Fictober.
I promise these won't all be about Lucien being drunk, It was just where the inspiration was for the first two prompts ?ￂﾠ
"How can you let him go free like that?" Lucien came bursting through the station door. His face was red.
Matthew looked up from his paperwork and he could tell just by looking at him that Lucien had been drinking. "Henderson? We've got nothing to hold him on," he replied calmly and returned his attention to the file in his hands.
"What about a, a, a dead body? Finding the scumbag hiding in an alley only two streets away?" Lucien gesticulated wildly.
Matthew could smell the drink on him. "Circumstantial."
"Oh Matthew that's a load of crap and you know it!"
"There are any number of reasons he could have been in that alleyway."
"Matthew I know its him, you can't let him get away with this!"
Matthew finally snapped "You have no proof!" he roared as he stood, slamming his hands on his desk. "Look, Go home and sober up, and come back when you're not pickled!"
Lucien looked at him angrily, clenching and unclenching his fists, and for a moment Matthew thought he was going to hit him. But he turned around and left as aggressively as he had entered. Matthew sighed in frustration, sat back in his chair and reached for the phone. Better give Jean a heads up.